Kurzrezensionen: King, Kwan, Hiaasen, Sullivan, Lee u. a.

Riding Waves of Thrills, Chills and Carats — Janet Maslin advises beach reads from Stephen King, Kevin Kwan, Carl Hiaasen, J. Courtney Sullivan, Rebecca Lee,  Wilton Barnhardt, Joe Hill and more.

Rezensionen: Glatt, Coonts, Aspe, Page, Longworth

Marilyn Stasio reviews John Glatt’s “The Prince of Paradise”, Deborah Coonts’ “Lucky Bastard”, Pieter Aspe’s “The Square of Revenge”, Katherine Hall Page’s “The Body in the Piazza” and M. L. Longworth’s “Dead in the Vines”.

Interview: Walter Mosley: By the Book

The author of the Easy Rawlins novels, most recently, “Little Green,” says that in a great mystery, “the crime being investigated reveals a deeper rot … If the mystery writer gives us a good mystery without a good novel to back it up, then she, or he, has failed.”

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Rezensionen: Dan Brown: “Inferno” II

Dan Browns neuer Roman “Inferno” ist erschienen, Besprechungen dazu gibt es unter anderem von Jake Kerridge im Telegraph, von Steven Poole im Guardian oder in der New York Times von Janet Maslin, in der Los Angeles Times von Carolyn Kellogg.

Rezension: Emma Brockes: “She Left Me the Gun”

Incest, alcoholism, robbery, gunfire, murder, sensational court trials — these are among the building blocks of the dysfunctional-family memoir, and in “She Left Me the Gun” Emma Brockes puts a check mark next to each.

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Rezension: Claire Messud: “The Woman Upstairs”

Claire Messud’s latest novel, “The Woman Upstairs,” is an incongruous mashup of a very self-consciously literary novel  and one of those psychological horror films like “Single White Female” in which someone, ominously, is not who she appears to be.

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Rezension: Claire Messud: “The Woman Upstairs”

Reading the title of Claire Messud’s latest novel, anyone of a literary turn of mind will immediately think of the madwoman in the attic, the 19th century’s best-known “woman upstairs.”

Rezensionen: John le Carré: “A Delicate Truth”

Besprechungen in der New York Times von Michiko Kakutani und Olen Steinhauer, National Post von Philip Marchand und im Telegraph von Jon Stock (bitte jeweils auf den Namen des Rezensenten klicken).

Rezensionen: Perry, Morrell, R.B. Chesterton, Mapstone

Marilyn Stasio reviews several new crime novels like Anne Perry’s “Midnight at Marble Arch,” David Morrell’s “Murder as a Fine Art,” R. B. Chesterton’s “The Darkling” and David Mapstone’s “The Night Detectives.”

Rezension: Kate Atkinson: “Life After Life”

“After the first death, there is no other,” Dylan Thomas wrote. How obvious, one might think. But the one-time-only nature of death is anything but self-evident in Kate Atkinson’s new novel, “Life After Life.”

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Portrait: John le Carré

As he enters his ninth decade, Carré is in the midst of a hardy late-career bloom, thanks in no small part to the critical and popular success of the 2011 film “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” based on his 1974 cold-war espionage classic of the same name.

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Rezensionen: Link, Lovesey, Kerr, Mishani

Marilyn Stasio on some of the most interesting new-releases in Crime Writing, like Charlotte Link’s “The Other Child,” Peter Lovesey’s new novel “The Tooth Tattoo,” Philip Kerr’s “A Man Without Breath” and D. A. Mishani “The Mising File.”

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Rezension: Charles Graeber: “The Good Nurse”

In 2003, the world discovered what a night nurse named Charles Cullen had been doing during the preceding 16 years. He had killed a judge, a priest and an unknown but large number of other people. He may have been the most prolific serial killer in history.

Kurzrezensionen: Donna Leon, Lisa Ballantyne, Jo Bannister, C. J. Box

Marilyn Stasio reviews Donna Leons newest novel “The Golden Egg,” Lisa Ballantyne’s jolting first novel “The Guilty One,” Jo Bannister’s “Deadly Virtues” and C. J. Box’s new wilderness adventure “Breaking Point.”

Rezension: Kate Atkinson: “Life after Life”

In the midst of a love affair, Ursula Todd discovers that she is an excellent liar. The same can be said admiringly of Atkinson. “Life After Life” is a big book that defies logic, chronology and even history in ways that underscore its author’s fully untethered imagination.

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Rezensionen: Stephan Talty, Becky Masterman, Lachlan Smith, Frank Bill

Marilyn Stasio reviews for the New York Times Stephan Talty’s first thriller, “Black Irish”, Becky Masterman’s debut novel “Rage Against the Dying”, Lachlan Smith’s “Bear is Broken”, and “Donnybrook” by Frank Bill.

Portrait: Kate Atkinson

Kate Atkinson writes critically admired family sagas that are not really family sagas; crime novels that are not really crime novels; and now, in “Life After Life” a science-fiction novel, in the loosest possible sense, that is nothing of the sort.

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Rezension: Joyce Carol Oates: “The Accursed”

Some novels are almost impossible to review, either because they’re deeply ambiguous or because they contain big surprises the reviewer doesn’t wish to give away. In the case of “The Accursed,” both strictures apply.

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Rezension: Alex Berenson: “The Night Ranger”

This is the seventh outing for Alex Berenson’s central character, John Wells, and the mileage is starting to show. Although “The Night Ranger” is skillfully engineered, its action hero feels distinctly weary.

Rezensionen: Maria Konnikova, James O’Brien

Arthur Conan Doyle’s novels and short stories about the incomparable detective Sherlock Holmes have never been out of print since their first publication in 1887. Holmes collections abound, as do movies, TV series, video games, hats, pipes.