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Crime books round-up – March 2012

Crime books round-up – March 2012

Doug Johnstone, Alex Gray and Mari Jungstedt deliver new crime novels this month

17 Feb 2012

As if to show that fiction readers love a good bit of murder and mystery, death and deceit, blood and booze, there’s acres of it about to be scattered around the nation’s book shelves. Doug Johnstone (of this parish) parks his Hit and Run (Faber) at our…

Stuart MacBride - Birthdays for the Dead

Stuart MacBride - Birthdays for the Dead

The tartan noir author diverges from the Logan McRae series with a compelling and brutal thriller

5 Jan 2012

(HarperCollins) A standalone diversion from his Logan McRae series of novels, Stuart MacBride once again demonstrates how he puts the grit into the Granite City. That said, Birthdays for the Dead isn’t set in Aberdeen, instead the action shifts to…

Review of Eric Skillman and Jhomar Soriano's new graphic novel Liar's Kiss

Eric Skillman and Jhomar Soriano - Liar's Kiss

Unpredictable crime noir graphic novel from new writer and artist team

12 May 2011

Top Shelf Comix. Featuring a real loser of a protagonist and devolving around a series of misunderstandings and bad coincidences, this stylish, noirish hard-boiled crime graphic novel recalls, among other things, certain films of the Coen brothers. In…

Angels of Evil (Gli Angeli del Mal) is a flawed addition to the gangster movie genre

Angels of Evil (Gli Angeli del Mal)

Flawed addition to the gangster movie genre

18 Apr 2011

(15) 128min The story of real-life Milan mobster Renato Vallanzasca, Angels of Evil has all the ingredients for a bloody gangster classic. For starters, there’s actor/director Michele Placido (who made the 2005 crime saga Romanzo Criminale) at the…

Denise Mina's 'The End of the Wasp Season' is a worthy addition to the DS Alex Morrow series

Denise Mina's 'The End of the Wasp Season' is a worthy addition to the DS Alex Morrow series

13 Apr 2011

(Orion) Denise Mina is one of the most interesting Scottish crime writers, continually fighting the war on cliché in terms of prose, plot and characterisation. This second novel featuring DS Alex Morrow is a consolidation of her recent move towards…

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Safe
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Luke Wright (Statham), suicidal ex-cop-turned-cage-fighter, is about to jump in front of a train when he befriends Mei (Chan), Chinese schoolgirl and math genius who knows how to access a fortune. Generic villains and excessive body count can't tarnish Statham's likable machismo and the unstoppable energy of the action scenes. A guilty pleasure. View full details
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Black's Game (Svartur á leik)
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Stefan Mani’s best-seller of the Icelandic underworld becomes the basis for this debut feature by Óskar Thór Axelsson. A young slacker with violent tendencies does a job for a gang of drug dealers. Impressing his superiors, he works his way up to a high position in the gang … just as the crooks are setting up their biggest deal yet. Energetic, made with flair, and brimming with local colour, Black’s Game brings some refreshing Icelandic twists to a classic gang-thriller plot. View full details and ticket info
21 Jun 6.10pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh
25 Jun 8.50pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: New Perspectives	Filmhouse, Edinburgh

Pusher
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A remake of Nicholas Winding Refn's (also behind 2011's Drive) 1996 Danish film about a week in the life of a London drug pusher. View full details and ticket info
21 Jun 8.20pm 22 Jun 9.15pm Part of Edinburgh International Film Festival: Michael Powell Award Competition	Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh

Bloody Scotland
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Scotland's first festival dedicated to crime fiction has picked a good time to start – 2012 marks the 125th anniversary of the publication of the first Sherlock Holmes story, the 35th anniversary of William McIlvanney’s Laidlaw (generally reckoned to be the start of Tartan Noir), and the 25th anniversary of the first publication of Ian Rankin’s Rebus novels. More than 40 crime writers will be attending the festival to share their views on the genre. View full details
14 Sep–16 Sep Times vary	Stirling, Stirling

The French Connection
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Friedkin's blistering crime thriller features one of cinema's classic car chases and launched 'Popeye' Doyle, the prototype 'bad cop'. View full details
19 Jun 5.30pm Followed by an extended Q&A with William Friedkin, ahead of the premiere of his new film Killer Joe, at…	Filmhouse, Edinburgh