Mystery Books
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The Last Child: A NovelWinner of the 2010 Edgar Award for Best NovelJohn Hart's New York Times bestselling debut, The King of
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Coming Back (A Sharon Mccone Mystery)In Locked In, San Francisco private eye Sharon McCone was shot in the head and suffered from locked-in syndrome: almost tot
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Promised Land (A Spenser Novel)Spenser is good at finding things. But this time he has a client out on Cape Cod who is in over his head. Harvey Shepard has lost
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Coronado: Stories (P.S.)Along with completely original material, this new collection is a compilation of the best of Dennis Lehane's previously publis
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Parliaments as Peacebuilders in Conflict-Affected Countries (WBI Learning Resources Series)The changing nature of conflict and the increase in intrastate conflict during the 1990s, followed by its slow decline since the t
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The Camel Club (Camel Club Series)Welcome to THE CAMEL CLUB.Existing at the fringes of Washington, D.C., the Club consists of four eccentric members. Led by a myste
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The Sentry (Joe Pike)Dru Rayne and her uncle fled to L.A. after Hurricane Katrina; but now, five years later, they face a different danger. When Joe Pi
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Mystery Movies
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12 Monkeys (Special Edition)In this science fiction masterpiece, Cole (Bruce Willis) is sent back in time to save the human race from a deadly virus that has
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The Butterfly Effect (Infinifilm Edition)Butterfly Effect, The (DVD)Ashton Kutcher stars as a man who has lost track of time. From an early age, crucial
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TriangleWhen Jess sets sail on her friend Greg's (Michael Dorman, "The Secret Life Of Us") yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake
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MementoPoint blank in the head a man shoots another. In flashbacks, each one earlier in time than what we've just seen, the two men's pas
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ExamLike Saw for corporate go-getters, in EXAM eight young people vying for a sought-after job are locked together in a room and given
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Mystery Authors
Robert Barnard biography
Robert Barnard
(1936 - )
Robert Barnard, who currently makes his home with his wife Louise in Yorkshire, was born in Essex on 23 November, 1936. Educated at the Royal Grammar School in Colchester and at Balliol College, Oxford, taking his Ph.D. from the University of Bergen, Norway, in 1972, he spent many years as a distinguished academic while establishing himself as one of today’s most distinguished crime novelists. His fascination with the pure detective story is evident in his many novels and short stories, as is his remarkable catholicity of tastes. Always one to follow his muse, he’s explored a wide range of characters and locations, viewing them
meticulously with a keen and often satirical eye. His lead detectives include the Yard’s Perry Trethowan and Yorkshire policeman Charlie Peace.
The Guest of Honor at 1998’s Malice Domestic mystery conference, recipient of the CWA’s Golden Handcuffs Award, several times nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, Barnard maintains he writes only to entertain. Although one can scarcely imagine one of his books without humor, he increasingly departs from the comic detective novel to explore family relationships and social themes. These often look towards the past. Carrying that further, under the pseudonym Bernard Bastable, he writes historical crime novels, three featuring as sleuth Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart. As a literary critic, Barnard is perhaps best known for his critical study of Agatha Christie in A Talent to Deceive.
It is hardly fair that a man so gifted as a writer
should be equally skilled as a speaker, but so it is. Barnard
has graced many literary events, delivered many fine lectures,
and generously boosted the works of writers he admires.