• Forgotten Book - He Never Came Back

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  • Bestselling Self-Published Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Books

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    , NovelGazer Behind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Bestselling Self-Published Mystery , Thriller Suspense Books post from GalleyCat on 11 January 2013 06:07:54 AM . GalleyCat We’ve created a list of the Bestselling Self-Published Mystery , Thriller Suspense books this . week Our weekly  self published bestsellers list is often dominated by the popular genres of romance and erotica . In an effort to help GalleyCat readers find other kinds of independent authors , we will offer regular genre-focused bestseller lists for other kinds of indie . writers We’ve also covered science fiction bestsellers

  • My Favourite Reads of 2012

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    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Friday , January 11, 2013 My Favourite Reads of 2012 I continue to read mostly international crime fiction , so again most of my favourite reads of 2012 are in translation . The standout book for me was the CWA International Dagger Award-winning The Potter's Field by Andrea Camilleri tr . Stephen . Sartarelli My favourite reads of 2012 Andrea Camilleri The Potter's Field tr . Stephen Sartarelli K O Dahl Lethal Investments tr . Don Bartlett Andrea Gillies The White Lie Antonio Hill The Summer of Dead Toys tr . Laura McGoughlin Mons Kallentoft Midwinter Sacrifice tr . Neil Smith Deon Meyer 7 Days tr K L Seegers Jo Nesbo Phantom tr . Don Bartlett Johan Theorin The Quarry tr . nbsp Marlaine Delargy Posted by

  • Review: ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER LIFE, Leif GW Persson

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  • Review: ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER LIFE, Leif GW Persson

    Updated: 2013-01-11 08:32:00
    : : , , MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home Latest additions 2013 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update 2012 Reviews 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Reading Challenges 2011 Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 11 January 2013 Review : ANOTHER TIME , ANOTHER LIFE , Leif GW Persson Format : Kindle Amazon File : Size 684 KB Print : Length 416 pages : Publisher Transworld Digital March 15, 2012

  • Mistaken identities and creepy lakes...

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  • Kerrie: Came home to find Macmillan Australia had delivered two ARCs. Hewson's THE KILLING IT, and SNOW WHITE MUST DIE by Nele Neuhas. I take it the first is the "novelisation" of the TV series??

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  • crimeficreader: Off the internet grid at mo due to imminent move. Just too engaged in other things out of necessity. Hope to catch up with you all in about a week or so. Stay reading!

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  • Kerrie: Home again at long last. Out of 4 flights 3 were delayed and at the end we flew into Brisbane instead of Sydney and then had to wait 6 hours for a direct flight to Adelaide. Luggage to arrive some time this afternoon. Still it is bliss to sleep in your own bed. Waiting for jet lag to hit

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  • #30 / Stuart Neville, Ratlines

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  • Gwendoline Butler R.I.P.

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  • Moira Redmond: An academic murder story from the 1930s - a real Golden Age book, with all that implies... http://clothesinbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/murder-at-cambridge-by-q-patrick.html

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  • Favourite Discoveries 2012 (10)

    Updated: 2013-01-10 09:19:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Thursday , January 10, 2013 Favourite Discoveries 2012 10 The final instalment of favourite discoveries of 2012 comes from me and is one of the books in my top 5 reads of 2012. Karen Meek's Favourite Discovery of 2012 Antonio Hill's The Summer of Dead Toys translated by Laura McGouchlin was one of my favourite reads of 2012. Set in a steamy Barcelona it introduces Argentinian police inspector Hector Sagaldo who whilst on suspension for attacking a suspect is asked , as a favour , to investigate what appears to be a routine . suicide Of course it's anything but and Salgado finds himself uncovering secrets , mixing with the higher echelons and dealing with new . colleagues This was one of those books I could

  • Review: DESTINATION UNKNOWN, Agatha Christie

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  • Review: DESTINATION UNKNOWN, Agatha Christie

