All Blog Posts Tagged 'review' (104)

Review - The Tourist, Olen Steinhauer

Book Title: THE TOURIST

Author: Olen Steinhauer

Publisher: Harper Collins

Copyright: 2009

ISBN: 978-0-00-729678-1

No of Pages: 408

Book Synopsis:

In the global age of the CIA, there are hotspots everywhere. And whenever there's trouble, there's a Tourist: the men and women who do the dirty work. They're the Company's best agents - and Milo Weaver was the best of them all.

Book Review:

After five, multi-award nominated crime… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on January 27, 2010 at 1:20pm — No Comments

Review: THE BRUTAL TELLING by Louise Penny

THE BRUTAL TELLING, Louise Penny

Minotaur Books, 2009

ISBN: 978-0-312-37703-8

Hardcover, $24.95

372 pages

Reviewed by Larry W. Chavis

One way for a great reading experience to occur is when a reader approaches a book skeptically, then is completely won over by the end. This was one such book for me. I had always heard good things about Louise Penny's Three Pines novels, but assumed they weren't my cup of tea.… Continue

Added by Larry W. Chavis on December 24, 2009 at 4:20am — No Comments

PRINT THE LEGEND REVIEW

Corey Wilde pens an amazing, in-depth review of my February 2010 novel, PRINT THE LEGEND, at the Drowning Machine.

Added by Craig McDonald on December 4, 2009 at 12:11am — 2 Comments

Review - Stonedogs, Craig Marriner

Book Title: STONEDOGS

Author: Craig Marriner

Publisher: Vintage

Copyright: 2001

ISBN: 1-86941-476-4

No of Pages: 375

Book Synopsis:

In between drug deals and binge-drinking, reckless driving and street fights, the delinquents of the Brotherhood wage the holiest of wars. Yes, they will derail the Juggernaut before it can suicide . or have a ball trying at least. But when one of them falls prey to Roto-Vegas gang members, the cultural terrorists… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on December 1, 2009 at 12:36pm — No Comments

Review of B.R. Stateham's "Murderous Passions"

B.R. Stateham’s “Murderous Passions” (Publish America, 2008) sets forth an ambitious task for its protagonists and readers: two detectives have four separate homicides to solve in one novel.

The result is manna for those starved for honest-to-goodness police procedurals. Stateham’s old school style shrugs off today’s trendy… Continue

Added by Benjamin Sobieck on October 15, 2009 at 2:00pm — 3 Comments

Review - Death and the Running Patterer, Robin Adair

Book Title: DEATH AND THE RUNNING PATTERER

Author: Robin Adair

Publisher: Penguin

Copyright: 2009

ISBN: 978-1-921518-25-6

No of Pages: 311

Book Synopsis:

One of the convict colony's soldiers has been murdered and Governor Ralph Darling is not pleased.

Reluctantly, he turns to Nicodemus Dunne for help.

Book Review:

DEATH AND THE RUNNING PATTERER is the book that won Penguin's last Most Wanted Crime Writing… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on September 17, 2009 at 8:21pm — No Comments

ROGUE MALES REVIEW

Oline Cogdill reviews ROGUE MALES: CONVERSATIONS AND CONFRONTATIONS ABOUT THE WRITING LIFE.

Added by Craig McDonald on August 13, 2009 at 12:09am — No Comments

Review - The Labyrinth of Drowning, Alex Palmer

Book Title: THE LABYRINTH OF DROWNING

Author: Alex Palmer

Publisher: Harper Collins

Copyright: 2009

ISBN: 978-0-7322-8574-6

Book Synopsis:

Two years have passed since top cop Paul Harrigan walked away from the New South Wales Police Force to be his own man. Since then his life has been a gift, and his home with his partner Agent Grace Riordan and their daughter a sanctuary.

When a trafficked sex worker is found brutally murdered in Sydney… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on August 2, 2009 at 9:43pm — No Comments

Harry Potter; A whole new journey begins

Ok - we can probably all agree that the Harry Potter franchise has put magic back on the map both in cinemas and book stores. The new film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is set to make the franchise 'adult'. Make sure you check out my post for more information - whether you are a Potter fan or not - I am sure that you will enjoy the next film and of cousre the book!…

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Added by Flic Manning on July 13, 2009 at 12:30am — No Comments

Elmore Leonard in Bangkok

Christopher G. Moore was good enough to send me an advance copy of his 10th Vincent Calvino novel "Paying Back Jack" which will be out in October (December in the UK). I love the Calvino series for the way it leads the reader into the underbelly of Bangkok in the company of its Italian-Jewish New Yorker private eye. PBJ… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on May 24, 2009 at 12:06am — No Comments

May Allah bless such reviewers

America, the National Catholic weekly, includes a great review of The Samaritan's Secret, the third of my Palestinian crime novels, this week. "Rees masterfully concocts another claustrophobic tale from the occupied territories that takes us deep into the Palestinian experience even as it entertains," writes Claire Schaeffer-Duffy. She also calls my detective… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on May 19, 2009 at 4:38pm — No Comments

Review: A Deadly Trade, Michael Stanley

A week ago I reviewed A Carrion Death, written by Michael Stanley (the pen name of Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip). Not only was it a strong first attempt at a crime novel set in an exotic setting, it was also a sheer act of determination and personal marketing that eventually saw the book break through to the LA Times bestseller.

