Tangled Web UK Crime & Mystery New Books 23/09/2007

List of new and reissued - Crime & Mystery publications available in the UK this week. Compiled by Tangled Web UK.

Titles - 2008 (Jan-March) - (April-June)
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Reviews: Tangled Web UK Last Updated 22nd April 08
Lorraine Connection by Dominique Manotti - Eurocrime (Bob Cornwell)
The Fox and the Flies: The Criminal World of the Whitechapel Murderer by Charles van Onselen - Vintage (Rafe McGregor)
Small Crimes by Dave Zeltserman - Serpent's Tail (Cath Staincliffe)
Stalin's Ghost by Martin Cruz Smith - Macmillan (Cath Staincliffe)
Killer Tune by Dreda Say Mitchell - Hodder (Cath Staincliffe)
Death Comes by Amphora by Roger Hudson - Twenty First Century (Bernard Knight)
The Blood Pit by Kate Ellis - Piatkus (Martin Edwards)
Sherlock Holmes: The Games Afoot by David Stuart Davies - Wordsworth (Martin Edwards)
The Twilight Time by Karen Campbell - Hodder (Cath Staincliffe)
Written in Bone by Simon Beckett - Bantam (Cath Staincliffe)
Execution of Sherlock Holmes by Donald Thomas - Pegasus Books (Rafe McGregor)
Carved in Bone: A Body Farm Novel by Jefferson Bass - Quercus (Rafe McGregor)
Death in Breslau by Marek Krajewski - Quercus (Bob Cornwell)
Damaged Goods by June Hampson - Orion (Bernard Knight)
The Art of Cunning Lingers by Kaz Jordyn - Betti Noir (Chris High)
The Arsenic Labyrinth Lake District Mystery, No. 3. by Martin Edwards - Allison Busby (Chris High)
Dead Point: A Jack Irish Thriller by Peter Temple - Quercus (Bob Cornwell)
Steel Witches by Patrick Lennon - Hodder (Cath Staincliffe)
Hangman Blind by Cassandra Clark - John Murray (Bernard Knight)
Cold Pursuit by Judith Cutler - Allison Busby (Martin Edwards)
The Painted Lady by Edward Marston - Allison Busby (Martin Edwards)

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Sherlock Holmes for Beginners.
by Rafe McGregor
Sherlock Holmes is an international icon, as much a part of popular culture as Dracula and James Bond – perhaps more so, as to date he has been portrayed by seventy-five actors in two hundred and eleven films, more than any other character real or imagined.
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City of the Dead
A resume of new novel - City of the Dead
by Ian Morson

Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, 2008
17 - 20 July 2008, Crown Hotel, Harrogate
Special appearance by reclusive bestseller Andy McNab. Other special guests include, Peter Robinson, as well as Robert Crais, Jeffery Deaver and Tess Gerritsen

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Following the success of the one-off visit to Bristol in 2006 of the American Left Coast Crime convention, the organisers are putting on a new biennial international event called CrimeFest. CrimeFest will follow the format of US conventions, featuring interviews, panels, a Gala Dinner, and possibly one or two surprises. Our 2008 Featured Guest Authors are Lee Child, Karin Fossum and Ian Rankin. What's the latest on the Reacher movies? Find out more about the award winning Inspector Sejer series. And what's next after Rebus? Find out at CrimeFest, and check the website

http://www.crimefest.com/index.html
Email us at info@crimefest.com

John Connor, author of the acclaimed Karen Sharpe novels interviewed
by Chris High

Simon Spurrier
Muses on the Crime Writer's sleazy little paradox

Simon's first novel Contract
published by Headline Review

CWA Ellis Peters Historical Crime Award 07

Ariana Franklin - Mistress Of The Art Of Death - Bantam Press
has been announced as the winner of the Crime Writers’ Association Ellis Peters Historical Award for 2007.The award is sponsored by the Estate of Ellis Peters and her publishers, the Headline Book Publishing Group and the Little, Brown Book Group.