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At last! BBC4′s international crime slot gets back into gear 22 Aug 2013 | 10:55 pm
I don’t know about you, but I feel like I’ve been waiting forever for the BBC to deliver on its March 2013 crime press release. While Arne Dahl has aired, three new series (Inspector de Luca, Young Mo...
#40 / Ioanna Bourazopoulou, What Lot’s Wife Saw (first review of Greek crime!) 14 Aug 2013 | 10:39 pm
Ioanna Bourazopoulou, What Lot’s Wife Saw, translated from the Greek by Yannis Panas (Edinburgh: Black and White Publishing, 2013 [2007]) 4.5 stars Opening line: Perhaps reality is but a mass delusi...
Canadian reading pleasures 2 6 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Now back from three lovely weeks in Canada, I can confirm that British Columbia - or at least the fraction we saw of its expanse (four times that of the UK) - is breathtakingly beautiful. We divided o...
Canadian reading pleasures 19 Jul 2013 | 10:27 pm
A quick hello from sunny Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. Yesterday we popped into Munro’s, a rather famous local bookshop, which has a wonderful selection of homegrown and international crime f...
Criminally good summer treats 10 Jul 2013 | 01:53 am
First of all, a HUGE THANK YOU to those who took part in last week’s survey and got that kitten tally so high. The result was a phenomenal 188 responses, and I’m incredibly grateful to you for taking ...
Your blogger needs you! Can you spare 5 minutes for Mrs. P? 4 Jul 2013 | 04:20 pm
This week, in place of my usual post, I’m going to ask you for some help. If you’re a regular visitor to ‘Mrs. Peabody Investigates’, or even if you just drop by every now and then, would you mind fi...
#39 / D.A. Mishani, The Missing File (first review of Israeli crime!) 29 Jun 2013 | 12:24 pm
D.A. Mishani, The Missing File, translated from the Hebrew by Steven Cohen (London, HarperCollins 2013 [2011]) 4 stars Opening line: Across the desk from him sat a mother. The reviews I’ve read so ...
James Gandolfini of The Sopranos 20 Jun 2013 | 02:13 pm
What sad news today: the actor James Gandolfini has died while in Italy attending a film festival. He was 51. Gandolfini was best known for his role as troubled Mafia boss Tony Soprano in HBO’s epic T...
GDR Glossary for Simon Urban’s Plan D 16 Jun 2013 | 12:35 am
Here’s an East/West German glossary that might come in handy when reading Simon Urban’s alternative history Plan D (no plot spoilers…). This glossary is a companion to my review of Plan D, available h...
#38 / Simon Urban, Plan D 16 Jun 2013 | 12:33 am
Simon Urban, Plan D (German original published by Schoeffling, 2011; English translation by Katy Derbyshire for Harvill Secker, 2013) 4 stars Opening line: Wegener undid the flies of his cords, pulle...
