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

    Updated: 2012-11-30 21:30:00

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

    Updated: 2012-11-30 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 Authors A-Z Reading Challenges 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet All Reviews ranked Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 1 December 2012 Crime Fiction Pick of the Month November 2012 a meme Crime Fiction 2012 Many crime fiction bloggers write a summary post at the end of each month listing what they've read , and some , like

  • Bitter Lemon Press to publish Paul Thomas in UK and North America

    Updated: 2012-11-30 20:50:00

  • 25 of the Most Wonderful Book Covers of the Year

    Updated: 2012-11-30 18:54:21
    I strongly dislike the vast majority of theatlanticwire‘s 25 Most Wonderful Book Covers of the Year, proving once again that art is artbitrary, and its value highly subjective. So I’m posting them, because you might love them, and someone clearly put some thought and work into the selection. Here are three covers that I did [...]

  • William Falo: I just finished The Child Thief by Dan Smith. Chills and suspense filled every page of this book. I am reading 5 books at a time, but this one wouldn't let me put it down. His next one sounds great too. It takes place in Russia during the civil war.

    Updated: 2012-11-30 13:12:11

  • Launching today: Little, Brown Book Group’s The Crime Vault

    Updated: 2012-11-30 11:44:28

  • New Titles from Faber - Jan-June 2013

    Updated: 2012-11-30 09:00:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Friday , November 30, 2012 New Titles from Faber Jan-June 2013 Taken from the Faber catalogue , here are all their new crime titles for January to June 2013 all of which are relevant to Euro Crime January Back from the Dead by Peter Leonard 2 Harry Levin A Dark Redemption by Stav Sherez paperback 1 DI Jack Carrigan and DS Geneva Miller , London February The Red Moth by Sam Eastland 4 Inspector Pekkala , Revolutionary Russia The Baghdad Railway Club by Andrew Martin paperback 8 Jim Stringer , Train Fireman Norwegian By Night by Derek B Miller The Expats by Chris Pavone paperback March Safe House by Chris Ewan paperback Gone Again by Doug Johnstone April Death of a Showgirl by Tobias Jones 3 Castagnetti , PI

  • Kiwi authors talk about Frankfurt Book Fair

    Updated: 2012-11-30 05:42:00

  • Forgotten Book - Let's Pretend

    Updated: 2012-11-30 00:30:00

  • What I've read in November 2012

    Updated: 2012-11-29 21:30:00

  • What I've read in November 2012

    Updated: 2012-11-29 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 Authors A-Z Reading Challenges 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet All Reviews ranked Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 30 November 2012 What I've read in November 2012 Nearly at the end of the month , and I won't finish any more books this . month I read 12 books this month nearly all on my Kindle . My choice of books was

  • Sarah Ward: Review of 'Roseanna' from Rebecca who has been offline for a while after having her baby girl, Beatrice: http://mswordopolis.wordpress.com/

    Updated: 2012-11-29 14:56:15

  • Jose Ignacio: Fuminori Nakamura- The Thief « Raven Crime Reads

    Updated: 2012-11-29 13:10:47

  • New Titles from Constable & Robinson - Jan-June 2013

    Updated: 2012-11-29 09:20:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Thursday , November 29, 2012 New Titles from Constable Robinson Jan-June 2013 Taken from the Constable Robinson catalogue , here are new titles for January to June 2013 that are relevant to Euro Crime , plus anything translated or a bit unusual . Corsair February A Treacherous Likeness by Lynn Shepherd 3 Charles Maddox , private detective , 1800s May The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura tr . Satoko Izumo and Stephen Coates paperback June Generation Loss Available Dark by Elizabeth Hand 1 2 in Cass Neary series , set in Maine and Iceland respectively C R Crime January Death at the Jesus Hospital by David Dickinson paperback 11 Lord Francis Powerscourt , Victorian era February The Mammoth Book of Best British

  • Kerrie: Since they've remodelled NetGalley I can't find anything! Can't locate the titles I have yet to write reviews for. grrrr

    Updated: 2012-11-29 02:05:20

  • barbara fister: Question from a stumped academic librarian: if you wanted a crime fiction series by an American woman which has had at least one recently published book that offers interesting material in terms of how women's bodies are represented, which series would that be?

