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”.
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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.”
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.”
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.
Kolumne: Crimewave
Sarah Weinman writes the Crimewave column every month for the Post. This month she read “The Beautiful Mystery” by Louise Penny, “Watching the Dark” by Peter Robinson and “Trust your Eyes” by Linwood Barclay.
Artikel: Sarah Weinman on James Preston Girard and Dorothy B. Hughes
There are two books Weinman wants to emulate, copy, steal from. One is “In a Lonely Place” by Dorothy B. Hughes. The other is “The Late Man” by James Preston Girard who expertly combined the elements of a good crime novel with nuanced psychological depth.
Kolumne: Crimewave
This time Sarah Weinman reviews in her column Stephen Miller’s first novel in five years “The Messenger”, and the books “Freak” by Jennifer Hillier and “A Door in the River” by Inger Ash Wolfe.
Porträt: Dorothy B. Hughes
One can read too much into an author’s dedication, but the one Dorothy B. Hughes used for her novel “The Fallen Sparrow” is as telling in what it doesn’t say as it is in what it does: “For Eric Ambler / (…) / somewhere in England/ because he has no book this year.”
Kurzrezensionen: Flynn, Hughes, Millar, Highsmith, Lippman and others
Sarah Weinman’s summer reading list: smart crime fiction by Gillian Flynn (“Gone Girl”), Dorothy B. Hughes (“In a Lonely Place”), Margaret Millar (“Beast in View”), Patricia Highsmith (“Deep Water”) Laura Lippman (“And When She Was Good”) and others.
Kolumne: Crimewave
This time Sarah Weinman reviews the books “The Trinity Game”, a Vatican-thriller by Sean Chercover, “Beach Strip”, a beach-thriller by John Lawrence Reynolds and “Confined Space”, the debut novel of Deryn Collier.
Kolumne: Crimewave
Sarah Weinman on “Wildcat Play” by canadian crime writer Helen Knode, “Never Play Another Man’s Game” by Mike Knowles, “Running on Empty” by Nova Scotia schoolteacher Don Aker.