Linda Lee

Profile Information:

Hometown:
Hamilton, New Zealand
About Me:
I am a book buyer for a large Independent Bookstore. I am passionate about crime novels...love character driven series. When I'm not reading, I love movies, gardening, walking (to keep fit) and travelling.
I Am A:
Reader
Books And Authors I Like:
Peter James, Mark Billingham, Stuart MacBride, Lee Child, GM Ford, Dennis Lehane, Kathy Reichs, Karin Slaughter, John Rickards, Martyn Waites, Jonathan and Faye Kellerman, PD Martin, Denise Mina, Margaret Murphy Harlan Coben, Peter Robinson, Tess Gerritsen, Paul Cleave, Kevin Wignall, Mark Giminez, Simon Beckett, Simon Kernick....and lots of new authors I am discovering.
Movies And TV Shows I Like:
Six Feet Under, Frasier, The Bourne Movies, Johnny Depp movies, action movies in general.

Comment Wall:

  • Peter James

    Hi Linda

    Welcome to Crimespace! Great to have one of NZ greatest bookstores - and greatest crime thriller enthusiast on board! (and nicest person!!!)

    Aug 26, 2007

  • Linda Lee

    Thanks Peter, high praise indeed!!

    Aug 26, 2007

  • Mary

    Hi Linda

    Nice to see you here. I've noticed that there are a few familiar faces!

    Aug 26, 2007

  • Roger Newbury

    Hi Linda... you're most welcome my dear!

    Aug 26, 2007

  • Maryann Mercer

    Welcome Linda :o) I'm a Harlen Coben and Lee Child fan myself and working on some of the others. And I'm a Bourne fan, even if the books don't quite match the movies! Nice to meet you.

    Aug 26, 2007

  • Kevin Wignall

    Good to see you here, Linda.

    Aug 27, 2007

  • Burl Barer

    I notice you like GM Ford - he appears as himself (type cast) in my novel HEADLOCK. So do Meg Chittenden, Tony Fennely, Steve Martini, JA Jance, and few other authors. You can get the book cheap used on line. You will get a kick out of it.

    Burl Barer

    Aug 27, 2007

  • Martyn Waites

    Hi Linda, thanks for the invite and good to see you again.

    Aug 28, 2007

  • Tom Cain

    When a bookbuyer asks me to be her friend, I am only too happy, honoured and thrilled to accept! Just out of curiosity, have Bantam Press (or their Kiwi imprint) published The Accident Man in NZ yet?

    Aug 28, 2007

  • Tom Cain

    Excellent news about the sell-out. Hope you ordered more!

    Aug 28, 2007

  • JackBludis

    Some good authors on your list, but it's your job to know the good writers ... and Frazier is coming back in the fall in another series. Well, Kelsey Grammer is, not sure he'll play Frazier, but someone very like him, I'm sure.

    Aug 29, 2007

  • Karen from AustCrime

    Hi Linda and welcome to Crimespace - great to see you here - we're always looking for leads on NZ crime fiction!

    Aug 29, 2007

  • Sandra Ruttan

    Hi Linda, nice to see you here!

    Aug 30, 2007

  • Joseph Finder

    Thanks for the kind words, Linda -- delighted you liked POWER PLAY!

    Aug 31, 2007

  • norby

    Hey darlin' how are you!! Nice to see you here on Crimespace!

    Sep 1, 2007

  • Daryl Nilbett

    Finally logged on!!! Still getting the hang of doing my internet drossing at home instead of work. And now, I have to give it up to order our groceries. Birds.

    Good to see you here!

    Sep 5, 2007

  • Patricia Gulley

    Hi Linda,
    Always interested in travelers. On a cruise this past spring had 4 New Zealanders as table mates. Loved them. Book buyer? Hmmm. Was at Powell's Books (very large books store in Oregon, used and new) and was selling a few oldies. I was there when their book scots were in. The idea facinated me. It keeps binging around in the brain pan as a book idea. Patg

    Oct 29, 2007

  • Patricia Gulley

    Hey Linda, I was on Royal Caribbean in May. Wouldn't it have been fun if we were on the same ship? Wish I would have known about the festival. Oh well.
    Patg

    Oct 31, 2007

  • Sheila Quigley

    Hi Linda nice to hear from you, just recovering from this dreadful bug that is doing the rounds over here,but today the sun is brilliant and after a long hard winter what a difference it makes. sheila q

    Mar 23, 2008

  • Sheila Quigley

    Hello Linda, five minutes after I said the sun was shining yesterday it was bloody hailstoning.
    The Road To Hell is finished but because I was blind for a good four months I was late and fell behind. I will let you know when it is coming out. I am now on with Thorn In My Side. A few weeks ago a comment in a newspaper made me smile, (Great books but there are more murders in Houghton le spring than there are in Midsummer)
    so I thought time to take the whole Seahills gang on a holiday, So book no, six is set in the fantastic location of Holy Island. A hell of a lot went on there in the islands past,and it means I can escape from my desk to do research. Really it is only about an hour and fifty minutes away. But well worth going to if you are over here again Linda. When I get a date for The Road To Hell I will send you some more book marks for your customers.

    Mar 24, 2008

  • Sheila Quigley

    The finger was hell linda, I was sitting on that panel dosed up with what the hospital injected in me and my concentration was not at its best. I dont know if I will be on Harragate next year but I will be paying a visit. it is only an hour and twenty minutes from where I live. When you come over besure to visit the NORTH EAST. it is not called the lost kingdom for nothing, our coastline and our countryside is magnificant.

    Mar 27, 2008

  • Larry & Barbara Payton

    Howdy, Linda,
    Thanks for the invitation. Let me issue a disclaimer right off the bat: I'm not a crime writer per se. I have yet to find a genre that allows me the freedom to say what I want to say. The crime and murder genre fills that need better than most.

    I'm currently up to my elbows in two projects. One is espionage, tying Islamic terrorism to the illegal alien issue. The second is an old style western, with a bit of a murder mystery inside, as well as a paranormal twist.

    I'll soon be posting a short story, based on the western novel, to get some feedback.

    Barbara and I are retired. I assumed (really bad word) we would have time to communicate with friends and travel. Guess what! Didn't happen. Our writing projects keep us cooped up in a 12 by 14 office poring over our writings.

    What a great way to spend retirement!

    Oct 19, 2008

  • Grant McKenzie

    Hi Linda - yep you found me. A great international cast of crime writers hanging out here. I arrived — and bemoaned my rejection slips — even before I signed my publishing deal with Bantam.

    Dec 9, 2008

  • Erin Hart

    Hi Linda -- Nice to meet you! I see we share a similar taste in mystery writers...I'll have to check a few on your list I haven't read.

    Aug 18, 2009