    Updated: 2012-11-29 01:35:57

  • Moira Redmond: Laurie R King's Justice Hall, from her Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series http://clothesinbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/the-eternal-attractions-of-fancy-dress.html

    Updated: 2012-11-29 00:37:52

  • Review: THE JEWELS OF PARADISE, Donna Leon

    Updated: 2012-11-28 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 Authors A-Z Reading Challenges 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet All Reviews ranked Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 29 November 2012 Review : THE JEWELS OF PARADISE , Donna Leon published Grove Atlantic 2012 Format : Kindle e-book File : Size 399 KB Print : Length 292 pages Page Numbers Source : ISBN 0434022284 :

  • Entanglement, by Zygmunt Miloszewski

    Updated: 2012-11-28 19:46:00

  • LauraRoot: Vile Blood by Roger Smith (writing as Max Wilde) is currently FREE on uk kindle. set in the US, not SA.

    Updated: 2012-11-28 16:33:57

  • New Titles from Quercus - Jan-June 2013

    Updated: 2012-11-28 11:25:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Wednesday , November 28, 2012 New Titles from Quercus Jan-June 2013 Taken from the Quercus Spring catalogue , here are new titles for January to June 2013 that are relevant to Euro Crime , plus anything translated or a bit unusual . January The Chessman by Peter May already available in ebook 3 Fin Macleod , Police Officer , Edinburgh Dying Fall by Elly Griffiths available in ebook on 20 Dec . 5 Dr Ruth Galloway , forensic archaeologist and DCI Harry Nelson Dark Winter by David Mark paperback 1 Detective Sergeant McAvoy of Humberside CID Screams in the Dark by Anna Smith 3 Rosie Gilmour , Crime Journalist , 1990s The Woman Who Wouldn't Die by Colin Cotterill 9 Dr Siri Paiboun , Laos The Dark Valley by

  • The Best Novellas

    Updated: 2012-11-27 16:30:32
    Novellas are too short to be a novel but too long to be a short story. Located in literature’s middle ground, novellas can be just the right length and there’s plenty to choose from. Ernest Hemingway cemented his literary legacy with a famous novella and Julian Barnes won the 2011 Booker Prize with one. Browse [...]

  • Review: The Nightmare by Lars Kepler

    Updated: 2012-11-27 11:14:00
    : : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Tuesday , November 27, 2012 Review : The Nightmare by Lars Kepler The Nightmare by Lars Kepler translated by Laura A Wideburg , September 2012, 500 pages , Blue Door , ISBN : 0007414471 THE NIGHTMARE is the follow-up to the best-selling THE HYPNOTIST and sees the return of Stockholm Police Detective Joona Linna , now as the lead . character Joona is drawn into two separate cases . Firstly through a friend on the force he's invited to the possible crime-scene of the death of a Government official , Palmcrona , who has the final responsibility for overseeing Sweden's sale of arms to foreign countries . The death looks suspicious but could be . suicide When Joona goes to the pathology department , the

  • New Reviews: Black, Ewan, Jordan, McGilloway, Meyer, Nesbo, Perry, Quigley, Simms

    Updated: 2012-11-25 15:14:00
    : : , , , , , , , , Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Sunday , November 25, 2012 New Reviews : Black , Ewan , Jordan , McGilloway , Meyer , Nesbo , Perry , Quigley , Simms Here are 9 new reviews which have been added to the Euro Crime website : today Susan White reviews Helen Black's Blood Rush the fourth in the Lilly Valentine , family care lawyer , series Terry Halligan reviews Chris Ewan's first standalone novel , Safe House set on the Isle of Man currently 20p as an e-book in the UK Amanda Gillies reviews the first in Will Jordan's Ryan Drake series set in the US : Redemption which is now out in paperback Brian McGilloway's latest Garda Inspector Ben Devlin book is also out in paperback , The Nameless Dead reviewed here by JF We conclude

