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Slow boil by Quentin Bates 12 Aug 2013 | 07:00 am
Icelanders don’t easily come to the boil. The demonstrations outside Parliament in 2009 that contributed to bringing down the government were remarkable not for the number of people present or the cle...
Big Data Noir by Christopher G. Moore 9 Aug 2013 | 07:02 am
No noir story will match the ones told by Big Data. In the future, noir stories will emerge from Big Data only it won’t be fiction. Authors of crime fiction, noir, hardboiled, or otherwise, are like m...
Bad Girls by Barbara Nadel 6 Aug 2013 | 07:00 am
Not long ago a young woman called Caroline Criado-Perez started a campaign to have the author Jane Austen represented on UK bank notes. We’ve never had many women (except the Queen) pictured on our mo...
Twelve myths about fishing by Quentin Bates 5 Aug 2013 | 07:00 am
I’ve been involved in the fishing business in one way or another since leaving school a very long time ago. I’ve seen a lot of arguments, some of them justified, many of them ridiculous, over the year...
The Prisoners Dilemma by Christopher G. Moore 2 Aug 2013 | 07:00 am
Psychology, economic, law and mathematics have interesting perspectives on the dynamics between two or more people who must decide to co-operate or betray the other person to minimize punishment. Her...
When a monster dies … by Jarad Henry 1 Aug 2013 | 07:00 am
On August 10th 1968 a seven-year-old schoolgirl was kidnapped from St Kilda beach in Melbourne. Linda Stilwell was murdered and never seen again, but she wasn’t the only victim. Last week, nearly 45 ...
Where is Claudius? by Barbara Nadel 30 Jul 2013 | 07:00 am
If you are as antique as I am you will recall a BBC TV Drama based on the books of Robert Graves called ‘I, Claudius’. For those of you who are younger (or less British) then ‘I, Claudius’ was about t...
France is the new Sweden by Quentin Bates 29 Jul 2013 | 07:00 am
The word is that Scandinavian crime fiction is dead, put to the sword by an invasion of French crime writing excellence. Really? Christopher Maclehose, the publisher who brought us Miss Smilla, Wallan...
When Godot is an Assassin and You Don’t Have to Wait by Christopher G. Moore 26 Jul 2013 | 07:00 am
The 2013 Thai Most Wanted Hitmen list has 100 names. The 2011 list had only 75 names. That’s a 25% productivity and employment increase in two years. If this were the economy, people would be in the s...
Shooting blanks at a fake crime scene… by Jarad Henry 25 Jul 2013 | 07:00 am
Lights, Camera… Action! It isn’t often you hear these words associated with a book, especially when it hasn’t even been released yet. So what do you get when you put seven people in a warehouse, all...
