New Reviews: Connor, Delaney, Fitzek, McCoy, May, Veste

Here are six new reviews added to the Euro Crime website today.

I still have a few more Euro Crime reviewers' favourite reads of 2013 to post, after which I'll reveal the overall favourite Euro Crime authors, titles and translators of 2013.

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New Reviews

Terry Halligan reviews Alex Connor's latest art-thriller, The Caravaggio Conspiracy;

Amanda Gillies reviews Luke Delaney's The Keeper, just out in paperback and is the second in the DI Sean Corrigan series;

Michelle Peckham reviews Therapy by Sebastian Fitzek tr. Sally-Ann Spencer, which has just been reissued by Corvus;

Susan White reviews jockey A P McCoy's debut, Taking the Fall;

Lynn Harvey reviews Peter May's follow-up to his 'Lewis trilogy', Entry Island

and Geoff Jones reviews Luca Veste's debut, Dead Gone which  introduces DI David Murphy and DS Laura Rossi.



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: Fitzek, Gordon-Smith, Jego, Jones, Nadel, Rankin

Here are this week's new reviews and details of the current competition:

Latest Reviews:

Mike Ripley reviews the German best-seller - Therapy by Sebastian Fitzek which is full of tension and twists;

I review the second in the 1920s Jack Haldean series by Dolores Gordon-Smith - Mad About the Boy?

Norman Price reviews The Sun King Rises by Yves Jego and Denis Lepree and finds it doesn't live up to its Dumas aspirations;

Amanda Gillies reviews the disappointing The Last Straight Face by Bruce Kennedy Jones and Eric Allison - a collaboration between a former criminal and a journalist - which she finds predictable and tension-less;

Laura Root reviews the latest in the Francis Hancock series by Barbara Nadel - Ashes to Ashes - and she finds Hancock to be "one of the most personable and fully-realised amateur sleuths that I have read about"

and Maxine Clarke reviews Ian Rankin's penultimate Rebus: The Naming of the Dead.

Current Competition:

Win a copy of Our Lady of Pain by Elena Forbes*

* restrictions apply (ends 31 August)

Sebastian Fitzek - publishing deal

Today's Publisher's Lunch annouces:

Sebastian Fitzek's THERAPY, in which a child disappears without a trace, to St. Martin's and to Pan Macmillan, by AVA-International.

German author Fitzek has written two novels, 'Die Therapie' and 'Amok Spiel'. You can read more about him and his books at his website (in German). The website is being revised at the moment according to the google translation of the homepage.