“The Ukraine as a Novel with Strong Plot and Weak Characters”: Andrey Kurkov on tour
Today marks the release of Andrey Kurkov’s third novel with Melville House, The Case of the General’s Thumb, and we’re happy to say that we’ll be hosting Andrey for a… Read more »
Other things to do with books
The veneration of books has always laid traps for the reckless and unwary, and it has frequently mutated into perversity. Many young lovers of books, for instance, have awakened to… Read more »
Multiple murderer writes YA novels about kids fighting water pollution
The Canadian newspaper The Province reports that Charles Kembo—a man convicted of murdering his wife, his mistress, his friend, and his step-child in 2010—has self-published on Amazon the 372-page YA novel… 2 / Read more »
Lit Drift has posted another 60-second description of a work of great literature. This time Maud Newton tackles Crime and Punishment. Others in the series include 60-second versions of The… Read more »
Ten great crime writers talk about another
To celebrate our launch of The Factory Series — four seminal crime novels from the “godfather of British noir,” Robin Cook, aka Derek Raymond — we present ten of the… Read more »
Our new website and online store launches today. As you can see, it’s completely re-designed: we’re particularly proud of the new homepage, these nifty product pages, and, of course, the… Read more »
Today is the birthday of David John Moore Cornwell, aka John Le Carre. Born this day in 1931 in Dorset, England, Cornwell worked for the Britain’s intelligence services M15 and… Read more »
Yesterday, Google UK honored the 120th birthday of Agatha Christie with an elaborate Google Doodle featuring a crime scene, a murdered “O,” and all the necessary clues to solve the… Read more »
“It’s tempting to say that Charles McCarry’s The Tears of Autumn is the greatest espionage novel ever written by an American,” says Brendan Bernhard, apparently by way of politely avoiding… Read more »