While some other crime-fiction commentators are slowing down noticeably in this run-up to Christmas and New Year’s, plucky prankster prose-stylist Mike Ripley continues to churn out his wit-suffused “Getting Away with Murder” column for Shots. The December installment recalls last month’s Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award ceremony, questions the historical accuracy of Stuart Pawson’s new novel, reports on efforts to acknowledge the death of Dorothy L. Sayers (50 years ago this month), looks forward to the 20th birthday of London’s Murder One Bookstore, and applauds the pending publication of Laura Wilson’s Stratton’s War, the first entry in a promising series of detective novels set during World War II.
Joining the recent crowd, he also picks his favorite UK-published books of the year:
Best Crime Novel: The Chameleon’s Shadow, by Minette Walters (Macmillan)
Best Thriller: The One from the Other, by Philip Kerr (Quercus)
Best Historical Mystery: Mistress of the Art of Death, by Ariana Franklin (Bantam)
Funniest Crime Novel: Don’t Cry for Me Aberystwyth, by Malcolm Pryce (Bloomsbury)
Best in Translation: The Pére-Lachaise Mystery, by Claude Izner (Gallic)
Best First Novel: Little Moscow, by Mick Scully (Tindal Street Press)
You can enjoy the whole of Ripley’s musings here.
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
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