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Last year, I waxed poetic about Sam Wiebe’s sophomore novel, Invisible Dead, in The Rap Sheet’s Best of the Year feature. As I said then, in that book Wiebe worked with just about all of the tropes of crime fiction and…
In a New York Times “By the Book” feature, George Pelecanos (The Man Who Came Uptown, The Sweet Forever) admits that his favorite fictional detective is C. W. Sughrue, from James Crumley’s “The Last Good Kiss.“ And that, while he loves fiction…
A core of sadness runs through It All Falls Down (Morrow), Sheena Kamal’s dark and thoughtful followup to her debut novel, 2017’s The Lost Ones (published in the UK as Eyes Like Mine). It All Falls Down continues the back story sketched…
In the tradition of the very best of overnight sensations, Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland Island and Vera Stanhope novels, was an overnight sensation. It’s just that it took 20 years. labored away in relative obscurity for a long time before…
Netflix and Mark Wahlberg have made a deal based on the character of Spenser by the “dean of American crime fiction” Robert B. Parker, who died in 2011. Deadline Hollywood carries news of the deal here: Netflix has made a deal with…
Just can’t get enough crime fiction? The Rap Sheet, January Magazine’s sister publication, offers up a selection of more than 220 works of mystery, crime, and thriller fiction from both sides of the Atlantic scheduled to reach bookstores between now and the…
Today marks the official publication date of The President Is Missing, by Bill Clinton and James Patterson (Little, Brown). The first thriller ever penned by a onetime American president, this 528-page novel boasts all the hallmarks of a best-seller. It likely also…
So sad to lose two crime fiction notables last week: Australian novelist Peter Temple, who died Thursday at age 71; and American mystery and science-fiction writer Kate Wilhelm, who expired on that very same day at age 89. The Rap Sheet reports…
Nicole Kidman will star in a HBO series based on Jean Hanff Korelitz’s 2014 novel, You Should Have Known. The series will be called “Big Little Lies.” From Deadline Hollywood: HBO is re-teaming with key auspices behind its breakout Big Little Lies,…
Fans of Alan Bradley’s series of mysteries featuring adolescent sleuth Flavia de Luce will be happy to hear that the series will be adapted for television. From Mystery Fanfare: For those patient thousands of you who have been enquiring, here it is:…