Blogoversary giveway - the winner is..

A week ago I announced  that

To celebrate my blogoversary I have decided to pass on a copy of  TAKE OUT by Australian author Felicity Young.
I received this as a review copy from the publishers Fremantle Press, so it has been leafed through by me, but I am a gentle reader!

I reviewed it in March last year and gave it a rating of 4.6.

I will send the book anywhere in the world, so, if you are interested in reading Australian crime fiction, enter by leaving a comment that gives me some information so I can contact you if you are the winner.

You have until Saturday 8 January to enter!

Many thanks to everyone who entered. 
I worked out there were 10 entrants and so I used Random.org which told me the winning number was number 5, which is Vanda!

Thank you for your interest and key your eye out for my next giveway.

Sunday Salon: MiP celebrates 3rd blogoversary with book giveaway.

MYSTERIES in PARADISE was created 2 January 2008

Since then blogging has become almost an addiction 

& I've made some great blogging friends

& been part of some great events!

To celebrate my blogoversary I have decided to pass on a copy of  TAKE OUT by Australian author Felicity Young.
I received this as a review copy from the publishers Fremantle Press, so it has been leafed through by me, but I am a gentle reader!

I reviewed it in March last year and gave it a rating of 4.6.

I will send the book anywhere in the world, so, if you are interested in reading Australian crime fiction, enter by leaving a comment that gives me some information so I can contact you if you are the winner.

You have until Saturday 8 January to enter!

Another thing to do when you visit MiP
Tell me your top 10 crime fiction reads for 2010.
Visit this post and leave your list as a comment.

Posts in the last week:

• Review: MAIGRET & the MAN on the BOULEVARD, Georges Simenon
• Review: MIDNIGHT CAB, James W. Nichol
• Welcome To My Life*
• Happy New Year 2011
• Farewelling 2010
• Canadian Book Challenge 2010-2011 Update, 30 Decem...
• New to me authors in 2010: crime fiction of course...
• Australasian crime fiction I read in 2010
• Review: LOVE YOU TO DEATH, Gail Bowen
• Review: NEVER LOOK AWAY, Linwood Barclay
• 2010 translated books: crime fiction of course
• And the Winner Is...
• Think about your best Crime Fiction reads in 2010
• Celebrating 350 reviews on MiP

And the Winner Is...

The winner of my book giveaway of  THREE SECONDS by Roslund & Hellstrom is kathyd!
Many thanks to all who entered by leaving a comment on the original post
I used the integer generator at random.org to generate a number randomly. 

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due to be released in the US on 4 January 2011.

The promoters at Wiredset will take care of posting the winner his/her copy, anywhere in the world.

Marketing blurb
Three Seconds [SilverOak, January 4, 2011] , Anders Roslund and Borge Hellström's realistic and edgy new novel, has sold over 1.5 million copies in Sweden, spent 13 months on the bestsellers list in the authors' native country, and won the prestigious Swedish Academy of Crime Writers' Award.  Roslund, an acclaimed investigative journalist, and Hellström, an ex-criminal who spent years working to rehabilitate criminals, combine inside knowledge of the brutal reality of criminal life with searing social criticism that puts them at the forefront of modern Scandinavian crime writing.

In Three Seconds they use their backgrounds and considerable research skills to create a dark and action-packed novel about the drug trade within the Swedish prison system and the corruption among police and politicians that keeps it going.

Ex-con Piet Hoffman, the Swedish police force’s most valuable informant, is on a deadly mission.  He has infiltrated the Polish mafia in an attempt to take control of illegal narcotics distribution and must go back inside Sweden’s most infamous maximum-security prison.  Success will mean freedom and the chance to start a new life with his beloved wife and two young sons.  Failure will mean certain death.  His survival depends on one man.  

Detective Inspector EwertGrens, a complex and haunted man, is charged with investigating a drug-related killing involving Hoffman.  Unaware of Hoffmann’s real identity, he believes he’s on the trail of a dangerous psychopath.  As Grens’s investigation takes him closer to the truth, government lies are exposed and Hoffman is trapped in prison, wanted dead by both the police and mafia.

Three Seconds captures a nefarious world of betrayal and violence, where a wise man trusts no one and even the most valuable agent can be “burned”.  Intelligent, gritty, and suspenseful, it firmly establishes Roslund & Hellström as the heirs apparent to Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell and is poised to be the crime novel of the winter season.

Check the website

Reminder: Book Giveaway - just 3 more days to enter

You have until Christmas Eve to try your luck at this giveaway of THREE SECONDS by Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom.

Check the original post for details on how to enter.

