Soho is reprinting Brophy's highly-lauded first book about Umbrian police officer Commissario Cenni - a worthy addition to the mysteries of Donna Leon and the sadly-late Magdalen Nabb.
Brophy's second book about Italian police Inspector Alessandro Cenna should win the same kind of reviews as her first, THE LAST ENEMY - including favorable comparisons to Donna Leon. Cenna is sent to a small village in Umbria to look into the brutal murder of an elderly German woman.
Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903 into a wealthy banking family and emigrated to France during the Russian Revolution. After attending the Sorbonne in Paris, she began to write and swiftly achieved success with DAVID GOLDER, which was followed by more than a dozen other books. Throughout her lifetime she published widely in French newspapers and literary journals. She died in Auschwitz in 1942. More than sixty years later, SUITE FRANCAISE was published posthumously.
Now the stalwart Everyman's Library is publishing four of her shorter novels in one handsome volume, a gorgeous hardcover complete with a gold cord bookmark. And the especially good news for lovers of crime fiction is that one of them, THE COURILOF AFFAIR, is a classic Conradian (or Dostoyevskian) spy novel. It's the story of a Russian revolutionary, Leon M., living out his last days in Nice, first meeting in the 1930s a man who jogs his memory and then writing in longhand about his relationship with Valerian Courilof, the minister of education in imperial Russia. Léon grew to like the decrepit, politically ruined Courilof, even as he was ordered to kill him.
O'Flynn won the Costa First Novel Award for this debut novel which got rave reviews in the UK and a film sale. It's a sad, scary and touching story of two young people who come together to probe the disappearance of a teenage girl years before from a shopping mall in Birmingham.
Splendidly informative introductions by two top crime writers make this double edition of two of Stout's best Nero Wolfe novels a treat and a bargain. Loren D. Estleman does the honors for FER-DE-LANCE, while Robert Goldsborough holds up the side for THE LEAGUE OF FRIGHTENED MEN.
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The Last Enemy (Soho Crime) by Grace Brophy
cosifan, June 7, 2008
Soho is reprinting Brophy's highly-lauded first book about Umbrian police officer Commissario Cenni - a worthy addition to the mysteries of Donna Leon and the sadly-late Magdalen Nabb.A Deadly Paradise by Grace Brophy
cosifan, June 7, 2008
Brophy's second book about Italian police Inspector Alessandro Cenna should win the same kind of reviews as her first, THE LAST ENEMY - including favorable comparisons to Donna Leon. Cenna is sent to a small village in Umbria to look into the brutal murder of an elderly German woman.David Golder, the Ball, Snow in Autumn, the Courilof Affair by Irene Nemirovsky
cosifan, June 7, 2008
Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903 into a wealthy banking family and emigrated to France during the Russian Revolution. After attending the Sorbonne in Paris, she began to write and swiftly achieved success with DAVID GOLDER, which was followed by more than a dozen other books. Throughout her lifetime she published widely in French newspapers and literary journals. She died in Auschwitz in 1942. More than sixty years later, SUITE FRANCAISE was published posthumously.Now the stalwart Everyman's Library is publishing four of her shorter novels in one handsome volume, a gorgeous hardcover complete with a gold cord bookmark. And the especially good news for lovers of crime fiction is that one of them, THE COURILOF AFFAIR, is a classic Conradian (or Dostoyevskian) spy novel. It's the story of a Russian revolutionary, Leon M., living out his last days in Nice, first meeting in the 1930s a man who jogs his memory and then writing in longhand about his relationship with Valerian Courilof, the minister of education in imperial Russia. Léon grew to like the decrepit, politically ruined Courilof, even as he was ordered to kill him.
What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn
cosifan, June 7, 2008
O'Flynn won the Costa First Novel Award for this debut novel which got rave reviews in the UK and a film sale. It's a sad, scary and touching story of two young people who come together to probe the disappearance of a teenage girl years before from a shopping mall in Birmingham.Fer-de-Lance & the League of Frightened Men by Rex Stout
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Splendidly informative introductions by two top crime writers make this double edition of two of Stout's best Nero Wolfe novels a treat and a bargain. Loren D. Estleman does the honors for FER-DE-LANCE, while Robert Goldsborough holds up the side for THE LEAGUE OF FRIGHTENED MEN.