About
Welcome to Crime Scraps Review which is a compendium of my reviews and thoughts mostly about crime fiction, but very occasionally about the biggest criminals of all, the politicians.
Most of my recent reading has been translated crime fiction but I do read historical crime novels, British, American and Australian crime fiction as well. Last year I discovered South African author Deon Meyer, and I am a great fan of the Australian author Peter Temple, so you will find a wide range of books covered here.
At Home -you will find my regular posts, reviews, quizzes, polls and opinions.
You can also see What I am reading now, and the covers of my Recent reads.
And also there are links to some of my most Popular posts since I started Crime Scraps in September 2006.
All the posts and comments that were at the original Crime Scraps are all available at Crime Scraps Review.
Please remember this is a work in progress so please check back frequently for new features.
Very sorry Jason. I will have to live to 110 to read all the books I have got on my TBR mountain.
Hi Norman,
A quick note to let you & your readers (of which I’m a devoted one) know that the special “Noir” issue of Zoom Street has just launched at http://www.zoomstreet.org. It features the art of John Nickle; excerpts from some noir novels; a hard-boiled literary quiz, and more.
Best,
Derek
How do you choose the books that you review? Thanks!
Rachel, I usually review books recommended by friends, or books shortlisted for awards. I have so many favourite Nordic, Italian and British authors that I always have books to read and review.
Sometimes publishers or authors send me books if I have been kind to them in the past.
I read some Sjowall and Wahloo Martin Beck books in the 1970s a long time before Swedish crime fiction became cool, and decided to blog about crime fiction back in 2006.
Hi Norman
I like your blog and I’m hoping my 1930s set noir crime thriller Noho might appeal to you.
I’m a first time novelist with an independent publisher and it’s incredibly hard to get exposure in the market, which is why I’m reaching out to you, to see if you can help me.
If you are willing, I can get my publisher to deliver you a free e-book of my novel Noho (a 1930s crime thriller set in London’s Soho).
All that I would ask in return is that if you enjoy it, you review it and promote it to your friends and followers.
Aside from being really grateful for your help and support, I’d also give you sneak previews of future work and help you in anyway I could.
You can read a bit about Noho on Amazon UK here and see what people are saying:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Noho-ebook/dp/B005HX9DG2/
My page on my publisher’s website is here:
http://wildwolfpublishing.com/JDavis.aspx
I really hope that you’ll take me up on my offer of a free copy of Noho, and that you’ll enjoy reading it.
If you’d like to get a copy, then please drop me your email and I’ll pass it to my publishers so that they can get an e-book out to you.
Kind Regards
James Davis
Hi James I am very sorry but I am way behind on my reading schedule, have a huge TBR pile and have promised authors and publishers I will read books by a certain date, therefore I cannot accept any more books for review.