All Blog Posts Tagged 'the' (302)

Review - The Winter of the Lions, Jan Costin Wagner

Book Title:   THE WINTER OF THE LIONS

Author: Jan Costin Wagner

ISBN:   9781846553462

Location:   Finland

Series: Kimmo Joentaa

Publisher:   Harvill Secker

Year of Publication:   2011

Every year since the tragic death of his wife Detective Kimmo Joentaa has prepared for the isolation of Christmas with a glass of milk and a bottle of vodka to arm him against the harsh Finnish winter. However, this year events take an unexpected turn when a young prostitute…

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Added by Karen from AustCrime on February 10, 2012 at 3:18pm — No Comments

Review - Death and the Spanish Lady, Carolyn Morwood

Book Title:   DEATH AND THE SPANISH LADY

Author: Carolyn Morwood

ISBN:   9780975112939

Location:   Melbourne

Series:   Eleanor Jones

Publisher:   Pulp Fiction Press

Year of Publication:   2011

Death and the Spanish Lady is the first novel in a trilogy featuring Sister Eleanor Jones.

The year is 1919 and Eleanor has returned to Melbourne after nursing in France.   Her intention to knit herself up after war is played out against a richly realised…

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Added by Karen from AustCrime on February 6, 2012 at 2:20pm — No Comments

Review: The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin

Ian Rankin is a Scottish crime writer whose best known books are the Inspector Rebus novels. He lives in Edinburgh with his wife Miranda and their two sons Jack and Kit and many of his books happen in Edinburgh as well.…

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Added by Ehsan Ehsani on January 17, 2012 at 4:06pm — No Comments

Review - Defender of the Faith, Chris Allen

Book Title: DEFENDER OF THE FAITH

Author: Chris Allen

ISBN:   9781456545413

Publisher:   Bright Sea Publishing

Year of Publication:   2011

When a seasoned British agent is brutally murdered in the small West African nation of Malfajiri, a sinister plot to overthrow the government and systematically extort the mineral rich, but struggling nation gains rapid momentum.

Enter INTREPID: The Intelligence, Recovery, Protection & Infiltration Division of…

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Added by Karen from AustCrime on December 20, 2011 at 11:28am — No Comments

Obsession

Drop over to Trestle Press to catch my guest post about the obsession that is writing. Here's a taste:…

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Added by K. A. Laity on December 12, 2011 at 11:13pm — No Comments

Review - Death of the Mantis, Michael Stanley

Book Title:   DEATH OF THE MANTIS

Author: Michael Stanley

ISBN:   9780755381159

Location:   Botswana

Series:   Kubu Bengu

Publisher:   Headline

Year of Publication:   2011

When a Kalahari ranger is found dead in a dry ravine, his corpse surrounded by three Bushmen, the local police arrest the nomads. Botswana's Detective 'Kubu' Bengu investigates the case and is reunited with his old school friend Khumanego, a Bushman and advocate for his people. Khumanego… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on October 25, 2011 at 1:35pm — No Comments

Killers (A Prosper Snow Novel)

Murder makes monsters of people. Prosper Snow knows that better than most. Now he’s back on the trail of another serial killer, only this time there’s far more to the case than meets the eye. Thwarted at every turn, Prosper unwittingly uncovers a human experiment more monstrous than anything he could ever imagine. Now the only way to crack the case is to work from the…

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Added by Shaun Jeffrey on October 25, 2011 at 7:42am — No Comments

Recognition...or None

When my first book came out, some years ago, it was like someone dropped a pebble in Lake Michigan. My friends and acquaintances were thrilled, so locally, there were ripples. The larger world barely noticed.

My second book, the first Simon & Elizabeth mystery, got more attention: good reviews from PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, LIBRARY JOURNAL, BOOKLIST, etc.

