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Movie News Online | August 25th 2008 by Alex
Here’s a secret — every writer wants his or her name to be famous. Whether driven by popularity or a quest for validation, it’s an egotistical desire that stems from the feeling that what he or she writes is important. When Crime Fi read more
Chapter 3.8 - Curly, P.I.
The Curly Situation | August 21st 2008
According to the sign, along with a couple of other chi-chi businesses, Duncan J. De Walt worked from an office in a converted two-storey sandstone mansion in the Eastern Suburbs’ cash-cow central – Double Bay. The guy had been surprisingly a read more
Chapter 3.7 - Mo in the know
The Curly Situation | August 20th 2008
Running around in the outfield is not all glamourous grass-sliding and the surreptitious scratching of nuts - it’s fucking hard work. Having said that, it beats being spirited off the face of the Earth, which is what appeared to have happened read more
Murder in Trinity’s Land End . . . Chapter 5
Creativemultimediaartist Weblog | August 18th 2008 by LA-TONIA DENISE WILLIS
Welcome to Trinity’s Land End:Town of Murder & Deceit by La-Tonia Denise Willis is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. August 18, 2008 The saga continues in the seriali read more
Chapter 3.6 - Gene dream believer
The Curly Situation | August 18th 2008
At the SCG, I kept my head down and did a passable job of blending into the game day preparation, thanks mainly to a spare uniform I begged the assistant manager for. It’s marvellous what a quivering lip and a fake blub will do. Since I was a read more
Pop.1280: Jim Thompson
Newsjiffy | August 13th 2008 by Richard Brennan
A few years ago, The Times had an excellent supplement on the best crime ficition, with this book ranked highly. I always promised that I would read it, and I've managed to find a copy in Kidlington Library.The protagonist, Nick Corey, is a vicious s read more
Chapter 3.4 - Hole in my heart
The Curly Situation | August 13th 2008
The trip to Randwick from my brother’s place in Mascot is a bog-standard 15-minute commute, but it’s amazing how much time is lost to arseing about when you’re not sure if you really want to get to where you’re going. A new pai read more
NPR profiles Matt: Mystery and Decay in an Ancient City
Matt Beynon Rees | August 12th 2008
NPR's Morning Edition profiles me today, as part of its Crime in the City series. Listen to the story, as well as some readings and an excerpt, here:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93504561&ft=1&f=1032NPR correspondent Eric Weste read more
Chapter 3.2 - Burnt Squid
The Curly Situation | August 8th 2008
Squid was in a world of hurt - really suffering. Not surprising for someone lying across a couch with a foot that had strings of meat hanging where two toes should have been. Tom Crombie bent over the foot in question, which he’d propped up on read more
Chapter 3.1 - How now brown couch
The Curly Situation | August 6th 2008
My brother’s couch should have its own page in the Guinness Book. As far as share house brown couches went the fetid monstrosity took the biscuit, not to mention the car keys, loose change and the odd iced Vo-Vo. “Most Three-Dimensional Stains read more
Chapter 2.15 - Run and gun
The Curly Situation | August 4th 2008
Calm and… try to breathe… OK. At least one holding the pillow on my face, another holding my arms and… now another bear-hugging my legs at the ankles. I struggled against them momentarily, but it was no go and would only kill my oxyg read more
Chapter 2.14 - Open and mutt
The Curly Situation | August 1st 2008
I spun around to be hit in the groin by a blur of scrabbling claws and flying gobs of saliva. Spicy Joe. Joe’s lineage was anyone’s guess but he treated every human being like they were God on earth, and therein lay his charm. He was hairy, s read more
Patricia Highsmith, "Nothing That Meets the Eye"
The Random Arts Blog | July 31st 2008 by The Random Man
Chapter 2.13 - Fort of hard knox
The Curly Situation | July 30th 2008
Back at the ranch, the ranch may as well have been a prison. Front door locked, windows bolted – it was shut up tighter than a Scotsman’s coin purse. I bashed on the door until I set dogs barking and the curtains twitching at Mrs Cavanagh’ read more
Murder in Trinity’s Land End . . . Chapter 4
Creativemultimediaartist Weblog | July 28th 2008 by LA-TONIA DENISE WILLIS
Welcome to Trinity’s Land End:Town of Murder & Deceit by La-Tonia Denise Willis is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. July 28, 2008 The saga continues in the serializa read more
Chapter 2.12 - Little cup of horrors
