Martin Edwards is an award-winning crime writer whose fourth and most recent Lake District Mystery, featuring DCI Hannah Scarlett and historian Daniel Kind, The Serpent Pool, was published in 2010. Earlier books in the series are The Coffin Trail (short-listed for the Theakston’s prize for best British crime novel of 2006), The Cipher Garden and [...]
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From Liverpool to the Lake District: The Crime Novels of Martin Edwards
Posted in Interviews, tagged Daniel Kind, DCI Hannah Scarlett, Harry Devlin, Lake District, Liverpool, Martin Edwards, Scene of the Crime, The Serpent Pool, Waterloo Sunset on June 30, 2010 | 7 Comments »
“I Wrote of What I Loved–I Wrote of Korea:” Martin Limón’s Sueño and Bascomb Novels
Posted in Interviews, tagged Ernie Bascom, G.I. Bones, George Sueño, Korea, Martin Limón, Scene of the Crime, Seoul, South Korea on June 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Of Martin Limón’s Korean-based series featuring U.S. Army criminal investigators George Sueño and Ernie Bascom , author Lee Child declared the books “easily the best military mysteries in print today.” Bookpage concurred in the judgment, noting that “Limón has crafted some of the finest military mysteries on offer.” The six books in that series, all [...]
Sam Eastland’s Inspector Pekkala and the Great Terror
Posted in Interviews, tagged Great Terror, Inspector Pekkala, Romanov, Sam Eastland, Scene of the Crime, Stalin, Tsar Nicholas II on June 22, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Sam Eastland investigates Stalinist Russia in The Eye of the Red Tsar, the first of a new series featuring Inspector Pekkala. According to Eastland’s British publisher, Faber and Faber, Eastland is the pseudonym of a British writer who lives in the United States , while his American publishers say Eastland is the grandson of a [...]
My Part in the Downfall of the Evil Empire: Recruitment
Posted in Diverse, tagged CIA, Cold War, Vienna on June 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »
We are continuing our ongoing series of Cold War Vienna tales. It should be noted that Fred is a gung-ho patriot who called in friendly fire on his own position in Korea to stop the Chinese from overrunning it. I stared at him, not so much shocked at his proposition as amused. There was a [...]
Prussia on the Mind: The Historical Mysteries of Michael Gregorio
Posted in Interviews, tagged A Visible Darkness, Critique of Criminal Reason, Days of Atonement, Hanno Stiffeniis, Immanuel Kant, Michael Gregorio, Prussia, Scene of the Crim, Unholy Awakening on June 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Michael Gregorio is the writing name of the couple Daniela De Gregorio and Michael G. Jacob. The pair has created a wonderful historical mystery series set in the early nineteenth century and featuring rural Prussian magistrate, Hanno Stiffeniis. In the series opener, Critique of Criminal Reason, Stiffeniis is on the track of a serial killer [...]
“CSI: St. Petersburg”– The Historical Mysteries of R.N. Morris
Posted in Interviews, tagged A Gentle Axe, A Razor Wrapped in Silk, A Vengeful Longing, Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky, Porfiry Petrovich, R.N. Morris, Scene of the Crime, St. Petersburg on June 10, 2010 | 4 Comments »
R.N. Morris is the author of the historical crime series featuring detective Porfiry Petrovich from Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Londoner Morris sets his tales in St. Petersburg of the mid to late nineteenth century. The first in the series, A Gentle Axe, was hailed as “a satisfyingly grisly yarn… CSI: St. Petersburg,” by the New [...]
Dr. Siri to the Rescue: The Laotion Novels of Colin Cotterill
Posted in Interviews, tagged Colin Cotterill, Dr. Siri mysteries, Laos, Love Songs from a Shallow Grave, Scene of the Crime, Vientiane on June 7, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Colin Cotterill is the author of numerous volumes in the popular Dr. Siri Paiboun series, featuring the septuagenarian Laotian coroner. Dr. Siri had thought to spend a peaceful retirement, but he is conscripted by the Communist government after the 1975 takeover of Laos. He hopes to make this job a sinecure; in the event he [...]
Mysteries in 1920s Africa–The Novels of Suzanne Arruda
Posted in Interviews, tagged 1920s, Africa, historical mystery, Jade del Cameron, Kenya, mystery, Nairobi, Scene of the Crime, Suzanne Arruda on June 3, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Suzanne Arruda is the author of six novels in the Jade del Cameron series of mysteries set in 1920s Africa. Library Journal describes Arruda’s protagonist, Jade del Cameron as “one of the most appealing heroines to appear in the pages on a mystery.” Of the fifth book in the series, Treasure of the Golden Cheetah, [...]
J. Sydney Jones
J. Sydney Jones is the author of the acclaimed "Viennese Mystery" series, set in Vienna 1900. Novels include THE EMPTY MIRROR, REQUIEM IN VIENNA, and THE SILENCE.
“What Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did for Victorian London and Caleb Carr did for old New York, J. Sydney Jones does for historic Vienna.”
-Karen Harper, New York Times bestselling authorVisit him at his Web site: www.jsydneyjones.com
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