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Here's a tidbit from John Connolly's current newsletter. How I'd like to be in London in May 2014 for OXCRIMES..... (I marked the authors I read or am reading in bold.... and one of these days I'm going to read a James Sallis.....) "I will be back in England in May, to spend my birthday at the...

Art and mystery, stolen or lost: an exciting combination whether factional or fictional. A book review of: The Lady in Gold: The extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer About the only thing that Anne-Marie O'Connor does not offer readers in her 349...

Last week, I mentioned on the General Mystery/Thriller discussion...when talking about Irish crime novels...the Ed Loy P. I. series by playwright Declan Hughes. Hughes is not writing any more thrillers...but his five or six were surely good "stuff." Here's my review of his first Ed Loy....THE...

Maine....here's a better list of Irish crime fiction. Lovers of Eire and crime do not overlook Declan Hughes. He's a playwright...but several years ago wrote a series of books about native son Ed Loy P. I. who returns home to Dublin from America to bury his mother and stays around. See my...

Yes, RTS....LINE would be appropriate. One of the communicating codes is laundry on a clothesline!

Spy and thriller series on television: Here's a new one. Join or go to Goodreads to see the discussion and an interesting array of spy tools of the period. Meanwhile here's the skinny... Spy Thrillers TURN starts on Sunday, April 6 at 9pm.... Based on Alexander Rose’s book Washington’s...

Jane...she of Irish crime/thrillers...will not be reading THE BLACK-EYED BLONDE. But there was, RTS...a very interesting book by Joseph Hone titled GOODBY AGAIN...in Maine's link. Art and mystery. This time Modigliani...maybe I can get Open Road to give me an arc....

Ah, Pontalba.. another gal who reads Ben Black and Stu Neville. How about Alan Glynn and Adrian McKinty? I'm currently reading Bingham's debut Fi Griffiths novel....recommended by Maine. But I have definite plans for my favorite Irish writers: #l read Glynn's GRAVELAND...a very Irish writer...

Maine...I just started TALKING TO THE DEAD....so far I love DC Fi Griffiths... Harry Bingham has a way with words...short words...loose phrases....he brings this quirky character to life. Thanks for recommending the debut.... sounds as though I may morph right away into the second...

Peder, You will note that the above Le Carre books are London based featuring George Smiley. Perhaps when you talk about Berlin books...you are thinking of THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD. Here's the Amazon description of that book.... It would be an international crime to reveal too...

Here are the order of George Smiley books per STOP YOU'RE KILLING ME. Apparently the Karla trilogy does not end the Smiley chronicle. And I thought THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY was the first of the Karla...it's the second re SYKM. George Smiley, a British Intelligence agent and scholar, based in...

Yes, TTSS was well covered in the six hour television miniseries (1979/80) starring Alec Guiness. Altho the 2011 film was only two hours long...it covered the part of hunting for the mole among four suspects in Circus (MI-6)...not all the operations in the book. Someone commented the other day...

Sorry, pontalba. The Karla trilogy has not been completely covered. Here's the score of TV/Film for the trilogy. THE HONORABLE SCHOOLBOY - 0; TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY - 2; SMILEY"S PEOPLE - 1. The Anglo-French film company that produced the 2011 film of TINKER, TAILOR with Gary Oldman...is...

Rhi, surely wish you would say a few words about Arlene Hunt and perhaps review a book or so by her. I tried to get the two Jane Casey books from THE BOOK DEPOSITORY (the postage from Amazon UK was as much as the books) but they were out. Took a look at Arlene Hunt and several of hers were out...

Welcome Oscar_Jade. I love kinder, gentler mysteries with low body counts BUT we need a noir writer/ reader on Ice! Tell us about your book! Jane

Welcome retired English teacher in Tennessee. Do you like mysteries? Dan Waddell has written two very interesting London mysteries featuring Nigel Barnes, a family historian. They are fun reads.

Hello, DSK. Your answer to mystery trivia was correct! See latest post by me regarding mix-up about Silver Dagger! And it's your turn! Jane

REC, Started Goddard's LONG TIME COMING Saturday afternoon. Can hardly put it down. About a bunch of Picasso's stored in London during WW II. Great art mystery--Goddard is some storyteller! Jane

Thanks for the invitation, REC. Gladly accepted but we've been friends since we discovered each other on the Amazon threads! I read the other day somewhere that Robert Goddard's LONG TIME COMING is about art theft. Have you read it? What are you doing up at 1am in the morning? By the way...