New Reviews: Alvtegen, Beaton, McGilloway, Magson, Walters, Wilson

This month's competition is open to all. Win a copy of The Black Monastery by Stav Sherez.

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

New Reviews:

Maxine Clarke has high praise for Karin Alvtegen's Missing;

I review the latest in the Hamish Macbeth series from M C Beaton: Death of a Witch;

Maxine also reviews the third in the 'Borderlands' series from Brian McGilloway - Bleed a River Deep

Terry Halligan enjoys Adrian Magson's latest Gavin/Palmer outing: No Kiss for the Devil

Norman Price reviews the "impressive beginning" to Michael Walters' Mongolian series - The Shadow Walker

and Mike Ripley reviews War Damage by Elizabeth Wilson, which is set just after World War Two in London, and tips it as a strong contender for the Ellis Peters award.

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

New Reviews: Carter, Peace, Rendell, Walters

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

New Reviews:

I review Maureen Carter's latest Bev Morriss book - a series set in 'unfashionable' Birmingham - Bad Press;

Pat Austin reviews the first book in the Red Riding Quartet by David Peace - 1974 (three of the four books are being televised next year);

Fiona Walker reviews Portobello by Ruth Rendell

and Maxine Clarke reviews the newest in Michael Walters' Mongolian series, The Outcast.

Previous reviews can be found in the review archive and forthcoming titles can be found here plus for those thinking about their favourite books of 2008, there's a list (generated from my database) of British/European crime novels (written by British/Europeans) published in the UK in 2008, here. (I haven't yet updated it to include non-Europeans writing about Europe).

Euro Crime cited on The Outcast

It's long been a secret hope of mine that a quote from a review written for Euro Crime will be used on the front/back/inside of a book and very excitingly, it has come to pass. The new book by Michael Walters, The Outcast, the third in the Inspector Nergui series, features a quote from Maxine's review of The Adversary on the back of the jacket. (Read the rest of her review, here.)




Synopsis: Ulaan Bataar bakes in the heat of an unseasonably hot summer as it prepares to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the birth of the Mongol Empire. But the city is facing a series of unexpected crises - an apparent suicide bomber shot down by police in Suuk Bataar Square, a dead body in the City Museum re-enacting an incident from ancient Mongolian history, an explosion at a political rally, and yet another body found murdered nearby. For Doripalam, now boss of the Serious Crime Team, the crises are growing increasingly personal. As he struggles to keep control of his own personal and professional life, one of his own team is arrested.Solongo, Doripalam's wife is facing her own challenges and finds herself entangled with murder and with the fugitive officer. Worst of all, Nergui, now an influential figure in the Ministry of Security, appears to be pursuing an agenda all of his own. The roots of all this trouble lie in the past - in the history of the Mongol nation, as well as in the more recent legacies of the communist state. As the sun beats down, a chilling figure emerges - a figure from Nergui's past, an outcast, who has returned to exact revenge, both on Nergui himself and on the nation that rejected him.

An excerpt of The Outcast can be read on Michael Walters' website.

For once Amazon recommends - gets it right

I was very impressed by 'The Prone Gunman', reviewed here on Euro Crime and I am looking forward to reading Michael Walters' Mongolian series of which, 'The Shadow Walker', is the first. So I was stunned when amazon.co.uk, read my mind, sort of:

Greetings from Amazon.co.uk
We've noticed that customers who have expressed interest in "Prone Gunman" by Jean-Patrick Manchette have also ordered "The Shadow Walker" by Michael Walters. For this reason, you might like to know that this book will be released on 3 May 2007.

You can read more about Michael Walters and 'The Shadow Walker' on his new(ish) website. He is published by Quercus and you can see from this list of new Autumn titles that the second in the series, 'The Adversary', will be out in October.