New Reviews: Burdett, Chambers, Cleverly, Fforde, Lehtolainen, Williams

Here are 6 new reviews which have been added to the Euro Crime website today:

Lynn Harvey reviews John Burdett's Vulture Peak the fifth in his Thailand-set series featuring Buddhist detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep;

Michelle Peckham, a real-life scientist, is not enamoured of the fictional science in Clem Chambers's The First Horseman;

Earlier this week, on the blog, I reviewed the audio book of Barbara Cleverly's Ellie Hardwick Mysteries, a collection of traditional amateur sleuth short stories;

Susan White reviews Jasper Fforde's The Woman Who Died a Lot, the seventh in the Thursday Next series;

Maxine Clarke reviews Leena Lehtolainen's My First Murder tr. Owen Witesman which introduces Finnish detective Maria Kallio

and Terry Halligan reviews David Williams's Treasure in Oxford which is now available as an ebook.

Previous reviews can be found in the review archive.

Forthcoming titles can be found by author or date or by category, here along with releases by year.

First Sheep and Now Pigs...

First there was Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann in which the lead detective is sheep Miss Maple and today's Book2Book reports on The Third Pig Detective Agency by Bob Burke:

Scott Pack at The Friday Project has signed The Third Pig Detective Agency by Bob Burke.

Harry Pigg is the only surviving brother from the Big Bad Wolf attack and runs a down-at-heel private detective agency. His luck seems to have turned when he is hired by local bigshot Aladdin to track down a stolen lamp, only things aren't quite as they seem.

Pack says 'All of us at The Friday Project loved Bob's book the moment we saw it. He is an extremely funny writer and Harry Pigg is a wonderful character who we hope to see for many more books to come. Imagine Hans Christian Andersen rewritten by Raymond Chandler.'

The Third Pig Detective Agency will be published in autumn 2008. The Friday Project have world rights.

For more information please contact scott@thefridayproject.co.uk.

http://www.thefridayproject.co.uk

This might be a children's book but that doesn't mean we adults can't take a gander...In the meantime there's Jasper Fforde's Nursery Crime series to be getting on with: The Big Over Easy and The Fourth Bear, so far.

Articles in The Times

I'm woefully behind with updating the News page on the website but I've just spotted a few interesting articles in The Times:

An excerpt from Ian Rankin's introduction to the Rough Guide to Crime Fiction.

An interview of Michele Giuttari, the author of 'A Florentine Death' and the only (I think) translated (into English) author appearing at the Harrogate Crime Festival this year.

Marcel Berlins meets Jasper Fforde, author of the Thursday Next and Nursery Crimes series.