Becky Masterman’s pulse-quickening debut thriller, “Rage Against the Dying,” starts with the genre’s standard-issue opening scene - the prologue in which somebody is violently killed so that the rest of the book can revolve around making sense of the crime – almost.
Schlagwort-Archive: The New York Times
Kurzrezensionen: Hobbs, Mina, Todd, Cotterill
Marilyn Stasio presents recent crime fiction, including Roger Hobbs’s “Ghostman”, Denise Mina’s “Gods and Beasts”, Charles Todd’s “Proof of Guilt”, and Colin Cotterill’s “The Woman Who Wouldn’t Die”.
Beitrag: Stranger Than Fiction on the Cop Beat
Talty talks about the passion of becoming a crime writer and how he hoped his position as a news clerk could give him the necessary edge on his competitors.
Rezension: Roger Hobbs “Ghostman”
Mr. Hobbs – who graduated in 2011 from Reed College – seizes the attention and holds it tight, not so much through his plotting or his characters but through his sheer, masterly use of details, and the authoritative, hard-boiled voice he has fashioned for Jack.
Rezension: Adam Mansbach: “Rage Is Back”
“Rage Is Back” is the eighth book written or edited by Mansbach, known mostly for his best-selling kids’ book satire, “Go the ____ to Sleep,” but “Rage Is Back” is uneven, flashing bits of brilliance like a beautifully burned train.
Rezension: Dick Wolf: “The Intercept”
Early in “The Intercept,” the serviceable debut thriller from the “Law & Order” creator Dick Wolf, Osama Bin Laden appears, reproaching his followers for recent failures. “Bomb this. Bomb that,” he scolds the men, sounding like an ad executive in a branding meeting.
Rezension: Warren Ellis: “Gun Machine”
Just about everything in this dark but pleasingly quirky crime thriller is a little bit off, not quite what you’d expect. The machine of the title e.g. is not a manufacturing device but an apartment in Manhattan, that is crammed with guns, and not just ordinary ones.
Rezensionen: Joyce Carol Oates, Waren Ellis, Sue Grafton, Peter Robinson
Marily Stasio on: “Daddy Love” by Joyce Carol Oates (“Oates is a mind-reader who writes psychological horror stories about seriously disturbed minds”), “Gun Machine” by Warren Ellis, “Kinsey and me” by Sue Grafton and “Watching the Dark” by Peter Robinson.
Rezensionen: Connelly, Finch, Hallinan, Jennings
Marilyn Stasio has read “Black Box” by Michael Connelly, “A Death in the Small Hours” by Charles Finch, ”Crashed” by Timothy Hallinan and ”Beware This Boy” by Maureen Jennings.
Rezension: Arthur Conan Doyle: “Dangerous Work”
A riddle: What does Captain Ahab have in common with Sherlock Holmes? Answer: Both characters were created by writers who sailed on whaling vessels, who knew firsthand the heft of a harpoon, the bite of raging gales and the blisters raised by oars.
Rezension: Michael Connelly: “The Black Box”
Harry Bosch of the Los Angeles Police Department has a birthday during the course of “The Black Box”. But as Michael Connelly’s readers well know, Harry’s not a party guy. He is not much of a conversationalist either.
Rezensionen: May, Coleman, Maron, Hill
Marilyn Stasio reviews this time: “The Blackhouse” by Peter May, “Gun Church” by Reed Farrel Coleman, “The Buzzard Table” by Margaret Maron and “A Question of Identity” by Susan Hill.
Rezension: John Banville: “Ancient Light”
In the trompe l’oeil universe of the versatile Irish novelist John Banville, things rarely happen just once. The actual event in a particular intersection of space and time is filtered through a kaleidoscope of memory and dream.
Rezensionen: Robotham, Cornwell, Mayor, Kaaberbol, Friis
This time Marilyn Stasio talks about: Michael Robotham: “Say you’re sorry”, Patricia Cornwell: “The bone bed”, Archer Mayor: “Paradise City”, Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis: “Invisible Murder”.
Rezension: Ian McEwan: “Sweet Tooth”
Ian McEwan’s coy new novel, “Sweet Tooth,” begins with an intriguing confession from the narrator: “My name is Serena Frome (rhymes with plume) and almost 40 years ago I was sent on a secret mission for the British security service.
Rezension: J. R. Moehringer: “Sutton”
In “Sutton,” his sentimental novel about the enigmatic boxman, J. R. Moehringer summons the essential markers of his subject’s fabled sprees, starting with his hardscrabble boyhood in Irishtown, by the Brooklyn Navy Yard and concluding with his parole from Attica.
Rezenion: Tom Wolfe: “Back to Blood”
Tom Wolfe’s move from the New Journalism to fiction writing, undertaken a quarter-century ago, now seems on a par with Babe Ruth’s shift from the pitcher’s mound to the regular batting order.
Rezension: Giorgio Faletti: “A Pimp’s Notes”
The story of Faletti’s sixth novel is expertly plotted, complex without ever becoming convoluted. As the narrative proceeds, many small and unobtrusively planted seeds are brought to bloom in satisfying and surprising ways. So that’s the good news.
Interview: John Grisham
The author, most recently, of “The Racketeer” wishes President Obama would read “Fifty Shades of Grey”: “Maybe it would loosen him up a bit.” He talks also about the books he’s reading and other things.
Interview: Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich’s 14th novel, “The Round House,” tells the story of Joe, a 13-year-old who seeks justice after his mother is brutally attacked. In this interview, Ms. Erdrich discussed the difficulty of obtaining justice on reservations and more.