Dan Browns neuer Roman “Inferno” ist erschienen, Besprechungen dazu gibt es unter anderem von Jake Kerridge im Telegraph, von Steven Poole im Guardian oder in der New York Times von Janet Maslin, in der Los Angeles Times von Carolyn Kellogg.
Schlagwort-Archive: Los Angeles Times
Walter Mosley im Gespräch
“You write and you discover. All art comes from the unconscious. You keep doing it and things keep coming up and they take form. Then your consciousness sees the form and works with it. But what comes out is something else.”
Videobeitrag: Naomi Hirahara on her Japanese American sleuth, Mas Arai
Edgar Award-winning author Naomi Hirahara published her first Mas Arai mystery in 2004. The series starring the Japanese American gardener and crime solver is now on its fifth novel, “Strawberry Yellow.”
Artikel: Crime fiction authors discuss pushing the genre’s boundaries
L.A. Times Festival of Books: During a conversation tantalizingly titled “What We Can’t Tell You”, four such authors pulled back the curtain on how they craft compelling mysteries.
Rezension: Kate Atkinson: “Life After Life”
The author gets to tell one story after another in conjuring up a woman who lives and dies repeatedly, and it’s a remarkable conceit. There’s a bit of Edward Gorey-esque glee in the way she keeps knocking off her main character, but also poetry and emotion.
Rezension: Steph Cha: “Follow Her Home”
Raymond Chandler is among the undisputed masters of crime fiction, especially for stories set on the mean Southern California streets. Steph Cha’s debut novel begins as an homage to Marlowe and Chandler before ending up exploring vastly different mean streets of L.A.
Rezension: Joyce Carol Oates: “The Accursed”
“The Accursed,” an astonishing fever dream of a novel, sets loose specters from the beyond to prey on innocent and guilty alike. But are there any real innocents in the diseased society Oates so scathingly depicts?
Rezension: Barry Siegel: “Manifest Injustice”
For some criminal defense attorneys, the quest to find and exonerate an inmate wrongly convicted of murder is the white whale of their profession – Journalist Barry Siegel digs into Bill Macumber’s convition. His case was taken up by the Arizona Justice Project.
Rezension: Kevin Cullen & Shelley Murphy: “Whitey Bulger”
Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy offer an authoritative study of the legendary criminal and the long manhunt that culminated in Santa Monica in 2011. Nearly 82, Bulger had spent 15 years hiding in plain sight in an apartment complex near the Pacific.
Rezensionen: Charles Falco/Kerrie Droban, George Rowe
Infiltrating Southern California biker gangs — Two new books tell firsthand accounts of going undercover with the Vagos.
Artikel: Free Sherlock? Holmes scholar challenges Conan Doyle estate
The greatest detective in the world has been under the protection of Arthur Conan Doyle and that author’s heirs. But one scholar believes it’s time for Sherlock Holmes to be set free.
Artikel: One of the “Gun Guys”
Author Dan Baum discusses his new book, which aims to bring another perspective to the national debate by curating the thoughts of an eclectic collection of firearm owners.
Interview: Robert Crais
The writer dishes on his favorite pet, the human and K-9 partners in his newest crime novel, ‘Suspect,’ and working with Jack Klugman.
Rezensionen: Jake Tapper, Dakota Meyer & Bing West
“The Outpost” and “Into the Fire” look back at the war in Afghanistan. Both books ask disturbing questions about how and why the U.S. has waged a decade-long war in which U.S. goals are murky, and U.S. allies are often corrupt and unreliabl.
Rezension: Michael Connelly: “The Black Box”
Few crime writers are as prolific or as successful as Michael Connelly. Connelly has penned 25 novels over the past two decades, which have sold more than 40 million copies and garnered major crime writing awards in the U.S. and Europe.
Videointerview: Michael Connelly
In the interview, Connelly talks candidly about what it’s been like writing Harry Bosch stories for 20 years. It’s less about plot, he explains, than character. He also tells us what it’s like to go on book tours and get the occasional bottle of wine from a devoted fan.
Rezension: Diana Wagman: “The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets”
A lizard, an unhinged roommate and a kidnapped single mom make up the tense. Though at its root a hostage thriller — and a pretty tense one at that — the power of Wagman’s book lies in the details.
Rezensionen und Artikel zu Joanne K. Rowling: “A casual vacancy” (3)
Weitere Beiträge zu “A casual vacany” (bitte jeweils anklicken): National Post (1), National Post (2), The Globe and Mail, Time Magazine, The Miami Herald, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times
Rezension: Attica Locke: “The Cutting Season”
“The Cutting Season” by Attica Locke reaches from the present to the past. A murder on a Louisiana sugar plantation unfurls through history. The sins of one generation reverberate through those that follow.
Rezensionen: Dave Zeltserman: “Monster” und Carlos Fuentes: “Vlad”
Horror and Mystery: Frankenstein and Dracula cast their shadows in new books. In “Monster,” Dave Zeltserman gives Frankenstein’s creation a voice. Carlos Fuentes sets Dracula down in Mexico City in “Vlad.”