Coming off the success of three novels set in his native Northern Ireland, Stuart Neville now transports readers south and back half a century to the Republic of Ireland, where homicide threatens to overshadow what could be one of the country’s proudest moments.
Schlagwort-Archive: J. Kingston Pierce
Interview: Peter Robinson
Peter Robinson’s “breakout book,” “In a Dry Season”, was published in 1999. It was his 10th police procedural featuring dogged and hunch-trusting Yorkshire DCI Alan Banks. J. Kingston Pearce talked to Robinson about “Watching the Dark”, his 20th Banks outing.
News: Review and Revivals Edition
J. Kingston Pierce presents Christmas-related mysteries, the big-screen adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s “The Glass Key”, the new table-computer-based crime-fiction periodical “Noir Magazine” and much more …
Rezension: C.J. Sansom: “Dominion”
“Domninion” is an espionage yarn that unrolls within a counter-factual world where Great Britain — after negotiating peace with Hitler following the 1940 Battle of Dunkirk — chafes under an increasingly authoritarian regime locked in goose step with the Nazis.
Service: The Great and the Good
It’s December, so there is no surprise in the fact that various print and Web publications are releasing their “best of the year” book lists. The site Goodreads is up with its list, including e.g. William Landay’s “Defending Jacob” and Tana French’s “Broken Harbor”.
Rezension: Aaron Elkins: “Dying on the Vine”
Not to be confused with Peter King’s 1998 novel of the same name, this book is Elkins’ 17th entry in his series featuring forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver, aka The Skeleton Detective.
Buchvorstellung: John Connolly, Declan Burke: “Books to Die For”
As much as readers may enjoy selecting their own literary diversions, they’re also curious to know what novels authors themselves have enjoyed. Which makes this compilation of tributes to more than 120 memorable works of crime so delightful.
Artikel: You’re the Tops: 2012′s 10 Best Crime Novels
J. Kingston Pierce präsentiert seine Lieblingsbücher des Jahres 2012: Krimis von Peter May, Tana French, Alex Scarrow, Anthony Quinn, C.J. Sansom, Lyndsay Faye, Stephen L. Carter, Max Byrd, Philip Kerr und Alex Grecian.
Rezension: Max Allan Collins: “Target Lancer”
Author Collins is a master at integrating facts with his fiction, engineering encounters between his figure Heller and myriad famous figures–including burlesque dancer Sally Rand, who he first got cozy with in “True Crime” (1984).
Artikel: Hagman Made His Shot Count
Larry Hagman, known for only two roles: those of astronaut Major Tony Nelson in the sitcom “I Dream of Jeannie” and of oil magnate J.R. Ewing in “Dallas”, also guest-starred during the 1960s and ’70s on a variety of small-screen crime and detective series.
Artikel: Bullet Points: Pre-Holiday Edition
This time: 10 years since the premiere of “Die Another Day”; Curt Evans has a book devoted to Todd Downing’s tales, “Clues and Corpses”, “Unfaithful Wives” by Orrie Hitt in e-book form and much more.
Rezension: Robert Goldsborough: “Archie meets Nero Wolfe”
Set during the waning years of America’s Prohibition era (1920-1933), Goldsborough’s tale finds the then 19-year-old, Ohio-born Archie having decamped to Gotham with hopes of expanding his realm of experience, only to wind up working as a night watchman …
Interview: Melanie J. McGrath
British-born Melanie McGrath first came to widespread critical notice after the publication of her non-fiction book “The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic”. In McGrath’s new, second novel, “The Boy in the Snow”, the action moves to Alaska.
Interview: Melanie J. McGrath
One part of J. Kingston Pierce’s interview with Melanie McGrath was posted on the Kirkus Reviews Web site. But there was more material from the e-mail-discussion. You could read it on The Rap Sheet.
Artikel: Bullet Points: Veterans Day Edition
It’s hardly surprising that the new, 23rd James Bond film, “Skyfall”, should have “sold $87.8 million in tickets in the U.S. and Canada this weekend, breaking the previous 007 record of $67.5 million for 2008’s ‘Quantum of Solace’.” And of course: more news.
Rezension: Ian Rankin: “Standing in Another Man’s Grave”
Scottish author Ian Rankin sent his long-running and persistently rebellious Edinburgh copper, Detective Inspector John Rebus, off into an unwelcome retirement in “Exit Music” (2007). Or at least, that’s what his many fans thought. But suddenly, Rebus back.
Beitrag: The story behind the story: Allen Shadow: “Hell City”
Allen Shadow (aka Allen Kovler) is a New York poet, songwriter, blogger and now author of the e-book “Hell City”, which Kirkus Reviews called “an entertaining mystery that borrows from the best in mystery and noir, while adding a heavy dose of modern paranoia.”
Rezension: Andrew Hunt: “City of Sins”
In “City of Saints”, Andrew Hunt – who was born in Salt Lake City but now teaches history in Ontario, Canada – uses the Moormeister homicide as the basis for a dramatic and elaborate mystery that, prior to its publication, won the 2011 Tony Hillerman Prize.
Rezension: Max Byrd: “The Paris Deadline”
Fowl Play in Max Byrd’s Jazz Age Paris – “The Paris Deadline” is the new historical thriller of the american author. He delivers a sparkling and suspenseful caper adventure well-rooted in a lovingly re-animated former Paris.
Rezension: C. J. Sansom: “Dominion”
Taking another detour from his Matthew Shardlake Tudor detective series – as he did with the melancholy “Winter in Madrid” (2008) – Sansom gives us a what-if spy adventure set in 1952.