tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76510299653252895052025-04-15T21:04:23.784-04:00Reviews, interviews, overviews, other views, & giveaways too.*** Revues, entrevues, vues d'ensemble, autres vues, et concours itou.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01624185824383401430noreply@blogger.comBlogger139125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7651029965325289505.post-88191703472354912622018-08-16T13:22:00.000-04:002018-08-22T21:34:51.256-04:00

MONTRÉAL NOIR edited by Jacques Filippi and John McFetridge Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Following the success of Toronto Noir, the Noir Series explores new Canadian terrain,

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Hello, remember me? I'm still working on my "soon-to-be-online, brand-new website" but lots of travelling for full-time work (and life in general) is complicating things quite a bit. I also wanted to write a list of my recommendations for Summer Reading but that was pushed aside as well by other commitments (those that come with $$$ and that help pay the bills and feed the kids). But hey,

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Nick Cutter, author of the highly praised horror novels The Troop, The Deep (both with Simon & Schuster), and The Acolyte (ChiZine), returns with his most accomplished horror story so far: Little Heaven features unnerving scenes that will test your stress levels (and sometimes your gross level limits), roots of fear will creep and stretch around your brain, squeezing it in

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Qui dit automne au Québec dit sirop d'érable, bien sûr. Mais encore? Ah oui, pour vous sucrer les neurones d'adrénaline, il y a un nouveau thriller de Martin Michaud. Cette fois, une troisième sortie hors de l'univers de l'inspecteur Victor Lessard avec Quand j'étais Théodore Seaborn. Malheureusement, je ne l'ai pas encore lu mais voici le résumé officiel : 

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UPDATE: we have a winner and it is Wendy Hirschegger, of Brantford (Ontario). Congrats Wendy, and thank you to everyone who participated. Stay tuned for more giveaways all through summer. *************************** Want to read the new novels by Linwood Barclay and Giles Blunt before they are published? You only need to send me your name and address at housecrimyst@gmail.com to become

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  Michael Robotham's new novel, LIFE OR DEATH, is published in the US March 10th. It is already available around the world. Probably Robotham's most accomplished book yet, very close to perfection: the plot is brilliant, the characters won't leave you alone for a long time after you've finished reading the story, and the writing is so good my copy is full of post-it notes.&

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  Thank you for your patience, ladies and gentlemen. Before I give you the results, here are some statistics regarding your participation. Two years ago, I had received 632 ballots and last year i received an impressive 1,117. We're down a little this time, partly due to the fact that I started the voting on December 22nd, two full weeks later than in December 2013, but also because I

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In respect for the victims of terrorist attacks, in Paris, and the special events taking place in many countries, on Sunday, I have decided to delay my scheduled post. One of my brothers is a policeman, in France (in the Gendarmerie Mobile, a military branch of the French police), so I had an additional reason for staying glued to my TV these last few days. Tomorrow, I will

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A little later than in the past two years, but THE HOUSE OF CRIME & MYSTERY'S READERS'S CHOICE AWARDS are back for a 3rd edition.(You can still check out the winners of 2013 and 2012). I've written down a list, to help start you out, in each category, but you're under no obligation to pick one of these titles --just add your own favourites (there's a blank space at the bottom

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  Il a plusieurs éléments d'un polar mais n'en est peut-être pas un --on pourrait en débattre longtemps-- mais peu importe : j’ai beaucoup aimé le roman "Wildwood" de Jo Seymour, que j'ai dévoré d'un trait (le roman pas Jo!). L'écriture coule doucement et nous emporte dans le temps, à une époque pas si lointaine (1968) pendant laquelle plusieurs jeunes ont perdu leur innocence,

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It's middle of summer (at least up here in the northern hemisphere) and I think that 2014 is already a great year for crime fiction. Here are my favourite books so far; please refrain from telling me that I'm an idiot for not including this or that title; I haven't read everything that's been published so of course I've left out many good titles. Which is why I include, at the end, a list of

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 TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE...WELL, ACTUALLY IT'S TWO FOR THE PRICE OF NONE. THEY ARE TWO OF THE BEST THRILLER WRITERS YOU CAN FIND; ONE IS CANADIAN (initials LB), THEY OTHER IS AUSTRALIAN (initials MR). SEND ME YOUR NAME BEFORE TUESDAY, AUGUST 5TH, AT NOON (MONTREAL TIME) FOR A CHANCE TO WIN BOTH OF THESE BOOKS. THERE WILL BE ONLY ONE WINNER. UPDATE: the winner is Jeffrey Mackie, from

