Winners of 2016 Lefty Awards

by | Feb 29, 2016 | Awards

This weekend, at LEFT COAST CRIME 2016,  the winners were announced for the 2016 LEFTY awards. Lefty for Best Humorous Mystery Novel: LORD OF THE WINGS, by Donna Andrews (Minotaur) Other nominees PLANTATION SHUDDERS, by Ellen Byron (Crooked Lane) FEBRUARY FEVER, by...

Nicholas Searle's THE GOOD LIAR Reviewed

by | Feb 28, 2016 | Books

The Good Liar Nicholas Searle Harper Feb. 2nd, 2016 The Good Liar by Nicholas Searle is a fascinating thriller. The plot is intense with the main characters seen as either very likeable or having no redeeming qualities. Although the first few chapters are slow and...

The Kitchen, Midnighter, Constantine Reviewed

by | Feb 26, 2016 | Comics

  THE KITCHEN Vertigo I’m a sucker for good mob stories and this is a wonderfully fresh twist on the 70s mob. The wives of gangsters have become “prison widows” after their mobbed up husbands go to the joint. Not willing to sit back and hope things will work out...

THE WITCH Reviewed

by | Feb 26, 2016 | Films

The Witch Directed and Written by Roger Eggers Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Havey Scrimshaw It is 1630, half a century before the Salem Witch Trials, and a family leaves a Puritan settlement in a dispute over religious practices. Setting up a...

Kate (And Dan) Read SPIDER-MAN/DEADPOOL #1&2

by | Feb 26, 2016 | Comics

FADE IN The Asylum in St. Paul has seen better days: The kitchen is overrun with dirty dishes, colonies of dust bunnies roam the wilds of the first floor, stacks of pizza boxes surround the couches. Kate emerges from under a pile of dirty laundry wearing a robe and...