• Karen Meek: Fwd: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Summer-Drowning-John-Burnside/dp/product-description/0099422379/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=266239&s=books (via http://ff.im/SmWgi)

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  • Crime Fiction Pick of the Month February 2012 - a meme

    Updated: 2012-02-29 21:30:00

  • Crime Fiction Pick of the Month February 2012 - a meme

    Updated: 2012-02-29 21:30:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update Latest additions 2012 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z Reading Challenges Update 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 1 March 2012 Crime Fiction Pick of the Month February 2012 a meme Crime Fiction 2012 Many crime fiction bloggers write a summary post at the end of each month listing

  • What I read in February 2012 - crime fiction

    Updated: 2012-02-29 21:00:00

  • What I read in February 2012 - crime fiction

    Updated: 2012-02-29 21:00:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update Latest additions 2012 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z Reading Challenges Update 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 1 March 2012 What I read in February 2012 crime fiction My local library has again served me very well this month . Half the books I read or listened to came from the .

  • Mystery Bytes: Lucy Liu as Dr Joan Watson

    Updated: 2012-02-29 18:28:00

  • Guest Review of The Man on the Balcony by Sjowall and Wahloo

    Updated: 2012-02-29 15:29:57

  • The Raven read by James Earl Jones

    Updated: 2012-02-29 15:19:00

  • Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America Site Drops Amazon Links

    Updated: 2012-02-29 13:12:52
    NovelGazer Tilt-Shift Carnival Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Science Fiction Fantasy Writers of America Site Drops Amazon Links post from GalleyCat on 29 February 2012 09:12:52 AM . GalleyCat The Science Fiction Fantasy Writers of America has responded to the Amazon Independent Publishers Group IPG contract lapse by removing Amazon links for books on its website The site now links to other retailers , including Indiebound.org , Powell’s and Barnes . Noble SFWA explains the move on its site SFWA is redirecting Amazon.com links from the organization s website to other booksellers because we would prefer to send traffic to stores

  • Spring/Summer/Winter Mystery Titles

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  • Central North Island crime: BUCKINBAH WEIR by Wayne Brooking

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  • Sally Spedding and Cold Remains

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  • Save the date: 30 August to 2 September 2012

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  • 20 More Beautiful Bookstores Around the World

    Updated: 2012-02-28 22:08:00

  • Your UK Kindle needs…

    Updated: 2012-02-28 19:35:22

  • Scott & Bailey - on tv & in print

    Updated: 2012-02-28 19:24:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Tuesday , February 28, 2012 Scott Bailey on tv in print The successful ITV series Scott Bailey starring Suranne Jones and Lesley Sharp , returns with a new series of eight episodes , starting I believe on Monday 12th March on ITV1. A month later , on 12 April , Cath Staincliffe's prequel to series one , Dead to Me is published by . Corgi Official : blurb A prequel to the hit TV series Scott and Bailey and a chillingly authentic story of murder and hunting killers on the mean streets of Manchester A daughter's death A teenage girl is found , brutally murdered in her squalid . flat A mother's love Her mother is devastated . She gave her child up to the care system , only to lose her again , and is convinced

  • Rich Westwood: Hi everyone, this is my first posting on here. I'm reading the CWA's Top 100 crime novels. Here are 5 US titles I think they missed (I'm planning to do UK titles later) - what does everyone else think? http://pastoffences.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/what-the-cwa-top-100-missed-us-authors/

    Updated: 2012-02-28 17:34:34

  • What the CWA Top 100 missed (US authors)

    Updated: 2012-02-28 17:30:45

  • It really is February!

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  • What’s On My Kindle?

    Updated: 2012-02-28 08:00:00

  • 9mm: An interview with William Deverell

    Updated: 2012-02-28 04:57:00

  • Inspector Montalbano's fourth is his second

    Updated: 2012-02-27 16:53:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Monday , February 27, 2012 Inspector Montalbano's fourth is his second The next Inspector Montalbano episode , at 9pm on 3 March , is another new to BBC4 one : The Terracotta Dog and is based on the second book in Camilleri's series The previous three episodes were based on the third , fourth and first books respectively A criminal turned state witness informs Montalbano of an arms stash in a cave just outside Vigata . Also uncovered in the cave is a secret chamber where the bodies of two lovers , killed sometime in the 1940s , were buried in a bizarre ritual . An intrigued Montalbano must challenge the Mafia and deal with the arms cache before he can investigate this second . find Posted by Karen Euro

  • Children’s Classics as Minimalist Posters

    Updated: 2012-02-27 16:20:53
    Gorgeous minimalist posters depicting children's classics.

