Posts Tagged with ‘noir’
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35 Years of Devil in a Blue Dress
04 Jun 2025DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS Devil in a Blue Dress is celebrating its 35th anniversary. Walter Mosley’s bestseller broke new…
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Not the Oscars
14 Mar 2023NOT THE OSCARS Excited about the Oscar winners? Don’t bother: get excited about Not the Oscars! The good movies that…
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Have your say: new blurb for The Breaking of Liam Glass
30 Jul 2021NEW BLURB I’d love to hear your opinion of the new blurb for my noir thriller The Breaking of Liam…
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Finnish humour. Review of Palm Beach Finland by Antti Tuomainen
14 Aug 2019Review of Palm Beach Finland Last year, I sat with the Finnish novelist Antti Tuomainen on a panel for the…
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Paris by noir – Review: Clementina by Simon Cann
13 Jun 2019Paris by noir – review: Clementina by Simon Cann Last week I wrote about honesty in writing – how it…
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Is cozy mystery crime the new hummus?
17 Oct 2018Now is possibly the best time ever to be a cozy mystery crime reader Sales of crime novels in the…
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How seductive is the call of Sirens – review of Joseph Knox’s debut noir
16 May 2018Sirens – this week’s review in the Library Corner I was standing in Waterstones, asking for dark crime stories, when…
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The Horrific Sentence
24 Jun 2010You know, I firmly believe that at the heart of many - possibly all - genres there is a single sentence. There is certainly one at the heart of all Horror movies, and I'll tell you what it is in a moment, but first I have to go into a few things to make it clear.