  • Review: WINTER CHILL, John Cleary - audio book

    Updated: 2012-11-25 06:46:00
    : : , 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 Authors A-Z Reading Challenges 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet All Reviews ranked Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 25 November 2012 Review : WINTER CHILL , John Cleary audio book originally published 1995 audio book published by Chivers 2011 playing time 9 hours 40 mins Narrator Christian Rodska ISBN

  • 2012 Global Reading Challenge completed

    Updated: 2012-11-24 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 Authors A-Z Reading Challenges 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet All Reviews ranked Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 25 November 2012 2012 Global Reading Challenge completed 2012 Global Reading Challenge 21 21 Completed at Expert . Level I committed myself to reading 21 titles , all crime fiction , 3 titles each from 7

  • Video for the Penguin English Library

    Updated: 2012-11-23 21:56:08
    To mark the launch of the Penguin English Library, Penguin commissioned this sweet animated video from the critically-acclaimed director Woof Wan-Bau. The video depicts one lucky (and familiar!) pengun finding his way to the glorious land of books. The Penguin English Library is: “…100 of the best novels in the English language. These are books [...]

  • Review: SUICIDE RUN, Michael Connelly

    Updated: 2012-11-23 20:59:00
    : : , 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 Authors A-Z Reading Challenges 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet All Reviews ranked Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 24 November 2012 Review : SUICIDE RUN , Michael Connelly Format : Kindle Amazon File : Size 422 KB Print : Length 112 pages : Publisher Allen Unwin October 4, 2011 Sold : by Amazon Digital Services ,

  • TV News: Trailer for The Spies of Warsaw (with David Tennant)

    Updated: 2012-11-23 11:23:00
    : : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Friday , November 23, 2012 TV News : Trailer for The Spies of Warsaw with David Tennant Alan Furst's The Spies of Warsaw is expected to be shown on BBC Four early in 2013 and BBC America in . January It stars David Tennant and Janet Montgomery and is adapted by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais . The supporting cast includes Ann Eleonora Jørgensen Pernille from The Killing From the BBC's website A thrilling spy story set in Poland , Paris , London Berlin in the years leading up to the Second World War . French and German intelligence operatives are locked in a life-and-death struggle on the espionage . battlefield At the French embassy , the new military attaché , Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier Tennant a

  • Review: PERFECT HATRED, Leighton Gage

    Updated: 2012-11-23 03:16:00
    : : , 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 Authors A-Z Reading Challenges 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet All Reviews ranked Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 23 November 2012 Review : PERFECT HATRED , Leighton Gage Format I read this on my Kindle via an e-copy ARC sent to me by the author : Publisher Soho Crime February 19, 2013 : Language English : ISBN-10

  • Radio News: Crime Writers on Front Row

    Updated: 2012-11-22 10:23:00
    : : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Thursday , November 22, 2012 Radio News : Crime Writers on Front Row Three recent programmes on Radio 4's Front Row presented by Foreign Bodies' Mark Lawson , have segments related to : crime-fiction Last night's episode Wed 21 Agatha Christie's classic murder mystery play The Mousetrap has now been continuously in performance in London for 60 years , and the first ever touring production of the show is currently on a 60 date tour . Front Row sent three crime writers Frances Fyfield Mark Billingham and Suzette A Hill to see The Mousetrap at three different locations . All three join Mark to debate whether the production has aged . well and Monday's 19th Crime writer Denise Mina discusses how she has

  • Crime Fiction Alphabet 2012: My Contributions

    Updated: 2012-11-21 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 Authors A-Z Reading Challenges 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet All Reviews ranked Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 22 November 2012 Crime Fiction Alphabet 2012 : My Contributions The Crime Fiction Alphabet meme has been run 3 times in the past 4 years on this blog and has proved both challenging and . popular Some

