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Music Director: R.D. Burman
Lyricist: Anand Bakshi
Label: Polydor
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Film Credits: DIRECTOR: Ramesh Sippy. PRODUCER: G.P. Sippy. WRITER: Salim - Javed. ACTOR: Dharmendra, More...Sanjeev Kumar, Hema Malini, Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bhaduri, Amjad Khan, A.K. Hangal, Satyen Kappu, Iftekhar, Leela Mishra, Vikas Anand, Mac Mohan, Keshto Mukherjee, Sachin, Master Alankar, Viju Khote, Major Anand, Bihari, Bhagwan Sinha, Arvind Joshi, Bhanumati - II, Mushtaq Merchant, Mansaram, Mamaji, Jerry, Birbal, Raj Kishore, Habib, Rajan Kapoor, Darshan, Maula, Kedar Saigal, D. Jyothi, Rajeshwari - IV, Krishnaveni, Girija - I, Surendra Rahi, Rajesh, Asrani, Geeta Siddharth, Helen, Jairaj, Jagdeep, Jalal Agha, Om Shivpuri, Sharad Kumar. PRODUCTION CO: Sippy Films. Less...
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Yeh Dosti Hum Nahin Todenge (Happy)
Singer: Kishore Kumar, Manna Dey
Koi Haseena Jab Rooth Jaati Hai Toh
Holi Ke Din
Singer: Lata Mangeshkar, Kishore Kumar
Genre: Filmi, Hindi Folk
Yeh Dosti Hum Nahin Todenge (Sad)
Title Music
Genre: Pop, Hindi Folk, Medley
Mehbooba Mehbooba
Singer: R.D. Burman
Genre: Filmi, Arabic
Haan Jab Tak Hai Jaan
Singer: Lata Mangeshkar
Ke Chaand Sa Koi Chehra Na Pehlu Mein Ho
Singer: Kishore Kumar, Manna Dey, Bhupinder Singh, Anand Bakshi
Genre: Filmi, Sufi/Qawwali
This film was most likely inspired by Akira Kurosawa's Japanese film "Seven Samurai" (1954) or by its American adaptation "The Magnificent Seven" (1960). These films also inspired the Hindi film "Khote Sikkay" (1973) and its adaptation "Kachche Heere" (1980).[1][2]
The film "Mera Gaon Mera Desh" (1971) was one of the various sources of inspiration for this film. Both films had a disabled authority figure hiring good-hearted crook(s) to save his village from a gang of dacoits. While Dharmendra was the crook in "Mera Gaon Mera Desh" (1971), this film had Dharmendra and Amitabh Bachchan in similar roles. The villains in these films had similar names - Jabbar Singh in "Mera Gaon Mera Desh" (1971) played by Vinod Khanna versus the iconic Gabbar Singh in this film played by Amjad Khan. Interestingly, the authority figure in "Mera Gaon Mera Desh" (1971) was played by Jayant, the father of Amjad Khan, who played the role of Gabbar Singh in this film. Both films had the lead characters tossing coins to make important decisions. "Mera Gaon Mera Desh" (1971) was a hit when it was released, but over the years it was overshadowed by the cult status achieved by this film.[3]
Salim - Javed had offered the fully fleshed out script for the film "Majboor" (1974) to the Sippys when they had asked the writing duo for scripts for their next film. Ramesh Sippy was impressed by how detailed the script was but his father G.P. Sippy didn't think it would work for the ambitious vision he had for his next film. It was then that Salim - Javed pitched the brief story idea for this film to the Sippys and got their buy-in. Salim - Javed then completed the script with inputs from Ramesh Sippy, Satish Bhatnagar and Narendra Bedi. Ironically, while this film was much more successful than "Majboor" (1974), the Sippys paid Salim - Javed only Rs. 1.5 lakhs for it while producer Premji paid Rs. 2 lakhs for "Majboor" (1974).[4][5][6]
This was one of the three films released in 1975 in which Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bhaduri were paired together. The other two films were "Chupke Chupke" (1975) and "Mili" (1975). Their next film together was "Silsila" (1981).[7][8][9]
Director Ramesh Sippy had originally cast Danny Denzongpa for the role of the villain in this film. When Danny backed out due to conflicts with another film - "Dharmatma" (1975) - Ramesh Sippy signed Amjad Khan, who went on to make this a career-defining role. Khan had worked as a child artist in films in the 1950s and had debuted earlier in an adult role in "Hindustan Ki Kasam" (1972). Khan's transition into the role of Gabbar Singh for this film was not easy. His first few takes were awkward and Salim - Javed, who had recommended him for the role, began to have second thoughts about him. Javed Akhtar believed that Amjad's voice was weak and did not work for Gabbar. However, Ramesh Sippy stuck with him, and despite misgivings about Amjad Khan's suitability for the role, Gabbar became one of the most memorable characters of the film. This episode created a rift between Salim - Javed and Amjad Khan and they never worked together again after this film.[10][11][MR41]
The sets of the Ramgarh village of this film were built in a place called Ramanagara near Bangalore. Ramanagara was so remote that the makers of this film had to build a road between the village and the highway, and lay telephone lines in order to facilitate the shooting of the film over a period of two and a half years. The cult status the film achieved transformed Ramanagara into a popular tourist attraction especially for people from outside the state of Karnataka.
The dialogues of this film became extremely popular and were released separately in addition to its musical soundtrack. Salim - Javed's dialogues for "Deewar" (1975) were also released on record the same year.[12]
The film got in trouble with the Censor Board over its depiction of violence. They were particularly critical about the film's climax in which Sanjeev Kumar's character trampled Amjad Khan's character to death with nail studded shoes. The Censor Board told director Ramesh Sippy that he would have to change the film's ending in order to get their clearance. Sippy was adamant about not making changes to the film but was counselled by his father G.P. Sippy to accept their demand. Ramesh Sippy finally gave in since the film was just a few weeks away from release and because the strict laws of Emergency were in force in India at the time. Sanjeev Kumar, who was in Russia at the time, had to travel back to Ramanagara to shoot for the film's revised climax in which a police officer intervenes and saves the life of Amjad Khan's character. A few other edits were also made to the film before the film was accepted by the Censor Board for release. According to actor Manoj Kumar, he had used his proximity to the Information & Broadcasting Minister V.C. Shukla to help the Sippy's secure the film's clearance by the Censor Board.[13][MR41]
The release of this film was preceded by a publicity blitz. "The greatest film ever made" and "The greatest story ever told" were some of the taglines used in the film's publicity even before its release.
The reception to this film was mixed in the first few days after its release. Ramesh Sippy panicked since he had a lot at stake in the film and considered changing the film to an alternative climax in which Amitabh Bachchan's character survives. Salim - Javed vehemently opposed his proposal, and Sippy himself wasn't convinced if it was the right thing to do. He needn't have worried. The film's reputation grew by word of mouth, and in the months to come it became the highest-grossing Indian film of all time.[MR41]
Jagdeep's character in this film, Soorma Bhopali, was inspired by a real-life forest officer. Jagdeep was once accosted by this individual, who threatened to sue Salim - Javed for ruining his reputation in Bhopal. Jagdeep became so strongly associated with his character in this film that he wrote and directed a film titled "Soorma Bhopali" (1988) to leverage its brand.[14]
Encouraged by the success of his previous film "Seeta Aur Geeta" (1972), Ramesh Sippy repeated many of its cast and crew in this film. This included the actors Dharmendra, Hema Malini and Sanjeev Kumar, writers Salim - Javed, music director R.D. Burman and lyricist Anand Bakshi, among others. Sippy did briefly consider Pran for the role that Sanjeev Kumar played in the film eventually.[15][MR41]
Ramesh Sippy had initially considered casting Shatrughan Sinha as the second lead in this film - the character of Jai. However, he changed his mind later and picked Amitabh Bachchan for the role. Sippy felt that the film might have one star too many with Sinha and went with Amitabh, who in 1973 had yet to make a mark. The case for casting Amitabh was also strengthened by the recommendations of Salim - Javed and Dharmendra.[MR41]
Dharmendra had a change of heart when the film's script was narrated to him - he asked Ramesh Sippy if he could play the role of Thakur which was supposed to be played by Sanjeev Kumar. Ramesh Sippy convinced him that Veeru's role was better for him by pointing out that if he switched roles, Sanjeev Kumar would be paired with Hema Malini. Dharmendra had been pursuing Malini for some time. He was aware that Sanjeev Kumar also had feelings for her and had even proposed to her without success. Dharmendra decided that, in these circumstances, it was best to stick to playing the role of Veeru. He wooed Hema Malini during the film's making. There were stories of him bribing the film's crew to sabotage shots so he could spend more time with the actress! Their romance continued after the film, and they got married in 1980.[MR41]
Jaya Bhaduri became pregnant twice during the making of this film. She was pregnant with Shweta when work on the film was started and with Abhishek when it was approaching completion.
Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma made the film "Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag" (2007) and promoted it as a tribute to this film. The film was panned universally. In 2015, the Delhi High Court imposed a fine of Rs. 10 lakhs on Ram Gopal Varma for copyright violation.[16]
This film was re-released twice after its initial release in 1975 - first in 2004 after it was digitally remastered and later in 2014 in 3D.
Salim - Javed had pitched the idea of this film to Manmohan Desai but he had rejected it. They eventually ended up working with Desai for "Chacha Bhatija" (1977). It was their only film together.[17][MR34]
Gabbar Singh inspired the title of the film "Gabbar Is Back" (2015). The 2015 film also featured dialogues and background score themes from this film. Other than these references, there was no other connection between the two films.[18]
The famous "mausi" scene in the film, in which Jai talks to Mausi, played by Dina Pathak, about Veeru's marriage with Basanti, was inspired by a real-life incident. According to writer Salim Khan, he had had a similar discussion with Honey Irani's mother - Javed Akhtar's mother-in-law-to-be. The comic scene was also inspired by a similar scene in "Half Ticket" (1962).[19][20]
A popular line delivered by Dharmendra in this film inspired the hook lines of the Hindi film songs "In Kutton Ke Saamne Naach Basanti Naach" ("Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho", 2015), "Naach Basanti Naach" ("Jia Aur Jia", 2017), "Basanti No Dance In Front Of These Dogs" ("Super 30", 2019), and "Basanti Aaj Kutton Ke Saamne Na Naach" ("Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari", 2020).[21][22][23][24]
Yeh Dosti Hum Nahin Todenge (Happy) - The whistling in this song was by R.D. Burman's long-time assistant Manohari Singh.
Yeh Dosti Hum Nahin Todenge (Happy) - A scene in the film "Jhoom Barabar Jhoom" (2007), starring Bobby Deol and Abhishek Bachchan, paid tribute to this iconic song in which their fathers Dharmendra and Amitabh Bachchan rode a scooter together. However, unlike their fathers in this film, Bobby was the rider, and Abhishek was in the sidecar in "Jhoom Barabar Jhoom" (2007).[25]
Mehbooba Mehbooba - R.D. Burman had his assistants blow air into half-filled beer bottles to create the sound heard in the beginning of this song.
Mehbooba Mehbooba - R.D. Burman's tune for this song was adapted from Demis Roussos' "Say You Love Me" (1974). This tune was suggested to him by the film's director Ramesh Sippy.[26]
Mehbooba Mehbooba - The song was supposed to be sung by Kishore Kumar. R.D. Burman, who had done the scratch recording for the song, decided to step in when Kishore Kumar got delayed for the final recording.[27]
Mehbooba Mehbooba - Himesh Reshammiya recreated this song for the film "Aap Kaa Surroor" (2007).[28]
Haan Jab Tak Hai Jaan - The tune of this song's mukhda was taken from the whistling solo in the song "Jom'eh" (1971) by the Iranian singer Googoosh.[29]
Haan Jab Tak Hai Jaan - The title of this song may have inspired the title of the last film directed by Yash Chopra before he passed away in October 2012.[30]
Ke Chaand Sa Koi Chehra Na Pehlu Mein Ho - Initially planned as a qawwali, this song was later composed as a Chaar Bhaand - a folk music form in keeping with the Bhopali character who was supposed to sing the song. The vocals in the song were panned hard left and right to give the effect of a listener sitting in between the exchange. The song was recorded but never shot since the film was already longer than three hours.
--Select Song-- Yeh Dosti Hum Nahin Todenge (Happy) Koi Haseena Jab Rooth Jaati Hai Toh Holi Ke Din Yeh Dosti Hum Nahin Todenge (Sad) Title Music Mehbooba Mehbooba Haan Jab Tak Hai Jaan Ke Chaand Sa Koi Chehra Na Pehlu Mein Ho
^ Khote Sikkay (1973)
^ Kachche Heere (1980)
^ Mera Gaon Mera Desh (1971)
^ Majboor (1974)
^ Sholay, the Beginning
^ Sholay, through the eyes of Salim Khan
^ Chupke Chupke (1975)
^ Mili (1975)
^ Sholay (1975)
^ Dharmatma (1975)
^ Hindustan Ki Kasam (1972)
^ Deewaar (1975)
^ How Bollywood rebelled against the Emergency
^ Soorma Bhopali (1988)
^ Seeta Aur Geeta (1972)
^ Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag (2007)
^ Chacha Bhatija (1977)
^ Gabbar Is Back (2015)
^ Half Ticket (1962)
^ In Kutton Ke Saamne Naach Basanti Naach (Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho, 2015)
^ Naach Basanti Naach (Jia Aur Jia, 2017)
^ Basanti No Dance In Front Of These Dogs (Super 30, 2019)
^ Basanti Aaj Kutton Ke Saamne Na Naach (Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari, 2020)
^ Jhoom Barabar Jhoom (2007)
^ Say You Love Me - Demis Roussos
^ Indian Memory Project - R.D. Burman
^ Mehbooba (A Tribute To Panchamda) (Aap Kaa Surroor, 2007)
^ Jom'eh - Googoosh
^ Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012)


LOS ANGELES, June 11 (Reuters) - U.S. sales of video games dived 23 percent to $863 million in May, research group NPD said on Thursday, dipping below the $1 billion threshold for the first time since August 2007 as consumer spending weakened and hardware makers waged a price war.
In the year to May, video games sales — considered by NPD to include hardware, software, and accessories — slipped 7 percent from a year earlier to $6.1 billion.
Among makers of gaming hardware, Nintendo 7974.OS again led the pack with 633,500 of its "DS" portable gaming devices and 289,500 of its Wii platforms sold, dwarfing the 175,000 Microsoft (MSFT.O) Xbox units that moved in May.
The May figure also suffered from comparisons with a strong year-ago month, with smash-hit "Grand Theft Auto" and "Mario Kart" having just debuted in April.
Analysts think the video games sector will remain relatively resilient in an economic downturn, as cash-strapped consumers look for cheaper sources of entertainment at home.
Now, the $30 billion industry — led by the likes of Electronic Arts ERTS.O, Activision and THQ Inc THQI.O — hopes to focus in the rest of the year on developing mainly blockbuster titles while finding ways to slash costs.
Executives see glimmers of hope in new audiences — casual gamers, more women and teens.
"At E3, it was notable how many games were targeted to the tween-girl demographic, and this June will see a number of games introduced for girls as well," Frazier said.
The top-selling game in May was "UFC 2009 Undisputed" by THQ on the Xbox, followed closely by the "Wii Fit" by Nintendo.


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Aaron Johnson served as Moon�s only offense for much of Tuesday�s Section 4-AAA game, and that didn�t change in the fourth quarter against Montour.
Johnson had Moon�s only two points in the fourth � at the foul line � as Montour rallied from five points down to win 39-36. The loss drops Moon (9-7, 3-4) from a tie for third in the section to fifth place behind Montour (8-6, 4-4) and West Allegheny (7-6, 3-3).
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Sewickley Academy 58, Western Beaver 42 Reed Mango had 14 points and 11 rebounds to help the Panthers even their Section 1-A record at 3-3. Tiffany Black led Western Beaver (1-5) with 15 points.


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Лу́зино — станция (населённый пункт) в Омском районе Омской области России. Входит в состав Лузинского сельского поселения.

Население  чел. () .

География
Лузино находится в лесостепной полосе Ишимской равнины, относящейся к Западно-Сибирской равнине, фактически слившись с крупным селом Лузино.

История
Осенью 1919 года, когда началась операция по освобождению Омска от белогвардейцев, село и разъезд, в силу своего расположения на железной дороге, оказались в полосе боевых действий и движения 27-й стрелковой дивизии Красной Армии.

В 1928 г. разъезд Лузино состоял из 24 хозяйств, основное население — русские. В составе Ребровского сельсовета Любинского района Омского округа Сибирского края.

В соответствии с Законом Омской области от 30 июля 2004 года № 548-ОЗ «О границах и статусе муниципальных образований Омской области» населённый пункт вошёл в состав образованного муниципального образования «Лузинское сельское поселение».

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По данным Всероссийской переписи населения 2010 года в гендерной структуре населения из 52 человек мужчин — 27, женщин — 25	(51,9 и 48,1 % соответственно)
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В 1928 г. основное население — русские.

