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REVIEW OF 1/1: JIHAD - BRITAIN BY DAVID COLES AND JACK EVERETT

Review by Geraldine Evans

 

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I found it impossible to put down and really wanted to know what happened next. The action moves from country to country in the build-up to the 1/1 New Year terrorist tragedies. With thousands dead at the hands of Islamic fundamentalists, the UK government has no answers. We watch as the Islamic fanatics plot more terror. It's time for a new party, a radical party, the Independents, led by Francis Raike, who promises…

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Added by Geraldine Evans on December 30, 2010 at 9:29pm — No Comments

Black Friday Special from Writer's Digest and Me

As some of you know, I work for the publisher who cranks out the excellent Writer's Digest line of books and magazines. I went to the good folks of WD and asked them if there was a way I could give the writers of CrimeSpace some sort of special deal.



Through Friday, Nov. 26, use offer code FAMILY at checkout at WritersDigestShop.com and… Continue

Added by Benjamin Sobieck on November 26, 2010 at 10:00pm — No Comments

I have a publisher!

Okay, it's not a mystery... although several crimes are committed. All This and Family, Too has been accepted for publication by Pill Hill Press.

My manuscript is currently undergoing edits and will be coming out in 2011, the sooner the better as far as I'm concerned.

Yahoo!

Added by Sarah E Glenn on November 12, 2010 at 5:15am — No Comments

Review - Cut & Run, Alix Bosco

Book Title: CUT & RUN

Author: Alix Bosco

Publisher: Penguin

Copyright: 2009

ISBN: 978-0-14-320469-5

No of Pages: 281



Book Synopsis:



When a rugby star who began his life on the streets is murdered in the arms of a beautiful celebrity, it seems to be an open-and-shut case of a drug deal gone wrong but Anna Markunas, legal researcher for the prime suspect's defence team, begins to uncover a far more sinister truth - one that could ultimately destroy… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on October 13, 2010 at 10:33pm — No Comments

Urinal-top video

We were on the Hessian plain somewhere outside Frankfurt when I felt as though the drugs had taken hold.


Why am I paraphrasing the great Hunter S. Thompson? Because I endured an experience that Professor Gonzo could only have imagined in his wildest LSD frenzies. Something that made me feel I must be hallucinating, as if the Las Vegas of HST’s fear and loathing had come to me, cleaned up and waterless but every bit as insidious. What I saw was proof…
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Added by Matt Rees on October 8, 2010 at 12:22am — 7 Comments

Review and Read for Free

I'm in need of reviews for my flash fiction collection ebook, "4 Killer Crime Stories in 4 Minutes." I'll send it to you free if you post that review (good or bad) on Barnes & Noble.

That's it. Nothing to lose. You don't even have to like the ebook.

Just reply to this thread or send me a message.

Thanks!

Added by Benjamin Sobieck on October 4, 2010 at 1:09pm — No Comments

NOVELS CAN BE BASED ON THE IRONIES OF LABELS, IDEAS & PHRASES

This writer has often wondered at the irony of the conflict inherent in certain pat phrases we become accustomed to over time. Phrases like "Law and Order", "Peace Officers/Keeping the Peace and Law Enforcement", "Corrections and Rehabilitation" just for a few. Think about it.



The LAW is constant changing. ORDER is rather static. Maintaining Law and Order is not always compatible. It is somewhat like the age-old story of "the haves and the…

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Added by Glenna Fairbanks on August 10, 2010 at 9:41am — 2 Comments

Sondheim in the West Bank

I’m in between drafts of a novel, so I thought I’d look for something to clear my head. Inspired by a BBC broadcast last week in honor of the 80th birthday of Broadway lyricist and composer Stephen Sondheim, I’ve been working on a musical version of my Palestinian crime novels. (Only in the shower, so far…)