  • TV News: Hinterland & Young Montalbano

    Updated: 2012-11-21 18:52:00
    : : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Wednesday , November 21, 2012 TV News : Hinterland Young Montalbano BBC Four has two more crime dramas lined up , they've announced today Hinterland and Young Montalbano Hinterland Hinterland is a gripping new detective series based in the coastal Welsh town of Aberystwyth set against the backdrop of mountainous hinterland , isolated farms and close-knit villages . A natural crucible of colliding worlds , where history , myth and tradition come face to face with the modern and contemporary its panoramic vistas and quaint facade hide a multitude of sins this is a place that lives according to its own rules , a place where grudges fester , where the secrets of the past are buried . deep DCI Tom Mathias

  • Free Kindle Short Story (UK) - Edie Kiglatuk's Christmas

    Updated: 2012-11-21 14:57:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Wednesday , November 21, 2012 Free Kindle Short Story UK Edie Kiglatuk's Christmas This short story by M J McGrath has recently become available for free on UK Kindle Blurb from : Amazon An exclusive free edition of this stunning short mystery set in the frozen high Arctic and featuring the most compelling new heroine in crime fiction : ex polar bear hunter Edie Kiglatuk . Also includes the opening chapters of M . J . McGrath's new book The Boy in the Snow The shortest day of the year didn’t count for much up on Ellesmere Island . By the time 21 December arrived , the sun hadn’t come up for two months and it would be another two before it managed to scramble over the High Arctic horizon . Objects , animals

  • TV News: The Poison Tree on ITV soon

    Updated: 2012-11-20 18:30:00
    : : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Tuesday , November 20, 2012 TV News : The Poison Tree on ITV soon Erin Kelly's The Poison Tree has been made into two one-hour episodes , the first of which will be shown on 10 December at 9pm on ITV1 Karen Clarke MyAnna Buring has spent twelve years waiting for her partner Rex Matthew Goode to be released from prison . Now he is free , she is looking forward to settling down to normal family life in their remote seaside cottage with their 11 year old daughter Alice Hebe Johnson But then Karen starts to receive silent phone calls and anonymous text messages and she can’t shake the feeling that she and her family are constantly being watched . It seems that despite her best efforts to keep their past a

  • The New American Crime Film

    Updated: 2012-11-20 09:00:58
    I’ve long thought this, but it’s nice to have someone as esteemed as Stuart Gordon back you up: “Crime films are good for you.” So writes the RE-ANIMATOR director in his foreword to THE NEW AMERICAN CRIME FILM, in which New Jersey-based film teacher Matthew Sorrento explores what he calls the most widespread genre in [...]

  • Crime Fiction Alphabet 2012 - the Summary: N to Z

    Updated: 2012-11-19 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 Authors A-Z Reading Challenges 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet All Reviews ranked Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 20 November 2012 Crime Fiction Alphabet 2012 the Summary : N to Z Did you catch the first part of the summary for this fabulous meme yesterday Each week for the past 26 weeks participants have suggested

  • Free Kindle Book (UK) - The Storm Without

    Updated: 2012-11-19 11:58:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Monday , November 19, 2012 Free Kindle Book UK The Storm Without Tony Black's The Storm Without is currently free on UK Kindle I'm not sure how long the offer will . last Update 21 11 12, it's now . 99p Still recovering from the harrowing case that ended his police career , Doug Michie returns to his boyhood home of Ayr on Scotland’s wind-scarred west coast . He hopes to rebuild his shattered life , get over the recent failure of his marriage and shed his demons , but the years have changed the birthplace of the poet Robert . Burns When Doug meets an old school-days flame , Lyn , he feels his past may offer the salvation of a future . But Lyn’s son has been accused of murder and she begs Doug to find the .

  • Review: ALL YOURS, Claudia Pineiro

    Updated: 2012-11-19 09:00:00
    : : , 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 Authors A-Z Reading Challenges 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet All Reviews ranked Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 19 November 2012 Review : ALL YOURS , Claudia Pineiro Format : Kindle Amazon File : Size 218 KB Print : Length 178 pages Page Numbers Source : ISBN 190473880X : Publisher Bitter Lemon Press Tra Org

  • Crime Fiction Alphabet 2012 - the Summary: A to M

    Updated: 2012-11-18 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 Authors A-Z Reading Challenges 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet All Reviews ranked Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 19 November 2012 Crime Fiction Alphabet 2012 the Summary : A to M Our journey is over for 2012. Many thanks to those who've contributed every week or . occasionally Today and tomorrow I'll sum up the

