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20/08/06 In The Chicago Tribune, Dick Adler reviews 'Messenger of Truth' by Jacqueline Winspear, 'The Bullet Trick' by Louise Welch, 'Dying Light' by Stuart MacBride and 'London Noir'.

20/08/06 The Sunday Times's audio book of the week is 'Dying Light' by Stuart MacBride.

20/08/06 The Sunday Times reviews 'Sovereign' by C J Sansom.

20/08/06 The Observer reviews 'Secret Asset' by Stella Rimington.

20/08/06 The New York Times reviews 'The Seducer' by Jan Kjaerstad.

19/08/06 The Times is pleased to see the return of Martin Beck in the reissues of 'Roseanna' and 'The Man Who Went up in Smoke' and also reviews 'London Noir'.

19/08/06 In the Guardian, Jane Stevenson pays tribute to the writings of Margery Allingham.

18/08/06 The Independent reviews 'One Good Turn' by Kate Atkinson.

13/08/06 In The Telegraph Susanna Yager reviews 'Bareback' by Kit Whitfield.

13/08/06 The Telegraph posts a second review of 'Your Face Tomorrow 2: Dance and Dream' by Javier Marias.

13/08/06 The Telegraph reviews 'Critique of Criminal Reason' by Michael Gregorio.

13/08/06 The Observer reviews 'Mr Dixon Disappears' by Ian Sansom.

12/08/06 The Times reviews 'Secret Asset' by Stella Rimmington.

12/08/06 The Times's turn to review 'One Good Turn' by Kate Atkinson.

12/08/06 Gerald Kaufman rounds-up crime in The Scotsman.

12/08/06 The Scotsman reviews 'One Good Turn' by Kate Atkinson.

12/08/06 The Guardian looks at how Louise Welsh's books defy categorisation.

12/08/06 In The Guardian, Maxim Jakubowski reviews 'Visibility' by Boris Starling and new releases from US authors.

11/08/06 The Independent briefly reviews 'Death in the Truffle Wood' by Pierre Magnan.

6/08/06 In The Scotland on Sunday, Ian Rankin applies for a Rebus trademark.

6/08/06 This week, The Scotland on Sunday asks a few questions of Quintin Jardine.

6/08/06 The Scotland on Sunday reviews 'Tombstoning' by Doug Johnstone.

6/08/06 The Sunday Times reviews 'The Janissary Tree' by Jason Goodwin.

6/08/06 The Sunday Times also reviews 'One Good Turn' by Kate Atkinson.

6/08/06 The Observer reviews 'One Good Turn' by Kate Atkinson and 'So He Takes the Dog' by Jonathan Buckley.

6/08/06 The Observer briefly reviews 'End in Tears' by Ruth Rendell.

5/08/06 The Guardian reviews 'One Good Turn' by Kate Atkinson.

4/08/06 In The Independent, Andrew Taylor reviews 'Critique of Criminal Reason' by Michael Gregorio.

2/08/06 Book 2 Book reports that the CWA is to charge shortlisted publishers.

1/08/06 In The Independent, Jane Jakeman reviews 'The Messenger Of Death' by Pierre Magnan.

30/07/06 In The Telegraph Susanna Yager reviews 'The Hard Way' by Lee Child.

30/07/06 The Telegraph reviews 'The Bullet Trick' by Louise Welsh.

30/07/06 The Telegraph reviews 'Your Face Tomorrow 2: Dance and Dream' by Javier Marias.

29/07/06 Gerald Kaufman rounds-up crime in The Scotsman.

28/07/06 The Independent interviews Javier Marias .

25/07/06 The Scotsman interviews new author Doug Johnstone.

25/07/06 In The Telegraph, Susanna Yager reviews 'The Art of Drowning' by Frances Fyfield and 'The Dead Hour' by Denise Mina.

25/07/06 The Telegraph reviews 'Steal You Away' by Niccolo Ammaniti.

25/07/06 In The Age Colin Cotterill describes the important role food played in serving up his thriller 'The Coroner's Lunch'..

23/07/06 The New York Times reviews 'End in Tears' by Ruth Rendell.

23/07/06 This Week, The Scotland on Sunday asks a few questions of Catriona McPherson.

23/07/06 The Scotland on Sunday also reviews 'Your Face Tomorrow 2: Dance and Dream' by Javier Marias.

23/07/06 The Independent reviews 'Your Face Tomorrow 2: Dance and Dream' by Javier Marias.

22/07/06 Laura Wilson reviews 'Safer Than Houses' by Frances Fyfield in The Guardian.

22/07/06 The Guardian reviews 'Three Bags Full' by Leonie Swann.

22/07/06 It's The Guardian's turn to review 'The Bullet Trick' by Louise Welsh.

22/07/06 The Times reviews 'The Name of the Rose' by Umberto Eco.

22/07/06 The Times reviews the latest from Frances Fyfield, Denise Mina and Barbara Nadel.

22/07/06 The New York Times interviews Denise Mina.

18/07/06 The Independent reviews 'The Twilight Hour' by Elizabeth Wilson.

17/07/06 The New York Times reviews 'The Dead Hour' by Denise Mina.

16/07/06 The Telegraph reviews ' Piece of My Heart' by Peter Robinson.

16/07/06 In The Telegraph, Susanna Yager reviews 'The Broken Shore' by Australian author Peter Temple and 'The Coldest Blood' by Jim Kelly.

16/07/06 In The Independent, Mark Timlin reviews 'Darkness and Light' by John Harvey.

16/07/06 Peter Guttridge rounds-up crime for The Observer, including reviews of 'Relentless' by Simon Kernick and 'The Art of Drowning' by Frances Fyfield.

16/07/06 The Scotland on Sunday asks a few questions of Margaret Murphy.

15/07/06 In The Guardian, Maxim Jakubowski reviews 'The Dead Hour' by Denise Mina, 'Framed' by Tonino Benacquista and 'Looking Good Dead' by Peter James.

15/07/06 In The Times, Selina Walker previews next weekend's Harrogate Crime Writing Festival.

15/07/06 The Times reviews 'The Coldest Blood' by Jim Kelly.

15/07/06 The Scotsman interviews Louise Welsh.

14/07/06 The Independent reviews 'The Bullet Trick' by Louise Welsh.

12/07/06 The Independent reviews 'The Fourth Bear' By Jasper Fforde.

9/07/06 In The Telegraph, Susanna Yager reviews 'The Hidden Assassins' by Robert Wilson and 'The Faithful Spy' by Alex Berenson.

9/07/06 The Scotland on Sunday has an exclusive extract from 'The Bullet Trick' by Louise Welsh.

9/07/06 The Scotland on Sunday asks a few questions of Niccolo Ammaniti.

9/07/06 The Sunday Times rounds-up crime including 'The Art of Drowning' by Frances Fyfield, 'Piece of My Heart' by Peter Robinson and 'The Messengers of Death' by Pierre Magnan.

9/07/06 The Sunday Times rounds-up thrillers including the latest from Louise Welsh, Robert Wilson, Denise Mina, Christopher Brookmyre and Sophie Hannah.

9/07/06 The Observer has 'the last word' with Louise Welsh.

9/07/06 The Independent reviews 'Dead Horsemeat' by Dominique Manotti.

9/07/06 The New York Times reviews 'When the Devil Holds the Candle' by Karin Fossum, 'What is Mine' (UK title 'Punishment') by Anne Holt and 'Wolves of Memory' by Bill James.

8/07/06 The Scotsman reviews 'The Dead Hour' by Denise Mina.

8/07/06 The Globe and Mail reviews 'Buried' by Mark Billingham.

8/07/06 The Times reviews the audio versions of 'Venus in Copper' by Lindsey Davis and the 'Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes: His Last Bow'.

8/07/06 The Times reviews 'The Bullet Trick' by Louise Welsh.

8/07/06 The Times reviews 'The Hidden Assassins' by Robert Wilson.

8/07/06 The Guardian reviews 'The Adventures of Captain Alatriste' by Arturo Perez-Reverte.

2/07/06 The Telegraph reviews 'The Janissary Tree' by Jason Goodwin.

2/07/06 The Observer reports that a Kurt Wallander TV series in English is on the cards.

2/07/06 The Sunday Times reviewer is unimpressed with 'Steal You Away' by Niccolo Ammaniti.

2/07/06 In The Telegraph, Susanna Yager reviews 'Three Bags Full' by Leonie Swann and 'The Velvet Rooms' by Sam North.

2/07/06 The New York Times reviews 'By a Slow River' (UK title 'Grey Souls') by Philippe Claudel.

2/07/06 The New York Times reviews 'Piece of My Heart' by Peter Robinson.

1/07/06 The Times interviews Brummie Lee Child plus there's an extract fom 'The Hard Way'.

1/07/06 The Guardian rounds-up thrillers including 'Relentless' by Simon Kernick.

30/06/06 The Independent reviews 'The Devil's Star' by Jo Nesbo and 'Tenderwire' by Claire Kilroy.

28/06/06 The Independent reviews 'The Midnight Choir' by Gene Kerrigan.

26/06/06 The Independent reviews 'Confidence' by Ben Richards.

25/06/06 The Sunday Times reviews 'The Secret Life of E Robert Pendleton' by Michael Collins.

25/06/06 The Independent interviews Niccolo Ammaniti.

25/06/06 The Independent reviews 'The Secret Life of E Robert Pendleton' by Michael Collins.

25/06/06 Mark Timlin rounds-up best holiday crime reads in The Independent inlcuding the latest from Peter James, Simon Kernick and Peter Robinson.

25/06/06 In the New York Times, Marilyn Stasio reviews 'Ten Second Staircase' by Christopher Fowler and 'Never End' by Ake Edwardson.

24/06/06 In The Guardian, Laura Wilson reviews 'The Take' by Martina Cole.

24/06/06 Gerald Kaufman rounds-up crime in The Scotsman.

24/06/06 The Scotsman reviews the latest from Frederic Lindsay.

23/06/06 The Independent reviews 'Three Bags Full' by Leonie Swann.

21/06/06 The Independent gives another review of 'The Bloodstone Papers' by Glen Duncan.

19/06/06 Richard and Judy's Summer selection includes 'The Righteous Men' by Sam Bourne.

18/06/06 The Independent gives a lengthy review of 'The Janissary Tree' by Jason Goodwin.

18/06/06 The Scotland on Sunday reviews 'The Janissary Tree' by Jason Goodwin.

18/06/06 The Sunday Times rounds-up recent crime releases.

18/06/06 Peter Guttridge rounds-up crime for The Observer, including reviews of 'The Last Days of Newgate' by Andrew Pepper, 'The Janissary Tree' by Jason Goodwin, 'Critique of Criminal Reason' by Michael Gregorio and 'The Lost Luggage Porter' by Andrew Martin.

17/06/06 The Times reviews 'Piece of My Heart' by Peter Robinson, 'The Midnight Choir' by Gene Kerrigan and 'Brother Grimm' by Craig Russell.

17/06/06 The Times reviews the audio version of 'Brother Grimm' by Craig Russell.

17/06/06 In The Guardian, Maxim Jakubowski reviews 'Pig Island' by Mo Hayder and 'Saturday's Child' by Ray Banks.

17/06/06 The Guardian reviews 'A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil' by Christopher Brookmyre, .

17/06/06 In The Guardian, Michael Dibdin reviews 'Steal You Away' by Niccolo Ammaniti.

17/06/06 The Guardian interviews Arnaldur Indridason.

11/06/06 The Independent reviews 'The Bloodstone Papers' by Glen Duncan.

11/06/06 The Telegraph reviews 'Tabatha's Code' by Matthew d'Ancona.

11/06/06 The Telegraph reviews 'Buried' by Mark Billingham and 'Pig Island' by Mo Hayder..

11/06/06 The Telegraph reviews 'Vienna Blood' by Frank Tallis and 'The Lost Luggage Porter' by Andrew Martin.

10/06/06 The Globe and Mail reviews 'A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil' by Christopher Brookmyre.

10/06/06 The Times reviews 'Tenderwire' by Claire Kilroy.

10/06/06 In The Times, Natasha Cooper reviews 'The Janissary Tree' by Jason Goodwin.

10/06/06 The Times reviews 'Dead Horsemeat' by Dominique Manotti and 'The Priest of Evil' by Matti Joensuu.

10/06/06 The Times reviews 'Your Face Tomorrow Part 2: Dance and Dream' by Javier Marías.

10/06/06 In The Guardian, Laura Wilson reviews 'The Pure in Heart' by Susan Hill.

10/06/06 The Guardian reviews 'Sweet Gum' by Jo-Ann Goodwin .

06/06/06 The Telegraph reviews 'A Stain on the Silence' by Andrew Taylor.

06/06/06 The Independent reviews 'Tabatha's Code' by Matthew d'Ancona.

05/06/06 The Evening News speaks to Christopher Brookmyre.

04/06/06 The Scotland on Sunday reviews 'The Good Death' by Nick Brooks.

04/06/06 The Sunday Times reviews 'Vienna Blood' by Frank Tallis and 'Pelagia and the White Bulldog' by Boris Akunin.

04/06/06 The Observer reviews 'Steal You Away' by Niccolo Ammaniti.

04/06/06 In the New York Times, Marilyn Stasio reviews 'The Janissary Tree' by Jason Goodwin, 'Dog Day' by Alicia Giménez-Bartlett, 'Havana Black' by Leonardo Padura and 'Framed'by Tonino Benacquista.

04/06/06 The Florida Sun-Sentinel reviews 'Piece of My Heart' by Peter Robinson.

