All Blog Posts Tagged 'review' (104)

Like Aviation Thrillers? Check out A Time For Patriots By Dale Brown

Dale Brown is the well-known author many aviation techno-thriller novels, including a widely popular series centered around the retired Air Force Lieutenant-General Patrick McLanahan. He has thirteen New York Times best sellers under his belt and…

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Added by Ehsan Ehsani on April 24, 2012 at 6:30am — No Comments

Cozy Mystery For Moms? The Body In The Gazebo By Katherine Hall Page

Katherine Hall Page is the popular author of the cozy mystery series featuring Faith Fairchild. She wrote her first mystery, The Body in the Belfry , in 1991 and…

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Added by Ehsan Ehsani on April 23, 2012 at 9:48am — No Comments

KBL: Kill Bin Laden By John Weisman

There are few folks who master the sub-genre of Military and Spy Thrillers; John Weisman is definitely one of them. He is one of a select company of authors to have their books on both the Times nonfiction and fiction bestseller lists. John pioneered coverage of Naval Special Warfare when he co-authored the No. 1 NY Times bestseller "Rogue Warrior," then conceived, created,…

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Added by Ehsan Ehsani on April 22, 2012 at 9:06am — No Comments

A Look At "Red Wolf" By Lisa Marklund

Lisa Marklund, The Queen of Scandinavian Crime as Henning Mankell puts it, is the Swedish journalist and creator of a very popular series featuring the fictional character Annika Bengtzon, a newspaper journalist. Her books have been published in thirty languages. In addition, Marklund is the co-owner of Sweden's third largest publishing…

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Added by Ehsan Ehsani on April 19, 2012 at 7:02pm — No Comments

A nice cozy mystery from an Irish Author...

William John Banville, who writes as John Banville and Benjamin Black, is an Irish novelist and screenwriter who is recognized for his precise, cold, forensic prose style, and his dark humor. His novel…

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Added by Ehsan Ehsani on April 17, 2012 at 11:35pm — No Comments

Classic Swedish Crime: Blackwater By Kerstin Ekman

Now it's time for a classic from an extremely notable author from Sweden: Kerstin Ekman, the Swedish crime novelist and the author of a string of successful novels ranging from detective to psychological thrillers.…

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Added by Ehsan Ehsani on April 16, 2012 at 12:13pm — No Comments

Dark Secrets And Curious Symbols: “The Devil Colony” By James Rollins

James Rollins is the pen name of American veterinarian James Paul Czajkowski who is a writer of best-selling, adventure-thriller series such as Sigma Force. Thanks to the wild success of his books, he gave up his veterinary practice in…

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Added by Ehsan Ehsani on April 12, 2012 at 6:30am — No Comments

A nice literary mystery happening in Cairo: "The Golden Scales" by Parker Bilal

Parker Bilal is the pseudonym for Jamal Mahjoub. Born in London and brought up in Khartoum, Sudan, Mahjoub originally trained as a geologist and has written six critically acclaimed literary novels which have been…

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Added by Ehsan Ehsani on April 6, 2012 at 6:04am — No Comments

South African Crime: "The Fallen" By Jassy Mackenzie

Jassy Mackenzie is the South African author of Jade De Jong series, a private eye set of stories centered around the main character Jade.

She was born in Rhodesia (as all ex-Zimbabweans still prefer to call it), and moved to South Africa when she was eight years old.…

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Added by Ehsan Ehsani on April 5, 2012 at 7:13am — No Comments

As close as you get to street life in NYC

The new debut "The Cop With the Pink Pistol " written by broadcast veteran Gray Basnightis now making his mark in print. Published by Ransom Note Press, the novel…

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Added by Ehsan Ehsani on April 4, 2012 at 1:00am — No Comments

For the fans of forensic-driven thrillers: A Hard Death By Jonathan Hayes

Jonathan Hayes, a veteran forensic pathologist, has been a New York City medical examiner, performing autopsies and testifying in murder trials, since 1990. A former contributing editor at Martha Stewart Living, Hayes has written for the New York Times, GQ, and Food & Wine.…

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Added by Ehsan Ehsani on April 2, 2012 at 9:04am — No Comments

Have you ever read a Japanese crime fiction? “The Thief” By Fuminori Nakamura

In the case you have not read any Japanese crime fiction or thriller so far, we suggest you take a look at "The Thief " by Fuminori Nakamura. Born in 1977 and graduated…

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Added by Ehsan Ehsani on March 29, 2012 at 5:44am — No Comments

This is as close as you get to Agatha Christie: "Death at the Jesus Hospital"

David Dickinson, the Irish author of Lord Francis Powerscourt series. With a first-class degree in Classics from Cambridge, he worked in British television (BBC) for many years and was the editor of Newsnight and Panorama as well as Monarchy. He now divides his time between Somerset and France writing his…

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Added by Ehsan Ehsani on March 28, 2012 at 2:12am — No Comments

The Bedlam Detective: Probably the most literary historical crime fiction we read this year

Stephen Gallagher is the English writer of several novels and television scripts, including for the BBC television series Doctor Who for which he wrote two serials, Warriors' Gate (1981) and Terminus (1983).  He is also very active in crime fiction area and…

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Added by Ehsan Ehsani on March 26, 2012 at 12:33pm — No Comments

Bloodland By Irish Author Alan Glynn

Alan Glynn is an Irish writer born in 1960 in Dublin and is the author of four novels, from which the first one The Dark Fields (2001) was made into a film in 2011 by Neil Burger as Limitless . Alan’s another notable work is Winterland which was published in 2009 and is a thriller with a compelling story. (Check out…

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Added by Ehsan Ehsani on March 25, 2012 at 11:09am — No Comments

Like Spy Novels? A look at Scorpion Betrayal by Andrew Kaplan

Andrew Kaplan is best known for his spy thriller novels featuring a former operative code-named Scorpion. He worked as a freelance journalist and war correspondent for the International Herald Tribune and has also served in the army. His new novel…

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Added by Ehsan Ehsani on March 23, 2012 at 10:30pm — No Comments

One of the finest forensic thrillers we read this year: The Bone Yard

Today Jefferson Bass is probably one of the most well-known names in the sub-genre of Forensic Suspense. The writing team of Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson started out by writing…
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Added by Ehsan Ehsani on March 22, 2012 at 12:23am — No Comments

A Notable Police Procedural: "No Mark Upon Her" By Deborah Crombie

Deborah Crombie is a familiar name among fans of police procedural novels. A native of Texas, she lived in England for several years and the Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James mystery series is a result of her British life experience. As a three-time Macavity Award winner and an Edgar Award nominee, her novels have got attention by New York Times and LA Time and one of her books…

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Added by Ehsan Ehsani on March 14, 2012 at 9:40am — No Comments

The Man Who Went Up in Smoke By Maj Sjowall And Per Wahlöö

Swedish Crime Fiction would not have been what it is today without Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. A common-law wife and husband team of detective writers from Sweden, they conceived and wrote a series of ten novels (police procedurals) about the exploits of detectives from the special homicide commission of the national police in which the character of Martin…

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Added by Ehsan Ehsani on March 13, 2012 at 7:01am — No Comments

“Woman With Birthmark” By Håkan Nesser

Woman with Birthmark (or in Swedish "Kvinna med födelsemärke") is a 1996 novel by Håkan Nesser, which won the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award in the same year.…

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Added by Ehsan Ehsani on March 11, 2012 at 7:09am — No Comments

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