• mediations: Shopping in Sweden: Big display for Åsa Larsson's sixth Rebecka Martinsson, Till offer åt Molok, For the victims of Molok. From the cover, I suspect Molok is a bear. Hardback is £24!

    Updated: 2012-03-31 15:07:33

  • Premi L’H Confidential 2012

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  • Påskekrim -Norwegian Crime Event 23. May 2012, Horse Hospital, London

    Updated: 2012-03-31 09:35:22

  • The Killing Book Launch at Crimefest in Bristol

    Updated: 2012-03-31 09:25:14

  • Semana Negra 2012 Will Be Held in Gijon

    Updated: 2012-03-31 08:46:00

  • Christchurch earthquakes-inspired publisher releases adult Kiwi crime novel

    Updated: 2012-03-31 06:42:00

  • Greg McGee (Alix Bosco) on Radio New Zealand

    Updated: 2012-03-30 22:38:00

  • UNWANTED: KRISTINA OHLSSON trans SARAH DEATH

    Updated: 2012-03-30 18:11:13

  • Maxine: Hersilia Press Blog, the home of Italian Crime Fiction : The face of Commissario Ricciardi

    Updated: 2012-03-30 16:28:53

  • listen up, American peeps! It's TV time again

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  • Maxine: Amazon.co.uk: Crime, Thrillers & Mystery - Kindle eBooks: Kindle Store

    Updated: 2012-03-30 10:24:34

  • Alleyn and Others: The Collected Short Fiction of Ngaio Marsh

    Updated: 2012-03-30 06:03:00

  • Sweet Money, By: Ernesto Mallo

    Updated: 2012-03-30 05:00:08

  • “M” is for Mystery Bookstore is No More

    Updated: 2012-03-30 04:25:00

  • Forgotten Book: Crime on the Coast and No Flowers by Request

    Updated: 2012-03-29 23:13:00

  • Forgotten Book: The Mystery of the Sintra Road (1870), by Eca de Queiroz and Ramalho Ortigão

    Updated: 2012-03-29 22:01:00

  • Review: THE BOY IN THE SUITCASE, Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis

    Updated: 2012-03-28 22:45:00
    : : , 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 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 29 March 2012 Review : THE BOY IN THE SUITCASE , Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis File : Size 831 KB Print : Length 321 pages : Publisher Soho Crime November 8, 2011 Sold : by Amazon Digital Services :

  • Maxine: Available Dark by Elizabeth Hand | Crime Fiction Lover

    Updated: 2012-03-28 17:24:05

  • Review: Carnage by Maxime Chattam

    Updated: 2012-03-28 08:30:00
    : : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Wednesday , March 28, 2012 Review : Carnage by Maxime Chattam Carnage by Maxime Chattam , tr . Isabel Reid and Emily Boyce 102 pages , March 2012, Gallic Books , ISBN : 1906040419 CARNAGE is a novella length detective story set in New York City by French author Maxime Chattam . The prologue describes the mass-shooting by a student of his fellow pupils at East Harlem . Academy Enter , Lamar Gallineo , a giant of a man , an African-American who has risen to the rank of Lieutenant . He is called to the scene at the Academy where the shooting has now ceased and the perpetrator , believed dead by suicide . A witness is found who saw the boy kill himself . The tragic case is . closed However the following week

  • Classics Illustrated: Pioneering Comic Books

    Updated: 2012-03-27 19:10:40
    Classics Illustrated was a comic book series that took famous literary works and adapted their storylines into the comic format for young readers, making legendary literature more accessible to younger minds. Famous for cover art depicting action-packed scenes, Classics Illustrated were loved by youngsters for three decades and now they are loved by collectors. See [...]

  • Bernadette: If you aren't all Nesbo'd out this is a link to his recent discussion with Megan Abbott on crime writing at the Adelaide Writer's Week - it's a video so large-ish file http://www.themonthly.com.au/hard-boiled-jo-nesb-and-megan-abbott-crime-writing-4793

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  • Next on Montalbano, the Inspector's Croquettes

