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Declan Burke talks to the Boston Irish man who’s considered one of America’s great contemporary writers, with a string of novels, TV scripts and movie screenplays to his credit.

TV host Graham Norton will return to Irish shores this summer to top the bill at a festival to celebrate literature.

The Drop (15A) stars Tom Hardy a Bob Saginowski, a bartender in a rundown oston neighbourhood. 

This week, Benedict Cumberbatch plays Alan Turing in the Oscar-tipped wartime thriller The Imitation Game, a bartender becomes embroiled in a robbery in The Drop and Martin Clunes and Catherine Tate spread the Christmas cheer in Nativity 3: Dude, Where’s My Donkey?!.

From food to fashion, movies to music, our critics pick their hot 100 for autumn.

John Connolly and Declan Burke convinced great writers to write about their favourite mystery novels. Val Nolan is impressed

Richard Fitzpatrick quotes Raymond Chandler: “When in doubt have a man come in the door with a gun in his hand.”

THE great crime novelist Raymond Chandler advised, “When in doubt have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand”.

Amanda Knox, whose conviction and eventual acquittal over the murder of British student Meredith Kercher made headlines worldwide, has signed an agreement with HarperCollins to tell her story.

Dennis Lehane

When a little girl vanishes from her bedroom in one of Boston’s poorest neighbourhoods, her distraught mother (Amy Ryan) makes a television appeal for her safe return.

THE UK release of Ben Affleck’s new film about a four-year-old girl’s disappearance has been delayed indefinitely because of its similarities with the Madeleine McCann case, distributors said.

Hollywood actor Ben Affleck will move behind the camera, after signing up to make his directorial debut.

For his 24th outing as a director, Eastwood has chosen the complex novel by Dennis Lehane, and he has brought us a gem, certainly one of his best ever films and one with instant classic written on every frame.

Ben Affleck is in talks to write and possibly direct a new movie.