  • Review: WHO KILLED PALOMINO MOLERO?, Mario Vargas Llosa

    Updated: 2012-11-18 09:10:00
    : : 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 Authors A-Z Reading Challenges 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet All Reviews ranked Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 18 November 2012 Review : WHO KILLED PALOMINO MOLERO Mario Vargas Llosa Format : Kindle Amazon File : Size 371 KB Print : Length 162 pages Page Numbers Source : ISBN 0374525560 : Publisher Faber and Faber

  • New Reviews: Cutler, Forrester, Macbain, Morgan, Nesser, Preston, Rankin, Von Schirach, Welsh

    Updated: 2012-11-18 08:51:00
    : : , , , , , , , , Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Sunday , November 18, 2012 New Reviews : Cutler , Forrester , Macbain , Morgan , Nesser , Preston , Rankin , Von Schirach , Welsh Here are 9 new reviews which have been added to the Euro Crime website : today Lizzie Hayes reviews Judith Cutler's Burying the Past the fourth in the Chief Superintendent Fran Harman series Terry Halligan reviews James Forrester's second in the Clarenceaux , Elizabethan series , The Roots of Betrayal Amanda Gillies reviews the first in the Pliny the Younger series by Bruce Macbain : Roman Games which now has a UK release Fidelis Morgan , author of a well-loved historical series , switches to modern day with The Murder Quadrille reviewed here by Susan White

  • OT: It's Cat-urday

    Updated: 2012-11-17 09:35:00
    : : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Saturday , November 17, 2012 OT : It's Cat-urday Along with more than 10,000 viewers I've become hooked on watching the Spice Kittens : four kittens , who are being looked after , along with their mum , at PurrfectPals Their activities are livestreamed they are currently asleep at the time of writing watch here Here is a screen-shot of the four in : action Thanks to crimeficreader for the tip . Posted by Karen Euro Crime at 9:35 AM Labels : cats 1 : comment crimeficreader said . Thanks for the mention . A few of us are watching a bit again today . While I have a little break or two that is 1:11 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom 2013 International Dagger

  • Christmas Present Ideas

    Updated: 2012-11-16 13:10:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Friday , November 16, 2012 Christmas Present Ideas Here are a few Christmas present suggestions for the crime-fiction lover in your : family This is from 2010 so won't reference the new TV shows like Sherlock Elementary Get a comprehensive guide to this important literary figure and his author . A classic literary character , Sherlock Holmes has fascinated readers for decades from his repartee with Dr . Watson and his unparalleled powers of deduction to the settings , themes , and villains of the stories . Now , this friendly guide offers a clear introduction to this beloved figure and his author , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , presenting new insight into the detective stories and crime scene analysis that have

  • Review: A POCKET FULL OF RYE, Agatha Christie

    Updated: 2012-11-15 21:54:00
    : : , 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 Authors A-Z Reading Challenges 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet All Reviews ranked Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 16 November 2012 Review : A POCKET FULL OF RYE , Agatha Christie Format : Kindle Amazon File : Size 381 KB Print : Length 227 pages Page Numbers Source : ISBN 0451199863 : Publisher HarperCollins

  • Review: The Collini Case by Ferdinand von Schirach

    Updated: 2012-11-15 10:32:00
    : : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Thursday , November 15, 2012 Review : The Collini Case by Ferdinand von Schirach The Collini Case by Ferdinand von Schirach translated by Anthea Bell , September 2012, 190 pages , Michael Joseph , ISBN : 0718159195 THE COLLINI CASE is a short , powerful and important crime novel , one that has played a part in the setting up of a German Ministry of Justice committee into looking at the effects of the past on the current state of the . Ministry The book opens in Berlin with the clinical description of a murder and the subsequent surrender of the murderer to the police . The killer , Herr Collini , originally from Italy , admits his guilt but refuses to say any more . The public defender on call is the

  • Forgotten Book: THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF HARRY LAVENDER, Marele Day

