Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 10th, 2011
Author: Lee Child Title: The Affair Publisher: Bantam Press Hardback: 427 pages ISBN: 978-0-593-06570-9 Price: £18.99 Publication Date: 29/09/2011 A Lee Child novel entitled The Affair! I have to admit that I, much like a number of Child fans that I have spoken to recently, was rather bemused by it as a title. It sounds, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 18th, 2011
With less than two weeks to go before I depart on my summer holiday I need to decide on my reading material. This might seem like rather a strange thing to be putting so much time and thought into, but you have to take a couple of things into consideration. Firstly, this is my first [...]
Posted in Peter Robinson, Uncategorized on Jun 20th, 2011
Upon arriving home from work at the end of last week, I encountered a small black jiffy bag [so small that it easily fitted into my rather pathetically small right hand!]. Contained within I discovered the tiniest book I’ve ever been sent to review – a flipback copy of Peter Robinson’s Piece of My Heart. [...]
Posted in Jeffery Deaver, Uncategorized on May 25th, 2011
The long-awaited new James Bond novel, Carte Blanche, had its launch at Kings Cross St. Pancras today with author Jeffery Deaver in attendance. I especially love the incredibly over-the-top pose seen in the picture below [but then it is a James Bond novel, and normal rules don't really apply!]. Carte Blanche is published on Thursday [...]
Posted in S.J. Bolton, Uncategorized on May 24th, 2011
Check out this chilling trailer for S.J. Bolton’s latest psychological thriller Now You See Me, about young policewoman Lacey Flint as she searches for a Jack the Ripper copycat who is terrorising London [and sending letters written in blood to our heroine]… …Hang on a minute, that sounds like a normal Saturday night in South [...]
Posted in Jussi Adler-Olsen, Uncategorized on May 6th, 2011
Next Thursday [12th May] sees the publication of Jussi Adler-Olsen’s international bestselling crime novel, Mercy. For all of you fans of Scandi-crime this is definitely a book to pick up. I’ve read half of the novel so far – having only started it late the other night – and it is really good. So expect a review [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 11th, 2011
Watch ex-prison officer Ronnie Thompson talking about his new book Knifer, and his two previous books, Screwed and Banged Up. Knifer is a no-holds-barred account of a young life ridden with criminal behaviour, drug addiction and murder, through the eyes of a teenager flying off the rails. For more information about Ronnie Thompson and his [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 24th, 2010
With Christmas but a few hours away, I wanted to take the opportunity to wish everyone the best for the festive period. I cannot believe that Crime and Publishing has been going for almost nine months now [where does the time go?!]. I [and my cat!] would also like to take the opportunity to wish [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 22nd, 2010
In October it was announced that Hodder & Stoughton will be launching a new suspense fiction imprint, Mulholland Books, in May 2011. I had been intending to post about it earlier, but have been rather hampered by my abortive efforts to work out how to upload the short trailer for the imprint [someone finally showed [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 27th, 2010
This may well be of interest to all you budding crime and thriller authors out there: INTRODUCING THE SECOND AUTHONOMY WRITERS’ WORKSHOP: CRIME AND THRILLER WRITING On Saturday 11th December 2010, authonomy.com will go live once again for the next in its fantastic series of writing workshops. The first workshop ran in July and was [...]
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