Canadian writer Louise Penny turned to novels after a successful career as a journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She is the author of the acclaimed mystery series featuring Chief Inspector Gamache and his team from the Surete du Quebec. The sixth book in the series, Bury Your Dead, comes out in September. Penny’s mysteries [...]
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Quebec Author Louise Penny and Her Chief Inspector Gamache Series
Posted in Interviews, tagged Bury Your Dead, Chief Inspector Gamache, Eastern Townships, Louise Penny, Montreal, Quebec, Scene of the Crime, Surete du Quebec, Three Pines on August 31, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Brooklyn as Melting Pot: Gabriel Cohen’s Jack Leightner Novels
Posted in Interviews, tagged Brooklyn, Detective Jack Leightner, Gabriel Cohen, Neptune Avenue, Red Hook, Scene of the Crime, The Graving Dock, The Ninth Step on August 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Gabriel Cohen’s debut novel Red Hook was nominated for the Edgar award, and he is also the author of The Ninth Step, The Graving Dock, and Neptune Avenue, all of which feature Detective Jack Leightner of the Brooklyn South Homicide Task Force. You know a crime author is on the right track when he gets [...]
“Unsettling Undercurrents”: Ann Cleeves and Her Shetland Quartet
Posted in Interviews, tagged Ann CLeeves, George and Molly Palmer-Jones, Inspector Jimmy Perez, Inspector Ramsay, Scene of the Crime, Shetland Islands, Shetland Quartet, Vera Stanhope on August 23, 2010 | 5 Comments »
“Nobody does unsettling undercurrents better than Ann Cleeves,” says Scottish writer Val McDermid, who knows a bit about unsettling undercurrents herself. British author Cleeves started her career in crime with the novels featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones, a pair of “twitchers” or avid bird watchers, who travel the length and breadth of the British Isles [...]
Toothpicks in the Foam
Posted in Diverse, tagged 1968, Prague Spring, Uchatius, Vienna on August 18, 2010 | 4 Comments »
More tales of Cold War Vienna: That year I lived on Uchatiusgasse, a long and undistinguished street, not far from the Landstrasse stadtbahn station. It was a word so full of gutturals that I never questioned until years later the derivation of the name. My street, it turns out, was named after one of those [...]
Elizabeth Sims’ Los Angeles: Rita Farmer as Actress and Crime-Buster
Posted in Interviews, tagged Elizabeth Sims, Lilian Byrd, Los Angeles, On Location, Rita Farmer, Scene of the Crime, The Actress, The Extra on August 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Elizabeth Sims is the creator of two well-received mystery series: one featuring Detroit-based reporter, Lillian Byrd, and the more recent Rita Farmer books: The Actress, The Extra, and On Location (August 2010 release). Sims has earned high praise for the Farmer books, set in L.A. Of the first in the series, The Actress, Booklist noted, [...]
My Life in a Cave
Posted in Diverse, tagged Athens, caves, Crete, Iraklion, Matala, Orient Express on August 9, 2010 | 8 Comments »
More tales of Vienna and Europe in the Cold War: Agatha Christie did not title her novel Murder on the Orient Express for nothing. Thirty-plus hours of standing from Vienna to Athens is a kind of slow murder. Or sitting on the floor in the grimy vestibule by the cans until a conductor comes by [...]
Bangkok’s Multiple Personalities: Christopher G. Moore’s “Vincent Calvino” Novels
Posted in Interviews, tagged Bangkok, Christopher G. Moore, Land of Smile Trilogy, Spirit House, Thailand, The Corruptionist, Vincent Calvino on August 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Christopher G. Moore, author of the Bangkok novels featuring Vincent Calvino, a disbarred American lawyer turned private investigator, is our guest today on Scene of the Crime. There are eleven books in this series that began with the novel, Spirit House and has continued to The Corruptionist, from 2009. The first books in the series [...]
Hemingway on the Case: The Mystery Novels of Michael Atkinson
Posted in Interviews, tagged Cuba, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Hemingway Cutthroat, Hemingway Deadlights, James Joyce, John Dos Passos, Key West, Michael Atkinson, Paris, Scene of the Crime on August 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Film critic and novelist Michael Atkinson is the author of the Hemingway Mysteries series. The first in the series, Hemingway Deadlights, finds “Hemingway on the verge of serious decline: the booze taking its toll, the writing stalled, the paranoia that would eventually lead to his suicide beginning to assert itself,” as a Booklist critic noted. [...]
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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