Crime Fiction

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• Crime Fiction: Peepshow by Leigh Redhead

  
  January Magazine — Authority: 428
  Simone Kirsch gets naked for a living. As we learn in Leigh Redhead’s 2004 thriller, Peepshow (recently re-released by The Outfit), she works in Melbourne’s sex industry as a peepshow performer. Wanting something better, and knowing that strippers often have short careers, she’s earned her license as an ...
  6 hours ago

• Still on Stieg Larsson

  
  pulpetti — Authority: 124
  Anders Engwall posted a short comment on this post about Swedish crime fiction, and I post the comment here, too: Pardon this late comment, but I came across a rather interesting take on Larssons books today. http://www.expressen.se/kultur/1.1792588/banala-intriger If you dont want to exercise your Swedish ...
  9 hours ago

• CRIME FICTION Sjöwall and Wahloos denoument for the post war boom

  
  LeftClick — Authority: 427
  Cop Killer by Maj Sjöwall My rating: 5 of 5 stars Is this the best of the 10 written by  Sjöwall  and Wahloo? Ironic, more bitter and cynical than its predecessors (it is the second last novel published), more than any other it is sharply critical of Swedish society of the mid 70s. If there is a ...
  12 hours ago

• Locked In, by Marcia Muller

  
  Linus's Blanket — Authority: 494
  Sharon McCone is a highly sucessful private investigator from humble origins who has managed to cobble together a wonderful family, and several loyal and dedicated employees and colleagues who will do just about anything for her.  Sharon is a vibrant member of the community and an investigative professional at the ...
  1 day ago

• Murder on Page Three

  
  Euro Crime — Authority: 517
  No, this has nothing to do with deaths of The Suns glamour models but rather is the title of a book from a new-to-me author. Whilst searching the library catalogue for Elly Griffiths , I only put in Griffiths, Ell and the search also turned up Ella Griffiths and the titles Murder on Page Three and The Water ...
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• Ive Got the Blues

  
  Type M for Murder — Authority: 130
  If it’s Wednesday, it must be Debby, and I am in a bit of a slump. Though I recently trumpeted my relief at being a crime fiction writer as opposed to a pill counter, I’m a bit blue today. Maybe it’s the memoir topic, and the appalling facts that not only did S.P. receive a million-plus advance for the ...
  1 day ago

• Wyatt, Garry Disher

  
  AustCrimeFiction - Crime Fiction from Australia, New Zealand and everywhere — Authority: 130
  Start: 01/02/2010 - 11:52pm Timezone: In news today from Text - Wyatt, by Garry Disher is due out in February 2010. Wyatt’s been away. Now he’s back. Garry Disher’s cool, enigmatic anti-hero has been, uncharacteristically, out of action for a while. now there’s a new Wyatt—and his legion of fans ...
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• Down by Pattaya Bay, Angela Savage

  
  AustCrimeFiction - Crime Fiction from Australia, New Zealand and everywhere — Authority: 130
  Seems the much anticipated sequel to Behind the Night Bazaar has a name....  Down by Pattaya Bay. Havent noticed a release date yet....
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• Review: THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNETS NEST, Stieg Larsson

  
  MYSTERIES in PARADISE — Authority: 555
  MacLehose Press, 2009. Translated from Swedish by Reg Keeland. Originally published in Sweden in 2007. Author Stieg Larsson died in 2004 at the age of 50. ISBN 978-1-906694-16-6 I read my copy on my Kindle. The story opens with Lisbeth Salanders admission to Emergency at the Salengrenska hospital in Goteborg with a ...
  2 days ago

• SNOW ANGELS - James Thompson

  
  Jen's Book Thoughts — Authority: 125
  FIRST LINE: "Im in Hullu Poro, The Crazy Reindeer, the biggest bar and restaurant in this part of the Arctic Circle." James Thompsons debut novel, SNOW ANGELS , features Inspector Kari Vaara investigating the brutal murder, and possible hate crime, of a beautiful, well-known Somali immigrant...in Lapland...near ...
  2 days ago

