Showing posts with label James Bond. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Bond. Show all posts
Saturday

Review: SILVER BULLETS by Elmer Mendoza

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Detective Edgar ‘Lefty’ Mendieta, the main player in Elmer Mendoza’s English-language debut, likes ‘an impossible case’. Not because Lefty i...
Monday

Review: DEADLY INTENT by Anna Sweeney

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One of the reasons why Irish crime writing took so long to develop as a body of work is that Ireland lacked the kind of large, anonymous urb...
Wednesday

Making A Killing

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I interviewed Jeffrey Deaver (right) earlier this year, although for a variety of reasons the piece was only published last month. It runs l...
Friday

Nobody Move, This Is A Review: FAULKS ON FICTION: GREAT BRITISH CHARACTERS AND THE SECRET LIFE OF THE NOVEL by Sebastian Faulks

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Lists are fine things, particularly if you’re in an argumentative mood, and FAULKS ON FICTION, being a list of great fictional British char...
Wednesday

“Ya Wanna Do It Here Or Down The Station, Punk?”: Peter Leonard

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Yep, it’s rubber-hose time, folks: a rapid-fire Q&A for those shifty-looking usual suspects ... What crime novel would you most like ...
Friday

Nobody Move, This Is A Review: SEAN CONNERY: THE MEASURE OF A MAN by Christopher Bray

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Beware the double meaning of that subtitle. The conventional reading, of course, is that Bray is taking the measure of his subject, althoug...
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Monday

“Ya Wanna Do It Here Or Down The Station, Punk?”: Peter Robinson

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Yep, it’s rubber-hose time, folks: a rapid-fire Q&A for those shifty-looking usual suspects ... What crime novel would you most like t...
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Friday

“Ya Wanna Do It Here Or Down The Station, Punk?”: Kevin Power

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Yep, it’s rubber-hose time, folks: a rapid-fire Q&A for those shifty-looking usual suspects ... What crime novel would you most like ...
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Nobody Move, This Is A Review: 61 HOURS by Lee Child

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Lee Child’s 14th offering reads like High Noon blended with the Coen Brothers’ Fargo, in which our strong, silent hero finds himself stuck ...
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Saturday

Nobody Move, This Is A Review: THE LOST SYMBOL by Dan Brown

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I’ve damned Dan Brown fairly liberally in these pages in the past, not least by lumping him in with John Grisham and James Patterson as som...
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Wednesday

“Ya Wanna Do It Here Or Down The Station, Punk?”: James McCreet

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Yep, it’s rubber-hose time, folks: a rapid-fire Q&A for those shifty-looking usual suspects ... What crime novel would you most like t...
Tuesday

“Ya Wanna Do It Here Or Down The Station, Punk?”: CJ West

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Yep, it’s rubber-hose time, folks: a rapid-fire Q&A for those shifty-looking usual suspects ... What crime novel would you most like t...
Sunday

“Ya Wanna Do It Here Or Down The Station, Punk?”: Jeremy Duns

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Yep, it’s rubber-hose time, folks: a rapid-fire Q&A for those shifty-looking usual suspects ... What crime novel would you most like t...
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The Name’s Blond, Blond Satan

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Wandered along to the new James Bond movie on Friday night, anticipating a very good time on the basis that the reviews were saying Bond ha...
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Thursday

Mi Casa, Su Casa: Adrian McKinty on The English Detective

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The continuing stooooooory of how the Grand Vizier puts his feet up and lets other people talk some sense for a change. This week: Adrian...
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