Showing posts with label Princess Diana. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Princess Diana. Show all posts

No Alibis: They Just Can't Stop Giving

Is it just us, or does Eoin McNamee (right) look like something out of Thomas Hardy novel? You can judge for yourself on June 22, when Eoin fetches up at Belfast’s specialist crime bookstore No Alibis to celebrate the launch of his latest novel, 12:33 (etc.), a fictionalised account of the death of Diana Spencer, aka the Princess of Wails, as seen through the eyes of the various men deputised to keep her erstwhile highness under wraps. Will this be the novel that finally puts all those conspiracy theories to bed? Not by a metric mile … Meanwhile, not content with showcasing Eoin’s latest, No Alibis is also hosting Harlan Coben (left), who’ll be swanking around the place showing off his bright ‘n’ shiny new stand-alone, The Woods, on July 19. “Harlan Coben is the modern master of the hook-and-twist,” says Harlan’s bezzie mate, Dan Brown (who he?), “luring you in on the first page only to shock you on the last.” If it’s authors in promo vids bigging up their new books that tends to fizz your gin, shuffle over here to Harlan’s official site for a look-see …

Goodbye, Queen Of Hearts ... Hello Eoin McNamee!

An eclectic chap, that Eoin McNamee: when he's not writing spy-vs-spy potboilers as John Creed, or children's fiction in a fantasy vein, he's knocking out the occasional top-class crime thriller, such as Resurrection Man, The Blue Tango and The Ultras. So it's entirely appropriate that his next novel, due in June, is 12:23: Paris. 31st August 1997 - a date that may or may not ring a bell with fans of the former Queen of All Our Achy-Breaky Hearts, aka Diana, the Princess of Wails, sorry, Wales. "Utterly compelling, McNamee's dramatising of the conspiracies and the obsessions around the tragic events of that night is brilliant and, as ever, poetic," says David Peace. Which is nice ...