http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ A collection of all my book reviews from Petrona and elsewhere en Vox Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:17:01 -0800 Copyright 2009 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/core-of-evil-by-nigel-mccrery.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Maxine) http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/core-of-evil-by-nigel-mccrery.html?_c=feed-rss http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/core-of-evil-by-nigel-mccrery.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:17:01 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/book/6a00c2252bcad68fdb0123ddef5fc9860d.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00c2252bcad68fdb0123ddef5fc9860d-50si" alt="Core of Evil" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> CORE OF EVIL is a book that slips down a treat. It's easy to read over a couple of hours, mashing up the traditional British detective novel (think Agatha Christie) with the modern police procedural. It seems obligatory in crime novels for prota... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/core-of-evil-by-nigel-mccrery.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2252bcad68fdb0123ddef5ff9860d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> england crime fiction eurocrime "police procedural" http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/the-consorts-of-death-by-gunnar-staalesen.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Maxine) http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/the-consorts-of-death-by-gunnar-staalesen.html?_c=feed-rss http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/the-consorts-of-death-by-gunnar-staalesen.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:40:31 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/book/6a00c2252bcad68fdb0123f178102d860f.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00c2252bcad68fdb0123f178102d860f-50si" alt="The Consorts of Death" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Translated by Don Bartlett. Varg Veum is a private detective based in Bergen. Although he's featured in almost 20 novels, only two of them are readily available in English, both published by Arcadia: THE WRITING ON THE WALL (first published in ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/the-consorts-of-death-by-gunnar-staalesen.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2252bcad68fdb01240b7f24cf860e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> pi norway detective fiction crime fiction eurocrime http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/to-steal-her-love-by-matti-joensuu.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Maxine) http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/to-steal-her-love-by-matti-joensuu.html?_c=feed-rss http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/to-steal-her-love-by-matti-joensuu.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:37:05 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/book/6a00c2252bcad68fdb011016985f64860d.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00c2252bcad68fdb011016985f64860d-50si" alt="To Steal Her Love" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Translated by David Hackston Not having read this author's PRIEST OF EVIL (first published in 2003) as the subject matter does not appeal, I was pleased to discover that one of his earlier books, TO STEAL HER LOVE (first published in 1993), has ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/to-steal-her-love-by-matti-joensuu.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2252bcad68fdb0123ddd8c541860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> finland crime fiction eurocrime "police procedural" http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/no-escape-by-n-j-cooper.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Maxine) http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/no-escape-by-n-j-cooper.html?_c=feed-rss http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/no-escape-by-n-j-cooper.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:34:55 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/book/6a00c2252bcad68fdb0123ddce4c71860c.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00c2252bcad68fdb0123ddce4c71860c-50si" alt="No Escape" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> NO ESCAPE is the first of a series by N J Cooper, previously known as Natasha Cooper, author of the Trish McGuire books. Like the earlier books, NO ESCAPE has an appealing female protagonist - this time a forensic psychologist called Karen Taylo... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/no-escape-by-n-j-cooper.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2252bcad68fdb01240b7f246f860e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> england crime fiction eurocrime "police procedural" prison thriller http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/the-darkest-hour-by-katherine-howell.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Maxine) http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/the-darkest-hour-by-katherine-howell.html?_c=feed-rss http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/the-darkest-hour-by-katherine-howell.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:31:44 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/book/6a00c2252bcad68fdb0123ddc10744860b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00c2252bcad68fdb0123ddc10744860b-50si" alt="The Darkest Hour" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> The Darkest Hour by Katherine Howell is her second novel, telling two connected, interweaving stories with a cracking pace and confidence. I enjoyed it tremendously, despite not being sure about it at first. The book opens with Lauren Yates, a ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/the-darkest-hour-by-katherine-howell.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2252bcad68fdb0123f1828fba860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> australia crime fiction "police procedural" "medical thriller" http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/true-murder-by-yaba-badoe.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Maxine) http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/true-murder-by-yaba-badoe.html?_c=feed-rss http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/true-murder-by-yaba-badoe.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:28:18 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/book/6a00c2252bcad68fdb0123ddb9587c860b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00c2252bcad68fdb0123ddb9587c860b-50si" alt="True Murder" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> TRUE MURDER tells the story of Ajuba, an 11-year-old girl from Ghana whose parents' marriage is in great difficulty. She's therefore been dumped, uncomprehending, in an English boarding school. She befriends three other girls with whom she share... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/true-murder-by-yaba-badoe.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2252bcad68fdb0123ddc3d4e0860b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> england ghana crime fiction eurocrime psychology thriller http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/sworn-to-silence-by-linda-castillo.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Maxine) http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/sworn-to-silence-by-linda-castillo.html?_c=feed-rss http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/sworn-to-silence-by-linda-castillo.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:52:36 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/book/6a00c2252bcad68fdb0123ddce4c89860c.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00c2252bcad68fdb0123ddce4c89860c-50si" alt="Sworn to Silence" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> I very much enjoyed this book. I shouldn’t have done if I am logical, as it is not only about a serial killer, but it concerns the murders of young women and girls in very gruesome, slow ways – topics on which I have more than once gone on record ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/sworn-to-silence-by-linda-castillo.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2252bcad68fdb0123f17fc7e4860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> thriller usa crime fiction "police procedural" http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/wicked-prey-by-john-sandford.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Maxine) http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/wicked-prey-by-john-sandford.html?_c=feed-rss http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/wicked-prey-by-john-sandford.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:46:25 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/book/6a00c2252bcad68fdb0123ddc10733860b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00c2252bcad68fdb0123ddc10733860b-50si" alt="Wicked Prey" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Wicked Prey is nineteenth in the Lucas Davenport series (there is a twentieth, Storm Prey, due out early next year). I haven’t read all of the previous books, but have read enough of them (about six) not to be lost at this late stage. Davenport is... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/wicked-prey-by-john-sandford.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2252bcad68fdb0123ddd5fa9f860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> thriller usa crime fiction "police procedural" http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/thumbprint-by-friedrich-glauser.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Maxine) http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/thumbprint-by-friedrich-glauser.html?_c=feed-rss http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/thumbprint-by-friedrich-glauser.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:41:53 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/book/6a00c2252bcad68fdb0123ddc10738860b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00c2252bcad68fdb0123ddc10738860b-50si" alt="Thumbprint" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Translated by Mike Martin. Thumbprint is the first novel in a series written in the 1930s by Friedrich Glauser; a series so influential that Germany’s main crime-fiction award is the Glauser prize. The novel is a highly readable affair, opening... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/thumbprint-by-friedrich-glauser.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2252bcad68fdb01240b7c58b1860e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> germany austria switzerland crime fiction eurocrime "police procedural" http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/the-southern-seas-by-manuel-vazquez-montalban.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Maxine) http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/the-southern-seas-by-manuel-vazquez-montalban.html?_c=feed-rss http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/the-southern-seas-by-manuel-vazquez-montalban.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:05:03 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/book/6a00c2252bcad68fdb00e398ca30c10004.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00c2252bcad68fdb00e398ca30c10004-50si" alt="Southern Seas" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> Translated by Patrick Camiller. If the Swedish authors Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, writing in the 1960s and 70s, are often held to be the parents of the modern police-procedural crime novel, then the Spanish Manuel Vazquez Montalban, writing a ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://maxineclarke.vox.com/library/post/the-southern-seas-by-manuel-vazquez-montalban.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2252bcad68fdb0123dde9a295860d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> pi spain crime fiction eurocrime