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Peter Handel

Peter Handel has reviewed and written about crime fiction for The San Francisco Chronicle, The Portland Oregonian, Pages Magazine and Mystery Readers International. He lives in Northern California. Since the pandemic began, he’s been reading. A lot.

John Banville Returns to Crime Fiction—This Time Under His Own Name

Banville says his "Benjamin Black" pen name is done, finished, dead. So what is his protagonist Quirke doing in a new novel that moves between Ireland and Spain?

Alan Parks on Drugs, Noir, and Glasgow in the 1970s

The author of the Harry McCoy novels talks about conjuring up a city and an era.

April 9, 2021 By Peter Handel

The Long, Unusual Career of Russell James, the "Godfather of British Noir"

He didn't set out to write crime novels. Thirty years later, he still doesn't recognize any genre boundaries.

January 22, 2021 By Peter Handel