03/06/06 The Scotsman interviews Nick Brooks author of 'The Good Death'.

03/06/06 The Guardian reviews 'The Bloodstone Papers' by Glen Duncan.

03/06/06 The Times reviews 'A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil' by Christopher Brookmyre and 'Never End' by Ake Edwardson.

03/06/06 The Times reviews 'Three Bags Full' by Leonie Swann.

03/06/06 The Times interviews Glen Duncan.

02/06/06 Robert Lewis, author of 'The Last Llanelli Train' makes the shortlist for this year’s Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction.

30/05/06 The CWA announce the shortlist for the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger.

29/05/06 The Evening News speaks to two new Scottish crime authors.

29/05/06 The New York Times reviews 'Piece of My Heart' by Peter Robinson.

28/05/06 The Telegraph reviews 'The Secret Life of E. Robert Pendleton' by Michael Collins..

28/05/06 The Baltimore Sun (Sarah Weinman) reviews 'City of Shadows' by Ariana Franklin.

28/05/06 The Scotland on Sunday briefly interviews Susan Hill.

28/05/06 The Scotland on Sunday interviews Denise Mina as her second 'Paddy Meehan' book is released.

27/05/06 The Globe and Mail reviews 'Sun Storm' by Asa Larsson, 'The Hard Way' by Lee Child, 'The Dramatist' by Ken Bruen, and 'Brother Grimm' by Craig Russell.

27/05/06 The Scotsman reviews 'A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil' by Christopher Brookmyre.

27/05/06 The Times reviews 'The Swarm' by Frank Schätzing.

27/05/06 In The Guardian, Laura Wilson reviews 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth' by Malcolm Pryce.

23/05/06 The CWA announce the shortlist for the Duncan Lawrie Dagger.

23/05/06 The Independent reviews 'A Stain On The Silence' by Andrew Taylor.

21/05/06 The New York Times reviews 'The Hard Way' by Lee Child.

20/05/06 In The Times, P D James reviews 'Hunted Down: The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens' edited by Peter Haining.

20/05/06 The Times reviews 'Buried' by Mark Billingham, 'Never Go Back' by Robert Goddard and 'Borkmann's Point' by Hakan Nesser.

20/05/06 The Scotsman reviews 'Tabatha's Code' by Matthew D'Ancona.

20/05/06 The Scotsman reviews 'Kiss Her Goodbye' by Allan Guthrie and 'Saturday's Child' by Ray Banks.

20/05/06 The Guardian reviews 'Buried' by Mark Billingham.

19/05/06 The Independent reviews 'Silence of the Grave' By Arnaldur Indridason.

14/05/06 The Telegraph reviews 'Pelagia and the White Bulldog' by Boris Akunin.

13/05/06 Mo Hayder reviews 'Piece of My Heart' by Peter Robinson for The Globe and Mail.

13/05/06 The Scotsman interviews Boris Akunin.

13/05/06 The Times reviews the new historical thrillers from Bernard Knight, Simon Levack and newcomer, Nick Drake.

13/05/06 The Guardian reviews 'The Velvet Rooms' by Sam North.

13/05/06 In The Guardian, Laura Wilson reviews 'Back to Bologna' by Michael Dibdin.

11/05/06 In The NYT, Janet Maslin reviews 'The Hard Way' by Lee Child.

09/05/06 The Independent reviews 'White Blood' by James Fleming.

08/05/06 The Independent reviews 'Darkness And Light by John Harvey misguidedly calling it the second rather than the third (final?) book in the series.

07/05/06 The Independent reviews 'Pelagia and the White Bulldog' by Boris Akunin.

07/05/06 The Independent reviews 'The Lost Luggage Porter' by Andrew Martin.

07/05/06 The Sunday Times reviews 'White Blood' by James Fleming.

07/05/06 The New York Times reviews 'The Torso' by Helene Tursten and 'Sun Storm' by Asa Larsson.

07/05/06 The Observer reviews 'Watch Me Disappear' by Jill Dawson.

06/05/06 The Times reviews 'Pelagia and the White Bulldog' by Boris Akunin and 'Vienna Blood' by Frank Tallis.

06/05/06 The Guardian reviews 'White Blood' by James Fleming.

05/05/06 The Independent reviews 'Grey Souls' by Philippe Claudel.

30/04/06 In The Telegraph, Susanna Yager's column includes reviews of 'The Last Pleasure Garden' by Lee Jackson and 'Dying Light' by Stuart MacBride.

30/04/06 The Telegraph interviews Mo Hayder.

30/04/06 The Independent reviews 'Sweet Gum' by Jo-Ann Goodwin.

30/04/06 The Scotland on Sunday reviews 'Saturday's Child' by Ray Banks .

30/04/06 The Sunday Times reviews 'The Three Evangelists' by Fred Vargas, 'The Spanish Game' by Charles Cumming, 'Excursion to Tindari' by Andrea Camilleri, 'A Thousand Lies' by Laura Wilson, 'Dance with Death' by Barbara Nadel and 'The Stabbing in the Stables' by Simon Brett.

29/04/06 The Globe and Mail reviews 'The Death of Achilles' by Boris Akunin, 'Debts of Dishonour' by Jill Paton Walsh and 'Oh Danny Boy' by Rhys Bowen.

29/04/06 The Times reviews 'The Passenger' by Chris Petit.

29/04/06 The Times reviews the audio version of 'The Hanging Valley' by Peter Robinson.

24/04/06 The Washington Post reviews 'Traitor's Kiss' by Gerald Seymour.

23/04/06 The Age interviews Ken Stott about playing Rebus.

23/04/06 The Philadelphia Inquirer reviews 'The Secret Supper' by Javier Sierra and 'The Last Cato' by Matilde Asensi.

23/04/06 The Telegraph reviews 'White Blood' by James Fleming.

23/04/06 In The Telegraph, Susanna Yager reviews 'Darkness and Light' by John Harvey.

23/04/06 The Scotland on Sunday interviews Denise Mina.

23/04/06 Peter Guttridge rounds-up crime for The Observer, including reviews of 'Patrick's Alphabet' by Michael Symmons Roberts, 'Pig Island' by Mo Hayder and 'Smoked' by Patrick Quinlan.

23/04/06 The New York Times reviews 'The Death of Achilles' by Boris Akunin and 'Blue Shoes and Happiness' by Alexander McCall Smith.

22/04/06 The Globe and Mail reviews 'The Secret Supper' by Javier Sierra, 'Blood and Honey' by Graham Hurley and 'Dark Assassin' by Anne Perry.

22/04/06 The Scotsman speaks to David Ashton, author of the fictional 'Shadow of the Serpent' featuring real life Victorian Detective Inspector McLevy.

22/04/06 The Times reviews 'Darkness and Light' by John Harvey and 'Kiss Her Goodbye' by Allan Guthrie.

22/04/06 The Guardian reviews 'Something in the Sea' by Yves Bonavero and 'Little Face' by Sophie Hannah.

17/04/06 The Sydney Morning Herald talks to Stephen Leather about his latest novel, 'Cold Kill' which has Sydney being attacked by terrorists.

16/04/06 The Telegraph interviews Jake Arnott.

16/04/06 The Telegraph reviews 'The Mystery Writer' by Jessica Mann.

16/04/06 The Scotland on Sunday runs a brief interview with Morag Joss.

16/04/06 In The Observer Peter Guttridge's round-up of LCC in Bristol.

16/04/06 Dick Adler reviews 'The Debt' by Roberta Kray and 'The Labyrinth Makers' by Anthony Price in the Chicago Tribune.

16/04/06 The Florida Sun-Sentinel reviews 'The Wrong Kind of Blood' by Declan Hughes.

15/04/06 The Times reviews 'Pig Island' by Mo Hayder.

15/04/06 The Guardian reviews 'The Passenger' by Chris Petit.

15/04/06 In The Guardian, Maxim Jakubowski reviews 'The Chemistry of Death' by Simon Beckett.

12/04/06 The Philadelphia Inquirer reviews 'The Mercy Seat' by Martyn Waites.

10/04/06 The Independent has an article on Henning Mankell.

09/04/06 In The Telegraph, Susanna Yager reviews 'The Murder Bird' by Joanna Hines.

09/04/06 The Age interviews Tim Krabbe author of the unforgettable, 'The Vanishing'.

09/04/06 Peter Guttridge interviews Jake Arnott in The Observer.

09/04/06 The New York Times reviews 'A Death in Vienna' by Frank Tallis, 'Borkmann's Point' by Hakan Nesser and 'The Rainaldi Quartet' by Paul Adam.

09/04/06 The Sunday Times reviews 'Watch Me Disappear' by Jill Dawson.

07/04/06 The Independent reviews 'Murder in Byzantium' by Julia Kristeva.

08/04/06 The Guardian speaks to Dick Francis.

08/04/06 The Times reviews 'A Walk in the Dark' by Gianrico Carofiglio.

06/04/06 The Evening News talks to Ken McClure.

02/04/06 In The Telegraph, Susanna Yager reviews 'The Secret Supper' by Javier Sierra and 'Relics' by Pip Vaughan-Hughes.

02/04/06 Dick Adler reviews 'The Mercy Seat' by Martyn Waites, 'A Death in Vienna' by Frank Tallis and 'The Not Knowing' by Cathi Unsworth in the Chicago Tribune.

01/04/06 The Globe and Mail reviews include - 'The Murder Bird' by Joanna Hines, 'Raven Black' by Ann Cleeves, 'Chickenfeed' by Minette Walters and 'False Impression' by Jeffrey Archer.

26/03/06 The Telegraph reviews 'Patrick's Alphabet' by Michael Symmons Roberts.

25/03/06 The Times interviews Henning Mankell.

25/03/06 In The Guardian, Maxim Jakubowski reviews 'The Grave Tattoo' by Val McDermid, 'A Thousand Lies' by Laura Wilson and 'Contact Zero', by David Wolstencroft.

22/03/06 The Guardian, in association with Harper Collins, interviews 'journalist turned noir novelist', Alex Barclay.

19/03/06 Dick Adler reviews 'The Rainaldi Quartet' by Paul Adam, 'The Minotaur' by Barbara Vine and 'The Dead Yard' by Adrian McKinty in the Chicago Tribune.

19/03/06 The Sunday Times reviews 'Blue Shoes and Happiness' by Alexander McCall Smith.

19/03/06 In The Telegraph, Susanna Yager reviews 'The Gardens of the Dead' by William Broderick.

19/03/06 The Telegraph reviews 'Sweet Gum' by Jo-Ann Goodwin.

19/03/06 The Telegraph reviews 'Watch Me Disappear' by Jill Dawson.

18/03/06 The Times reviews the audio version, by Penelope Keith, of 'Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley' by M C Beaton.

18/03/06 The Times reviews 'The Chemistry of Death' by Simon Beckett.

18/03/06 The Guardian reviews 'Watch Me Disappear' by Jill Dawson.

12/03/06 The Florida Sun-Sentinel reviews 'Jar City' by Arnaldur Indridason.

12/03/06 The Observer reviews 'The Chemistry of Death' by Simon Beckett.

12/03/06 The Observer reviews 'The Righteous Men' by Sam Bourne.

12/03/06 The Observer reviews 'False Impression' by Jeffrey Archer.

12/03/06 In The Observer Peter Guttridge roundsup reviews of 'The Grave Tattoo' by Val McDermid, 'The Spanish Game' by Charles Cumming and 'Ratcatcher' by James McGee.

12/03/06 The New York Times reviews 'Borrowed Time' by Robert Goddard and 'The Princess of Burundi' by Kjell Eriksson.

10/03/06 The Independent speaks to Jill Dawson and how her novel was inspired by her niece's view of the Soham tragedy.

7/03/06 The Scotsman reviews the TV version of Fleshmarket Close.

6/03/06 The Guardian's Digested Read is 'False Impression' by Jeffrey Archer.

5/03/06 The Telegraph reviews 'Watch Me Disappear' by Jill Dawson.

5/03/06 In The Telegraph, Susanna Yager reviews 'The Spanish Game' by Charles Cumming and 'Debts of Dishonour' by Jill Paton Walsh.

5/03/06 The Independent reviews 'The Truth About Sascha Knisch' by Aris Fioretos and 'The Case of the Missing Books' by Ian Sansom.

5/03/06 The Scotland on Sunday reviews 'Blue Shoes and Happiness' by Alexander McCall Smith.

5/03/06 The Telegraph reviews 'Contact Zero' by David Wolstencroft.

5/03/06 The Telegraph reviews 'The Spanish Game' by Charles Cumming.

5/03/06 The Telegraph reviews 'Cold Kill' by Stephen Leather.

04/03/06 The Globe and Mail reviews include - 'The Hourglass' by Julie Parsons, 'The Smile of a Ghost' by Phil Rickman, 'The Goodbye Kiss' by Massimo Carlotto and 'The Death of a Dreamer' by M. C. Beaton.

04/03/06 The Guardian reviews 'The Truth About Sascha Knisch' by Aris Fioretos and 'King of the Road' by Charlie Williams.

04/03/06 The Scotsman previews Radio 4's Music to Die For where Ian Rankin, John Harvey, Mark Billingham, James Sallis and Karin Slaughter, discuss the role of music in their novels.

04/03/06 The Times reviews 'Sweet Gum' by Jo-Ann Goodwin.

04/03/06 The Times reviews 'The Gardens of the Dead' by William Brodrick.