  • Review: Precious and the Monkeys by Alexander McCall Smith

    Updated: 2012-02-27 13:11:00
    : : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Monday , February 27, 2012 Review : Precious and the Monkeys by Alexander McCall Smith Precious and the Monkeys by Alexander McCall Smith and illustrated by Iain McIntosh Hardback , 73 pages , July 2011, Polygon , An Imprint of Birlinn Limited , ISBN : 1846972043 Precious and the Monkeys was first published in the Scottish language as Precious and the Puggies and I have to confess that , even though it's a children's book , I couldn't make head nor tale of it so I was very pleased when this English language version came . out Precious and the Monkeys reveals how Precious later Mma Ramotse was inspired to become a detective and how the name of her business was devised , but it mainly details her first

  • When a Challenge isn't...

    Updated: 2012-02-26 22:02:00

  • When a Challenge isn't...

    Updated: 2012-02-26 22:02:00
    : . skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update Latest additions 2012 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z Reading Challenges Update 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 27 February 2012 When a Challenge isn't . I joined the British Books Challenge at the beginning of this year , just as I have in 2010 and 2011. In both of those

  • Review: A FEW RIGHT THINKING MEN, Sulari Gentil

    Updated: 2012-02-26 02:00:00
    : : , skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update Latest additions 2012 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z Reading Challenges Update 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 26 February 2012 Review : A FEW RIGHT THINKING MEN , Sulari Gentil first published Pantera Press 2010 ISBN 978-0-9807418-1-0 349 pages Source : my local library 1 in

  • New Reviews: Akunin, Brophy, Craig, Ellis, Forshaw, Hannah, Harper, Mallo, Robinson

    Updated: 2012-02-26 00:17:00
    : : , , , , , , , , Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Sunday , February 26, 2012 New Reviews : Akunin , Brophy , Craig , Ellis , Forshaw , Hannah , Harper , Mallo , Robinson Win 3 Richard Nottingham mysteries by Chris Nickson UK only closes 29 February Here are this week's 9 new : reviews Laura Root reviews the tenth and final Erast Fandorin adventure from Boris Akunin , and translated by Andrew Bromfield : The Diamond Chariot Lynn Harvey reviews Kevin Brophy's The Berlin Crossing which is heavier on the love story than the spy story apparently Terry Halligan reviews the second in the John Carlyle series from James Craig : Never Apologise , Never Explain Lizzie Hayes reviews the newest Wesley Peterson Neil Watson mystery from Kate Ellis :

  • Red-Headed League

    Updated: 2012-02-25 22:51:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Saturday , February 25, 2012 Red-Headed League Is the cover-designer of the Young Adult mystery , Perception a fan of Spiral s Audrey Fleurot Posted by Karen Euro Crime at 10:51 PM Labels : Spiral 0 comments : Post a Comment Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom Euro Crime Review Policy Full list of 2012 eligibles for CWA International Dagger International Dagger Eligibles 2012 Share book reviews and ratings with Eurocrime , and even join a book club on . Goodreads About Me Karen Euro Crime Library Assistant , Cat Owner , Doctor Who , Crime Fiction and Teenage Fiction . fan View my complete profile My Other Blog Teenage Fiction for All Ages which I use to put my thoughts about the teenage

  • TV News: The Fall

    Updated: 2012-02-25 17:15:00
    : : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Saturday , February 25, 2012 TV News : The Fall This one passed me by earlier this month , a new crime drama , to be filmed in Belfast , called The Fall and starring Gillian Anderson , has been announced by the BBC . Filming starts in March and it will be shown on BBC2 From the BBC's Press Office The Fall is a gripping psychological thriller that forensically examines the lives of two hunters . One is a serial killer who stalks his victims at random in and around Belfast and the other is a talented female Detective Superintendent on secondment from the MET who is brought in to catch him . Produced by Artists Studio and written by Allan Cubitt The Runaway , Murphy’s Law , Prime Suspect the five episodes

