B.V. Lawson's Blog, page 206
September 18, 2014
Another Week, Another Great Giveaway!
Author Peter May is one of Scotland's most prolific television dramatists, with over 1,000 credits in 15 years as scriptwriter and script editor on prime-time British television dramas. But he left all that behind and moved to France to concentrate on his first love, writing novels. Since then, May has been the recipient of multiple awards for his internationally best-selling Lewis Trilogy set in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, as well as two other series and several standalone books.
May i...
September 17, 2014
Mystery Melange
Book sculpture by Su Blackwell
The Crime Writers Association announced the 2014 longlist for its Dagger in the Library Award that honors "an author's whole body of work to date." The authors on this year's longlist include M.C. Beaton, Tony Black, Sharon Bolton, Elly Griffiths, Mari Hannah, James Oswald, Phil Rickman, Leigh Russell, Mel Sherratt and Neil White. The winner will be chosen by a panel including previous winners, CWA representatives and U.K. librarians.
Bloody Scotland also an...
September 15, 2014
Media Murder for Monday
MOVIES
Keanu Reeves is set to star in New Angeles, from a script written by crime fiction author Gregg Hurwitz. The plot centers on a man whose escapes into virtual reality unveil clues to real-world mysteries that could result in dire consequences for him and his family.
CinemaBlend reported that Robert Downey Jr. has signed on to play Leonardo da Vinci in the movie adaptation of Assassin���s Creed, with Michael Fassbender attached to the leading role of Desmond Miles. The plot finds Fass...
September 13, 2014
September 12, 2014
FFB: The Night the Gods Smiled
Eric Wright was born in London, England in 1929 to a poor working-class family, an experience he later detailed in his memoir, Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man. When he was 22, he immigrated to Canada and eventually became an English professor, chair of the English department, then Dean of Arts at Ryerson Institute of Technology in Toronto.
Wright penned dozens of stories, many of them crime fiction, and served as editor of Criminal Shorts: Mysteries by Canadian Crime Writers, published in...
September 11, 2014
Giveaway Time! Murder on the Ile Sordou
M.L. LONGWORTH has lived in Aix-en-Provence since 1997. She has written about the region for The Washington Post, The Times (U.K.), The Independent (U.K.), and Bon Appetit Magazine. She is the author of a bilingual collection of essays, Une Am��ricaine en Provence published by La Martini��re in 2004. She divides her time between Aix and Paris, where she teaches writing at NYU's Paris campus. NPR included her in its summer "Crime in the City" features, about her mysteries set in the southern F...
September 10, 2014
Mystery Melange
Book rock art
Congratulations to this year's Ned Kelly Award winners, handed out by the Australian Crime Writers Association. The winners include In the Morning I'll Be Gone by Adrian McKinty (Best Crime Novel); Hades by Candice Fox (Best First Crime Novel); Murder in Mississippi by John Safran (Best True Crime); and "Web Design" by Emma Viskic (Sandra Harvey Short Story Award).
Hofstra University announced the three finalists of their law-themed short story writing contest, with nods goi...
September 9, 2014
More Murder and Mayhem!
So many crime fiction conferences have called it quits recently, it was with great sadness we learned in January that Murder and Mayhem in Muskego was shutting down, too. The conference's major sponsor, the Friends of the Library, was no longer able to support this event, because the ALA's rules require that all library programs should be free and open to the public.
Fast forward to August and the arrival of news that the conference is being reborn as Murder and Mayhem in Milwaukee! Organi...
September 8, 2014
Media Murder for Monday
MOVIES
Sony Pictures Entertainment announced George Clooney will direct a movie based on British journalist Nick Davies��� book Hack Attack: The Inside Story of How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch. The book follows the scandal surrounding Murdoch���s now-shuttered News of the World tabloid and its hacking into the phones of celebrities and a 13-year-old girl who had been kidnapped and was later murdered.
Julia Roberts is joining Chiwetel Ejiofor and Gwyneth Paltrow in The Secret in...
