They live very nobly, they wear king’s clothes, have fine palfreys and horses. When squires go to the east, the burghers remain in their beds; when the squires go get themselves massacred, the burghers go on swimming parties. Renard le Contrefait, a fourteenth century clerk of Troyes from Life in a Medieval City by Joseph [...]
Archive for October, 2011
Who is your favourite male Swedish crime writer? The Result
Posted: October 28, 2011 in polls, Scandinavia, SwedenI was pleasantly surprised by the results of this poll. I would have liked more voters, but I think that the quality of the voters is more important than sheer quantity. Your favourite male SWEDISH* crime writer is Hakan Nesser, ahead of Johan Theorin and veteran Henning Mankell. Hakan Nesser’s formula of cleverly plotted police [...]
Agatha Christie Reading Challenge Carnival: October
Posted: October 26, 2011 in Agatha Christie, EnglandA reminder to view the Agatha Christie Reading Challenge Carnival hosted by Kerrie at Mysteries in Paradise. October’s carnival is a bumper package with 16 contributors and 31 blog posts.
Nu avslöjar Svenska Deckarakademin vilka som är 2011 års fem bästa svenska kriminalromaner respektive de fem bästa till svenska översatta kriminalromanerna. Vilka som erövrar priserna avslöjas vid Deckarakademins höstmöte i Eskilstuna lördagen den 19 november. Svenska: Karin Alfredsson: Pojken i hiss 54 (Damm) Arne Dahl: Viskleken (Bonniers) Lars Kepler: Eldvittnet (Bonniers) Hans Koppel: Kommer aldrig mer igen (Telegram bokförlag) Kristina Ohlsson: Änglavakter (Piratförlaget) Översatta: Belinda [...]
Reading the CWA Ellis Peters shortlist: R.N. Morris
Posted: October 25, 2011 in Book Awards, Historical, RussiaI have started reading the next book in my personal challenge to read the 2011 CWA Ellis Peters Award shortlist. This is The Cleansing Flames by R.N.Morris, and looking back to my review of A Razor Wrapped in Silk, his previous book in the St Petersburg mystery series featuring Porfiry Petrovich- the investigator from Crime [...]
ISLAND OF BONES: IMOGEN ROBERTSON
Posted: October 23, 2011 in Book Awards, England, Historical, review[Continued from Starting Island of Bones] After a brutal prologue with a public hanging at Tyburn in 1751, Island of Bones by Imogen Robertson moves forward to the strange summer of 1783 when the whole of Europe is covered by a fog and haze. At St Herberts’s Island on Derwent Water, Cumberland the owner [...]
Starting Island of Bones: Imogen Robertson
Posted: October 21, 2011 in Book Awards, England, HistoricalSometimes you get nudged into reading a book, and then finding that it is number 3 in a series and wish you had spotted the books earlier and started at the beginning. My good intentions to read the 2011 CWA Ellis Peters shortlist resulted in me picking up Island of Bones by Imogen Robertson. I [...]
My reading schedules, as well as my attempts at keeping up with reading several excellent blogs, have been thrown into turmoil by my recent illness and family commitments. But even though I have a mountain of Scandinavian and Italian contenders for the 2012 CWA International Dagger on a my shelves, and also piled up on [...]
Anna Maria Giusti returns home from a disappointing visit to the alien world of Palermo and finds her elderly neighbour Constanza Altavilla dead. Anna Maria had gone to collect a registered letter that Constanza had signed for and found her lying on the floor with blood near her head. Because of the blood Guido Brunetti, [...]
“The Crime Writers’ Association has announced the shortlist for this year’s prestigious Ellis Peters Historical Award. The six books on the shortlist (more details below) are: Rory Clements* Prince (John Murray) Sam Eastland The Red Coffin (Faber & Faber) Gordon Ferris The Hanging Shed (Corvus) Andrew Martin The Somme Stations (Faber & Faber) RN Morris The Cleansing Flames (Faber & Faber) Imogen Robertson Island of Bones (Headline) [...]
