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Library Journal recommended Detectives Beyond Borders; come find out why. At this forum devoted to international crime fiction, you can read about good books and writers, vent about bad ones and, just maybe, learn about new ones. Tell me what you're reading -- and what I should be reading!
- Added on: Jul 14th, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Peter Rozovsky
- Listed in: Books Writing
- Tags: Mystery polar international crime fiction crime fiction detective stories policier
Recent Posts
Chasing the three-headed protagonist: Your chance to win a book
Posting may be sketchy for the next couple of weeks thanks to a pair of looming deadlines. Fortunately, a thoughtful author has stepped in to help.Sandra Ruttan's new novel, Lullaby for the Namless, like its predecessors, The Frailty of Flesh and Wh...
How series change over time: Montalbano and performance
Conversation during and after yesterday's Sandra Ruttan-Jeff VanderMeer reading in Baltimore turned to the joys and frustrations of writing a crime-fiction series and the changes authors make from book to book. Ruttan's new novel, Lullaby for the Na...
Crossing borders in Baltimore
Attended a reading and signing tonight with Jeff VanderMeer and Sandra Ruttan in Baltimore. VanderMeer is author or co-author of titles that include Why Should I Cut Your Throat? and The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals, so you know his imagination ...
Persistence of— Er, what was that again?
Last week I praised the makers of the Italian Commissario Montalbano television series, based on Andrea Camilleri's novels, for Montalbano's dance of hysterical joy when his scheme to lure a political fixer works.I remembered the novel, The Shape of ...
Finnish lines
An American Detectives Beyond Borders favorite makes it into the Finno-Ugric language family. Read an interview (in English) with the author here.© Peter Rozovsky 2009...
More Montalbano: Good writing in novels and on TV
I've commented caustically about television crime shows, and Declan Burke has commented even more caustically on a highly successful agent's pronouncement that "Good writing is the last thing, and we can work with authors on that."In a comment to Bur...
