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"Three Act Tragedy is to do with this great star, played by Martin Shaw, who swans around and we see his world, his theatrical world if you like, of how he lives, his loves and his tragedies. In it we see crime, we see murder.
"The way the adaptation of Three Act Tragedy works is terrific. Ashley Pearce, who has directed other Poirot’s and therefore knows Poirot very well, has been wonderfully creative and done a sort of theatrical presentation of it.
"It was particularly wonderful for me to be reunited with Martin Shaw. Martin and I go right the way back. It was the first time we worked together since The Professionals, so the best part of 40 years ago. Martin is a really great actor and it was really good to be working with him again.
The main locations we used for Poirot: Three Act Tragedy were Knebworth House and Eltham Palace. Speaking about these David says, “On Poirot we have the great privilege on this series of going to some of the finest locations in England. To go to Knebworth is like going back into another era.
“Although the exterior of Crow’s Nest was filmed in the South West of England we looked for an interior location that we could make look as though it fitted the outside, and we found this at Eltham Palace.
“It was a great joy for me to film at Eltham Palace. It is the most extraordinary location and place to visit. It is very 1930s and very art-deco as well.
“I have two great soft spots for Eltham Palace, one because I do the audio guide there – so if you ever go to Eltham Palace you will hear my voice saying, ‘And on your right is...’ And my other is that it was where we filmed when I played Robert Maxwell, for which I received an Emmy. Going back there was very special to me.”
There's nothing cozier than a winter evening in Greenwich Village. Streetlights shimmer through icy flakes, cafés glow with welcoming warmth, and a layer of snow dusts historic townhouses like powdered sugar on holiday confections. Murder has no place in such a pretty picture, until now...Terry Halligan reviews The Victoria Vanishes by Christopher Fowler and he seems as taken with the series as I am;Previous reviews can be found in the review archive and forthcoming titles can be found here.
Amanda Gillies reviews Tom Grace's The Secret Cardinal and she recommends it to "fans of Tom Clancy and Jack Higgins";
Amanda Brown reviews the latest in Simon Hall's photographer/police-officer series, The Judgement Book writing that "for me this is the best one yet";
Maxine Clarke reviews the paperback edition of Blood Safari by Dean Meyer, tr. K L Seegers (another one of my favourite authors) and Maxine begins her review: "an excellent thriller which held me completely entranced from the moment I opened it and read the first page";
Norman Price enjoyed Aly Monroe's Washington Shadow and is looking forward to more books with her series character Peter Cotton
and Michelle Peckham reviews Lee Weeks' third Johnny Mann book, Death Trip, the violence in which left her seeking a nice cosy read afterwards.
Amanda Gillies reviews Tom Grace's The Secret Cardinal and she recommends it to "fans of Tom Clancy and Jack Higgins"More reviews can be found on the review page
and Amanda Brown reviews the latest in Simon Hall's photographer/police-officer series, The Judgement Book writing that "for me this is the best one yet".
Sony is to sponsor the e-book category prize at next year’s Crimefest.
Tom Harper aka Edwin Thomas will take over the CWA chair in April from Margaret Murphy.
There's a five minute video interview with William Brodrick author of the 2009 Gold Dagger winning, A Whispered Name, on the Whole Story Audio Books website.
The latest edition of Radio 7's Foul Play which is available to listen again/iplayer is The Adventure of the Murdered Heiress - "Crime writers PD James and HRF Keating try to solve the deadly case of a jewel theft. Written and chaired by Simon Brett".
*Note to authors: I have removed a few websites that seemed defunct but if I am now missing yours, do let me know and I'll reinstate it.The Author Websites page now lists 801 sites.* The New & Upcoming Releases pages have been updated. In Bibliographies there are now bibliographies for 1504 authors (7715 titles with links to 1641 reviews):
I've added new bibliographies for: Yaba Badoe, John Baird, Barbara Baraldi, Sean Cregan, Ella Griffiths, Luigi Guicciardi, Bruno Hare, Peg Herring, Mike Hodges, Erin Kelly, Zygmunt Miloszewski, Tom Morton, Christi Phillips, Martin Stratford, Robert Tenison, Jeri Westerson, Philip Wilding, Conrad Williams, Patrick Woodrow and Nancy Means Wright.