    Updated: 2013-01-10 04:05:00
    : : , MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home Latest additions 2013 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update 2012 Reviews 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Reading Challenges 2011 Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 10 January 2013 Review : DESTINATION UNKNOWN , Agatha Christie Format Kindle Amazon File : Size 400 KB Print : Length 292 pages Page Numbers Source : ISBN 0312981686 : Publisher

  • Book review: Killer’s Island by Anna Jansson

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  • A Grain of Truth, by Zygmunt Miłoszewski

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  • Top 10 Classic Stories of Adventure, Plus Bonuses

    Updated: 2013-01-09 18:48:41
    The Guardian did another great top 10 a few weeks ago. This one is Top 10 Adventure Classics, offered by Charlie Fletcher, author of Far Rockaway. In discussing his reasons for writing Far Rockaway (largely his children), he mentions the importance of the story, and how sometimes the story can be more important than the [...]

  • Moira Redmond: A more general overview of the best of 2012 at Clothes in Books, but still plenty of detective stories. And some great pictures! http://clothesinbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/best-of-clothes-in-books-2012.html

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  • STANDING IN ANOTHER MAN’S GRAVE: IAN RANKIN

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  • Sherlock Holmes: The Army of Dr. Moreau

    Updated: 2013-01-09 09:05:45
    I was all set to dislike Guy Adams’ SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE ARMY OF DR. MOREAU. As an old-school Sherlockian, it disturbs me to find modern authors attempting to write a pastiche or, heaven forbid, a parody of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s writing style. Doyle is so Victorian in his sentence structures that it makes contemporary [...]

  • Favourite Discoveries 2012 (9)

    Updated: 2013-01-09 09:00:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Wednesday , January 09, 2013 Favourite Discoveries 2012 9 Today's instalment of favourite discoveries of 2012 comes from Terry Halligan . Terry Halligan's Favourite Discoveries of 2012 My favourite TV discovery of 2012 was Inspector Montalbano which has been highlighted several times on this blog as being shown on BBC4. As I generally don't watch much TV apart from news bulletins , I neglected to watch it until one Saturday evening a couple of months ago when I saw it for the first time and I was totally blown away . It was brilliant , but also amusing and well plotted and it reminded me of Inspector Morse , but in Italian . It was half-way through the third series that I started watching , and after the

  • Kerrie: Have begun the journey home. 2 flights down. Sitting in LA airport waiting for flight to Sydney that leaves in 3 hours

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  • Favourite Discoveries 2012 (8)

    Updated: 2013-01-08 09:00:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Tuesday , January 08, 2013 Favourite Discoveries 2012 8 Today's instalment of favourite discoveries of 2012 comes from Sarah Hilary who blogs at Crawl Space as well as reviewing for Euro Crime . Sarah has chosen two tv series which are now available on . DVD Sarah Hilary's Favourite Discoveries of 2012 My favourite discovery of 2012 was Good Cop with Warren Brown on the BBC . I thought this four part drama was exceptional , multi-layered , superbly acted and beautifully filmed . Most notable for making Liverpool look gorgeous , and for showcasing the range of the frankly astonishing Warren . Brown A close second was The Bletchley Circle on ITV1, terrific cast , period detail to die for and the promise of a

  • Travels and bookstores...

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  • New Reviews: Barr, Finnis, King, McDermott, May, Rees & a New Competition

    Updated: 2013-01-07 11:24:00
    : : , , , , , Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Monday , January 07, 2013 New Reviews : Barr , Finnis , King , McDermott , May , Rees a New Competition Euro Crime returns with six new reviews and a brand-new : competition Win the Nikki Heat' novels by Richard Castle UK only Here are the new : reviews Michelle Peckham reviews Emily Barr's Stranded Susan White reviews Jane Finnis's Shadows in the Night set in Roman Britain , which gets a long-awaited UK release Amanda Gillies samples Sherlock Holmes in Laurie R King's O Jerusalem Terry Halligan reviews the action-packed thriller Temple of the Gods by Andy McDermott The late Maxine Clarke reviews Peter May's The Chessmen the final book in the Lewis trilogy and Lynn Harvey reviews Matt Rees's A

