by NRB | 28 Feb 2019 | Crime Scene |
Superintendent Chris Le Fanu is back in his familiar territory of 1920s Madras. In this fourth instalment of the police detective series that began in 2015, Brian Stoddart remains on top of his game. In Stoddart’s previous book, A Straits Settlement, Le Fanu had been...
by NRB | 20 Jun 2017 | Crime Scene |
The longlist of 10 novels in the 2017 Ngaio Marsh Awards has just been announced, clearly demonstrating how strong crime fiction has become in New Zealand. The convenor and driving force behind the Ngaio Marsh Awards is Craig Sisterson, well known for his passionate...
by NRB | 21 Jul 2016 | Crime Scene |
A third Le Fanu crime novel in under two years will keep Brian Stoddart’s growing army of readers happy. When the story opens in the 1920s we find Chris Le Fanu undertaking higher duties as Acting Inspector-General of Police for the Madras Presidency with continuing...
by NRB | 9 Jul 2015 | Crime Scene |
Murder, drugs, sex, politics, history and geography provide the substance of Brian Stoddart’s fast-paced first novel set in India. In 1920 a young woman’s body is found floating in the ‘putrid shallows’ of the Buckingham Canal in Madras: She lay on her back,...