All Blog Posts Tagged 'Barry' (8)

Trial of Outlaw Frank James Begins - 1883

This is my first blog post on Crime Space...I'm the author of "Murder & Mayhem 52 Crimes that Shocked Early California 1849-1949" (2012, Schiffer). I have a regular blog at www.mikeb63.blogspot.com that has spotlighted crime stories and other things for the past year. Visit my author website www.michaelthomasbarry.com for more…

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Added by Michael Barry on August 22, 2012 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Review - All My Enemies (re-released), Barry Maitland

Book Title:   ALL MY ENEMIES

Author: Barry Maitland

ISBN:   9781742376547

Location:   London

Series:   Brock & Kolla

Publisher:   Allen & Unwin

Year of Publication:   2012

In one of the finest and most pivotal books in this critically acclaimed series, never before published in the U.S., D.S. Kathy Kolla reports to New Scotland Yard and to D.C.I. David Brock's Serious Crime Division.

Just before Kolla is to start her new job, a young woman…

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Added by Karen from AustCrime on July 26, 2012 at 1:20pm — No Comments

Hate Amazon? Well Read About What Random House Did to Me and My Family...

The following blog is now appearing at The Vincent Zandri Vox: http://vincentzandri.blogspot.fr/2012/04/hate-amazon-well-read-about-what-random.html#.T4RtpdWM6So…

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Added by Vincent Zandri on April 11, 2012 at 4:46am — 4 Comments

Review - Chelsea Mansions, Barry Maitland

Book Title: CHELSEA MANSIONS

Author: Barry Maitland

ISBN: 9781742376387

Series: Brock & Kolla

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Year of Publication: 2011

When Nancy Haynes, an elderly American tourist, is brutally murdered in a seemingly senseless attack after visiting the Chelsea Flower Show. DI Kathy Kolla suspects there is more to the case than first appears. When another occupant of the palatial Chelsea Mansions is murdered hot on the heels of the… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on August 12, 2011 at 12:02am — No Comments

Review - Dark Mirror, Barry Maitland

Book Title: DARK MIRROR

Author: Barry Maitland

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Copyright: 2009

ISBN: 978-1-74175-741-5

No of Pages: 364

Book Synopsis:

When Marion Summers - red-haired, beautiful and mysterious - collapses and dies in the rarefied surrounds of the London Library, DI Kathy Kolla and DCI David Brock are sent to head the investigation. Kathy finds a reluctant kinship with the feisty Marion, who had, like Kathy, left a difficult home life… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on June 9, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Three Strikes

Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Alex Rodriguez. Three gifted players thought to be locks for baseball’s Hall of Fame have been accused of taking steroids or performance enhancing drugs.

On Monday, after word leaked out about a 2003 positive test, Rodriguez, the New York Yankees third baseman, admitted that he used steroids for a three-year stretch from 2001-2003. Rodriguez hit 156 home runs during that period, including 57 in 2002, the most he’s ever hit in one… Continue

Added by Christopher Valen on February 12, 2009 at 7:06am — 3 Comments

GOOD NEWS ON MY END

Hi everyone. Just wanted to share with you that I got a panel at LCC Hawaii! I'll be on the NEW BLOOD panel with Barry Broad, Victoria Kneubuhl, John Madinger, G.M. Malliet, Alice Wilson-Fried, and moderator Mike Befeler. There's also a debut breakfast, and I got 15 mins of fame to talk about Turning Fact Into Fiction.

Fun stuff: my promotional item for WHERE ANGELS FEAR (next month, Oak Tree Press) are prescription bottles with the bookcover and filled with red cinnamon hearts. It's… Continue

Added by Sunny Frazier on February 2, 2009 at 5:46am — No Comments

Atmosphere (R)

How is it that some authors grab you by the sleeve and won't let you go, while others only provide a pleasant diversion that can be set down at any moment to do something more pressing?

Laura Lippman does it; Barry Eisler too. It could be in Lippman's case that she writes as I think, pulling up details that seem like they came from my own brain, but in Eisler's work I have no frame of reference, being neither Asian nor a hired assassin. So it must be something else, and I call it… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on July 16, 2008 at 9:53pm — No Comments