Book Giveaway: THREE SECONDS, Anders Roslund and Borge Hellström

I have been offered a giveaway copy of this exciting new novel, due to be released in the US on 4 January 2011.

The promoters at Wiredset will take care of posting the winner his/her copy, anywhere in the world.
So, to enter the competition, you need to leave a comment on this post, with your name and email address. I'd like to know why you want to win a copy too. You have until Christmas Eve so spread the word for me.  I'll announce the name of the winner after Christmas, and also notify him/her by email

Marketing blurb
Three Seconds [SilverOak, January 4, 2011] , Anders Roslund and Borge Hellström's realistic and edgy new novel, has sold over 1.5 million copies in Sweden, spent 13 months on the bestsellers list in the authors' native country, and won the prestigious Swedish Academy of Crime Writers' Award.  Roslund, an acclaimed investigative journalist, and Hellström, an ex-criminal who spent years working to rehabilitate criminals, combine inside knowledge of the brutal reality of criminal life with searing social criticism that puts them at the forefront of modern Scandinavian crime writing.

In Three Seconds they use their backgrounds and considerable research skills to create a dark and action-packed novel about the drug trade within the Swedish prison system and the corruption among police and politicians that keeps it going.

Ex-con Piet Hoffman, the Swedish police force’s most valuable informant, is on a deadly mission.  He has infiltrated the Polish mafia in an attempt to take control of illegal narcotics distribution and must go back inside Sweden’s most infamous maximum-security prison.  Success will mean freedom and the chance to start a new life with his beloved wife and two young sons.  Failure will mean certain death.  His survival depends on one man.  

Detective Inspector EwertGrens, a complex and haunted man, is charged with investigating a drug-related killing involving Hoffman.  Unaware of Hoffmann’s real identity, he believes he’s on the trail of a dangerous psychopath.  As Grens’s investigation takes him closer to the truth, government lies are exposed and Hoffman is trapped in prison, wanted dead by both the police and mafia.

Three Seconds captures a nefarious world of betrayal and violence, where a wise man trusts no one and even the most valuable agent can be “burned”.  Intelligent, gritty, and suspenseful, it firmly establishes Roslund & Hellström as the heirs apparent to Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell and is poised to be the crime novel of the winter season.

Check the website

My BBAW giveaways: the Winners are..

I celebrated  BBAW with 5 giveaways this week, one each day, 4 books by Australian authors, and one related to Agatha Christie. All the books are related to crime fiction.

The competition for all my BBAW giveaways closed yesterday, Friday 24 September.
I used a random number generator to select each winner: http://www.random.org/integers/

The competition was open world-wide, the only proviso being that if the winner comes from outside Australia postage cost will determine whether the book is delivered by surface mail or air mail.

The winners are

#1: PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK by Joan Lindsay  - Teresa

#2: FRANTIC by Katherine Howell- Linda Kish

#3: AGATHA CHRISTIE by Laurel Thompson - hendy

#4: BABEL by Barry Maitland - jen7waters

#5: THE NIGHT FERRY by Michael Robotham - Theresa N.

I will attempt to contact each of the winners by email to get an address to send their prize to.

Many thanks to all who entered! 

Summary: my BBAW giveaways

I have been celebrating BBAW with 5 giveaways this week, one each day, 4 books by Australian authors, and one related to Agatha Christie. All the books are related to crime fiction.

The competition for all my BBAW giveaways will close on Friday 24 September, and the winners for all the BBAW giveaways will be announced on this blog on Saturday 25 September.

The competition is open world-wide, the only proviso being that if the winner comes from outside Australia postage cost will determine whether the book is delivered by surface mail or air mail.

So to put your name in the hat for each of the giveways, you need to go to each of the posts listed below, and follow the instructions there.

#1: PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK by Joan Lindsay

#2: FRANTIC by Katherine Howell

#3: AGATHA CHRISTIE by Laurel Thompson

#4: BABEL by Barry Maitland

#5: THE NIGHT FERRY by Michael Robotham

BBAW Giveaway #5

I am celebrating BBAW with 5 giveaways this week, one each day, 4 books by Australian authors, and one related to Agatha Christie.

Today's giveaway is THE NIGHT FERRY by Michael Robotham

Publisher's Blurb

Alisha Barba's dreams of being a detective were shattered when a murder suspect broke her back across a brick wall. Now on her feet again, with her police career in limbo, she receives a message from an old school friend, Cate Beaumont, who is eight months pregnant and in trouble. On the night they arrange to meet, Cate is mown down by a car that kills her husband instantly. As paramedics fight to save her life they discover there is no baby. Her pregnancy is an elaborate lie, a cruel deception. Why? What happened? As Alisha sets out to answer these questions she is drawn deeper and deeper into a dangerous quest that will take her from the East End of London to Amsterdam's red light district and into a murky underworld of sex trafficking, slavery and exploitation. A gripping thriller, with twists at every turn

To go into the draw for this book, you need to leave a comment and tell me something important about Michael Robotham. Your information should not repeat anything from this blog post, or from comments left prior to yours.

