Sebastian Rotella's Blog, page 3

A Christmas Memory

How a foreign correspondent spent Christmas Eve, 1999. The moral of the story: If things are going well, great. If not, remember that it could always be worse.
Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year.

http://articles.latimes.com/1999/dec/...

Mystery in Cuba

OK, this is journalism, not fiction. But perhaps an entertaining holiday weekend listen. Many thanks to the folks at the Today, Explained podcast at Vox.

https://art19.com/shows/today-explain...

Rip Crew Named a Kirkus Best Book of 2018

I'm happy and grateful to report that Kirkus Reviews has named Rip Crew one of the best mysteries and thrillers of 2018. Very nice to be included included along with such names as Laura Lippman, Daniel Silva and Dan Fesperman.

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/lists/b...

Carme Chaparro

Coming on November 13 from AmazonCrossing: a new thriller from Spain, I Am Not a Monster, by Carme Chaparro. An author I discovered recently and recommend highly. In Spain, Carme Chaparro is a star: a respected television journalist and an award-winning, best-selling author. Her debut thriller in English, I am not a Monster, will make her a star in America as well. The plot is propulsive, intricately constructed and enriched by meticulous research. Chaparro also takes the time to develop vivid characters with complex backstories. Having worked and lived in Spain, I can confirm that the portrait of Spanish law enforcement in action--from the hard-charging personalities to the dogged investigative work—rings true. The story of two high-powered women, a detective and a journalist, plunged into the hunt for missing children and a mysterious predator, is relentlessly suspenseful. The twists and turns will give you whiplash. In the end, this book succeeds as a mystery and as a story about the nobility and darkness of the human soul.

The Strand

For those who missed it, a piece in The Strand about some of my favorite characters in crime fiction.

https://strandmag.com/badges-five-cha...

Another French review

A nice piece about Rip Crew on a French literary blog, En attendant Nadeau, also published by Mediapart.

https://www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr/20...

A CrimeReads Conversation with Alex Segura

A CrimeReads conversation with Alex Segura, the maestro of Miami noir, about the underworlds of migrants and exiles and desperados at home and abroad.

https://crimereads.com/border-crossin...

Border books

The Dallas Morning News offers a useful selection of titles about a much-discussed, poorly-understood, perennially divisive subject: the border. Triple Crossing is among them...

https://www.dallasnews.com/arts/books...

French reviews

It's interesting to read reviews of the translations of my novels, to see what happens when the stories and ideas cross borders. I've enjoyed reading the French reviews of Rip Crew, or Trafiquants & Associés. The critics tend to be thoughtful and engaged. They have an eye for detail as well as an appreciation of the ideas and themes. A few recent pieces:

http://www.lianalevi.fr/images/30/ext...

https://www.telerama.fr/livre/manotti...

http://www.baz-art.org/archives/2018/...

Radio interview

A new Rip Crew interview with Law Business Insider Radio:

http://lbishow.com/americas-best-sell...