New Classical CDs
Latest Classical CD Choice columns by the team with OUR coverage; plus FB & Twitter/X; Link and list of titles below. https://www.cdchoice.co.uk/ RACHMANINOV: SYMPHONIC DANCES, PLETNEV: RACHMANIANA, International Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev/Warner Classics...
New Crime Blu-Rays
STOLEN FACE Terence Fisher, director/Hammer Hammer Films Redux continues to make available in absolutely splendid packages some hard to see vintage outings by the company, and collectors are of course particularly keen on tracking down the earlier work of the...
Covering new in the FT
Covering in the FT: See link: https://crimetime.co.uk/genre-roundup-crime-in-the-financial-times/ Sharp Force/Patricia Cornwell, The Winter Job/Antti Tuomainen, The Widow/John Grisham, Blood Rival/Jake Arnott, The Cat/Georges Simenon, The Burning Grounds/Abir...
The Bruegel Boy by Emma Darwin
Is being the bearer of a famous surname a blessing or a curse? The writer Charlotte Philby has done well by it, possibly because she has confronted the legacy of her famous relative head on. Emma Darwin’s is a different case, and she has already written two much...
Latest FT Crime
In my latest FT roundup: Denise Mina, Liam McIlvanney, Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Peter Swanson, Philip Gwynne Jones, Eva Björg Ægisdóttir, Arnaldur Indriđason
Seventies Crime Movies & Shatter
For the deluxe new Hammer package of Shatter (starring Stuart Whitman and the matchless Peter Cushing), I supplied an essay on Seventies Crime Movies. It was a golden era, and Shatter is an entry in a notably fruitful period for the genre..
In the FT: Meeting Miss Merkel
In today's FT: covering Angela Merkel's (fictional) new career as a sleuth: Miss Merkel... You will be familiar with Agatha Christie’s doughty Miss Marple, but what about another mature lady detective? Ex-German Chancellor? Once the most powerful woman in the world?...
Meeting Highsmith
For Writing The Murder (edited by Dan Coxon & Richard V Hirst) I joined some illustrious colleagues discussing the craft of crime fiction. I began by writing about my meeting with Patricia Highsmith… ‘My encounter with one of crime fiction’s truly legendary names,...
Best of Summer Crime in the FT
My Best of Summer Crime in the FT: Southern Man/Greg Iles, Boys Who Hurt/Eva Björg Ægisdóttir, The Wrong Hands/Mark Billingham, This Is Why We Lied/Karin Slaughter, Between Two Worlds/Olivier Norek
Derelict: Unmissable New Indie Crime Drama
Barry Forshaw writes: Derelict is a tense new independent crime drama directed by Jonathan Zaurin (based on events in his hometown in France) and co-wrtten by my colleague Kat Ellinger. Abigail is a socially isolated, angry young woman who is struggling to come to...