Согласно результатам переписи 2002 года, в национальной структуре населения русские составляли 86 % от общей численности населения в 51 чел..

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Путевое хозяйство, железнодорожная станция Лузино.

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Автомобильный и железнодорожный транспорт.

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Olympic participation still high on NHL players' wish list
Joshua Clipperton	The Canadian Press Published Wednesday, December 11, 2019 3:10PM EST
Team Canada's Jonathan Toews celebrates his second goal of the game against Team Europe with teammates on the bench during second period World Cup of Hockey action in Toronto on Wednesday, September 21, 2016. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn)
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announced this week there won't be a World Cup of Hockey in February 2021.
Speaking at the league's board of governors meeting in Pebble Beach, Calif., Bettman said there isn't enough time to plan the event.
"We're all in agreement that bringing back the World Cup on a regular basis would be a good thing," Bettman told reporters. "That's something we're having very serious, specific discussions about with the (NHL) Players' Association on."
But when the topic quickly turned to the Olympics -- an international event the NHL has next to no control over at this point compared to a league-run World Cup -- the commissioner was singing a different tune.
"The Olympics is a different issue," Bettman added. "The league's view is it's disruptive to a season. We understand the importance to the players, but there are a whole host of things that are unresolved, including who would pay for participation and what rights we get to promote ourselves.
"That's something that isn't on the same track, in my view, as the World Cup."
The NHL went to the Olympics five times between 1998 to 2014, but skipped the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and could very well do the same for the 2022 edition in Beijing.
The league ran its most recent World Cup in the fall of 2016 and was hoping to hold another tournament in place of the 2021 all-star game. But with those plans are now shelved, the next opportunity for a best-on-best showcase will be sometime during the 2021-22 campaign.
A number of high-profile NHLers were asked before the season where international play ranks for them in terms of importance.
In short, the consensus was World Cups are nice, but the Olympics are better.
"It's really important for our game to be represented at the Olympics," said Chicago Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews, who won gold with Canada in both 2010 and 2014. "If you're half-reasonable, everyone can admit the same thing. It's good for our game. The Olympics is a huge, huge stage that the whole world is watching. You saw what it did for our game when the U.S. and Canada met in the final in North America in 2010.
"(I'm) not saying it's always going to work out perfectly like that, but it's always a win for our game."
Detroit Red Wings centre Dylan Larkin said it would be a "dream come true" to play for the U.S. at a Games.
"I take great pride in representing my country," he said. "Watching the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, that game against Canada gives me chills just talking about it.
"I would do anything to be on that team. It grows the game and a key part of the Olympics are ice hockey when NHL players are part of it. It would be great to continue that trend."
St. Louis Blues sniper Vladimir Tarasenko would have to play under a neutral flag if the NHL goes to the 2022 Games after Russia's recent four-year ban by the World Anti-Doping Agency, but he said back in the fall there's nothing like the Olympics.
"It's really, really important," Tarasenko said. "I think all Russian players want to go there, and I bet you other players from other teams want to go. That's why we're playing, to be one of the best.
"I hope they will make a good decision. (The Olympics are) once in four years. They're talking about the World Cup, (but) they should talk about Olympics more."
The World Cup in 2016 included a Team Europe made up of players from smaller hockey nations and Team North America, which was peppered with the continent's top talent aged 23 and under.
Los Angeles Kings captain Anze Kopitar suited up for Team Europe, which made the final against Canada, but said his experience at the 2014 Games playing for Slovenia was a different level.
"Olympics are Olympics. I'd like to be a part of it again," he said. "If you want to grow the game, being part of the Olympics is a big thing."
FLAMES FIND THEIR GROOVE
After a rough stretch on and off the ice -- one that included the resignation of head coach Bill Peters amid allegations of past racism and abuse of former players -- the Calgary Flames look like a new team. Calgary was on a 1-5-2 stretch when news broke of the initial allegations against Peters. Associate coach Geoff Ward led the team to a victory in its next game, and since being named the club's interim bench boss, the Flames have ripped off six straight wins to climb into third in the Pacific Division ahead of Thursday's visit from the Toronto Maple Leafs.
WOEFUL RED WINGS
The Detroit Red Wings are in the midst of what is turning into an historically bad season. Currently sitting with a paltry 17 points through 32 games, the team has lost 12 in a row, with the last 10 defeats coming in regulation. Detroit is on pace to register just 44 points, which would eclipse the 48 accumulated by the Colorado Avalanche in 2016-17 and set a new low bar for the salary cap era.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 11, 2019.
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2019 Lefty Award Winners
Left Coast Crime announced the winners of the Lefty Awards on Saturday 30 March 2019 in Vancouver, B.C. during Left Coast Crime.
Lefty for Best Humorous Mystery Novel
Scot Free by Catriona McPherson, (Midnight Ink)
Lefty for Best Historical Mystery Novel (Bruce Alexander Memorial) for books covering events before 1960.
The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey (Soho Crime)
Lefty for Best Debut Mystery Novel
A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murderby Dianne Freeman (Kensington Books)
Lefty for Best Mystery Novel (not in other categories).
November Road by Lou Berney (William Morrow)
Labels: Canada, Catriona McPherson, Crime books, Crime Fiction, Dianne Freeman, Left Coast Crime, Lou Berney, Sujata Massey
Mind Games by Leona Deakin. Four strangers are missing. Left at their last-known locations are birthday cards that read: Your gift is the game. Dare to play. The police aren't worried - it's just a game. But the families are frantic, and psychologist and private detective Dr Augusta Bloom is persuaded to investigate. As she delves into the lives of the missing people, she finds something that binds them all. And that something makes them very dangerous indeed. As more disappearances are reported and new birthday cards uncovered, Dr Bloom races to unravel the mystery and find the puppeteer. But is she playing into their hands?
It can be hard keeping secrets in a tight-knit neighbourhood. In a tranquil, leafy suburb of ordinary streets - one where everyone is polite and friendly - an anonymous note has been left at some of the houses. `I'm so sorry. My son has been getting into people's houses. He's broken into yours.' Who is this boy, and what might he have uncovered? As whispers start to circulate, suspicion mounts. And when a missing local woman is found murdered, the tension reaches breaking point. Who killed her? Who knows more than they're telling? And how far will all these very nice people go to protect their secrets? Maybe you don't know your neighbour as well as you thought you did. Someone we Know is by Shari Lapena.
Stop at Nothing is by Tammy Cohen. A mother's job is to keep her children safe. Tess has always tried to be a good mother. Of course, there are things she wishes she'd done differently, but doesn't everyone feel that way? Then Emma, her youngest, is attacked on her way home from a party, plunging them into a living nightmare, which only gets worse when the man responsible is set free But what if she fails? So when Tess sees the attacker in the street near their home, she is forced to take matters into her own hands. But blinded by her need to protect her daughter at any cost, might she end up putting her family in even greater danger? There's nothing she wouldn't do to make it right.
Innocent? When Carrie was accused of brutally murdering her husband's lover, she denied it. She denied it when they arrested her, when they put her in front of a jury, and when they sent her to prison. Now she's three years into a fifteen-year sentence, away from the daughter she loves and the life she had built. And she is still denying that she is to blame. Guilty? Tess Gilroy has devoted her life to righting wrongs. Through her job for Innocence UK, a charity which takes on alleged miscarriages of justice, she works tirelessly to uncover the truth. But when she is asked to take Carrie's case, Tess realises that if she is to help this woman, she must risk uncovering the secrets she has struggled a lifetime to hide . . . We've all done things we're not proud of. Clear my Name is by Paula Daly.
The Murder Map is by Danny Miller. When art dealer Ivan Fielding is found dead of a heart attack in his home, surrounded by the treasures he's collected all his life, it doesn't initially seem like a case for Detective Inspector Frost and the Denton police force. But then signs of a burglary are discovered, and Frost senses there's more to the story than meets the eye - even though the only thing taken was a worthless amateur painting. Then a young girl is abducted outside the school, an infamous gangster fresh from prison arrives in the area, and dead bodies start turning up in the woods. As Frost and his team dig deeper, everything seems to lead back to Ivan Fielding's murky lifetime of misdeeds. Will they find the answers they need before the dead man's past puts them all at risk?
The Night you Left is by Emma Curtis. It only takes a moment to unravel a perfect life. When Grace's fiancé vanishes without a trace the night after proposing, her life is turned upside down. But has Nick walked out on her, or is he in danger? As Grace desperately searches for answers, it soon becomes clear that Nick wasn't the uncomplicated man she thought she knew. And when she uncovers a hidden tragedy from his childhood, she realises an awful truth: that you can run from your past - but your secrets will always catch up with you.
