by vjbooks | Nov 18, 2010 | We're Talking Books!
VJ Books has received: Jeffery Deaver – Edge, Greg Bear – Hull Zero Three, Dennis Lehane – Moonlight Mile, and Scott Spencer – Man in the Woods.
by vjbooks | Nov 13, 2009 | Books to Movies, We're Talking Books!
After a tremendous response to their first offering, VJ Books is pleased to announce that they again have copies of Dennis Lehane’s Boston Noir. This book represents the latest in a groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies; it is comprised of all-new...
by vjbooks | May 12, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
The current generation of Irish crime writers had something of an annus mirabilis in 2008, when John Connolly, Tana French, Ken Bruen, Declan Hughes and Ruth Dudley Edwards were all nominated for prestigious crime-writing prizes in the US and the UK. Connolly, Dudley...
by vjbooks | Jan 25, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(Beacon News, Jan. 18, Teresa Budasi) My favorite of 2008 is the latest novel by Wally Lamb. A decade has passed since Lamb was doubly blessed by Oprah and shot to literary fame. In 1997, the talk show queen chose his first novel, “She’s Come...
by vjbooks | Jan 18, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(connpost.com, jan. 16, Joe Meyers) With so many “literary” novelists turning inward and away from broader social concerns and traditional storytelling, readers have been enjoying crime fiction in larger numbers each year. A genre that was once viewed as...
by vjbooks | Dec 25, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(mcherald.com, Nov. 22, JC Patterson) Here’s a by-the-book breakdown of fine reads I have known and appreciated this year. The Big Boys: Heavyweight hits like Richard Price’s Lush Life, The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski , and my favorite read...
by vjbooks | Nov 23, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Nov. 3, Best Books of The Year Award) In a splended flowering of the talent previously demonstrated in his crime fiction (Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River) Lehane combines 20th-century American history, a gripping story of a family torn by...
by vjbooks | Nov 19, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(www.miamiherald.com, Nov. 14, Nancy Klingener) The question comes at every one of Dennis Lehane’s public appearances: “Will you ever return to Patrick and Angie?” The answer is probably “No.” ”It’s been nine years, and I love...
by vjbooks | Nov 8, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(www.miaminewtimes.com, Nov. 07) Every corner of the country worth a damn seems to have a signature author painting its streets in the darkest shades on the palette – from Tony Hillerman hiking the parched Navajo desert to Dennis Lehane lurking in Boston’s...
by vjbooks | Nov 2, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
The Miami Book Fair International Celebrates 25 Years! November 9-16 Authors are coming from all over the U.S. and around the world for this 25th anniversary Jessica Abel, Fernando Arrabal, Russell Banks, Mario Batali, Ishmael Beah, Anthony Bourdain, Sandra Cisneros,...