Click to check other BBAW giveaways

The competition is open world-wide, the only proviso being that if the winner comes from outside Australia postage cost will determine whether the book is delivered by surface mail or air mail.

The competition for all my BBAW giveaways will close on Friday 24 September, and the winners for all the BBAW giveaways will be announced on this blog on Saturday 25 September.

BBAW Giveaway #4

I am celebrating BBAW with 5 giveaways this week, one each day, 4 books by Australian authors, and one related to Agatha Christie.

Today's giveaway is BABEL by Barry Maitland

Publisher's Blurb

BABEL is set in the south east of London, around an ex polytechnic, now the University of East London, in Docklands. The brutal murder of the university's professor of philosophy is headline news and DCI Brock is brought in to investigate. The university campus is home to many students drawn from the large and varied ethnic communities of south east London. When it becomes clear that the motive for murder may be political and the murderer a Muslim, the public is outraged. Following her terrifying experiences in SILVERMEADOW, DC Kathy Kolla is on leave, so burned out that she's considering leaving the force for good. But you can't keep a good detective down and soon she's on the phone to Brock asking to be put on the case ... The construction of this detailed, intricate plot is a joy - as ingenious as Colin Dexter. It's a complex, rich and intelligent novel and will surely bring Brock and Kolla to a wider, appreciative readership.

To go into the draw for this book, you need to leave a comment and tell me something important about Barry Maitland. Your information should not repeat anything from this blog post, or from comments left prior to yours.

Click to check other BBAW giveaways

The competition is open world-wide, the only proviso being that if the winner comes from outside Australia postage cost will determine whether the book is delivered by surface mail or air mail.

The competition for all my BBAW giveaways will close on Friday 24 September, and the winners for all the BBAW giveaways will be announced on this blog on Saturday 25 September.

BBAW Giveaway #3

Today's giveaway is AGATHA CHRISTIE by Laura Thompson.
I have chosen this book because today is the 120th Anniversary of Agatha Christie's birth.
We have been celebrating this since the beginning of the month with the Agatha Christie Reading Challenge Blog Tour. and the celebrations will continue until 30th September.

Publisher's Blurb

A passionate and accomplished writer, Laura Thompson now turns her highly acclaimed biographical skills to Agatha Christie.
Arguably the greatest crime writer in the world, thirty years after her death Christie's books still sell over four million copies worldwide a year.
Thompson describes the Edwardian world in which she grew up, explores the relationships she had, including those with her two husbands and daughter, and investigates the mysteries still surrounding Christie's life - including her disappearance in 1926.
Agatha Christie is a mystery and writing about her is a detection job in itself.
But, with access to all of Christie's letters, papers and writing notebooks, as well as interviews with her grandson, daughter, son-in-law and their living relations, Thompson is able to unravel not only the detailed workings of Christies detective fiction, but the truth behind her private life as well.

Click to check other BBAW giveaways

To go into the draw for this book, you need to leave a comment and tell me something important about either the author Laura Thompson, or Agatha Christie. Your information should not repeat anything from this blog post, or from comments left prior to yours.

The competition is open world-wide, the only proviso being that if the winner comes from outside Australia postage cost will determine whether the book is delivered by surface mail or air mail.

The competition for all my BBAW giveaways will close on Friday 24 September, and the winners for all the BBAW giveaways will be announced on this blog on Saturday 25 September.

BBAW Giveaway #2

I am celebrating BBAW with 5 giveaways this week, one each day, 4 books by Australian authors, and one related to Agatha Christie.

Today's giveaway is FRANTIC by Katherine Howell

Publisher's Blurb

In one terrible moment, paramedic Sophie Phillips life is torn apart - her police officer husband, Chris, is shot on their doorstep and their ten-month-old son, Lachlan, is stolen from his bed. The police suspect Chris is involved with a number of armed hold-ups and that the attack is revenge for his desire to distance himself from the robberies, but Sophie believes the attack is much more personal - and the perpetrator far more dangerous... While Chris is in hospital and the police, led by Detective Ella Marconi, are moving heaven and earth to find their colleague's child, Sophie's desperation to make amends compels her to search for Lachlan herself. She enlists her husband's partner, Angus Arendson, in her hunt for her son, but will the history they share prove harmful to Sophie's ability to complete her mission? And could one dangerous decision cause Sophie to ultimately lose everything important in her life? .