The Year of the Locust is by Terry Hayes - Luke Truman is a junior officer on board the USS Leviathan, the most advanced and powerful warship ever built. It is an eight-hundred-foot-long submarine which, among its vast array of weaponry and secret systems, boasts a top secret "cloaking technology." Bending light around objects to render them invisible, it is the hottest military research innovation not just in the US, but throughout the world. Now the time has come for the first large-scale trial of its effectiveness. But neither Luke nor the United States government realize the astonishing forces this experiment will unleash. What Luke discovers on board the Leviathan is that the future of our world is at a deadly tipping point and that only he will be able to stop the cascade of events which are leading them all inexorably towards doom.
Black Sun is by Owen Matthews. It is the dawn of the 1960s. Stalin has been dead for eight years but his ghost casts a long shadow. In a place called Arzamas-16 - one of the most secret locations in the USSR, a place that doesn't appear on any map - a community of brilliant scientists, technicians and engineers have been tasked with creating the most powerful nuclear bomb the world has ever seen - a device three thousand times more powerful than Hiroshima. But one scientist has died an excruciating, grotesque death by ingesting a massive dose of irradiated Thalium. The Arzamas authorities believe it's suicide, want the body disposed of and the case closed, but someone in Moscow is concerned about what's going on in this strange, isolated and fiercely independent community. And so Major Alexander Vasin, a mostly good KGB officer in the department of 'Special Investigations', is sent across the Soviet Union in order to discover the truth. What he finds in Arzamas is a group of eccentrics, patriots and dissidents who - because their work is considered of such vital importance - have, unlike their fellow Soviet citizens, the freedom to think and act, live and love as they wish. Some of them, it seems, even believe they can get away with murder . . .
Jack Reacher is a former military cop, trained to notice things. He's on a Greyhound bus, watching an elderly man sleeping in his seat, with a fat envelope of cash hanging out of his pocket. Another passenger is watching too ... obviously hoping to get rich quick. When the mugger finally makes his move, Reacher rides to the rescue. The old man is grateful, yet he turns down Reacher's offer to help him home. He's vulnerable, scared, and clearly in big, big trouble. Elsewhere in the city, two ruthless rival criminal gangs, one Albanian, the other Ukrainian, are competing for control. Do they have a life-and-death hold on the old guy? Will Reacher sit back and let bad things happen? Or can he twist the situation to everyone's benefit? 'This is a random universe,' he says. 'Once in a blue moon things turn out just right. The odds are better with Reacher involved. That's for damn sure. Blue Moon is by Lee Child.
Labels: Crime books, Crime Fiction, Danny Miller, Emma Curtis, Lee Child, Leona Deakin, Owen Matthews, Paula Daly, Series., Shari Lapena, Tammy Cohen, Terry Hayes, Transworld Publishers
Murder Will Out!
On Saturday 8th June, fifteen hand-picked crime writers will descend upon Cambridge for a murderously good day of panel discussions, book signings - and answering those author questions you've been just dying to ask.
With talks on London based thrillers, dark psychology and debut authors to name a few come and join us for a day of all things crime fiction.
Booking information can be found here.
Labels: Anthony Quinn, Crime books, Crime Fiction, Elly Griffiths, Gytha Lodge, Heffers Bookstore, Laura Shepherd-Robinson, LC Tyler, Lucy Foley, Mick Finlay, Mick Herron, Rory Clements, Simon Brett, William Shaw
The Comedy Club Mystery - Cover Reveal
Murder is no laughing matter…
When theatrical agent Daniel Bernstein sues the Evening Chronicle for libel, crime reporter Colin Crampton is called in to sort out the problem.
But trouble escalates when Bernstein turns up murdered. Colin discovers that any of five comedians competing for the chance to appear on a top TV show could be behind the killing.
As Colin and his feisty girlfriend Shirley Goldsmith investigate, they encounter a cast of colourful characters – identical twin gangsters, an Irishman who lives underground, and a failed magician's assistant.
And it's not long before their own lives are in peril. Join Colin and Shirley for a rollercoaster of an adventure in Swinging Sixties England – where the laughs are never far from the action.
Labels: Crime books, Crime Fiction, Journalist, Peter Bartram, Series
Maria Butina: How to be a Woman and a Spy
Male and female spies are presented very differently. Male spies are represented as active investigators, professionals collating information in files, and handing coded secrets to each other. Male spies are intelligence agents.
Female spies are represented as domestic. They talk to people, gathering gossip and innuendo, and focus on making themselves attractive to men. Female spies are informers, maybe unaware of the importance of what information they pass on.
While writing my novel, The Wolves of Leninsky Prospekt, I was very conscious of the ways these gender lines are drawn within espionage. Set in 1973, it is the story of a young British embassy wife, Martha, who moves to Moscow with her new husband, Kit. Struggling to make sense of this restricted world, Martha is relieved to meet Eva, an ex-British citizen who has renounced her nationality to live in Soviet Russia. While Kit must disguise his homosexuality to be able to work in the masculine world of intelligence, Martha accesses a more marginal world - the world of women.
The old distinction between male spies as active and female spies as passive has long been challenged in literature, yet it still runs through the way real world spies are represented, just as strongly as when it was applied to Mata Hari or Kim Philby. Mata Hari is presented as making use of her body and men's weaknesses to collect information, while Philby actively sought out intelligence which would undermine the British State to benefit the USSR. But is this an accurate explanation of a gender difference in spying, or it is lazy gender stereotyping? And could it explain the headline of an article about Butina in the New Republic (11/2/19), 'The Spy Who Wasn't'?
Maria Butina, in the vast majority of images found online (when not alone), is presented in the company of a man or men: Paul Erickson, Alexandr Torshin, Governor Bobby Jindal, Governor Scott Walker and former Senator Rick Santorum. There are photos of her with David Keene, President of the NRA 2011-13, Jim Porter, President 2013-15, and but not Sandra Froman who was the second female President from 2005-7. Despite Froman's invitation to Butina to attend the NRA Women's Leadership Luncheon in 2014, there is no visual evidence of them together. The Women's Leadership Forum has the tagline 'Armed & Fabulous', which would seem to suit many of the photos taken of Butina posing with guns, but where are the photos of her with women?
The overwhelming association of Butina with men in positions of power certainly suggests the popular Mata Hari image of female spies, the objectified beauty who exchanges favours for information. This was also seen in the case of the 'sleeper agent', Anna Chapman where, again, 'sleeper' suggests cosy, passive domesticity. Lacking the bureaucratic authority of the official office, the file and the safe, the actions of these women are seen as hidden and devious. Yet it's so close to how women are often presented that, for some, it raises the question of femininity - could a woman this beautiful really understand the consequences of her actions? Isn't this all a terrible error?
Representing female spies as sexually motivated, gossip gathering, and directed by men
undermines the active role of women, and not just in the world of spying. Eroding the agency of women, and disregarding any guilty pleas in the case of Butina, appears to make some men more comfortable. Yet, as my character, Martha, shows, sometimes it's women who have to make the big decisions when it comes to deciding who is a spy.
Sarah Armstrong is the author of The Wolves of Leninsky Prospekt (Sandstone Press) – out now.
Escaping failure as an undergraduate and a daughter, not to mention bleak 1970s England, Martha marries Kit - who is gay. Having a wife could keep him safe in Moscow in his diplomatic post. As Martha tries to understand her new life and makes the wrong friends, she walks straight into an underground world of counter-espionage. Out of her depth, Martha no longer know who can be trusted.
Labels: Crime books, Crime Fiction, Espionage, Kim Philby, Maria Butina, Mata Hari, Russia, sandstone press, Sarah Armstrong, Spy
From the Personal to the Universal: Weaving Personal Stories into Fiction by Jacqueline Winspear
It was 1973, and I was sitting in the front passenger seat of the car, with my fourteen-year-old younger brother in the back, reading a comic. Dad pulled over opposite the hardware store, and he was in a hurry. "Quick son, nip in there and pick up the paint I've ordered." My brother rolled his eyes as he threw down the comic and stepped out of the car. My father watched him saunter across the road and shook his head. "When I was that age, I living away from home and fending for myself," he said. I didn't think any more of it, assuming that, like my mother, he had been evacuated from London during the war. However, it was decades later, in the hospice where he would spend his final days, that we revisited stories about his childhood, about family and the things he loved, that he began telling me about the years when he lived away from home – and it wasn't the story I was expecting. Like most working class kids in those days, my father left school at fourteen to go to work – in his case for a painting and decorating business, taking up an apprenticeship secured for him by his father. It was 1940, and his employer had landed a government contract to paint every RAF building in the country with a special fire retardant – at the time, new aerodromes were being built in a hurry, so there was a lot of work. Dad joined a crew moving from one region to the next, living in lodgings, and he was doing the sort of work that an apprentice was landed with. He was blending the emulsion as well as painting, and testing each wall as it was finished fell to him.
