According to Digital
Spy, the BBC released a picture (see left) of Merlin star
Colin Morgan in his new role on the three-part series Quirke, starring
Gabriel Byrne as a Dublin pathologist who solves crimes in the 1950s. The series is based on characters from the
crime thrillers of Booker Prize winner John Banville (a/k/a Benjamin Black) and
has been filming since November 2012.
If you have not listened to it yet, then there is an
excellent podcast with the likes of Gillian Flynn, Michael Koryta and Joseph
Wambaugh who talk about their writing and their books. The podcast can be heard here.
According to the Hollywood
Reporter, Johnny Depp is due to star as gangster thriller Black Mass,
which recounts the real-life story of South Boston criminal mastermind Whitey
Bulger. Bulger is considered to be the
most infamous criminal in the history of South Boston. He became an FBI informant in order to take
down a rival Mafia family, only to be double-crossed by the government and
prosecuted himself.
Filming has just started on the BBC 1 legal thriller The Escape Artist. The Escape Artist is an original three-part
suspense thriller set in the world of criminal law. David Tennant plays Will Burton, a talented
junior barrister who specialises in spiriting people out of tight legal
corners, hence his nickname of “The Escape Artist”. Will is in high demand, as he has never lost
a case. However, when his talents acquit
the prime suspect in a horrific murder trial, that brilliance comes back to
bite him with unexpected and chilling results.
The Escape Artist features
David Tennant and Sophie Okonedo. A
three part series The Escape Artist
is due to be shown in 2013.
In what could be said to be serendipity according to the Guardian
Agatha Christie was once investigated by MI5 who feared that she had a spy at
Bletchley Park. Their reasoning is
because she named one of her characters in her wartime novel N or M Major Bletchley.
Whilst not strictly crime fiction related, I am pleased to
learn that Thunderbirds is due to
return to the small screen in 26 half-hour episodes fifty years after the first
episode was shown. Thunderbirds Are Go has been commissioned by ITV and will be shown
in 2015. The full article can be read here.
Interesting article in the Independent on Lynn Shepherd’s new novel A Treacherous Likeness which sees her Victorian private detective
Charles Maddox delving into the outrageous and early life of Mary Shelley, the
creator of Frankenstein. The full
article can be found here.
In the Independent
Jane Jakeman interviews Gold Dagger winner Belinda Bauer who talks about
setting her latest novel Rubbernecker
in Cardiff. The full article can be read
here.
The always-interesting Lynda La Plante in the Telegraph
claims that the criminal justice system favours criminals instead of victims. The full article can be read here.
Hodder are due to publish the psychological thriller Under Your Skin by Sabine Durrant in
April. The trailer for the novel can
watched below.
According to The
Bookseller, Quercus have bought a new crime series set in Hong Kong by
author Duncan Jepson in a two-book deal.
The article can be read here. The first book in the series Emperors Once More is set in 2015 and
follows detective Alex Soong as he investigates a conspiracy, which dates back
to the Boxer Rebellion.
Interested in learning more about Italian crime
fiction? If so then join Ilaria Meliconi
founder of Hersilia Press and writer, journalist and editor of Crime Time Barry
Forshaw as they discuss all things Italian and crime. Where?
Belgravia Bookshop, When? 21
February 2013. Time? 6:30pm. More information can be found here.
According to Deadline.com
Bradley Cooper has signed to star in and produce the upcoming
adaptation of James Renner's novel The
Man From Primrose Lane. Southland
writer Chad Feehan is adapting the story, about a true-crime writer who finds
himself at the centre of a chain of serial murders and "must look outside
the parameters of what he believed to be true about time and space" in
order to solve the mystery.
Also according to Deadline.com
Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg, who are the screenwriters behind the
Swedish adaptation of Stieg Larsson's The
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo are due to adapt The Power of The Dog the thriller by Don Winslow. They will be joined by Shane Salerno who was
also co-wrote the screenplay of another Winslow adaptation, Savages. The
Power of The Dog is the story of a 30-year struggle between a hardened agent
and a family of cartel kingpins in Mexico.
Shane and Winslow are also teaming up on the screenplay adaptation of Winslow’s
Satori, which is in pre-production at
Warner Bros.
According to Digital
Spy, it looks like Tom Hardy
and Noomi Rapace have signed on to star in spy thriller Child 44, which is based on the novel by Tom Rob Smith. Child
44 is about a 1950s-era Soviet police officer who tries to solve a string
of child murders. The script has been
penned by The Wire writer Richard Price. Child
44 won the 2008 Ian Fleming Steel
Dagger for best thriller and also the Waverton
Good Read Award for first novels and the Galaxy Book Award for Best Newcomer with Child 44.
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