FREE magazine: Underground Book Club issue 2
Attention London commuters who love crime fiction! We’ve been working for a little while now with a start-up publication called Underground Book Club and today issue two of their free magazine is being distributed at stations in London. Its aim is to spread the word…
Dare Me by Megan Abbott
“At first, cheer was something to fill my days, all our days. Age fourteen to eighteen, a girl needs something to kill all that time, that endless itchy waiting, every hour, every day for something – anything – to begin. There’s something dangerous about the…
Criminal heroes! Seven of the best
By definition, there are always criminal characters in crime fiction books, and even the good guys sometimes have to take part in illegal or immoral acts. But books where the main character is a full-time professional criminal are surprisingly few and far between. Here’s a…
HoCaM: Top five crime books of 2011
I can’t say definitively that these are the best books because I haven’t read everything out there, and who am I to decide for others, right? But these five novels all touched me, thrilled me, and in various ways impressed me the most. Don’t try…
Pulp Curry: Top five books of 2011
A couple of brief caveats before I give up my top five crime books for 2011. First, my tastes veer strongly towards the darker side of crime fiction, particularly noir, hard-boiled and pulp fiction, and this list is skewed accordingly. Second, I’m going to cheat…
NTN: The Crime Fiction Academy
Do you like the idea of becoming a crime fiction author like Lee Child, Dennis Lehane, Megan Abbott or Laura Lippman? Well one way of getting there could be to attend crime fiction school. The Center for Fiction in New York – founded back in…
The crimes they are a-changin’
Jacques Filippi reports on Bouchercon 2011 — In crime fiction, the hero who saves everyone has dominated the genre for a long time. That hero is usually troubled by past events, has a big problem with the bottle and, mostly, is unable to sustain or…