The third book also got good reviews, and people (very few, but still) started saying, "I've heard of you" when I went to book…

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Added by Peg Herring on September 26, 2011 at 11:15pm — 3 Comments

Footsteps on the Shore has now been published in paperback and as an e book, on Kindle and Nook

Footsteps on the Shore, the sixth in the DI Andy Horton series of marine mystery crime novels set on the South Coast of England has been published as an e book by Severn House Digital and is now available on Kindle both… Continue

Added by Pauline Rowson on September 10, 2011 at 12:18am — No Comments

Review - Where the Bodies are Buried, Christopher Brookmyre

Book Title:   WHERE THE BODIES ARE BURIED

Author: Chris(topher) Brookmyre

ISBN:   9781408702703

Location:   Glasgow

Publisher:   Little & Brown

Year of Publication:   2011

Detective Catherine McLeod was always taught that in Glasgow, they don't do whodunit. They do score-settling. They do vendettas. They do petty revenge.

It's a lesson that has served her well, but Glasgow is also a dangerous place to make assumptions. Either way she looks at it,… Continue

Added by Karen from AustCrime on September 6, 2011 at 11:40am — No Comments

Amazon set to launch services in India next year

Amazon, for all its shortcomings has been very good to me. This year with Amazon, my novels in both the UK and here in the USA have taken off. It happened in February and March. Especially Into the Basement, it has shot to number 1, in kindle>graphic novels>horror in both countries. We all know someone if not ourselves that own an ebook reader. I use an ipad and access books through the Kindle app and…

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Added by Norman Applegate on August 21, 2011 at 11:46pm — No Comments

Television and radio interviews September, talking about DI Horton novel Footsteps on the Shore & CSI Portsmouth

I will be appearing on Portsmouth Live TV on the Adrian and Sally Show at 4pm on Friday 2 September and on BBC Radio Solent on Friday 9 September talking to Julian Clegg on his very popular Breakfast Show. I'm looking…

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Added by Pauline Rowson on August 17, 2011 at 11:28pm — No Comments

The Last Rites has Been Released

My second true crime is now out

Added by Yvonne Mason on August 15, 2011 at 11:22pm — 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

Footsteps on the Shore, the sixth DI Andy Horton Marine Mystery Crime Novel, to be published in paperback and as an e book

I'm delighted to announce that Footsteps on the Shore, the sixth in the DI Andy Horton series of marine mystery crime novels set on the South Coast of England, is to be published in paperback in August by Severn House Paperbacks and as an e book in…

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Added by Pauline Rowson on August 1, 2011 at 7:13pm — No Comments

Nearly finished the first draft of the next DI Horton crime novel, number 8 in the series, number 7 out early next year

I've now written 70,000 words of the next DI Andy Horton marine mystery crime novel which will be number eight in the series. Number seven, A Killing Coast, is scheduled for publication in hardcover early in 2012. As soon as I have the jacket image and more information on the publication details of A Killing…

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Added by Pauline Rowson on July 29, 2011 at 7:08pm — 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

Blood on the Sand, the fifth in the DI Andy Horton series just released as an unabridged audio book

Today sees the publication as an unabridged audio book of the fifth in the marine mystery series of police procedural crime novels featuring the flawed and rugged DI Andy Horton Blood on the…

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Added by Pauline Rowson on July 2, 2011 at 1:40am — No Comments

My book The Kult has been filmed

I was lucky enough that my book, The Kult was optioned for film by an independent production company the other year. Even luckier that it's now actually been filmed. Just waiting for a release date, but the trailer is now online.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS-ZF67cEiI

People are predictable. That’s what makes them easy to kill.

Detective Chief Inspector Prosper Snow is in…

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Added by Shaun Jeffrey on June 28, 2011 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Delighted to see a whole bookstore panel of my crime novels displayed in Waterstone's UK

I dropped into Waterstone's in Newport on the Isle of Wight last week and was delighted to see Paul Armfield, the manager, who showed me the huge display of my crime novels in the store.