    Updated: 2012-11-15 06:40:00
    : : , 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 Authors A-Z Reading Challenges 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet All Reviews ranked Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 15 November 2012 Forgotten Book : THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF HARRY LAVENDER , Marele Day This title , the first in Australian author Marele Day's Claudia Valentine series was published in 1988 and I read it

  • Foreign Bodies - the Bibliographies (week 3)

    Updated: 2012-11-14 09:23:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Wednesday , November 14, 2012 Foreign Bodies the Bibliographies week 3 I've now listened to the final 5 of the 15 episodes of Radio 4's European Crime Fiction Foreign Bodies programme presented by Mark Lawson . Most of the episodes have interviews with or references to other authors and I've put their names and a link to their bibliography on Euro Crime 11. Germany : Jakob Arjouni Featured : Mrs Peabody see her article on Kemal Kayankaya here also interviewed : Esmaham Aykol 12. Scotland : Ian Rankin Mentioned : Andrea Camilleri Interviewed : Ann Cleeves 13. Sweden : Henning Mankell Stieg Larsson Interviewed : Liza Marklund Camilla Lackberg Kenneth Branagh Mentioned : Andrea Camilleri Ian Rankin Maj

  • Review: FAULT LINE, Robert Goddard - audio book

    Updated: 2012-11-14 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 Authors A-Z Reading Challenges 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet All Reviews ranked Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 14 November 2012 Review : FAULT LINE , Robert Goddard audio book published 2012, available from Audible.com narrated by Philip Franks length 12 hours 7 mins source : I bought . it Synopsis Fantastic

  • Review: MILES OFF COURSE, Sulari Gentill

    Updated: 2012-11-13 21:49:00
    : : , 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 Authors A-Z Reading Challenges 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet All Reviews ranked Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 14 November 2012 Review : MILES OFF COURSE , Sulari Gentill Published Pantera Press 2012 ISBN 978-0-9870685-2-1 Book 3 in the Rowland Sinclair series 352 pages source : my local library Synopsis Pantera

  • Specsavers Crime & Thriller of the Year Shortlist

    Updated: 2012-11-13 11:19:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Tuesday , November 13, 2012 Specsavers Crime Thriller of the Year Shortlist The shortlists for the National Book Awards , now sponsored by Specsavers , have been released and the pertinent one for crime readers : is Crime Thriller of the Year For a novel in this genre from a UK author which has made an outstanding impact in bookselling outlets in terms of acclaim and . sales Lee Child A Wanted Man Sophie Hannah Kind of Cruel Susan Hill A Question of Identity Anthony Horowitz The House of Silk Peter James Perfect People Denise Mina Gods and Beasts The winner will be announced on 4 December 2012. Posted by Karen Euro Crime at 11:19 AM Labels : Awards crime and thriller of the year National Book Awards 3 :

  • Crime Fiction Alphabet 2012: Z is for Zita and Zero

    Updated: 2012-11-12 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 Authors A-Z Reading Challenges 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet All Reviews ranked Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 13 November 2012 Crime Fiction Alphabet 2012 : Z is for Zita and Zero It never occurred to me when I set up the Crime Fiction Alphabet me this year and decided that for the meme this year I would try to

  • New Reviews: Adler-Olsen, Hunter, Kallentoft, Larsson, Sigurdardottir, Sussman, Thomson

    Updated: 2012-11-12 11:39:00
    : : , , , , , , Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Monday , November 12, 2012 New Reviews : Adler-Olsen , Hunter , Kallentoft , Larsson , Sigurdardottir , Sussman , Thomson Apologies for the slight delay and fewer reviews than usual this . week Here are 7 new reviews which have been added to the Euro Crime website : today Last week I reviewed on the blog , Jussi Adler-Olsen's Disgrace tr . K E Semmel the sequel to Mercy Rich Westwood reviews Alan Hunter's Gently with the Ladies the books only sharing a name with the Martin Shaw tv series Maxine Clarke reviews Mons Kallentoft's third Malin Fors book , Autumn Killing tr . Neil Smith Susan White reviews Asa Larsson's The Black Path tr . Marlaine Delargy now out in paperback Amanda Gillies

