One of those, No Safe House, was a seven-years-later sequel to No Time for Goodbye. With the exception of my first four novels about Zack Walker, I have done mostly standalones. Do you think it's more fun to return to familiar characters or to change it up and write different novels? You've written a couple of series as well as standalone titles. The first in the series was Broken Promise the second is Far from True (New American Library) see our review below. Currently he's writing an interconnected trilogy, set in the town of Promise Falls, N.Y. Dave Wheeler, associate editor, Shelf AwarenessĪfter many years at the Toronto Star, Linwood Barclay turned from news and humor columns to crime fiction, and has written 13 novels. Whether you want to roll up your sleeves and get to work, or just admire the view, these books make it clear that the Irish know just where to start. Rural living and hearty home cooking are sexy as ever. Rich with regional favorites like the Boxty potato cake, as well as Irish twists on international fare like Hot-Smoked Burren Salmon Tacos, The Farmette Cookbook is all about buying local, organic produce, free-range livestock and sustainability no matter where you live. It is a lattice-topped piecrust bursting with fried eggs, pork sausage, bacon, sautéed mushrooms and broiled tomato halves, perfect for 'feeding a pack of hungry farmers, or visitors from abroad embarking on a pilgrimage to the ancient mountain of Croagh Patrick.' Jamie, for example, 'can crack an egg with no hands,' an eyebrow-raising talent that will no doubt come in handy if he's hungry for some Full Irish Slab Pie-a dish Imen McDonnell calls 'the Irish pièce de résistance' in her Farmette Cookbook (Roost Books). And each offers a few fun factoids about himself. In it are many exemplars of sturdy Irish stock, handsome men carrying goats, tussling with deer, shearing sheep and serenading a field of cattle.

For this project, she selected her subjects carefully: Irish farmers.Īfter online success, Ryan's Irish Farmers is now available from Griffin Books, a novelty in hardcover that also benefits Bóthar.

Ciara Ryan chose to build upon this artistic form in 2010 to support Bóthar, an Irish charity that works through local community groups to help overcome hunger, poverty and environmental decline. The tradition of the sexy wall calendar is robust-New York firefighters, the Warwick rowing team.

Mrs. Houdini by Victoria Kelly