"I had to line up blowtorches right next to a wall," he said. "And after three hours I'd come back, and do you know – there wasn't a mark to be seen."
"Really?" I asked. "What was that stuff called?"
"Oh it never had a name, just a number."
This was in the days when men did not wear protective clothing or masks, so an adolescent boy, still growing, was exposed to an unnamed toxic emulsion that had doubtless not been subject to adequate testing because it was wartime and they needed those buildings to resist fire. I knew in that moment that I had a story, yet it wasn't until 2017 that I began work on To Die But Once, about a young apprentice painter, a member of a crew applying toxic emulsion to airfield buildings in the spring of 1940. My character, young Joe Coombes, is not my father – but every aspect of his work is based upon the story my father shared with me that day, just a week before he died. And because my father loved one of his "billets" more than any other – on a farm in Hampshire – so Joe loves the county. Of course, other threads had to be woven into that central story, but I drew upon personal experience to give color and texture to the characters. Joe's sister is a telephonist on the government exchange – an easy choice for me, as my mother worked on the government exchange, and she'd told me a lot about what it was like to be a telephonist working on secure lines in the 1940's. Over the years I've cherry-picked nuggets of my own and family experiences to provide those often telling details – some very small – that give color and texture to a story; tools to draw in the reader so that they are transported, in the moment, to a different time and place. And sometimes, it's those seemingly miniscule details that make all the difference in the crafting of a narrative.
My mother always said I was a nosy child – the kid who asked the embarrassing questions. I once revealed the pregnancy of my mother's friend's teenage daughter, when it transpired I was the only one who'd noticed her swollen belly and asked, in innocence, when she was having her baby! I might use that vignette in a story one day. Yet I don't think I was nosy, as much as curious – and I believe that we writers were probably all curious kids who kept that curiosity going into adulthood. We noticed details – things we come back to, slipping into our writing something observed in human behavior so it plays a key role in touching upon universal truths.
It was during one of my visits to Whitchurch in Hampshire, where I have family, that I garnered two golden nuggets – precious pieces of information I would come back to. My cousin happened to mention that paper money was printed locally, and that the Bank of England had moved some of its operations to the area during the war. I tucked that one away, did more research, and used it in To Die But Once. Then my aunt told me a wartime story of having to make her way home through a daytime bombing raid, when the office where she worked sustained damage. She was walking along when she saw a woman clambering over a pile of searing hot rubble, pulling at bricks and burning her hands. "My girls! My girls!" she screamed, while the ARP men tried to tear her away. My aunt began to run, stumbling, crying because people were dying in the street, when she saw my mother running toward her in the distance. The American Agent opens with a war correspondent broadcasting her report of a nighttime bombing – where she has witnessed a woman tearing at burning rubble searching for her daughters, who have perished in the attack.
There is no secret to using personal experiences in fiction. As a writer, you're already an observer of people every day. But the key is in using those golden nuggets with care, weaving them into the narrative so they fit – and writing from the heart.
The American Agent (number 15 in the bestselling Maisie Dobbs series) by Jacqueline Winspear is out now and published by Allison & Busby.
Labels: Allison & Busby, Crime books, Crime Fiction, Jacqueline Winspear, Maise Dobbs, War
Books to Look Forward to from Penguin Random House incl Michael Joseph
Catching Teller Crow is by Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina. Nothing's been the same for Beth Teller since she die. Her dad, a detective, is the only one who can see and hear her, and he's drowning in grief. Only a suspected murder, and a mystery to solve, might save them both. And they have a potential witness: Isobel Catching. Aboriginal by birth, like Beth, she seems lost and isolated in the world. But as the two get closer, Isobel's strange tale of glass-eyed monsters and stolen colours will intertwine with Beth's investigation - and reveal something dark and terrible at the heart of this Australian town . . .
PARIS 2017. THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE HAS RULED EUROPE FOR OVER 300 YEARS. As a respected special investigator for the state police, Kamal Agha is committed to keeping the empire safe from threats inside and out. But these are dangerous times in the empire. Under the sultan's autocratic regime, no one is beyond suspicion. When a naked man covered in tattoos appears on the banks of the Seine and murders a passer-by, Kamal is tasked with tracking him down. But asking too many questions can be a highly risky endeavor-especially when the mysterious man's trail leads Kamal to a secret buried deep in the empire's past, a secret that goes to the very core of the empire's success. A secret the sultan and his security services will do anything to silence. Kamal is forced to question his own loyalty when his own family attracts unwelcome attention from the security services. Soon, he has no choice but to flee. But on the run from the all-seeing organisation with which he made his reputation, can he save himself and his family? And, if he does, what might that mean for the existence of the Empire itself? Its past, its present and its future .... The Ottoman Secret is by Raymond Khoury.
The Copy Cat is by Jake Woodhouse. Jaap Rykel is on the brink, his dark past driving him to breaking point - and ending his police career. Visiting the station one last time, he stumbles across an investigation into a particularly violent murder. A murder where the details exactly match a case he solved years earlier. But that killer was caught - and is still in prison. Is there a copycat killer on the loose, playing games with Rykel's fragile mind? Or did he get it wrong, and send an innocent man to prison? This might be his last chance to make things right - or it could be the blow that finally takes him over the edge . . .
On a remote island off the coast of Argentina, a team of elite counter-terror commandos prepare to assault a newly-discovered Hezbollah hideout. What they don't expect is to be brutally ambushed themselves - slaughtered with no survivors. What they don't realise is that, on screens around the world, the enemies of the West are watching. Back in Washington DC, the growing obstruction in the Senate has reached crippling levels, as a crucial treaty to strength NATO in Eastern Europe is inexplicably blocked. Suspecting that key politicians may have been compromised - but aware of the explosive consequences of making such accusations in public - the President dispatches Jack Ryan Jr to Poland to investigate. In Warsaw, Jack partners with beautiful and brilliant Polish agent Liliana Zaleski, and it's not long before they find evidence of a tangled web of corruption. But what Jack and Liliana don't realise is that this conspiracy stretches further than they could ever have imagined, and the danger has already crept terrifyingly close to home… Tom Clancy's Enemy Contact is by Mike Maden.
Every Monday, 49-year-old Ellie looks after her grandson Josh. She loves him more than anyone else in the world. The only thing that can mar her happiness is her husband's affair. But he swears it's over now, and Ellie has decided to be thankful for what she's got. Then one day, while she's looking after Josh, her husband gets a call from that woman. And just for a moment, Ellie takes her eyes off her grandson. What happens next will change her life forever. Because Ellie is hiding something in her past. And what looks like an accident could start to look like murder . . . I looked Away is by Jane Corry.
A Fatal Game is by Nicholas Searle. A terrorist attack has just hit a busy railway station. Jake Winter was the British intelligence officer in charge of stopping the attack and now his career, and his conscience, are in freefall . . . Jake's next anti-terror operation has to be a success. He has got himself a new source - a young British Asian man, Rashid, recently returned, apparently disillusioned, from battle, who he hopes is the key to foiling the next attack and to getting Jake to the leader of the network. But is Rashid really working for British intelligence, or has Jake put his faith in the wrong man once again?
It's evening, you're leaving work, and in your pigeonhole is a note: A DEATH THREAT - and it warns that time is running out. But the note is for another person. And soon you learn that they are dead. They are just the first. As more victims are found, you know that soon, very soon, a note will arrive for you - unless you do something . . Tell No Lies is by Gregg Hurwitz
Inspector Kosuke Iwata returns to Japan after ten years to confront the ghosts of his past, and catch a dangerous killer. Tokyo. 2020, As Japan prepares to host the Olympic Games an English exchange student is found bludgeoned to death in a love hotel. She lies in an empty room with only a dead spider for morbid company. Could this be a calling card from her killer? The world's eyes are on Tokyo's Homicide department who are so desperate that the Commissioner picks up the phone and calls his old protege, Kosuke Iwata. A brilliant detective whose haunted personal life has forced him into exile thousands of miles away. Iwata wants no part in an investigation that means stepping back into a past he had no intention of revisiting. Until he is is given an offer he can't refuse. Black Suit City is by Nicolás Obregón
It's been fifteen years since Simon Meier walked out of his house, never to be seen again. And just one day since politician Bernard Clausen was found dead at his cabin on the Norwegian coast. When Chief Inspector William Wisting is asked to investigate he soon discovers he may have found the key to solving Meier's disappearance. But doing so means he must work with an old adversary to piece together what really happened all those years ago. It's a puzzle that leads them into a dark underworld on the trail of Clausen's interests and vices . A shady place from which may never emerge - especially when he finds it leads closer to home than he ever could have imagined. The Cabin is by Jørn Lier Horst.
