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Crime and mystery fiction

Crime and mystery fiction

For readers of crime and mystery fiction to discuss books in the genre.
Crime and mystery fiction
Questions and Answers with Jill Edmondson (The Lies Have It) - http://mysteriesandmore.blogspot.com/2012...
Questions and Answers with Jill Edmondson (The Lies Have It)
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Dogs, Valentine's Day, Mysteries, & Dog Treats - http://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2012...
Dogs, Valentine's Day, Mysteries, & Dog Treats
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oooooh this is the first Elvis Costello song on my Confessions playlist - Bernadette
There you go, then, Bernadette :-). - Margot Kinberg
Crime and mystery fiction
Lakeside Tree - Copycat Cover - http://eurocrime.blogspot.com/2012...
Lakeside Tree - Copycat Cover
Crime and mystery fiction
SinC25: Laura Wilson, #8 post of expert challenge - http://petronatwo.wordpress.com/2012...
Interesting post and has made me want to pick up some historical crime again. Any recommendations from releases in the last year anyone? - Sarah Ward
Euro Crime related historicals published in the UK in 2011: http://eurocrime.co.uk/release..., Terry loved The Warsaw Anagrams and Norman is a big fan of Ben Pastor (Lumen). Gordon Ferris's Brodie series is getting good reviews. - Karen Meek
Thanks Karen. Will check them out. - Sarah Ward
What about Rebecca Cantrell´s Hannah Vogel series (set in Berlin)? - Dorte Jakobsen
I fancy reading Rebecca Cantrell - I think Margot is due to do a post on 'A Trace of Smoke' so I was going to wait to see what she says. - Sarah Ward
Thanks, Sarah - yeah, I'm planning to do a spotlight on her "A Trace of Smoke" in two weeks. Highly recommended for those who like historical fiction. Cantrell "does her homework" quite well. - Margot Kinberg
Norman is the expert on WW2 era: he has written very positive reviews of Rebecca Cantrell's books & interviewed her on his blog. I've enjoyed Freidrich Glauser but his are written in the 1930s (& set then). - Maxine
As might be expected, I am chucking John Lawton into the frame here. A Lily of the Field in 2011; 1st in series, Black Out now available on Kindle, second in series Old Flames coming in Sept 2012. Cover WWII through to Cold War period. - crimeficreader
Good suggestion, CFR, only did not include him in the post because (1) he's a man and (2) I haven't yet read one ;-). - Maxine
Duh! I was going with Sarah's 'Any recommendations from releases in the last year anyone?'. I overlooked the original nature of the original post. You see? Spending too much time investigating Japanese and US matters... - crimeficreader
Also Philip Kerr and Alan Furst have good WW2 series. I am also a big fan of Ben Pastor (Lumen). - LauraRoot
And Elizabeth Wilson (Serpent's Tail) follows up War Damage with 1951-set The Girl in Berlin in May this year. Spies. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Girl-Be... - crimeficreader
Thanks some great recommendations. Laura, I love both Philip Kerr and Alan Furst so maybe I should give Ben Pastor a try. - Sarah Ward
Crime and mystery fiction
Trackers, By: Deon Meyer and translated by K.L. Seegers - http://avidmysteryreader.com/2012...
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Awards News: Barry Nominations (2011) - http://eurocrime.blogspot.com/2012...
I thought that Connolly's Samuel Johnson series was YA? changed to 2012! - Karen Meek
I didn't realise Devotion of Suspect X was a first novel? One for you to consider Rhian? - Karen Meek
Interesting one, Karen. A first novel Naoko - an award winner in its home territory of Japan - was published in 2004 in English via Vertical Inc. and looks like it may have been available as an import with Amazon UK. Questionable to consider a debut both here and in the US I'd say. - crimeficreader
I had assumed debut meant the author's first novel, rather than the the one to be first in another language/country - is that right? It's half-price in WH Smiths at the mo. - Karen Meek
Will email you Karen. - crimeficreader
I thought Suspect X was well on in a series- just happens to be the first translated? - Maxine
It's the first translated here in the UK by a UK publisher (which could make it eligible for the Creasey). But it's not the first translated into English and published in the US. That was Naoko (original title Himitsu according to Wiki) in 2004 with Vertical Inc. - crimeficreader
Thanks, CFR, it is clear from reading Suspect X that the "Sherlock Holmes figure" in it (an academic who is an amateur adviser to the policeman) is a previously well-established character, so that all makes sense. - Maxine
I rememer seeing Naoko in the library years back, so it cant have been *that* obscure. - LauraRoot
Made into a movie I understand. The Secret with David Duchovny. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - crimeficreader
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Dorte Jakobsen
Matti Joensuu, To Steal Her Love (2008) | djskrimiblog - http://djskrimiblog.wordpress.com/2012...
