The church and its influence play central roles in this week’s column, be it a superspy who works for the Vatican, or part of the clergy itself. All are all quick reads. First up is a book from an author who can’t hide behind his pseudonym. THE INQUISITOR: THE DEVIL IN KANSAS by Simon Quinn [...]
: skip to main skip to sidebar Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Wednesday , June 30, 2010 The Darkest Room cover opinions Continuing my series of cover opinions about the 2010 International Dagger shortlist , this time it's the turn of The Darkest Room by Johan . Theorin The Darkest Room is currently available in one US edition and two UK . editions So what are you thoughts on the US LHS and UK RHSx2 covers Which would entice you to pick the book up if you were not familiar with Johan Theorin My : thoughts I don't particularly like the US cover as it doesn't resemble the setting of the book though it does perhaps convey the cold weather . I do like the fact that the translator's name , Marlaine Delargy , is on the front . cover I like the
: : skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival Wednesday , 30 June 2010 Guest Blogger : Margot Kinberg One of the good friends that I have made through my blogging network is American author Margot Kinberg I have also reviewed both Margot's books on this blog PUBLISH OR PERISH B VERY FLAT Margot's blog Confessions of a Mystery Novelist . was the featured blog in a recent Agatha Christie Reading Challenge Blog Carnival It is very clear to me that not only does Margot have an incredible knowledge of
: skip to main skip to sidebar Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Tuesday , June 29, 2010 The Girl Who Played With Fire US opening The UK is being pipped to the post by the US in the race to release the film of The Girl Who Played With Fire The UK release date is set for 27th August but many places in the US will be showing it from the 9th July . You can see the locations on the official website Here are the respective posters , any thoughts US Poster UK Poster and here's the UK official website Posted by Karen Euro Crime at 7:29 PM Labels : Films Millenium film The Girl Who Played with Fire 2 comments : Margot Kinberg said . Karen Both posters are dramatic , but I like the U.K . poster better . Hard to say exactly why and I'm a linguist but
: skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival Tuesday , 29 June 2010 The Murder at the Vicarage wonderful cover Here is a cover I had not been aware of isn't it wonderful I came across it on A Day without Rain which is a journal from Greenway . House It is a cover by Tom Adams about whom Wikipedia told me Tom Adams born 1926 is an American illustrator most famous for his Agatha Christie paperback cover . designs Check Tom Adams' website at Tom Adams Uncovered browse the gallery There's a great cover: , skip to main skip to sidebar Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Monday , June 28, 2010 The Sea , The Sea I noticed that Harlan Coben's latest paperback has the sea on the front and we've reviewed a couple of titles recently , which also have the sea on the cover : Diane Janes's The Pull of the Moon and Louise Welsh's Naming the Bones I'm not sure how relevant the covers are to the contents of the first three but the fourth title , Genesis by Bernard Beckett , has a very appropriate . cover Genesis is a YA Adult cross-over title more science-fiction than crime though it does contain a crime which came out last year and I reviewed it on my teenage blog Posted by Karen Euro Crime at 4:59 PM Labels : cover similarities 0 comments : Post a: : skip to main skip to sidebar Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Monday , June 28, 2010 OT : Roses Cat Pots About a year ago I reported on my successful trip to David Austin Roses More by luck than judgement the roses we bought are doing ok and I took a picture earlier of one of : them And if you live in the UK you may have seen this cute cat plant holder at garden centres . My mum took pity on me last week and bought me one . Note how I've carefully colour matched the bought plant to the bought pot oh what a gardener I am . Posted by Karen Euro Crime at 4:14 PM Labels : cats David Austin Roses 0 comments : Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom Which title do you want to win the International dagger
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Read the AGENTS OF TREACHERY anthology. Mighty editor Otto Penzler writes that it’s the first such collection of original spy fiction in the history of ever. He should know. While not every story among the 14 scores, it’s tough to ignore a lineup of all-new tales that [...]
: skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival Monday , 28 June 2010 So Nearly There Crime Fiction 4.9s This post follows up on a couple of recent ones about top crime fiction reads My databases ofr the last 5 years contains just over 660 . books I have given about 10 of those a rating a 5. But there are some that have missed out by the smallest of margins they are the nearly there's that I gave 4.9 . to So here is that : list Australian Authors Kerry Greenwood DEATH BY WATER 2005 P D Martin THE: : skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival Sunday , 27 June 2010 Sunday Salon : Most of us Count Audio Books It's official A poll here on MYSTERIES in PARADISE gives your permission to count audio books in your reading so long as they are not . abridged I have run a poll for the last week with the following results Commenters made the following points research shows that we use similar cognitive processes to make meaning from stories that are read to us as stories we read . ourselves For me ,: skip to main skip to sidebar Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Saturday , June 26, 2010 Turquoise is the Colour A few familiar and recently mentioned titles with blue-y covers plus a couple of upcoming titles at the : top Posted by Karen Euro Crime at 8:39 PM Labels : cover similarities 0 comments : Post a Comment Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom Which title do you want to win the International dagger 2010 Which title do you think will win the International Dagger 2010 About Me View my complete profile My Other Blog Teenage Fiction for All Ages which I use to put my thoughts about the teenage fiction I've been reading paranormal and science-fiction so far and other relevant teenage fiction . news What I'm Reading Audio :: : skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival Saturday , 26 June 2010 Top reads 2005-2010 crime fiction : the rest of the world Yesterday I posted Top reads 2005 2010, British and Australian crime fiction explaining that these titles had been rated as 5s in my database 0f over 660 titles over that . period So here are the rest of the . world What staggered me when I looked at the list was the number of translated books nearly half this list I have marked them with The other interesting thing for me to: skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival Saturday , 26 June 2010 Would you ever read listen to an abridged book When I was a child Reader's Digest books often came into our . house I read them without realising that bits had been edited out . I read them for the story and was might pleased that they were such quick . reads Eventually , when I realised the real books were often much longer , I wondered what had been edited out . I basically read for the story , don't I Or do I As an adult though I
Pulp science fiction paperbacks were a base staple of my young life. But after growing up and becoming a design nerd, those paperbacks are a little… embarrassing. For every well-designed book cover (like David Pelham’s cover of Clockwork Orange), there’s three terrible illustrations of floating orange skycars and lizard-faced aliens. They can be so bad [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Friday , June 25, 2010 Euro Crime quoted on Hunt for the Bear I received a review copy of the paperback release of Derek Haas's Hunt for the Bear and on the back cover there is a quote from EUROCRIME The quote is taken from Michelle Peckham's review of the trade paperback edition I have been cataloguing some of Euro Crime's citations on the blog Posted by Karen Euro Crime at 6:44 PM Labels : cited Derek Haas Hunt for the Bear 2 comments : Maxine said . How fantastic Isn't it great to see a Euro Crime review quoted in a book well done Karen and Michelle . 7:22 PM Margot Kinberg said . Wonderful news , Karen Good on you Thanks for sharing 9:06 PM Post a Comment Older Post Home: skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival Friday , 25 June 2010 Top reads 2005 2010, British and Australian crime fiction I began my books read database in 2005 and it now contains 662 records , all crime . fiction Of the 70 books that have scored a rating of 5, 9 are Australian Katherine Howell FRANTIC 2007 Gabrielle Lord DIRTY WEEKEND 2005 Barry Maitland NO TRACE 2004 P.D . nbsp Martin FAN MAIL 2008 Michael Robotham THE NIGHT FERRY 2007 Michael Robotham SHATTER 2008 Michael Robotham BLEED FOR ME: : skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival Thursday , 24 June 2010 Forgotten author : Joan Fleming This week's contribution to Pattinase's Friday's Forgotten Books I must have liked Joan Fleming's book ALAS , POOR FATHER Collins Crime Club 1973 when I read it in 1981. I followed it up two weeks later with another : nbsp YOU WON'T LET ME FINISH also published in 1973 A Wikipedia article says this about Joan : Fleming Joan Fleming 1908-1980 was a British writer of crime and thriller novels . She was
: : , skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival Thursday , 24 June 2010 Review : THE WHITE GALLOWS , Rob Kitchin IndePenPress 2010 ISBN 978-1-907499-37-1 322 pages Many thanks to the author who kindly supplied a copy for . review One of the characteristics of working in the 21st century appears to be that , despite all the technology that is supposed to help us work smarter , workloads are increasing . If you are in law enforcement , it doesn't help if the crime rate appears to be spiralling out of: skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival Thursday , 24 June 2010 Agatha Christie Blog Carnival 6 The June 2010 edition of the Agatha Christie Blog Carnival is now . available It is a great edition , 11 contributors , 19 items , 13 titles . reviewed Find out what you can do during Agatha Christie week in September , both in Torquay and . online Check out who the featured blogger is this month . Posted by Kerrie at 6:05:00 AM Labels : Agatha Christie Challenge 0 comments : Post a Comment Newer Post: skip to main skip to sidebar Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Wednesday , June 23, 2010 Thirteen Hours Cover Opinions As with Hypothermia US based readers of the 2010 International Dagger Shortlist will have to wait until September 7th for the US edition of Thirteen Hours by Deon . Meyer Read the Euro Crime review by Maxine of Thirteen Hours So what are you thoughts on the US LHS and UK RHS covers Which would entice you to pick the book up if you were not familiar with Deon Meyer Posted by Karen Euro Crime at 9:00 AM Labels : cover opinions Deon Meyer Thirteen Hours 9 comments : Donna said . I prefer the UK one although that looks as though it could be any city but neither of them would really attract me to the book . The US one makes it: skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival Wednesday , 23 June 2010 Peter Temple wins Miles Franklin award for TRUTH Peter Temple’s crime fiction book , Truth has made history for being the first work of genre fiction to win Australia's prestigious Miles Franklin award which was established in 1957. Earlier this year I wrote Peter Temple is the master of a clipped and terse literary style , where dialogue feels like real conversation . There are times when he uses a word rather than a sentence , in
Congratulations to DeSeRT RoSe who was the lucky winner of the e-copy of BLOODY HAM that I announced last week.: skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival Tuesday , 22 June 2010 How Aussie are you Reaction to Reading had this meme running on Saturday last week 101 things that may indicate you are an Aussie I've marked my 80 or so accomplishments in . bold Heard a kookaburra in . person we have them around here often Slept under the . stars done quite a bit of camping in my time Seen a koala . even held one Visited Melbourne . an annual pilgrimage Watched a summer thunderstorm Worn a pair of thongs Been to: skip to main skip to sidebar Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Monday , June 21, 2010 Queenan's Crime Scenes There are a couple of podcasts still available on the BBC World Service website from when American writer Joe Queenan went to first Washington DC and then to Stockholm to look at crime fiction set there and speak to local residents , including crime authors . In the Stockholm edition he speaks to Jens Lapidus , Camilla Lackberg and Hakan Nesser as well as two female police officers , and if you haven't already come across the proper way to pronounce Larsson it's more like . Larshon The podcast is only 23 minutes long and well worth a listen . Download it from here Posted by Karen Euro Crime at 7:23 PM Labels : Joe Queenan podcasts: : skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival Monday , 21 June 2010 Global Reading Challenge : Update 10 I am restricting my participation in the 2010 Global Reading Challenge to crime fiction titles , but participants can use books of any genre of their . choosing Join the challenge here create your own visited country map The Extremist Level Read three novels from each of these continents in : 2010 Africa Asia Australasia Europe North America incl Central America South America Add two novels which: : skip to main skip to sidebar Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Sunday , June 20, 2010 OT : Night of the Living Trekkies This one's in the horror genre but it sounds fun to a Trek fan like myself Night of the Living Trekkies by Kevin Anderson and Sam Stall will be published on 14 July in the . UK Synopsis : Our story follows a rag-tag group of Trekkies en route to an annual Star Trek convention . Arriving with homemade uniforms , glued-on prosthetics , and plastic phasers , these fanboys know more than any rational adult should know about Kirk , Spock , Next Generation , particle physics , black holes , and Ricardo Montalban . But when aliens release a zombie plague upon the Earth , all of this Starfleet training suddenly becomes a lot
: : : , skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival Sunday , 20 June 2010 Weekly Geeks : 2010-22 : Hoarding Behavior , or I Have a Problem This week's Weekly Geeks task suggests we talk about your habits , tendencies or obsessions when it comes to hoarding . behavior Post a photo or two or three of your books to-be-read Share your buying or book accumulating habits how bad of a problem do YOU have Do you keep all the books you've read , or do you give them away or sell them Can you walk past a bookstore: : skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival Sunday , 20 June 2010 Sunday Salon : What is Reading Do you count Listening Browsing some blogs this week I came across the suggestion that listening to books is not . reading It was obviously a question that the followers of that blog were very intersted in there were 33 comments so I decided to see what the good folk who visit MYSTERIES in PARADISE . think First of all , there are some interesting definitions of : reading the cognitive process of: : , skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival Saturday , 19 June 2010 REVIEW : THURSDAY NIGHT WIDOWS , Claudio Pineiro Published in English by Bitter Lemon Press London , 2009 First published in Spanish as Las viudas de los jueves 2005 Winner of the Clarin Award Argentina 2005 English translation by Miranda France ISBN 978-1-904738-41-1 274 pages Every Thursday night Teresa Scaglia's husband and three friends got together at the Scaglia's house to have dinner , play cards , and drink . For a long: skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival Saturday , 19 June 2010 CWA International Dagger Shortlist 2010 I'm not going to get all of the CWA shortlist read However I have read three of . them Which do you think I should try next This year there are six books on the shortlist . They : are Badfellas by Tonino Benacquista translated by Emily Read Bitter Lemon Press August Heat by Andrea Camilleri translated by Stephen Sartarelli Picador HYPOTHERMIA by Arnaldur Indriðason translated by Victoria Cribb: skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival Friday , 18 June 2010 Celebrating 444 reviews on Library Thing Library Thing tells me I have stored 444 reviews there , so this post is a form of a . celebration I'm staggered I have stored so many actually , but I have been doing it since April 2007. It is using a widget they have that shows the covers from a selection of the . books I've cut down on the number of covers being shown simultaneously to speed it up , so I hope you don't have to wait too . long: skip to main skip to sidebar Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Friday , June 18, 2010 Gone to the Dogs As a change from cat-related mysteries , here are a couple of new books which feature dogs in prominent roles not talking ones : though No Going Back by Lyndon Stacey , published March 2010 The first in an exciting new mystery series featuring ex-police dog handler Charlie Whelan When two young sisters run away on Dartmoor , Charlie Whelan and his German shepherd , Taz , are called into action , and a desperate search quickly turns up one of the girls . However , rather than showing relief at being rescued , she seems terrified . Darkness halts their hunt for her elder sister , and Charlie returns home with one distressing question on his: skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival Friday , 18 June 2010 Scandinavian Reading Challenge 2010 Update 4 This challenge being run by The Black Sheep Dances The challenge is to read 6 books set in Scandinavia from March 1 to the end of 2010. My list will all be crime . fiction Here is what I have read so . far THE WATER'S EDGE , Karin Fossum Norway 13 March THE MAN FROM BEIJING , Henning Mankell Sweden 10 April THE SNOWMAN , nbsp Jo Nesbo Norway May 21 THE FIFTH WOMAN , Henning Mankell Sweden
On the seventh day, God rested. And sometime after that, like thousands of years, he gave you CLASSIC BIBLE STORIES. In this hardcover reprint, Titan Books collects two complete stories from EAGLE, a British comics magazine of yesteryear: “Jesus: The Road of Courage” and “Mark: The Youngest Disciple.” Each was serialized at a page per [...]
: : , skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival Thursday , 17 June 2010 Forgotten Book : THE SECRET OF HANGING ROCK , Joan Lindsay This week's contribution to Pattinase's Friday's Forgotten Books We all know the title PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK mainly because of the Peter Weir film made of it in 1975. PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK tells the story of a school picnic that took place at the Hanging Rock on Valentine's Day 1900. Three girls and their teacher disappeared without trace . See more details about the: : , skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival Thursday , 17 June 2010 Review : HYPOTHERMIA , Arnaldur Indridason Harvill Secker 2009 Translated from Icelandic by Victoria Cribb ISBN 978-1-846-55262-5 314 pages When a woman hangs herself in her lakeside retreat , the friend who finds the body is convinced that while she was depressed she was not suicidal . Erlendur on the other hand wants to understand why she did . it It appears that Maria has never recovered from the death of her mother a few: skip to main skip to sidebar Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Thursday , June 17, 2010 Trailer Bad Boy Bad Boy the latest in the Inspector Banks series by Peter Robinson will be out in the UK on 5 August and a couple of weeks later in the . US Synopsis : When Juliet Doyle discovers a gun in her daughter’s bedroom , she turns to old friend DCI Alan Banks for advice . But Banks is taking a much-needed holiday , and it's left to DI Annie Cabbot to deal with the removal of the firearm . No one can foresee the operation's disastrous consequences , or that the Doyles will not be the only family . affected Banks's daughter Tracy has fallen for the wrong boy . Her flatmate’s boyfriend is good-looking , ambitious , and surrounded by an: skip to main skip to sidebar Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Wednesday , June 16, 2010 Hypothermia Cover Opinions US based fans of Arnaldur Indridason's Erlendur series will be pleased to know that Hypothermia will be out there on 14 September also in Kindle edition Hypothermia is on the short-list for the 2010 CWA International . Dagger Read the Euro Crime review by Maxine of Hypothermia So what are you thoughts on the UK LHS and US RHS covers Would either entice you to pick the book up if you were not familiar with Indridason Incidentally at the time of writing , the blurb on amazon.com is actually for The Draining Lake Posted by Karen Euro Crime at 11:42 AM Labels : Arnaldur Indridason cover opinions Hypothermia 6 comments :: skip to main skip to sidebar Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Tuesday , June 15, 2010 The Girl Who Played With Fire UK Trailer The official UK trailer for The Girl Who Played With Fire has been released . I'm so looking forward to seeing this when it's released on 27 : August Posted by Karen Euro Crime at 8:33 PM Labels : Films Millenium film The Girl Who Played with Fire 0 comments : Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom Which title do you want to win the International dagger 2010 Which title do you think will win the International Dagger 2010 About Me View my complete profile My Other Blog Teenage Fiction for All Ages which I use to put my thoughts about the teenage fiction I've been reading: skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival Tuesday , 15 June 2010 Win a Kindle e-book Yesterday I reviewed BLOODY HAM by Brian Kavanagh The author has very kindly made available a mobi copy of the book as a giveaway for . me So if you have a Kindle or are running Kindle for PC on your computer or iPad and would be interested in a copy of this book , just leave a comment on this post and I will choose someone from amongst the commenters . Leave your comment by 21 June . If I can't easily find your: skip to main skip to sidebar Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Monday , June 14, 2010 Book Video Awards 2010 I've managed to get my hands on the latest edition of The Bookseller and there's an article in it which I can't find online so I shall type parts of it : in Novels by crime writers including James Ellroy and Jo Nesbo are to be turned into book trailers as part of the third annual Book Video . Awards The winning students are to make four 90-minute seconds films based on Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy , Hypothermia by Arnaldur Indridason , Blood Harvest by S J Bolton and Jo Nesbo's The Snowman Each have received 5000 to make their films which will then be used to promote the titles on author and fan sites including YouTube and .: skip to main skip to sidebar Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Monday , June 14, 2010 Lightbulbs cover theme 2 I posted these lightbulb covers last year and I've recently found two more that : qualify : Additions Posted by Karen Euro Crime at 1:46 PM Labels : cover similarities 2 comments : Margot Kinberg said . Karen I am always amazed by the way you're able to find so many covers that match your theme . I wish I were more visual like that , so that I could suggest a cover . 