Chris Wiegand talks to the creators of two very dissimilar detectives, both at work in Istanbul’s meanest streets.
Crime fiction aficionados know Istanbul as the beat of Cetin Ikmen, the shabby, middle-aged Turkish cop created by English novelist Barbara Nadel. A former actress who lives in the Pennines and was raised in London’s East End, her [...]
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May
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May
Valentino is a movie archivist at UCLA but his business card reads “film detective.” His job: tracking down prints of old Hollywood movies before they deteriorate and are lost forever.
As “Frames” opens, Valentino has just sunk all of his savings, and then some, into buying the decrepit Oracle Theater in the hope of restoring it [...]
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Jan
Marshall Frank, an author of mystery crime novels and a retired captain from the Miami-Dade Police Department, will present a free program, “From Violins to Violence,” at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Leesburg Public Library, 100 E. Main St. The New York native, who moved to Miami when he was 5, will [...]
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Dec
VANCOUVER, Wash. %26#8212; Karen Kingsbury, the reigning queen of Christian fiction, lives on a hilltop just outside of here in a spacious modern Tudor house, with a sweeping driveway and a large, landscaped pool.
This is the house that Life Changing Fiction built. That’s her trademark, says the winner of the 2007 Christian Book Award, because [...]
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Dec
Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel by Walter Mosley 280pp, Bloomsbury, %26pound;10.99Walter Mosley has cemented his reputation with uncompromising crime novels, as well as being a leading polemicist on race and politics. An interest in comic strips predisposed him to genre writing, and he has also written several ambitious science fiction novels. So [...]
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Dec
VANCOUVER, Wash. %26#8212; Karen Kingsbury, the reigning queen of Christian fiction, lives on a hilltop just outside of here in a spacious modern Tudor house, with a sweeping driveway and a large, landscaped pool.
This is the house that Life Changing Fiction built. That’s her trademark, says the winner of the 2007 Christian Book Award, because [...]
14
Dec
When Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was a child she had a recurring nightmare in
which pleasant occasions %26ndash; family tea-times, parties, picnics %26ndash; were
disrupted by a scary apparition with no hands, a ghastly stare and
formidable powers of disguise. %26ldquo;It might be Mummy or Daddy or Nannie,%26rdquo; she
recalled, %26ldquo;someone you were just talking to. You looked up into [...]
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