Terry Shames's Blog: 7 Criminal Minds, page 45

If we are what we read . . . I'm a work-in-progress, by Catriona

Q: What are your most and least favoured sub-genresof crime fiction. And, in both cases, why? Since it’s this time of year, isthere anything you’re exhorting yourself to read more of?

Happy New Year, everyone, and welcome to our new Minds, Eric and Harini.

Man, I thought this would be an easy post. (I'm scrupulous in not working out which questions I'll be answering before I dream them up, avoiding self-dealing, but I was pleased to see that I'd bagged the "reading genre" option this week.) All ...

Sub-Genres

 The world of entertainment is growing ever more stratified. TV, music, films and books all seem to have split into serving niche audiences with increasingly narrow sub-genres. Like rock music? What kind: Hard rock? Prog rock? Indie rock? Punk rock? It goes on.

In the wide-ranging genre of Crime Fiction novels we can sub-divide by Noir, cozy, police procedural, spy thrillers, domestic suspense, serial killer, historical, and many more. In thinking about my own tastes, I’ve always leaned toward st...

Something Old, Something New, Something Not Blue by Gabriel Valjan

 

Q: What are your most and least favoured sub-genresof crime fiction. And, in both cases, why? Since it’s this time of year, isthere anything you’re exhorting yourself to read more of?

 

Happy New Year, Everyone.

 

Another year, another 365 days on the rollercoaster of life.We may not be able to control what happens to us or around us, but we cancontrol how we react to the good, the bad, and the ugly in life. We have awhole new year of new books, old books, and Crimin...

I Promise to Read

 Q: What are your most and least favoured sub-genres of crime fiction. And, in both cases, why? Since it’s this time of year, is there anything you’re exhorting yourself to read more of?

 

- from Susan

 

First, Happy New Year! I fear 2024 is going to be big, messy, and probably nerve-wracking on a macro level and we have to hold onto whatever compassion and faith in humankind we possess. Maybe reading and talking about books will provide some comfort, distraction, and – hopefully – pleasure. We’re w...

Welcome

 

Season's Greetings from the Criminal Minds

 

Farewell

 

All Good Things...

by Abir

Some Book Recommendations

 

Morning.

 

Some time back, I was asked by a bunch of wonderful writers to join them in writing a blog post every fortnight on all matters crime fiction. I was honoured to say yes, and since then (almost) without fail, come rain or shine or global pandemic, I’ve produced a post, sometimes topical but a lot of the time, just me ranting at the publishing industry or life in general. It’s been a wonderful experience and probably the most disciplined thing I’ve ever don...

Some Really Good Books I Read This Year from James W. Ziskin

End-of-year book recommendations

I’ve posted here before to say that I’m not crazy about the Best Books of the Year lists. To be clear, I don’t object to the great books on those lists. They deserve accolades. I only wish the reviewers could use a better description for their annual lists. Kristopher Zgorski of BOLO Books does exactly that. He’s always careful to note that he’s not proclaiming his choices as “the best books of the year.” He calls them instead his “Top Reads” of the year.

Furthermo...

A few of my favorite things

Here they are, my recommended books that I've read over the past year.

by Dietrich

Like Terry, I'm quite taken by Mick Herron's Slough House books. Slow Horses, from 2010, is the first in this remarkable series about Slough House, where washed-up MI5 agents are relegated to while away what's left of their failed careers. But when a Pakistani youth is kidnapped and threatened with beheading by a right-wing extremist group, the Slow Horses spring into action, and in spite of their shortcomings th...