Doggedly indefatigable Good confronts irrepressible Evil. Again.Old Testament imagery, suburban noir and a murdered monk all feature in the latest batch of crime novelsSat Aug 03 2013 - 01:00
The Cuckoo’s Calling, by Robert GalbraithRegardless of its author’s name, motives or reputation, JK Rowling’s work is easily one of the most assured and fascinating debut crime novels of the yearSat Jul 27 2013 - 01:00
Black gets blacker in Quirke’s latest Dublin noir adventureThe latest crime fictionSat Jun 08 2013 - 01:00
A Delicate Truth, by John le CarréThe 23rd novel of spy fiction’s master storyteller is full of simmering rageSat May 11 2013 - 06:00
Vigilante vengeance on the great, the good and the grotesqueThe latest crime fictionSat May 11 2013 - 06:00
Barclay banks on dark tales for young adultsCrime writer Alex Barclay has turned her hand to young adult fiction but insists compromise is not on the cardsMon Feb 11 2013 - 00:00
Taoiseach, Nazi, soldier, spy‘One of the first things I became aware of was the divisiveness of his legacy,” says author Stuart Neville of former taoiseach…Wed Jan 09 2013 - 00:00
Take me home, country noirDANIEL WOODRELL’S reading was one of the most anticipated events at the recent Dún Laoghaire Mountains to Sea festivalThu Oct 25 2012 - 01:00
'If I'm not writing, I hate myself'Harlan Coben’s novels all deal with the dark side but in his latest book Stay Close, focusing on a ’soccer mom’ and her desire…Mon Aug 06 2012 - 01:00
A Barclay to bank onCRIME BEAT The ritualistic murder of young women links parallel stories in Karin Slaughter’s 11th novel, Criminal (Century, £…Sat Jul 28 2012 - 01:00
Murder and Slaughter: the art of crime fictionKarin Slaughter is on her 11th novel, which takes a trip back in time to reflect on feminism, the Atlanta police force with, …Fri Jul 13 2012 - 01:00
Digging for clues, from Vienna to DonegalCRIME BEAT: A STRIPPER DURING HER wild-child youth, Megan Pierce is now “living the ultimate soccer-mom fantasy and hating it…Sat Jul 07 2012 - 01:00
Writing that goes down to the Wire‘LET ME ASK you a question,” George Pelecanos says as our interview comes to an endTue Apr 17 2012 - 01:00
Why Irish crime writers are dying to get out of DublinA new generation of Irish crime writers differ from their forebears in one crucial way – they are reluctant to set their novels…Mon Apr 09 2012 - 01:00
Running out of letters, running out of steamCRIMEBEAT: V IS FOR VENGEANCE (Mantle, £17Sat Mar 17 2012 - 00:00
Why should the price of ebooks . . . be on the floor?WAY BACK in the early days of epublishing, one of the purported benefits of ereaders was that digital books would bring writers…Tue Feb 21 2012 - 00:00
Fathers, sons and gunsCRIME BEAT: TWO OF THE VETERANS OF THE crime genre, James Lee Burke and Henning Mankell, delivered meditations on aging and …Sat Dec 17 2011 - 00:00
Rewriting the rules for publishingE-BOOKS MAY be garnering the lion’s share of headlines about the future of publishing, but the digital revolution isn’t confined…Tue Dec 06 2011 - 00:00
Big hitters back on the streetsCRIME BEAT: STUART NEVILLE’S third novel, Stolen Souls (Harvill Secker, £12Sat Nov 12 2011 - 00:00
Not so much whodunnit as why do it?CRIME BEAT: CONNIE BOWSKILL is the deliciously unhinged, unreliable narrator of Sophie Hannah’s sixth novel, Lasting Damage (…Sat Oct 08 2011 - 01:00
Straying off crime's beaten trackCRIME BEAT: RECENTLY PROMOTED to DCI, Lynda La Plante’s series heroine, Anna Travis, returns in Blood Line (Simon & Schuster…Sat Aug 13 2011 - 01:00
Sixty years and 65m copies on: Holden Caulfield and the great American novel‘The Catcher in the Rye’, JD Salinger’s only novel, with its irritating, intoxicating lead character, still connects with readers…Wed Jul 13 2011 - 01:00
Twists and turns of a recession-proof businessCRIME BEAT: THE JOURNALIST Gene Kerrigan is a serial chronicler of Dublin’s criminal underworldSat Jul 02 2011 - 01:00
Criminal masterminds reveal their next movesCRIME BEAT: BRIAN McGILLOWAY has established a strong reputation with his series of Insp Devlin novels set in Co Donegal, but…Sat May 14 2011 - 01:00
Who says crime doesn't pay?Stuart Neville’s award-winning debut novel was a twist on the Troubles thriller, and his second enters the same worldFri May 13 2011 - 01:00
Why women writers rule the crime-ridden nightWomen crime writers have an unnerving ability to bring great murder to lifeThu May 05 2011 - 01:00
Wallander's fine, philosophical farewellCRIME BEAT: WILLIAM PETER BLATTY’S The Redemption (Piatkus Books, £7Sat Mar 26 2011 - 00:00
Sharpness on the edge of SeattleCRIME BEAT: URBAN WAITE’S The Terror of Living (Simon & Schuster, £12Sat Feb 26 2011 - 00:00
On the edge in the Big AppleCRIME BEAT: IN RJ Ellory’s Saints of New York (Orion, £12Sat Jan 22 2011 - 00:00
Meet Dad and DaddyTV REVIEW: Brian Clough: The Greatest Manager England Never Had? Sunday, BBC2Sat Jul 24 2010 - 01:00
How the world became one big crime sceneFrom the Palestinian Territories to Mongolia and beyond, crime writers are using international locations to tackle global themes…Thu Jul 08 2010 - 01:00
A private eye who takes on powers of darknessBOOK OF THE DAY: The Devil By Ken Bruen Transworld Ireland, 281pp, £10.99 (pb)Thu May 20 2010 - 01:00
Would you watch a movie on the iPhone?WE’RE NOT in Kansas anymore, Toto. Quick, whip out your smartphone and find out where we areThu May 06 2010 - 01:00
Back in the kitchen nightmareTV REVIEW: Raw RTÉ 1, Sunday; Your Bad Self RTÉ 2, Monday; Katherine Lynch’s Single Ladies RTÉ 2, Tuesday; The Persuasionists…Sat Jan 16 2010 - 00:00
Back in the kitchen nightmareTV REVIEW: Raw RTÉ 1, Sunday; Your Bad Self RTÉ 2, Monday; Katherine Lynch’s Single Ladies RTÉ 2, Tuesday; The Persuasionists…Sat Jan 16 2010 - 00:00
Too much forensics spoils the plotBOOK OF THE DAY: 206 Bones By Kathy Reichs, William Heinemann 303pp; £18.99Mon Aug 10 2009 - 01:00
Compelling tale of world-weary journalist in pursuit of serial killerBOOK OF THE DAY: The Scarecrow By Michael Connelly Orion 419pp, £18.99Wed May 20 2009 - 01:00
Digging for truth in MozambiqueCrime: One of the many ironies that vein Henning Mankell's work is that the first in the series of his best-selling police procedural…Sat Sept 22 2007 - 01:00
Zen makes his exitCrime: The death of Michael Dibdin last March has robbed crime fiction of one of its most perceptive practitioners.Sat Jun 30 2007 - 01:00
Fairytales from the dark sideShort Stories The Parker novels, and more recently Bad Men (2003), established John Connolly as a bestselling writer in a hybrid…Sat Nov 20 2004 - 00:00
