David Hewson is the bestselling author of more than sixteen books published in more than twenty languages. His popular Nic Costa contemporary crime series, set in Rome, is in development for a television series. That series began with A Season for the Dead, featuring Nic Costa, son of an infamous Italian Communist, a connoisseur of [...]
Archive for July, 2011
The Rome Tourists Don’t See: The Nic Costa Crime Novels of David Hewson
Posted in Interviews, tagged David Hewson, Fallen Angel, Italy, Nic Costa, Rome on July 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Cleveland’s Finest: The Milan Jacovich Novels of Les Roberts
Posted in Interviews, tagged Cleveland, Les Roberts, Milan Jacovich, Ohio, The Cleveland Creep on July 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Les Roberts is the author of fifteen novels in the crime series featuring Cleveland PI Milan Jacovich. Roberts turned to mysteries after a successful career of over twenty years in Hollywood, writing and/or producing more than 2500 half-hours of network and syndicated television, including The Lucy Show, The Andy Griffith Show, and The Man from [...]
“All Fur Coat and No Knickers”– Peter Guttridge’s Brighton Trilogy Novels
Posted in Interviews, tagged Brighton Trilogy, City of Dreadful Night, Nick Madrid, Peter Guttridge, The Last King of Brighton, The Thing Itself on July 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Peter Guttridge needs little introduction to crime buffs. The author of the satirical six-book series featuring Nick Madrid, Guttridge was also the crime fiction critic for the London Observer for eleven years and film critic at Shots magazine. These days he is focusing on a new series of novels set in Brighton. The first of [...]
David Corbett’s Noir Novels, “Set in the Desert of the Human Heart”
Posted in Interviews, tagged Blood of Paradise, David Corbett, Do They Know I'm Running?, Done for a Dime, The Devil's Redhead on July 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Former private investigator, David Corbett is the author of four widely praised novels that carve out a territory somewhere between traditional crime novels and nuanced thrillers. Of his first novel, The Devil’s Redhead, Publishers Weekly noted: “Corbett thunders out of the gate with this gritty, moving debut about an ex-con’s readjustment to freedom and his [...]
Jason Goodwin’s Inspector Yashim Novels: The World of the Ottoman Turks
Posted in Interviews, tagged An Evil Eye, Constantinople, Inspector Yashim, Istanbul, Jason Goodwin, Ottoman Empire, The Bellini Card, The Janissary Tree, The Snake Stone, Turkey on July 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Jason Goodwin is a British historian and author of the popular historical mystery novels featuring the eunuch detective Yashim and set in Istanbul during the early nineteenth century. The world of the Ottoman Empire figures importantly in the series, and Cambridge-educated Goodwin brings that world vividly to life in his novels, having already dealt with [...]



