Alibi - by Joseph Kanon
by Sam Stowe
April 10th, 2007
Joseph Kanon’s summer potboiler is a weak whodunnit set in the seedy splendor of post-war Venice.
Archive for the ‘Thrillers’ Category
An Interview With Thriller Writer Stephen White
by Paul Comstock
April 3rd, 2007
“When I started writing the pages in 1989 that later evolved to became my first book, I had no intent, conception, premonition, or clue that I was creating characters that would endure for over a dozen books.”
Mystery Writer Vicki Stiefel
by Deborah Straw
April 3rd, 2007
“I have a general idea where I’m going, but Tally and Company take me there. They often surprise me, which is the great fun of writing fiction.”
Beyond the Balkans - Eric Ambler and the British Espionage Novel, 1936-1940
by Brett F. Woods
March 26th, 2007
Eric Ambler (1909-1998) was one of the foremost architects of espionage fiction as it exists today. Like his predecessor Somerset Maugham, Ambler sought to transform the genre from the verbal banality and minimal characterizations of authors William Le Queux and Edward Oppenheim to a more sophisticated, morally ambiguous world of deception and danger.
The Last Victorian: John Buchan and the Hannay Quartet
by Brett F. Woods
March 26th, 2007
But, even more importantly, he also struck the first modern note in the evolution of the genre with respect to the degree of personal doubt and insecurity that over-shadows the mission – the same note, albeit greatly amplified, that is found in the novels of such well-known successors as Eric Ambler, Graham Greene, and John Le Carré, whose spy stories may be correctly seen, in part at least, as a continuance of John Buchan and the Hannay Quartet.
