This week on Crime Always Pays: reviews of Ben Affleck’s GONE BABY GONE and Michael Haskins’ CHASIN’ THE WIND; free copies of Andrew Taylor’s BLEEDING HEART SQUARE; the latest on Tana French’s THE LIKENESS; Catherine O’Flynn’s WHAT WAS LOST heads for the silver screen; Peter Clenott Q&A’d; and – oh yes! – the effortlessly irrelevant frippery of the Monday Review.

This week on Crime Always Pays: Q&As with Steve Martini and Jim Michael Hansen; John Boyne’s MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY and Russell Banks’ THE RESERVE reviewed; free copies of Sandra Ruttan’s WHAT BURNS WITHIN; the latest on Tana French’s THE LIKENESS; Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull reviewed; what the hell is ‘Gonzo noir’?; Jack Higgins’ latest blockbuster; is Joseph O’Neill’s NETHERLANDS a crime novel?; and – oh yes! – the… Continue

This week on Crime Always Pays: Adrian McKinty on Chester Himes; Alan Glynn Q&A’d; Zane Radcliffe’s LONDON IRISH; Peter Clenott’s HUNTING THE KING; Princess Lilyput gets her own blog; ANTON goes to Cannes; Horace McCoy’s KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE; John Burnside’s GLISTER reviewed; the jury remains out for Bernard MacLaverty’s CAL; Poolbeg join the crime fiction revolution; and – oh yes – the usual Monday Review flummery!

This Week on Crime Always Pays: John Connolly’s THE REAPERS reviewed; a Q&A with BLEEDING HEART SQUARE author Andrew Taylor; Paul Nagle publishes his debut novel; free copies of Garbhan Downey’s YOURS CONFIDENTIALLY; KT McCaffrey on casting real people as fictional characters; John Connolly and Declan Hughes launch THE REAPERS and THE DYING BREED; THE BIG O gets nominated for CrimeFest’s ‘Best… Continue

A Minister for Propaganda Elf writes: Herewith be the cover of the forthcoming U.S. edition of THE BIG O, which hits a shelf near you – providing you’re on the North American landmass – on September 22nd, with which the Grand Viz (aka Declan Burke) is tremendously pleased, as it was his favourite of the five options… Continue

This week on Crime Always Pays: Ian Sansom Q&A’d; free copies of Aifric Campbell’s THE SEMANTICS OF MURDER; Bernd Kochanowski (right) previews the Edgars; Adrian McKinty interviewed; The Jury Remains Out on Brian Moore’s THE COLOUR OF BLOOD; the usual overkill on Lilyput pics; the Mystery Readers Journal wants Irish crime writers; Edward Anderson’s THIEVES LIKE US; the interweb cornucopia that is Funky Friday’s Freaky-Deak; and – oh yes! –… Continue