You’re more likely to see other crime writers at gigs than literary events, so what role does music have in the creation of crime fiction?
Schlagwort-Archive: The Guardian
Rezension: Patrick Flanery: “Fallen Land”
John Burnside is gripped by an at times almost unbearably poignant thriller that portrays the flipside of the American dream and how ordinary men can veer into madness: “Fallen Land” by Patrick Flanery.
Rezensionen: Baylis, Litten, Lemaître, Costantini, Söderberg
Laura WIlson reviews “A Death at the Palace” by M. H. Baylis, “Swear Down” by Russ Litten, “Alex” by Pierre Lemaître, “The Deliverance of Evil” by Roberto Costantini and “The Andalucian Friend” by Alexander Söderberg.
Rezension: John le Carré: “A Delicate Truth”
Opening a new Le Carré novel is like stepping into a hushed and well-appointed London club. John le Carré’s latest tale of bungling spooks and government cover-ups ranks finds him back on top form.
Rezension: John le Carré: “A Delicate Truth”
Le Carré makes a return to form with a thriller that resonates with Whitehall secrecy during the Bush-Blair era. That reference to the period when Le Carré’s reputation was first made feels carefully planted.
Klassikercheck: Stephen King: “Thinner”
By 1984, everything that Stephen King wrote was selling by the truckload. He couldn’t put a foot wrong: bestseller begat bestseller. But he was writing faster than publishers could cope with.
Artikel: John le Carré: ‘I was a secret even to myself’
After a decade in the intelligence service, John le Carré’s political disgust and personal confusion ‘exploded’ in “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold”. Fifty years later he asks how much has changed
Fotostrecke: Sixty years of James Bond’s Casino Royale – in pictures
It’s 60 years since Fleming published his first Bond novel, “Casino Royale”. His greatest fan, Mike VanBlaricum, examines how six decades of cover artists have fulfilled their mission to identify 007 on book shelves around the world.
Rezensionen: Hitchman, Johnstone, Myerson, Marshall, Bale
Thrillers – review roundup: John O’Connell on: “Petite Mort” by Beatrice Hitchman, “Gone Again” by Doug Johnstone, “The Quickening” by Julie Myerson, “We Are Here” by Michael Marshall and “The Catch” by Tom Bale.
Beitrag: In praise of Ian Banks, storyteller extraordinaire
He’s a writer whose faith in humans can embrace the worst of what we’re capable of and still refuse to lie down and die.
Kurzrezensionen: Crompton, Talty , Miller, Williams, Higashino
Laura Wilson reviews some of the most recent crime novels like Richard Crompton’s “The Honey Guide,” Stephan Talty’s “Black Irish,” Derek B Miller’s “Norvegian By Night,” Charlotte Williams’ “The House on the Cliff” and Keigo Higashino’s “Salvation of a Saint.”
Rezension: Gillian Flynn: “Gone Girl”
“Gone Girl”, published in the US in June 2012 and out in paperback in the UK at the beginning of this year, has now sold more than 2m copies throughout the world – 300,000 of them over here.
Portrait: Sue Grafton
The novelist talks about growing up with alcoholic parents, and how it shaped her writing and led to her fictional alter ego, Kinsey Millhone.
Interview: Jamal Mahjoub aka Parker Bilal
Mahjoub is living a double life, as a literary novelist and a crime writer. He talks about juggling two identities, an inherited love of Alistair Maclean, and his passion for Cairo.
Rezension: Pierre Lemaitre: “Alex”
If Winston Smith’s Room 101 nightmare in “Nineteen Eighty-Four” proved too disturbing an image for you, then it’s probably best to steer clear of “Alex” by Pierre Lemaitre, the first thriller by this popular French author to be translated into English.
Rezension: Kate Atkinson: “Life After Life”
Themes of fate, family life and renewal are brilliantly explored in this story of a life lived in wartime Britain. Kate Atkinson’s new novel, “Life after Life” is a marvel, a great big confidence trick – but one that invites the reader to take part in the deception.
Portrait: Ruth Rendell
At the age of 83, with more than 70 books under her belt, she’d be forgiven if her thoughts were beginning to drift towards a gentle exit from the world of letters.
Artikel: Lincoln, Argo, Capote and the intricacies of weaving fact into fiction
We forgive sleight-of-hand in books as in cinema, but can we forgive Truman Capote for insisting “In Cold Blood” was factual?
Artikel: Agatha Christie was investigated by MI5 over Bletchley Park mystery
Did Agatha Christie have a spy in the government’s top-secret codebreaking centre at Bletchley Park? That was the fear of intelligence chiefs at MI5.
Artikel: Stephen King says Shining sequel is ‘real creepy scary stuff’
Author says “Doctor Sleep”, due in September, marks a return to the kind of fiction that really frightens readers.