Thank you for the book, Maxine. It was a very different pleasure :) - Dorte Jakobsen
You're welcome, Dorte. As you write, it is rather an odd book - another series translated out of order. - Maxine
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Kerrie
Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher Friday 24 February on Australian ABCTV at 8.30 pm http://www.abc.net.au/tv...
Oh, I hope that gets to DVD or something; I'd like to see it. - Margot Kinberg
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Crime and mystery fiction
Translators, damned by faint praise - http://publicsphere.typepad.com/toberea...
Crime and mystery fiction
Crime and mystery fiction
Maxine
Thrillers roundup – reviews | Books | The Guardian - http://www.guardian.co.uk/books...
The Technologists by Matthew Pearl, Rocks in the Belly by Jon Bauer, The Contract by David Levien and Easy Money by Jens Lapidus - Maxine from Bookmarklet
I like the cover of the reviewer's book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Baskerv... - Karen Meek
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2012 Global Reading Challenge Update - http://jiescribano.wordpress.com/2012...
Does anyone know if there is a way to remove a posting through Mr Linky? I made a mistake in one of mine. - Maxine
I think Kerrie can do it, Maxine. - Jose Ignacio
Yes, you will have to ask Kerrie. - Dorte Jakobsen
i can do it Maxine. Just put the correct one in Mr Linky and I will remove the incorrect one. BTW I checked each one and couldn't detect anything wrong - Kerrie
Thanks, Kerrie, there was nothing wrong as such, I just changed my mind about a couple of the categories. Will try to remember to go over and amend, thanks. - Maxine
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Crime and mystery fiction
Crime and mystery fiction
#fridayreads Launching today: S J Wardell’s The Ultimate Selection - http://itsacrimeuk.wordpress.com/2012...
Cheap on Kindle at the moment. Any other Wittertainment fans rephrasing the subtitle as Be Careful To Whom You Talk? - Karen Meek
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Quit Dreaming, This is Real Life, Baby* - http://margotkinberg.wordpress.com/2012...
I got a bit too close to a real killing several years ago, and though it was certainly not fun, I was just as curious as ever - and on the day when we read about the arrest in the local paper, I was considering if I should call the police and tell them it was him. - Dorte Jakobsen
I'm convinced the first thing I would do is contaminate the crime scene. - Kerrie
Dorte - That must have been scary, even if you were also curious. And Kerrie, I can see doing a similar thing unless I was close to the victim. Very different story then... - Margot Kinberg
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Barry Award Nominations 2012 - http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2012...
my blog reappears in the strangest guises. You might like to check http://t.co/2OYw6W7u which appeared almost instantly on my Feedjit - Kerrie
Interesting... - Margot Kinberg
Crime and mystery fiction
Crime and mystery fiction
Crime Fiction offerings at Adelaide Writers Week 2012 - http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2012...
I wonder why Megan Abbott is going to Oz but not NZ, and Denise Mina is coming to NZ but not doing Oz - authors usually try to hit all the festivals at similar times (like Nesbo, who is doing Adelaide and NZIAF in Wellington)... - Craig Sisterson
I think it has to have something to do with the publishers. I suspect Denise Mina is not coming to Adelaide at least because AWW has a (stupid) rule that an author can't appear twice in succession. - Kerrie
Not sure how they will work it when AWW becomes an annual event - supposedly next year. - Kerrie
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Karen Meek
Dust Devils by Roger Smith. This may be free as a US Kindle - can't see the price (not free in UK). - Karen Meek
thanks, Karen, will check out as I want to read this one, as Mack says it's even better than his first. Just checked UK kindle - £4.85 compared with £5.11 for print! - Maxine
It is free in the US, and I think I'll try it out, thanks! - Rebecca Kreisher
Now it says ´price not available´ so perhaps it is too late. - Dorte Jakobsen
Crime and mystery fiction
Crime and mystery fiction
Crime and mystery fiction
Crime and mystery fiction
Embrace the destroyers of your world - http://theviewfromthebluehouse...
Embrace the destroyers of your world
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