04/03/06 The Guardian reviews 'False Impression' by Jeffrey Archer as does The Times.

27/02/06 The Guardian's Digested Read is 'Blue Shoes and Happiness' by Alexander McCall Smith.

26/02/06 In The Telegraph Susanna Yager reviews 'Raven Black' by Ann Cleeves and 'A Thousand Lies' by Laura Wilson.

26/02/06 The Telegraph reviews 'Madrid' by C J Sansom.

26/02/06 The Baltimore Sun (Sarah Weinman) reviews 'The Princess of Burundi' by Kjell Eriksson.

26/02/06 The Sunday Times skewers 'False Impressions' by Jeffrey Archer.

26/02/06 The NYT reviews 'Purity of Blood' by Arturo Pérez-Reverte.

25/02/06 The Guardian reviews 'The Mobile Library: The Case of the Missing Books' by Ian Sansom.

25/02/06 The Scotsman reviews 'Kept: a Victorian Mystery' by D J Taylor.

25/02/06 The Scotsman reviews 'Blue Shoes and Happiness' by Alexander McCall Smith.

24/02/06 The Independent has news of a CWA award for translated crime in : Product placement; Granta regroupings; crime prizes.

23/02/06 Download, from the Guardian, Alexander McCall Smith reading the first chapter of 'Blue Shoes and Happiness'.

21/02/06 The Independent reviews 'The Mobile Library: The Case of the Missing Books' by Ian Sansom.

19/02/06 The Observer reviews the new Mma Ramotswe - 'Blue Shoes and Happiness' by Alexander McCall Smith.

19/02/06 The Observer reviews 'The Mobile Library: The Case of the Missing Books' by Ian Sansom.

19/02/06 The NYT reviews 'A Little White Death' by John Lawton.

19/02/06 Dick Adler reviews 'Death in the Garden' by Elizabeth Ironside in the Chicago Tribune.

19/02/06 The Sunday Times reviews the audio version 'Back to Bologna' by Michael Dibdin.

19/02/06 'Brandenburg' by Henry Porter is The Sunday Times's pick of the week.

18/01/06 The Globe and Mail reviews 'The Three Evangelists' by Fred Vargas, 'Before the Frost' by Henning Mankell and 'The First Casualty' by Ben Elton.

18/02/06 In The Times, Toby Litt reviews 'The Spanish Game' by Charles Cumming.

18/02/06 Val McDermid talks about her research for 'The Grave Tattoo' in The Times .

18/02/06 In The Times P D James and Ruth Rendell, the reigning queens of crime fiction, talk about its enduring appeal, how they write and some of their predecessors from the ‘golden age’.

18/02/06 In The Guardian, Joanne Harris reviews 'Borrowed Light' by Joolz Denby.

17/02/06 Michael Marshall talks about his life in crime in The Guardian.

15/02/06 The Independent reviews 'Seven Lies' by James Lasdun.

14/02/06 In The Telegraph Susanna Yager reviews 'Ratcatcher' by James McGee.

12/02/06 The Independent reviews 'A Thousand Lies' by Laura Wilson and 'Excursion to Tindari' by Andrea Camilleri.

12/02/06 The San Francisco Chronicle reviews 'The Princess of Burundi' by Kjell Eriksson.

12/02/06 The Sunday Times reviews 'The Grave Tattoo' by Val McDermid.

12/02/06 The Observer reviews 'Seven Lies' by James Lasdun.

11/02/06 In The Guardian, Susan Hill reviews 'Kept: a Victorian Mystery' by D J Taylor.

11/02/06 In The Guardian, Maxim Jakubowski reviews 'Priest' by Ken Bruen and 'Blood and Honey' by Graham Hurley.

11/02/06 In The Guardian Michael Dibdin recounts a Sardinian adventure.

11/02/06 In The Times Marcel Berlins reviews 'The Grave Tattoo' by Val McDermid, 'King of the Road' by by Charlie Williams and 'Pardonable Lies' by Jacqueline Winspear.

11/02/06 In The Times Michael Dibdin reviews 'The Righteous Men' by Sam Bourne.

11/02/06 The Times reviews 'The Case of the Missing Books' by Ian Sansom.

11/02/06 The Times reviews the audio versions of 'Arthur & George' by Julian Barnes and 'The Chemistry of Death' by Simon Beckett.

10/02/06 The Independent interviews Fred Vargas.

10/02/06 The Independent reports an "End to the romance as library users turn to crime".

10/02/06 H R F Keating writes an obituary for Michael Gilbert in The Guardian.

10/02/06 The Guardian writes that " Crime fiction holds sway in public libraries".

6/02/06 The Telegraph has a second review of 'Kept: a Victorian Mystery' by D J Taylor.

6/02/06 In The Morning Star, Mat Coward reviews 'Winter in Madrid' by C. J. Sansom and 'The Hourglass' by Julie Parsons.

5/02/06 In The Telegraph Susanna Yager reviews 'Purity of Blood' by Arturo Pérez-Reverte.

5/02/06 The Telegraph reviews 'Kept: a Victorian Mystery' by D J Taylor as does The Sunday Times.

4/02/06 The Globe and Mail reviews 'Winter in Madrid' by C. J. Sansom and 'Murder in Byzantium' by Julia Kristeva.

4/02/06 The Times reviews 'Ice Moon' by Jan Costin Wagner.

3/02/06 The Independent reviews ' School's Out' by Christophe Dufossé.

29/01/06 In The Independent, Mark Timlin reviews 'All She Ever Wanted' by Patrick Redmond.

29/01/06 The Independent's paperback roundup includes a review of 'Sugarmilk Falls' by Ilona Van Mil.

28/01/06 The Guardian reviews 'A Burnable Town' by Philip Davison.

28/01/06 The Times reviews 'Excursion to Tindari' by Andrea Camilleri and 'Raven Black' by Ann Cleeves.

22/01/06 In The Telegraph Susanna Yager reviews 'The Man of My Life' by Manuel Vàzques Montalbàn.

22/01/06 In The Independent, Mark Timlin reviews 'Ice Moon' by Jan Costin Wagner.

21/01/06 In The Guardian, Maxim Jakubowski reviews 'The Mercy Seat' by Martyn Waites, 'Night Bus' by Giampiero Rigosi and 'No Help for the Dying' by Adrian Magson (again).

19/01/06 The Independent reviews ' Winter In Madrid' by C J Sansom.

15/01/06 In The Telegraph Susanna Yager reviews 'Enemy Within' by Paul Adam and 'Gentlemen and Players' by Joanne Harris.

14/01/06 The Times reviews 'Priest' by Ken Bruen and 'The Three Evangelists' by Fred Vargas.

14/01/06 The Times reviews the audio version of 'The American Boy' by Andrew Taylor.

13/01/06 The Independent interviews poet David Harsent, who writes crime under the names David Lawrence and Jack Curtis.

12/01/06 In The Independent, 'A Week In Books' discusses ghostwriting and 'How to Seduce a Ghost' by Hope McIntyre aka Caroline Upcher and a ghostwriter herself.

08/01/06 The Washington Post reviews 'Death in the Garden' by Elizabeth Ironside, 'After the Armistice Ball' by Catriona McPherson and 'Mrs. Malory and No Cure For Death' by Hazel Holt.

08/01/06 Dick Adler reviews 'Gentlemen and Players' by Joanne Harris and 'The Goodbye Kiss' by Massimo Carlotto in the Chicago Tribune.

08/01/06 The New York Times reviews 'The Sacred Cut' by David Hewson.

08/01/06 The Sunday Times reviews the audio version of 'Catch Me When I Fall' by Nicci French.

07/01/06 The Times has a short story by Nicci French - 'The Visitors'.

07/01/06 The Times has a feature on Len Deighton.

07/01/06 The Globe and Mail reviews 'The Reckoning' by Sue Walker.

07/01/06 The Times reviews the audio versions of 'The Woman in Black' by Susan Hill and 'Frost at Christmas' by R D Wingfield.

05/01/06 The Independent interviews Len Deighton.

04/01/06 The Times has more on the CWA's decision to ban translated crime from Gold Dagger consideration.

03/01/06 In The Telegraph Susanna Yager reviews 'A Dead Man in Istanbul' by Michael Pearce.

03/01/06 The Guardian's obituary for spy writer Ted Allbeury.

01/01/06 Mark Timlin praises 'Mr Clarinet' by Nick Stone.

28/12/05 The Telegraph reviews Anne Perry's Christmas offering, 'A Christmas Guest'.

28/12/05 The Independent's Heroes and Villains include Orhan Pamuk and the CWA respectively.

28/12/05 In The Independent a short story by Alexander McCall Smith - 'The Unfortunate Fate of Kitty da Silva'.

25/12/05 The Chicago Tribune reviews 'The Moon Tunnel' by Jim Kelly and 'Ticket to Ride' by Janet Neel.

25/12/05 The New York Times reviews 'The Lighthouse' by P D James and 'Ash and Bone' by John Harvey.

24/12/05 The Times details several author's favourite walks including Ian Rankin's Edinburgh walk.

24/12/05 In The Guardian, Maxim Jakubowski reviews 'No Help for the Dying' by Adrian Magson, 'The Man of My Life' by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and 'The Smile of a Ghost' by Phil Rickman.

24/12/05 The Gobe and Mail reviews 'Belfast Cofidntial' by Colin Bateman and 'The Detection Collection' edited by Simon Brett.

20/12/05 The Telegraph reviews 'The First Casualty' by Ben Elton.

19/12/05 In The Independent: Crime writers are denied prizes by literary snobs, says Rankin.

18/12/05 In The Telegraph Susanna Yager reviews '9tail Fox' by Jon Courtenay Grimwood and 'The Art of Dying' by Vena Cork.

18/12/05 The Telegraph reviews 'Quite Honestly' by John Mortimer.

17/12/05 The Guardian reviews 'Enemy Within' by Paul Adam and 'Now You See Me' by Margaret Murphy.

13/12/05 The Daily Record reports how Ian Rankin appears in the new Inspector Rebus tv adaptation in a part he didn't write.

11/12/05 The Chicago Tribune reviews 'No Peace for the Wicked' by Pip Granger, 'Total Chaos' by Jean-Claude Izzo, 'Seventy-Seven Clocks' by Christopher Fowler and 'Involuntary Witness' by Gianrico Carofiglio.

11/12/05 The New York Times reviews 'Dear Departed' by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles.

11/12/05 The Sunday Times Thriller Roundup includes books by Mankell and Ryan amongst others.

11/12/05 The Sunday Times Crime Roundup includes books by Camilleri, Dibdin, Fossum and Akunin amongst others.

10/12/05 The Globe and Mail reviews 'Betrayal' by Karin Alvtegen.

10/12/05 Exclusively in The Times, John Mortimer's seasonal short story 'The Actor's Story'.

9/12/05 The Independent has a feature on the CWA's new award and new sponsor.

5/12/05 The Telegraph chooses its Crime Books of 2005.

5/12/05 The CWA announces a new name, new prize and a new sponsor for the Gold Dagger award.

4/12/05 Peter Guttridge reviews 'The Devil's Feather' by Minette Walters, 'Berlin' by Pierre Frei, 'The Third Woman' by Mark Burnell and 'Blood on the Saddle' by Rafael Reig.

3/12/05 In The Times, Marcel Berlins picks out his best of 2005 : 'Silence of the Grave' by Arnaldur Indridason, 'Lifeless' by Mark Billingham and 'The Big Over Easy' by Jasper Fforde plus the latest from Moseley and Block.

27/11/05 The Chicago Tribune reviews 'Have Mercy on Us All' by Fred Vargas, 'The Cipher Garden' by Martin Edwards, 'Masterpieces in Miniature' by Agatha Christie and briefly 'The Smell of the Night' by Andrea Camilleri.

27/11/05 The Florida Sun-Sentinel reviews 'The Burning Girl' by Mark Billingham.

26/09/05 In The Guardian, Maxim Jakubowski reviews 'Someone Else' by Tonino Benacquista and 'Tarantula' by Thierry Jonquet.

25/11/05 Frances Fyfield reviews the latest best sellers from P D James and Ruth Rendell.

23/11/05 Filmfodder reports that production has begun on the filming of P D James' SF novel,'Children of Men'.

20/11/05 The Sunday Times interviews Scottish author Lin Anderson whose series features a forensic scientist.

20/11/05 The Sunday Times reviews the audio version of 'Night Frost'by RD Wingfield, read by David Jason.

20/10/05 The Florida Sun-Sentinel reviews 'Black Angel' by John Connolly.

19/11/05 The Times reviews 'The Conjurer's Bird' by Martin Davies.

20/11/05 Susanna Yager reviews 'Gentlemen and Players' by Joanne Harris and 'The Man of My Life' by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.

19/11/05 The Guardian reviews 'The First Casualty' by Ben Elton as well as 'The Vienna Assignment' by Olen Steinhauer.

18/11/05 The Independent features the CWA John Creasey award winning 'Running Hot' by Dreda Say Mitchell.

18/11/05 The Independent reviews 'The Man of My Life' by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.

16/11/05 Marcel Berlins writes about the CWA's decision to only consider books originally written in English for the Golden Dagger award.

15/11/05 Orham Pamuk has been awarded the prestigious French foreign literature prize the Prix Medicis.

13/11/05 Peter Guttridge reviews the latest from Baronesses James and Rendell.

13/11/05 The Sunday Times reviews two books about Sherlock Holmes : 'The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes Vol 3' and 'Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorised Biography'.

12/11/05 Golden Dagger rule change excludes translated crime novels from competition.

