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The Telegraph went a little hogwild with crime fiction over the last few days, what with roundups by Susanna Yager as well as David Isaacson and Jake Kerridge. Also, Susan Hill is interviewed about her recent foray into the genre, spurred when her daughter was late coming home and was feared abducted.

John Koch of the Boston Globe compares and contrasts two thrillers by Michael Crow and John Shannon, and prefers the latter by a wide margin.

Robert Parker, ’54, talks to the paper at his alma mater, Colby College, about his new western and how he’s written everything but one thing — science fiction. And he never will, either.

Civil War expert Shelby Foote is dead at the age of 88, and the Washington Post’s Linton Weeks remembers him fondly.

Wondering where former Orion CEO Anthony Cheetham had landed? Are you one of five people that cares? Well if so, you’ll certainly be interested in hearing about the Friday Project, his latest venture into publishing.

If you’re sick and tired of all these Hot Young Turks getting press, consider Donald McLeod of Durban, South Africa, whose first book was published at the ripe young age of 80.

Quinn Dalton probes the murky world of anonymous reviews after getting a bad one from Kirkus. But the thing is, Kirkus hates everybody, so is a negative review from them really going to hurt sales when industry folks know this bias? (link from Beatrice, where Ron has posted his thoughts on the matter.)

And finally, when the family of a biographical subject starts making the publisher kowtow to every whim, this is a very, very dangerous precedent.