Mario Puzo (1920-99) was one of 12 children born in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen to two illiterate Neapolitan immigrants. Puzo graduated from City College, loved the novels of Dostoyevsky and in his 20s began writing stories for pulp magazines.
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Kurzrezension: David Downing: “Lehrter Station”
Nothing ever comes easily for Anglo-American journalist John Russell, the protagonist in a series of World War II-era thrillers named after Berlin railway depots. He escaped the implosion of Adolf Hitler’s capital city at the end of World War II.
Artikel: The 11 Best Supervillain Superpowers
When fresh faced youngsters approach Matt D. Wilson, or we should say his alter-ego, supervillain mastermind King Oblivion Ph.D., and exclaim, “I want to be a success in professional super-evil! Where do I start?” He always tells them the same thing.
Rezension: William Boyd: “Waiting for Sunrise”
“Waiting for Sunrise” is a tantalizing, fast-paced spy novel by the prolific William Boyd. And yet, seductive as it is, the book is no bodice-ripper. It’s a brainteaser, charged with uncertainty and danger, electric with restraint.
Kolumne: New in crime fiction: the latest thrillers and mysteries
This time: “A Woman Chased By Crows” by Marc Strange, “Mr. Kill” by Martin Limón, “Night Rounds” by Helene Tursten, “A Simple Murder” by Eleanor Kuhns, “Stray Bullets” by Robert Rotenberg, “Bloodman” by Robert Pobi, “The Bidding” by Bill Haugland.
Rezension: Peter Bergen: “Manhunt”
One of the strong points of this excellent account of how Bin Laden was found and killed is much new detail. Bergen managed to get himself into the house in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad and can thus tell us how the militant leader spent his time in hiding.
Rezension: Peter L. Bergen: “Manhunt”
In “Manhunt: The Ten Year Search For Bin Laden From 9/11 to Abbottabad”, author and national security expert Peter Bergen promises the full story on the tracking down and killing of the Al-Qaeda terrorist leader, Osama bin Laden.
Rezension: Christopher Moore: “Sacre Bleu. A Comedy d’Art”
In July 1890, Vincent van Gogh went into a cornfield and shot himself. Or did he? Why would an artist at the height of his creative powers attempt to take his own life … Who was the crooked little “color man” Vincent had claimed was stalking him across France?
Rezension: Tanya Byrne: “The Heart-Shaped Bruise”
“Heart-Shaped Bruise” by Tanya Byrne is a gritty psychological thriller set in the psychiatric unit of a Young Offenders Institution. The main character, Emily Koll, is the most notorious inmate of the psychiatric unit of Archway Young Offenders Institution.
Artikel: The Setting for Crossbones Yard, by Kate Rhodes
Today’s guest blog is by debut novelist Kate Rhodes. She has had two collections of poetry published. Her debut novel “Cross Bones Yard” is the first in a series of novels featuring Dr Alice Quentin a Psychologist at Guy’s Hospital.
Rezension: Robert B. Parker & Ace Atkins: “Lullaby”
This week brings the release of “Robert B. Parker’s Lullaby”, the 40th Spenser novel (following last year’s “Sixkill”), but the first one to spill from Atkins’ computer. Its plot is recognizably in line with Parker’s previous yarns.
Rezension: Camilla Läckberg: “The Preacher”
Warning to readers: This gripping, unsettling thriller may call for a little extra work on your part. The author, Camilla Lackberg, likes to shift suddenly, sometimes a bit confusingly, from one set of dramatis personae to another.
Porträt: Camilla Läckberg
When Swedish crime novelist Camilla Lackberg was 16, she came across an old photograph album of her father’s. It was shocking. There were pictures of Jens Lackberg as a young man with a wife and infant child. She knew he had a prior marriage but this was a mystery.
Rezension: John Hart: “Iron House”
“Iron House”, Hart’s recently released fourth novel, shows that his writing relies on the strength and tightness of his plots. “The Last Child’s” plotting was superb, and it outweighed Hart’s several flaws as a writer.
Artikel: Stephen King: I’m rich, tax me
In an expletive-filled condemnation of America’s tax system, the bestselling novelist says wealthy Americans have a ‘moral imperative’ to pay higher taxes.
Beitrag: My Friend Dahmer is a portrait of the serial killer as a young man
Back in high school, cartoonist Derf Backderf knew this weird kid named Jeff. He was more than a bit of a freak, a weirdo on the edges of school society
Beitrag: How Paul McCartney taught me to stop worrying and love zombies
Adam Marek has always had a thing about zombies. They really give him the willies. More than any other supernatural creature.
Nachruf: Shaft guitarist Charles ‘Skip’ Pitts dies at 65
The musician was best known for his distinctive “wah-wah” guitar pedal sound, memorably featured on Issac Hayes’ theme for the 1971 film “Shaft”. He joined Hayes’ band in 1970 and remained a member until Hayes’ death in 2008.
Kolumne: Bullet Points: Mix-and-Match Edition
This time: The presentation of this year’s Edgar Awards, John Cusack as poet-author Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Coggins’ new collection of humorous first-person essays “Prom Night and Other Man-made Disasters” and much more.
Artikel: American Psycho, the musical
The book was meant to be unfilmable. But more than a decade on from the acclaimed movie adaptation of “American Psycho”, a theatre company is to go one step further and bring the bloody satire to the British stage.