of Fight Club and Se7en fame has optioned The Automatic Detective by fantasy author along with . No word yet what role Fincher will take in the production. Martinez, who won an Alex Award for his debut Gil's All Fright Diner, also has his novels In the Company of Ogres and the aforementioned Gil's on option for film treatments.
On behalf of mcnallyrobinson.com I was happy to interview A. Lee Martinez back in October. You can also read a review of The Automatic Detective here.
Categories: SciFi & Fantasy, Mystery & Crime, movies
UK author has been awarded the 2008 Samuel Johnson Prize for her book The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. The book revisits the murder of a three-year-old boy in Victorian England and a Scotland Yard detective's efforts to solve the case.
The prize, worth $60,000, is awarded annually to the best work of non-fiction.
Categories: Awards, Mystery & Crime
is one of the acknowledged masters of crime fiction. His varied and interesting life saw him become the youngest ever inmate of San Quentin at the age of seventeen, befriend authors such as and , and influence a generation of crime fiction devotees including and . Stark, Bunker's first novel, was written in the late 1960's and discovered after Bunker's death in 2005.
Categories: Staff Pick, Mystery & Crime
August long weekend (Aug 1-4),Gimli plays host to Manitoba's Icelandic Festival: Islendingadagurinn. Luckily, I was able to have a short email conversation with award-winning Icelandic crime writer, .
Categories: Interview, Mystery & Crime
Trumpets Sound No More, 's novel of murder in the world of Victorian theatre, has claimed this year's Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel. Redfern was previously awarded the Arthur Ellis for Best First Novel for The Boy Must Die.
See the other winners after the jump.
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