All Blog Posts Tagged 'The' (297)

Review - The Crossing, B. Michael Radburn

Book Title:   THE CROSSING

Author: B. Michael Radburn

ISBN: 9780980741872

Publisher:   Pantera Press

Year of Publication:   2011

Traumatised by the disappearance of his daughter Claire, Taylor Bridges' marriage breaks down, and he exiles himself to Glorys Crossing in Tasmania. Taylor is the only ranger in this isolated town adjoining a national park ... a town dying a slow death as the rising waters of the new dam project slowly flood it.

Struggling with the… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on November 1, 2011 at 9:48am — No Comments

Best 100 Mysteries of All-Time #81

The Black Thumb by Constance and Gwenyth Little (1941; Doubleday Crime Club)

http://bookshopblog.com/2011/10/23/no-81-the-black-paw-best-100-mysteries-of-all-time/

Added by Love Is Murder Conference on October 24, 2011 at 11:52pm — No Comments

"You'll never get a Major Deal Again!"

The following blog is "now appearing" at The Vincent Zandri Vox:

The way we used to buy books....

"You'll never get a major deal again!"

Sounds harsh doesn't it. Even cruel, especially when it comes from the mouth of a respected independent bookstore…

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Added by Vincent Zandri on September 18, 2011 at 1:14am — 8 Comments

Review - How the Dead See, David Owen

Book Title:   HOW THE DEAD SEE

Author: David Owen

ISBN:   9780980856415

Location:   Hobart, Tasmania

Series:   Pufferfish

Publisher:   40 Degrees South

Year of Publication:   2011

The theft of a valuable diamond necklace, and the death by apparent suicide of a notorious film star, have nothing in common. Nothing except Detective Franz Heineken, aka Pufferfish, scourge of an island’s villains and a deadly match for it unpredictable, unsettling… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on September 12, 2011 at 1:53pm — No Comments

Review - The Brotherhood, Y.A. Erskine

Book Title:   THE BROTHERHOOD

Author: Y.A. Erskine

ISBN:   9781742750156

Location:   Tasmania

Publisher:   Bantam

Year of Publication:   2011

When Sergeant John White, mentor, saviour and all-round good guy, is murdered during a routine call-out, the tight-knit world of Tasmania Police is rocked to the core.

An already difficult investigation into the death of one of their own becomes steeped in political complexities when the main suspect is identified as… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on September 1, 2011 at 3:11pm — No Comments

Review - The Siren's Sting, Miranda Darling

Book Title:   THE SIREN'S STING

Author: Miranda Darling

ISBN:   9781741759204

Series:   Stevie Duveen

Publisher:   Allen & Unwin

Year of Publication:   2011

Aboard a luxury yacht as the minder of the world's greatest - and most temperamental - opera star, Stevie Duveen manages to thwart a pirate attack off the coast of Somalia, but soon realises the attack is merely one salvo in a ruthless campaign of terror. Other vessels are being hijacked, and ransoms in… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on September 1, 2011 at 12:13am — No Comments

Review - The Ghost of Waterloo, Robin Adair

Book Title:   THE GHOST OF WATERLOO

ISBN:   9781921518485

Location:   Sydney

Series:   Nicodemus Dunne

Publisher:   Penguin

Year of Publication:   2011

The young settlement is shaken by a daring bank robbery and a spate of murders. At the Governor's command, Nicodemus Dunne – a disgraced London thief-taker who is now the Running Patterer, a news-hawker roaming the streets of Sydney – sets out to discover the truth.

The evidence points – amazingly – to none… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on August 19, 2011 at 11:09pm — No Comments

Norman

Norman Jewison has made some of the most influential and popular films of the sound era.

In Toronto this month they are celebrating his illustrious career with a month-long retrospective that includes such classics as In The Heat of the Night, The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are coming!, and Moonstruck.

Having known Norman since the 1980s, I've written an appreciation of him and his movies on my other blog. Please check it out at.

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Added by Ron Base on August 15, 2011 at 8:30am — No Comments

Blog Link

Please feel free to check out my blog at http://www.mjmccann.com/apps/blog/. I'd love to read your comments as I document my journey down the road of self-publishing the Donaghue and Stainer Crime Novel Series. It's a helluva trip, so come on over and check it out.

