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...Barry Forshaw is the author of ‘Simenon: The Man, The Books, The Films’ Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...The French crime writer Thomas Narcejac called him a “connoisseur of souls” for his sympathetic treatment of both victim and perpetrator....
...Barry Forshaw’s latest book is ‘Crime Fiction: A Reader’s Guide’ Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Barry Forshaw’s latest book is ‘Crime Fiction: A Reader’s Guide’ Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Cafe....
...Barry Forshaw’s latest book is ‘Historical Noir’ Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...Twenty years is a long time to wait — and every one of them was counted off impatiently by admirers of Thomas Harris, who left them in limbo after his 1999 novel Hannibal....
...Her publishers might have borrowed the winged insect cover motif from Thomas Harris’s Silence of the Lambs, but if any writer is worthy of comparison with the master it’s the formidably talented Brit Belinda...
...Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac enjoyed a spectacularly successful joint career in their native France (Hitchcock’s masterpiece Vertigo was based on their novel The Living and the Dead)....
...The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins, by Antonia Hodgson, Hodder, RRP£14.99 Hodgson’s The Devil in the Marshalsea was a breath of bitingly pungent air in the historical crime genre....
...Those who remember Thomas Tryon’s The Other will have an idea what to expect but Pyper is his own man and this book will keep sleep firmly at bay....
...A Dancer in the Dust, by Thomas H Cook, Head of Zeus £18.99, 320 pages...
...Barry Forshaw Science fiction New Pompeii, by Daniel Godfrey, Titan Books, RRP£7.99/$14.95 Pompeii has been recreated in a former Soviet republic, complete with the residents of the original doomed city...
...Barry Forshaw Science fiction Escape From Baghdad!...
...Mrs Forshaw said there was also some sympathy from fellow barristers specialising in commercial law who were concerned that the UK’s reputation as a centre of legal excellence could be undermined by the...
...“To defend people with no money is hugely important, but we are getting to the stage where the criminal bar cannot make it sustainable,” said Sarah Forshaw QC, leader of the South Eastern circuit....
...“To defend people with no money is hugely important, but we are getting to the stage where the criminal bar cannot make it sustainable,” said Sarah Forshaw QC, of barristers 5KBW and leader of the southeastern...
...Barry Forshaw Young adult In Darkling Wood, by Emma Carroll, Faber, RRP£6.99 While her little brother recovers from surgery, Alice is sent to live with her grumpy Grandmother Nell in a country cottage...
...Review by Barry Forshaw … Down Among the Dead Men, by Ed Chatterton, Arrow, RRP£6.99, 438 pages A blood-drenched crime scene in suburban Liverpool appears straightforward: a husband has killed his wife...
...… Crime by Barry Forshaw The Silkworm, by Robert Galbraith, Sphere, RRP£20 We mustn’t hold against Robert Galbraith the fact that he’s really mega-selling JK Rowling....
...Barry Forshaw ——————————————- YOUNG ADULT Spook’s: A New Darkness, by Joseph Delaney, Bodley Head, RRP£12.99 The spook is dead, long live the spook!...
...Bleeding Edge , by Thomas Pynchon, Jonathan Cape, RRP£20/Penguin, RRP$28.95 Set in Manhattan in early 2001, Pynchon’s latest novel is a thrilling ride through the first tech bubble, filled with “bleeding...
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