Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Russel D. McLean's The Good Son

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Private eye has seen a renaissance in the last few years. But the hero doesn't wear a trench coat anymore and he's not a wisecracki...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Tommi Aitio's review of Keikkakuski

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Here's a quote from Tommi Aitio's very positive and knowledgeable review of Duane Swierczynski's Keikkakuski. It appeared in Ka...

More on Jarkko Sipilä's Helsinki Homicide

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I got around to ask Jarkko Sipilä some questions on his newly-published book Helsinki Homicide: Against the Wall . It seems getting the book...
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Monday, June 22, 2009

Short post on two crime writers I gave up on

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The Italian Andrea Camilleri. Tried to read his first novel, La forma dell'acqua from 1994 ( The Shape of Water in English), but could...
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Stieg Larsson, the British crime writer?

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The Rap Sheet posted the finalists for the Barry crime fiction award some days back. Great list, and congrats to Duane Swierczynski and Chr...
Thursday, June 18, 2009

The cover for Reino Helismaa's western short stories

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This book has been a long time coming - and it's not out for some time now. Perhaps in August. I'll let you know. The book collects ...
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Jarkko Sipilä's crime novel out in the US

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Just noticed that Jarkko Sipilä, one of the foremost Finnish crime writers (and one of the most hardboiled), has a crime novel out in the US...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Anthony Neil Smith and Jonathan Maberry on terrorism

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As I promised, I'll say some things about Anthony Neil Smith's and Jonathan Maberry's new books, Yellow Medicine and Patient Ze...
Monday, June 15, 2009

Weird Uncle Scrooge

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See anything strange in this picture? (It's one of the Donald Duck paperbacks that features mostly European-made Disney comics. Donald D...

Kaarlo Uskelan Vainovuosilta

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(The original cover of a Finnish book that's being reprinted with my foreword.) Tunnistaako kukaan tämän kannen kuvittajaa? Kirja on il...
Saturday, June 13, 2009

Tedd Thomey's And Dream of Evil

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Without having read the book, I can only post the covers for the two editions of Tedd Thomey's And Dream of Evil. The hardback is from ...
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Tedd Thomey dead

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Did anyone notice? Steve Lewis sent me, along with some other folks with a bibliographic bent, the addenda to Allen Hubin's crime fictio...

I'm available

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And just when will we be seeing the Helsinki Noir anthology ?

Saturday Forgotten Book: Jonathan Valin's Day of Wrath

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I'm one day behind in Patti Abbott's blog post series (which would make for a nice book, don't you think, with Patti picking up ...
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Raimi's Crimewave

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I just posted this in parts on my Twitter account: Watched Sam Raimi's CRIMEWAVE last night. Friend's VHS, with Greek subtitles! Jus...
Friday, June 12, 2009

Wignall in his own words

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Kevin Wignall's own entry on his visit to Finland at Contemporary Nomad, a blog which he shares with some other authors.

Forgotten Book coming up

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I'll do a forgotten book post for this week, but later - possibly tonight or tomorrow. The book will be Jonathan Valin's Day of Wrat...

A review on Conrad Hirst

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Jussi Katajala's review on Kuka on Conrad Hirst (in Finnish). Quite positive: gets four national states departed from Yugoslavia out of...
Thursday, June 11, 2009

My Fab Four

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Todd Mason tagged me with this, and since I got Kevin Wignall out of my hands, I decided I'd try. Four Movies You Can See Over and Over ...
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Kevin Wignall in Finland

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As part of the new paperback series I'm editing for the Arktinen Banaani publishing house, we invited Kevin Wignall, the author of Kuka ...
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