Bloodprint - Cover Opinions

This week's selection for "cover opinions" is the US and UK covers for Kitty Sewell's Bloodprint.

So what are you thoughts on the US (LHS) and UK (RHS) covers? Which would entice you to pick the book up if you were not familiar with Kitty Sewell?

If you have read it, how well do the covers match the story?

Here are the Euro Crime reviews by Maxine and Amanda.

New Reviews: Cain, Holt, Sewell, Seymour, Williams, Winslow

Here are this week's reviews:

Terry Halligan reviews the paperback release of Assassin by Tom Cain the third in the "Accident Man" series;

Maxine Clarke reviews 1222 by Anne Holt, tr. Marlaine Delargy, an Agatha Christie style homage;

Amanda Gillies reviews the paperback release of Bloodprint by Kitty Sewell which she says is "superb";

Terry also reviews the paperback release of The Collaborator by Gerald Seymour about the Mafia;

Laura Root reviews Conrad Williams debut crime novel, Blonde on a Stick a gritty, noir thriller set in both Liverpool and London

and Michelle Peckham reviews Emily Winslow's The Whole World set in Cambridge.

Previous reviews can be found in the review archive and forthcoming titles can be found by author or date, here.

New Reviews: Claudel, George, Kelly, Sewell

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

New Reviews:

Norman Price reviews the impressive Brodeck's Report by Philippe Claudel which left him "breathless with admiration";

Terry Halligan was disappointed with Elizabeth George's Careless in Red which he found had too little of the series characters Lynley and Havers;

Pat Austin gives the thumbs up to the first in Jim Kelly's spin-off series Death Wore White which is set on a snowy Norfolk coastline

and Maxine Clarke reviews Bloodprint by Kitty Sewell which has rather too much going on for her liking.

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

The current competition is for a copy of The Reunion by Simone van der Vlugt (here's an extract). (Closing date is 28st February, one entry per household and UK entrants only.)

Publishing Deal - Kitty Sewell

Long awaited news about the next crime novel from Kitty Sewell. From The Bookseller:

Kate Lyall Grant at Simon & Schuster has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights in the second novel from Ice Trap author Kitty Sewell.

Psychological thriller Bloodprint was agented by Sheila Crowley at A P Watt and will be published in spring 2009.

Read two reviews of Ice Trap on Euro Crime, here and here.

New Reviews

Here are this week's new reviews and a reminder of February's competitions:

Latest Reviews:

First off, is Crimini a fine collection of Italian noir short stories, edited by Giancarlo De Cataldo, which I enjoyed very much even if I did have to read something a bit lighter half-way through (I'm eager to see Mr Crime Scraps' thoughts on the collection);

Italian expert Norman "Crime Scraps" Price turns his attention to Russia when he reviews one of this month's competition prizes, A Vengeful Longing by R N Morris, the second book (by R N Morris) to feature Crime and Punishment's Porfiry Petrovich. (Don't forget to enter the competition, see details below);

Maxine Clarke was very impressed with Diane Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale calling it a "beautifully written, multi-layered book";

Maxine was less taken with Ice Trap by Kitty Sewell which didn't live up to her expectations

and Fiona Walker reviews the seventh in the Martin Beck series by Sjowall and Wahloo, The Abominable Man asserting that it's a "near-complete triumph".


Current Competitions (closing date 29 February):

Win a copy of A Vengeful Longing by R N Morris (no geographical restrictions)

Win a copy of Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn (UK & Europe only)

(geographical restrictions are in brackets)