All Blog Posts Tagged 'Andrew' (9)

Review - Outerborough Blues, Andrew Cotto

Book Title: OUTERBOROUGH BLUES

Author: Andrew Cotto

ISBN: 9781935439493

Year of Publication: 2012

Publisher: Ig Publishing

Location: United States

Category: Thriller / Noir

Synopsis

A beautiful young French girl walks into a bar, nervously lights a cigarette, and begs the bartender for help in finding her missing artist brother. In a moment of weakness, the bartender—a lone wolf named Caesar Stiles with a chip on his shoulder and a Sicilian…

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Added by Karen from AustCrime on January 9, 2013 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Review: Ghost Money by Andrew Nette

Max Quinlan is a PI on the trail of a shady Australian businessman who’s gone to ground in Southeast Asia. Quinlan, a half Vietnamese, half Australian ex-cop, has only recently taken up the detective mantle but he quickly becomes embroiled in post-war shenanigans in a 1996 Phnom Penh that is populated by shady characters, both foreign and local. He teams up with a…

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Added by Tom Vater on December 3, 2012 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Review: Ghost Money by Andrew Nette

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Added by Tom Vater on December 3, 2012 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Review - Ghost Money, Andrew Nette

Book Title: GHOST MONEY

Author: Andrew Nette

ISBN: B0090O0KFC

Location: Cambodia / Thailand

Series: Max Quinlan

Publisher: Snubnose Press

Year of Publication: 2012

Max Quinlan is an Australian ex-cop turned PI whose latest case is to find missing business Charles Avery. The trail leads to Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. Along the way Max will team up with an Australian journalist and his Cambodian translator to track Avery through the underbelly…

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Added by Karen from AustCrime on August 24, 2012 at 3:48pm — No Comments

TWO EXAMINER ARTICLES TODAY

A memoir conference is coming to Las Vegas on March 5. Sounds like a great one for anyone interested in writing their own memoir or that of another person.

LINK: http://exm.nr/LVmemoirconf

Speaking…

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Added by Morgan St. James on February 10, 2011 at 6:53am — No Comments

Review - Document Z, Andrew Croome

Book Title: DOCUMENT Z

Author: Andrew Croome

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Copyright: 2009

ISBN: 978-1-74175-743-9

No of Pages: 348

Book Synopsis:

Canberra, 1951. The Cold War is at its height. Into an atmosphere of paranoia, rumour and suspicion, Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov are among a group of new arrivals at the Soviet Embassy in Canberra. Both are party loyalists, working for the MVD, Moscow intelligence. Yet all is not well in the new city of Canberra.… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on October 8, 2010 at 2:42pm — No Comments

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ON ROGUE MALES

Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life by Craig McDonald. Bleak House Books $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-60648-036-6; paper $14.95 ISBN 978-1-932557-45-9

A fascinating follow-up to the 2006 Art in the Blood dialogue with leading crime writers, this collection by journalist and fiction writer McDonald (Head Games) underlines the “rogue male” theme by putting some of the most influential crime fiction wizards under the spotlight. Among… Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on March 16, 2009 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Crime Always Pays

This week on Crime Always Pays: Andrew Nugent’s latest novel, SOUL MURDER; free copies of David Peace’s ‘Red Riding Quartet’; a sneak preview of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, the movie adapted from John Boyne’s novel; more bumph on the Irish crime writers series at Books 2008; Princess Lilyput gives her verdict as the hardback edition of THE BIG O arrives at Chez Grand Viz; the latest on Sir Kenneth of Bruen; Paul Charles’ latest novel, THE BEAUTIFUL SOUND OF SILENCE; and a little… Continue

Added by Declan Burke on August 28, 2008 at 1:21am — 3 Comments

Crime Always Pays

This week on Crime Always Pays: Catherine O’Flynn’s WHAT WAS LOST, Declan Burke’s THE BIG O and Tana French’s THE LIKENESS reviewed; free copies of KO Dahl’s THE FOURTH MAN and THE MAN IN THE WINDOW; A GONZO NOIR gets its own blog; Andrew Taylor on the genesis of BLEEDING HEART SQUARE; KT McCaffrey on soundtracks and writing; Ed Lynskey Q&A’d; and – wait for it! – a first look at Will Hoyle’s BELLA MORTE!

Added by Declan Burke on June 18, 2008 at 9:15pm — No Comments