All Blog Posts Tagged 'Cold' (9)

Love, Romanian Style

Hi, Crimesters,

I posted this for the Bloody Valentine blog hop and thought it might suit us here as well:

Nicolai and Elena Ceaușescu – two of the wackiest Communist dictators of the Cold War era (and I don’t use the term “wacky” lightly) – were executed on Christmas day, 1989.  And to the bitter end, they were madly in love.

I was going to write a…

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Added by Victoria Dougherty on February 16, 2013 at 6:37am — 8 Comments

Review: The Underground by Lawrence McMorrow

 

Late 1940s America, a world in which deserving has little to do with what you get, and the Irish immigrant Maura arrives as an almost-rebel. Despite her Catholic background, she has lost her virginity on the boat to the New World and, upon arrival in the US, she falls in love with Frank and gets pregnant. Frank is no ordinary man, he is a communist, and, at the height…

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Added by Tom Vater on December 2, 2012 at 5:28pm — No Comments

Review - The Cold Cold Ground, Adrian McKinty

Book Title:   THE COLD COLD GROUND

Author:  Adrian McKinty

Location:   Northern Ireland

Series:   Sean Duffy

Publisher:   Serpents Tail / Allen & Unwin

Year of Publication:   2012



Northern Ireland. Spring 1981.



Hunger strikes. Riots. Power cuts.



A homophobic serial killer with a penchant for opera. And a young woman's suicide that may yet turn out to be murder.



On the surface, the events are unconnected, but then things - and people…

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Added by Karen from AustCrime on January 30, 2012 at 5:40pm — No Comments

Tide of Death and my thriller, In Cold Daylight, now published in China

Tide of Death, the first in the DI Andy Horton series of crime novels set in the Solent area of England, and my thriller, In Cold Daylight, have now been published in China. …





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Added by Pauline Rowson on July 8, 2011 at 6:37pm — No Comments

Review - So Cold the River, Michael Koryta

Book Title: SO COLD THE RIVER

Author: Michael Koryta

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Copyright: 2010

ISBN: 978-1-74237-133-7

No of Pages: 503



Book Synopsis:



It started with a documentary. The beautiful Alyssa Bradford approaches Eric Shaw to unearth the life story of her father-in-law, Campbell Bradford, a 95-year-old billionaire whose childhood is wrapped in mystery. Eric grabs the job, even though the only clues to Bradford's past are his hometown… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on August 17, 2010 at 8:06pm — 2 Comments

Tess Gerritsen

NYT bestseller Tess Gerritsen shares her upcoming novel, Ice Cold (UK title: The Killing Place) and a new TNT television show Rizzoli and Isles today on Hook'em & Book'em. The television show is based upon Tess' crime-fighting characters Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles.… Continue

Added by Mark Young on April 13, 2010 at 3:30am — No Comments

Review - Cold Justice, Katherine Howell

Book Title: COLD JUSTICE

Author: Katherine Howell

Publisher: Pan MacMillan Australia

Copyright: 2010

ISBN: 978-1-4050-3927-7

No of Pages: 329



Book Synopsis:



The past haunts the present...



Nineteen years ago teenager Georgie Daniels stumbled across the body of her classmate, Tim Pieters, hidden amongst bushes. His family was devastated and the killer never found.



Political pressure sees the murder investigation reopened and… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on January 30, 2010 at 3:46pm — No Comments

Play the Publishing Quiz and win a Free book

The Society of Authors meeting in London on Monday was fascinating for many reasons: the venue, the characters in the audience, the panel and what they said. I’ve picked out some quotes from the panel of experts (a publisher, an agent and a book wholesaler) and thought I’d let you decide who said what with the offer of a FREE signed edition of one of my novels if you guess correctly. But first a little more about the event.



The Conway Hall,… Continue

Added by Pauline Rowson on October 9, 2008 at 3:52am — 1 Comment

In Cold Daylight

The plot line in my thriller, In Cold Daylight, which was shortlisted for the World Book Day Prize 2008, is turning out to become more of a reality than I envisaged when I first started researching and writing it some years ago, probably because it was based on a true story which I overheard my husband's fire fighting colleagues discussing on the station one day.

In Cold Daylight is centred around several fire fighters from one watch dying of… Continue

Added by Pauline Rowson on August 13, 2008 at 1:01am — No Comments

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