The Curly Situation | July 28th 2008
Honen lowered his voice. “What I mean is… are you really locked out of your own place?” “It’s all not quite as bad as it looked,” I lied. Brave face aside, if what she said was true, I was looking down the barrel of a cheap motel o read more
Chapter 2.11 - The crotch of the matter
The Curly Situation | July 24th 2008
The rest of the day’s play passed without incident, which was just as well because I was just about ready to expire, especially after being banished to the outfield to chase leather all afternoon. Pity that, at this rate, I’d be doing the eveni read more
Chapter 2.10 - Something wicked this way comes
The Curly Situation | July 22nd 2008
At lunch, I was putting a brave face on things. At the long players’ table in the Members’ dining room there were two topics of conversation: the likely brevity of “Shattered” Simpson’s cricket career, and my freak dismissal. I was in no mo read more
Independent: Omar 'gripping', 'excellent'
Matt Beynon Rees | July 22nd 2008
These great comments are from an article in today's The Independent (London), which reviews the best crime novels from around the world:Not many people are going to be holidaying in Gaza or the West Bank, but these gripping thrillers by a British jou read more
Chapter 2.9 - The view finder
The Curly Situation | July 20th 2008
Gacy was sitting in his 1989 Holden Camira, deleting old pictures off his camera and wondering if digital SLRs needed servicing. He was a painfully lackadaisical man, but camera maintenance equipment was one of the few things he wouldn’t let read more
Chapter 2.8 - Rick Disnick was soft
The Curly Situation | July 18th 2008
The electronic pen scribbles across the TV screen. Now. Keep in mind the Bulls’ Chris Simpson has his eyes on the ball at this point. Clearly even if he manages to catch the ball – here – he’ll have to step on the boundary rope – here read more
Time Out NY: Omar lifts gloom the Spike Lee way
Matt Beynon Rees | July 17th 2008
The latest issue of Time Out New York has a terrific review of my second Palestinian detective novel A Grave in Gaza (UK title The Saladin Murders). Reviewer K. Leander Williams counters an issue I've often faced when describing the books to people w read more
Chapter 2.7 - Pull yourself apart
The Curly Situation | July 15th 2008
Adrenaline does a lot to speed up the reflexes, as does a cricket ball at the windpipe. Noffke’s bouncer was nearly on me before I swivelled and threw a pull shot at it, eyes heroically squeezed shut and braced for pain. Somehow the explosion an read more
First Omar Yussef wins CWA dagger
Matt Beynon Rees | July 11th 2008
My first Omar Yussef novel has won its first big prize. Last night in London, I was awarded the Crime Writers Association John Creasey New Blood Dagger. It's the CWA's award for a first novel. It's a great thrill, recognition for my book and my work. read more
Eight Million Ways to Die - Lawrence Block
Book Tamers | July 8th 2008 by Iulian Barbulescu
„There are eight million ways to die, and among them there are a lot that are appropriate for those who want to do it on their own. No matter how bad subways look, they do their job when one jumps before them. And the city has plenty of terraces an read more
Another Thing To Fall
I'll Never Forget The Day I Read A Book! | July 4th 2008 by ROTUS
Laura LippmanMorrowISBN: 978-0-06-112887-5Laura Lippman lives in, and writes about, Baltimore, Maryland, just across the Bay from me. I don't often get over there but there is a kind of appeal to reading a novel with a setting that is sort of familia read more
Kidnapped
I'll Never Forget The Day I Read A Book! | June 28th 2008 by ROTUS
An Irene Kelly NovelJan BurkeSimon & SchusterISBN-13: 978-0-7432-7385-5ISBN-10: 0-432-7385-0Well, the new Laura Lippman was out at the local library so I put a reserve on it and I took a chance on this one, which I found while poking through the read more
'Collaborator of Bethlehem' nominated for Macavity Award
Matt Beynon Rees | June 25th 2008
My first novel The Collaborator of Bethlehem (UK title The Bethlehem Murders) has been nominated for the Macavity Award for Best First Mystery by Mystery Readers International. That's now three awards for which the novel has been nominated in the las read more
Jewish Chronicle: The Saladin Murders 'a real rarity'
Matt Beynon Rees | June 14th 2008
The Jewish Chronicle publishes a terrific review of my Palestinian mystery novels this week. Here's some of what reviewer Jenni Frazer writes:Rees loads the dice against Omar Yussef: he’s in his 50s, short, balding, and once upon a time he was a dr read more
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