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Best British Mysteries 2006 (Best British Mysteries)
Following the huge success of the previous BBM collections comes the latest batch of stories from the UK??'s top-flight crime writers. Alongside an Inspector Morse story from Colin Dexter and a Rumpole tale from John Mortimer, is Jake Arnott??'s first short story and a wealth of exclusive stories from some of Britain??'s most exciting up-and-coming young crime-writers. The Best British Mysteries 2006 will cause many sleepless nights of avid page turning
380 pages, Hardcover
Published December 29, 2005
About the author
Maxim Jakubowski
283 books163 followersMaxim Jakubowski is a crime, erotic, and science fiction writer and critic.
Jakubowski was born in England by Russian-British and Polish parents, but raised in France. Jakubowski has also lived in Italy and has travelled extensively. Jakubowski edited the science fiction anthology Twenty Houses of the Zodiac in 1979 for the 37th World Science Fiction Convention (Seacon '79) in Brighton. He also contributed a short story to that anthology. He has now published almost 100 books in a variety of areas.
He has worked in book publishing for many years, which he left to open the Murder One bookshop[1], the UK's first specialist crime and mystery bookstore. He contributes to a variety of newspapers and magazines, and was for eight years the crime columnist for Time Out and, presently, since 2000, the crime reviewer for The Guardian. He is also the literary director of London's Crime Scene Festival and a consultant for the International Mystery Film Festival, Noir in Fest, held annually in Courmayeur, Italy. He is one the leading editors in the crime and mystery and erotica field, in which he has published many major anthologies.
His novels include "It's You That I Want To Kiss", "Because She Thought She Loved Me", "The State Of Montana", "On Tenderness Express", "Kiss me Sadly" and "Confessions of a Romantic Pornographer". His short story collections are "Life in the World of Women", "Fools for Lust" and the collaborative "American Casanova". He is a regular broadcaster on British TV and radio and was recently voted the 4th Sexiest Writer of 2,007 on a poll on the crimespace website.
Jakubowski was born in England by Russian-British and Polish parents, but raised in France. Jakubowski has also lived in Italy and has travelled extensively. Jakubowski edited the science fiction anthology Twenty Houses of the Zodiac in 1979 for the 37th World Science Fiction Convention (Seacon '79) in Brighton. He also contributed a short story to that anthology. He has now published almost 100 books in a variety of areas.
He has worked in book publishing for many years, which he left to open the Murder One bookshop[1], the UK's first specialist crime and mystery bookstore. He contributes to a variety of newspapers and magazines, and was for eight years the crime columnist for Time Out and, presently, since 2000, the crime reviewer for The Guardian. He is also the literary director of London's Crime Scene Festival and a consultant for the International Mystery Film Festival, Noir in Fest, held annually in Courmayeur, Italy. He is one the leading editors in the crime and mystery and erotica field, in which he has published many major anthologies.
His novels include "It's You That I Want To Kiss", "Because She Thought She Loved Me", "The State Of Montana", "On Tenderness Express", "Kiss me Sadly" and "Confessions of a Romantic Pornographer". His short story collections are "Life in the World of Women", "Fools for Lust" and the collaborative "American Casanova". He is a regular broadcaster on British TV and radio and was recently voted the 4th Sexiest Writer of 2,007 on a poll on the crimespace website.
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*Anne Perry, A TALE OF ONE CITY
Val McDermid, FOUR CALLING BIRDS
*Marilyn Todd, THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLINERY
Christopher Fowler, THE LADY DOWNSTAIRS
Keith Miles, OLD BAG DAD
*John Mortimer, RUMPOLE AND THE CHRISTMAS BREAK
Judith Cutler, LIVING WITH THE GILT
*Peter Lovesey, WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY
Barbara Cleverly, LOVE-LIES-BLEEDING --4
John Connolly, THE INKPOT MONKEY
*Peter Tremayne, THE BANSHEE
Ken Bruen, FADE TO...BROOKLYN
*H.R.F. Keating, BRAVE NEW MURDER
John Harvey, DRUMMER UNKNOWN
Kim Newman, A SHAMBLES IN BELGRAVIA
Adrian Magson, PROCEDURE
Amy Myers, MURDER, THE MISSING HEIR AND THE BOILED EGG
Peter Turnbull, MAX WINNER'S SHADOW
Alanna Knight, FARO AND THE BOGUS INSPECTOR
*Robert Barnard, THE HANGMAN'S BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER
Ian Morson, THE MOVING-PICTURE MYSTERY
Michael Z. Lewin, CIGARETTES
Jon Courtenay Grimwood, THE SPY'S RETIREMENT
Margaret Murphy, FALSE LIGHT
*Gillian Linscott, THE DAY OF TWO CARS
Mark Billingham, STROKE OF LUCK
Jake Arnott, TEN LORDS A-LEAPING
*Martin Edwards, THE HOUSE OF THE RED CANDLE
Peter Robinson, THE MAGIC OF YOUR TOUCH
October 2, 2024
Very mixed bag. Lots of well known authors, but few outstanding short stories.
August 10, 2013
This was an odd one; a few of the stories I'd call straight up horror before anything else, and several of them were definitely crime stories but had zero elements of mystery or even deduction. Some of them were a little stilted, but none of them were bad.
(Also, a whole lot of Sherlock Holmes riffs. Fun with the one that began "To Professor Moriarty, she will always be that bitch." although I think the one done entirely from Watson's perspective as he recruits the young conman is excellent.)
A pretty solid read, though, and no complaints.
(Also, a whole lot of Sherlock Holmes riffs. Fun with the one that began "To Professor Moriarty, she will always be that bitch." although I think the one done entirely from Watson's perspective as he recruits the young conman is excellent.)
A pretty solid read, though, and no complaints.
October 3, 2015
This was a really good collection. Maybe three or four were bumpf but the rest were really good. These collections are great when you don't have much time to read but still want to read.
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