Kuratierte Notizen & Neuigkeiten zur Kriminalliteratur | A sheet of notes & news about crime fiction
Peter Robinson has won the Dilys Award for Before the Poison. It was announced at Left Coast Crime in Colorado Springs, CO. Janet Rudolph reports at Mystery Fanfare.
»We make so much of serious literary fiction in this country, offering lavish prizes at the end of each year for novels that add gravitas and definition to Canada’s presence in world literature, that it’s something of a surprise to learn that we’ve also managed to accumulate a disproportionately large number of writers who are proving themselves world champions in the competitive populist genre of crime and mystery fiction.«
Greg Quill
Louise Penny, Giles Blunt, Peter Robinson and many more – Canada’s crime novelists making a killing, Greg Quill says. His view at The Star.
Via.
»In Watching the Dark I started with St. Peter’s, the convalescent home for injured policemen, and I had originally intended to set much of the book there; but, as usual, other ideas forced their way in.«
Peter Robinson
J. Kingston Pierce talked with crime writer Peter Robinson about his new novel Watching the Dark and how this is different from his Banks series. Read the interview at Kirkus Review.
And of course the “Bonus” to this interview you will find at The Rap Sheet.
Marilyn Stasio about new crime fiction novels and stories. Her views at The New York Times.
Margaret Cannon with a new crime fictin round-up. Her reviews at theglobeandmail.com.
The Crime Writers of Canada present the Winners of the Arthur Ellis Awards 2012
New reviews from Margaret Cannon at theglobeandmail.com. Read more about “Before the Poison” by Peter Robinson, “Trick of the Dark” by Val McDermid,”The Burning Soul” by John Connolly, “The Bidding” by Bill Haugland, “The Red Floor” by Sheila Kindellan-Sheehan and “The River Killers” by Bruce Burrows.