Added by Michael J. McCann on July 30, 2011 at 2:56am — No Comments

Erle Stanley Gardner's Birthday

July 17 was Erle Stanley Gardner's birthday (1889). He studied law on his own and passed the bar at age 21. Working as a lawyer wasn't enough to keep him busy so he began writing detective fiction for pulp magazines. In 1933 he published The Case of the Velvet Claws, his first Perry Mason novel, and went on to write 80 more -- writing 4,000 words a day, even while practicing as a lawyer --…

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Added by Love Is Murder Conference on July 19, 2011 at 3:04am — No Comments

Review - The Pericles Commission, Gary Corby

Book Title:   THE PERICLES COMMISSION

Author:   Gary Corby

Publisher:   Penguin

Copyright:   2010

ISBN:   978-0-14-320591-3

Book Synopsis:

Athens, 461BC. A dead man falls from the sky, landing at the feet of a surprised Nicolaos.

It doesn't normally rain corpses. This one is the politician Ephialtes, who only days before had turned Athens into a democracy.

The young statesman Pericles commissions Nicolaos to find the assassin. Nico walks the… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on July 11, 2011 at 11:57pm — No Comments

Review - The Simple Death, Michael Duffy

Book Title:   THE SIMPLE DEATH

Author:   Michael Duffy

Publisher:   Allen & Unwin

Copyright:   2011

ISBN:   978-1-74237-552-6

Book Synopsis:

A man falls off a ferry and dies and an elderly lady dies after a long painful illness - could the two deaths be linked? Are they mercy killings or is Detective Nicholas Troy on the trail of a serial killer? A smart, sophisticated, hugely entertaining mystery, with a plot ripped straight out of tomorrow's… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on July 5, 2011 at 8:30pm — No Comments

The Man Who Fooled SAVAK, a tale of love and love of freedom

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Added by Anthony S. Policastro on June 24, 2011 at 4:00am — No Comments

Sales, Slips and Slowdowns...Oh My!

The following blog is NOW APPEARING at The Vincent Zandri Vox!

There are reasons I don't get into publishing and this is the main reason why: Success is a guessing game more synonymous with luck than solid…

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Added by Vincent Zandri on June 24, 2011 at 1:21am — 1 Comment

Nice "thanks" from Steve Hamilton on my review of The Lock Artist

I review because I think we need serious, powerful reviews to help promote mystery and suspense writers. So when I received Stephen Hamilton's really great thank-you, I was thrilled. It's great to have my review appreciated.

Interested in the review? It's at http://www.buzzardbone.blogspot.com/.

Enjoy,

Mary

Added by Mary McFarland on June 22, 2011 at 11:41pm — No Comments

Review - The Borgia Ring, Michael White

Book Title:   THE BORGIA RING

Author:   Michael White

Publisher:   Random House

Copyright:   2009

ISBN:   978-1-86325-689-6

Book Synopsis:

For on the skeleton's finger is a beautiful emerald ring that once belonged to Lucrezia Borgia, the most powerful - and most evil - woman of the Renaissance.

Hours later the skeleton has vanished and one man is dead.

For DCI Jack Pendragon - newly transferred from Oxford to Brick Lane - it's a first case… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on June 22, 2011 at 11:19pm — No Comments

Review - The Boundary, Nicole Watson

Book Title: THE BOUNDARY

Author: Nicole Watson

Publisher: University of Queensland Press

Copyright: 2011

ISBN: 978-0-7022-3849-9

Book Synopsis:

Long ago, Meston Park in Brisbane's West End marked the city's boundary. A curfew kept its Aboriginal population outside the city limits after dark.

When the park becomes the site of a multi-million dollar development, the Corrowa People vow to fight and file a native title claim. Hours after rejecting the claim,… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on June 20, 2011 at 10:17pm — No Comments

Review, The Insider, Reece Hirsch

Book Title: THE INSIDER

Author: Reece Hirsch

Publisher: Berkley

Copyright: 2010

ISBN: 978-0-425-23462-4

Book Synopsis:

When a friend and colleague hurtles to his death outside his office window, corporate attorney Will Connelly is shaken. But because he's just made partner, Will must set aside his grief and focus on his first task: leading negotiations in the merger transaction for a new client, Jupiter Software, the world leader in incryption… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on June 15, 2011 at 11:58pm — No Comments

Flawed P.I.s, Gotta Love 'em: A Guest Post by Crime Author Benjamin Sobieck

This blog is now appearing at The Vincent Zandri Vox: http://vincentzandri.blogspot.com/2011/06/flawed-pis-gotta-love-em-guest-post-by.html?showComment=1307713550519#c4287546784410641304

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Added by Vincent Zandri on June 11, 2011 at 12:50am — No Comments

An Inspiration Visit with NYT Bestselling "Self Published" Crime Novelist Debbi Mack

For the past two months I've been vying for the same positions as Debbi Mack, a writer whom I hadn't heard of until I made the connection one Sunday morning not too long ago when I saw her name appear on the New York Times Bestseller List. Not only was I taken aback since…

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