11/11/05 Jane Jakeman reviews 'The First Casualty' by Ben Elton.

10/11/05 Jane Jakeman reviews 'The Conjuror's Bird' by Martin Davies.

8/11/05 Barry Forshaw reviews ' Catch Me When I Fall' by Nicci French.

8/11/05 The CWA announce the recipients of the 2005 Dagger Awards.

6/11/05 The Sunday Times reviews 'End In Tears' by Ruth Rendell.

6/11/05 The Telegraph reviews 'The First Casualty' by Ben Elton.

6/11/05 In The NYT, Marilyn Stasio reviews reissues of 'Death in the Garden' by Elizabeth Ironside and 'Total Chaos' by Jean-Claude Izzo.

5/11/05 The Times talks to authors who collaborate, including the husband and wife team behind Nicci French.

1/11/05 Susanna Yager reviews 'The Lighthouse' by P D James.

31/10/05 In The Independent, Jane Jakeman reviews 'Safer Than Houses' by Frances Fyfield.

30/10/05 Dick Adler reviews ' Spectres in the Smoke' by Tony Broadbent and 'Demon of the Air' by Simon Levack in the Chicago Tribune.

30/10/05 The Independent reviews Eric Ambler's 'The Levanter'.

30/10/05 The Florida Sun-Sentinel reviews 'First Drop' by Zoe Sharp.

30/10/05 The Telegraph reviews 'The Lighthouse' by P D James.

29/10/05 The Times reviews 'The Take' by Martina Cole and 'Aggressor' by Andy McNab.

29/10/05 The Times reviews 'The First Casualty' by Ben Elton.

29/10/05 The Guardian reviews 'Berlin' by Pierre Frei.

29/10/05 In The Guardian, Jessica Mann reviews 'The Lighthouse' by P D James.

29/10/05 The Guardian has more insights from Turkish author Orhan Pamuk.

25/10/05 Susanna Yager reviews 'Blood on the Saddle' by Rafael Reig and 'Safer than Houses' by Frances Fyfield amongst other non European offerings.

24/10/05 The Independent reviews the first translated title,'The Devil's Star' from Norwegian author Jo Nesbo.

23/10/05 The Observer interviews Turkish author Orhan Pamuk.

23/10/05 In The NYT, Marilyn Stasio reviews 'The Innocent' by Magdalen Nabb and 'Half Broken Things' by Morag Joss.

23/10/05 The Guardian reviews 'The Man Who Smiled' by Henning Mankell.

23/10/05 In The Guardian, crime author Andrew Martin on 'being a boy'.

22/10/05 The Scotsman interviews Ian Rankin.

22/10/05 Dick Adler reviews '13 Steps Down' by Ruth Rendell in the Chicago Tribune.

21/10/05 The Guardian reports that Booker prize winner John Banville is to write a series of thrillers.

16/10/05 The Sunday Times reviews the audio version of 'Watching Out' by by Ann Granger.

16/10/05 The Sunday Times reviews 'Friends, Lovers, Chocolate' by Alexander McCall Smith.

16/10/05 The Sunday Times reviews 'Quite Honestly' by John Mortimer.

15/10/05 Natasha Cooper reviews 'End in Tears' by Ruth Rendell for The Times which also has an extract.

15/10/05 Macavity's interview Martin Edwards.

11/10/05 Ask Alexander McCall Smith a Question on the Guardian's site.

11/10/05 The Guardian reviews 'A Quiet Vendetta' by Roger Jon Ellory.

9/10/05 The Florida Sun-Sentinel reviews 'Half Broken Things' by Morag Joss.

9/10/05 The Sunday Times reviews 'The Lighthouse' by P D James.

9/10/05 The Sunday Times reviews the audio version of 'The Black Angel' by John Connolly.

9/10/05 The Independent reviews 'The Penge Bungalow Murders' by John Mortimer.

8/10/05 The Times reviews 'Safer Than Houses' by Frances Fyfield and 'The Mannequin Man' by Luca Di Fulvio.

7/10/05 The Independent reviews 'The Man Who Smiled' by Henning Mankell.

5/10/05 Susanna Yager reviews 'The Devil's Feather' by Minette Walters and 'The Third Woman' by Mark Burnell.

3/10/05 The Independent reviews ' Friends, Lovers, Chocolate' by Alexander McCall Smith.

26/09/05 The Independent reviews 'The Stranger House' by Reginald Hill.

24/09/05 The Times reviews the re-released 'The Flood' by Ian Rankin.

24/09/05 Elsewhere, The Times reviews 'Blind Eye' by G M Ford and the re-released 'The Chinaman' by Stephen Leather.

24/09/05 The Times enthuses about 'The Not Knowing' by Cathi Unsworth, 'The Man Who Smiled' by Henning Mankell and Seventy-Seven Clocks' by Christopher Fowler.

24/09/05 In The Times Selina Walker talks about her Bouchercon experiences.

24/09/05 In The Guardian, Maxim Jakubowski reviews 'Seventy-Seven Clocks' by Christopher Fowler as well as 'The Hot Kid' by Elmore Leonard and 'Fiddlers' by Ed McBain.

22/09/05 Ian Rankin talks to The Evening News about Rebus's future.

20/09/05 Susanna Yager reviews 'Berlin' by Pierre Frei and 'Alibi' by Joseph Kanon.

18/09/05 The Chicago Tribune reviews 'First Drop' by Zoe Sharp, 'A Bitter Chill' by Jane Finnis and briefly mentions Nicholas Royle and Gladys Mitchell.

18/09/05 Ian Rankin article in The Scotland on Sunday.

17/09/05 Alex Norton (DCI Matt Burke) on Taggart and Rebus in the Evening News.

17/09/05 The Scotsman discusses Agatha Christie, Jane Marple and lots of statistics.

15/09/05 The CWA announces the shortlist for the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger for 2005.

13/09/05 The BBC has an article on The Mystery of Agatha Christie.

11/09/05 Peter Guttridge reviews 'Gagged and Bound' by Natasha Cooper as well as the latest from Slaughter, Lippman and Kellerman.

11/09/05 Susanna Yager reviews 'Crusader's Cross' by James Lee Burke and 'A Quiet Vendetta' by Roger Jon Ellory.

10/09/05 The Scotsman reviews 'Friends, Lovers, Chocolate' by Alexander McCall Smith.

10/09/05 The Sunday Times reviews 'The Devil's Feather' by Minette Walters.

9/09/05 Macavity's interview Tonino Benacquista.

6/09/05 The Independent previews Agatha Christie Week.

4/09/05 The Chicago Tribune reviews 'Out of Mind' by Catherine Sampson.

4/09/05 The Florida Sun-Sentinel reviews 'Pardonable Lies' by Jacqueline Winspear.

4/09/05 The Independent gives five stars to 'Death in the Truffle Wood' by Pierre Magnan.

3/09/05 The Globe and Mail enthuses about 'Calling Out for You' by Karin Fossum.

3/09/05 The Mirror report how ex MP and current spy thriller writer, Nigel West, faces jail.

31/08/05 The Telegraph reviews 'Swan Song' by Robert Edric.

28/08/05 The New York Times reviews 'Pardonable Lies' by Jacqueline Winspear.

28/08/05 The Sunday Times reviews the audio version of 'Secrets of the Dead' by Reginald Hill.

28/08/05 Susanna Yager reviews 'Gagged and Bound' by Natasha Cooper and 'The Voice of the Violin' by Andrea Camilleri.

27/08/05 In The Times, Natasha Cooper reviews 'Friends, Lovers, Chocolate' by Alexander McCall Smith.

27/08/05 The Times reviews 'Angel in the House' by Mike Ripley and 'Ticket to Ride' by Janet Neel.

27/08/05 In The Guardian, Maxim Jakubowski reviews 'The Blood of Angels' by Michael Marshall, 'Last Rights' by Barbara Nadel and 'A Good Day to Die' by Simon Kernick.

27/08/05 The Age reviews 'The Dead Place' by Stephen Booth.

24/08/05 The Independent reviews 'The City of Tiny Lights' by Patricke Neate.

23/08/05 Jane Jakeman reviews 'The Portrait' by Iain Pears.

21/08/05 The Chicago Tribune reviews 'Pardonable Lies' by Jacqueline Winspear.

21/08/05 The Age talks to John Harvey.

21/08/05 The Independent reviews 'The Voice of the Violin' by Andrea Camilleri.

21/08/05 The Telegraph reviews 'The Portrait' by Iain Pears.

21/08/05 Susanna Yager reviews 'The Stranger House' by Reginald Hill and 'Captain Alatriste' by Arturo Pérez-Reverte .

21/08/05 The Independent reviews audio versions of 'The Silver Pigs' by Lindsey Davis and 'The American Boy' by Andrew Taylor.

19/08/05 The Telegraph reviews 'Darkhouse' by Alex Barclay, 'Lethal Intent' by Quintin Jardine, 'Killing the Beasts' by Chris Simms, 'Death in the Truffle Wood' by Pierre Magnan and 'Calling Out For You!' by Karin Fossum.

19/08/05 The Telegraph reviews 'The Death of Achilles' by Boris Akunin.

17/08/05 The Independent reviews 'The Big Over Easy' by Jasper Fforde.

16/08/05 The Telegraph reviews 'Back to Bologna' by Michael Dibdin.

14/08/05 Susanna Yager rounds up the latest releases from Jim Kelly, Stephen Booth, Susan Hill, Simon Kernick, David Lawrence, Barbara Nadel, Jasper Fforde and Sam Baker.

14/08/05 The New York Times reviews 'The Last Resort' by Carmen Posadas, 'Holy Smoke' by Tonino Benacquista and 'Thirty-Three Teeth' by Colin Cotterill.

14/08/05 The Sunday Times reviews the audio version of 'Soft Target' by by Stephen Leather.

13/08/05 The Times reviews some Italian crime writing : 'Involuntary Witness' by Gianrico Carofiglio and 'The Voice of the Violin' by Andrea Camilleri.

13/08/05 In The Guardian, Maxim Jakubowski reviews 'Back to Bologna' by Michael Dibdin and 'The Not Knowing' by Cathi Unsworth.

12/08/05 Jane Jakeman interviews Boris Akunin.

7/08/05 The Chicago Tribune reviews 'The Palace Tiger' by Barbara Cleverly, 'Gold Granite' by Stuart MacBride and 'Thirty-Three Teeth' by Colin Cotterill.

7/08/05 The South Florida Sun-Sentinel posts Janet Maslin's NYT review of 'The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime' by Jasper Fforde.

7/08/05 The Independent looks at the latest from Michael Dibdin and Andrea Camilleri.

7/08/05 The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reviews 'Field of Blood' by Denise Mina.

6/08/05 The Times reviews the Da Vinci Code-esque 'The Colour of a Dog Running Away' by Richard Gwyn.

6/08/05 The Times interviews Boris Akunin and publishes an extract from 'The Death of Achilles' the fourth Erast Fandorin novel.

6/08/05 The Times reviews 'Brandenburg' by Henry Porter and Joseph Kanon's 'Alibi'.

6/08/05 In The Observer Matthew Lewin reviews Steve Mosby's 'The Cutting Crew'.

6/08/05 Alexander McCall Smith talks about his ancestors.

5/08/05 The Independent muses on the 'war' genre and reviews Philippe Claudel's 'Grey Souls'.

4/08/05 This Week reviews 'Field of Blood' by Denise Mina.

31/07/05 The Kansas City Star reviews the Sara Selkirk series by Morag Joss.

31/07/05 In the Baltimore Sun, Sarah Weinman reviews books by Denise Mina and Karin Fossum.

31/07/05 Karin Fossum's 'Calling Out For You' is given a lengthy review in The Independent.

31/07/05 Mark Timlin is enthusiastic about 'Darkhouse' by Alex Barclay.

31/07/05 Peter Guttridge reviews the latest from Reginald Hill as well as some (other) thrillers.

31/07/05 The Sunday Times reviews 'The Stranger House' by Reginald Hill.

30/07/05 The London Free Press reviews 'Blood Eagle' by Craig Russell, the first of three novels to be set in Germany.

30/07/05 The Times reviews 'Gagged and Bound' by Natasha Cooper as well as the new books by Stella Duffy and Karin Slaughter.

29/07/05 Ian Rankin first editions to be auctioned.

27/07/05 The Telegraph interviews Reginald Hill.

27/07/05 The Telegraph reviews 'City of Tiny Lights' by Patrick Neate.

27/07/05 The Independent reviews 'Brandenburg' by Henry Porter.

25/07/05 The Washington Post reviews 'The Blood-Dimmed Tide' by Rennie Airth.

24/07/05 The Chicago Tribune reviews 'Field of Blood' by Denise Mina and 'The Blood-Dimmed Tide' by Rennie Airth.

24/07/05 The Washington Post reviews 'Spies' by German author, Marcel Beyer.

24/07/05 Conan Doyle is accused of betrayal and murder.

23/07/05 The Times reviews the tenth Aurelio Zen book, 'Back to Bologna' by Michael Dibdin and publishes an extract.

23/07/05 The Times reviews the latest from horse-racing crime writer Lyndon Stacey and muses about other sports in thrillers.

23/07/05 The Times reviews the audio version of 'Sleepyhead' by Mark Billingham.

22/07/05 The Washington Post reviews 'The Big Over Easy' by Jasper Fforde.

22/07/05 The Independent reviews Chris Cleave's 'Incendiary'.

