Patricia Cornwell (http://www.patriciacornwell.com/) has sold more than 100 million books and given us the character Kay Scarpetta, medical examiner. Her crime mysteries are distinguished by the level of detail offered concerning forensic science. An excellent place to start reading Cornwell is with the 1990 novel Postmortem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmortem_(novel)). It received the 1991 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. The summary […]
On the day (6th November 2013) in which the penultimate David Suchet version of Agatha Christie’s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie#Archaeology) Poirot is being aired on television The Crime Writer’s Association (http://www.thecwa.co.uk/) has voted the classic 1926 mystery The Murder of Roger Ackroyd as the finest example of the crime genre ever penned. The novel is the fourth book in the Hercule Poirot
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When the cold starts to bite we instinctively turn to comfort food, warm fires and woolly jumpers. Why not indulge yourself in a heart warming story as well? Irish author Melissa Hill’s (http://www.lovereading.co.uk/author/569/Melissa-Hill.html) latest novel is a feel good read. The summary is as follows. Darcy Archer works in a small bookstore on Manhattan’s Upper West
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Peruvian born Daniel Alarcón’s (http://www.danielalarcon.com/) work has been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, Virginia Quarterly Review and elsewhere, and anthologized in Best American Non-Required Reading 2004 and 2005. To get a flavour of this talented young writer, winner of many awards, try his latest novel, At Night We Walk in Circles (2013). The summary is
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A RADA trained stage and screen actress, Lynda LaPlante (http://lyndalaplante.com/) has had an illustrious career as a screen writer for television. Her works include Prime Suspect (starring Helen Mirren), Killer Net and Trial & Retribution. Her crop of novels, beginning with Bella Mafia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_Mafia) in 1991, have earned her entry into the Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame (2009).
William Shaw (http://www.bloomsbury.com/author/william-shaw) has written two previous books: Travellers and Spying in Guru Land both published by Fourth Estate, and his work has appeared in many newspapers and magazines around the world including The Times, the Independent, Vogue, Tatler, GQ, Esquire and Cosmopolitan. He is a contributing editor of Arena in the UK and Details
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Anyone who has been a screenwriter for the iconic 1980’s New York police drama Hill Street Blues (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_Street_Blues) has credibility in my book. Robert Crais (http://www.robertcrais.com/) turned to writing novels in 1987 with The Monkey’s Raincoat and has subsequently built up a large body of work. He has stated that “Thematically, again and again my books are about
Perhaps it says something about modern sensibilities or modern culture that the reading public likes its thriller fiction ultra hard boiled. This is proven by the phenomenal success of Martina Cole (she has sold more than 8 million copies)(http://www.martinacole.co.uk/) who delivers gut churning tales from the London underworld. 19 of these gritty novels from the pen of all people –
Jeffery Deaver (http://www.jefferydeaver.com/) practiced law before embarking on a successful career as a best-selling novelist. He has been awarded the Steel Dagger and Short Story Dagger from the British Crime Writers’ Association and the Nero Wolfe Award, and he is a three-time recipient of the Ellery Queen Reader’s Award for Best Short Story of the Year