  • Review: DEATH OF AN EXPERT WITNESS, P.D. James - audio

    Updated: 2012-02-25 01:02:00
    : : , . skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update Latest additions 2012 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z Reading Challenges Update 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 25 February 2012 Review : DEATH OF AN EXPERT WITNESS , P.D . James audio published by Chivers Audio books , available from Audible.com unabridged , 9 hrs and 52

  • Agatha Christie Blog Carnival February edition

    Updated: 2012-02-25 00:31:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update Latest additions 2012 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z Reading Challenges Update 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 25 February 2012 Agatha Christie Blog Carnival February edition The second Agatha Christie Blog Carnival for 2012 is now . posted There are 19 contributions from 13

  • Introducing the Cormac McCarthy edition of Pictionary

    Updated: 2012-02-24 16:47:17
    A funny video from some clever folks – introducing the Cormac McCarthy edition of Pictionary.

  • Detective Inspector Huss - reissued

    Updated: 2012-02-24 13:42:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Friday , February 24, 2012 Detective Inspector Huss reissued To coincide sort of with the release of the next Inspector Huss book by Helene Tursten in English : Night Rounds the second in the series which is released in the UK next month the first book has just been . reissued Simply titled Detective Inspector Huss when Maxine reviewed the original publication she wrote of it : this book is as near to perfection as you can get in this genre Read her whole review here I feel the cover has improved enormously Posted by Karen Euro Crime at 1:42 PM Labels : Detective Inspector Huss Helene Tursten swedish crime writers 1 comments : Maxine said . Agree that the cover has improved hugely , though to be fair there

  • Review: THE MASK OF DIMITRIOS, Eric Ambler

    Updated: 2012-02-23 21:54:00
    : : , skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update Latest additions 2012 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z Reading Challenges Update 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 24 February 2012 Review : THE MASK OF DIMITRIOS , Eric Ambler : Format Kindle Edition File : Size 332 KB : Publisher ePenguin May 28, 2009 First published by Hodder

  • Headhunters - Trailer

    Updated: 2012-02-23 00:10:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Thursday , February 23, 2012 Headhunters Trailer Jo Nesbo's standalone novel , Headhunters translated by Don Bartlett has been made into a film which will be released in the UK on 6 . April Included below is the official UK . trailer The paperback release featured left has a film-tie in cover and is published on 29 . March A review of the book should soon be up on Euro Crime but here is Euro Crime reviewer Maxine's excellent review at Petrona Posted by Karen Euro Crime at 12:10 PM Labels : Films Headhunters Jo Nesbo Norwegian crime fiction 1 comments : Maxine said . thanks so much for linking to my review . Mind you , I think I was in a bit of a minority in enjoying this one . And I don't know if I would

  • Review: THE HARLEQUIN TEA SET AND OTHER STORIES, Agatha Christie

    Updated: 2012-02-22 06:06:00
    : : , skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update Latest additions 2012 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z Reading Challenges Update 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 22 February 2012 Review : THE HARLEQUIN TEA SET AND OTHER STORIES , Agatha Christie Published G.P . Putnam Sons , New York ISBN 0-399-14287-8 281 pages Source : my

  • review: SILENT FEAR, Katherine Howell

    Updated: 2012-02-21 10:36:00
    : : , skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update Latest additions 2012 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z Reading Challenges Update 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 21 February 2012 review : SILENT FEAR , Katherine Howell Published Pan Macmillan Australia Feb 2912 ISBN 978-1-7426- 072-6 402 pages source : review copy supplied by

  • The Silence - DVD Release

    Updated: 2012-02-21 10:00:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Tuesday , February 21, 2012 The Silence DVD Release The Silence based on Jan Costin Wagner's book Silence was released on DVD yesterday in the UK . I am very intrigued to watch this to compare it to the book . The action has been switched to Germany from Finland and from the reviews the crime that opens the book is shown in a more explicit . manner Euro Crime reviews of the book are here me and here Mark Official blurb : 2 missing girls . Same place . Same time . 23 years apart . History repeats itself in this knife-edged thriller , which has been described as the natural successor to The . Killing An ageing detective comes out of retirement in the hope of solving a missing girl case , which is believed to