To go into the draw for this book, you need to leave a comment and tell me something important about Katherine Howell. Your information should not repeat anything from this blog post, or from comments left prior to yours.

Click to check other BBAW giveaways

The competition is open world-wide, the only proviso being that if the winner comes from outside Australia postage cost will determine whether the book is delivered by surface mail or air mail.

The competition for all my BBAW giveaways will close on Friday 24 September, and the winners for all the BBAW giveaways will be announced on this blog on Saturday 25 September.

BBAW Giveaway #1

I am celebrating BBAW with 5 giveaways this week, one each day, 4 books by Australian authors, and one related to Agatha Christie.

Today's giveaway is PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK by Joan Lindsay

Publisher's Blurb

On St Valentine's Day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls went on a picnic to Hanging Rock. Some were never to return...
To go into the draw for this book, you need to leave a comment and tell me something important about either the author Joan Lindsay, or the story of the book. Your information should not repeat anything from this blog post, or from comments left prior to yours.

Click to check other BBAW giveaways

The competition is open world-wide, the only proviso being that if the winner comes from outside Australia postage cost will determine whether the book is delivered by surface mail or air mail.

The competition for all my BBAW giveaways will close on Friday 24 September, and the winners for all the BBAW giveaways will be announced on this blog on Saturday 25 September.

Sunday Salon - 12 September - celebrating Agatha Christie's birthday, BBAW

I have a busy week coming up this week.
This month I am managing a blog tour to celebrate Agatha Christie's 120th birthday. 
You can follow the blog tour here
I have been writing an introductory post every day.
Agatha's actual birthday is on Wednesday 15 September but the celebrations will continue the whole month. There are some great stops on the tour, so hop on the bus, and learn lots about Agatha Christie.

The other major event in my life this week will be Book Blogger Appreciation Week. On Tuesday 14 September Bermuda Onion and I will be interviewing each other.

Click to check other BBAW giveaways

Everyday this week 13-17 September on my blog there will be a giveaway of an Australian crime fiction title. You have to do a "little work" to qualify for the draw so do pop in here and put your contribution in. All giveways will be available for worldwide winners, with the proviso that winners outside Australia may have their books sent surface mail, depending on cost.

News & Headlines this week

• Appearances by Michael Robotham in September
• IV RBA International Prize for Crime Writing
• 2010 Maltese Falcon Award
• Peter Carey survives into the Man Booker shortlist
• Christchurch Writers' Festival Cancelled
• #51 Book Review Blog Carnival
• Australian author Geraldine Brooks win Dayton Peace Prize

Blog posts in the last week:

• Agatha Christie Blog Tour 2010 - Day 11
• Canadian Book Challenge 2010-2011 Update
• Review: ALL THE COLOURS OF DARKNESS, Peter Robinson
• Audio Book Challenge Update, 10 September 2010
• Agatha Christie Blog Tour 2010 - Day 10
• Forgotten Book: MANDARIN by Robert Elegant
• Agatha Christie Blog Tour 2010 - Day 9
• Review: ROYAL FLUSH, Lynda la Plante - audio
• Agatha Christie Blog Tour 2010 - Day 8
• Agatha Christie Blog Tour 2010 - Day 7
• Books at the mercy of nature
• Agatha Christie Blog Tour 2010 - Day 6
• Setting the Stage for Murder in New Zealand - Nga...
• Agatha Christie Blog Tour 2010 - Day 5

Take the poll:
The current poll relates to the Agatha Christie Reading Challenge Blog Tour that is running all of September.
It asks which of various television actresses you think has best depicted Miss Marple.
Pop in and vote, and leave a comment about your choice.

Winner of the Kindle copy of Bloody Ham

Congratulations to DeSeRT RoSe who was the lucky winner of the e-copy of BLOODY HAM that I announced last week.

Win a Kindle e-book

Yesterday I reviewed BLOODY HAM by Brian Kavanagh.

The author has very kindly made available a .mobi copy of the book as a giveaway for me.

So if you have a Kindle (or are running Kindle for PC on your computer or iPad), and would be interested in a copy of this book, just leave a comment on this post and I will choose someone from amongst the commenters. Leave your comment by 21 June. If I can't easily find your email address through your Blogger profile, then you might like to email me as well, so that I have the email address of the winner. My email address is available through the Who Am I block up on the top right.

Many thanks to Brian Kavanagh for generously making an e-copy of BLOODY HAM available. If the Look Inside image doesn't give you access to the book, click here.

P.S. If you don't know how this will work, I'll email the winner the .mobi file as an attachment, and then you will need to copy it into your Documents folder on your Kindle.