Dust Devils has had a very good year, making the 10 Best lists of The Barnes & Noble Book Club, Grift Magazine, Detectives Beyond Borders, The Drowning Machine, African Book Club and CrimeFictionLover (the book of the year), was a Der Spiegel magazine thriller of the month in June 2011 and was named top crime novel of July 2011 by the KrimiZeit 10 Best List, selected by 17 German, Swiss & Austrian crime fiction critics.
15 January 2012
Mixed Blood is to be translated into Mandarin. Already out in German, French, Italian and Japanese.
08 JULY 2011
The German translation of Dust Devils, "Staubige Hölle" is top of the influential KrimiZeit 10 Best List for July, selected by 17 German, Swiss & Austrian crime fiction critics. Both Mixed Blood & Wake Up Dead made it to #1 on the list.
30 APRIL 2011
Wake Up Dead is in development as a feature film. Director Mark Tonderai, whose House At The End of The Street – starring Oscar nominee Jennifer Lawrence – will be released in early 2012, is adapting the book.
GreeneStreet Films is developing the movie version of Mixed Blood to star Samuel L. Jackson, with Phillip Noyce directing and Kelly Masterson adapting.
04 APRIL 2011
Wake Up Dead has been nominated for a Spinetingler Award in the Best Novel (New Voice) category
1 APRIL 2011
Mixed Blood has been released in France as MÉLANGES DE SANGS as part of the new, very prestigious Robert Pépin présente crime imprint.
20 FEBRUARY 2011
The last year has been a very successful one for Wake Up Dead:
It is one of the Philadelphia Inquirer , Times (South Africa) & CrimeSquad (UK) Best Books of 2010 and the German translation (Blutiges Erwachen) makes the KrimiWelt 10 Best & is nominated for the KrimiCouch Blitz Award for best crime novel of 2010
WAKE UP DEAD is joint winner of the Spinetingler Magazine Fireball Award for Best First Line in a novel
19 FEBRUARY 2011
I've been invited to the Quais du Polar Festival in Lyon, France from 25 to 27 March
JULY 11 2010
Wake Up Dead has been released in the UK by edgy independent publisher, Serpent's
Tail
After a very succesful hardcover release by Tropen/ Klett-
APRIL 01 2010
Mixed Blood has been nominated for a Spinetingler Award in the Best Novel (New Voice) category.
MARCH 30 2010
Wake Up Dead is one of Deadly Pleasures Magazine's Best Books of 2010 – titles which have garnered excellent reviews from critics, booksellers and library journals.
MARCH 29 2010
I had a great time visiting Germany and Austria earlier this month to read from Wake Up Dead (Blutiges Erwachen). Here I am signing at a crime festival in Munich. Yes, that really is an autopsy table, and it was as cold as a morgue in there, too! Fantastic event, with around 450 people in the audience.
MARCH 05 2010
I'll be visiting Germany and Austria to promote Wake Up Dead (Blutiges Erwachen):
March 07: Stuttgart
March 08: Vienna Public Library
March 09: Heidelberg
March 11: Cologne
March 12: Munich
The German translation of Wake Up Dead, “Blutiges Erwachen”, is top of the influential KrimiWelt 10 Best List for March, selected by 19 German, Swiss & Austrian crime fiction critics.
02 FEBRUARY 2010
Wake Up Dead released in the U.S.A.
The German translation of Mixed Blood, "Kap der Finsternis", is voted # 1 crime novel of 2009 by the influential KrimiWelt. 19 crime reviewers from Germany, Switzerland and Austria made their selection from over 800 crime novels published last year. "Kap der Finsternis" heads a 10 Best list that includes Richard Stark, Don Winslow, James Sallis and Pete Dexter.
The German translation of Mixed Blood, "Kap der Finsternis", has taken 2nd place in the international category of the Deutscher Krimi Preis 2010 (Crime fiction awards) which is decided by a jury of critics, academics and booksellers
DECEMBER 31 2009
Mixed Blood named among the best books of 2009:
Alan Cranis at Bookgasm
Dave Zeltserman at Flashlight Worthy
Deadly Pleasures Magazine (a best first novel)
Titel Magazine (Germany)
Antje Deistler WDR2 (German public radio)
SonntagsZeitung (Switzerland)
Tropen/ Klett-
NOVEMBER 30 2009
Wake Up Dead (Holt Feb 2010) attracts starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, as well as praise from Ken Bruen, Dave Zeltserman, Kirkus Reviews and Booklist.
WDR (German public radio) has broadcast a 1 hour radio play based on the translation of Mixed Blood, "Kap der Finsternis."
OCTOBER 09 2009
Picador USA will publish Mixed Blood in trade paperback in December 2009, as part of the Picador Crime Collection, which features authors like Richard Price, Scott Turow and Benjamin Black.
Mixed Blood and Wake Up Dead (Henry Holt & Co) will be published in the U.K. By Serpent's Tail. Japanese rights for both books have gone to Hayakawa Publishing. The German translation of Wake Up Dead will be published by Tropen (who did such a great job with "Kap der Finsternis") as their lead title in March 2010.
The German translation of Mixed Blood, "Kap der Finsternis" was voted the best crime novel of May 2009 by KrimiWelt 10 best, the choice of 19 of the most prominent German, Swiss and Austrian critics. The book spent five months on the list.
In July the Austrian Krimi Spezial ranked Kap der Finsternis third out of its ten best thrillers of summer 2009, in the company of Richard Stark and Joseph Wambaugh.
Variety, Hollywood Reporter & Screen International report that Phillip Noyce (The Bone Collector, The Quiet American & Salt) is on board to direct the Mixed Blood movie, with Samuel L.
Jackson playing Disaster Zondi.
MAY 22 2009
I am proud to be one of 11 writers featured on the PBS Masterpiece Mystery: Spotlight
on World Mysteries website.
MAY 10 2009
Kelly Masterson (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead) has signed with GreeneStreet films to write the Mixed Blood screenplay. He talks to Jeremy Lynch of Crimespree Cinema about adapting the book.
MARCH 25 2009
Pan Macmillan launches Mixed Blood in South Africa.
MARCH 10 2009
The German translation of Mixed Blood, "Kap der Finsternis," is on sale today from
Tropen/ Klett-
MARCH 03 2009
Mixed Blood is released in the US and Canada today. Available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Indiebound and bookstores everywhere
Movie rights to Mixed Blood have been optioned by GreeneStreet Films (NYC) with Samuel L. Jackson attached to star. Active negotiations are underway for Phillip Noyce (Patriot Games, The Bone Collector, The Quiet American) to direct. Via Jody Hotchkiss at Hotchkiss & Associates
JANUARY 14 2009
Mixed Blood has been reviewed by the "Big Four" US pre-
DECEMBER 08 2008
The German translation of Mixed Blood, KAP DER FINSTERNIS (Cape of Darkness ), will
be published by Tropen/ Klett-
OCTOBER 30 2008
Very flattering quotes for Mixed Blood have come in from a trio of extremely generous New York Times bestselling authors: Chelsea Cain (Heartsick & Sweetheart), Eric Van Lustbader (First Daughter & The Bourne Sanction) and Phillip Margolin (Executive Privilege). Read here