  • New Reviews: Baker, Bateman, Kelly, McDermid, Mercier, Watson

    Updated: 2012-02-19 14:11:00
    : : , , , , , Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Sunday , February 19, 2012 New Reviews : Baker , Bateman , Kelly , McDermid , Mercier , Watson Win 3 Richard Nottingham mysteries by Chris Nickson UK only Here are this week's 6 new : reviews Terry Halligan reviews Adam Baker's Juggernaut which has two female mercenaries as leads for a change Dan Starkey is back in Colin Bateman's Nine Inches reviewed here by Geoff Jones Maxine Clarke reviews the American edition of Erin Kelly's The Sick Rose which has been retitled to : The Dark Rose Michelle Peckham reviews Val McDermid's latest Tony Hill Carol Jordan novel , The Retribution which is now out in paperback Lynn Harvey reviews Pascal Mercier's Perlmann's Silence , tr . Shaun Whiteside which

  • Review: DEAD IN THE WATER, Aline Templeton

    Updated: 2012-02-18 01:14:00
    : : , skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update Latest additions 2012 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z Reading Challenges Update 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 18 February 2012 Review : DEAD IN THE WATER , Aline Templeton published by Hodder Stoughton 2009 ISBN 972-0-340-97696-8 372 pages Source : local library book 5 in the

  • Film News: ID: A & The Woman in the Fifth

    Updated: 2012-02-17 10:00:00
    : : : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Friday , February 17, 2012 Film News : ID : A The Woman in the Fifth Two films of an Euro-Crime interest are released today in the UK . ID : A a Danish film and The Woman in the Fifth set in Paris and starring Kristin Scott . Thomas ID : A the synopsis is from The Danish Cultural Institute From the producers of Melancholia and directed by Christian E . Christiansen , the Danish film ID:A will be screened in the London cinema Curzon Soho from 17 to 19 February The film ID:A is about Aliena , who wakes up in a river in France with a bag with 2 million euros , a scar across her abdomen and no memory . Slowly traces begin to appear about the past and Aliena learns that her past life was more complicated

  • Publishing Deal - Stuart Neville

    Updated: 2012-02-16 09:54:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Thursday , February 16, 2012 Publishing Deal Stuart Neville I received a press release last night from Harvill Secker regarding Stuart Neville , who has received glowing reviews from Euro Crime's reviewers Harvill Secker has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights for two new Jack Lennon novels by the Belfast crime writer Stuart Neville , in a deal with Caspian Dennis of Abner Stein . The two new novels are to be published January 2014 and January 2015 and will be a great asset to Harvill Secker’s prestigious crime list which features authors such as Jo Nesbo and Henning . Mankell Stuart Neville’s debut The Twelve was published to critical acclaim in 2009 and went on to win the LA Times Book Prize in its

  • Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

    Updated: 2012-02-16 09:06:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Thursday , February 16, 2012 Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Many years ago , in preparation for a holiday in Australia I managed to get hold of Kerry Greenwood's Cocaine Blues apa Murder by Misadventure which is the first in a long running series featuring 1920s flapper and private detective Phryne Fisher set in Melbourne . I picked up a few more of the series whilst in Australia and subsequently bought a few more online , when the pound:Australian dollar ratio was more favourable Though Orion have published some of the later books , I wish that a UK publisher such as Allison Busby would take the whole series on as they have with Carola Dunn's also 1920s set , Daisy Dalrymple series . Both series

  • Forgotten Book: HARMFUL INTENT, Robin Cook

    Updated: 2012-02-16 01:11:00
    : : , skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update Latest additions 2012 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z Reading Challenges Update 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 16 February 2012 Forgotten Book : HARMFUL INTENT , Robin Cook For many of my contributions this year to Pattinase's Friday's Forgotten Books I am going to focus on

  • Film News: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

    Updated: 2012-02-15 13:37:00
    : : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Wednesday , February 15, 2012 Film News : Once Upon a Time in Anatolia The Turkish film , Once Upon a Time in Anatolia has its UK release on 16 March according to UK Film dates There appears to be the odd showing in the UK before then . I can't find a very detailed synopsis other than : A group of men set out in search of a dead body in the Anatolian steppes so here is a sample from the TimeOut review Once Upon A Time In Anatolia is a crime movie , but not as you know it , and as well as asking us to puzzle together fragments of a murder case , it also offers rich , and sometimes comic , ruminations on city , small-town and village attitudes , on cynical versus more feeling attitudes to life , on our

  • Review: THE HOT ROCK, Donald E. Westlake

    Updated: 2012-02-15 10:29:00
    : : , . skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update Latest additions 2012 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z Reading Challenges Update 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 15 February 2012 Review : THE HOT ROCK , Donald E . Westlake : Format Kindle Edition File : Size 720 KB first published 1970 : Publisher MysteriousPress.com Open

  • Shirley Temple: Vile Temptress, Creative Muse?