• LENNOX - Craig Russell

  
  AustCrimeFiction - Crime Fiction from Australia, New Zealand and everywhere — Authority: 130
  Cover Image Author Craig Russell Publisher Allen & Unwin Copyright 2009 ISBN 978-1-74175-930-3 No of Pages 329 Price Book Synopsis Private investigator Lennox stands somewhere between legal and illegal, honour and greed, crims and cops.  The one clear thing about ...
  2 days ago

• Review: Beautiful Dead - Arizona

  
  Euro Crime — Authority: 517
  Ive just posted my review of Beautiful Dead (2) - Arizona by Eden Maguire over on my teenage blog. This is a teenage crime/romance/supernatural mixture which I enjoyed. If you watch CSI you wont be too impressed with the books medical examiner immediately classifying a death as suicide when there are multiple ...
  3 days ago

• Why Israelis pick Tarantino over Spielberg

  
  Matt Beynon Rees — Authority: 122
  Latent shame over the Jews failure to stand up to the Nazis is cited as a reason for the success of "Inglourious Basterds." By Matt Beynon Rees - GlobalPost JERUSALEM, Israel — Quentin Tarantino’s "Inglourious Basterds" is the definitive Israeli movie. The bloodthirsty revenge fantasy of Jewish soldiers ...
  3 days ago

• A Story from the Grave

  
  1stAngel Arts Magazine — Authority: 154
  Stieg Larsson was a political journalist and graphics specialist for 20 years at a Swedish news agency. He also actively belonged to an organization called Expo, dedicated to fighting fascism and racism in Sweden and Europe. It’s said that he and his partner Eva Gabrielsson lived under constant threat from ...
  3 days ago

• Crime Fiction Alphabet THE MASK OF ATREUS, A. J. Hartley

  
  MYSTERIES in PARADISE — Authority: 555
  Bantam Australia, May 2006 Im taking this opportunity to re-publish a review originally published elsewhere, as part of the Crime Fiction Alphabet meme for the letter H. There are really two beginning points for this thriller/mystery. In the dying days of World War Two, a German tank convoy escorting a truck is ...
  3 days ago

• Currently Reading - Into the Shadows, Shirley Wells

  
  AustCrimeFiction - Crime Fiction from Australia, New Zealand and everywhere — Authority: 130
  New book from a new author - being read for a discussion on Murder & Mayhem. From the Blurb: When Rodney Hill, wrongly arrested for a series of murders, hangs himself, Jill Kennedy, the forensic pscyhologist whose profile led to Hills arrest, gives up her work with the police and moves to the peaceful village ...
  3 days ago

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson

  
  Blogging for a Good Book — Authority: 126
  This week we are pleased to welcome back staff from the WRL Circulation Services Division to BFGB. Today’s review comes from Mandy Malone, who opens the week with an exciting and thought-provoking thriller. Upon finishing The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , I set the book aside, shook my head, and muttered my ...
  3 days ago

• Crime Fiction Alphabet: H is for Hercule Poirot’s Christmas

  
  BooksPlease — Authority: 495
  This week’s letter in the Crime Fiction Alphabet series is H for  Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie. I think this is one of the best Agatha Christie books I’ve read recently. Poirot investigates the death of Simeon Lee, the head of the Lee family. None of his family like him, in fact most ...
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• Crime Fiction Alphabet Letter H - week beginning 23 November

  
  MYSTERIES in PARADISE — Authority: 555
  The Alphabet in Crime Fiction - a Community Meme. Here are the rules Each week you have to write a blog post about crime fiction related to the letter of the week. Your post MUST be related to either the first letter of a books title, the first letter of an authors first name, or the first letter of the authors ...
  3 days ago

• My Palestinian crime novels, Ethiopian marathoners and Michael Jacksons glove on the BBC

  
  Matt Beynon Rees — Authority: 122
  I was on the BBC World Services The World Today chatting about my Palestinian crime novels today. Because of the nature of the show, I also was asked my opinions on Cairos muezzins, Ethiopian distance running and the value of Michael Jacksons rhinestone-encrusted white glove (you remember, the one he wore at the ...
  4 days ago

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