1:53 PM Karen Euro Crime said . I'm working on a couple more 1:56 PM Post a Comment Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom Which title do you want to win the International dagger 2010 Which title do you think will win the International Dagger 2010 About Me: : , skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival Monday , 14 June 2010 Review : BLOODY HAM , Brian Kavanagh published by Bewrite Books 2007 paperback ISBN : 978-1-905202-53-9 ebook ISBN : 978-1-905202-54-6 Details here I read this on my Kindle courtesy of a digital copy kindly given to me by the . author : Blurb Lights Camera Action Murder A rollicking puzzle and a turmoil of personal relationships , some happy , some doomed , some downright evil . The third adventure for Belinda and Hazel continuing
: skip to main skip to sidebar MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival Monday , 14 June 2010 Giving old books a purpose in life I'm not sure I would ever do this with a book , but it may be a project that would appeal to . you Check the others on the site When I was a child , I was always fascinated by stories where things were secreted into hollowed out books like this : one And how about this for having your books close to hand Not very comfortable looking though . Posted by Kerrie at 9:30:00 AM Labels : books 8 comments :: : , , , , , skip to main skip to sidebar Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Sunday , June 13, 2010 New Reviews : Campbell , Doherty , Hughes , James , Jungstedt , Rayne Here are this week's : reviews Terry Halligan reviews the paperback edition of Karen Campbell's After the Fire which is a strong contender for his top 5 of 2010 Craig Sisterson goes to Ancient Egypt with Paul Doherty's The Anubis Slayings Michelle Peckham enjoyed the new Ed Loy , PI from Declan Hughes : City of Lost Girls Maxine Clarke is disappointed with the mind of a killer scenes in Peter James's Dead Like You but enjoys The Killer's Art by Mari Jungstedt , tr . Tiina Nunnally much more and Amanda Gillies has high praise for Sarah Rayne's new chiller set in the Fens
My exposure to the late Peter O’Donnell’s female secret agent is limited to two movie adaptations: 1966′s bad MODESTY BLAISE and 2004′s even worse MY NAME IS MODESTY, produced by Quentin Tarantino. But she started in the British funny papers, where she had far greater success, running from 1963 to 2002. MODESTY BLAISE: DEATH IN [...]: skip to main skip to sidebar Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Thursday , June 10, 2010 Trailer Lockdown Sean Black's debut thriller , Lockdown will be out in paperback on 24 : June New York . It may be Christmas in New York , but for ex-soldier turned elite bodyguard Ryan Lock , it's business as usual : his mission is to protect one of America's most ruthless businessmen . A Bloody Shoot-Out . Suddenly gunshots ring out . People run for cover . Innocent people are mown down . Amid the chaos , Lock's hunt for the killers turns into an explosive game of cat and mouse . A Deadly Secret . Lock's search for the truth takes him from the rooftops of a New York skyscraper to a heavily fortified warehouse on the Hudson where he confronts one of: skip to main skip to sidebar Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Wednesday , June 09, 2010 What are the odds Thanks to Roger Cornwell sending this via the Dagger judges group . Apparently you can bet on which title will win the Golden Dagger for Non Fiction and the International Dagger The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest Stieg Larsson 9 4 Hypothermia Arnadur Indridason 10 3 Thirteen Hours Deon Meyer 4 1 August Heat Andrea Camilleri 9 2 Badfellas Tonino Benacquista 9 2 The Darkest Room Johan Theorin 9 2 Quick Euro Crime Poll : Update 1 Want to win is currently a close tussle between Hypothermia and Hornets' Nest 2 Think will win is , well , Hornets' is streaking . away Plenty of time left to cast your votes in the polls on the top-right of: skip to main skip to