16/07/05 The Times reviews the latest from Jasper Fforde, Karin Fossum and Reginald Hill.

12/07/05 Inspector Morse spin-off series 'Lewis' begins filming this month.

12/07/05 Chris Cleave reflects on his novel's similarity to last week's bomb attacks, in The Telegraph.

11/07/05 The Independent reviews '54' by Wu Ming.

10/07/05 The Telegraph reviews 'Brandenburg' by Henry Porter.

10/07/05 The Times rounds-up recent Thrillers including those by : Robert Edric, Patrick Neate and Chris Cleave.

10/07/05 The Times rounds-up recent Crime novels including those by : Frank Tallis, Jacqueline Winspear, Susan Hill, Andrew Holmes, David Lawrence, Stephen Leather and Michael Ridpath.

9/07/05 In The Guardian, Maxim Jakubowski reviews 'The Last Llanelli Train' by Robert Lewis as well as 'The Traveller' by John Twelve Hawks.

06/07/05 HarperCollins interviews Reginald Hill.

03/07/05 In The Observer, Peter Guttridge reviews Ian Rankin's 'Complete Short Stories'.

03/07/05 In The Independent, Mark Timlin reviews 'The Last Llanelli Train' by Robert Lewis, 'Blood of Angels' by Michael Marshall and 'Grievous Angel' by Jane Hill.

02/07/05 The Times rounds-up recent Thrillers including those by : John Burdett, Robert Goddard, Lee Child and Jim Kelly.

02/07/05 The Times rounds-up recent Crime novels including those by : Mark Billingham, Frank Tallis, Kate Atkinson and Malcolm Pryce.

29/06/05 In The Independent Alexander McCall Smith revisits Botswana.

26/06/05 The Sunday Times gives a brief review to 'Dark Fire' by C J Sansom.

26/06/05 The Observer interviews Henry Porter, author of 'Brandenburg'.

26/06/05 More crime reviews in The Telegraph including Peter James, Robert Edric, Stuart MacBride and Michael Marshall.

26/06/05 Susanna Yager rounds up the latest crime novels in The Telegraph.

26/06/05 The Telegraph interviews Susan Hill who switched to crime writing recently.

26/06/05 The New York Times reviews 'The Water Room' by Christopher Fowler.

25/06/05 The Globe and Mail reviews the new books from Mark Billingham, John Connolly and John Burdett.

24/06/05 The Independent reviews '54' by the group of Italians known as Wu Ming.

21/06/05 The Telegraph reviews Gene Kerrigan's 'Little Criminals'.

19/06/05 The Sunday Times reviews 'Brandenburg' by Henry Porter.

19/06/05 In The Observer, Peter Guttridge reviews the latest from Jasper Fforde, Mark Billingham, John Burdett and Anders Roslund & Borge Hellstrom.

19/06/05 In The Independent, Mark Timlin reviews 'A Good Day to Die' by Simon Kernick and 'The Innocent' by Harlan Coben.

18/06/05 The Guardian reviews 'Bangkok Tattoo' by John Burdett.

18/06/05 In The Guardian, Maxim Jakubowski reviews 'Little Criminals' by Gene Kerrigan and 'Death of the Day' by Tanith Lee as well as Connelly and Winslow.

15/06/05 BBC Cult reviews the new Sapphire and Steel audio drama 'The Passenger'.

15/06/05 This month Barbara Cleverly is interviewed by Macavity's.

12/06/05 The Observer has an article on European crime authors.

12/06/05 In The Independent Mark Timlin reviews 'Little Criminals' by new Irish author, Gene Kerrigan.

12/06/05 The Times reviews the audio version of 'A Certain Justice' P D James.

11/06/05 The Times reviews the paperback of 'In the Name of Ishmael' by Giuseppe Genna.

9/06/05 The Independent reviews 'The Beast' by Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom.

5/06/05 The Sunday Times' audio book of the week is 'The Sixth Lamentation'by William Brodrick read by Nathaniel Parker and Diana Bishop.

5/06/05 The Telegraph reviews the paperback of 'Case Histories' by Kate Atkinson as does The Sunday Times.

4/06/05 The Times gives a positive review to the audio versions of Malcolm Pryce’s 'Aberystwyth Mon Amour' and 'Last Tango in Aberystwyth'.

4/06/05 The Guardian reviews 'In the Name of Ishmael' by Giuseppe Genna and 'Fags and Lager' by Charlie Williams.

29/05/05 The Sunday Times reviews the latest crime books including European authors John Lawton and Rob Ryan as well as Iles, Pelecanos and others.

28/05/05 Long article in The Guardian about Ian Rankin.

28/05/05 The Guardian reviews 'Mortal Mischief' by Frank Tallis set in Vienna in the 1900s.

28/05/05 The Guardian reviews thrillers by Christopher Brookmyre, Stuart MacBride and Anders Roslund and Borge Hellström.

27/05/05 New version of Enid Blyton's Famous Five will be a cartoon.

26/05/05 In The Independent, Barry Forshaw reviews John Harvey's 'Ash and Bone'.

26/05/05 Robert Goddard is interviewed by Macavity's.

25/05/05 Sapphire and Steel are back in the audio drama 'The Passenger' a classic murder mystery.

25/05/05 BBC Cult announces that the ('Proper') Miss Marple episodes are out on DVD in June.

24/05/05 The Telegraph interviews Umberto Eco.

22/05/05 The Sunday Times reviews the audio of 'Cold Granite' by Stuart MacBride read by John Sessions.

22/05/05 The Chicago Tribune reviews the Agatha Christie inspired travel book 'The 8.55 to Baghdad' by Andrew Eames.

22/05/05 The DenverPost reviews 'Bangkok Tattoo' by John Burdett.

21/05/05 The Globe and Mail reviews 'Captain Alatriste' by Arturo Pérez-Reverte.

19/05/05 Agatha Christie's 'And Then There Were None' to open in The West End in October 2005.

14/05/05 In The Guardian, Maxim Jakubowski reviews 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth' by Malcolm Pryce, 'The Black Angel' by John Connolly, 'Ash and Bone' by John Harvey and 'The Welfare of the Dead' by Lee Jackson .

14/05/05 In The Guardian, Michael Dibdin reviews 'Lang' by Kjell Westö and 'Snow is Silent' by Benjamin Prado.

13/05/05 The Independent briefly reviews 'Snow is Silent' by Benjamin Prado.

8/05/05 The Sunday Times reviews 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth' by Malcolm Pryce.

8/05/05 In The Telegraph Susanna Yager reviews a number of new books including those by Denise Mina, Barbara Vine, David Hewson, John Lawton and Lee Child plus Coben, Crais and others.

8/05/05 Learn more about Charlie Williams and Mangel at Serpents Tail.

8/05/05 The New York Times reviews 'No Corners for the Devil' by Olive Etchells.

7/05/05 The Times reviews the abridged audio version of 'The Ninth Life of Louis Drax' by Liz Jensen.

7/05/05 The Telegraph reviews 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth' by Malcolm Pryce.

4/05/05 Ian Rankin's week in The Telegraph.

1/05/05 The Telegraph speaks to Joolz Denby.

1/05/05 The Telegraph reviews 'All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye' by Christopher Brookmyre.

1/05/05 The Chicago Tribune reviews 'Post-script to Poison' by Dorothy Bowers and 'Hostage to Murder' by V L McDermid as well as Donna Leon and a couple of new Sherlock Holmes stories.

30/04/05 The Globe and Mail reviews the latest from David Hewson, Barbara Nadel, Quintin Jardine and Martin O'Brien.

29/04/05 The Independent reviews 'The Black Angel' by John Connolly.

29/04/05 The Independent reviews the paperback of 'The Killing Joke' by Anthony Horowitz.

24/04/05 The Telegraph's reviewer is disappointed with 'The Minotaur' by Barbara Vine.

24/04/05 The Telegraph reviews the paperback of 'The Ninth Life of Louis Drax' by Liz Jensen.

24/04/05 The Oregonian reviews 'In The Company of Cheerful Ladies' by Alexander McCall Smith.

24/04/05 The New York Times reviews 'In The Company of Cheerful Ladies' by Alexander McCall Smith.

24/04/05 The St Louis Today reviews 'In The Company of Cheerful Ladies' by Alexander McCall Smith.

23/04/05 The Guardian reviews 'Blue Rondo' by John Lawton amongst the latest from the US.

17/04/05 The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reviews 'In The Company of Cheerful Ladies' by Alexander McCall Smith and 'Before The Frost' by Henning Mankell.

15/04/05 The Independent reviews 'The Minotaur' by Barbara Vine.

12/04/05 Helen Mirren to do one more 'Prime Suspect'.

11/04/05 The Telegraph interviews Ruth Rendell.

10/04/05 The Sunday Times reviews 'The Minotaur' by Barbara Vine.

10/04/05 The New York Times reviews 'Long Spoon Lane' by Anne Perry.

03/04/05 Susanna Yager rounds up the crime releases in The Telegraph.

03/04/05 The Sunday Times reviews the audio of 'Murder in the Museum' written and read by Simon Brett.

28/03/05 The Herald interviews Denise Mina about her new book 'The Field of Blood'.

20/03/05 The Sunday Times's audio book reviews include 'Gaudy Night' and 'Classic Detective Stories'.

19/03/05 The CWA announced that Ian Rankin is the 2005 recipient of the Cartier Diamond Dagger.

19/03/05 The Guardian reviews four thrillers including 'Blood Eagle' by Craig Russell.

18/03/05 The Independent reviews the paperback release of 'As Far as You Can Go' by Lesley Glaister.

18/03/05 The Independent interviews Alexander McCall Smith.

12/03/05 The Globe and Mail reviews 'The Blooding of Jack Absolute' by C C Humphreys.

12/03/05 The Times's audio book reviews include a collection of 'Classic Detective Stories' and 'The Winter Queen' by Boris Akunin.

12/03/05 The Times's crime roundup includes 'A Strange Affair' by Peter Robinson along with the latest by Walter Mosley, Guillermo Martínez and Donna Leon.

11/03/05 The Telegraph runs the obituary for Alan Hunter, author of the Chief Inspector Gently series.

8/03/05 The Times has the British Book Awards shortlists including the one for The World Books Crime Thriller of the Year.

7/03/05 Historical author Sylvian Hamilton died on the 28 February 2005.

6/03/05 The Telegraph reviews 'A Matter of Death and Life' by Andrey Kurkov.

6/03/05 In The Observer, Peter Guttridge reviews 'Hidden River' by Adrian McKinty, 'Birds of a Feather' by Jacqueline Winspear and 'Gene' by Stel Pavlou.

6/03/05 The Guardian interviews Alexander McCall Smith.

5/03/05 In The Guardian, Maxim Jakubowski reviews 'An Honourable Murderer' by Philip Gooden, 'The Concrete Sea' by John Dalton and 'The Big Blind' by Ray Banks.

28/02/05 James Bond for kids in Charlie Higson's 'SilverFin' featuring a 13 year old Bond.

27/02/05 The Telegraph reviews the paperback of 'GB84' by David Peace.

27/02/05 The Sunday Times reviews the paperback of 'In the Company of Cheerful Ladies' by Alexander McCall Smith.

20/02/05 The Telegraph reviews 'Turkish Gambit' by Boris Akunin.

20/02/05 The Scotland on Sunday reviews the play version of 'Boiling a Frog' by Christopher Brookmyre.

20/02/05 The Sunday Times reviews the audio book of 'Past Mortem' by Ben Elton.

19/02/05 The Guardian reviews 'Soft Target' by Stephen Leather.

13/02/05 The Telegraph reviews the paperback of 'Be My Enemy' by Christopher Brookmyre.

13/02/05 The Sunday Times reviews the audio books of 'The Birth of Venus' by Sarah Dunant and 'The Sunday Philosophy Club' by Alexander McCall Smith.

8/02/05 In Susanna Yager's latest roundup for The Telegraph, she reviews the latest releases from Barbara Nadel, Friedrick Glauser, Vena Cork, David Wolstencroft, Peter Robinson and Peter Lovesey as well as non European releases.

7/02/05 The BBC's 24 "Page Turners" includes one crime novel - 'Fleshmarket Close' by Ian Rankin.

5/02/05 The Times reviews the audio book of 'The Shadow of the Wind' by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.

5/02/05 In The Guardian, Maxim Jakubowski reviews 'Tom Harris' by Stefan Themerson, 'Deadly Web' by Barbara Nadel and 'In Matto's Realm' by Friedrich Glauser.

5/02/05 The Guardian reviews 'Imago' by Eva-Marie Liffner.

5/02/05 The Globe and Mail reviews the latest from Michael Pearce and Jose Carlos Somoza.

3/02/05 In The Independent Jane Jakeman reviews 'Turkish Gambit' by Boris Akunin and 'Deadly Web' by Barbara Nadel.

30/01/05 The Independent reviews 'Turkish Gambit' by Boris Akunin.

30/01/05 In The Observer Peter Guttridge reviews a lot of new releases including Sheila Quigley, Eva-Marie Liffner, Akunin and several other European authors.

30/01/05 The Observer talks to Italian author Massimo Carlotto about his amazing life.

30/01/05 The Age has the NYT article on 'The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes' by Leslie S. Klinger.

29/01/05 The Guardian reviews 'Turkish Gambit' by Boris Akunin.

25/01/05 The RTE reviews 'Nocturnes' by John Connolly.

24/01/05 The New Zealand Herald reviews the latest from John Mortimer.

24/01/05 The Independent reviews 'Good News, Bad News' by David Wolstencroft.

