Getting behind "Fifty Grand"
Adrian McKinty, novelist, blogger, and scourge of factual inaccuracy, sheds light on the genesis of his new novel, Fifty Grand, and offers a chance to win a copy. Click, read, and win. Once you read this novel's opening pages, you won't put the book down. If I were choosing a baseball nine (or cricket eleven or hurling fifteen) of novels, this book would make the team for best prologue.© Peter Rozovsky 2009
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posted by Peter Rozovsky at 12:01 AM
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Thanks for the shout out Peter I appreciate it.
My v-word is refund, but I don't think anybody will ask for one
You're welcome. I'm always willing to do my best for the reading public. Also, you have an entertaining string of comments going to your post on the giveaway/contest.
See my comment on your v-words in the "Excursion to Tindari" string.
Since you are on the subject of great new mysteries to be savored, have you sampled any of the DeKok series from the Dutch writer Baantjer? I just finished DeKok and the Dead Harlequin, and I highly recommend it.
BOLO . . . Hakan Nesser has a new novel coming out in the U.S. in mid-April. It is entitled WOMAN WITH BIRTHMARK.
Another recommendation for your reading list comes to mind. The books by Michael Gregorio (pen-name of a couple living in Italy) feature a Prussian magistrate during the Napoleonic era. The latest is A VISIBLE DARKNESS. My review will appear in an upcoming issue of MYSTERY NEWS. If you haven't read the Gregorio books, your missing out on an enriching reading experience; the protagonist is a protege of Immanuel Kant, so rational inquiry becomes the cornerstone of the sleuth's investigations.
The De Cock series, whose name has been changed in English to avoid unfortunate associations?
Hi Peter,
Thanks for sharing the thoughts on - Fifty Grand.
Keep up posting.
R.T., I became acquainted with DeKok when I had a Dutch girlfriend a few years book. Baantjer is phenomenally popular in the Netherlands: displays in bookstores, board games based on the books, and an entertaining TV series. I actually liked the one Baantker short story I read better than the novel or two.
Here's an oddity: In the original Dutch books and on Dutch TV, the character's name is spelled "De Cock." The usual Dutch spelling for the name would be "DeKok," and one of the character's recurring tag lines is that he always has to spell his name when he introduces himself: "DeCock, met C-O-C-K," or "De Cock, spelled C-O-C-K."
Marco, I just saw your comment. The spelling may have been changed to avoid unfortunate associations, or because the tag line about the spelling of the name might be lost on a non-Dutch audience.
Thanks, CMA. I'd posted earlier on "Fifty Grand," and I may have at least one more post up my sleeve. I also recommend the author's Michael Forsythe novels: "Dead I Well May Be," "The Dead Yard" and "The Bloomsday Dead."
R.T., a double dose of thanks. I've read all three of the Nesser novels published in English translation thus far, and I'll look forward to this one.
I have a couple of the Michael Gregorio books on the TBR pile. Where would recommend that I start?
By all means, begin with the first Hanno Stiffeniis mystery -- CRITIQUE OF CRIMINAL REASON.
Stiffeniis, the Prussian magistrate, is mentored by Immanuel Kant, and that sets that stage for all that follows. Enjoy!
Thanks. I think I have two of the follow-ups, plus one of the books in Italian. I don't that one, though, despite its clever title.
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