Ice Cold Heart is by P J Tracey. On a bitterly cold winter night, Kelly Ramage leaves her suburban home, telling her husband she's going to meet a friend. She never comes back. When her body is discovered, murdered in what seems to be a sex game gone horribly wrong, Detectives Gino and Magozzi take the case, expecting to find a flirtatious trail leading straight to the killer. However, Kelly's sinister lover has done a disturbingly good job of hiding his identity. This isn't his first victim - and that she won't be the last.
One missing. One a murderer. One trying to find the truth.Flora has her whole life ahead of her - until the summer night she vanishes. Her sister Heather was a good girl - until the spring morning she kills two people. Jess Fox was once like a sister to them both. But called home to investigate Heather's crime, she begins to wonder if she really knew either sister at all . . . And Then She Vanishes is by Claire Douglas.
Set in London in 2018, Agent Running in the Field follows a twenty-six year old solitary figure who, in a desperate attempt to resist the political turbulence swirling around him, makes connections that will take him down a very dangerous path. Agent Running in the Field is by John le Carré.
All the Rageis by Cara Hunter. A teenage girl is found wandering the outskirts of Oxford, dazed and distressed. The story she tells is terrifying. Grabbed off the street, a plastic bag pulled over her face, then driven to an isolated location where she was subjected to what sounds like an assault. Yet she refuses to press charges. DI Fawley investigates, but there's little he can do without the girl's co-operation. Is she hiding something, and if so, what? And why does Fawley keep getting the feeling he's seen a case like this before?
The Dying Room is by Nicci French. Neve Connolly looks down at a murdered man. She doesn't call the police. You know, it's funny,' Detective Inspector Hitching said. `Whoever I see, they keep saying, talk to Neve Connolly, she'll know. She's the one people talk to, she's the one people confide in.' A trusted colleague and friend. A mother. A wife. Neve Connolly is all these things. She has also made mistakes; some small, some unconsciously done, some large, some deliberate. She is only human, after all. But now one mistake is spiralling out of control and Neve is bringing those around her into immense danger. She can't tell the truth. So how far is she prepared to go to protect those she loves? And who does she really know? And who can she trust? A liar. A cheat. A threat. Neve Connolly is all these things. Could she be a murderer?
In an off-limits computer lab near Chicago, a mole infiltrates and steals a sophisticated piece of government security software. The implications are devastating - but it's only half the prize. In Indonesia, an American engineer is seduced into spilling secrets about a cutting edge Artificial Intelligence chip. The information seems harmless, but will wreak havoc the wrong hands. In the White House, discontent with the President is rising - but could it amount to treason? Tom Clancy's Code of Honour is by Marc Cameron
As usual, seventeen-year-old Alice Teale walked out of school at the end of a bright spring day. She's not been seen since. Alice was popular and well-liked, and her boyfriend, friends and family are desperate to find her. But when the police start asking questions, it becomes clear that almost everyone has something to hide. Torn between a host of suspects, Detectives Beth Winter and Lucas Black don't know which way to turn. But then they receive a disturbing package: pages from Alice's precious diary. Who could have sent them? And what have they done with Alice? Alice Teale is Missing is by Howard Linskey
Come a Little Closer is by Karen Perry. Leah is in love. It should be the happiest summer of her life, but she can't help feeling lonely with Jake's attention divided between her, his ex-wife and his young son. As insomnia sets in, the walls of their new basement flat feel as if they're closing in around her. Until she meets her upstairs neighbour, Anton, who has recently moved back in after a long absence from the street. He's a sympathetic ear when Jake can't be, and even though others on the street seem strangely hostile towards him, Leah soon comes to rely on Anton and their secret conversations in the night. Leah has no idea that nineteen years before, Anton was convicted of killing his wife. A wife who looked a little bit like Leah. He has always said he didn't do it. Is Leah his redemption? Or is she befriending a killer intent on luring her closer and closer?
Labels: Cara Hunter, Crime books, Crime Fiction, Gregg Hurwitz, Howard Linskey, John Le Carré, Jørn Lier Horst, Michael Joseph Publishers, Nicholas Searle, Nicolás Obregón, P J Tracy, Penguin Random House
Bodies from the Library - 2019 Programme
9:30 Doors open: Registration
9:55 Welcome
10.00 Is The Golden Age Humdrum? - Jake Kerridge, Moira Redmond and Richard Reynolds
10.30 The Puppet Master: John Dickson Carr (1906-1977) - Tony Medawar
11.00 City and Countryside in ECR Lorac's crime novels - Sarah Ward
11.30 COFFEE
11.50 Two (Undeservedly) Forgotten Crime Club Authors - John Curran
12.20 The Max Carrados Tales of Ernest Bramah - Dolores Gordon-Smith
1.50 Radio Play
2.20 Murder in Mind: The Crime Novels of Helen McCloy - Christine Poulson
2.50 Agatha Christie: Playwright Julius Green and John Curran
3.20 Solving Crimes Down Under: June Wright (1919-2012) - Kate Jackson
3.50 COFFEE
4.10 Cyril Hare: Master of the English Murder - Martin Edwards and Christine Poulson
4.40 The 10 Types of Impossible Crime - Jim Noy and Daniel Curtis
5.10 Ask The Experts
Labels: Bodies in the Library, British Library, Christine Poulson, Crime books, Crime Fiction, Golden Age, jake kerridge, John Curran, Martin Edwards, Richard Reynolds, Sarah Ward
Running Away with Harlan Coben
After reading Harlan Coben's latest thriller Run Away my thoughts drifted back to a pivotal point in this novelist's career – what we term his breakthrough book. I am writing about a novel that was extraordinary. It was different from what came before, and one that would launch Harlan Coben's career as one of the World's most engaging thriller writers, and one that changed the direction of his writing career, as well as being one (that I firmly believe) nudged the direction of the thriller genre. The book I allude to was of course TELL NO ONE, the first of his work that would be adapted for film, and curiously it would be Europe that acclaimed his talent.
But first a little context, and also a look at the surreal happenings in this reality, that at times makes one feel as if life contains the elements, reflections and occurrences that would not be out of place in a Harlan Coben novel.
I was first introduced to the work of Harlan Coben, thanks to one of my regular visits to the long-gone Murder Ink bookstore in Dawson Street, Dublin. It was in the late 1990s, and I recall sitting with Mike Gallaher, Murder Ink's owner and as we sipped coffee, we discussed what books we'd read. Michael asked if I had read the Myron Bolitar novels penned by Harlan Coben? As I hadn't, Michael told me about them, and about Myron Bolitar who was involved in investigating sports……and at that point I told Gallaher, sorry I'm not interested in sports, at which Gallaher told me "trust me Ali, the sports angle is just a foil. These novels by Harlan Coben are terrific, funny and exciting". Michael also knew of my fascination with the music of Bruce Springsteen, so he added "and he's from New Jersey, like Bruce Springsteen".
I trusted Michael Gallaher as I had purchased many books from him, over the years and he was rarely off target. Never one constrained by the forces of moderation, I bought all he had in the store, the first four of the Myron Bolitar novels [Deal Breaker, Drop Shot, Fade Away and Back Spin].
To be totally honest, I had low expectations as they looked way too sports-orientated for my palate, but Michael Gallaher was my friend, so I placed them into the bag with some others I purchased. I put off reading them as they appeared (as what I term) 'Spunkbubbles' with tennis rackets, golf clubs, US footballs, baseball bats emblazoned on the covers. As a result, they languished for several months in my TBR [to-be-read] pile, as each time I looked at the covers, my heart sank, because I dislike sports, and the idea of a crime fiction novel set in the world of athletics made me feel nauseous, they made me feel ill. They appeared to me, like literary Ebola.
Then on one particularly rainy day, I sifted through my masses of books and stumbled upon those four books by Harlan Coben, the ones Michael Gallaher of Murder Ink recommended, the ones that were crime and mystery thrillers set in the world of sport.
I held my nose as I cracked the spine of DEAL BREAKER expecting to abandon it after a few pages; BUT following reading the first chapter I realised I had been an idiot. I failed that test, the adage - "never judge a book by its cover".
