tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8273911883856580200.post8569520538220162041..comments2024-03-11T00:52:06.529+10:30Comments on MYSTERIES in PARADISE: Missing ChildrenKerriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13581470363339796352noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8273911883856580200.post-71235222984445221132008-01-13T23:04:00.000+10:302008-01-13T23:04:00.000+10:30This discussion is part of the Times reading group...This discussion is part of the Times reading group, it is an interesting discussion. I posted about it a couple of weeks ago, as I enjoyed this book, which has featured quite a bit on Crime Always Pays also (in fact I got my copy via one of Declan's competitions there, come to think of it). My memory is so bad that although I've read the book recently, I had completely forgotten about it in the face of the question in this post!Maxine Clarkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06628509319992204770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8273911883856580200.post-77245549223601512522008-01-13T08:57:00.000+10:302008-01-13T08:57:00.000+10:30Interview with Tana French (IN THE WOODS)http://en...Interview with Tana French (IN THE WOODS)<BR/>http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_<BR/>entertainment/books/books_group/article3051295.ece?<BR/>At the end there are some interesting discussion questionsKerriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581470363339796352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8273911883856580200.post-13846351478335842822008-01-11T23:08:00.000+10:302008-01-11T23:08:00.000+10:30I loved the Carofiglio, French and Fossum that you...I loved the Carofiglio, French and Fossum that you refer to here, by the way. I had slightly gone off the D and P books by the time I got to On Beulah Height.<BR/><BR/>I think some of Karin Fossum's earlier books dealt with similar themes, also. Then there is Dennis Lehane's Gone Baby Gone, which is not a new book but has recently been made into a film -- unfortunately blocked from UK release because of the Madeline McCann case (itself apparently now being optioned for a movie).<BR/><BR/>The most harrowing book on this theme that I've read is A Child in Time by Ian McEwan, which must be 20 years old now. Awful. (but brilliant)<BR/><BR/>There must be many others but my failing brain can't call any to mind just now. But I don't think the subject appealed to Agatha Christie.Maxine Clarkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06628509319992204770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8273911883856580200.post-59828405044321202012008-01-11T20:15:00.000+10:302008-01-11T20:15:00.000+10:30and ON BEULAH HEIGHT (Reginald Hill) was 1998. Was...and ON BEULAH HEIGHT (Reginald Hill) was 1998. Wasn't that the one in which Rosie nearly died too? She was nearly snatched by some ghouly that in myths lived on Beulah Height. Pascoe sat at her bedside read a book to her that helped her come out of a coma she went into after she got meningitis. Or have I got the wrong book?<BR/>So I guess my point is that the theme is not so modern.Kerriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581470363339796352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8273911883856580200.post-56587449022875963092008-01-11T20:05:00.000+10:302008-01-11T20:05:00.000+10:30One of the books I was trying to think of earlier ...One of the books I was trying to think of earlier was THE MURDER ARTIS t by John Case. publ 2004<BR/>Twin six year olds are kidnapped from an amusement park while on an access visit with their father. Every parent's nightmare. Alex Callahan is a television journalist, a foreign correspondent and he can't be sure that the disappearance of his sons at the Renaissance Faire is not connected to something he has be involved in through his work. As the days pass, the police search is scaled down, the original detective is taken off the case, and Alex decides to use his investigative powers to find his children. An engrossing read.<BR/>It got a bit unlikely in the final stages.<BR/>NO TRACE (Barry Maitland) was also published in 2004Kerriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581470363339796352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8273911883856580200.post-78013881015030226742008-01-11T19:13:00.000+10:302008-01-11T19:13:00.000+10:30Not quite paradise in this set of mysteries, is it...Not quite paradise in this set of mysteries, is it? I wonder when the current spate of crime novels about missing and abused chilren began. And I wonder that the next big subject will be for crime writers.<BR/>==============<BR/> Detectives Beyond Borders<BR/>"Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"<BR/> http://www.detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/Peter Rozovskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977933481463759162noreply@blogger.com