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The Rap Sheet: So Who’s Going to Play Lew?
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EDITED BY J. KINGSTON PIERCE. Tuesday, October 17, 2006. So Who’s Going to Play Lew? The Central Crime Zone blog reports. That “Random House films and Focus Features have announced plans to turn Ross Macdonald. Into a film.” No cast has been announced yet, but expectations are for a 2008 release. Anybody familiar with Macdonald’s fiction knows that. The eighth novel in which Los Angeles private eye Lew Archer. Ross Macdonald: A Biography. 8217;s publication, Linda Miller disappeared from the UC campus, f...
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The Rap Sheet: The Story Behind the Story: “Print the Legend,” by Craig McDonald
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EDITED BY J. KINGSTON PIERCE. Tuesday, February 16, 2010. The Story Behind the Story:. 8220;Print the Legend,” by Craig McDonald. Editor’s note: Even coming up on 49 years now since the sudden death- by shotgun blast- of. That American novelist and inveterate adventurer seems not to have. Lost one iota of celebrity cachet. There are still. His home-turned-museum in Key West, Florida, remains. A popular tourist attraction. Journalists are, by reputation, a cynical breed. “If your mother says she...Never m...
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The Rap Sheet: Pierce’s Picks
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EDITED BY J. KINGSTON PIERCE. Monday, August 10, 2015. A weekly alert for followers of crime, mystery, and thriller fiction. In the Dark Places. By Peter Robinson (Morrow), was published last year in Great Britain as Abattoir Blues. And might it be connected to the discovery of a bloodstain at an abandoned World War II aircraft hangar, the disappearance of two local young men, and a truck that has crashed on an ice-slick road? This is the 22nd Banks novel (following Children of the Revolution. Check out ...
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The Rap Sheet: Five Prime Picks for the Marsh Prize
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EDITED BY J. KINGSTON PIERCE. Sunday, July 05, 2015. Five Prime Picks for the Marsh Prize. It’s Monday morning in New Zealand, time to announce the shortlist of nominees. For the 2015 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel. Arranged alphabetically by their authors’ names, the contenders are:. By Paul Cleave (Penguin NZ). By Barbara Ewing (Head of Zeus). Swimming in the Dark. By Paddy Richardson (Upstart Press). The Children’s Pond. By Tina Shaw (Pointer Press). By Paul Thomas (Upstart Press). The Rap She...
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The Rap Sheet: The Men from Laramie
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EDITED BY J. KINGSTON PIERCE. Monday, January 04, 2010. The Men from Laramie. With his English/French translator, Robert Pépin. As unlikely as this may sound, I made the town of Laramie, Wyoming. It was there that I met my first real cowboys, and for a time, was a rather unusual regular- a swarthy man with a clipped English accent, who drank gin-and-tonics and talked incessantly about books. My Laramie days were still very much on my mind in 2003, when I attended my first Bouchercon. 2001) and Savage Run.
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The Rap Sheet: The Best TV Crime Drama Openers, #16
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EDITED BY J. KINGSTON PIERCE. Thursday, September 11, 2008. The Best TV Crime Drama Openers, #16. 2007-2012, NBC Starring:. The creator of the canceled FOX-TV series The O.C. And the creator and current show-runner of the hit CW teen soap Gossip Girl. Also created (with Chris Fedak. The action-comedy spy series Chuck. While I like Gossip Girl. When it was great, I loved it. It had a spectacular first season that was nearly as good as the comedy-drama Freaks and Geeks. And it was a joy to watch their rela...
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PRAISE FOR PRIME EVIL. I think this is turning into a really great series and I have no hesitation in recommending Prime Evil as a great read.’. Really enjoyed this book, couldn't put it down till it was finished.’. Another enjoyable old fashioned style police investigation that has many twists to keep you guessing and turning the pages.’. Can't wait for the 3rd book in this series.'. PRAISE FOR FOR HER SINS. Sister Bernadette is a young nun working in the local orphanage has been found stabbed repeatedl...
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The Rap Sheet: Number Nine, Number Nine*
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EDITED BY J. KINGSTON PIERCE. Friday, May 22, 2015. Number Nine, Number Nine*. It was nine years ago today. On May 22, 2006, that I launched The Rap Sheet as an independent blog, separating it from January Magazine. Ever since, I’ve tried to note anniversaries of that occasion, sometimes in a big way (as I did with birthday No. 1. Which spawned my “ one book project. Celebration of today’s milestone- which just happens to coincide with what would have been Arthur Conan Doyle’s 156th birthday. Had I not c...
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The Rap Sheet: Favorite Crime Fiction of 2014, Part IV: Anthony Rainone
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EDITED BY J. KINGSTON PIERCE. Tuesday, December 16, 2014. Favorite Crime Fiction of 2014,. Part IV: Anthony Rainone. Is a contributing editor to. And a (too-infrequent) contributor to The Rap Sheet. He lives in Brooklyn, where he writes screenplays, novels, and stories. 8226; The Burning Room. By Michael Connelly (Little, Brown):. What made him the finest cop protagonist in literature today …. And maybe for a lot of tomorrows. In The Burning Room. 8226; Murder in Pigalle. By Cara Black (Soho Crime):.
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The Rap Sheet: The Best TV Crime Drama Openers, #14
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EDITED BY J. KINGSTON PIERCE. Thursday, September 25, 2008. The Best TV Crime Drama Openers, #14. It was The Avengers. I had in mind when I remarked, in the opening installment of this weekly blog series. That I would be writing “almost exclusively” about the main title sequences of American TV shows. This is the exception, a stylish, quick-witted spy-fi. Drama that was apparently the last English series to appear on U.S. television during prime-time hours. The Avengers. But hey, who’s counting? The real...
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