Venetian Vase – Best UK Crime Fiction Blogs
The Venetian Vase has featured on a new list of ‘the top 30 UK Crime Fiction Blogs’. Venetian Vase comes in at sixteen. A number of criteria are measured to come up with the top thirty. Personally, I...
View ArticleIrving Wallace’s THE FAN CLUB
I have started a new vodcast. I’ll be reviewing books, many of them recommended to me over the years by James Ellroy. I’ve picked a controversial but hard to put down novel to start with – Irving...
View ArticleFlickering Capers – Donald Westlake on Film
Donald Westlake was one of the most prolific and profound writers of crime fiction in the twentieth century, and a new book by Andy Rohmer provides a comprehensive, highly readable and very...
View ArticleEllroy Reads – Compulsion by Meyer Levin
You may recall I recently started a vodcast. I’ve decided to call it ‘Ellroy Reads’. I’ll be talking about books that were hugely influential on James Ellroy. Here’s the link to the first episode on...
View ArticleSmoke Kings – An Interview with Author Jahmal Mayfield
Smoke Kings has the most ingenious premise I have encountered in a crime novel in recent years. Nate Evers is a black political activist. When his cousin is murdered, Evers turns his back on peaceful...
View ArticleEllroy Reads – Portrait in Smoke by Bill S. Ballinger
For the latest episode of Ellroy Reads I look at Portrait in Smoke by Bill S. Ballinger, which Ellroy has described as the ‘ultimate evil woman novel’. I talk a little bit about how Krassy Almauniski...
View ArticleBooklisti – Gripping Crime Fiction
I’ve compiled a list for Booklisti of five gripping crime novels which are personal favourites of mine. Booklisti also invited me to talk about five of my own books. Enjoy!
View ArticleEllroy Reads – The Digger’s Game by George V. Higgins
In the latest episode of Ellroy Reads I look at The Digger’s Game by George V. Higgins. I argue that Higgins’ Boston noir dialogue-driven narratives have been a major influence on Ellroy’s writing...
View ArticleChicago ’63: Interview with Author Terrence McCauley
Chicago ’63 is the gripping new novella by Terrence McCauley. If you think you have already read everything there is to read about the assassination of President Kennedy then think again. McCauley...
View ArticleEllroy Reads – TRUE CONFESSIONS by John Gregory Dunne
In the latest episode of Ellroy Reads I look at the original bestselling Black Dahlia novel True Confessions by John Gregory Dunne. This novel was hugely influential on James Ellroy, even if some of...
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