One of the great pleasures of blogging about crime fiction is the opportunity of getting in at the start of a new series and recommending the books to others. The folks at Hersilia Press were kind enough to contact me, and ask if I wanted to read and review I Will Have Vengeance by Maurizio [...]
Archive for January, 2012
I WILL HAVE VENGEANCE: MAURIZIO DE GIOVANNI trans ANNE MILANO APPEL
Posted: January 26, 2012 in Book Awards, Historical, Italy, review11
THE POTTER’S FIELD: ANDREA CAMILLERI trans STEPHEN SARTARELLI
Posted: January 22, 2012 in Italy, review, SicilyThe Potter’s Field is the thirteenth book in Andrea Camilleri’s Inspector Montalbano Mystery series that has been translated into English by the American poet Stephen Sartarelli. I have read all of them and have the sort of easy relationship with the books that resembles a long faithful marriage. I know I will be charmed by [...]
Sadly Reginald Hill died last week, and as a tribute I have reposted my review of Midnight Fugue, the last book in the wonderful Dalziel and Pascoe series.[original post 17 February 2010] I can’t remember how many of the Dalziel and Pascoe books I read, but I began to imagine Andy Dalziel in my mind’s [...]
I have been having a few days away from blogging because I have been tangling with some VAT accounts. But you can read my review of Ben Pastor’s Liar Moon at Euro Crime. Bitter Lemon Press do a very good job in bringing us excellent books from lesser known authors, and in this case also [...]
Icelight is the third book in Aly Monroe’s Peter Cotton series. It is 1947 and Cotton has returned from Washington DC to a bleak post war Britain where seemingly everything is rationed. The country is about to face the coldest winter freeze up for decades while struggling to recover from the war. Interestingly despite Britain [...]
The first impression made by a book is the cover, and I still can’t understand why more effort does not go into the selection of some of them. The plethora of recent publicity stickers with various allusions to Stieg Larsson, or The Killing, or Kurt Wallander, or Kenneth Branagh, or Sarah Lund’s jumper, show how [...]
I was inspired, perhaps encouraged is a better word to go back and read The Tears of Autumn because it was recently plagiarized by Q.R.Markham in Assassin of Secrets. Even though I had read it thirty years ago because of my failing memory I came to it eagerly as a new book. There advantages to [...]
UNTIL THY WRATH BE PAST: ASA LARSSON trans LAURIE THOMPSON
Posted: January 7, 2012 in review, Scandinavia, SwedenA young woman’s body surfaces in the River Torne near Kiruna in the far north of Sweden, and Police Inspector Anna-Maria Mella and prosecutor Rebecka Martinsson begin an investigation suspecting that local bully boys Tore and Hjalmar Krekula are somehow involved. This is one of those stories where the reader is given more information than [...]
Thanks to everyone who sent their entries in for the quiz, and to those people who tried but did not feel confident enough to send their answers please have a go next time. Four clever entrants managed to correctly answer between them nine of the ten questions, but no one got the exact link I [...]
Happy New Year welcome to 2012. There are only a few more hours to get your entries in for the Winter Festival Quirky Quiz as the deadline expires at midnight GMT.
