Gumshoe Review: THE FOURTH ASSASSIN ‘excellent’…and a list of crime fiction good, bad and pointless
Top crime fiction blog Gumshoe Review rates my new Palestinian crime novel THE FOURTH ASSASSIN very highly: “Rees does an excellent job of showing the pressures on the young Palestinians and describing the microcosm of one immigrant community within the U.S. The mystery also contains plenty of twist and turns.” Read Mel Jacobs’s full review.
If you feel compelled to read any other crime fiction but mine — or if you’ve already read all my books — I’d direct you to a list of the 100 Best Crime Books on the Court Reporter blog. Many on the list are no surprise — you’re unlikely to say to yourself, “Oh, The Maltese Falcon, how’d they come up with that?” Well, if you DO say that, then you’ve probably got 100 new books for your nightstand, because surely you can’t have read any crime fiction BEFORE you read The Maltese Falcon. That’s just unacceptable! Anyway, much of the rest of the list comprises overrated twaddle (dragon tattoos, for example) which has somehow become accepted as a staple of the genre (several genres in fact, because the list includes true crime, thrillers and slasher stuff), classics which to those who bother to read them these days will be head-scratchingly dull, and many others which are mind-numbingly outdated to the contemporary reader (yes, Conan Doyle fans, I’m talking to you). But you may stumble upon something you didn’t know about, so take a look.
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on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 at 6:21 am