The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee BurkeSo out of six, there are two women and three Americans.
The Coroner's Lunch - Colin Cotterill
Blood From Stone - Frances Fyfield
Night Work - Steve Hamilton
What The Dead Know - Laura Lippman
A Vengeful Longing - R N Morris
You can download the unabridged Devil May Care from Audible for £13.29. The added bonus is that it's narrated by the super suave Jeremy Northam.WOOLWORTHS IS LAUNCHING a promotion with the Daily Express from this Saturday (31 May) where it will sell featured titles for £2.99. 'Woolworths and the Daily Express recommends' will be announced in the front page of Saturday's issue, together with a voucher for a free copy of Martina Cole's Broken (Headline) to be collected from Woolworths branches. Future promotions will then be held every Friday with a half-page editorial feature on each title in the Express, while branches will promote the offer at the front of store. The first book at £2.99 will be Andy McNab's Crossfire (Corgi). The promotion has no fixed end date.
The first message sent to Tom Thorne's mobile phone was just a picture - the blurred image of a man's face, but Thorne had seen enough dead bodies in his time to know that the man was no longer alive. But who was he? Who sent the photograph? And why? While the technical experts attempt to trace the sender, Thorne searches the daily police bulletins for a reported death that matches the photograph. Then another picture arrives. Another dead man ...It is the identities of the murdered men which give Thorne his first clue, a link to a dangerous killer he'd put away years before and who is still in prison. With a chilling talent for manipulation, this man has led another inmate to plot revenge on everyone he blames for his current incarceration, and for the murder of his family while he was inside. Newly released, this convict has no fear of the police, no feelings for those he is compelled to murder. Now Tom Thorne must face one of the toughest challenges of his career, knowing that there is no killer more dangerous than one who has nothing left to lose.Watch a sneak preview of the tv advert:
Catherine Burke, editor at MIRA Books, has acquired UK & Commonwealth rights in an anthology of thriller stories from Claire Roberts at Trident Media Group.You can read more about the anthology, here. Europe is represented by Ken Bruen as well as Lee Child.
Killer Year, edited by author Lee Child, will be published in October in hardback, with a paperback to follow in May 2009.
Saturday 12 July 2008, 3.30pmRead the Euro Crime review of Death in Breslau. Coming soon: an interview with Marek Krajewski at Crime Scraps plus his review of Death in Breslau for Euro Crime.
James Hopkin, Marek Krajewski and Joanna Pawluskiewicz discuss Poland as a setting for their fiction, and the cultural journeys that writers make between different countries. James Hopkins' Winter Under Water charts a cross-cultural love affair in an unfamiliar city. Marek Krajewski's Death in Breslau is the latest novel in his Eberhard Mock quartet. Joanna Pawluskiewicz is a hotly-tipped new voice whose fiction explores the Polish experience in the USA.
Tuesday 15 July 2008, 7.30pm
A special festival event celebrating queer literature. Julian Clary, Dave McAlmont, Andy Bell, Maureen Duffy, Stella Duffy, Paul Burston, Karen Mcleod and Rupert Smith champion their favourite books, and reveal how they've inspired their life and work.
UK Children's
Carlos Ruiz Zafon's four bestselling YA novels (with nearly 3 million copies in print in Spain), PRINCE OF THE MISTS, MIDNIGHT PALACE, SEPTEMBER LIGHTS and MARINA, to Orion, in a pre-empt, by the Colchie Agency, on behalf of the Antonia Kerrigan Agency (UK rights, excl. ANZ).
It happened every year, was almost a ritual. And this was his eighty-second birthday. When, as usual, the flower was delivered, he took off the wrapping paper and then picked up the telephone to call Detective Superintendent Morell who, when he retired, had moved to Lake Siljan in Dalarna. They were not only the same age, they had been born on the same day – which was something of an irony under the circumstances. The old policeman was sitting with his coffee, waiting, expecting the call.Read the rest of the excerpt, here.
BBC One is making a new five-part crime thriller starring Ben Whishaw and Pete Postlethwaite to air this summer.
Criminal Justice centres on Ben Coulter, who finds himself being prosecuted for murder after waking up in bed next to an attractive young woman who has been stabbed to death.Read the whole BBC Press release...
Coulter, played by Whishaw (Perfume, I'm Not There), finds himself on a "rollercoaster ride" through the criminal justice system. Ending up in prison, he has to learn to survive alongside tough inmates including Postlethwaite's character, Hooch.
The series is from award-winning writer Peter Moffat, whose credits include BBC productions Hawking and Macbeth.
CHILD 44 BY Tom Rob Smith is the William Hill 1/2 favourite to win the inaugural Desmond Elliott Prize, worth £10,000. Published in the UK by Simon & Schuster, it has appeared in 22 countries - though the novel, about a Stalin-era serial killer, is banned in Russia. Three film offers are on the table, including one from Ridley Scott. The other novels in contention are Gifted by Nikita Lalwani (Viking), with odds of 2/1, and Sunday at the Cross Bones by John Walsh (Fourth Estate), which is 3/1.According to the Desmond Elliott Prize website:
The Desmond Elliott Prize is a new biennial prize for a first novel written in English and published in the UK. Worth £10,000 to the winner, the prize is named after the literary agent and publisher, Desmond Elliott.Child 44 is the only crime novel of the three and is reviewed on Euro Crime here.
Charismatic, witty, and waspish, Elliott lived his life with sparkle. He drank only champagne, always crossed the Atlantic on Concorde and lunched at Fortnum and Mason. His office was in Mayfair and he had houses in St James’s and on Park Avenue. Desmond Elliott’s ethos to support new writers will live on in the shape of the prize.
When choosing the winner, a panel of 3 judges will look for a novel which creates a “buzz”, a book with “word of mouth” appeal. In addition, the judges will look for the following qualities:
* a novel which is a page-turner but which makes you pause for thought
* an intelligent book with broad appeal
Antonia Hodgson has bought world rights to Things Ain't What They Used to Be, “a hilarious, personal and evocative trip through the Seventies and Eighties” by “one of our best-loved actors”, Philip Glenister (Life on Mars and Cranford). Publication is scheduled for November.
Macmillan New Writing is discovering some genuine talent: following Brian McGilloway's success, Pan Macmillan has signed a three-book deal with L C Tyler, whose Herring Seller comic crime series has won many admirers. The second in the series, Ten Little Herrings, is set at a philatelists' convention in France.
At Bitter Lemon Press, Francois von Hurter has bought WEL rights in a number of projects, including Rabia (Rage) by Argentine bestseller Sergio Bizzio. The deal was concluded via Mercedes Casanovas Agencia Literia, and a movie is already in production, with Bizzio co-scripting.
Author Colin Dexter will talk about his best-known creation, Inspector Morse. He will explain how Morse was adapted for TV and tell us what John Thaw was really like.To book tickets (£10) online, visit the Malvern Theatre website.
