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
