Mystery Books
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"F" is for Fugitive: A Kinsey Millhone Mystery (Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Mysteries)#1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton crafts a thriller set in a town so small that P.I. Kinsey Millhone w
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Harmful Intent (A Medical Thriller)It should have been a routine childbirth. But somehow, the mother died in the delivery, the baby was born brain-damaged, and Jeffr
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The Blue Hammer (Lew Archer Series)The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only Detective Lew Archer can make sense of a killer who mak
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Dark of the MoonFilled with the audacious plotting, rich characters and brilliant suspense that have always made his books "compulsively readable"
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Client"What's wrong with me?" is the thought that crosses Stanley Hastings's mind when he gets his first paying client. Stanley has abso
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True Evil: A NovelA Southern doctor is pulled into a terrifying ring of murderous secrets in this powerhouse thriller from the New York Times
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Situation TragedyWest End Television are planning a new situation-comedy series, to be called The Struttters. From the outset, things go horribly w
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Mystery Movies
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SunshineThe story begins in the year 2057, as our Sun begins to die and mankind faces the unthinkable: extinction. Earth's last hope lies
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Moon [Blu-ray]Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is nearing the completion of his 3-year-long contract with Lunar Industries, mining Earth's primary source
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OrphanOrphan (DVD)Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga star as a couple who adopt a 9-year-old girl after losing their ow
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Shutter IslandAcademy Award® winning director Martin Scorses once again teams up with Leonardo DiCaprio in this spine-chilling thriller that cr
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The Da Vinci Code (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)Dan Brown's international bestseller comes alive in the film THE DA VINCI CODE, directed by Ron Howard with a screenplay by Akiva
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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.