    Updated: 2012-03-27 08:00:00
    : , Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Tuesday , March 27, 2012 Next on Montalbano , the Inspector's Croquettes The next and eighth episode of Inspector Montalbano at 9pm on 31 March , Montalbano's Croquettes is one of the two episodes previously shown on BBC4 and is not based on one of the books but rather a short , story The arancini di Montalbano not yet available in . English As the small town of Vigata prepares for its New Year celebrations , local police inspector Salvo Montalbano is reluctantly making arrangements to travel to Paris with his girlfriend . What he would much rather do , however , is accept a dinner invitation by his cleaner Adelina , who has promised to cook rice . croquettes A wealthy husband and wife are found dead in

  • Review: NIGHT ROUNDS, Helene Tursten

    Updated: 2012-03-26 09:59:00
    : : , 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 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 March 2012 Review : NIGHT ROUNDS , Helene Tursten Originally published in Swedish as Nattrond in 1999. Published in English translation by Soho Press 2012, translated by Laura A . Wideburg 326 pages

  • Flashbang Writing Contest

    Updated: 2012-03-26 08:00:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Monday , March 26, 2012 Flashbang Writing Contest The Flashbang writing competition is now open . Just write a story in 150 words or less and you could win two tickets to CrimeFest in . May Here's some information from the official website Flashbang is a new crime writing contest , sponsored by CrimeFest , who are providing the first prize of two weekend passes , as well as the second prize of DVD boxed sets of The Killing plus its new novelisation Hersilia Press is sponsoring the third prize : four of their Italian crime books . Comma Press is kindly providing five copies of MO : Crimes of Practice to runners . up As well as terrific prizes , Flashbang is free to enter and gives eight lucky writers the

  • New Reviews: Dickinson, Horst, Jungstedt, Mark, Meade, Regan, Rickman

    Updated: 2012-03-25 08:40:00
    : : , , , , , , Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Sunday , March 25, 2012 New Reviews : Dickinson , Horst , Jungstedt , Mark , Meade , Regan , Rickman Win Carnage by Maxim Chattam UK only Closes 31st March Here are this week's : reviews Terry Halligan reviews the paperback release of the tenth in David Dickinson's pre WW1 series Death in a Scarlet Coat Last week I reviewed Dregs by Jorn Lier Horst , tr . Anne Bruce an intriguing police-procedural set in a small Norwegian town Maxine Clarke reviews the just published Dark Angel by Mari Jungstedt , tr . Tiina Nunnally the sixth in this Gotland based series , and a very good entry Geoff Jones reviews David Mark's debut , The Dark Winter set in Hull which introduces DS McAvoy Amanda Gillies

  • Review: BEASTLY THINGS, Donna Leon

    Updated: 2012-03-23 22:50:00
    : : , 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 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 March 2012 Review : BEASTLY THINGS , Donna Leon Publisher : Grove Atlantic , Inc Imprint : Atlantic Monthly Press Pub Date : April 17, 2012 Amazon Kindle April 5 ISBN : 9780802120236 Source : nbsp

  • Event News: Chipping Norton Literary Festival

    Updated: 2012-03-23 09:30:00
    : : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Friday , March 23, 2012 Event News : Chipping Norton Literary Festival The first Chipping Norton Literary Festival takes place between 20-22 April 2012. Browse the full programme and buy tickets from the website and follow them on twitter : . ChipLitFest For crime fans , the main events are on the : Sunday Crime Writers' Forum Plot the Perfect Murder What makes the perfect murder A fictional one , at least Come and find out in this session with four of the UK’s most celebrated crime-writers , Mark Billingham , Sophie Hannah , Dan Waddell and S J . Bolton Chaired by Peter Guttridge 10am , Sunday 22nd April 2012 12.50 The Theatre , Chipping Norton An Audience with Colin Dexter Colin Dexter is the creator

  • Announcing a new meme: best new-to-me crime fiction authors 2012

    Updated: 2012-03-22 05:30:00
    : : 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 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 March 2012 Announcing a new meme : best new-to-me crime fiction authors 2012 This meme has sprung out of a discussion on Margot Kinberg's blog post titled You Never Know Until You Try about trying new

  • Forgotten Book: NO MORE DYING THEN, Ruth Rendell

    Updated: 2012-03-22 02:58:00
    : : , 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 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 March 2012 Forgotten Book : NO MORE DYING THEN , Ruth Rendell For many of my contributions this year to Pattinase's Friday's Forgotten Books I am going to focus on the books I read 20 years ago in

