Jane Jakeman meets a novelist with a taste for detachment – and dissection. “I think as a crime-writer you really have to understand fear,” and the creeping apprehension of imminent horrors is a notable feature of many of her characters.
Schlagwort-Archive: The Independent
Rezension: Peter May: “The Chessman”
Joyce once described Ireland as a priest-ridden country. God knows what he would have made of the Hebrides as presented in Peter May’s accomplished trilogy, of which “The Chessmen” is the concluding volume.
Rezension: Warren Ellis: “Gun Machine”
It begins with a murder and a traumatised Manhattan cop, before expanding into a hunt for a serial killer and a race against time. So far, so standard police procedural. Except Warren Ellis is not an author who suffers conventional linear plot threads.
Artikel: From Skyfall to the Sixties
William Boyd, the third writer invited to pen a new story by the estate of Ian Fleming, will publish his Bond novel next Autumn.
Service: Books of the Year 2012: Crime and thrillers
A selection the best of the year’s books in a comprehensive guide to the highlights in the section of crime and thrillers. Rising effortlessly above all the by-the-numbers work this year have been several truly impressive novels.
Rezension: Hélène Grémillon: “The Confidant”
“The Confidant” (translated by Alison Anderson) has the form of a thriller: the past that reaches into the future, altering lives; a destructive emotional war between two women; and a shocking twist of plot.
Rezension: Ian Rankin: “Standing In Another Man’s Grave”
Spoiler alert: this column not only discloses crucial details about the denouement of Ian Rankin’s latest novel. It identifies the murderer in Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap” - now celebrating its 60th birthday on the West End stage.
Artikel: To die for: Inventive and playful artworks that frame death as a happy ending
A show titled “Death: A Self-Portrait” might sound morbid. But the colourful, inventive and playful artworks make for an approachable, even life-affirming, exhibition, as Adrian Hamilton discovers
Rezension: Deon Meyer: “Seven Days”
It’s inevitable. When a writer of ambitious, weighty books delivers a more compact, less complex piece of work, there is always a slight sense of the author marking time before getting back to more serious concerns.
Portrait: Don Winslow
His dark materials: Don Winslow makes the transition from cult author to household name — He’s the crime writer who captures the seedy underbelly of California – and Hollywood’s current go-to author.
Artikel: Why do we enjoy reading about female detectives?
Long before Mma Precious Ramotswe there was Miss Gadden, fiction’s first female detective. Alexander McCall Smith celebrates a new edition of the Victorian novel that gave birth to her.
Artikel: Holy moly! Skyfall gets Vatican seal of approval
The “semi-official” Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano has given the latest 007 movie the Catholic seal of approval, never mind the fact that James Bond is hardly a poster boy for Christian charity with his womanising, killing and A-moral lifestyle.
Artikel: The car, the watch, the make-up, the beer advert: James Bond – licence to print money
Skyfall is set to break box office records this weekend – but it’s not just tickets that Daniel Craig’s selling. Nick Clark on 007’s killer marketing campaign
Artikel: Why I’m sticking to the golden oldies of horror this Halloween
With Halloween week now upon us, most people will be settling down to a old-fashioned horror movie with some friends and the kids will be planning to trick or treat.
Rezension: Patricia Cornwall: “The Bone Bed”
Her bestselling crime novels made her a fortune – millions of dollars of which appear to have gone missing. Patricia Cornwell reveals all about the mystery that threatened her very livelihood.
Artikel: The Blagger’s Guide To: Scary stories
Forget Christmas: Halloween is the best literary event in the calendar, with some of the finest stories in the canon being the most absolutely terrifying ones. Curl up with a copy of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Artikel: Cultural Life: Val McDermid, Crime writer
The crime writer Val McDermid on her favorite books, films, plays, exhibitions and TV-series.
Interview: MC Beaton
MC Beaton: Mastermind of a Cotswold crimewave. The best-selling crime writer MC Beaton discusses with James Kidd the social deprivation and personal tragedy that inform her cosy English mystery novels.
Rezension: Attica Locke: “The Cutting Season”
Attica Locke’s debut novel, “Black Water Rising”, was a well-deserved success. Her follow-up, “The Cutting Season”, once again addresses important themes, though this time set in a rural backwater.
Artikel: Nordic crime writers: The truth behind Inspector Norse
Christian House asks five of Denmark’s leading crime writers about murders, motives and the unique appeal of Nordic noir.