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The criminal minds set to show form in 2009

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...

Dennis Lehane – The Given Day

(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...

It’s no mystery: Lehane likes epics

(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...