The writing was exhilarating, I found myself laughing out aloud, and I also found myself thinking deeply for this novel provoked intense thought and introspection. Then I read the next three books, back-to-back and they were just so damned good, extraordinary writing, words that made me think. They contained a dry wit, a humour that made me laugh, as I turned the pages, but also the humour was useful, because they were in fact very, very dark books; all despite the amiable nature of Harlan's protagonist (and alter-ego), Myron Bolitar.
The sports angle, the backdrop was just that – purely a backdrop, it provided a 'frame of reference' in which a thought-provoking narrative could unfold – it was the lens.
Though his work is dark, and when later I got to meet the writer, Harlan Coben, I understood that writers with the darkest and most troubling imaginations are the nicest and most life-affirming of people.
I was hooked, and at that time of my life, Harlan Coben joined my other favourite writers, on my bookshelves; novelists such as Dennis Lehane, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, Thomas Harris, Michael Connelly, John Connolly, Martina Cole, Robert Crais, Jeffery Deaver, Philip Kerr among many, many others. What is impressive about these writers is the fact that despite selling books by the bucket-load, they could easily slack off and write 'any old biff' – but they continue to provide great and insightful novels, narratives that make the reader think deeply.
Harlan Coben is one such writer.
Harlan Coben's work acts as a prism from which we can inspect our own lives, for his work makes us think, and that is what makes a novelist I consider to be 'extraordinary'.
Just before Michael Gallaher closed down his shop Murder ink, we sat for a final coffee, and I thanked him for introducing me to the work of Harlan Coben.
We laughed at my initial reticence in cracking the spine of Deal Breaker, with all that Sports backdrop that had put me off. Michael amused me with an anecdote, which I will share –
"Do you remember when I told you about the work of Harlan Coben all those years ago? And as I knew the sports angle didn't appeal to you, so I told you that Harlan Coben was from New Jersey, the same state as Bruce Springsteen?
"Well his guitarist Nils Lofgren was in the shop yesterday. He's playing with Springsteen in Dublin tomorrow, and as he's a big reader of Crime Fiction he was in the shop yesterday - and just like you, he asked for a recommendation, so I told him about Harlan Coben. Just like you, those many years ago, Nils Lofgren had never read a Harlan Coben novel before. He was intrigued due to the link to New Jersey, so he bought a few of his books here in Dublin."
It was not long after that I noticed on Harlan Coben's old website, before it became the ultra-slick www.harlancoben.com that there was a photo of Harlan backstage with the E-Street Band, and that a friendship developed with Nils Lofgren
But coming full circle, it would not be one of the first seven Myron Bolitar series thrillers that changed everything for me. it would be his standalone novel TELL NO ONE that would become the breakout, the novel that readers outside the confines of the crime, mystery, thriller genre would pick up, and the first that made it to film, the one that the French saw merit, and later Sky TV and Netflix would follow suit.
When I read TELL NO ONE, I was very excited to meet Harlan Coben, and bought multiple copies of that hardcover (the one with that distinctive purple cover). Soon I found myself in a queue at the fondly remembered Crime-in-Store bookshop in London's Covent Garden to get those books signed. For it was that year that many of my friends would receive signed copies of TELL NO ONE as gifts. It was also in that signing queue (just after the millennium) that I would first bump into Shots Blogger Ayo Onatade. I was in awe as Ayo had copies of those very rare paperbacks of Harlan's early books Play Dead and Miracle Cure for signing.
Then over the years I would bump into Harlan at many book launches, award ceremonies as well as his appearances at Conventions such as Bouchercon, Theakstons' Crime Writing Festival – and I applauded until my hands were red, when Harlan brought back Myron Bolitar a decade ago, as well as seeing his foray into YA fiction.
So, what were my thoughts on Harlan's latest RUN AWAY?
Renowned for his twisty, serpentine plots, we often overlook just how great a novelist and narrative stylist Harlan Coben truly is. His latest, Run Away is a thriller but also a novel that makes you think deeply as the pages race, not unlike protagonist Simon Greene's journey to save his daughter, and ultimately his family.
Simon and his wife Ingrid Greene maybe suffering middle-class guilt, in failing their daughter Paige who has slipped through the cracks within their picture-perfect suburban life. The three children, Sam, Anya, and Paige have all the opportunities afforded by their parents, New York professionals in paediatric medicine, and with PPG Wealth Management in the financial sector.
But something goes wrong.
Read the full review from Shots Magazine HERE because like TELL NO ONE, Harlan's latest, decades on is extraordinary, very special.
So as Harlan launches his new thriller, as well as an upcoming visit to England as a guest of Theakston's Crime Writing Festival 2019, In Harrogate, he kindly agreed to answering a few questions for Shots Magazine.
Ali: Welcome back to Shots Magazine Harlan, so how exhausted are you after penning the breathless Run Away?
Harlan: Ha! Never! I feel more energized than ever! (This is a lie)
Ali: And again you mine the lives of normal families to create an extraordinary story, so what is it about the mysteries concealed in suburban life that interests you?
Harlan: Well, the Greene's live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan so it's very much city rather than suburban life. Family fascinates me – the ties and bonds of blood. That was a good place to start. Throw in some of the new genealogy websites, a cult, a few killers, a drug problem….
Ali: I felt Run Away to be perhaps your most personal book, in terms of the backdrop of Simon Greene's wife being a Physician and having three children? The Lanford College; am I right?
Harlan: All the books are personal, but here's something funny. When my four kids read RUN AWAY, they all started trying to guess which one of them was supposed to be Paige, Simon's most troubled daughter. (Answer: None – I'm remarkably lucky)
Ali: So, tell me, was there a spark that ignited the story behind Run Away, or was it just your work ethic of needing to get your derriere onto your chair and releasing your imagination into the dark-side?
Harlan: It's always both. I had a few things I wanted to write about – family, religion, drugs, DNA – but nothing came together until, like Simon on the opening page, I was sitting on a bench in Central Park listening to street musician mangling out a John Lennon tune. That was the spark I needed.
Ali: And I see you are back at Theakston's Harrogate Crime Festival, so tell us what is it about Europe that you consider appeals to readers of your work, as Run Away, like much of your work is heavily set in America?
Harlan: Oh, I don't know. From what I'm told, the European reader really values thrillers with heart. I hope that's what the appeal is, but whatever, I'm so grateful.
Ali: I see that you are in conversation with Ian Rankin while a guest of Theakstons' Crime Writing Festival, so what are we likely to expect?
Harlan: A very serious, weighty, mono-toned, dry discourse that will put the audience to sleep. Or maybe the opposite. I'm not sure.
Ali: The last time we met, was at Bouchercon New Orleans back in 2016 a wonderful party managed by Heather Graham and her team, so tell us about that time in Louisiana?
Harlan: It was magical. Being guest of honor at a conference I first came to as a total unknown… well, wow, that was a pretty heady. Heather Graham is the best too. She's just a great person in so many ways. I adore her.
Ali: I hear that it was during a military assignment that Heather asked you about being one of Bouchercon's GoH, so tell us about that assignment?
Harlan: I traveled with Heather and several other crime writers – F Paul Wilson, Phillip Margolin, Kathleen Antrim – on a USO Tour to entertain (more like, hang with) the troops serving in Kuwait, UK, Germany and at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington DC. It was an incredible and poignant experience.
Ali: Back to Run Away, I noticed a few subtle nods to previous work, such as Lanford College [from Six Years] being where Paige Greene's problems may have started. So, are these references just part of the writing process, or written for fans of your work, and also nerds like me to uncover?
Harlan: A little bit of both. I love what I think is commonly called Easter eggs in both books and TV. On the tv show THE FIVE, for example, savvy viewers/readers picked up that we named Pru's medical clinic after Win from my Myron books. But I also do to show that I'm often working in the same world when I write my books. For that reason, overlap ends up being natural.
Ali: And is it true that your own memories of Amherst College became fictionalised in your work and is it also true that while a student there, you met not only your wife, but an aspiring writer entitled Dan Brown? And what ever happened to that Dan Brown bloke?
Harlan: Certainly, there are similarities between Amherst College and Lanford, but that's true of many things, if not most things, I write about. Yes, I met my wife at Amherst College. And yes, I met Dan Brown there too. Dan and I remain friends, but meeting my wife was better. I think Dan would agree.
Ali Can you tell us a little of what is happening to cinematic and TV adaptations of your work?
