Tudor England during the reign of Henry VIII is a place readers have visited many times – but in the hands of Hilary Mantel, it becomes territory both new and unsettling. In “Bring Up the Bodies” Mantel weaves a richly textured world.
Schlagwort-Archive: The Huffington Post
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.
Hintergrund: Karen Spears Zacharias: “A Silence of Mockingbirds”
The minute Karen Spears Zacharias walked out the door of Benton-County Courthouse in Corvallis, Oregon in 2007, her cell phone rang. She didn’t recognize the number, but it didn’t take her long to figure out who the angry woman yelling at her was.
Rezension: Harlan Coben: “Stay Close”
“Stay Close” takes place in the completely distinctive metropolis of Atlantic City, New Jersey. It is here that a series of murders have taken place in a section of that area called the Pine Barrens.
Rezension: Brian Latell: “Castro’s Secrets”
A new book by a former CIA analyst provides evidence that Cuban dictator Fidel Castro may have had prior knowledge of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. The book contains information from declassified government documents and first-hand reports from Cuban spies.
Artikel: U.S. Company Gains Rights To Agatha Christie Estate
Acorn Media Group announced Wednesday that it had acquired majority ownership of Agatha Christie Limited. Agatha Christie characters are now under American ownership.
Rezension: Ken Ballen: »Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals«
Ultimately, in »Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals«, Ken Ballen is bringing us closer to the real motives of terrorists, and thus closer to the truth. Even if that is uncomfortable, it’s a step in the right direction.
Artikel: Watchmen The Prequels
More than a quarter of a century after »Watchmen« intrigued readers with tales of less-than-heroic and all-too-human – save for Dr. Manhattan – crime-fighting vigilantes.
Artikel: College Student Finds Cocaine In Textbook Ordered From Amazon
This gives a whole new meaning to »cracking« open a book. Sophia Stockton got quite a surprise when she opened a textbook which she recently purchased from Amazon.com.
Diskussion: Voice To Voice: Ellen Hart & Val McDermid
Crime writers Ellen Hart and Val McDermid discuss lesbian literature versus mainstream literature in the US and the UK, why some readers will go out of their way to attack a book with lesbian characters and/or themes, and more.
Artikel: The World’s Worst Thriller Scenarios
Author Brad Taylor on »The World’s Worst Thriller Scenarios«: Those scenes that cause your jaw to drop at the sheer audacity of the author/director in insulting your intelligence. You do, don’t you? Tell me I’m not the only one insulted by these scenarios:
Rezension: P. D. James: »Death Comes to Pemberley«
There have to be many armchairs full of us readers who have a big jones for both Jane Austen and P. D. James. Given that, it’s merely rhetorical to ask who among us wouldn’t drop everything to tuck into Death Comes to Pemberley?
Artikel: Charles Dickens’ London
In 2012 it will be 200 years since author who gave readers Scrooge, Oliver Twist and even invented the term »red tape« was born.
Artikel: Larsson’s Partner Attacks »Girl With The Dragon Tattoo« movie Marketing
The longtime partner of late Swedish crime writer Stieg Larsson says he wouldn’t have approved of merchandise being linked to this week’s release of a Hollywood adaptation of his bestselling novel.
Artikel: Nancy Gelber, Crime Writer, Arrested In Botched Murder-For-Hire Plot
Police in Texas have arrested a published crime writer who allegedly tried to hire a hit man to kill her husband.
Rezension: Tami Hoag: »Down The Darkest Road«
Back in the late 1980s/early 1990s, the science of DNA was still not perfected and most police work was still dependent on the training and tenacity of the officers investigating a crime. This time period is where author Tami Hoag has placed her last three novels.
George Whitman gestorben
George Whitman, owner of Shakespeare and Company Bookstore in Paris, dies at 98.
Artikel: Book Genre Problems: Femicrime Is The New Chick Lit
»Femicrime« – The label may sound more grudgingly respectful than »chick lit«, but it’s still a ghettoizing term that boxes whatever book is tagged with it into a pink corner.
Rezension: Michael Connelly: »The Drop«
Any new book by Michael Connelly is a cause for celebration. And if it is a novel featuring LA detective Harry Bosch, a few more hallelujahs can be added. Connelly always writes enjoyable stories, but when he writes about Harry he takes his talent to the limit.
Artikel: The Unabomber And Other Murderers Who Read A Lot Of Books
Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people and injured 51 in two attacks in Norway last summer. Thanks to his Facebook page, we’ve got a pretty good sense of his literary interests: He listed »1984« by George Orwell and the works of Franz Kafka among his favorite books.