Marcia Clark’s second Rachel Knight thriller GUILT BY DEGREES is in bookstores now–and the reviewers love it! John Valeri of The Examiner raves about how the novel “takes the strongest elements from an already assured debut and melded them into near perfection,” while Kirkus proclaims that Knight “transmutes the dull and ordinary into the bright stuff [...]
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The Lineup: Weekly Links
Mar 21, 2012 in Weekly links
At The Kill Zone, Joe Moore has an insightful post about the pros and cons of using a pen name that’s definitely worth your time. The Rap Sheet has a great guest post from Brad Parks on the inspiration for his newest novel THE GIRL NEXT DOOR. Michael Robotham’s newest Joe O’Loughlin thriller BLEED FOR [...]
The Lineup: Weekly Links
Mar 07, 2012 in Weekly links
Over at Murderati, David Corbett wishes Daniel Woodrell a fast and speedy recovery from shoulder surgery. Get well soon, Daniel! Attention all writers of short crime fiction: check out the Shortbread Morgue competition currently running at Shortbread Stories for a chance to have your work sent to over six thousand subscribers–and help a good cause [...]
The Lineup: Weekly Links
Feb 09, 2012 in Weekly links
Donato Carrisi’s THE WHISPERER received a starred review from Library Journal that calls the novel: “Exquisite….Readers will be enthralled.” Congrats, Donato! And don’t miss excellent blogger reviews of THE WHISPERER from HorrorTalk and The Mystery Reader, too. The Washington Post reviewed WHAT IT WAS, calling it part of a body of work that amounts to ”a [...]
The Lineup: Weekly Links
Feb 02, 2012 in Weekly links
Don Mann, author of the forthcoming HUNT THE WOLF, was recently interviewed on Nightline about surviving captivity (Mann was captured during his stint as a SEAL Team Six member and lived to tell the tale). Visit Mann’s site to watch the story! Via CHUD, Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper have signed on for an adaptation of Ron [...]
The Lineup: Weekly Links
Jan 25, 2012 in Weekly links
Oscar nominations are out! Congrats to Gary Oldman for his first Oscar nomination for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy–but where’s Ryan Gosling and Albert Brooks for Drive? And where’s either film (or The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) in the Best Picture category? Did you know that Contraband, the #1 movie in America earlier this month, [...]
The Lineup: Weekly Links
Jan 18, 2012 in Weekly links
THE REVISIONISTS author Thomas Mullen’s poignant essay on a song that reminds him of winter ran on NPR at the end of last week. Check it out! Speaking of Tom, USA Today‘s Pop Traveler blog mentions Thomas Mullen in a roundup of Atlanta by Rachel Mason. The first trade review of Joe R. Lansdale’s EDGE OF [...]
The Lineup: Weekly Links
Jan 11, 2012 in Weekly links
Duane Swierczynski’s FUN AND GAMES has been nominated for an Indie Lit Award. Congrats, Duane! Up for a tour through the less-traveled side of LA? Richard Lange has you covered. In case you missed it in print, the Playboy excerpt of George Pelecanos’ upcoming novel What It Was is now available at Scribd with luscious illustrations intact. With [...]
The Lineup: Weekly Links
Jan 04, 2012 in Weekly links
The Houston Chronicle’s Top 10 for 2011 list includes Anthony Horowitz’s THE HOUSE OF SILK, of which it writes that it “wrangles three individual mysteries, witty dialogue and the best bromance around into a book you can’t put down.” The San Diego Union-Tribune features Thomas Mullen’s THE REVISIONISTS as a Best Books of 2011, saying, “This well-written cross-genre book is a [...]
The Lineup: Weekly Links
Nov 30, 2011 in Weekly links
The hits keep on coming for Anthony Horowitz’s THE HOUSE OF SILK–raves are now in from The Washington Post (“exceptionally entertaining [and] altogether terrific … one of the best Sherlockian pastiches of our time”), NPR (“Elegiac … should silence even the most persnickety Sherlock scholar”), The Cleaveland Plain Dealer (tone-perfect [and] action-packed”), and The Philadelphia Inquirer (“enormously involving and [...]
