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Posted in Books, Crime Fiction, Crime Fiction Alphabet on Apr 15th, 2010
Kerrie’s Crime Fiction Alphabet has come to the end. It’s been a most rewarding challenge. I’ve looked back at some books I read a while ago, read new books from favourite authors and discovered new authors. The posts had to be related to either the first letter of a book’s title, the first letter of [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Crime Fiction, Crime Fiction Alphabet on Apr 12th, 2010
I’ve really enjoyed taking part in Kerrie’s Crime Fiction Alphabet – many thanks Kerrie! For the last letter I’ve chosen Pariah by Dave Zeltserman. I toyed with the idea of writing about Carlos Ruiz Zafon, but it’s been a long time since I read The Shadow of the Wind, so my memory is a bit [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Crime Fiction, Crime Fiction Alphabet on Apr 5th, 2010
There are just two letters left in Kerrie’s Crime Fiction Alphabet series. This week it is the letter Y and I’ve chosen Dead in the Morning which was first published in 1970 and is the first of Margaret Yorke’s Patrick Grant mysteries. Set in Fennersham, an English village this is about a family dominated by [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Crime Fiction, Crime Fiction Alphabet on Mar 29th, 2010
Qiu Xiaolong was born in Shanghai and was a member of the Chinese Writers’ Association, publishing poetry, translations and criticism in China. Since 1989 he has lived in the United States, his work being published in many literary magazines and anthologies. His first crime novel, Death of Red Heroine, won the Anthony Award for Best [...]
Posted in Agatha Christie Reading Challenge, Book Reviews, Challenges, Crime Fiction, Crime Fiction Alphabet on Mar 22nd, 2010
I’m returning to Agatha Christie to illustrate the letter W in Kerrie’s Crime Fiction Alphabet series, with Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? The copy I read is one of the Collected Works series with the original illustrations by Patrick Couratin and Sylvia Dausset. Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? was first published in 1934. The illustrations [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Crime Fiction, Crime Fiction Alphabet on Mar 15th, 2010
Kerrie’s Crime Fiction Alphabet series moves towards the end of the alphabet and has now reached the letter ‘V’. A Fatal Inversion was first published in 1987 and was reissued in 2009 by Penguin Books. Although about a group of not very likeable characters I was drawn into the world of this mystery. In 1976 Adam, [...]
Posted in Books, Crime Fiction Alphabet, Fiction on Mar 8th, 2010
This week’s letter in Kerrie’s Crime Fiction Alphabet series is ‘U’. I’ve chosen Umberto Eco, an Italian writer of post-modern fiction, full of allusions and references, using puzzles, playing with language, words and symbols. I’ve read The Name of the Rose twice, some years ago now.It is a fantastic historical crime mystery novel set in a Franciscan monastery [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Crime Fiction, Crime Fiction Alphabet, Fiction on Mar 3rd, 2010
I’ve read two books by Josephine Tey – The Daughter of Time and now The Franchise Affair. Josephine Tey was a pseudonym for Elizabeth Mackintosh(1896 – 1952). She was a Scottish author who wrote mainly mystery novels. I read The Daughter of Time a few years ago and thought it was an excellent book, a mix [...]
Posted in Attacking the TBR Tome Challenge, Books, Crime Fiction Alphabet, Sunday Salon on Feb 28th, 2010
It seems a good day to look back over my reading in the first two months of the year. I’ve read 15 books – 8 in January and 7 this month. Titles marked * are crime fiction, underlined are non-fiction and in italics are library books. The rest are my own books acquired from various booksellers. [...]
Posted in Crime Fiction, Crime Fiction Alphabet on Feb 22nd, 2010
For this week’s letter, S my contribution to Kerrie’s Crime Fiction Alphabet series is Sansom and Shardlake, more specifically C J Sansom’s Matthew Shardlake historical crime fiction series. Chris J Sansom trained and worked as a solicitor before he wrote the Tudor murder mystery series featuring lawyer Matthew Shardlake. There are currently four books: Dissolution – set in [...]
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