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• Crime Fiction Alphabet: G is for A Good Hanging

  
  BooksPlease — Authority: 469
  My choice   for the letter G in Kerrie’s Crime Fiction Alphabet meme is   A Good Hanging by Ian Rankin. I first wrote about this book when I read it in April 2008. It was one of the first books by Rankin that I had read, although I was familiar with Rebus from the TV series. A Good Hanging  is a ...
  19 hours ago

• Graphic Novel Round-up: Then & Now

  
  pornokitsch — Authority: 124
  Local (Wood / Kelly): The multi-award winning collection of Local is a true oddity, as it is genuinely good as a comic, without really having much to recommend it as a collection. Hows that for bizarre praise?  Local is a collection of interrelated stories, all following one young womans daily adventures as ...
  4 days ago

• Crime Fiction Alphabet: The Falls by Ian Rankin

  
  BooksPlease — Authority: 469
  My contribution this week for Kerrie’s Crime Fiction Alphabet meme is F is for The Falls . I first  wrote about The Falls by Ian Rankin last March. Since then I have watched the TV version which was very different. I wonder why I bother to watch dramatised versions after I’ve read a book because they ...
  5 days ago

• Review: THE COMPLAINTS, Ian Rankin

  
  MYSTERIES in PARADISE — Authority: 520
  Orion Books, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7528-8952-8, 381 pages. Malcolm Fox, Foxy, works in the Dark Side of the Complaints and Conduct section of Edinburghs Lothian and Borders Police HQ. Their job is to keep the cops honest - investigate grievances about cops, hints of corruption, smells of backhanders. Foxy and his ...
  1 week ago

• Crime Fiction Alphabet: Featuring the Letter ‘E’

  
  BooksPlease — Authority: 469
  Instead of concentrating on one book or one author I’ve picked a mixture of books and authors for this week’s featured letter E in Kerrie’s Crime Fiction Alphabet Community Meme . First up is Martin Edwards , who is one of my favourite authors and bloggers  (click on the links to go to his website and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ian Rankin signing in Edinburgh

  
  The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log — Authority: 623
  I’m delighted to say that international best-selling author Ian Rankin will be in the Edinburgh Forbidden Planet International on Thursday the 10th of December from 5 to 7pm to sign copies of his comics debut with John Constantine, Dark Entries . You will need a ticket, but these are available free from the store ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is this a dagger that I see before me . . .

  
  Kate Walker — Authority: 119
  Ok so this is coming in place of the other post I was going to write. Ill come back to that one because it still is one I want to use - and celebrate good news (no no that good news, not yet - but some very nice news just the same) And first I thought Id write the good news and then add this and then I thought ...
  2 weeks ago

• Brief Encounter

  
  The Rap Sheet — Authority: 570
  One of my favorite memories from this year’s Crime Writers’ Association Dagger Awards presentation (now sponsored by Specsavers, Cactus TV, and ITV3) was catching up with best-selling Scottish author Ian Rankin prior to the festivities. While I was waiting in the Grosvenor House’s Red Bar, Rankin arrived and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Taggart and Rebus go head-to-head for charity spoof

  
  Deadline Press & Picture Agency — Authority: 559
  By Rory Reynolds FICTIONAL crime heavyweights from top Scots dramas Rebus and Taggart are to go head-to-head for a charity spoof special. Taggart’s DCI Matt Burke – played by Alex Norton, 59, – and his team will clash with DI John Rebus when they investigate a murder in a one-off BBC production for ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ian Rankins Edinburgh

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  The crime writer raises a glass to the city that came out top yet again in the Observer Travel Awards How is it possible for a city to be both blazingly public and intensely private at the self-same time? Somehow Edinburgh manages the feat, even in August with festivals all go and the population almost double the ...
  3 weeks ago

• IFOA

  
  Dani Couture — Authority: 109
  Allo, allo! I’ll be hopping on the Yonge subway line several times in October to read and sit on a panel at the International Festival of Authors (IFOA) in Toronto. Oh, won’t you pull out your Metropass and join us? Peep Night — IFOA Friday, October 23, 200910:00pmBrigantine Room235 Queens Quay WestThe internet ...
  3 weeks ago

• Vertigo Crime Commercial Airs on BBC America

  
  PopCultureShock :: Comics : Games : Movies : Lifestyle — Authority: 493
  Over at the Vertigo blog, editor Pamela Mullin shares a cool little item: Vertigo blog : “If you happened to be watching BBC America last night, chances are pretty good that you caught the debut of our first-ever TV commercial for VERTIGO CRIME…” Personally I think this is the first-ever comic book commercial ...
  3 weeks ago

• Crime Fiction Alphabet: C is for The Complaints

  
  BooksPlease — Authority: 469
  This week the Crime Fiction Alphabet  is featuring the letter C, which for me is Ian Rankin’s latest book The Complaints . The ‘Complaints’ are the cops who investigate other cops. Set in Edinburgh in February 2009, Inspector Malcolm Fox works in the the PSU or Professional Standards Unit, part of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• What’s Hot in the Media 20th October 2009

  
  Boomerang Blog — Authority: 131
  If anyone’s been wondering what local author Mandy Sayer has been up to, wonder no longer. She’s been busy editing The Australian Long Story , which is now available in bookshops. You can read about the story of a woman who walked across a desert in Paula Constant’s Sahara , and Paullina Simons fans will ...
  4 weeks ago

• William Saunderson-Meyer : a mix of kilted crime

  
  Crime Beat — Authority: 421
  The streets of Glasgow and Edinburgh are getting meaner by the day if you take the word of Tony Black in Gutted ( Preface) and Craig Russell in Lennox( Quercus). William Saunderson-Meyer, writing in The Weekender, was impressed by both of these gritty thrillers and also by All the Colours of the Town( ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Hanging Garden by Ian Rankin (St Martins Press 1998)

  
  Inveresk Street Ingrate — Authority: 126
  Rebus knew his own criteria came cheaply: his flat, books, music and clapped-out car. And he realised that he had reduced his life to a mere shell in recognition that he had completely failed at the important things: love, relationships, family life. Hed been accused of being in thrall to his career, but that had ...
  5 weeks ago

• The Complaints – Ian Rankin

  
  BookOffers.com.au — Authority: 147
  The Complaints is the great new thriller from Rebus author Ian Rankin. Nobody likes The Complaints – they’re the cops who investigate other cops. Malcolm Fox works for The Complaints. He’s just had a result and should be feeling good about himself. But he’s middle-aged, sour and unwell. He also has a father ...
  6 weeks ago

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