  • Favourite Discoveries 2012 (7)

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    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Monday , January 07, 2013 Favourite Discoveries 2012 7 After a short break , as promised I have a few more favourite discoveries of 2012 to reveal plus the favourite Euro Crime reads of 2012 will follow . soon Today's instalment of favourite discoveries of 2012 comes from JF who blogs at Raven Crime Reads as well as reviewing for Euro Crime . JF's Favourite Discovery of 2012 My favourite discovery of 2012 is Italian crime fiction writer , Marco Vichi . I became instantly hooked on his Inspector Bordelli' series this year , beginning with Death in August Comparisons with Andrea Camilleri are unavoidable , but I actually find the more dark , sombre style of Vichi a big draw , and although not suffused by wit

  • Agatha Christie Blog Carnival for December 2012

    Updated: 2013-01-06 15:01:00
    : MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home Latest additions 2013 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update 2012 Reviews 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Reading Challenges 2011 Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 7 January 2013 Agatha Christie Blog Carnival for December 2012 Many thanks to the contributors to the Agatha Christie Reading Challenge Blog Carnival for December 2012. The contributions to the

  • Win: the Nikki Heat novels by Richard Castle (UK only)

    Updated: 2013-01-06 11:57:00
    : : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Sunday , January 06, 2013 Win : the Nikki Heat novels by Richard Castle UK only The tv series Castle is one of my guilty pleasures so I was very pleased to be offered the opportunity to host a competition this . month So , thanks to Titan Books Euro Crime has one set of the Nikki Heat novels to . giveaway To enter the draw , just answer the question and include your details in the form . below This competition is open to UK residents only and will close on 31 January 2013. Only 1 entry per person per household . please All entries will be deleted once the winners have been notified . The explosive and exciting Nikki Heat novels are penned in the fictional world of Richard Castle , the successful crime

  • New-to-me authors: October to December 2012

    Updated: 2013-01-05 23:28:00
    : : MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home Latest additions 2013 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update 2012 Reviews 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Reading Challenges 2011 Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 6 January 2013 New-to-me authors : October to December 2012 I read 8 new-to-me authors this last quarter of 2012, making a total of 48 for the . year I was particularly impressed with

  • Best new-to-me crime fiction authors: a meme: October to December 2012

    Updated: 2013-01-04 21:30:00
    : : : MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home Latest additions 2013 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update 2012 Reviews 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Reading Challenges 2011 Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 5 January 2013 Best new-to-me crime fiction authors : a meme : October to December 2012 It's easy to join this . meme Just write a post about the best new-to-you crime fiction authors or

  • Blindness & Beyond: José Saramago’s Literary Legacy

    Updated: 2013-01-04 18:31:33
    Have you read Blindness? It was the first I’d ever heard of José Saramago, when a friend lent me the novel some 10 years ago. While Saramago’s syntax and writing style were very difficult to adjust to, and at times I despaired I never would, the story was so compelling that I was unable to [...]

  • My Best Reads for 2012

    Updated: 2013-01-04 14:50:00
    : MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home Latest additions 2013 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update 2012 Reviews 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Reading Challenges 2011 Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 5 January 2013 My Best Reads for 2012 They are all recent publications , many 2012, and I'm pleased to say there are two Australian authors among them . There are only two translated books T

  • Review: BLACKWATTLE CREEK, Geoffrey McGeachin

    Updated: 2013-01-03 18:54:00
    : : , MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home Latest additions 2013 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update 2012 Reviews 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Reading Challenges 2011 Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 4 January 2013 Review : BLACKWATTLE CREEK , Geoffrey McGeachin Format : Kindle Amazon File : Size 404 KB Print : Length 253 pages : Publisher e-penguin May 23, 2012 Sold : by Penguin

  • AbeBooks.com December 2012 Bestsellers

    Updated: 2013-01-03 18:08:54
    AbeBooks.com top 10 bestselling books from December 2012 1. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien 2. The Shack by William P. Young 3. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey 4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 5. East of Eden by John Steinbeck 6. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn 7. [...]

