by Erin Mitchell | Feb 6, 2024 | Events
Harrogate International Festivals has announced the appointment of three new Vice Presidents – world famous crime writer (and Crimespree favorite!) Val McDermid, classical music icon Julian Lloyd Webber and renowned literary agent Jane Gregory. Fiona Movley, Val...
by Cindy Fazzi | Feb 6, 2024 | Features, Five Things
Some people binge-eat Doritos or binge-watch Netflix when they’re stressed out. Me? I binge-read books with kick-ass heroes. Not superheroes, mind you, but regular guys who don’t need a mask and cape to fight evil. When I was writing my debut thriller Multo (meaning...
by Sarah Reida | Feb 6, 2024 | Books, Reviews
Good Half Gone was my introduction to the talented Tarryn Fisher, who has also brought us The Wives and The Wrong Family. The set-up is great: Iris, whose identical twin sister (Piper) was kidnapped when they were teenagers, is about to commence work as an intern at...
by Elise Cooper | Feb 3, 2024 | Author Interviews, Books, Features
Shadow of Doubt P.A. DePaul SBG Novel Book 2 Northfair Publishing Oct 17th, 2023 Shadow of Doubt by P. A. DePaul focuses on a black ops group. These ex-military operatives are now like family. This book has action and adventure, with twists and turns,...
by Chris Condon | Feb 1, 2024 | Features
It’s never lost on me that I stand on the shoulders of giants, especially when one is working in genres as well-traversed and dissected as noir or Westerns. In adapting Barry Gifford’s twisted American tale, Night People, for Oni Press, I was working directly with one...
by Erin Mitchell | Feb 1, 2024 | Events
CrimeFest – the UK’s biggest crime fiction convention – has announced two iconic crime writers will feature at its 2024 event: Lynda La Plante and James Lee Burke. Both are co-recipients of the prestigious 2024 Crime Writers’ Association’s...
by Elise Cooper | Jan 29, 2024 | Author Interviews, Books, Features
A Detective’s Deadly Secrets Vanished Anna J. Stewart A Detective’s Deadly Secrets by Anna J. Stewart is sadly the last in the series. The hero is FBI Agent Eaman Quinn, someone readers should be familiar with. He is reunited with a former girlfriend, Lana...
by Sarah Reida | Jan 26, 2024 | Books, Reviews
The Weekend Retreat by Tara Laskowski (One Night Gone, The Mother Next Door) is a locked room thriller where the prologue reveals that a murder has taken place at an extravagant Finger Lakes winery. At least one of the heirs to this family fortune has fallen victim...
by Erin Mitchell | Jan 25, 2024 | Books, Cover Reveal, Features
We’re excited to share the cover of DANGEROUS PLAY, the next book in Elise Hart Kipness’s excellent Kate Green suspense series! KATE GREEN IS BACK ON ASSIGNMENT COVERING WOMEN’S OLYMPIC SOCCER, AND SHE IS SURE TO GET THE STORY THAT WILL REESTABLISH HER...
by Elise Cooper | Jan 20, 2024 | Author Interviews, Books, Features
The Counterfeit Countess Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa Simon & Schuster Jan 23rd, 2024 The Counterfeit Countess by Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa recounts how a Jewish woman saved thousands of non-Jewish Poles during the Holocaust. It is the story of...
