by vjbooks | May 26, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Then enter THE SCARECROW Book Trivia Contest. Read the book and test your knowledge. One winner will be randomly selected from all of the correct entries to have his or her name used for a character’s name in Michael’s next Harry Bosch novel, NINE DRAGONS. The winner...
by vjbooks | May 21, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Michael Connelly’s Conflict of Interest Part II
by vjbooks | May 17, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Michael Connelly has always tried to give his readers bonus material with each new novel. Short stories, lost chapters, and visual adaptations. This time he has something new. A short film called “Conflict of Interest,” which features the exploits of FBI...
by vjbooks | May 13, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Michael Connelly, the Nevada desert, Jack McEvoy’s thoughts while driving the loneliest road in America… You’ll find all that and more in this 2 minute video introducing The Scarecrow, Michael Connelly’s new thriller. Click to see the Scarecrow...
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 | May 11, 2009 | Books to Movies, We're Talking Books!
Matthew McConaughey, who had a breakout role as a lawyer in 1996’s “A Time to Kill,” is returning to the courtroom for his latest project. Variety reports that the actor is attached to star in “The Lincoln Lawyer,” a legal thriller based on the 2005 Michael Connelly...
by vjbooks | May 8, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
The second annual CRIMEFEST is being held in Bristol from 14th to 17th May . Guests this year include Anne Zouroudi, Michael Walters, Zoe Sharp, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, Michael Connelly, Kate Ellis and Maxim Jakubowski, amongst others. During a conversation with one...
by vjbooks | May 6, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
The Scarecrow Interview With Michael Connelly It has been quite a few years since reporter Jack McEvoy was featured in The Poet. What made you decide to write about him again?Being a former newspaper reporter, I’ve watched in recent years as the newspaper...
by vjbooks | Apr 27, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
THE SCARECROW will have a very cool bonus feature included in the hardcover — an excerpt of Michael’s next book, NINE DRAGONS. This Harry Bosch novel will be released in October 2009. Harry Bosch is assigned a homicide call in South L.A. that takes him to...
by vjbooks | Apr 6, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Mar 30) Bestseller Connelly comments on the plight of print journalism in a nail-biting thriller featuring reporter Jack McEvoy, last seen in 2004’s The Narrows. When Jack is laid off from the L.A. Times with 14 days’ notice to...
by vjbooks | Feb 20, 2009 | Collecting, We're Talking Books!
Dear Friends, Booksellers often boast of the authors they can call “friends,” and I must confess that even VJ Books is presumptive enough to refer to a writer or two with that familiarity. Rare is the bookseller though who turns the world upside down and...
by vjbooks | Feb 19, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(baltimoresun.com, Feb. 15, Diane Scharper) For the 200th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe’s birth, the Mystery Writers of America have published this collection of 16 of Poe’s best works with often-insightful commentary by well-known mystery writers. As...