    Updated: 2012-02-14 21:36:57
    From Blog of a Bookslut, to this, to this story at the Independent about how a creepy review by Graham Greene of a Shirley Temple movie got him sued for libel, which spurred him to flee to Mexico, where he wrote The Power and the Glory. Wow. Just, wow.

  • OT: Happy Birthday Foxy

    Updated: 2012-02-14 19:00:00
    : : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Tuesday , February 14, 2012 OT : Happy Birthday Foxy The kitten that we found in May 2007, which would turn into the beautiful bruiser that is Foxy , was roughly 3 months old so we allocated a nominal birthday of 14 February , making him 5 today . Appropriately he is a sweetheart and possibly the most characterful cat we've had so far Here he is in the snow a few days ago . Posted by Karen Euro Crime at 7:00 PM Labels : cats 0 comments : Post a Comment Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom Euro Crime Review Policy Full list of 2012 eligibles for CWA International Dagger International Dagger Eligibles 2012 Share book reviews and ratings with Eurocrime , and even join a book club on . Goodreads

  • Review: THE COLD COLD GROUND, Adrian McKinty

    Updated: 2012-02-14 10:06:00
    : : , skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update Latest additions 2012 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z Reading Challenges Update 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 14 February 2012 Review : THE COLD COLD GROUND , Adrian McKinty Serpent's Tail 2012 ISBN 9-781846-688225 332 pages Kindle edition now available to Australians at

  • Getting Access to Audiobooks

    Updated: 2012-02-14 00:53:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Tuesday , February 14, 2012 Getting Access to Audiobooks As well as my print reading , I nearly always have an audiobook on the go . I have a longish commute to work and sometimes it's too busy noisy or I'm too tired to read with my eyes . Plus I walk a lot and love to listen as I exercise . I often try authors that I might not get round to reading conventionally . I often stick to audiobooks for a series if the narrator is exceptional and I am in a dilemma regarding the latest Stella Rimington Rip Tide which is not narrated by Maggie Mash , unlike the previous five . What to do Try the new narrator or switch to reading the book and hear Maggie Mash's narration as I read I love audiobooks and so if you

  • Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)

    Updated: 2012-02-13 22:00:50
    My husband went DVD shopping a few weeks ago, and brought Scott Pilgrim vs. the World home for me. I had started to watch the Lonesome Dove miniseries, which many of y’all had recommended, but it wasn’t working for me. The overwrought music and the hammer-heavy foreshadowing, and then that closeup of Sean in the [...]

  • Next Time on Montalbano

    Updated: 2012-02-13 11:16:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Monday , February 13, 2012 Next Time on Montalbano I'm somewhat behind with my euro-tv , I have all of Borgen still to watch plus Saturday's Montalbano and ages old Wallander episodes both Swedish versions and crimeficreader reports that Those Who Kill will be on from 23 February . The next Inspector Montalbano episode , at 9pm on 18 February , is another new to BBC4 one , The Voice of the Violin When the naked dead body of a young woman is found in a villa outside Vigata , Montalbano discovers that she had recently bought the villa and was in the process of restoring it using her wealthy husband's money . When the case is taken from Montalbano and given to rival inspector Panzacchi from nearby Montelusa ,

  • New UK paperbacks for February 2012

    Updated: 2012-02-13 00:15:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Monday , February 13, 2012 New UK paperbacks for February 2012 From The Bookseller's February Paperback Preview in the 28th October edition crime titles published in paperback this month : include Euro-Crime Authors 1st February Michael Ridpath's 66 Degrees North 1st 2nd February Simon Beckett's The Calling of the Grave Gyles Brandreth's Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders Andrew Martin's The Somme Stations Leif G W Persson's Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End Peter Robinson's Before the Poison Tom Rob Smith's Agent 6 16th February M C Beaton's Death of a Sweep Carola Dunn's Gone West David Jackson's Pariah Quintin Jardine's Grievous Angel Val McDermid's The Retribution M J McGrath's White Heat