I’m thinking of updating the Romeo and Juliet story and setting it in Bethlehem. In tribute to the Sondheim-Bernstein classic “West Side Story,” it’ll be…
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Added by Matt Rees on August 5, 2010 at 5:05pm — No Comments

Thinking is an essential part of writing

You think about the plot and sub plots. You think about the characters and their motivations. You think about the weather and the time of year the novels take place. And you think about the locations. In fact you think about everything there is to think about when writing a novel, and rather than spending my time sitting in a room and staring out of a window thinking, I prefer to do most of mine while walking. Not only does this help to keep me fit but it's a well known fact…

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Added by Pauline Rowson on July 26, 2010 at 5:20pm — No Comments

Covers - Sometimes They Are Great.

Added by O'Neil De Noux on July 17, 2010 at 2:48am — No Comments

The Barbara Cartland of Cairo…Sort of: Sanna Negus’s Writing Life interview

Cairo is a place we all know to some degree, even if only the image of the pyramids and the Sphinx. A short visit there is enough to make you wonder about how much of this teeming metropolis you really don’t know. No writer gets so deep as Sanna Negus under the skin of this ancient city, which remains key to the future of the benighted Middle East. Sanna’s the Middle East correspondent for Finnish radio and television. Her new book “Hold onto Your Veil, Fatima! And Other…
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Added by Matt Rees on July 15, 2010 at 9:16pm — No Comments

Jimmy Carter, apartheid, hemorrhoids and Matt Beynon Rees

I often receive emails from book stores, amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and online literary sites telling me how much I’d like the novels of Matt Beynon Rees. I’m delighted to see these emails, which are based on my other purchases and interests, as only I can truly know just how much the novels of Matt Beynon Rees have changed my life. (Try them, I’m sure you’ll agree.)


Of course, I also get the occasional email informing me that if I like Matt Beynon…
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Added by Matt Rees on May 21, 2010 at 12:42am — 1 Comment

Blood, Guts, and Whiskey Launches May 25

Thuglit’s third anthology, Blood, Guts, and Whiskey, will be available to the public on May 25th, two weeks from today. Todd Robinson’s first two collections (Hardcore Hardboiled, and Sex, Thugs, and Rock and Roll) were widely acclaimed, each containing award-winning stories. The newest arrival promises to be just as good, as the appearance of several writers of renown (Sean Doolittle, Craig MacDonald, Stuart Neville, Dave Zeltserman, to name a few alphabetically) figures to balance out…
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Added by Dana King on May 12, 2010 at 4:51am — No Comments

An Islamic Romeo and Juliet

Since 9/11, writers have tried to understand the extremists committed to the destruction of the West and, often, that of their own societies in the Middle East. Most have attempted to do this by “going inside” the world of those extremists, giving us the inner life of suicide bombers or of the “American Taliban.”


It’s a worthwhile premise, because it’s aimed at comprehending people who are frequently written off as bestial, bloodthirsty psychopaths, as though…
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Added by Matt Rees on April 2, 2010 at 8:05pm — No Comments

The elusive, graceful future of journalism: Nina Burleigh's Writing Life

A NPR foreign correspondent chum used to recount a list of seven ways for journalists to grow old with grace. His premise, which is self-evident to anyone who’s been a reporter, was that daily news was an undignified thing to be doing in your 40s. I can’t remember the whole of the list. It included writing op-eds for your newspaper (which seemed more or less like retirement), teaching journalism at a university (also retirement, but somewhat scorned by other hacks), and maybe the…
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Added by Matt Rees on March 6, 2010 at 10:34pm — No Comments

SCENE OF THE CRIME Hosts Norwegian Mystery Author, K.O. Dahl

The Other Oslo





Kjell Ola Dahl has been called the Henning Mankell of Norway. The author of eleven highly acclaimed police procedurals, most of which feature Oslo

detectives Frank…

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Added by J. Sydney Jones on March 3, 2010 at 3:30am — 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.



Book Review:



Tom… Continue

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

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