Yesterday I posted some recent crime fiction tidbits from European newspapers, so today it's back in the USA (and Canada) with news on this side of the Pond:
From the Toronto North Shore News comes an article on John Connolly (ironic, since he's Irish -- maybe I should have included him with yesterday's posting). The author talks about his latest novel The Reapers. "I really wanted to write about the way men relate to each other," he says. "There's a law in physics that says the thing is changed in the observation; you can't plot the position of something and say its speed, because you have to stop it to take its position. And I think men are a bit like that: when you put them in the company of women, their behaviour changes slightly."
The Post Star of Glen Falls, NY, gave its recommendations for summer mystery reading: Bangkok 8 by John Burdett, Neon Rain by James Lee Burke, Hitler's Peace by Philip Kerr, and Sun Storm by Asa Larson.
The Tampa Bay News Tribune wrote that the Gerber Baby has a new book. As hard as it may be to see now, octagenarian Ann Turner Cook was once the model for the chubby-cheeked commercial icon. She just published her fourth mystery novel, Micanopy in Shadow.
Last December, a new anthology edited by Otto Penzler was released, featuring mystery stories written by members of the legendary literary circle 1920s, the the Algonquin Round Table. The Classic Mysteries Podcast talked about via an online blog link here.
Publishers Weekly printed a web-exclusive interview with Lawrence Block about his latest novel starring Keller, the laconic, stamp-collecting hitman, titled Hit and Run.
The Boston Globe Online reviews British mystery author Morag Joss's latest, The Night Following. (OK, so this is a European subject, too, but there *is* a lot of global cross-polination in crime fiction these days—a very good thing, in my opinion).
And Sarah Weinman, in the Los Angeles Times, reviewed Finding Nouf, the fiction work by San Francisco novelist Zoe Ferraris which developed from a stay in Saudi Arabia for several years after the first Gulf War.
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