A Deadly Trade

With A… Continue

Added by Richard Kunzmann on May 14, 2009 at 5:46pm — No Comments

Five Star Reviews at Amazon!

Said the Spider to the Fly is receiving five star reviews at Amazon! Check it out!

Added by Miss Mae on May 7, 2009 at 7:25am — 2 Comments

Review: Last Car To Elysian Fields, James Lee Burke

James Lee Burke is arguably one of America’s greatest hardboiled detective authors, and Last Car to Elysian Fields not only does that reputation justice, it strengthens his position as a crime writer with an immense literary range that borders on the poetic.

Detective Dave Robicheaux is asked by Father Jimmie Dolan to join him on a trip into St. James Parish, where he meets the daughter of a musician who disappeared years before. Soon strange links begin to emerge between… Continue

Added by Richard Kunzmann on April 15, 2009 at 7:03pm — No Comments

Review: The Queen of the South, Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Bringing literary pedigree to crime fiction

Every now and again an author who is deemed 'literary' makes a foray into crime fiction. I guess the results are often mixed - though I loved the City of Glass series by Paul Auster, a detective story of identities, so to speak, I still don't quite know what to make of it. Queen of the South on the other hand is emotionally engaging and will stay with you a very long time because of that. That is, if… Continue

Added by Richard Kunzmann on April 15, 2009 at 6:46pm — No Comments

Review: The Bullet Trick, Louise Welsh

The Bullet Trick is Louise Welsh’s second novel, which deftly follows up on her first The Cutting Room . Like her first book, this is a story that shoots for the gothic and carnivalesque in a mystery setting, but this one doesn't quite hit the mark.

William Wilson is a magician on the last leg of a faltering career when an old friend asks him to do a second-rate show in a London strip club. What happens during the show drags Wilson into the violent aftermath of a… Continue

Added by Richard Kunzmann on April 14, 2009 at 6:00am — No Comments

First BIG review for To Hell in a Handbasket

My publisher just received a heads-up on the following review that appears in Kirkus Review (one of the big four review publications) in their 4-1-09 issue, and they forwarded it to me. I'm absolutely thrilled!

This title will publish in May 2009

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TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET

Author: Groundwater, Beth

Review Date: APRIL 01, 2009

Publisher:Five Star

Pages: 268

Price (hardback): $$25.95

Publication Date:… Continue

Added by Beth Groundwater on March 27, 2009 at 11:15am — 1 Comment

Bookslut: THE SAMARITAN'S SECRET "Cool Read" for Teens

In popular blog Bookslut, Colleen Mondor has a terrific review of a series of books set overseas, giving it a particular slant toward young readers. She designates my new Palestinian crime novel, THE SAMARITAN'S SECRET, her "cool read" of the week. You can see other reviews by Colleen here, but meanwhile this is what she writes about my novel:…

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Added by Matt Rees on March 6, 2009 at 4:27pm — No Comments

"Mystery fiction not limited by form, highly instructive"

People who don't know any better sometimes tell me that I'm a good writer and they'd like to see me write a "real novel," instead of my Palestinian crime novels. Usually I tell them Raymond Chandler once wrote that there are just as many bad "real" literary novels written as bad mysteries -- but the bad literary novels just don't get published. Now I'll be able to add something else to my always polite correction of this misconception about crime novels. That's because of a review of my new… Continue

Added by Matt Rees on March 3, 2009 at 9:39pm — 3 Comments

Review of Avenging Angel, A Shannon Wallace Mystery

Review by Aaron Paul Lazar

A great read doesn't have to be fancy, full of literary allusions or deep musings. Nor does it need a ritzy setting, plots that twist your brain into a pretzel, or elite protagonists.

What a great read does need is a story that moves, characters who linger in your mind, and a voice that calls you back to its pages. Avenging Angel by Kim Smith accomplished all three.

Smith has written a suspenseful cozy mystery set in the south in a… Continue

Added by Kim Smith on January 27, 2009 at 3:48am — No Comments