A compendium of recently published mystery news articles. This update includes news items from mid- to late-September 2008.
• CBC News interviews P. D. James in which the legendary author discusses the art of the crime novel. When asked why mystery novels are so satisfying, she replies, "I think at their heart, detective novels are about bringing order out of disorder and that’s tremendously reassuring — probably even more so in an age where it doesn’t seem to matter how many resources we put into our social problems, they seem impossible to fix. In a novel, you’re not going to get divine justice, but human justice, which is always fallible. You’re going to get justice of a kind." The new Adam Dalgliesh novel, The Private Patient, will be published by Knopf in November.
• Variety is reporting that Jack Reacher is coming to the big screen. Josh Olson will be adapting Lee Child's thriller One Shot for Paramount Pictures. The book had previously been considered for production in 2005. One Shot is the 9th mystery in this series featuring drifter and ex-military policeman Jack Reacher.
• And The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Harlan Coben's novel The Innocent will also be adapted for production. The Innocent, a stand-alone thriller that spent 10 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list in 2005, was optioned by Plum Pictures.
• The Oroville Mercury-Register is reminding everyone that Perry Mason Days starts this Sunday in Oroville. Perry Mason Days commemorates Erle Stanley Gardner, who lived for a while in Oroville, and the fictional defense attorney he created. Events are planned for the entire week. (While you're marking your calendar, make a note that the Erle Stanley Gardner Mystery Weekend is being held this year November 7th and 8th in Temecula.)
• Entertainment Weekly lists six essential British whodunit series available on DVD. Included are the usual suspects (Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, and Rebus) and a couple series you might not have heard of (Wire in the Blood and Murder in Suburbia). [MBN note: All 6 series, together with many, many, more are available from Mysteries on TV.]
• The winners of the first annual Premier Book Awards are announced in a press release. The Premier Book Awards were established to recognize meritorious works by writers who self-published or had their books published by a small press or independent book publisher. In the Mystery / Thriller / Suspense / Horror category, Brookwater's Curse Volume II by Steven Van Patten is the winner. [MBN note: Visit Mystery Book Awards for a list of more awards given out to writers of outstanding mystery fiction.]
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