I've updated the bibliographies (ie added new titles) for: Paul Adam, Catherine Aird, Kate Atkinson, Colin Bateman, Carrie A Bebris, Tonino Benacquista, Mark Billingham, Benjamin Black, Richard Blake, Stephen Booth, John Brady, Simon Brett, Frances Brody, Karen Campbell, Aifric Campbell, Ottavio Cappellani, Jacques Cressex, John Connolly, N J Cooper, Clare Curzon, Carola Dunn, Jeremy Duns, R J Ellory, Helen Fitzgerald, Karin Fossum, Nicci French, Elizabeth George, Ann Granger, J M Gregson, Allan Guthrie, Cora Harrison, Mo Hayder, Mick/M Herron, Matt Hilton, Graham Ison, Claude Izner, Rebecca Jenkins, Mari Jungstedt, Jim Kelly, Bernard Knight, Martin Langfield, Patrick Lennon, Stuart MacBride, Henning Mankell, Scott Mariani, Brian McGilloway, Pat McIntosh, Shirley McKay, Dreda Say Mitchell, Nick Oldham, Sarah Pinborough, Sarah Rayne, Matt Benyon Rees, Rosemary Rowe, Pauline Rowson, Craig Russell, Kate Sedley, EV Seymour, Zoe Sharp, Jeffrey Siger, Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Nicola Slade, Sally Spencer, Cath Staincliffe, Aline Templeton, Mark Timlin, Lucie Whitehouse and Anne Zouroudi.
Blood Line
Following an argument with her lover on her boat, a woman is found dead. Wallander and the Ystad police investigate - their enquiries lead them to a farm commune and to an old friend of Linda's.
The storm led me to Padthaway. I could never resist the allure of dark swirling clouds, windswept leaves sweeping down cobbled lanes or a view of the sea stirring up its defiant nature. The sea possessed a power all of its own and this part of Cornwall, an isolated stretch of rocky cliff tops and unexplored beaches both enchanted and terrified me.
He’d never been someone given to confidences or talking about himself, but with the passage of time he was becoming even more secretive. He hid from everyone his disappointments, his loneliness, his fears and how fed up he was with his job, the profession that led him to believe that no person can love another forever. He kept those impressions to himself, where no one might see them and point out their painful harshness. Looking back, he realised he’d been able to salvage very few things from the wreckage of time, that the wealth of his youthful dreams had rotted before they could come true. He no longer hoped to have children. Nor did it seem likely that he would have for a woman feelings as intense as when he had first loved. He no longer believed that an ideology could make the world a better place; and as for the human condition, well, he’d seen his fair share of evil and misery, and had concluded that some men can only do harm. He’d seen people die and people kill. It was true that, when he thought of the future, the moral landscape he identified in himself was not lacking in dignity, but it wasn’t the kind best shared with anyone else. He was over forty and knew that, unless he did something about it, he’d get lonelier as each year passed. Up to this age, he often told himself, most of the people one has met and known are alive, but from now on the balance will start to even out, until the presence of the living weighs as much as the memories of the dead. And a little later everyone would start dying around him, if his number didn’t come up first.
Pan Macmillan is to rejacket crime author Ann Cleeves’ Inspector Vera Stanhope novels with an “atmospheric” new look.Read the whole article and view the new cover here.
The publisher has also delayed publication of the titles to tie in with broadcast of the ITV1 adaptation of Cleeves’ novel Hidden Depths, which has now been set for September 2010.
Hidden Depths, The Crow Trap and Telling Tales will now be published on 3rd September as £7.99 B-format paperbacks by Pan, with a new Vera Stanhope novel, as yet untitled, to be published as a £16.99 hardback on the same day by Macmillan.
Raven Black, the first title in Cleeves’ Shetland series, will also be a BBC Radio 4 “Afternoon Play” in January.
Headline has signed a new four-book deal with bestselling crime author Martina Cole.Read the whole article here.
Since Cole signed with Headline in 1992, for the debut Dangerous Lady, she has published 16 bestsellers with combined sales of more than 10m copies. Her latest novel, Hard Girls, has sold more than 126,000 copies in five weeks and knocked Dan Brown off the number one spot.
This year Sky One broadcast a dramatisation of her novel "The Take". The same channel will show an adaptation of The Runaway in early 2010.
Joanna Challis's first Daphne du Maurier mystery is Murder on the Cliffs:A new blog - Murder is Everywhere - "Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Leighton Gage, Michael Stanley, Cara Black and Dan Waddell blog each week on different days from our different corners of the globe".
Campbell Read Books: the only approved online outlet for signed copies of Quintin Jardine's best-selling Bob Skinner and Primavera Blackstone Novels.Le Serpent will be on Film Four on 10th December at 23.05:
Yvan Attal plays a photographer who becomes the target of a deranged ex-classmate (Clovis Cornillac) who is obsessed with avenging a childhood slight.This ITV press release reveals more about the plot of VERA which is based on Ann Cleeves's Hidden Depths and stars Brenda Blethyn and David Leon. It will be shown on ITV1 in 2010.
and finally, many thanks to Canongate who've named Euro Crime as their The Gatekeeper's Site of the Week.
