Archive for February, 2008

• De Engelen des Doods, Holland

  The fourth Nic Costa novel, The Lizard’s Bite, is now available in translation in Holland. De Engelen des Doods (The Angels of Death) is, like the earlier books in the series, published by De Fontein.
  

  Posted on 29/02/08 | no comments | read on

• Food and crime in Catalunya

  Barcelona Negra was a unique event - a celebration of the crime and dark genre organised in the beautiful Palau de la Virreina. This was a busy and fun festival, the brain child of the very enthusiastic local book store Negra y Criminal. I’m just sorry I had to leave early which meant missing the [...]

  Posted on 10/02/08 | no comments | read on

• Chopin up for a prize

  The Chopin Manuscript, the audio serial thriller for which I wrote the second chapter, has been nominated for an Audie award by the Audio Publishers Association. Other writers in the project include Jeffery Deaver, Lee Child, Lisa Scottoline and a selection of other authors from International Thrillerwriters Inc.
  The work, which is only available by download [...]

  Posted on 06/02/08 | no comments | read on

• Lucifer’s Shadow audio book now available on Audible

  UK readers can now listen to the audiobook of the standalone Venetian novel, Lucifer’s Shadow, on Audible, part of the growing David Hewson collection on the downloadable audio service. You will find a number of titles on on both Audible US and Audible UK. But please note that due to rights complexities Lucifer’s Shadow is [...]

  Posted on 01/02/08 | 2 comments | read on

• A book for the wish list

  I gave an author chat at the very impressive Borders in Fulham not long ago. At the end the store very kindly said, by way of thanks, ‘Pick a book.’ It was not was easy to choose. There were two floors to the place, all of them stacked with interesting fiction and non-fiction, and titles [...]

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