New Reviews: Boyd, Hayder, Johnstone, Oswald, Perry, Shoham

Here are six reviews which have been added to the Euro Crime website today, two have appeared on the blog over the last couple of weeks and four are completely new.

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New Reviews

007 is back in William Boyd's Solo which places James Bond in 1969, reviewed here by Geoff Jones;

Michelle Peckham reviews Mo Hayder's Wolf, the seventh in the Jack Caffery series

Amanda Gillies reviews The Dead Beat by Doug Johnstone;

Terry Halligan reviews James Oswald's The Hangman's Song, the third in the Inspector McLean series;

Susan White reviews The Boy That Never Was by Karen Perry

and Lynn Harvey reviews Lineup tr. Sara Kitai by Liad Shoham, Israel's top crime writer.



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.

A few publishing deals...

From today's Publisher's Lunch:

Winner of the 2008 Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel competition IN THE SHADOW OF GOTHAM Stefanie Pintoff's next two Detective Ziele historical mysteries, set in early twentieth century New York City, to Kelley Ragland at Minotaur, by David Hale Smith at DHS Literary (World).

William Boyd's ORDINARY THUNDERSTORMS, in which a man wrongly accused of murder sheds his identity and goes underground in contemporary London, to Gillian Blake at Harper, by Amanda Urban at ICM (US).

Thomas E. Kennedy's IN THE COMPANY OF ANGELS, one of four books comprising his Copenhagen Quartet set in different seasons in the Danish capital city, this one set in summer, focusing on two damaged characters struggling to heal and regain normalcy, to Anton Mueller at Bloomsbury, for publication in Winter 2010, followed by a second novel from the quarter in Winter 2011, by Nat Sobel at Sobel Weber Associates (US; UK).