  • Review: Dregs by Jørn Lier Horst

    Updated: 2012-03-21 09:00:00
    : : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Wednesday , March 21, 2012 Review : Dregs by Jørn Lier Horst Dregs by Jørn Lier Horst , tr . Anne Bruce 310 pages , August 2011, Sandstone Press Ltd , ISBN : 1905207670 DREGS is the sixth in the Chief Inspector William Wisting series set in the small coastal Norwegian town of Stavern , and the first to be translated into . English The book opens with the discovery of a left foot washed up by the tide . What is strange is that it is the second left foot to have appeared in recent days . An extensive search has not turned up any right feet . There have been only four people reported missing in the last few months : three old men and one young woman . The men all disappeared within a week of each other and

  • Balancing Books

    Updated: 2012-03-20 23:03:00
    : 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 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 March 2012 Balancing Books Every 2 or 3 days comes the time to choose which book to read . next I do make plans and in my little TBRN widget you'll see that I'm planning next on Kindle BEASTLY THINGS ,

  • Review: THE LIMPOPO ACADEMY OF PRIVATE DETECTION, Alexander McCall Smith

    Updated: 2012-03-19 22:20:00
    : : , 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 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 20 March 2012 Review : THE LIMPOPO ACADEMY OF PRIVATE DETECTION , Alexander McCall Smith Published by Little Brown 2012 ISBN 978-1-4087-0260-4 261 pages 13 in the No . 1 Ladies Detective Agency series

  • Inspector Montalbano at Sea

    Updated: 2012-03-19 13:48:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Monday , March 19, 2012 Inspector Montalbano at Sea The next and seventh episode of Inspector Montalbano at 9pm on 24 March , The Sense of Touch is a new episode and is not based on one of the books but rather a short story , from a collection Montalbano's Oranges not yet available in . English The seemingly accidental death of a blind man leads Montalbano to an island off the coast of Siciliy . Here the Inspector discovers that both the murder victim and a local fisherman had each deposited huge sums of money in their respective bank accounts . Following the mysterious demise of a second man , who was also blind , the investigation begins to focus on the operations of a charitable foundation which

  • New Reviews: Campbell, Crawford, Easter, Mackenzie, Nesbo, Spurrier, Taylor

    Updated: 2012-03-18 11:40:00
    : : , , , , , , Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Sunday , March 18, 2012 New Reviews : Campbell , Crawford , Easter , Mackenzie , Nesbo , Spurrier , Taylor Win Carnage by Maxim Chattam UK only Here are this week's : reviews Amanda Gillies reviews the paperback release of Karen Campbell's Proof of Life the fourth in this esteemed series Terry Halligan goes globe-trotting in Dean Crawford's Covenant Rich Westwood reviews Patrick Easter's second in his historical-naval-crime series , The River of Fire Maxine Clarke reviews South African author Jassy Mackenzie's first Jade de Jong thriller , Random Violence Earlier this week , I reviewed Jo Nesbo's Phantom , tr . Don Bartlett Lynn Harvey reviews Simon Spurrier's A Serpent Uncoiled and Susan

  • Announcing Crime Fiction Alphabet for 2012

    Updated: 2012-03-17 21:30:00
    : 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 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 March 2012 Announcing Crime Fiction Alphabet for 2012 The Alphabet in Crime Fiction a Community . Meme This meme was run first on this blog in 2009-2010 and was re-run in 2011. Here are the rules By

  • Monthly Agatha Christie Blog Carnival launches new format

    Updated: 2012-03-16 21:30:00
    : 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 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 17 March 2012 Monthly Agatha Christie Blog Carnival launches new format For a few months now the monthly Agatha Christie Blog Carnival has been having item collection problems caused by the unreliability of

  • Spooky House - Copycat Covers

    Updated: 2012-03-16 09:00:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Friday , March 16, 2012 Spooky House Copycat Covers The one on the left is a teenage YA title and on the right a German edition of a Mark Billingham crime . novel Posted by Karen Euro Crime at 9:00 AM Labels : Copycat Covers 1 comments : Dorte H said . More funny than scary , if you ask me 7:51 PM Post a Comment Newer Post 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

  • Forgotten Book: THE AMBASSADOR, Morris West

    Updated: 2012-03-15 21:45:00
    : : , 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 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 March 2012 Forgotten Book : THE AMBASSADOR , Morris West For many of my contributions this year to Pattinase's Friday's Forgotten Books I am going to focus on the books I read 20 years ago in 1992.