sidebar Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Wednesday , June 09, 2010 The Vanishing of Katharina Linden cover opinions This comparison's slightly different to usual . The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant is being published in the US on 10 August in Hardback . The UK edition came out last year in . paperback For me , the title alone caught my attention on the UK edition however the cat would get my attention on the US cover US UK What's interesting is that the UK edition is marketed at teenagers and was shortlisted for the 2009 Booktrust Teenage Prize the eventual winner was the equally cross-over The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman and is also shortlisted along with The Graveyard Book for the 2010 CILIP: skip to main skip to sidebar Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Tuesday , June 08, 2010 Thorne teaser trailer I've been seeing this trailer for Thorne on SkyOne and have found it at the Little , Brown website David Morrissey is playing DI Tom Thorne from Mark Billingham's series . The first two books , Sleepyhead and Scaredy Cat are being televised and are due to be shown in August . Posted by Karen Euro Crime at 7:40 PM Labels : Mark Billingham Thorne tv shows 0 comments : Post a Comment Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom Which title do you want to win the International dagger 2010 Which title do you think will win the International Dagger 2010 About Me View my complete profile My Other Blog Teenage Fiction for All Ages: : , , , , , skip to main skip to sidebar Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Sunday , June 06, 2010 New Reviews : Connolly , Gray , Kelly , Rayne , Robertson , Timlin Here are this week's : reviews Pat Austin reviews the latest Charlie Parker from John Connolly , The Whisperers Paul Blackburn reviews the seventh of Alex Gray's Glasgow set series Five Ways to Kill a Man Maxine Clarke reviews the debut novel by Erin Kelly The Poison Tree which has been likened to Barbara Vine's A Fatal Inversion Michelle Peckham reviews the paperback edition of Sarah Rayne's Ghost Song Terry Halligan reviews the second of Imogen Robertson's 18th Century series , Anatomy of Murder and Geoff Jones reviews Mark Timlin's Guns of Brixton Previous reviews can be: skip to main skip to sidebar Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Sunday , June 06, 2010 April 2010 Competition Winners Here are the winners of April's . competitions The winner of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy on audio book : is Geoff Dagger The winners of Daisychain by G J Moffat : are Georgina Docherty Marita Duff Helen Jones Jane Middleton Jean Stewart Congratulations to all the winners and I hope they enjoy their . books May's competition winners will be announced shortly . Posted by Karen Euro Crime at 8:26 AM Labels : competition winners 0 comments : Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom Which title do you want to win the International dagger 2010 Which title do you think will win the: skip to main skip to sidebar Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Saturday , June 05, 2010 Teaser Poster for The Girl Who Played With Fire The Girl Who Played With Fire film is due to be released in the UK on 27 August . A teaser poster was released recently at LoveFilm There are 7 more stills from TGWPWF at Blogomatic3000 Posted by Karen Euro Crime at 9:00 AM Labels : Films Millenium film The Girl Who Played with Fire 0 comments : Post a Comment Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom Which title do you want to win the International dagger 2010 Which title do you think will win the International Dagger 2010 About Me View my complete profile My Other Blog Teenage Fiction for All Ages which I use to put my thoughts about the teenage: skip to main skip to sidebar Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Friday , June 04, 2010 An Interview with Leigh Russell Euro Crime , in the shape of reviewer Amanda Gillies has recently interviewed author Leigh Russell about her books and her route to getting . published Amanda has already reviewed Leigh's first , book Cut Short which is the beginning of the DI Geraldine Steel series . The second book , Road Closed which has just been released , will be reviewed . shortly ROAD CLOSED , the second novel about DI Geraldine Steel , has just been published by No Exit Press . Euro Crime caught up with its author , Leigh Russell , and asked her a few questions Can you remember what first got you writing I was walking through my local park one