23/01/05 The Telegraph reviews the paperback of 'Tokyo' by Mo Hayder.

23/01/05 Read the opening lines of 'Maisie Dobbs' by Jacqueline Winspear in the Chicago Tribune.

22/01/05 The Times reviews the audio book of Mark Mills’s 'Amagansett'.

22/01/05 The Globe and Mail reviews 'Strange Affair' by Peter Robinson.

19/01/05 The Telegraph reviews 'Turkish Gambit' by Boris Akunin.

16/01/05 The Telegraph reviews the paperback of 'The Dark Water' by David Pirie the third in the series featuring Conan Doyle as the detective.

16/01/05 If Quintin Jardine ruled the world in the Scotland on Sunday.

15/01/05 The Times reviews 'Good News, Bad News' by David Wolstencroft.

9/01/05 The Independent has an article on the author of 'A Very Long Engagement' - Sébastien Japrisot.

8/01/05 The Times reviews the audio book of 'Turkish Gambit' by Boris Akunin.

8/01/05 The Guardian reviews 'Good News, Bad News' by David Wolstencroft.

8/01/05 In The Guardian, Maxim Jakubowski reviews 'Thorn' by Vena Cork, 'The Year of the Woman' by Jonathan Gash and 'A Detective at Death's Door' by HRF Keating.

26/12/04 The Chicago Tribune reviews 'The Fire Baby' by Jim Kelly, 'The Unquiet Dead' by Gay Longworth and 'The Depths of Solitude' by Jo Bannister.

26/12/04 The Florida Sun-Sentinel reviews 'Disordered Minds' by Minette Walters.

24/12/04 The Age reviews 'No Trace' by Barry Maitland.

20/12/04 In Susanna Yager's latest roundup for The Telegraph, she reviews John Connor, Paul Adam, C J Sansom, Massimo Carlotto, Louis Sanders and Mark Timlin as well as non European releases.

19/12/04 The Telegraph reviews 'Self's Punishment' by Bernhard Schlink and Walter Popp and 'Seeking Whom He May Devour' by Fred Vargas .

18/12/04 The Times reviews 'Turkish Gambit' by Boris Akunin.

17/12/04 The Independent reviews 'Empire of the Wolves' by Jean-Christophe Grangé.

12/12/04 In The Baltimore Sun, Sarah Weinman reviews 'The Rottweiler' by Ruth Rendell.

12/12/04 The Sunday Times reviews 'The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes' edited by Leslie S Klinger and so does the Florida Sun-Sentinel.

12/12/04 The Sunday Times reviews 'Deep Black' by Andy McNab, 'Before the Frost' by Henning Mankell, 'Empire of the Wolves' by Jean-Christophe Grangé and 'The Silent and the Damned' by Robert Wilson.

10/12/04 The Independent has the new titles for Richard and Judy's Bookclub which includes 3 European crime novels ('The Shadow of the Wind' by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, 'The American Boy' by Andrew Taylor and 'The Sixth Lamentation' by William Brodrick).

5/12/04 In The Independent, Mark Timlin has a Crime Christmas special none of which are by European writers!.

5/12/04 The Florida Sun-Sentinel reviews ' The Reunion' by Sue Walker.

4/12/04 The Guardian reviews some recent British thrillers.

4/12/04 The Times briefly reviews French author Louis Sanders' 'An Ignoble Profession'.

3/12/04 The Independent's Crime Books of 2004 are nearly all by European writers.

3/12/04 (17/11/04) In Susanna Yager's roundup for The Telegraph, she reviews Graham Hurley, Andrew Taylor, Thomas Richter and Jorg Fauser as well as US releases.

30/11/04 The New Zealand Herald reviews 'Self's Punishment' by Bernhard Schlink.

28/11/04 The Florida Sun-Sentinel features The Baltimore Sun's review of Jose Saramago's 'The Double'.

27/11/04 The Times briefly reviews the paperback version of 'Murder on the Leviathan' by Boris Akunin.

27/11/04 The Times reviews the audio version of 'The Vesuvius Club' written and read by Mark Gatiss..

26/11/04 The Florida Sun-Sentinel reviews the audio book of 'Whiteout' by Ken Follett.

23/11/04 The International Herald Tribune has the NYT review of 'Rottweiler' by Ruth Rendell.

21/11/04 The Chicago Sun-Times reviews 'Bloodhounds' by Peter Lovesey.

21/11/04 The Florida Sun-Sentinel gives a great review to 'No Laughing Matter' by Peter Guttridge.

20/11/04 In The Guardian, Maxim Jakubowski reviews 'Above Suspicion' by Lynda La Plante.

20/11/04 The Times reviews the audio versions of 'The Winter Queen' and 'Murder on the Leviathan' by Boris Akunin and 'Past Mortem' by Ben Elton.

20/11/04 The Scotsman reviews 'Thirteen Steps Down' by Ruth Rendell.

19/11/04 The Houston Chronicle reviews 'The Clerkenwell Tales' by Peter Ackroyd.

19/11/04 The Independent talks to thriller writer Andy McNab.

19/11/04 Publishing News reports that Crime titles have helped Allison & Busby do well.

18/11/04 The Guardian interviews French crime author Fred Vargas.

14/11/04 The Seattle Times also reviews 'Rottweiler' by Ruth Rendell.

14/11/04 In their audio book section, The Sunday Times reviews 'The Best of Sherlock Holmes 1' and 'Murder in the Mews'.

14/11/04 The Sunday Times also reviews 'Past Mortem' by Ben Elton.

14/11/04 In the Observer, Peter Guttridge reviews the latest from the King and Queen of Crime, Ian Rankin and Ruth Rendell.

13/11/04 The Ottawa Citizen interviews Ruth Rendell.

13/11/04 The Guardian reviews 'Amagansett' by Mark Mills.

12/11/04 The Washington Post reviews 'Rottweiler' by Ruth Rendell.

12/11/04 In The Independent, Jane Jakeman reviews 'Past Mortem' by Ben Elton and 'Call the Dying' by Andrew Taylor.

9/11/04 The Telegraph reviews 'Past Mortem' by Ben Elton.

7/11/04 The Observer interviews Ben Elton author of 'Past Mortem'.

7/11/04 The Telegraph reviews Jose Saramago's 'The Double'.

6/11/04 In the Guardian Stella Duffy reviews the second book from C J Sansom, 'Dark Fire'.

6/11/04 The Guardian reviews the latest thrillers from Paul Adam, Ken Follett and Geoffrey Archer.

6/11/04 The Age reviews 'Tamburlaine must die' by Louise Welsh.

5/11/04 The Globe and Mail reviews Jose Saramago's 'The Double'.

3/11/04 The Guardian reviews 'The Vesuvius Club' by Mark Gatiss calling it a 'a pastiche Edwardian James Bond thriller'.

2/11/04 The Telegraph reviews 'Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders' by John Mortimer.

2/11/04 The Telegraph reviews 'Past Mortem' by Ben Elton.

31/10/04 The Independent reviews 'Nocturnes' by John Connolly.

31/10/04 The Boston Globe reviews 'The Reunion' by Sue Walker.

31/10/04 The Scotland on Sunday reviews 'Seeking Whom He May Devour' by Fred Vargas.

30/10/04 The Times reviews 'Past Mortem' by Ben Elton and briefly reviews the paperback of 'Play to the End' by Robert Goddard.

30/10/04 The Scotsman briefly reviews the audio book version of 'Jack Absolute' by CC Humphries.

29/10/04 The Florida Sun-Sentinel reviews the audio book of 'An Unpardonable Crime (An American Boy) by Andrew Taylor and read by Sir Derek Jacobi.

29/10/04 The Independent reviews 'Seeking Whom He May Devour' by Fred Vargas.

29/10/04 The New Zealand Herald reviews 'Sleep, Pale Sister' by Joanne Harris.

28/10/04 The Age speaks to Martin Shaw about playing Adam Dalgliesh.

27/10/04 The Independent reviews 'Homeland' by Clare Francis.

27/10/04 The Telegraph reviews 'The Blackpool Highflyer' by Andrew Martin.

27/10/04 Jasper Fforde pops up in the Globe and Mail.

24/10/04 The Telegraph reviews the paperback of Boris Akunin's 'Murder on the Leviathan'.

24/10/04 In Susanna Yager's roundup for The Telegraph, she reviews Ruth Rendell, Robert Wilson, Henning Mankell and Paul Johnston as well as top US authors.

24/10/04 Boris Akunin's 'Leviathan' is the Sunday Times's pick of the week.

24/10/04 'Quite Ugly One Morning' by Christopher Brookmyre is one of the Sunday Times's audio books of the week.

23/10/04 The Spectator reviews the latest in the Lydmouth series, 'Call the Dying' by Andrew Taylor.

23/10/04 The Times briefly reviews the paperback of 'Eagles and Angels' by Julie Zeh.

22/10/04 Haaretz.com reviews 'Something Rotten' by Jasper Fforde.

22/10/04 Miss Marple had secret lover ...at least in ITV's newest version (The Guardian).

22/10/04 The Independent talks to Bernhard Schlink author of 'The Reader'.

21/10/04 The Bookseller has a short (but free) paragraph on a new BBC1 book club.

21/10/04 In the Independent, thriller writer Philip Kerr talks touchingly about his US tour promoting his first children's book.

20/10/04 The International Herald Tribune also reviews 'The Double' by José Saramago.

20/10/04 The Telegraph reviews the paperback of 'The Cryptographer' by Tobias Hill (right at the bottom of the page).

19/10/04 The Boston Globe calls 'The Double' by José Saramago 'divinely disorienting' and the Denver Post has an excerpt.

18/10/04 The Washington Post reviews 'Shoulder the Sky' by Anne Perry the second part of her WW1 series.

16/10/04 In The Guardian, Maxim Jakubowski reviews 'Answers from the Grave' by Mark Timlin.

16/10/04 The Times reviews the latest from Ian Rankin, Robert Wilson, Ruth Rendell, Frances Fyfield and John Mortimer.

16/10/04 The Times reviews the audio book of 'Quite Ugly One Morning' by Christopher Brookmyre.

16/10/04 The Globe and Mail reviews 'The Killing Joke' by Anthony Horowitz.

15/10/04 Edinburgh has been named as the first City of Literature reports The Independent.

13/10/04 Stella Rimmington gets cross examined at a book event writes The Independent.

10/10/04 The Telegraph 'Fleshmarket Close' by Ian Rankin.

10/10/04 The Telegraph reviews 'Have Mercy On Us All' by Fred Vargas.

10/10/04 The Cleveland.com reviews 'The Sunday Philosophy Club' by Alexander McCall Smith and is somewhat disappointed with it.

10/10/04 The New Zealand Herald reviews 'Case Histories' by Kate Atkinson.

10/10/04 The Sunday Times reviews Nicci French's 'Secret Smile'.

10/10/04 Janet Maslin's NYT review of 'The Sunday Philosophy Club' by Alexander McCall Smith is posted at The Register-Guard.

10/10/04 The Denver Post has an excerpt from 'The Sunday Philosophy Club' by Alexander McCall Smith.

10/10/04 Newsday reviews Jose Saramago's 'The Double'.

09/10/04 The Globe and Mail reviews 'The Sunday Philosophy Club' by Alexander McCall Smith.

09/10/04 Mystery author, Lyn Hamilton, reviews 'Fleshmarket Close' by Ian Rankin for The Globe and Mail.

09/10/04 In The Scotsman, Gerald Kaufman reviews the latest by Stephen Booth, Hilary Norman, Robert Goddard, Robert Edric and Ingrid Black.

09/10/04 The Times briefly reviews 'Have Mercy On Us All' by Fred Vargas.

08/10/04 UK bookshop Macavity's has an interview with Ian Rankin about 'Fleshmarket Close'.

07/10/04 The International Herald Tribune writes about Alexander McCall Smith's serial novel '44 Scotland Street'.

06/10/04 The St. Louis Today reviews 'The Sunday Philosophy Club' by Alexander McCall Smith and 'Truecrime' by Jake Arnott.

04/10/04 The New Statesman reviews 'Fleshmarket Close' by Ian Rankin and 'Thirteen Steps Down' by Ruth Rendell.

04/10/04 The Scotsman has an article on real life and fictional crime in Edinburgh .

03/10/04 The Toronto Star reviews 'Fleshmarket Close' by Ian Rankin.

03/10/04 The Chicago Sun-Times briefly talks about 'The Penge Bungalow Murders' featuring Rumpole of the Bailey, by John Mortimer.

03/10/04 The Seattle Times reviews 'The Clerkenwell Tales' by Peter Ackroyd.

03/10/04 The Observer reviews Sheila Hancock's book : 'The Two of Us: My Life with John Thaw' as does The Times.

03/10/04 The Observer reviews the audio version of 'Fleshmarket Close' by Ian Rankin.

03/10/04 The Times reviews 'Thirteen Steps Down' by Ruth Rendell and 'Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders' by John Mortimer .

02/10/04 The Globe and Mail reviews a number of British authors including McDermid, Billingham, Jardine and Davis.

02/10/04 The New Zealand Herald reviews 'The Lambs of London' by Peter Ackroyd.

02/10/04 The Guardian reviews Paul Johnston's 'The Golden Silence'.

02/10/04 The Guardian reviews Jean-Christophe Grangé's 'Empire of the Wolves'.

02/10/04 The Times recommends the audiobook of Ian Rankin’s 'Fleshmarket Close' read by 'Taggart' stalwart James McPherson.