  • Crime Fiction Alphabet: the letter Z

    Updated: 2012-11-11 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 Authors A-Z Reading Challenges 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet All Reviews ranked Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 12 November 2012 Crime Fiction Alphabet : the letter Z 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. Many many thanks to those

  • Review: SCARED YET? Jaye Ford

    Updated: 2012-11-10 07:13:00
    : : 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 Authors A-Z Reading Challenges 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet All Reviews ranked Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 10 November 2012 Review : SCARED YET Jaye Ford Published Bantam , Random House Australia March 2012 ISBN 978-1-86471-200-1 456 pages Source : review copy supplied by Random House Australia Synopsis author

  • It's OK - Santa is here

    Updated: 2012-11-10 02:09:00
    : 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 Authors A-Z Reading Challenges 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet All Reviews ranked Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 10 November 2012 It's OK Santa is here Nothing beats the rapture of the young at the annual Adelaide Christmas Pageant Last year she was too young , but today , just two years old , Georgia watched avidly

  • TV News: Falcón starts next week

    Updated: 2012-11-09 20:29:00
    : : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Friday , November 09, 2012 TV News : Falcón starts next week Sky Atlantic have snapped up Falcón a four-part series based on the first two of Robert Wilson's Seville-based , Detective Javier Falcon . books The series begins at 10pm on Thursday , 15 November and stars Marton Csokas from The Debt as Falcón , Emilia Fox as his wife Ines . Guest stars include Bernard Hill and Robert . Lindsay From Sky Atlantic The first story to be adapted is The Blind Man of Seville , which follows Falcón‘s investigation into a brutal killing which stirs long forgotten memories . As Falcón investigates the crime , and finds himself drawn to the widow of the victim , he discovers the secret truth about his artist father’s

  • Review: Disgrace by Jussi Adler-Olsen

    Updated: 2012-11-08 10:51:00
    : : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Thursday , November 08, 2012 Review : Disgrace by Jussi Adler-Olsen Disgrace by Jussi Adler-Olsen translated by K E Semmel , June 2012, 215 pages , Penguin , ISBN : 0141399988 DISGRACE is the eagerly awaited sequel to the popular MERCY , the debut of Jussi Adler-Olsen both are set in Copenhagen . MERCY introduced Detective Superintendent Carl Morck who is assigned to work cold cases in Department Q . His only colleague is a civilian , the mysterious Assad . They are joined in DISGRACE by a forthright police secretary , . Rose Someone wants Carl and co to reopen a case that's been solved . The investigation into the brutal murder of a brother and sister was closed nine years later when the murderer

  • Forgotten Book: THE COLOR PURPLE, Alice Walker

    Updated: 2012-11-08 10:41:00
    : : , 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 Authors A-Z Reading Challenges 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet All Reviews ranked Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 8 November 2012 Forgotten Book : THE COLOR PURPLE , Alice Walker I've based my contributions to Pattinase's Friday's Forgotten Books this year on books I read twenty years ago in 1992. Every now and

  • Foreign Bodies - the Bibliographies (week 2)

    Updated: 2012-11-07 09:00:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Wednesday , November 07, 2012 Foreign Bodies the Bibliographies week 2 I've now listened to episodes 6 to 10 of the 15 daily episodes of Radio 4's European Crime Fiction Foreign Bodies programme presented by Mark Lawson . Most of the episodes have interviews with or references to other authors and I've put their names and a link to their bibliography on Euro Crime 6. England : PD James Ruth Rendell also mentioned : Dorothy L Sayers 7. Italy : Leonardo Sciascia Interviewed : Andrea Camilleri Gianrico Carofiglio 8. Spain : Manuel Vazquez Montalban Interviewed : Antonio Hill and Jason Webster also mentioned re Northern Ireland : Stuart Neville 9. England : Lynda La Plante Interviewed : Val McDermid Ian Rankin