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This is the fourth book in the ‘Ellie Hatcher’ series, and the best one yet. I’m also tempted to say that it is Alafair Burke’s best novel (it’s her tenth) but it is definitely my favourite of hers. In the big picture, it is a story about the choices we make and the impact they can have on our future, sometimes only weeks later but often many years hence when we barely remember those

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After jumping from a quarry ledge, a young teenage boy of 13, Jace Wilson, finds a dead man in the water. A few moments later, the boy witnesses the killing of another man who is also thrown in the water. The only person who can identify the two killers, Jace needs to be protected during the investigation. So Jace Wilson becomes Connor Reynolds under a non-traditional witness protection

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  Maybe you’ve seen the movie Papillon (1973), starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman, or maybe you’ve read the 1968 book by Henri Charrière. You did both? Great, stay around.   For the others, maybe you have no clue what I’m talking about. Maybe you’re on the wrong blog. That’s ok, you can stay too. Everyone is very nice around here. Unless you’re in one of the books I’m

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 I’m way behind in my list of scheduled reviews, so I’m writing six shorter ones this week, one per day --what about a week having seven days, you ask? I’ll tell you in the next paragraph. (At least I'll aim for one per day, if I skip one day I'll make it up with two on another day). Don’t go thinking these books are not worth longer reviews though; they are definitely worth it and the money

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(This is part of a TLC Book Tour)   Natchez Burning is an ambitious novel (the first of a trilogy) of close to 800 pages, and to make it justice I would need to write a much longer review, almost an analysis or a short thesis. I don't have the time to do this, and you certainly wouldn't be interested in reading it either. But for those who don't want to read even a short

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Even though I really enjoyed Robert Pobi's Bloodman (aka Eye of the Storm) and Mannheim Rex, I wasn't sure I wanted -or needed, for that matter- to read a novel about a serial killer of kids. Fortunately, Pobi knows how to write and how to tell a story; he doesn't go for the melodramatic and he doesn't try to horrify with blood on every page. That's not saying you won't be troubled by the

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(This review is part of a TLC Blog Tour; I've just realised that I'm posting this one day late, so I apologize. Very sorry!). Polly Leuchars, 29 years old, is found dead in a cottage, so badly beaten that part of her head is missing and there's blood everywhere. On the same night, not far from there, at the bottom of a quarry, the body of Barbara Fletcher-Norman, 58, is

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  MARCH MADNESS (and APRIL too) - CANADIAN VERSION Simon & Schuster Canada is sending seven of its best authors on tour, this spring. All events are free to attend, and, depending on the event, there'll be three or four authors present. The authors are Deryn Collier (Confined Space, Open Secrets), Craig Davidson (The Troop written as Nick

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    Blogger is great but it has too many glitches and bugs that make me go a little crazy (and very frustrated). After much debating, I've finally decided to start working on a brand-new website instead of trying to keep improving this blog, which didn't really respond to my needs; I had to constantly adapt myself to it, instead of adapting it to what I wanted to do. I'm hoping to

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                  Canadian Edition                                              &nbsp

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 The best crime books of the year, voted by you! They've all been published between November 1st, 2012 and November 31st, 2013. (So next year we'll be able to do December 1st, 2013 to November 30th, 2014). Ballots came in mainly from the USA, UK, and Canada, like last year, but votes in Canada alone almost doubled. There were also many more voters from French Québec

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  You participated in such great numbers last year that I decided to do it again. I want to know what books you most enjoyed in 2013. These will be THE HOUSE OF CRIME & MYSTERY'S 2013 READERS'S CHOICE AWARDS (2nd Edition). (You can still check out the 2012 winners). I've written down a list of some of my favourites of the year, to help start you out, in each

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Pour la première fois en français, l'auteur britannique Martyn Waites (il s'agit de son 4è roman en anglais; il en a maintenant 10 en tout; plus quelques-uns sous un nom de plume, écrits avec sa conjointe).   Dans Né sous les coups, Waites raconte les blessures et les conséquences de la grève de mineurs anglais, en 1984, alors que le pays est dirigé par Margaret

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