  • 2012: The Year in Books – A Literary Review of 2012

    Updated: 2013-01-02 18:21:32
    What did 2012 in the book world look like? It was a year dominated by Fifty Shades of Grey. We lost Maurice Sendak, Ray Bradbury and Maeve Binchy. Hilary Mantel won the Booker Prize (for the second time) and nobody won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. J.K. Rowling returned, casually. Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Junot [...]

  • Movies and TV 2012

    Updated: 2013-01-02 16:02:11
    Looking back on what I watched in 2012, there were a lot of crowd pleasers, and not a lot of recent Big Serious Movies. There are a lot on the year-end best-of lists that I haven’t seen, and don’t care to see, like Lincoln and The Master. This was obviously a year in which I [...]

  • Happy Birthday MiP

    Updated: 2013-01-01 21:30:00
    Many thanks to all who ollow, visit, and encourage me to maintain this blog.

  • Best crime fiction for 2012

    Updated: 2013-01-01 21:30:00
    : MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home Latest additions 2013 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update 2012 Reviews 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Reading Challenges 2011 Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 2 January 2013 Best crime fiction for 2012 As I warned in mid December , I am collecting your best crime fiction reading for 2012 Below I have provided a Mr Linky for those of you who blog , so

  • What I read in December 2012

    Updated: 2013-01-01 20:56:00
    : MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home Latest additions 2013 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update 2012 Reviews 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Reading Challenges 2011 Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 2 January 2013 What I read in December 2012 Crime Fiction 2012 December was a Kindle month . We were travellling and so e-books provided a good alternative to carry a weighty heap of books with

  • Review: GONE GIRL, Gillian Flynn

    Updated: 2013-01-01 20:28:00
    : : , MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home Latest additions 2013 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update 2012 Reviews 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Reading Challenges 2011 Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 2 January 2013 Review : GONE GIRL , Gillian Flynn source : a Christmas Gift Published by Crown Publishers Random House 2012 ISBN 978-0-307-58836-4 419 pages Synopsis Amazon Marriage can be

  • What's to come on MiP

    Updated: 2013-01-01 19:24:00
    : MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home Latest additions 2013 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update 2012 Reviews 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Reading Challenges 2011 Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 2 January 2013 What's to come on MiP Well , the New Year has rolled in and I'm trying to catch up with my regular . posts So here's a list of what's to come in the next day or : so My review of

  • December Movies

    Updated: 2012-12-31 23:11:23
    Something about December makes me ravenous for stories. Argo: enjoyed it while watching, but dislike it the more I think about it. Manipulative and vain storytelling. Jiro Dreams of Sushi. Utterly charming. Hot Tub Time Machine. Made me laugh. How the Grinch Stole Christmas Magic Mike. Because I like Soderbergh movies. And don’t mind looking at Channing Tatum. The Shop [...]

  • In Brief: Books of 2012

    Updated: 2012-12-31 22:59:30
    This year, thanks to my summer reading project of Shelf Discovery related books, I read nearly 100 books, and finish the year in the middle of three chunksters. Since we’re on winter break, and the kids are here, and they are, no joke, running around chanting “nyah, nyah, you can’t hit me,” I’ll keep this [...]

  • Crime Fiction Pick of the Month December 2012 - a meme

    Updated: 2012-12-31 21:30:00
    : MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home Latest additions 2013 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update 2012 Reviews 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Reading Challenges 2011 Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 1 January 2013 Crime Fiction Pick of the Month December 2012 a meme Crime Fiction 2012 Many crime fiction bloggers write a summary post at the end of each month listing what they've read , and

  • Tributes to Maxine

    Updated: 2012-12-31 13:40:00
    Tha family's offical tribute website for Maxine Clarke is online here where you can donate to her designated charity and see photos and post your own thoughts.Tributes from her nline friends have been collated by Margot at We Remember.

