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.

New Reviews: Burdett, Hayder, Lackberg, Leather, Maclean, Schlink & New Competition

Making up for the lack of competitions in February, I'm pleased to announce a second competition for March (and a third is imminent) and this one is open worldwide:

Win a copy of Tell-Tale by Sam Hayes (worldwide)
Win a copy of The Preacher & The Stonecutter by Camilla Lackberg (UK only)

Here are this week's new reviews:

Laura Root reviews The Godfather of Kathmandu by John Burdett, the fourth in this Thailand based series;

Michelle Peckham reviews Mo Hayder's Gone, the newest in the Jack Caffery series, now set in Bristol;

Maxine Clarke reviews one of this month's competition prizes, The Stonecutter by Camilla Lackberg, tr. Steven T Murray;

Terry Halligan reviews Nightfall by Stephen Leather the first in a new paranormal-sounding series;

Pat Austin reviews Shona Maclean's second book in her historical series: A Game of Sorrows

and Craig Sisterson reviews Self's Murder by Bernhard Schlink, tr. Peter Constantine

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

New Reviews: Burdett, Dobbs, La Plante, Sigurdardottir

The following reviews have been added to the review archive over on the main Euro Crime website:

New Reviews:

Laura Root reviews the third in John Burdett's Bangkok series - Bangkok Haunts calling it "a skilful sophisticated thriller";

Michelle Peckham reviews the new offering from Michael Dobbs - The Edge of Madness;

Geoff Jones enjoys Clean Cut by Lynda La Plante

and Maxine Clarke is enthusiastic about Last Rituals by Icelandic author Yrsa Sigurdardottir.

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

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - too

The paperback of Bangkok Haunts is due out on the 16th. And for those who've not been lucky enough to read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, the paperback is out on 24th July (just in time for someone to affix the International Dagger Winner stickers on the front?)

Publishing Deals

From this week's Publishers Lunch:

Film
Film rights to John Burdett's BANGKOK 8 and his two subsequent police thrillers set in Bangkok, featuring Buddhist police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep, in a new option to Millennium Films, with James McTeigue (V For Vendetta) directing, by Ron Bernstein, at auction, on behalf of Jane Gelfman at Gelfman Schneider. (Foreign book rights are represented by Betsy Robbins at Curtis Brown UK.)

UK
Two new thrillers by Simon Kernick, the first featuring a kidnap-attempt gone badly wrong, again to Selina Walker at Transworld, by Amanda Preston of LBA (UK/Commonwealth).

Michael Cordy's thriller THE SOURCE, about the surprise deciphering of the elusive Voynich manuscript at Yale's Beinecke Library by a young female professor, leading to the discovery of what seems to be a Garden of Eden deep in the jungles of Peru -- and a fight between the Vatican and various scholars for possession of the secrets which the garden contains, again to Bill Scott-Kerr at Bantam UK, by Patrick Walsh at Conville & Walsh. US rights will be submitted shortly.