New Reviews: Barclay, Child, Forbes, Mills, Stock, Weeks

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The following reviews have been added to the review archive over on the main Euro Crime website. The theme this week is thrillers:

New Reviews:

A big welcome to New Zealand based writer/reviewer Craig Sisterson who joins the review team today. His opening review is of Alex Barclay's Blood Runs Cold;

Michelle Peckham reviews the paperback edition of Nothing to Lose by Lee Child;

Amanda Brown reviews the last of Colin Forbes's Tweed books - The Savage Gorge;

Book of the week is Mark Mills's The Information Officer reviewed here by Mike Ripley;

I review the audio book version of Dead Spy Running by Jon Stock (the audio version pre-dates the print version by about a month);

Maxine Clarke reviews the second in the Johnny Mann series by Lee Weeks: The Trafficked

and finally for a bit of non-euro crime, Amanda Gillies reviews Library of the Dead by Glenn Cooper.

Previous reviews can be found in the review archive and forthcoming titles can be found here.

Competition and New Reviews on Euro Crime

During December, Euro Crime blog and website visitors can enter a
competition to win one of six copies of Martyn Waites' new Joe Donovan book, 'Bone Machine', out in the UK in January. (There are no geographical restrictions and the closing date is 31 Dec 2006.)
Enter here: Competition

The 'Reviews' page has been updated with reviews of :

'The Main Chance' by Colin Forbes - his and Tweed's penultimate novel. Reviewed by Karen Chisholm.

'Lawless' by Alexander McGregor - the first fiction outing for a Scottish
journalist who had a best seller writing about Dundee's true crime.

The 'New Releases' pages have also been updated.

Colin Forbes RIP

Publishing News reports that:
"COLIN FORBES, The author of 33 novels, died last week of heart failure aged 83, leaving a legacy that includes a string of bestsellers, many of them featuring his intrepid team of Tweed and Paula Grey, and one unpublished novel, The Savage Gorge. His long-time editor, Suzanne Baboneau, whom he followed from Macmillan to Simon & Schuster, had, only the previous day, “crossed the last ‘t’ and dotted the final ‘i’ to put the script into production. Our November publication of The Savage Gorge will be a fitting tribute to his long career as a major thriller writer.”"

Complete article here.