All Blog Posts Tagged 'Tom' (12)

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

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: 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

The Devil's Road to Kathmandu now a Kindle eBook

My first novel, The Devil's Road to Kathmandu, was published by short-lived imprint Dragon's Mouth Press in Hong Kong in 2006 and garnered some great reviews in the regional press at the time. The Bangkok Post called it a better backpacker novel than The Beach.

Now, The Devil's Road to Kathmandu has been republished by…

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Added by Tom Vater on July 3, 2012 at 8:31pm — No Comments

Spotlight: Thomas B. Sawyer - "Murder, He Wrote"

Today the Spotlight shines on novelist Thomas B. Sawyer who was Head Writer for the smash TV series Murder, She Wrote and wrote for many other series. He talks about how The Maltese Falcon influenced his career.

 

http://www.examiner.com/writing-in-los-angeles/spotlight-thomas-b-sawyer-murder-he-wrote

 

Comments always welcome.

 

In September I will…

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Added by Morgan St. James on August 10, 2011 at 9:31pm — No Comments

Review - The Secret Speech, Tom Rob Smith

Book Title: THE SECRET SPEECH

Author: Tom Rob Smith

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Copyright: 2009

ISBN: 978-1-84737-129-4

No of Pages: 449



Book Synopsis:



The Soviet Union 1956: after Stalin's death, a violent regime is beginning to fracture. It leaves behind a society where the police are the criminals, and the criminals are innocent. Stalin's successor Khrushchev pledges reform. But there are forces at work that are unable to forgive or forget the… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on July 1, 2010 at 8:02pm — No Comments

Review - Skin and Bones, Tom Bale

Book Title: SKIN AND BONES

Author: Tom Bale

Publisher: Preface Publishing

Copyright: 2010

ISBN: 978-1-84809-073-6

No of Pages: 438



Book Synopsis:



On a cold January morning, a nightmare awaits in a small Sussex village. A deranged young man goes on the rampage, shooting everyone in his path before taking his own life. It is a senseless, tragic event, but sadly not an unfamiliar one. At least, that's what everyone thinks.



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Added by Karen from AustCrime on February 9, 2010 at 11:17am — No Comments

HECTOR LASSITER SPEAKS

I've just posted an interview with actor Tom Stechschulte, the voice of Hector Lassiter in Recorded Books' unabridged versions of my ongoing series. Tom also reads the Cormac McCarthy books, and titles by James Lee Burke and James Ellroy, among many others. There's some interesting stuff on strategies for creating character voices, on dramatic reading and the recording… Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on December 15, 2009 at 11:00pm — No Comments

ROGUE MALES: SUBJECT #1, TOM RUSSELL

This year finds me briefly veering back over to the nonfiction side of the publishing world with Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life, a second collection of interviews with authors including James Ellroy, Pete Dexter, Daniel Woodrell, Elmore Leonard and the late, great James Crumley. Rogue Males also features an account of a trip to the desert to interview crime fiction greats Ken Bruen and James Sallis… Continue

Added by Craig McDonald on March 29, 2009 at 10:30am — 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

Book Signing Part II - Florida and NY

I’ve written a little about my early book signings in Key West and South Florida and you can see photos from all my signings on my website, http://www.michaelhaskins.net/, if you are interested. If you came to any of the signings, you may find your photo there.



Marshall Smith, owner of Key West Island Books, hosted my first signing days after the release date of “Chasin’ the Wind.” I sold 80 books and he told me the only person to sell more at a book signing was Carl Hiaasen. It was… Continue

Added by Michael Haskins on August 8, 2008 at 6:30am — No Comments

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