There are some years when it’s pretty easy to pick out which first-quarter crime, mystery, and thriller novels are destined to become the Big Reads, those books that enjoy extraordinary promotions and generate the most word-of-mouth. Such is not the case heading into the initial three months of 2017. There are so many promising new works by so many familiar or highly touted authors due out in the States this season, that guessing which ones will be remembered fondly even ...
Last December, after posting my “favorite crime novels of 2015” list, I put together a rather different assessment of the year’s new offerings in this genre. Rather than confine myself to picking 10 books (all released in the United States) that I judged to have been particularly well-written and memorable—a traditional and potentially valuable, but admittedly limiting exercise—I expanded my criteria to spotlight an assortment of other meritorious mystery, crime, and thriller works, some of which had barely failed to ...
This is the fifth consecutive time I’ve assembled, for Kirkus, a year-end list of my favorite crime, mystery, and thriller novels published in the United States during the preceding 12 months. Nostalgia grips me warmly as I look back now at previous picks—from M.J. McGrath’s White Heat (2011) and Peter May’s The Blackhouse (2012) to Derek B. Miller’s Norwegian by Night (2013), Laura Lippman’s After I’m Gone (2014), and Conor Brady’s historical mystery debut, A June of Ordinary Murders ...
This is Election Day in the United States, with the principal attraction being the hyper-contentious race to succeed two-term President Barack Obama in the White House. So I’d planned to devote this column to crime, mystery, and thriller fiction featuring American presidents, presidents’ wives, presidential cabinet members, and maybe even presidential pets (remember Stuart M. Kaminsky’s The Fala Factor, in which Eleanor Roosevelt turns to 1940s Hollywood gumshoe Toby Peters for help in retrieving Franklin D. Roosevelt’s famous but ...
It seems you can take Peter May out of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, but you can’t take the Outer Hebrides out of Peter May. After penning a Canada-set thriller titled Entry Island (2015), followed by Runaway (2016), about teenage musicians whose quest for rock-’n’-roll renown in London is seriously marred by murder, May returns, in his new standalone, Coffin Road, to the storm-swept chain of islands off Scotland’s west coast where he set the novel that gained him his greatest ...
All Hallows’ Eve, All Saints’ Eve - Halloween. That time of the year when the leaves are changing colors (the Aspens are gorgeous, btw), the chill wind blows in and we seek to be scared. Be it movies, haunted houses, ghost hunter shows on tv or the books we read, we love to be scared this time of year. It’s very nearly a prerequisite of the season. With that in mind, I thought I’d do a list of Horror-themed graphic novels ...
Nowadays most crime-fiction readers probably recognize the Pinkerton National Detective Agency for having inspired—with its logo featuring a large, unblinking human eye and the slogan “We Never Sleep”—the term “private eye.” They might also remember that its founder, a Scottish barrel maker named Allan Pinkerton, who’d left Great Britain for the United States in 1842, started his snooping career by helping to take down a gang of counterfeiters northwest of Chicago, Illinois, and was subsequently appointed as the Windy ...
So this might be the funniest story to come out of Bouchercon 2016, the September 15-18 World Mystery Convention held in New Orleans, Louisiana.
As Icelandic crime novelist Yrsa Sigurdardóttir (Someone to Watch Over Me) writes on her Facebook page, she had been scheduled to hold a public meet-and-greet session on Friday afternoon during Bouchercon, along with fellow Reykjavik native Ragnar Jonasson (Snowblind) and Norwegian cop-turned-author Jørn Lier Horst (The Caveman). Their event was to take place in an establishment ...
Despite the continuous wet weather over the pastweek the Greenkeeping team and on coursedrainage are doing a great job with both coursesremaining fully open and on full greens andtees!
On the main course it remains carry bags onlywith no trolleys allowed, however on theBlenheim Trolleys and Buggies are still in useon the hardcore path only.
We have our Winter Open in just over two week'stime so remember to sign up for this, why notalso invite a guest along to come and play thecourse and enjoy the day!
You can sign up in the Pro Shop to our WinterOpen on Saturday, 30 January, this is anIndividual Stableford Competition open to Men,Ladies and Juniors, it is also a Full HandicapQualifier being on full greens and tees.
Entrance fee is just £10for adult Members (£30 AdultVisitors) and £5for junior members (£20Junior Visitors). This includes coffee onarrival followed by a rolling buffet after golfwith prize giving along with nearest the pin andlongest drive prizes. Clickhere for more details.
Trainee Catering Manager position available atKirtlington Golf Club. Suitable forcollege/university leaver or a person with someexperience looking to move on in their career.
On here it has all the club events and fixturescoming up this year - a great way of keepingtrack of what is going on at the Club!
On Friday, 11 March we have the Seniors Dinner.This is open to all the Seniors and LadyMembers, more details and Menu to follow...
Following a number of requests we have added ourown local rules to this week's newsletter to therulessection of the shop site so everyone isclear on these and adopting the correct reliefwhen required like the local rule 8 concerningan embedded ball in any rough area:
8. Embedded Ball: Any ballembedded in its own pitch mark in any rough areamay be rolled out by up to one circumference ofthe ball but must not be rolled closer to thehole being played. The ball may notbe cleaned.
If there is anything you would like to see addedin this rules section or to learn more aboutplease clickhere and let us know so we can featurethis.
The temperatures are set to drop later this weekfrom the mild and wet conditions we have becomeaccustomed to!
Make sure you are prepared and layered up - inthe shop we have a full range of winter productsto stock up with from handwarmers, to beanies,mittens and Outer Layers.
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