SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL (Free subscription) | yesterday
Many younger thriller readers may not be familiar with the work of Alistair MacLean , but many of us owe a huge debt to this tremendous Scottish writer for his wonderful novels and screenplays that hit the bestseller and box office charts in the 1970’s. Over the years I’ve interviewed many of today’s bestselling thriller writers such as Lee Child , Dennis Lehane , Robert Crais , Brett...
PETRONA (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
I decided to follow the lead of some others and find an old post to recycle this week. Already, a lot of good Cs have been taken(the perils of leaving a weekly task to Tuesday!) - Connelly, Christie, Cotterill, etc. So who is left? I decided to look through my old posts, betting with myself that the first C would be Coben or Crais. So - was I right? (Clue is in the title of this post.) Here is a post...
Central Crime Zone (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Bouchercon, that magical place. This year was so fabulous and as Judy and I kept on proclaiming WE ARE NOT IN CHARGE!!.... which really is a lovely feeling.... much more so when you see the number of attendees grow over the one that was your child by two hundred people even though it is a city much harder to get to for most and a suffering economy. And Indy was magic because of the organization of...
SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Some awards have already been given out at Bouchercon 2009 on Thursday night and they are as follows:- Derringer: Edward D. Hoch Memorial Award for short story lifetime achievement -- Clark Howard Crimespree Awards Cri mespree Awards: Jack Reacher Award -- William Kent Krueger Crimespree Contributor of the Year -- Jeremy Lynch Best Paperback Original -- Money Shot by Christa Faust Favorite Novel --...
Lesa's Book Critiques (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
The following awards were announced at Bouchercon in Indianapolis today. Derringer: Edward D. Hoch Memorial Award for short story lifetime achievement -- Clark Howard Crimespree Awards: Jack Reacher Award -- William Kent Krueger Crimespree: Crimespree Contributor of the Year -- Jeremy Lynch Crimespree: Best Paperback Original -- Christa Faust's Money Shot Crimespree: Favorite Novel -- Sean Chercover's...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
As we close out another Monday, here are some news briefs from the literary blogosphere... Barnes & Noble has launched a new mystery blog entitled Ransom Notes, featuring posts by Anne Perry , John Sandford , Louise Penny , and Robert Crais . International authors sign a petition supporting the release of Roman Polanski , including Bernard-Henri Levy , Salman Rushdie and Paul Auster . A petition...
JOE PRENTIS WEBSITE (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
You can always tell when a writer has reached best seller status by looking at the prominent way in which the author’s name is presented on the front cover of a novel. Dick Francis, Robert Crais, or Barbara Delinsky’s name will always appear in large letters that will almost crowd the rest of the graphics off the page. But what about the things we see inside the covers. While fonts, white...
Biting Edge (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Mario here: I spent this weekend staffing a booth at the Mountain & Plains Independent Booksellers Trade Show. Thanks much to the volunteers helping me from the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers and the Rocky Mountain chapter of the Mystery Writers of America. I look forward to the trade show as I get to reconnect with my friends in the pub biz. This year was a special treat as not one, but two of...
Drunken Housewife (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
So just before school started, we spent our traditional week at Camp Mather, San Francisco Rec & Parks' rustic cabins in the Sierras, a week with no internet for anyone, plenty of bike riding and swimming in the days, and, for me, lots of reading by the poolside. Here is how I spent much of my vacation, in the order read: "The Last Detective" by Robert Crais (2003): why if this came out...
English Reading Material (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
EnglishHtml, Pdf5MBArchive Contents:Elvis Cole/Joe Pike novels1987 - The Monkey's Raincoat.1989 - Stalking the Angel.1992 - Lullaby Town.1993 - Free Fall.1995 - Voodoo River.1996 - Sunset Express.1997 - Indigo Slam.1999 - L.A. Requiem.2003 - The Last Detective.2005 - The Forgotten Man.2007 - The Watchman.2008 - Chasing Darkness.2010 - The First Rule.Other novels2000 - Demolition Angel.2001 -
PETRONA (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
Don't mess with your readers, says Frank Wilson of Books, Inq. The only reason people care about Ian Rankin is because of Rebus, he writes, in response to a Herald article about the author, with the provocative title 'Killing characters is the real crime for fans'. In the Herald piece, Colin Waters reports Rankin's announcement of his new series and opines that "the omens are not good", on...
Rafe McGregor (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
Steven Hague lives in Norwich with his wife and a chocolate labrador. Rafe: Tell me a bit about your current series. Steven: My latest novel is called Blood Law , which is the second in the Zac Hunter series (the first being Justice For All ). Hunter’s not your all-American hero – he’s a good guy to have in the trenches, but a bad guy to have on your case. A maverick ex-cop who’ll...
Book Blog - Likely Stories, by Keir Graff - Booklist... (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
Crimespree Magazine listed the winners of their 2009 award of the same name on the Central Crime Zone blog: Favorite book of 2008 Trigger City, by Sean Chercover Best in Ongoing Series Chasing Darkness, by Robert Crais Favorite Original Paperback Money Shot, by Christa Faust This certainly seems to be a good year for Chercover. He won the Dilys award back in March.
Central Crime Zone (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
The votes are in the winners have been determined. Each Category will also have the four runners up, the winners in bold with an asterisk. Favorite book of 2008 *Trigger City – Sean Chercover * YELLOW MEDICINE - Anthony Neil Smith Envy The Night - Michael Koryta CHASING DARKNESS by ROBERT CRAIS Toros & Torsos by Craig McDonald Best in an ongoing series *CHASING DARKNESS by ROBERT CRAIS* TRIGGER...
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
I was extremely proud in 2005 when January Magazine’s crime-fiction department--of which I was (and still am) the editor--won the Gumshoe Award for Best Web Site. That was the fourth year in which the Gumshoes were dispensed by the Web site Mystery Ink and its editor, David J. Montgomery. Since 2002, George Pelecanos, Laura Lippman, Henning Mankell, Julia Spencer-Fleming, Robert Crais, and Sarah...
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