  • Mix some History with your Crime Fiction

    Updated: 2012-03-15 21:30:00
    : 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 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 March 2012 Mix some History with your Crime Fiction I've participated in the Historical Reading Challenge hosted this year Historical Fiction Challenge at Historical Tapestry for the last 3 years and

  • Review: Phantom by Jo Nesbo

    Updated: 2012-03-15 09:15:00
    : : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Thursday , March 15, 2012 Review : Phantom by Jo Nesbo I thought I'd post my review straight into the blog so people can comment on it if they so wish . Phantom is published today in the . UK Phantom by Jo Nesbo , tr Don Bartlett March 2012, Harvill Secker , ISBN : 1846555213 My name's Harry and I come from Hong Kong . Where is she The man arched an eyebrow . The Harry Since it has been one of Norway's least trendy names for the last fifty years , we can probably assume it is . After the serial killer books , THE SNOWMAN and THE LEOPARD with their gruesome scenes of murder , comes PHANTOM a quieter book which returns to the more mundane but still devastating world of drugs . Oslo , in Harry Hole's world

  • Leaving the Comic Shop

    Updated: 2012-03-15 01:21:29
    Every Wednesday I take 6 and 8yo Guppy and Drake to the comic store for new comic day. I give them their allowance, and they decide how to spend it. I was settling up at the register and asked Guppy where his brother was. “He’s in the corner.” I said what had to be said: “No [...]

  • Review: A LILY OF THE FIELD, John Lawton

    Updated: 2012-03-14 22:28:00
    : : , 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 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 March 2012 Review : A LILY OF THE FIELD , John Lawton published Atlantic Monthly press , 2010 ISBN 978-0-8021-1956-8 380 pages source : my local library 7 in published order of the Frederick Troy

  • Film News: Reykjavik - Rotterdam & Contraband

    Updated: 2012-03-14 21:28:00
    : : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Wednesday , March 14, 2012 Film News : Reykjavik Rotterdam Contraband Two versions of the same premise are now available to UK viewers . The original Icelandic film from 2008, Reykjavik Rotterdam has just come out on R2 DVD and the US remake , Contraband opens in cinemas this week . Interstingly the star of the former is the director of the latter , Baltasar , Kormákur An Icelandic crime thriller with the gloss stripped away leaving a bleak , sad and despairing narrative director Oskar Jonasson's Reykjavik-Rotterdam hones in on a down-and-outer at the very end of his rope . For Kristofer Baltasar Kormakur life has been little more than a never ending series of failures and disappointments . Among other

  • Inspector Montalbano steps away from the canon

    Updated: 2012-03-13 09:00:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Tuesday , March 13, 2012 Inspector Montalbano steps away from the canon The next and sixth episode of Inspector Montalbano at 9pm on 17 March , The Artist's Touch is a new episode and is the first one not to based on one of the books Goldsmith Alberto Larussa appears to have committed suicide by turning his wheelchair into an electric chair . But Inspector Montalbano discovers that the dead man's will , which leaves everything to his brother Giacomo , was forged . Giacomo is arrested , but he maintains that he did not kill Alberto . Meanwhile , Deputy Inspector Mimi' Augello is working on the case of a mysteriously-murdered . electrician Posted by Karen Euro Crime at 9:00 AM Labels : Andrea Camilleri BBC4

  • TV News: Endeavour & Lewis to return

    Updated: 2012-03-12 09:43:00
    : : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Monday , March 12, 2012 TV News : Endeavour Lewis to return The Radio Times is reporting that ITV have commissioned four two-hour episodes of Endeavour and a new series of Lewis will be shown in : May Shaun Evans will return to the role of Endeavour Morse for four 120-minute episodes , to be filmed on location in Oxford later this year . Joining him will be Roger Allam as senior partner Inspector Fred Thursday and James Bradshaw as Dr Max Debryn , while John Thaw's daughter will make further guest . appearances The new series will be produced by Dan McCulloch and executive produced by Mammoth Screen’s joint managing directors , Michele Buck and Damien . Timmer We’re delighted to be making a series of