  • New Reviews: Adams, Beckett, Cleeves, Eastland, Higashino, Kaaberbol & Friis, Leather, Rickman, Russell

    Updated: 2012-02-12 00:08:00
    : : , , , , , , , , Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Sunday , February 12, 2012 New Reviews : Adams , Beckett , Cleeves , Eastland , Higashino , Kaaberbol Friis , Leather , Rickman , Russell As is vaguely customary , a 6 review week is followed by a 9 review week . making roughly a review a . day Win 3 Richard Nottingham mysteries by Chris Nickson UK only Here are this week's 9 new : reviews Lizzie Hayes reviews Jane A Adams's sixth Naomi Blake outing , Blood Ties Geoff Jones reviews Simon Beckett's fourth David Hunter novel , The Calling of the Grave now out in paperback Maxine Clarke reviews the fifth in Ann Cleeves's Vera series , The Glass Room Lynn Harvey reviews the third in Sam Eastland's Inspector Pekkala series , Siberian Red

  • Lakeside Tree - Copycat Cover

    Updated: 2012-02-11 20:15:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Saturday , February 11, 2012 Lakeside Tree Copycat Cover Becoming a bit of a habit this , spotting a duplicate cover as I prepare the new reviews . The tree was on the trade paperback version of The Calling of the Grave but was obscured more by the writing . Why We Die is from 2006 and is OOP but cheap on Kindle and I'm not sure where it's set . Whereas , from the review(s The Calling of the Grave seems set mostly near Dartmoor . I'm sure that tree has graced more covers than these two . Posted by Karen Euro Crime at 8:15 PM Labels : Copycat Covers M Herron Simon Beckett 2 comments : Margot Kinberg said . Oh , very good spot , Karen 8:18 PM Nikki-ann said . While both books use the same image , it's good

  • Awards News: Barry Nominations (2012)

    Updated: 2012-02-11 09:28:00
    : : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Saturday , February 11, 2012 Awards News : Barry Nominations 2012 The 2012 Barry Award nominees have been announced . The winners will be revealed at Bouchercon in Cleveland 4-7 October Here are those shortlists which include British European Translated titles with links to available Euro Crime : reviews Best Novel THE KEEPER OF LOST CAUSES aka MERCY Jussi Adler-Olsen tr . Tiina Nunnally THE ACCIDENT , Linwood Barclay THE HURT MACHINE , Reed Farrel Coleman IRON HOUSE , John Hart HELL IS EMPTY , Craig Johnson THE TROUBLED MAN , Henning Mankell tr . Laurie Thompson Best First Novel LEARNING TO SWIM , Sara Henry THE DEVOTION OF SUSPECT X , Keigo Higashino tr . Alexander O Smith Elye J Alexander THE BOY IN

  • Barry Award Nominations 2012

    Updated: 2012-02-10 22:27:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update Latest additions 2012 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z Reading Challenges Update 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 11 February 2012 Barry Award Nominations 2012 : Source Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine Background to the awards and past awards and . nominations 2012 BARRY AWARD

  • Review: The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbol & Agnete Friis

    Updated: 2012-02-10 09:20:00
    : : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Friday , February 10, 2012 Review : The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbol Agnete Friis The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene Kaaberbol Agnete Friis , translated by Lene Kaaberbol paperback , 300p , Jan . 2012, Soho Press , ISBN : 1616950994 THE BOY IN THE SUITCASE is the first in the Nina Borg series and is set in a less than salubrious Copenhagen one familiar to viewers of The Killing Nina , a nurse working in a Danish Red Cross Centre , is phoned by fellow nurse and slightly estranged friend Karin , who asks Nina for a favour and that they must meet immediately . A very panicked Karin gives Nina a key to a locker at the train station but Nina could not have expected to collect a suitcase containing a

  • Crime Fiction offerings at Adelaide Writers Week 2012

    Updated: 2012-02-09 21:30:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update Latest additions 2012 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z Reading Challenges Update 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 10 February 2012 Crime Fiction offerings at Adelaide Writers Week 2012 To say that I'm disappointed in the crime fiction offerings at this year's Adelaide Writers Week

