Dolly Parton’s tie-in album Run, Rose, Run is a fresh dose of country dynamite
On the ebullient country-and-western romp Firecracker, the fluttery voice of Dolly Parton rises from a jiggly bed of fiddles, banjos and zinging guitars to declare that she’s…
The Fear Index, review: a thriller with all the urgency of a hedgehog pottering across your lawn
Robert Harris’s The Fear Index was a relatively understated novel by the blockbusting standards of the author of Fatherland and Pompeii, in so far as that it…
Sunset Swing by Ray Celestin, review: a fitting finale to this hard-boiled, jazzy crime series
Here ends one of the finest achievements of recent crime fiction, Ray Celestin’s City Blues Quartet. The first book, The Axeman’s Jazz, introduced us to black Pinkerton…
James Patterson interview: ‘Am I entitled to write a black character? Sure I am’
“We go out for dinner and Bill and Hillary hold hands under the table,” he says. “One of the things I love about Clinton is that he…
The best new crime fiction and thrillers to buy for Christmas 2021
The late John le Carré bowed out this year with the posthumous Silverview (Viking, £20), less a thriller – it hardly rises to the level of what…