  • Good as Dead - Cover & Title Opinions

    Updated: 2012-03-12 09:13:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Monday , March 12, 2012 Good as Dead Cover Title Opinions This week's selection for cover opinions is the US and UK covers and titles for Mark Billingham's Good as Dead which is being published in the US as The Demands in June 2012. So what are your thoughts on the US LHS and UK RHS covers and titles Which would entice you to pick the book up if you were not familiar with the books of Mark Billingham One has a quote from Lee Child , the other from the Daily Mail If you have read it , how well do the covers titles match the story Read the Euro Crime review by Geoff of Good as Dead Posted by Karen Euro Crime at 9:13 AM Labels : cover opinions Good as Dead Mark Billingham The Demands title changes 4 comments

  • New Reviews: Bilal, Brandreth, Carter, de Giovanni, McGowan, Smith

    Updated: 2012-03-11 13:25:00
    : : , , , , , Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Sunday , March 11, 2012 New Reviews : Bilal , Brandreth , Carter , de Giovanni , McGowan , Smith Win Carnage by Maxim Chattam UK only Here are this week's reviews , with two set in Italy , two with missing children themes , plus non Euro settings including Cairo , Russia and the : USA Lynn Harvey strongly recommends Parker Bilal's The Golden Scales which introduces Makana , a Sudanese exile who's fetched up in Cairo , now working as a PI There are more literary capers from Gyles Brandreth in his Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders out in paperback this week , and reviewed here by Terry Halligan Michelle Peckham suspends disbelief and rather enjoys Philip Carter's globe-trotting Altar of Bones

  • Review: 1222 by Anne Holt

    Updated: 2012-03-10 02:56:00
    : : 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 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 March 2012 Review : 1222 by Anne Holt : Format Kindle Edition File : Size 843 KB : Publisher Corvus December 25, 2010 Sold by : nbsp Amazon Digital Services : Language English translated by Marlaine

  • The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

    Updated: 2012-03-10 02:10:08
    A friend lent me her copy of Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending, which was in the first round of this year’s Morning News Tournament of Books. I found it a surprisingly non-fast read for such a short book; it’s only 163 pages. This isn’t, however, a criticism, merely a description. The few pages [...]

  • Edgar Nominees for Best Novel and First Novel

    Updated: 2012-03-09 22:30:00
    : 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 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 March 2012 Edgar Nominees for Best Novel and First Novel The Edgar nominees for Best Novel have been announced . The winner will be announced on April 26. THE RANGER by Ace Atkins Penguin Group USA G.P .

  • Book News: Janet Laurence

    Updated: 2012-03-08 19:50:00
    : : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Thursday , March 08, 2012 Book News : Janet Laurence It's been around ten years since Janet Laurence's last fiction book was published but I'm pleased to see that she has a new series beginning with Deadly Inheritance which is published on 29 April by The History Press Official synopsis : American Ursula Grandison accompanies Belle Seldon to visit her sister , Helen , Countess of Mountstanton , commissioned by their father , multi-millionaire Chauncey Seldon , to discover what is wrong with Helen's marriage and what has happened to her dowry . At decaying stately Mountstanton House , Ursula finds the Earl is a cold fish , the Dowager Countess of Mounstanton the mother-in-law from hell , and Helen has not

  • Review: SPARKLING CYANIDE, Agatha Christie

    Updated: 2012-03-08 10:19:00
    : : , 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 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 March 2012 Review : SPARKLING CYANIDE , Agatha Christie originally published 1945, aka REMEMBERED DEATH This edition in a collection called SEVEN DEADLY SINS published by Harper Collins in 2004, pp

  • Review: WITCH HUNT, Ian Rankin writing as Jack Harvey - audio

    Updated: 2012-03-08 04:35:00
    : : , 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 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 March 2012 Review : WITCH HUNT , Ian Rankin writing as Jack Harvey audio originally published in 1993 Audio version published 2005 Unabridged Available at Audible.com Length 11 hours 43 mins Narrated

  • Agatha Christie's Seven Deadly Sins

    Updated: 2012-03-07 05:35:00
    : 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 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 March 2012 Agatha Christie's Seven Deadly Sins I brought a rather weighty tome home from the library today , 1158 pages , will my wrists be strong enough to hold it What I actually want to read is

  • Inspector Montalbano's back on track

    Updated: 2012-03-06 20:35:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Tuesday , March 06, 2012 Inspector Montalbano's back on track The next and fifth episode of Inspector Montalbano episode , at 9pm on 10 March , is a repeat of : Excursion to Tindari which was first shown on BBC4 in 2008, and is based on the fifth book in Camilleri's series A young Don Juan is found murdered in front of his apartment building and an elderly couple are reported missing after an excursion to the ancient site of Tindari . Inspector Montalbano tries to solve these two seemingly unrelated cases amid the daily complications of life at Vigata police station . But when he discovers that the couple and the murdered young man lived in the same building , his investigation stumbles onto Sicily's

  • Disaster has befallen!

