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Euro Crime News
Links to reviews and interviews of European crime writers in the UK press.
Crime novels of 2009 - Times Online - http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol...
Joan Smith's choices are nearly all British/European.
- Karen Meek
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Pan Mac plans lively campaign for Dead Tomorrow | theBookseller - http://www.thebookseller.com/news...
Roy Greenslade: Why Stieg Larsson is a must-read for journalists | Media | guardian.co.uk - http://www.guardian.co.uk/media...
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You beat me to it Karen.
- Norman
Just been updating the news page (http://friendfeed.com/euro-cr...) and spotted it :).
- Karen Meek
Sorry - posted this to Twitter (via RSS reader) in parallel time!
- Maxine
Ali Smith on The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson | Books | The Guardian - http://www.guardian.co.uk/books...
The Comfort of Saturdays by Alexander McCall Smith | Book review | Books | The Observer - http://www.guardian.co.uk/books...
Winterland by Alan Glynn | Book review | Books | The Observer - http://www.guardian.co.uk/books...
Pelagia and the Red Rooster by Boris Akunin | Books | The Observer - http://www.guardian.co.uk/books...
The Lemur by Benjamin Black | Book review | Books | The Observer - http://www.guardian.co.uk/books...
John O'Connell's thrillers roundup | Book review | Books | The Guardian - http://www.guardian.co.uk/books...
inc. Washington Shadow, by Aly Monroe
- Karen Meek
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Your Face Tomorrow III by Javier Marías | Book review | Books | The Guardian - http://www.guardian.co.uk/books...
The queen of crime | Books | The Observer - http://www.guardian.co.uk/books...
"Pick up one book, preferably beginning with the first, Roseanna, because they are best read in chronological order, and you become unhinged. You want to block out a week of your life, lie to your boss, and stay in bed, gorging on one after another, as though eating packet upon packet of extra strong mints. I began to worry that I was in love with Martin Beck, the main policeman."
- Karen Meek
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The Lie, By Petra Hammesfahr - Reviews, Books - The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...
The Lie, By Petra Hammesfahr - Reviews, Books - The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...
Present Danger, By Stella Rimington - Reviews, Books - The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...
Talking about Detective Fiction, By PD James - Reviews, Books - The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...
The True Deceiver, By Tove Jansson - Reviews, Books - The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...
"Although Jansson's book isn't a thriller, there's a tension to the prose which suggests that blood might be spilt."
- Karen Meek
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The Tin Drum, By Günter Grass trans Breon Mitchell<br />Self's Murder, By Bernhard Schlink trans Peter Constantine<br />A Minute's Silence, By Siegfried Lenz trans Anthea Bell - Reviews, Books - The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...
The Water's Edge, By Karin Fossum - Reviews, Books - The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...
The Red Velvet Turnshoe, By Cassandra Clark - Reviews, Books - The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...
Poison, Shadow and Farewell (Your Face Tomorrow, part 3) By Javier Marías trans Margaret Jull Costa - Reviews, Books - The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...
Delhi Noir, Edited by Hirsh Sawhney - Reviews, Books - The Independent - http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...
Culture Clinic: Charles Cumming - Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture...
Your Face Tomorrow 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell by Javier Marías: review - Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture...
Your Face Tomorrow: 3: Poison, Shadow and Farewell by Javier Marias - Times Online - http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol...
'As God Commands' by Niccolò Ammaniti -- latimes.com - http://www.latimes.com/feature...
US title - "As God Commands" - for The Crossroads (UK).
- Karen Meek
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Best new crime novels: November 2009 - Times Online - http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol...
Lots of translated crime.
- Karen Meek
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BBC - Podcasts - Book Reviews With Simon Mayo - http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcast...
"Nick Stafford's first novel "Armistice" and "The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest" by Stieg Larsson are reviewed by this week's panel, Boyd Hilton, Jenny Colgan and Stella Duffy."
- Karen Meek
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I've just listened to this. Both authors are published by Quercus and fortunately Nick Stafford had the time/opportunity to read all 3 Stieg books in a week before the show as the other 3 reviewers had not read either of the first two inthe series. As Jenny Colgan said it was a bit like coming in on Return of the King and not having read the first two. No mention of the translator...
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- Karen Meek
"not an original heroine"??? Whatever one may think of Salander, original she certainly is! Thanks for the update, Karen. How can they have a radio show about books that only one of the participants have read? How hard can it be for the major broadcaster in a country to find people who have read these very popular books and have something to say about them? And shame on them for not mentioning the translator.
- Maxine
I phrased it badly :). All the reviewers had read Hornets' but not Tattoo or Fire. Except for Nick Stafford the guest author. Stella said that Denise Danks had a hacker protag and she (Stella) wrote about a bisexual one years ago.
- Karen Meek
TGWKTHN was a strange book for them to do on that show. I listen every week and they always do 2 new release books (i.e. out that week) and 99% of the time they have the author on the show as well. I think perhaps they mistakenly tried to jump on a bandwagon and shouldn't have. As for their comments all but Duffy were actually quite positive about the Larsson book and frankly she came...
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- Bernadette
Thanks Bernadette for expressing some of my thoughts :). Last week they told Matt Hilton that his writing wasn't as good as Lee Child's which is about the most negative comment I'd heard since starting to listen to these.
- Karen Meek
Sounds as if they were just trying to be clever (on both occasions). I agree with Bernadette that Lisbeth's preferences are barely relevant to the main plots - certainly in GWKTHN (they are slightly more relevant in the previous two but Duffy hadn't read those!). Honest maybe but I don't like uninhibited rudeness - and from what people say this was also quite spiteful/jealous.
- Maxine
The week’s crime fiction: November 21, 2009 - Times Online - http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol...
Just read these in the paper edition - might try the Fyfield though I've gone off Sarah Fortune a couple of books ago - prob won't bother with Burke or Leonard. Elsewhere in the paper version (Sat) there is "Winter Chillers" in which Melissa Katsoulis reviews The Winter Ghosts (Kate Mosse) Ghoul Britannia (Andrew Martin) and Lost (Gregory Maguire). There is also a mini "Guardian length" brief of Winterland by Alan Glynn by Kate Saunders (v positive).
- Maxine
BBC NEWS | UK | 'Small beer' Blyton banned by BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
Crime novels roundup | Book reviews | Books | The Guardian - http://www.guardian.co.uk/books...
inc Hypothermia
- Karen Meek
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