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It’s crunch time. The Bryant & May series has been hanging in the balance for some months now. The problem is simple; although the books do nicely they’re not blockbusters, and in credit-crunch times everyone is looking for Big Books. Bryant & May are ‘genre’, because mystery is genre, while crime is mainstream. I [...] In a rare moment of self-promotion (you know I’m a bit rubbish at this) I can be heard with the excellent Karin Slaughter and others on BBC’s Front Row (might have helped if I’d told you when it was actually broadcast) here. And ‘Bryant & May Off The Rails’ got a starred review in Publishers [...] I’m delighted that the excellent book review blog The Rap Sheet has examined in a little more detail my Bryant & May homage to the inimitable Edmund Crispin. Here’s what they wrote; It’s been said that there are just seven plots for mystery novels. That might or might not be true, but certainly reviewers often [...] Okay, Colin from St Albans or Mr J West from Dublin, you both placed reviews of ‘Bryant & May Off The Rails’ – Mr Lancaster kindly donated his for the fun of it – but if either of you would like to claim your signed first edition, I’ll need you to post your addresses here…no [...] First person to review Bryant & May Off The Rails on Amazon UK wins – oh, let’s see now, what would you like, a signed first edition, plus the signed paperback of Bryant & May On The Loose – how about that? I’m a father again! My lovely publishers have left a magnum of champagne on my front step (it would only be nicked around here if it was a beer keg with a St Andrews flag on it) and I’m signing books tonight at my favourite store in the world, Forbidden Planet, Shaftesbury Avenue @ 6pm, [...] I’m pleased to say that I now have a June 24th hardback publication date for ‘Bryant & May Off The Rails’, my eighth novel featuring the elderly irascible London detectives, and advanced copies have already started receiving ‘best ever’-type reviews! But this could be the last in the present series. Although I have several more [...] I now have an author site on Amazon UK and US (Canada doesn’t seem to have been offered them), and it has surprised me by turning up this book (which I think must be a US large print edition). At first I thought it might be a Dadaist artifact by Marcel Duchamp, then I decided [...] Bryant and May are almost back in action! As it’s a funny shape (end flaps included) you can download the pdf here, should you so desire. Off the rails HB St Pancras Old Church St Pancras Mortuary Today’s pictures show the church where Bryant and May begin their search for the elusive Mr Fox in ‘Bryant & May On The Loose’. St Pancras Old Church lays claim to being the oldest surviving church in Europe. It’s here that Thomas Hardy toiled in the graveyard, stacking [...] |
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