01/10/04 The Houston Chronicle reviews 'The Sunday Philosophy Club' by Alexander McCall Smith.

01/10/04 The Independent also reviews 'Birth of a Nation' by Julian Rathbone.

01/10/04 The Scotsman has an extract from 'The Two of Us: My Life with John Thaw' by Sheila Hancock.

30/09/04 Alexander McCall Smith's serial story, '44 Scotland Street' is back in the Scotsman on the 4th.

30/09/04 The CWA have announced the Debut Dagger Shortlist.

27/09/04 The New Zealand Herald reviews 'In the Company of Cheerful Ladies' by Alexander McCall Smith.

26/09/04 The Telegraph reviews 'Birth of a Nation' by Julian Rathbone.

26/09/04 The Telegraph reviews 'The Sunday Philosophy Club' by Alexander McCall Smith.

26/09/04 The Times reviews the latest from Ian Rankin and Alexander McCall Smith.

26/09/04 The Times reviews 'The Blackpool Highflyer' by Andrew Martin.

26/09/04 The Observer interviews Lynda La Plante.

25/09/04 The Scotsman reviews 'The Golden Silence' by Paul Johnston.

25/09/04 The Scotsman reviews 'Case Histories' by Kate Atkinson.

25/09/04 The Scotsman talks to Ian Rankin about 'Fleshmarket Close'.

25/09/04 The Times reviews the audio book (abridged) of 'Homeland' by Clare Francis.

25/09/04 Peter Ackroyd's The Lambs of London is reviewed in The Age.

24/09/04 Ian Rankin is interviewed in The Independent.

23/09/04 Alexander McCall Smith launches his two new books at Scotland's largest single literary event.

22/09/04 In the final part Alexander McCall Smith talks about how his life has been turned upside-down.

21/09/04 In the second part in The Scotsman, Alexander McCall Smith talks about how he became a writer.

20/09/04 The Glasgow Herald reviews Ian Rankin's 'Fleshmarket Close'.

20/09/04 The Scotsman has the first of a three part series on Alexander McCall Smith's life beginning with his early days.

19/09/04 The Scotland on Sunday has a short interview with ex crime writer Nicholas Blincoe.

19/09/04 The Chicago Tribune gives a positive review to 'Good News, Bad News' by David Wolstencroft.

19/09/04 Newsday.com reviews 'The Clerkenwell Tales' by Peter Ackroyd.

19/09/04 The Observer reviews 'Modesty Blaise - I, Lucifer and Dragon's Claw' by Peter O'Donnell.

19/09/04 The Sunday Times reviews the audio book of 'Amagansett' by Mark Mills.

18/09/04 The Scotsman suggests that Mma Ramotswe could be the new Morse.

18/09/04 The Globe and Mail reviews several British books: 'Good Morning, Midnight' by Reginald Hill, 'The Tinder Box' by Minette Walters and 'Black Tide' by Caroline Carver.

18/09/04 In The Guardian Maxim Jakubowski reviews 'Two-Way Split' by Allan Guthrie, 'Day After Day' by Carlo Lucarelli and 'Maisie Dobbs' by Jacqueline Winspear.

18/09/04 The Times has an article on audiobooks and the 2004 Spoken Word Awards with some recommendations.

18/09/04 The Scotsman reviews the paperback of 'Secret Smile' by Nicci French.

17/09/04 The Independent reviews 'Before the Frost' by Henning Mankell.

15/09/04 The Telegraph reviews 'Havoc in its Third Year' by Ronan Bennett and also here.

15/09/04 The St Louis Today reviews 'Something Rotten' by Jasper Fforde and 'Deception' by Denise Mina'.

14/09/04 The Telegraph reviews the paperbacks of 'Medusa' by Michael Dibdin and 'Absolute Friends' by John le Carré.

12/09/04 The Denver Post interviews Jasper Fforde.

12/09/04 The Independent reviews the paperback of 'Full Dark House' by Christopher Fowler.

12/09/04 The Times reviews the latest Sarah Fortune book, 'Looking Down', by Frances Fyfield.

12/09/04 The Age has an article on Frederick Forsyth.

12/09/04 The Sunday Herald steps up to review Kate Atkinson's 'Case Histories'.

11/09/04 The Guardian reviews Andrew Martin's 'The Blackpool Highflyer'.

11/09/04 The Times gives a paragraph to Henning Mankell's 'Firewall'.

10/09/04 The Independent now reviews Kate Atkinson's crime novel 'Case Histories'.

09/09/04 The New Zealand Herald reviews Jose Saramago's 'The Double'.

08/09/04 The New Zealand Herald reviews Tobias Hill's 'The Cryptographer'.

07/09/04 The Scotsman reviews last night's episode of 'Blue Murder' (written by Cath Staincliffe).

06/09/04 The New Statesman reviews 'The Sunday Philosophy Club' by Alexander McCall Smith.

06/09/04 The Scotsman reviews last night's episode of 'Silent Witness'.

05/09/04 The Florida Sun-Sentinel reviews 'Deception' by Denise Mina.

05/09/04 The Chicago Sun-Times reviews Jasper Fforde's 'The Well of Lost Plots'.

05/09/04 The Scotland on Sunday has an article on James Nesbitt who played the lead in the tv show of Christopher Brookmyre's 'Quite Ugly One Morning'.

05/09/04 The Denver Post reviews 'The Damascened Blade' by Barbara Cleverly.

05/09/04 The Chicago Tribune reviews 'Falling Off Air' by Catherine Sampson along with 'The First Cut' (apa 'Caedmon's Song') by Peter Robinson and 'Chaucer and the House of Fame' by Philippa Morgan.

05/09/04 The Washington Post reviews 'Deadline in Athens' by Petros Markaris.

05/09/04 The San Francisco Chronicle reviews Denise Mina's 'Deception'.

05/09/04 The Sunday Herald reviews both new books from Alexander McCall Smith.

05/09/04 The Scotland on Sunday reports the time for the airing of the radio play of 'The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency'.

05/09/04 The Sunday Times reviews Kate Atkinson's first crime novel, 'Case Histories' as does The Age calling the author a modern Jane Austen.

05/09/04 The Observer reviews 'Attraction' by James Manlow.

06/09/04 The New Statesman reviews 'The Blackpool Highflyer' by Andrew Martin.

04/09/04 The Telegraph talks to Mark Strong as the DVD of Jake Arnott's 'The Long Firm' is released.

04/09/04 The Spectator reviews Kate Atkinson's 'Case Histories'.

04/09/04 The Scotsman reviews Sunday's TV showing of Christopher Brookmyre's 'Quite Ugly One Morning'.

04/09/04 The Times briefly reviews some audio books by Agatha Christie.

04/09/04 The Times gives a mixed review to 'The Sunday Philosophy Club' by Alexander McCall Smith but The Scotsman is more favourable.

04/09/04 In The Guardian Maxim Jakubowski reviews Laura Wilson's 'The Lover' and Mike Ashley's (ed) 'The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits'.

04/09/04 The Guardian reviews Henning Mankell's 'Before the Frost' as does The New Statesman under the banner of 'the Swedish Morse'.

01/09/04 The Independent interviews London crime author JJ Connolly.

31/08/04 The Glasgow Daily Record reports how Ian Rankin has had a street named after him.

30/08/04 The Washington Post reviews Denise Mina's 'Deception'.

30/08/04 The Edinburgh Evening News has a short article on Allan Guthrie.

29/08/04 The Telegraph reviews 'Case Histories' by Kate Atkinson as well as interviews her about her first crime novel.

29/08/04 The Telegraph reviews the paperback of 'The Murder Room' by P D James.

29/08/04 The Independent reviews 'The Blackpool Highflyer' by Andrew Martin.

29/08/04 The Age speaks to Will Rhode about his thriller 'White Ghosts'.

29/08/04 The Richmond Times-Dispatch covers a talk given by Jasper Fforde.

29/08/04 The Scotland on Sunday Times has a short article on Arthur Conan Doyle.

29/08/04 The Sunday Times recommends the audio version of 'The Burning Girl' by Mark Billingham.

28/08/04 The Age reviews Henning Mankell's 'Before the Frost' the first in the Linda Wallander series.

28/08/04 The Scotsman has short anecdotes about Ian Rankin meeting Muriel Spark and Chris Brookmyre's recent Harrogate experience.

28/08/04 The Scotsman has an article on the making of a musical version of Wilkie Collins's 'Woman in White'.

28/08/04 The Scotsman reviews 'In The Company of Cheerful Ladies' by Alexander McCall Smith.

28/08/04 The Scotsman has an article on the making of a musical version of Wilkie Collins's 'Woman in White'.

28/08/04 The Times briefly reviews the paperbacks of 'Absolute Friends' by John Le Carre and 'The Hidden Man' by Charles Cumming.

27/08/04 The New Zealand Herald reviews 'The Shadow of the Wind' by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.

27/08/04 The Independent has an article on Petros Markaris whose novels feature Greek detective Inspector Costas Haritos.

26/08/04 The New Zealand Herald has an article on Frederick Forsyth.

26/08/04 The Telegraph reviews the paperback of 'Disordered Minds' by Minette Walters.

25/08/04 In the Independent, Jane Jakeman reviews 'One Last Breath' by Stephen Booth.

24/08/04 The Age has an article on the Melbourne Writers' Festival with special attention paid to Carlos Ruiz Zafon.

23/08/04 The Guardian has more on Enid Blyton being top of the pops for today's adults.

23/08/04 Enid Blyton's Famous Five are top of the poll for 'which books today's adults most enjoyed as children'. (Open in new window if it doesn't appear in the frame.)

22/08/04 The Chicago Tribune reviews 'Deception' by Denise Mina and (briefly) 'I Love My Smith and Wesson' by David Bowker.

22/08/04 The Sunday Times also reviews 'The Killing Joke' by Anthony Horowitz as well as 'Something Rotten' by Jasper Fforde. Both apparently featuring a death by steamroller...

22/08/04 Absolute Friends by John Le Carré is the Sunday Times's 'Pick of the Week'.

22/08/04 Tobias Hill has been nominated for Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year for 'The Cryptographer'.

22/08/04 Peter Guttridge reviews 'The Killing Joke' by Anthony Horowitz as well as 'The Burning Girl' by Mark Billingham and 'The Blackpool Highflyer' by Andrew Martin, for the Observer.

22/08/04 The Observer reviews the audio book of the 'Secret Smile' by Nicci French .

21/08/04 The Spectator reviews 'The Double' by José Saramago.

21/08/04 The Spectator reviews 'In The Company of Cheerful Ladies' by Alexander McCall Smith.

21/08/04 The Guardian reviews 'Medusa' by Michael Dibdin.

21/08/04 The Times reviews the latest novels from Henning Mankel, Andrea Camilleri and Carlo Lucarelli.

21/08/04 The Scotsman tries to find Alexander McCall Smith's inspiration for Mma Ramotswe in a trip to Botswana.

20/08/04 The Independent reviews 'The Double', an existential thriller, by Jose Saramago.

19/08/04 In BBC News Alexander McCall Smith explains why he's trading Africa for Edinburgh in his latest book.

18/08/04 In its sample 'Fiction' section, The Times Literary Supplement reviews 'The Lambs of London' by Peter Ackroyd, the work of Bulgarian author (who wrote some crime novels) Julia Kristeva and 'The Winter Queen' by Boris Akunin.

17/08/04 The Scotsman reports how the success of Alexander McCall Smith has sent his publisher into the big league. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies is the first in the series to be printed in hardback and will have an initial run of 101,000, said to be a Scottish record.

16/08/04 The Sunday Herald discusses Edinburgh's claim to being World City Of Literature.

16/08/04 The Independent reviews former crime writer Scarlett Thomas's new book 'PopCo' calling it a 'big, zeitgeisty novel.

15/08/04 The Sunday Times has an article on how Joyce Holms's latest book was inspired by the theft of a Da Vinci painting.

15/08/04 The Sun-Sentinel reviews Lazy Bones by Mark Billingham.

15/08/04 Newsday has an article/interview with Jacqueline Winspear of 'Maisie Dodds' fame..

15/08/04 One more review for 'Tamburlaine Must Die' by Louise Welsh this time in the Scotland on Sunday.

15/08/04 The Sunday Times reviews 'In the Company of Cheerful Ladies' by Alexander McCall Smith.

15/08/04 The Observer asks several novelists where they go for their summer holidays, including Henning Mankell and Nicci Gerrard.

15/08/04 The Observer gives a good review to the abridged audio version of 'The Torment of the Others' by Val McDermid.

15/08/04 The Observer reviews 'The Lambs of London' by Peter Ackroyd.

14/08/04 The Age has an article on the 'Foreign Sleuth' and lists its ten foreign classics.

14/08/04 The Age carries an interview with Carlos Ruiz Zafon.

14/08/04 The Age reviews Mark Billingham's The Burning Girl.

14/08/04 The Independent has an interview with Alexander McCall Smith whose next Precious Ramotswe book is out next week.

14/08/04 The Times features the biography of Eugène-François Vidocq, the founder of the French undercover police operation,'the Sûreté', by James Morton entitled 'The First Detective'.

14/08/04 The Times briefly reviews 'Medusa' by Michael Dibdin on their paperbacks page.

14/08/04 The Times reviews the audio book of 'One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night' by Christopher Brookmyre.

13/08/04 The Independent has an interview with Anthony Horowitz who has just released his first book for adults, a comic thriller.

12/08/04 The New Zealand Herald reviews Stella Rimington's At Risk.

