All the links you can handle

While the crime fiction world at large was at Bouchercon, the rest of the world still carried on with reviews, interviews, and other choice bits. Here’s a select few:

David Montgomery’s latest column for the Chicago Sun-Times features raves for books by T Jefferson Parker, Elaine Flinn, Greg Rucka, Jim Fusilli and Benjamin Schutz.

The Globe and Mail was decidedly mystery-oriented this past weekend, as Ian Rankin and Alexander McCall Smith were both favorably reviewed (while Mark Billingham got quite the nice full-page color ad, though the link is sadly unavailable) while Books editor Martin Levin pointed the way to some overlooked classics of the past.

Craig McDonald reviews three new releases by Richard Marinick, Ernesto Quinones and Dave Zeltserman for Columbus This Week.

Speaking of Marinick, he gets a very nice writeup from his hometown paper, the Boston Globe.

A.J. Quinnell (author of MAN ON FIRE and many other books) took his pseudonym from a famous rugby player. Over 20 years later, the two finally met, and BBC Wales reports on the results.

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The Augusta Free Press talked to Shamus Award winner Andy Straka]8 about his Frank Pavlicek series and his other career as–you guessed it–a private investigator.

Hard Case Crime just keeps racking up the good notices, the latest from the New York Post.

The Ocala Star Banner catches up with Edna Buchanan as she makes her way into town to promote her latest book, COLD CASE.

Various novelists, including Robert Ferrigno, are quizzed about who they’ll vote for in the coming election. Not surprisingly, most are going against Bush, though not necessarily for Kerry. (link from Maud)

And finally, a writer’s worst nightmare–no doubt about it.