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Adrian McKinty

Don’t Write What You Know: Why the BBC Told Me to Forget Northern Ireland

By Adrian McKinty

March 1, 2016

In 2004, I was given an opportunity to pitch a TV show to the BBC. My first novel, Dead I Well May Be, had just come out, and although the book hadn’t sold well, it had been well reviewed, and this had attracted the attention of the Beeb. Partly autobiographical, Dead I Well May Be…

Announcing 2016’s Edgar Nominees

By Crime HQ

January 19, 2016

The Mystery Writers of America have announced the Edgar Award nominees and special winners. The Edgars banquet—an annual black-tie gala celebrating crime fiction, non-fiction, and television writing—will be held on Thursday, April 28th, 2016 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City. As always, it's a fantastic list of great work that deserves to…

The Sun is God, a historical crime novel by Adrian McKinty

Fresh Meat: The Sun is God by Adrian McKinty

By Court Haslett

September 8, 2014

The Sun is God by Adrian McKinty is a historical crime novel featuring a veteran of the second Boer war trying to solve a murder on an island of religious cultists in Colonial New Guinea in 1906 (available September 9, 2014). After reading the setting for The Sun is God, a fan of Adrian McKinty…

Murder to Mil-Spec

Crime for a Cause: Crime Fiction Anthologies for Charity

By Laura K. Curtis

August 30, 2012

For several years, Wolfmont Press produced an annual holiday crime fiction anthology that benefited Toys for Tots.  2009 marked the last of these, with the 2010 charity anthology—called Murder to Mil-Spec—benefiting Homes for Our Troops, instead. These were fabulous anthologies, and if you can find a copy you should grab one; they were limited in…

The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville

Trouble’s Aftermath: Northern Ireland’s Crime Fiction

By Peter Rozovsky

May 6, 2011

Everywhere in Northern Ireland’s post-Troubles crime fiction, authors ask: What now? Where do the “fighters” go? What about those grim holdouts who refuse to acknowledge that the war is over?  What about the innocents left behind—and the not-so-innocents whose connections got them through the fighting propserous and unscathed? It’s no accident that one of the…

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