by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
by Elise Cooper | Jun 18, 2017 | Author Interviews, Features
Elise Cooper: Chevy Stevens is not your real name? Chevy Stevens: Yes. I did not want to use my real name when I wrote my first book because I was self-conscious. Chevy came from a nickname used by my father and Steven is the name of my brother. My real name is Rene...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 17, 2017 | Essay
Power, money and respect. In the world of organised crime these are the end goals that people pursue, but they are not equal and they don’t walk hand in hand. In crime fiction we’ve spent countless words picking apart and examining the guts of that triangle, as well...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 17, 2017 | Essay
I wrote my first novel—GRAVE DESIGNS—on a dare from my wife. I was a young lawyer in a big Chicago law firm at the time, and I had no grand plan beyond finishing the manuscript and trying to see whether I could interest a publisher. And thus when my agent announced...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 16, 2017 | Books
IN THE ELECTRIC MIST WITH THE CONFEDERATE DEAD James Lee Burke 1993 Hyperion A Representation of Pure New Orleans Literature While filming a Civil War movie in the swamps of Louisiana, the crew stumbles on the skeletal remains of a murder victim. When detective Dave...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 16, 2017 | Author Interviews
Jon: Stuart, this book is really different than anything I’ve read by you. Is that why you are publishing under a pseudonym? Stuart: Yes, but it’s also to do with the American setting. It’s one of the peculiarities of crime fiction that authors tend to become...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 15, 2017 | Reviews
THE SWITCH Joseph Finder June 13th, 2017 Dutton Pub. Joseph Finder is the king of the conspirator authors. In THE SWITCH he explores the issues of national security and privacy, where they overlap, and how they affect each other. This plot comes straight out of the...