  • Farewelling 2012

    Updated: 2012-12-30 22:02:00
    : MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home Latest additions 2013 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update 2012 Reviews 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Reading Challenges 2011 Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 31 December 2012 Farewelling 2012 My annual post to ring out the old year and welcome the . new Where does time go This year my post comes from North America where the landscape is covered with

  • Review: DEATH LIES BENEATH, Pauline Rowson

    Updated: 2012-12-28 00:25:00
    : : , MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home Latest additions 2013 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update 2012 Reviews 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Reading Challenges 2011 Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 28 December 2012 Review : DEATH LIES BENEATH , Pauline Rowson Format : Kindle from an e-book ARC kindly suppled by the author published November 2012 8 in the DI Andy Horton series File :

  • Acorn, Tree, Etc.

    Updated: 2012-12-25 17:52:50
    I was in my sons’ room, looking for a missing book. Here’s what I saw, “hidden” under 9yo Drake’s pillow: Ransom and Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan, two scary books I loved as a kid.

  • Review: DRAWING CONCLUSIONS, Donna Leon

    Updated: 2012-12-24 23:25:00
    : : , MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home Latest additions 2013 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update 2012 Reviews 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Reading Challenges 2011 Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 25 December 2012 Review : DRAWING CONCLUSIONS , Donna Leon format : Kindle Amazon File : Size 543 KB Print : Length 274 pages Page Numbers Source : ISBN 043402144X : Publisher Cornerstone

  • Merry Christmas all

    Updated: 2012-12-23 22:14:00
    Even though we'll be having a northern hemisphere White Christmas this year..

  • Happy Christmas 2012

    Updated: 2012-12-23 10:57:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Sunday , December 23, 2012 Happy Christmas 2012 The daily posts of favourite discoveries of 2012 by the Euro Crime review team will continue in the New Year . I'm signing off for a couple of weeks . now Firstly I must give my thanks to my lovely reviewers and the readers of this blog and . website Thank you for the comments both on the blog and privately regarding Maxine There will be a site set up by the family where we can share our memories , and I'll post the link when I get it . I'm sure she'd love this picture of Foxy in complete relaxation . And I hope your festive break is . similar Posted by Karen Euro Crime at 10:57 AM Labels : cats Happy Christmas 5 : comments Manda Panda said . Have a happy

  • Favourite Discoveries 2012 (6)

    Updated: 2012-12-22 09:00:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Saturday , December 22, 2012 Favourite Discoveries 2012 6 Today's instalment of favourite discoveries of 2012 comes from Lynn Harvey who blogs at Little Grey Doll as well as reviewing for Euro Crime . Lynn has chosen a . DVD Lynn Harvey's Favourite Discovery of 2012 In addition to Euro Crime , I love animation in particular adult or art-film animation . So I admit that I may be pushing the concept of discovery here toward that of positively hunted-for It's the DVD of Alois Nebel a Czech feature length animation directed by Tomas Lunak and based on a trilogy of graphic novels by Jaroslav Rudis and Jaromir 99. The film is set in 1989 at the time of the fall of the Russian-controlled Czech Communist regime .

