Crime fiction on Android tablets
For those technophobes out there, Android tablets are nothing like Aspirin and don’t really involve robots either. Android’s the mobile operating system that many cell phones use these days, and just like Apple’s iOS has transferred from the iPhone to the iPad, many tablet computers…
Short story eBooks: Our top 8 crime collections
One of the truly wonderful outcomes of the move toward self and small publishing in an electronic format is the increase in the number of short story collections available. Previously, there were precious few at the local bookstore. Normally they were anthologies which included a…
Good as Dead
Written by Mark Billingham – Good as Dead is the fifth Tom Thorne novel, and the first since last year’s TV dramatisation that fortified Mark Billingham as one of the UK’s premium crime fiction novelists. For fans of Billingham, this latest instalment exhibits all the…
The Killer is Dying by James Sallis
Written by James Sallis — Although this book is set in Pheonix, Arizona, it’s by no means hot and fiesty crime fiction. There are no chases, gunfights or shadowy figures jumping out from behind doors to bash the hero in the face. In fact, the…
New Amazon Kindle Tablet
Technology websites this week have been heralding news on the forthcoming Kindle Tablet from Amazon, rumoured to be released in November. The reports hint at a totally new device, to be sold alongside Amazon’s existing Kindle e-reader, but with the added functionality of a tablet…
Far South
Written by David Enrique Spellman – Written as the casebook of Juan Manuel Perez, Far South follows his detailed investigation into the disappearance of enigmatic theatre director, Gerardo Fischer. But what makes it so new and experimental is that at certain points the story points you…