    Updated: 2012-03-06 01:53:00
    Regular visitors to my blog will notice that much of my content has disappeared. I clicked on a "try the updated Blogger interface" invitation and my old template simply vanished. With it has gone many of my gadgets, my separate pages etc. My blog is 4 years old and this is without doubt the worst thing that Blogger has ever done to me. Please be patient while I try to re-establish at least some of it. If you are looking for Links I follow (aka Crime Fiction Journeys) they are here.

  • Review: 8 POUNDS: Eight Tales of Crime, Horror and Suspense, Chris F. Holm

    Updated: 2012-03-05 21:32:00
    : : : , , . 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 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 March 2012 Review : 8 POUNDS : Eight Tales of Crime , Horror and Suspense , Chris F . Holm : Format Kindle Edition File : Size 294 KB : Publisher Poisonville Press October 13, 2010 Sold : by

  • Review: ANTIQUES ROADKILL; A Trash 'n' Treasures Mystery, Barbara Allan

    Updated: 2012-03-05 05:36:00
    : : , 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 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 March 2012 Review : ANTIQUES ROADKILL A Trash n' Treasures Mystery , Barbara Allan : Format Kindle Edition File : Size 468 KB : Publisher Kensington Books July 1, 2007 Sold : by Amazon Digital

  • Film News: Carancho

    Updated: 2012-03-05 00:00:00
    : : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Monday , March 05, 2012 Film News : Carancho Just released in the UK is the Argentinian film Carancho Vulture Trapero's sixth feature is a knife-edge thriller set in the murky legal quagmire of accident insurance scams . Sosa Ricardo Darín is an unlicensed lawyer who chases down road accident victims , representing them against insurance companies , but knowing that his clients will receive only a fraction of the financial reward . When he meets Luján Martina Gusman a paramedic , he sees in her hope of a new life . But to escape , he must cross his ruthless . boss UK Trailer For some splendid Argentinian crime fiction , I recommend Ernesto Mallo's Needle in a Haystack and Sweet Money and Claudia

  • New Reviews: Bale, Dunn, Hall, Jardine, Ridpath, Smith & a New Competition

    Updated: 2012-03-04 13:29:00
    : : , , , , , Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Sunday , March 04, 2012 New Reviews : Bale , Dunn , Hall , Jardine , Ridpath , Smith a New Competition It's March and here's a new competition plus reviews of 6 more books . Win Carnage by Maxim Chattam UK only Here are this week's : reviews Maxine Clarke reviews the new Joe Clayton thriller from Tom Bale , Blood Falls now out in paperback Terry Halligan reviews the twentieth appearance by Daisy Dalrymple in Carola Dunn's Gone West Coroner Jenny Cooper is back in M R Hall's The Flight reviewed here by Sarah Hilary Susan White reviews Quintin Jardine's new Primavera Blackstone adventure , As Easy as Murder Lynn Harvey supplies the third glowing review on Euro Crime for Michael Ridpath's 66

  • Win: Carnage by Maxim Chattam

    Updated: 2012-03-04 11:46:00
    : : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Sunday , March 04, 2012 Win : Carnage by Maxim Chattam Thanks to the generosity of Gallic Books Euro Crime has a ten copies of Carnage by Maxime Chattam translated by Isabel Reid and Emily Boyce to . giveaway To enter the draw , just answer the question and include your details in the form . below This competition is open to residents of the UK only and will close on 31 March 2012. Only 1 entry per person per household . please All entries will be deleted once the winners have been notified . When a massacre takes place in a Harlem school , Lamar , A New York detective for twelve years , is called to the scene . A student , aged seventeen , has shot everyone in his path before shooting himself . Having

  • Review: THE NOBODIES ALBUM, Carolyn Parkhurst

    Updated: 2012-03-04 09:37:00
    : : , 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 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 March 2012 Review : THE NOBODIES ALBUM , Carolyn Parkhurst published Sceptre 2010 ISBN 978-0-340-97815-3 312 pages Source : my local library Synopsis Amazon Bestselling novelist Octavia Frost has just

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