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Tag Archives: Burial Rites
My year in books: Angela Savage
Next up on the ‘my year in books’ series running on this site over December, is crime writer (and my long time partner) Angela Savage.
Angela is the author of three highly acclaimed crime novels based in Thailand and featuring the Australian PI Jayne Keeney. The most recent of these books, The Dying Beach was published in 2013 and is available here.
She’s also got a great website, or “piece of author real estate”, as I’ve heard these things referred to by book marketing people. You can find it here.
Welcome Angela
While Andrew specified that my top five reads for 2013 didn’t have to be crime, I figured crime picks would appeal to regular readers of Pulpcurry. I read a lot of crime in 2013—some 40 books as of early December—but I didn’t realise just how many were recent releases until I sat down to compose this list. The books that made the cut ultimately combine memorable plots and characters with great writing.
After the Darkness, Honey Brown
I read three of Honey Brown’s tense, atmospheric and erotic thrillers in 2013. Difficult as it is to pick a favourite, After the Darkness just pips her debut Red Queen and this year’s Dark Horse to make this list because it is one of the few genuinely scary books I’ve ever read.… Read more
Posted in Adrian McKinty, Angela Savage, Australian crime fiction, Don Winslow, Noir fiction
Tagged Adrian Mckinty, After the Darkness, Angela Savage, Antidote to Murder, Burial Rites, Dashiell Hammett, David Whish-Wilson, Dennis Lehane, Don Winslow, Felicity Young, Hannah Kent, Honey Brown, I Hear the Sirens in the Street, Live By Night, Robert Gott, Satori, The Dying Beach, The Holiday Murders, The Maltese Falcon, Zero At the Bone