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Rage and outrage in Dublin noir PDF Print
Wednesday, 15 May 2013

  The Rage, by Gene Kerrigan

(CWA Gold Dagger 2012)

ImageThe noir novel is a product of media culture. It is thus fitting, that in Ireland as elsewhere, some of its first and most celebrated practitioners are, or were, journalists. Although Irish noir appeared only much later than say its counterparts in the US, France or Italy, in an era already dominated by multimedia, it is worth noting that it retains such a link with the printed press. Colin Bateman, one of the genre's pioneers with his 1994 Divorcing Jack, was a journalist in Northern Ireland, working for the County Down Spectator. His subsequent novel, Belfast Confidential, examines the life and scandals of a local newspaper. His recurring character, Dan Starkey, is a journalist in Belfast, and seems to be an alter ego of the author. In Dublin, John Connolly, now the most internationally successful Irish noir author wrote his first novel All the Dead Things (1999) while working as a journalist for the Irish Times.

 

 

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La France tranquille de Olivier Bordaçarre PDF Print
Written by Alain Bandry   
Tuesday, 14 May 2013

La France tranquille de Olivier Bordaçarre (Fayard noir. 18 €)

 

ImageNogent-les Chartreux, dans la Beauce, entre ville et campagne. Petite vie tranquille et tristounette. C'est le 1er septembre. Ce samedi soir, on dort sur ses deux oreilles. Pour combien de temps ? « On s'était rincé l'œil au divertissement télévisuel du samedi soir à quatre-vingt-dix-huit pour cent de matière grasse - les miraculeux deux pour cent de matière grise résiduels étant l'œuvre de l'ultime fragment d'humanité des «  stars » invitées : chanteurs has-been tartinant les écrans plats de leur bêtise et improbables mannequins, la peau plus tendue qu'une baudruche, échouant à faire croire à leur retour sur scène. Le présentateur vedette s'était une fois de plus déshonoré à coups de galéjades d'avant-guerre : le vichysme des chiens de garde est immortel. Mais le somnifère cathodique avait fait son effet et la ville en écrasait ferme derrière le triple vitrage. »

Le ton est donné !

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The Millennium Trilogy, Stieg Larsson PDF Print
Written by Kate Coxon   
Monday, 13 May 2013

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; The Girl who played with Fire; The Girl who kicked the Hornets' Nest

  ImageRecent crime fiction sales figures released by The Bookseller (May 29th 2010) show that Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy occupies the first four places in the crime fiction charts (with places 3 and 4 shared between the novel and the tie-in film version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). Part thriller, part mystery, and part serial-killer saga, the trilogy offers an informed, unnerving and at times harrowing view of the worlds of Swedish journalism and business. Although the novels have received a mixed critical reception, the sales figures point to an astonishing commercial success.

 

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Christine Lehmann - Das Buch als Waffe PDF Print
Written by Elfriede Müller   
Friday, 29 April 2011

Christine Lehmann: Malefizkrott.

Adriane Kriminalroman 1185. Hamburg 2011. 318 Seiten. 11 Euro

ImageMalefizkrott ist der erste von inzwischen neun Lisa Nerz Romanen, den ich gelesen habe und dabei  bin ich auf eine Hommage an das Buch an sich gestoßen. Die als provokant gelobte queere Serienheldin ist eine ordentliche schwäbische Handwerkerin, die, weil sie alles genau wissen will, sich nicht davon abhalten lässt, hinter die Kulissen zu schauen, auch und gerade wenn es sich beim Buchmarkt nicht gerade um ihr Fachgebiet handelt. Dadurch wird Malefizkrott zu einem Bildungsroman über den Verkauf, das Schreiben und die Herstellung von Büchern, über die Veränderung einer Branche, in der nur die überleben können, die auch bereit sind Esoterik und Socken zu verkaufen.

Last Updated ( Monday, 09 May 2011 )
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Ian Rankin - The Hero is Tired PDF Print
Monday, 13 December 2010

The Hero is Tired

An interview by Corinne Naidet,

helped by Marie-Anne Lucas for the translation

 

exit music ian rankinIan Rankin's character John Rebus only has a few days left before him. He does not suffer from an incurable disease, nor is he likely to be murdered by one of his many enemies, but in Exit Music (Editions du masque, 2010), he is about to retire. Ten days before the fateful date, Rebus and his team are faced with a new investigation : a Russian poet who opposed his country's government has be found beaten to death in a car park. Is it a political crime, an act of revenge, or a villainous murder?

 Still very rebellious, Rebus turns his hierarchy against him and is therefore suspended against all expectations. But they should have known that this cop was tenacious : with the help of his dear colleague Shioban Clarke, he is going to do his utmost to reveal the truth. All the more so because his personal enemy Ger Cafferty has just been attacked and is struggling between life and death.

Last Updated ( Saturday, 29 January 2011 )
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