Sarah Weinman writes the Crimewave column every month for the Post. This month she read Barbara Fradkin’s “The Whisper of Legends”, Robin Spano’s “Death’s Last Run” and Jack Batten’s “Take Five”.
Schlagwort-Archive: National Post
Rezension: John Goldbach: “The Devil and the Detective”
“The Devil and the Detective”, John Goldbach’s debut novel (though in word-count and content it feels a little closer to novella). Robert James, its protagonist, is a lonesome, contemplative gumshoe with a romantic streak, a bad diet and a paucity of clients.
Rezensionen: John le Carré: “A Delicate Truth”
Besprechungen in der New York Times von Michiko Kakutani und Olen Steinhauer, National Post von Philip Marchand und im Telegraph von Jon Stock (bitte jeweils auf den Namen des Rezensenten klicken).
Rezension: Ailsa Kay: “Under Budapest”
“Under Budapest” is a page-turner whose author is a brilliant observer of realistic detail, an uncompromising presenter of some fascinating characters, and an interesting adapter of Hungarian slang.
Rezension: G.B. Joyce: “The Black Ace”
Maybe it’s Swift Current, Saskatchewan’s town motto — “Where life makes sense” — that bothers Brad Shade about the place. Shade, an ex-NHL player, is the hero of G.B. Joyce’s “The Black Ace”, a novel in the vein of a Raymond Chandler thriller.
Rezension: Owen Laukkanen: “Criminal Enterprise”
Laukkanen’s debut thriller arrived with a big splash last year by combining a timely concept — how the economic downtown forces desperate twentysomethings into a “career” kidnapping rich guys for ransom — a concept he returns to in “Criminal Enterprise.”
Rezension: Andrew Pyper: “The Demonologist”
Pyper is already an international bestseller, so it’s no surprise that people are excited about his newest work. Of his previous novels, I’ve only read The Killing Circle, a 2008 thriller set in Toronto’s literary scene.
Rezension: Andrew Pyper: “The Demonologist”
The book is billed as “literary horror.” The “literary” moniker is doubtless meant to convey something about the quality of the writing – while some find the term snobbish or pretentious, it’s obviously still considered desirable enough to appear on advertising copies.
Beitrag: The story behind the story: Hilary Davidson on Evil In All Its Disguises
The Story Behind The Story is a feature in which authors reflect on a passage from their latest work. Here, Hilary Davidson discusses her latest novel, “Evil In All Its Disguises”. If there’s a common thread that links the principal characters, it’s a lust for revenge.
Artikel: John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee is the thinking man’s detective
In the crime novels of the 20th century Travis McGee stands as a hero like no other. Neither a police detective nor a private eye, he fills a professional niche he invented for himself.
Rezension: Andrew Pyper: “The Demonologist”
“The Demonologist” is a literary horror story that values smarts over scares, though there are plenty of both. If you strip away the demons and ghosts, the possessions and hallucinations, it is about a father and daughter, and how far a parent will go to protect a child.
Artikel: The story behind the story: Ian Hamilton on The Scottish Banker of Surabaya
The Story Behind The Story is a feature in which authors reflect on a passage from their latest work. Today, Ian Hamilton discusses his latest Ava Lee novel, “The Scottish Banker of Surabaya”.
Rezensionen: Hamilton, Bradley, Blair
Sarah Weinman reviews Ian Hamilton’s new Ava Lee novel “The Scottish Banker of Surabaya”, Alan Bradley’s fifth novel in the Flavia de Luce series – “Speaking From Among the Bones” and Peggy Blair’s “The Poisoned Pawn.”
Artikel: Why crime?
Why crime? This is the question Robotham has been asked more than any other over the past five years by readers and interviewers at home and overseas. He can answer the question now. He knows why he writes crime novels.
Artikel: The criminally overlooked novels of George V. Higgins
Higgins, who died in 1999, is not read today as widely as he deserves. He may be due for a revival. Random House has reissued several of his books and the movie “Killing Them Softly“, with Brad Pitt, based on a 1974 Higgins novel, “Cogan’s Trade”.
Rezension: Dennis Lehane: “Live by Night”
Reading “Live By Night”, a novel that begins in 1920s Boston, one gets the sense that the War on Drugs will one day be considered as foolhardy as Prohibition. Film rights have already been snapped up by Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company.
Rezensionen: Rick Blechta, R.D. Cain, Peter Kirby and Alen Mattich
“Dying isn’t hard. I’ve done it a hundred times,” knows Marta Hendriks, the heroine of Rick Blechta’s suspenseful new outing “The Fallen One”. R.D Cain’s second novel “Dark Matter” demonstrates a lot of trouble between cops. And two more reviews.
Artikel: Corey Redekop on zombies, Halloween, the nothing etc.
Corey Redekop is the author of the novels “Shelf Monkey” and “Husk”. He will be guest editing The Afterword all this week and he’s talking about zombies, Halloween and much more.
Artikel: Afterword: Why we need monsters
Monsters are essential to how we function in a world that, we are unceasingly reminded, is getting deadlier by the minute. If that lovely couple from “Paranormal Activity” can live with a pesky ghost, maybe I can face another work day.
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