New Reviews: Badoe, Kernick, La Plante, O'Brien, Somer, Twining

a) Two competitions are currently running:

i)Win Beautiful Dead: Arizona by Eden Maguire (UK only)
ii)Win Sheer Folly by Carola Dunn (UK/Europe only)

Details on how to enter can be found on the Competition page

b) Here are the new reviews that have been added to the website today:

Maxine Clarke reviews Yaba Badoe's debut novel, True Murder which, Maxine suggests, should appeal to fans of Ruth Rendell and Morag Joss;

Michelle Peckham reviews the latest from Britain's answer to Harlan Coben, Simon Kenick's Target;

Geoff Jones reviews the new DI Anna Travis book from Lynda La Plante, Silent Scream;

Jacquot's back: Terry Halligan reviews the return of French detective Jacquot in Martin O'Brien's Confession;

I review the latest in one of the more unusual crime fiction series: The Gigolo Murder by Mehmet Murat Somer, tr. Kenneth Dakan

and Amanda Gillies reviews the most recent in James Twining's Tom Kirk Art Thief series: The Geneva Deception.

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

Publishing Deal - James Twining

From The Bookseller:

HarperFiction has signed a new two-book deal with The Double Eagle author James Twining for a “good six figure sum”. Editorial director Wayne Brookes bought UK and Commonwealth rights, including Canada, from Jonathan Lloyd at Curtis Brown. The books, as yet untitled, will be published in 2010 and 2011.

“I’m very excited to be carrying on my fabulous relationship with James,” said Brookes. “From the moment I read the first words of The Double Eagle, I have been enthralled and entertained by the adventures of former art thief Tom Kirk, and now I have two more to get my teeth into. James was the first author I acquired for Harper Fiction and I can’t imagine a year without the escapades of Tom Kirk.”

(James Twining's bibliography)