  • Publishing Deal - Simon Urban

    Updated: 2012-02-09 10:03:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Thursday , February 09, 2012 Publishing Deal Simon Urban A publishing deal has been announced today for German author , Simon Urban's Plan D which will be published in English in Spring 2013. From Booktrade Plan D is a brilliant thriller in the vein of Robert Harris's Fatherland and John le Carre's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold , which imagines a world in which the Berlin Wall never . fell While modern day West Berlin enjoys all the trappings of capitalism , on the crowded , polluted , Eastern side of the city , the GDR is facing bankruptcy . The ailing government's only hope lies in economic talks with the West , but then an ally of the GDR's chairman is found murdered and all the clues point to the

  • Review: DEATH COMES AS THE END, Agatha Christie

    Updated: 2012-02-09 02:45:00
    : : , skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update Latest additions 2012 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z Reading Challenges Update 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 9 February 2012 Review : DEATH COMES AS THE END , Agatha Christie : Format Kindle Edition File : Size 414 KB : Publisher HarperCollins Masterpiece ed edition October

  • Review: THE POISONED CHOCOLATES CASE, Anthony Berkeley

    Updated: 2012-02-08 11:05:00
    : : , skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update Latest additions 2012 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z Reading Challenges Update 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 8 February 2012 Review : THE POISONED CHOCOLATES CASE , Anthony Berkeley originally published in 1929 : Format Kindle Edition File : Size 362 KB : Publisher Langtail

  • Paying Homage: Brat Farrar

    Updated: 2012-02-08 00:56:00
    : : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Wednesday , February 08, 2012 Paying Homage : Brat Farrar A few posts ago I mentioned a new series by Diane Capri which pays homage to a character from Lee Child's very successful thriller series , in her Hunt for Jack Reacher . series I recently listened to an audio book which payed homage to the plot of the classic mystery by Josephine Tey : Brat Farrar Jenny Valentine's The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight is a teenage young adult novel which is set in . Hay-on-Wye I haven't read Brat Farrar though I have a copy not this one with the stunning Mark Greenstreet on the cover but I did watch the BBC TV series when it was shown many many moons ago and loved it . It's not available to buy but you can watch

  • Charles Dickens - crime fiction writer?

    Updated: 2012-02-06 21:20:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update Latest additions 2012 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z Reading Challenges Update 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 7 February 2012 Charles Dickens crime fiction writer Google Logo today , 7 Feb 2012 Charles Dickens 1812-1870 From time to time some of us wonder why we have a preference

  • Review: BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP, S.J. Watson

    Updated: 2012-02-05 22:48:00
    : : , . skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update Latest additions 2012 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z Reading Challenges Update 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 6 February 2012 Review : BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP , S.J . Watson published : HarperCollins Publishers 2011 ISBN 978-0-06-206055-5 358 pages Source : my local library

  • Review: THE RESURRECTION MEN, Sara Fraser - audio book

    Updated: 2012-02-05 00:06:00
    : : , skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update Latest additions 2012 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z Reading Challenges Update 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 5 February 2012 Review : THE RESURRECTION MEN , Sara Fraser audio book unabridged audio recording from ISIS Audio Books available from audible.com length : 9 hrs 22

  • Widen your reading horizons: Join the 2012 Global Reading Challenge

    Updated: 2012-02-03 22:58:00
    : : skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update Latest additions 2012 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z Reading Challenges Update 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 4 February 2012 Widen your reading horizons : Join the 2012 Global Reading Challenge This post is a reminder for those who have been vacillating about joining GRC2012,

  • Crime Fiction that makes you think

    Updated: 2012-02-02 21:30:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update Latest additions 2012 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z Reading Challenges Update 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 3 February 2012 Crime Fiction that makes you think I've decided that I like the sort of crime fiction that makes you think . I don't mean just to solve the central puzzle

  • Forgotten Book: ONE ACROSS, TWO DOWN, Ruth Rendell

    Updated: 2012-02-02 10:40:00
    : : , , skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update Latest additions 2012 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z Reading Challenges Update 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 2 February 2012 Forgotten Book : ONE ACROSS , TWO DOWN , Ruth Rendell As I said last week , when I featured Ngaio Marsh's COLOUR SCHEME for my contribution this

  • Review: HAVOC in its third year, Ronan Bennett

    Updated: 2012-02-01 23:09:00
    : : , skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update Latest additions 2012 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z Reading Challenges Update 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 2 February 2012 Review : HAVOC in its third year , Ronan Bennett published by Headline Book Publishing 2004 ISBN 9-780747-564416 244 pages source my local library

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