  • Review: THE EDGE OF NOWHERE, Elizabeth George

    Updated: 2012-12-21 17:08:00
    : : , MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home Latest additions 2013 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update 2012 Reviews 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Reading Challenges 2011 Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 22 December 2012 Review : THE EDGE OF NOWHERE , Elizabeth George Format : Kindle Amazon File : Size 544 KB Print : Length 400 pages : Publisher Hodder September 13, 2012 Sold : by Hachette

  • Favourite Discoveries 2012 (5)

    Updated: 2012-12-21 09:00:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Friday , December 21, 2012 Favourite Discoveries 2012 5 Today's instalment of favourite discoveries of 2012 comes from Rich Westwood who goes back to the 1960s for his . choice Rich Westwood's Favourite Discovery of 2012 My greatest discovery of 2012 was the greatest discovery of 1965 to a lot of . people I've read a lot of fantastic crime fiction this year , but until November I'd yet to find a new series I could wolf down the way I do Bryant and May or Montalbano . That requires a mix of readability , likeability and personality . I found all three in the Modesty Blaise books by Peter . O'Donnell I knew there were Modesty Blaise comics and a film , but had no idea there were 13 novels by her creator

  • Favourite Discoveries 2012 (4)

    Updated: 2012-12-20 09:00:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Thursday , December 20, 2012 Favourite Discoveries 2012 4 Today's instalment of favourite discoveries of 2012 comes from Geoff Jones . He chooses a best-selling Scottish . author Geoff Jones's Favourite Discovery of 2012 I enjoy Amazon's kindle promotions where they let you purchase a book by a new author for a nominal amount and once hooked the price increases for the follow up books to the correct one which is fair enough This year I started reading Gordon Ferris's books . He has two series on the go . The first one was Danny McRae and there have been two books so far , set in London post second world war . He has been badly injured in the war and is trying to make a living as a private investigator .

  • Favourite Discoveries 2012 (3)

    Updated: 2012-12-19 09:00:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Wednesday , December 19, 2012 Favourite Discoveries 2012 3 Today's instalment of favourite discoveries of 2012 comes from Mark Bailey . He chooses a Sherlock Holmes tv series but not one of the usual suspects . Mark Bailey's Favourite Discovery of 2012 My favourite discovery of 2012 was the Igor Maslennikov Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson television plays these are Russian language adaptations made in the late 1970s and 1980s starring Vasily Livanov as Sherlock Holmes and Vitaly Solomin as Dr . Watson The first one I saw was The Hound of the Baskervilles from 1981 which got a Region 2 release in May 2012 It was a relatively faithful adaptation with one slight change being Sir Henry Baskerville and his butler

  • 2012 Nordic Reading Challenge completed

    Updated: 2012-12-18 21:30:00
    : MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home Latest additions 2013 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update 2012 Reviews 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Reading Challenges 2011 Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 19 December 2012 2012 Nordic Reading Challenge completed I seem to have read an awful lot of Swedish crime fiction this . year First of all 1 in 7 of the books that I have read have been Nordic

  • My Friend Maxine

    Updated: 2012-12-18 20:39:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Tuesday , December 18, 2012 My Friend Maxine I only met Maxine Clarke aka Petrona in 2007 and yet it feels like I've known her forever . Our first face to face meeting wasn't in auspicious circumstances as we chose to meet on the day the gales hit Britain . Trains were reduced to 50mph and so I was late . Still , we managed to meet , eat and hit it off . My journey was easier back to the Midlands as I was travelling on a diesel line , Maxine's was a little harder as Waterloo was badly . affected Aside from emails our next event was a lunch in late summer with the lovely ladies at Quercus , Nicci and Lucy , who handed us a proof of a little known book , The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo A few months later we

  • Maxine (Petrona) will be sorely missed

    Updated: 2012-12-18 16:07:00
    : MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home Latest additions 2013 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update 2012 Reviews 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Reading Challenges 2011 Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 19 December 2012 Maxine Petrona will be sorely missed News came through yesterday of the passing of Maxine Clarke Petrona My own blog was just begun , nearly 5 years ago , nbsp when I noticed

  • Favourite Discoveries 2012 (2)

