Hercule Poirot and Miss Marples are among golden age sleuths giving new inspiration to a genre tired of alcoholic divorcees and goth hackersForget domestic noir and put down all those books with “Girl” in the title. Crime fiction is turning back the clock to its golden age with a host of books that pay homage to the genre’s grande dame, Agatha Christie, either intentionally or in spirit.Last week saw the publication of Closed Casket, Sophie Hannah’s second Hercule Poirot book, which “continues” the great sleuth’s life of solving crimes. The book has been published to coincide with what would have been the author’s birthday and to commemorate 100 years since she wrote her first published novel. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Marie Benedict’s “The Mystery of Mrs. Christie” is an intriguing novel with a plausible explanation. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-12-29 13:00:00 UTC ]
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Emma Styles has won the Little, Brown UEA Crime Fiction Award 2020 for her novel, No Country for Girls. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-26 14:41:36 UTC ]
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THE SKELETONS IN Ray Bradbury’s closet are out in Killer, Come Back to Me, a career-spanning collection of the science fictioneer’s crime stories. These 300 pages present a new side to readers who only know Bradbury from such classics as The Martian Chronicles (1950) and Fahrenheit 451 (1953).... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-11-24 13:30:59 UTC ]
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With “Moonflower Murders,” Horowitz adds layers of mystery to a richly plotted tale. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-11-11 14:00:00 UTC ]
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Children's books have seen a boom during coronavirus-hit 2020 with non-fiction heading for a record year, according to Nielsen. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-24 11:31:27 UTC ]
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When One Hundred Years of Solitude hit the market in 1967, the book industry in Spanish was booming. This situation was unimaginable for most writers and critics just a few years before. “How can literature exist,” writer Mario Vargas Llosa asked, “in countries where there are no publishing... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Over the past five years, Ware has produced five suspense novels, almost all of them weighing in from really good to spectacular. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-09-07 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Betty Rowlands, dubbed the “queen of cosy crime” by publisher Bookouture, has died at the age of 96. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-10 05:46:55 UTC ]
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Adrian McKinty has won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Prize for The Chain (Orion), part of a “life changing” turnaround after he gave up writing and became an Uber driver to make ends meet. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-22 21:01:02 UTC ]
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“The City We Became” and “Vagabonds” made waves. Next up: Susanna Clarke’s “Piranesi.” Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-07-14 05:34:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins' digital-first imprint One More Chapter has netted three titles in a Cornwall-set cosy crime series by author Fiona Leitch. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-14 04:12:51 UTC ]
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With bookshops still closed in parts of the UK, sales have surpassed last year’s numbers, with 3.8m print books sold in the last weekBritain’s readers have been emerging from lockdown to restock their bookshelves, with book sales – and particularly crime novels – booming in the three weeks since... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-07-07 16:17:09 UTC ]
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“Are Snakes Necessary?” is exactly what you’d expect from a maestro of violent sexploitation. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-03-24 19:16:42 UTC ]
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This week, Claire Jarvis reviews a biography of Virginia Woolf by Gillian Gill. In 1990, John Mortimer wrote for the Book Review about “Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries,” Gill’s biography of Christie. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2020-01-10 10:00:03 UTC ]
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Now that High Book Award Season is coming to a close (right??), we can focus on the prize that really matters: Literary Review‘s Bad Sex in Fiction Award. Since 1993, the UK-based magazine has “honored the year’s most outstandingly awful scene of sexual description in an otherwise good novel.”... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Congratulations to Beth O'Leary! Her debut novel The Flatshare was recently announced as 2019 Fiction Book of the Year by the British retailer WHSmith—an honor previously bestowed on books such as Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman and The Girl on the Train by Paula... Continue reading at Writer's Digest
[ Writer's Digest | 2019-11-19 11:00:22 UTC ]
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The genre is experiencing a renaissance with quality novels and short stories from new and established authors. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-10-29 18:17:37 UTC ]
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Capital Crime will return to London for a second year following the success of the 2019 festival. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-22 12:48:12 UTC ]
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Audible will launch a new narrative non-fiction project in February 2020 from social care worker Shane Dunphy, shining a light on Irish gangs. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-05 21:17:03 UTC ]
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