  • Challenges: So Near, Yet so Far: Stocktaking

    Updated: 2012-11-06 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 Authors A-Z Reading Challenges 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet All Reviews ranked Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 7 November 2012 Challenges : So Near , Yet so Far : Stocktaking With a little under 2 months to go I'm looking seriously at what I need to do to complete the challenges I set myself at the beginning

  • Tweets from Severn House

    Updated: 2012-11-06 18:40:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Tuesday , November 06, 2012 Tweets from Severn House A couple of recent publishing deal snippets from KateLyallGrant Commercial fiction editor , publisher of the Creme de la Crime imprint at Severn House Thrilled to have signed up David Wishart's Marcus Corvinus Roman mystery series for Creme de la Crime Delighted to have signed up acclaimed SF writer Eric Brown whose historical crime novel takes him in an exciting new direction Posted by Karen Euro Crime at 6:40 PM Labels : David Wishart Eric Brown publishing deals twitter No : comments Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom 2013 International Dagger Eligibles Euro Crime Review Policy Updated About Me Karen Euro Crime

  • The Return of The Killing

    Updated: 2012-11-06 11:43:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Tuesday , November 06, 2012 The Return of The Killing Though it's sad to lose Inspector Montalbano we now have ten episodes of the final series of The Killing to look forward to . It begins on 17 November at 9pm on BBC4 with a double . episode Here's the blurb for episode : 1 Denmark is the midst of a fiercely contested election race , set against the backdrop of the financial crisis . With ten days to go to the election , Detective Chief Inspector Sarah Lund prepares to celebrate her 25th year in the police force and looks forward to the prospect of a new job in the force . But her relative peace is shattered when body parts are found at Copenhagen dock only hours before a scheduled visit by the prime .

  • The Final (for now) Episode of Inspector Montalbano

    Updated: 2012-11-06 11:34:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Tuesday , November 06, 2012 The Final for now Episode of Inspector Montalbano The final episode in the current run of Inspector Montalbano at 9pm on 10 November , is Treasure Hunt based on Andrea Camilleri's as yet untranslated into English La Caccia al Tesoro An elderly couple , both religious fanatics , barricade themselves in their home and begin shooting from the windows for no apparent reason , until Montalbano's men finally succeed in disarming . them There seems to be no justification for the couple's insane actions , but police find a strangely disfigured inflatable doll inside their home . A few days later , an identical doll is discovered in a rubbish bin and Montalbano has a bad . premonition

  • Crime Fiction Alphabet 2012: Y is for Yvette and Yaba

    Updated: 2012-11-05 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 Authors A-Z Reading Challenges 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet All Reviews ranked Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 6 November 2012 Crime Fiction Alphabet 2012 : Y is for Yvette and Yaba I've decided that for the Crime Fiction Alphabet meme this year I will try to feature books I've read in 2012. So I have chosen two

  • Cited on The Winter of the Lions

    Updated: 2012-11-05 13:11:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Monday , November 05, 2012 Cited on The Winter of the Lions The paperback release of Jan Costin Wagner's The Winter of the Lions translated by Anthea Bell , has just been published and my local library was very swift to get it . There is a quote from Maxine's review of the trade paperback edition on the : back You can read her full review here Posted by Karen Euro Crime at 1:11 PM Labels : cited Jan Costin Wagner The Winter of the Lions No : comments Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom 2013 International Dagger Eligibles Euro Crime Review Policy Updated About Me Karen Euro Crime Library Assistant , Cat Owner , Doctor Who , Crime Fiction and Teenage Fiction . fan View

  • Review: BEYOND FEAR, Jaye Ford

    Updated: 2012-11-05 07:37:00
    : : , 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 Authors A-Z Reading Challenges 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet All Reviews ranked Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 5 November 2012 Review : BEYOND FEAR , Jaye Ford First published by Bantam in 2011 ISBN 978-1-86471-197-4 422 pages Winner of 2012 Davitt Award Debut Novel and the 2012 Davitt Award Readers Choice

  • Crime Fiction Alphabet: the letter Y

    Updated: 2012-11-04 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 Authors A-Z Reading Challenges 2011 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet All Reviews ranked Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 5 November 2012 Crime Fiction Alphabet : the letter Y 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. Many thanks to those who

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