Harlan: I just came back from Manchester where we started filming THE STRANGER, an eight-episode crime drama based off my book, starring Richard Armitage, Siobhan Finneran, Stephen Rea, Jennifer Saunders (yes, THE Jennifer Saunders – her first dramatic role), Hannah Kamen-John, Anthony Stewart Head, Paul Kaye, Shaun Dooley… it's a dream group.
Ali: Thanks Harlan for your time, we loved Run Away, and so what's next?
Harlan: Oh I never talk about the next book. It takes away some of the energy. To put it another way, I would LOVE to tell you about the next book, but the only way I get that satisfaction is to WRITE it. And thanks. I really can't wait to hear people's reaction to RUN AWAY. It's one of my personal favorites – but who cares what I think??
Shots Magazine would like to thank Charlotte Bush of PenguinRandomHouse for her help in organising this interview
Click HERE for video and an insightful interview feature between Harlan Coben and Michael Connelly recorded at Bouchercon 2016, New Orleans
If you've not read Harlan Coben, then RUN AWAY is a great place to start, more information from www.harlancoben.com
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Gay? Girl? Damascus? Plot thickens around Syrian blogger
By Dimi Reider June 9, 2011 | Edit
On Monday, this blog was one of the first to spread the world of the abduction of Syrian blogger Amina Abdallah Arraf, author of A Gay Girl in Damascus. A post on AGGID, purportedly written by Arraf's cousin Rania Ismail, reported that two men bundled Amina into a car with a pro-regime sticker. A few hours later, a new post appeared, reporting there was no progress in the search for Amina. Then the blog went silent.
Come Thursday, however, very little remains of the stark and gripping tale that spread around the globe only a few days earlier. Try hard as they might, no journalist, diplomat or activist turned up anyone who met Amina in person. Despite her alleged double US-Syrian citizenship, no family members have made contact with State Department to plead for her case, even after the American consulate in Damascus took the unusual step of commenting on her blog and requesting family members to come forward. Even the woman described by many outlets as Amina's girlfriend admitted she never met her in real life, and a day later the activist group with whom Amina was supposed to be meeting when she was abducted said it never met her nor knew anybody who did. The final blow was delivered by Londoner Jelena Lecic, who announced, through a publicist, that all of the photos of Amina released to date were her own.
Yesterday it was still tempting to look for holes and cracks in the Lecic story: No new photos were released by the publicist who initially spoke to the media, Kim Grahame of Just News International; the Just News International agency had only the most rudimentary of websites, a rather modest conduct for a PR company and in dissonance with its boastful motto of "servicing the world 24/7"; neither Grahame nor JNI had any web presence whatsoever outside the Amina affair; the agency's owner and Grahame's partner (according to Facebook), Julius Just, had recently befriended Lecic on the social networking website; and so on and so forth. All this gave ground to at least a vague suspicion the whole thing might be a black-op carried out by hired guns on behest of the Syrian regime, a kind of an extrovert take on the harrowing moment in Orwell's 1984 when the torturer tells the dissident, "you do not exist". But last night, Lecic appeared on Newsnight; and it's become quite impossible, within the realm of sanity, to deny that the Amina photos were Lecic's indeed.
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So who is who? Is Amina, in fact, the devoutly dressed and actively pro-LGBT rights Rania Ismail? Peering over the borders of said realms of sanity, is she, concievably, Lecic after all? Is she a Syrian or pro-Syrian activist studying in the University of Edinburgh, to which an email exchange of hers has been traced? (As a side note, most Syrian activists use proxy servers; it's not for nothing that when the Assad regime opened up Youtube and Facebook as the Arab Spring rumbled toward Syria, it also banned searches of the word "proxy.")
My colleague Yuval Ben-Ami offers on his blog his own experience of hunting down the real people behind a suddenly vanished Internet persona – although the setting was nowhere near as dramatic and the stakes were nowhere near as high. He concludes with the following sentiment, which I can't help but echo myself:
This is my secret hope: that whoever is responsible for this blog is safe and sound, and has simply put together the final text (written by a "cousin" of Arraf, who also doesn't seem to exist) as a way of staying safe. I pray that everything written on this blog was true, except the word "girl" and that last, scary post. Finally, if it makes things easier for "Amina", I pray that we will never find out who she was.
And for myself, I would just add that the shock of Amina's disappearance yanked us out of what has become a routine – a ghastly routine, but a routine nonetheless – of indeterminate clashes and massacres coming out of Syria. It seems fairly plain that the fate of the Arab Spring, at least for this round, will be decided not in Libya- where it became a much less appealing civil war – but in Syria. The slow, lacklustre response of the international to Assad's butchering of his own people may well mean that the Arab Spring will stop at the Damascus gates. The energy and outrage generated by Amina's story, be it true or not, need to be used to apply popular pressure to Syrian embassies and business interests around the world: Not just for the safe release of the blogger, whoever he or she or they may be, but for the resignation of the Assad regime.
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Dimi Reider is an Israeli journalist. He's a co-founder of +972 and has written for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, Haaretz, Jerusalem Post, and many others. He currently works for Newsweek, and no longer blogs for this site. You can catch up with him on twitter @reider.


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Pop-rock band Panic! at the Disco, which formed in Las Vegas nearly 20 years ago and has primarily been a solo project for frontman Brendon Urie, announced that the group will end after its upcoming European tour. Urie stated that he and his wife are expecting their first child and that he wants to focus on his family. The final tour will start in Vienna on February 20th and end in Manchester, England on March 10th.
From Urie:
Well, it's been a hell of a journey…
Growing up in Vegas I could've never imagined where this life would take me. So many places all over the world, and all the friends we've made along the way.
But sometimes a journey must end for a new one to begin. We've been trying to keep it to ourselves, though some of you may have heard.. Sarah and I are expecting a baby very soon! The prospect of being a father and getting to watch my wife become a mother is both humbling and exciting. I look forward to this next adventure.
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Thank you all for your immense support over the years. I've sat here trying to come up with the perfect way to say this and I truly can't put into words how much it has meant to us. Whether you've been here since the beginning or are just finding us, it has been a pleasure to not only share the stage with so many talented people but also share our time with you. I am looking forward to seeing everyone in Europe and the UK for one last run together.
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Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, PC, has once again been named one of the top three health care law firms in California, according to the latest edition of Chambers USA. The directory is published by the prestigious Chambers & Partners, which produces law firm directories of top-rated law firms throughout the United States and Europe, ranking law firms primarily based on outside interviews with General Counsel, high-profile entrepreneurs and other significant purchasers of legal services.
In addition to the firm ranking, nine HLB attorneys were recognized as top performers in California, more than any other Chambers top-ranked firm. Three California attorneys – Lloyd Bookman, Stephen Lipton and Patric Hooper — were recognized as top performers in the country. In addition, Robert Roth was recognized as a top performer in Washington, D.C.
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Hooper Lundy & Bookman has served California's healthcare industry since 1987. It provides a wide range of legal services to a substantial and diversified client base, ranging from hospital systems to healthcare trade associations. The firm's regulatory arm has been described as a go-to resource for Medicare and Medicaid issues and is recognized throughout California for its expertise in Stark and anti-kick back laws. Healthcare organizations are also able call upon the firm's multidisciplinary Health Reform group for assistance on all issues relating to federal healthcare legislation. The transactional group also maintains a steady flow of joint venture, M&A and general commercial work.
Sources say: "An excellent boutique with a historical presence and knowledge to match." "They're very good in relation to reimbursement, regulatory work and litigation."
Key Individuals
Lloyd Bookman is described by peers as an "institution" in healthcare law. He is recognized nationwide as an expert in Medicare and Medicaid, having served as lead counsel in some of the most significant cases in this field.
Patric Hooper is an "impressive and seasoned" litigator, specializing in actions against federal and state government. He also provides counsel to healthcare organizations on the nuances of regulated industry transactional law.
Steven Lipton is famed for his hospital representation practice, which includes hospital operations, contracting, M&A and advisory work. He is, in the words of one client, an"unquestionable superstar" in healthcare law.
Robert Lundy continues to be regarded as one of California's foremost healthcare attorneys. His broad practice is one of the best in the transactional space, where he comes particularly highly recommended. He is venerated as an "awesome legal talent" and is noted for his "strategic wisdom."
Robert Roth is held in high regard by sources for his deep expertise in Medicare and Medicaid matters. Clients attest to his strong reimbursement capabilities, and a recent highlight involved representing 80 hospitals in lawsuits aiming to retrospectively correct Medicare disproportionate share hospital payments.
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Bradley Tully provides "effective and solid" counsel to a range of healthcare providers on both the regulatory and transactional side. He possesses specialist knowledge of fraud and abuse, as well as anti-kickback and Stark issues.
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