From The Times November 21, 2009 The week’s crime fiction: November 21, 2009 Cold to the Touch by Frances Fyfield, Rain Gods by James Lee Burke,Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard by Marcel Berlins Seeking is olation, Sarah Fortune — Frances Fyfield’s attractively eccentric heroine lawyer turned very selective hooker (a small clientele of men she really likes) — rents a seaside cottage...
Book collecting, first editions: Firsts Magazine for book collectors - November 2009 : "James Lee Burke We profiled Burke in our July 1991 issue, when it was clear that his Dave Robicheaux detective novels were among the best the genre had to offer. In course of the 18 years since, Burke has more than fulfilled his promise." The article on Burke is by Robert Skinner, and it's a really good...
It's been some time since my last McConfidential, so I'm very pleased to be back with one of my favourite hardboiled detective story authors, Sean Chercover . The natural successor to Chandler, Parker, and Crais, in my humble opinion... Rafe: Tell me a bit about your latest novel or current series. Sean: Trigger City is the second book about Chicago investigative reporter-turned PI Ray Dudgeon, who...
So, I had an email from Orange earlier in the week to say they would announce how to get hold of an iPhone, and their price plans next week. That said the market is awash with new smartphones at the moment - just in time for Christmas perhaps? There are to name but a few the Motorola Dext, Blackberry Storm 2, Palm Pre, and of course the iPhone. Not forgetting the arriving soon Motorola Droid, of which...
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This year's Montana Festival of the Book, which begins Thursday, has an incredible lineup scheduled. The October 23 reading with humorist David Sedaris is sold out, but there's so much else going on that nobody who missed out on tickets for that event should go home with an empty brain. On Thursday, October 22, four renowned crime novelists will participate in the panel discussion The Last Good Kiss:...
'On November the 21st, the day of her forty-seventh birthday, and three weeks and two days before she was murdered, RhodaGradwyn went to Harley street to keep a first appointment with her plastci surgeon, and there in a consulting room designed, so it appeared, to inspire confidence and allay apprehension, made the decision which would lead inexorably to her death.' The opening line of PD James' latest...
MOST readers will hardly notice when a favourite crime writer changes publisher - after all, who cares who publishes Ruth Rendell or James Lee Burke as long as we have the books?
MOST readers will hardly notice when a favourite crime writer changes publisher - after all, who cares who publishes Ruth Rendell or James Lee Burke as long as we have the books?
I've been doing lost of reading lately... The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke The Dave Robicheaux series by James Lee Burke is one of my favorites, but I came late to it and have never read the early novels. This is the first book of the series, and it starts to fill in the back story for me in this perennial favorite storyline. Robicheaux is a police lieutenant in New Orleans who is a recovering alcoholic...
Here's some of our favorite bookstores and their best sellers for August Aunt Agatha's: THE AMATEURS, Marcus Sakey (signing) THE SILENT HOUR, Michael Koryta (signing) HEAVEN'S KEEP, WIlliam Kent Krueger AWAKENING, S.J. Bolton THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, Steig Larson (PB) Mysterious Bookshop in New York: Hardcover: 1. The Defector - Daniel Silva 2. Rules of Vengeance - Christopher Reich 3. Rain...
My friend Didi tipped me off to a movie I hadn't l known about, that never had a US theatrical release but is available on DVD. It's a French/US adaptation of James Lee Burke's brilliant novel In the Electric Mist...
Back in 1971 I picked up a copy of a Popular Library paperback titled Lay Down My Sword and Shield by James Lee Burke. I had no idea who Burke was, but the book was set in Texas, so I thought I'd give it a go. I was amazed at how good it was and how much I liked it. I thought Burke was going to be a huge success. I went out and found a copy of Half of Paradise in paperback and read that one. (It will...
I was reading a detective novel today by James Lee Burke. His detective lives in New Iberia, Louisiana. The writer seems to have a little trouble with female characters though -- the ones in his book are two-dimensional figures who always want sex. I think life does not imitate art in this case. Anyway, I'm deep into this mystery when I get a mysterious e-mail of my own. My father was a pathologist...
Brian McGilloway was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, where he is now the Head of English at St Columb’s College. Rafe: Tell me a bit about your current series. Brian: My latest book is Bleed A River Deep , the third in the Benedict Devlin series. The books are set on the Irish border. This one deals with a newly opened gold mine in County Donegal and its links to an American senator. People...
• Earlier this week, National Public Radio brought forth a triple-play of interviews with modern crime writers, its reporters talking to James Lee Burke, Cara Black, and Mark Billingham. Today NPR adds a fourth name to its roster of notables, offering up a “Crime in the City” encounter with British thriller novelist Philip Kerr. During the segment, Kerr leads reporter Eric Westervelt...
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