11/08/04 The Scotsman marks tomorrow's 40th anniversary of the death of Ian Fleming.

10/08/04 Janet Maslin's NYT review of Jasper Fforde's 'Something Rotten' can be seen in The International Herald Tribune.

09/08/04 The Glasgow Herald talks about Alexander McCall Smith's new series featuring Edinburgh's philosopher sleuth Miss Dalhousie and so does The Evening News.

09/08/04 The Boston Globe reviews the latest in Barbara Cleverley's India set series, 'The Damascened Blade'.

09/08/04 The Washington Post reviews the debut thriller 'Going East' by Matthew d'Ancona.

08/08/04 The Telegraph reviews two books about Mary Lamb : 'The Lambs of London' by Peter Ackroyd and 'The Devil Kissed Her' by Kathy Watson.

08/08/04 The Telegraph reviews 'Tamburlaine Must Die' by Louise Welsh twice: here and here.

08/08/04 The Times Picayune travels around the world in crime fiction including a stop in Norway for 'Don't Look Back' by Karin Fossum.

08/08/04 The Philadelphia Inquirer reviews 'The Full Cupboard of Life' by Alexander McCall Smith.

08/08/04 The Denver Post reviews 'Something Rotten' by Jasper Fforde as does the South Florida Sun Sentinel .

08/08/04 The Toronto Star reviews 'The Guards' by Ken Bruen.

08/08/04 The Independent also reviews 'Tamburlaine Must Die' by Louise Welsh.

08/08/04 Mark Timlin talks about literary crime and bemoans the lack of crime in the latest books by Robert Edric and Susan Hill, in The Independent.

08/08/04 The Observer takes its turn to review 'Tamburlaine Must Die' by Louise Welsh.

08/08/04 The New York Post reviews 'Amagansett' by Mark Mill.

08/08/04 The Glasgow Evening Times interviews new Glasgow crime writer Louise Anderson.

08/08/04 The Scotland on Sunday gives a mixed review to the short story collection 'Men from Boys' edited by John Harvey.

07/08/04 Another positive review for 'The Shadow of the Wind' by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, this time from The Spectator.

07/08/04 The Globe and Mail review 'Lucifer's Shadow' by David Hewson, 'Hasty Death' by Marion Chesney and 'Royal Heist' by Lynda La Plante as well as Grafton, Clarke (the younger), Jeff Lindsay and Hoag.

07/08/04 Ian Rankin's favourite Edinburgh spots, in The Scotsman.

07/08/04 The Times now reviews 'The Queen of the South' by Arturo Perez-Reverte.

06/08/04 The Isle of Wight Libraries Adult Book Award shortlist of five, includes Mark Billingham's 'Lazy Bones'.

06/08/04 ITV to produce an evening show about books says The Independent. 'Between the Covers' is set to be on screen in the autumn. Another promised programme is 'Book Idol'...

06/08/04 The Independent reviews several books on Christopher Marlowe including Louise Welsh's 'Tamburlaine Must Die'.

06/08/04 The Independent reviews Peter Ackroyd's 'The Lambs of London'.

06/08/04 Helen Fielding's 'Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination' gets reviewed (savaged?) by The Independent and its readers.

06/08/04 The Independent briefly reviews 'Day After Day' by Carlo Lucarelli.

05/08/04 The Independent reviews the latest Thursday Next tale, 'Something Rotten' by Jasper Fforde.

03/08/04 The New Zealand Herald reviews Christopher Brookmyre's Be My Enemy.

02/08/04 The Tower that P D James used in 'The Black Tower' is to be moved, reports the BBC.

02/08/04 The Independent reviews 'Antwerp' by Nicholas Royle.

01/08/04 The Baltimore Sun briefly reviews 'Staying Power' by Judith Cutler.

01/08/04 The Telegraph briefly reviews 'The American Boy' by Andrew Taylor.

01/08/04 The Sunday Times reviews 'The Shadow of the Wind' by Carlos Ruiz Zafon and 'The Queen of the South' by Arturo Perez-Reverte.

31/07/04 The Guardian has an edited extract from 'Soham: A Story Of Our Times', by Nicci Gerrard.

31/07/04 The Times briefly reviews 'Almost Blue' by Carlo Lucarelli.

31/07/04 The Times reviews the audio book of P D James's 'The Murder Room'.

30/07/04 The Independent reviews 'In the Name of Ishmael' by Giuseppe Genna.

25/07/04 Peter Guttridge reviews books from several countries including Japan, Iran as well as the UK in The Observer.

24/07/04 How pulp fiction and the Beatles pointed Jake Arnott towards a career, in the Guardian.

23/07/04 Mark Billingham investigates the changing face of crime fiction in The Independent.

21/07/04 Ian Rankin gets a light grilling in the Scotsman.

21/07/04 The Scotsman has a feature on 'get sleuthing' with links to the Harrogate festival, being a PI and joining the police.

20/07/04 The Guardian covers Agatha Christie's poll win as Britain's favourite crime writer. There's also a link to an Agatha Christie quiz.

20/07/04 The BBC reports that the science fiction series 'Star Cops' will be out on DVD next month.

20/07/04 Jane Jakeman reviews the Icelandic 'Jar City' by Arnaldur Indridason in the Independent.

20/07/04 Mark Billingham reveals his top 10 fictional detectives in the Guardian.

19/07/04 Susanna Yager's latest reviews include 'Jar City', 'Dead I May Well Be' and 'The Snack Thief' amongst others.

19/07/04 The Evening News reports that a forensic science course in Edinburgh has been flooded with applications.

19/07/04 The BBC reports that the cult mystery detective drama 'Strange Report' featuring Anthony Quayle is out on DVD.

19/07/04 The Scotsman comments on some of the crime series on UK tv including Midsomer Murders.

18/07/04 The Independent takes a look at the continuing popularity of children's author Enid Blyton.

18/07/04 Agatha Christie has come top of a poll to find Britain's favourite crime writer says BBC News. Also in the Scotsman.

18/07/04 The Seattle Times is complimentary about Arturo Pérez-Reverte's 'The Fencing Master'.

18/07/04 Scotland on Sunday takes a look at the Agatha Christie inspired travel book 'The 8.55 to Baghdad' by Andrew Eames.

18/07/04 Scotland on Sunday poses a few tricky questions for Mark Billingham.

18/07/04 The Observer gets round to its review of Stella Rimington's 'At Risk'.

18/07/04 The Observer gives a positive review to 'The Ninth Life of Louis Drax' by Liz Jensen which is already a Hollywood film in production.

18/07/04 The Sunday Times reviews 'The Memory Man' by Lisa Appignanesi.

18/07/04 The Sunday Times briefly reviews 'The Full Cupboard of Life' by Alexander McCall Smith and 'The Cryptographer' by Tobias Hill.

17/07/04 The Guardian reviews 'Deadfolk' by Charlie Williams.

17/07/04 The Times briefly reviews the paperback of Karin Fossum's 'He Who Fears the Wolf'.

16/07/04 Inspector Morse is to be reborn as Inspector Lewis with Kevin Whateley reprising his role for three TV specials on ITV and Albert Finney is to play Rumpole - reported in The Scotsman. More on this at the BBC.

16/07/04 Ian Rankin is "offering to immortalise a city business in his next best-seller" according to The Scotsman.

16/07/04 The Independent interviews some time crime writer Nicholas Blincoe.

14/07/04 The Birmingham Post interviews one of its successful natives, Lindsey Davis.

14/07/04 Deadly Pleasures lists its Barry Award nominations for Best British Mystery Novel.

12/07/04 Win paperback copies of the 9 Orion New Blood authors in a difficult competition in The Guardian.

12/07/04 The Washington Post reviews Kevin Wignall's 'For the Dogs'.

12/07/04 The Boston Globe reviews the latest two books in Robert Wilson's Bruce Medway series, set in Africa.

11/07/04 Paul Bryers' 'The Used Women's Book Club' gets a mention in the paperback reviews in The Telegraph.

11/07/04 The Seattle Times briefly reviews, Christopher Fowler's 'Full Dark House'.

10/07/04 Toronto's, The Globe and Mail, reviews 'He Who Fears the Wolf' by Karin Fossum amongst others.

10/07/04 The Guardian reviews Arturo Pérez-Reverte's 'The Queen of the South'.

10/07/04 The Times thriller roundup includes Rimington's 'At Risk', Günter Ohnemus's 'The Russian Passenger', Andrey Kurkov’s 'The Case of the General’s Thumb', Robert Goddard’s 'Play to the End' as well as 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time' by Mark Haddon.

9/07/04 In the Independent, Andrew Eames follows Agatha Christie's route in 'The 8.55 to Baghdad' and Jane Jakeman takes a look at the result.

8/07/04 The Scotsman interviews Quintin Jardine whose new book is called 'Stay of Execution'.

7/07/04 The Telegraph lists several European crime novels in the best 30 novels to take on holiday.

5/07/04 Ken McClure talks about his new thriller, 'The Gulf Conspiracy', in The Scotsman.

4/07/04 The Guardian interviews Stella Rimington.

3/07/04 The Guardian's Chris Petit reviews Guiseppe Genna's 'In the Name of Ishmael'.

3/07/04 The Independent's turn to review 'At Risk' by Stella Rimington.

3/07/04 The Times and The Guardian review Louise Welsh's latest offering, 'Tamburlaine Must Die' a novella about the death of Christopher Marlowe.

3/07/04 Tobias Hill's 'The Cryptographer' gets a mention in the paperback reviews in the Times.

1/07/04 The Telegraph's Jessica Mann reviews 'At Risk' by Stella Rimington.

29/06/04 The Telegraph's Julia Flynn reviews 'Siren Song' by Robert Edric.

28/06/04 The Telegraph's Lloyd Evans reviews 'In the Name of Ishmael' by Giuseppe Genna.

28/06/04 The Telegraph's Alastair Sooke reviews 'Blag' by Tony Saint.

28/06/04 The Telegraph's Sam Leith reviews 'At Risk' by Stella Rimington.

27/06/04 The Telegraph's Rachel Simhon reviews 'The Torment of Others' by Val McDermid.

27/06/04 The Times thriller roundup focuses on 'At Risk' (Stella Rimington), 'The Increment' (Chris Ryan), 'Siren Song' (Robert Edric), 'Play to the End' (Robert Goddard), The Lover (Laura Wilson) and Tokyo (Mo Hayder) amongst bestsellers from the US.

27/06/04 The Times crime roundup focuses on 'Be My Enemy' (Christopher Brookmyre), 'Playing with Fire' (Peter Robinson) and 'The Various Haunts of Men' (Susan Hill) amongst fare from the US.

27/06/04 Susanna Yager reviews recent crime fiction, including Mo Hayder's 'Tokyo', Neil Griffith's 'Betrayal in Naples', Toby Moore's 'Sleeping with Fishes' and Time Heald's 'Death and the Visiting Fellow' for the Telegraph.

25/06/04 First novels by ex spy bosses Stella Rimington and David Bickford are reviewed by the Guardian.

21/06/04 'Walking into the Night' by Olaf Olafsson is reviewed in the Telegraph.

20/06/04 'The Shadow of the Wind' by Carlos Ruiz Zafon is reviewed in the Telegraph who call it 'a popular masterpiece, an instant classic'.

19/06/04 Jake Arnott's 'Truecrime' gets a mention in the paperback reviews in the Times.

16/06/04 Rupert Everett is to star as Sherlock Holmes in a new BBC1 drama according to BBC Cult News.

12/06/04 Maxim Jakubowski reviews 'Dead I May Well Be' by Adrian McKinty, 'Judas Pig' by Horace Silver and 'The Lonely Dead' by Michael Marshall for the Guardian.

12/06/04 Robert Edric's 'Siren Song' is reviewed in the Guardian.

10/06/04 Ex spy-boss Stella Rimington's debut novel 'At Risk' is multi-reviewed in the Guardian.

6/06/04 The Guardian reviews Susan Hill's first foray into crime,'The Various Haunts of Men', the first in a planned trilogy. The Telegraph also reviews it.

6/06/04 Peter Guttridge reviews Michael Marshall's and Ken Bruen's latest books 'The Lonely Dead' and 'The Dramatist'.

29/05/04 Robert Goddard's 'Play to the End' is reviewed in the Guardian.

20/05/04 The Guardian's running a competition to give away tickets for the Hay Festival (28 May-6 June). Colin Dexter's around on the 1st, there's a crime panel on the 4th featuring Minette Walters, Susan Hill and Jake Arnott and Alexei Sayle and Jasper Fforde are on a panel on the 5th.

16/05/04 Alessandro Baricco's 'Without Blood' gets a better review in the Observer.

13/05/04 theBookseller.com reports that the UK's only mainstream books magazine 'Ink' will close after only six issues.

11/05/04 Ian Thomson reviews 'Without Blood' by Alessandro Baricco in the Telegraph.

8/05/04 In the Guardian, Chris Petit reviews Mo Hayder's latest, 'Tokyo' and Maxim Jakubowski gives his views on Akunin's 'Leviathan' and Harvey's 'Flesh and Blood'.

7/05/04 Geraldine McEwan is to star as Miss Marple in 4 ITV adaptations according to BBC Cult News.

7/05/04 Jane Jakeman reviews John Harvey's 'Flesh and Blood' for the Independent.

25/04/04 In an interview with the the Sunday Mirror, actor Jack Ellis mentions his plans for a tv series based on the Sam Turner books by John Baker for which he has bought the rights.


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