Well, if you haven’t heard the news by now, the title of the
new Dan Brown novel is Inferno and is
due to be published by Transworld in May.
The title of the new book was revealed in an online puzzle. Once again, the novel will feature Robert
Langdon whom readers first met in The Da
Vinci Code and subsequently in The
Lost Symbol. According to his publishers,
the novel has been inspired by Dante's classic and will be set in Florence. The
Guardian article can be read here
and The Independent here. Inferno
is Dan Brown’s sixth novel.
The Independent’s
Invisible Ink: No 154 is on Ellery Queen the pseudonym of Manfred Lee and
Frederic Dannay and is by Christopher Fowler.
The full article can be read here. They are also the co-founders of Ellery
Queen's Mystery Magazine in 1941 one of the few mystery based short story
magazines still being published today.
Award winning author Robert Wilson who has set his novels in
West Africa, Lisbon and Seville and is best known for his Javier Falcón series
explains in the Daily Telegraph why
he decided to set his new series in London.
The article can be read here.
According to the Daily
Telegraph Dominic Cooper is to play Ian Fleming in a drama about the
creator of James Bond. Dominic Cooper is
best known for the films My Week with
Marilyn and Mamma Mia.
The long-list for the Branford Boase Award has been announced. The Branford Boase Award is given annually to
the author of an outstanding debut novel for children and honours the editor of
the winning title. Congratulations go to
long-listed author Tanya Byrne whose novel the Heart-Shaped Bruise, was
short-listed for the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger.
Not
something anybody would want to happen to them but Patricia Cornwell who is a
notoriously private author is finding herself in the spotlight as she is
currently suing her former accounting firm.
The Daily Telegraph article can be found here
and the Huffington Post article can be read here. The Guardian article can be found here.
According
to the Bookseller,
Titan Books have acquired a military science-fiction thriller entitled Seal Team 666. The novels have been written
by American intelligence officer turned author, Weston Ochse. Titan Books will publish book one in the UK
and US in March 2014, its sequel, Yesterday’s Hero in September 2014 and a third novel, Anti-Hero in
early 2015.
The German writer, crime novelist and playwright Jakob
Arjouni, has died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 48 years. He was at home in Berlin with his family. More information can be found here. His books were published by No Exit Press in the UK and a new Brother
Kemal Kayankaya novel is due to be published this year. Mark Lawson’s tribute in the Guardian can be
found here. His obituary in German can be found here. Hat tip to Maxim Jakubowski and Janet
Rudolph.
Very interesting article on literary agent Andrew Lownie’s
website about what UK Fiction Editors want.
The whole article can be read here. Good to see a vast number of familiar names
from those who commission crime and thriller books. Certainly worth reading by all.
Cathi Unsworth reviews
Tom Benn latest novel Chamber Music
in the Guardian. A recent blog post for
Shotsblog by Tom Benn can be found here. One minute with Tom Benn can be read here.
Alison Flood’s review of Malcolm Mackay’s debut novel The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter can
be found here.
Interesting article
by Cortina Butler on author Michael Marshall whose new novel We Are Here, is to be published by Orion
in March 2013.
Film News -
Parker the film based on the author Donald Westlake’s character
and featuring Jason Statham as the eponymous Parker, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Nolte
and Michael Chiklis is due to be released on 8 March in the UK.
The premise of the story line is that of a thief with a
unique code of professional ethics who is double-crossed by his crew and left
for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming
an unlikely alliance with a woman on the inside, he looks to hijack the score
of the crew's latest heist.
According to Indiewire.com
actors Ray Liotta, Jeremy Piven and Juno Temple have signed up to join Robert
Rodriguez's 'Sin City: A Dame To Kill For’. "Sin
City: A Dame To Kill For" will be shown in cinemas in the States from
October 4th.
A new trailer has been released for the true crime thriller The Iceman. Starring Michael Shannon and Ray Liotta The Iceman is about hit man, Richard
Kuklinski who was responsible for over 100 murders between 1964 and 1986. The film also features Winona Ryder and James
Franco. The trailer can be seen below-
The Iceman will
open in the UK on 7 June 2013.
Extremely sad news to hear that and according to NME.com
that The Wire actor Robert F Chew who
played “Prop Joe” has died at the age of 52.
He passed away on Thursday of apparent heart failure. Chew not only stared in The Wire but also Homicide
Life on The Street and The Corner
both series based on books written by David Simon. The
Baltimore Sun obituary can be found here.
The Hollywood
Reporter and Deadline.com.
Fans of Homeland
will be pleased to know that despite the recent cliffhanger of an ending
featuring Damien Lewis as Nicholas Brody, executive producer Howard Brooks has
now confirmed that Brody will definitely be involved in the third season
according to TVLine.
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