    Updated: 2012-12-18 09:00:00
    : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Tuesday , December 18, 2012 Favourite Discoveries 2012 2 Today's instalment of favourite discoveries of 2012 comes from Norman Price who blogs and reviews at Crime Scraps as well as at Euro Crime . He chooses a Scandinavian author whose work I've enjoyed more with each . book Norman Price's Favourite Discovery of 2012 My discovery of 2012 was the author Anne Holt , who with her book from way back in 1993, The Blind Goddess translated by Tom Geddes , proved once again that it is characters that make crime fiction . Plot is how those characters perform , but it seems secondary in a successful series such as the Van Veeteren , Montalbano or Brunetti . books With lawyer Karen Borg , police lawyer Hakan Sand ,

  • Review: LETHAL INVESTMENTS, Kjell Ola Dahl

    Updated: 2012-12-17 21:26:00
    : : , MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home Latest additions 2013 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update 2012 Reviews 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Reading Challenges 2011 Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 18 December 2012 Review : LETHAL INVESTMENTS , Kjell Ola Dahl Format : Kindle Amazon File : Size 547 KB Print : Length 368 pages : Publisher Faber and Faber Crime September 1, 2011 first

  • Radio News: Modesty Blaise on Radio 4

    Updated: 2012-12-17 09:00:00
    : : Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Monday , December 17, 2012 Radio News : Modesty Blaise on Radio 4 A five-part adaptation of A Taste for Death by Peter O'Donnell featuring Modesty Blaise begins at 10.45am this morning on Radio 4 and is repeated at 7.45pm . The episodes are 15 minutes . long Susan White recently reviewed A Taste for Death for Euro Crime and we'll have more on Modesty Blaise in the next few days . She's glamorous , intelligent , rich and very , very cool . Modesty Blaise has been called the female James Bond but she's much more interesting than that . With her expertise in martial arts and unusual weapons , the ability to speak several languages and her liking for fast cars , twenty-something Modesty became a female icon

  • This About Sums it up

    Updated: 2012-12-16 21:07:40
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  • MiP will host Global Reading Challenge for 2013

    Updated: 2012-12-16 19:43:00
    In answer to a couple of emails I've had, MYSTERIES in PARADISE will host a Global Reading Challenge for 2013. So does anybody have any suggestions for changes in the structure or rules? Does the Mr Linky set up for each "continent" work ok for you or would you rather a monthly reporting system? Please leave suggestions in comments. I might not get a "sign up" post with a suitable image up until mid January as I don't return to Australia until then, but feel free to commit via a comment on this post.

  • New Reviews: Camilleri, Gray, Johnston, Marklund, Quinn, Rhodes

    Updated: 2012-12-16 13:35:00
    : : , , , , , Euro Crime Snippets about British and other European crime fiction , tv and . film Sunday , December 16, 2012 New Reviews : Camilleri , Gray , Johnston , Marklund , Quinn , Rhodes Here is the final set of reviews to be added to the Euro Crime website in 2012 however over the next couple of weeks I'll be posting the reviewers' favourite discoveries of 2012 on the blog , so please check back . frequently I'm continually grateful to the dedicated reviewers who keep the review section of Euro Crime going with their submissions . Early in the New Year I'll be compiling their favourite reads of 2012. The next set of reviews will appear around 6-7 January 2013. Here are the final reviews of : 2012 Susan White reviews the paperback release of the International Dagger Award-winning

  • Some reading challenges will go uncompleted this year

    Updated: 2012-12-15 19:06:00
    : MYSTERIES in PARADISE Why MYSTERIES Because that is the genre I read . Why PARADISE Because that is where I . live Among other things , this blog , the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution , will act as a records of books that I've read , and random . thoughts Pages Home Latest additions 2013 Reviews All Reviews ranked Authors A-Z 2012 Global Reading Challenge 2012 Reading Challenges Update 2012 Reviews 2011 Reviews 2010 reviews 2009 Reviews 2008 reviews Reading Challenges 2011 Agatha Christie Novels Agatha Christie Short Stories Crime Fiction Alphabet Blogs I'm watching Agatha Christie Carnival 16 December 2012 Some reading challenges will go uncompleted this year Each year reading challenges give me something to aim for , as well as a method of getting some balance into my reading .

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