by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 27, 2015 | Author Workspaces
Call it: Room Without a View. I wake up early to write and prefer having nothing to look at but the screen and the corner of the office behind it, the better to focus on what I’m imagining. The more I read, write, and teach, the more I agree with what Victoria Strauss...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 26, 2015 | Reviews
Secrets of State Matthew Palmer G.P. Putnam and Sons 5/26/15 Secrets of State by Matthew Palmer is a spy thriller that has diplomats instead of operatives. With Matthew venturing into the thriller writer world, it became an all in the family affair since his late...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 25, 2015 | Author Interviews
UNDER FIRE centers on Jack Ryan Jr. who is coming into his own as an operative. While on an intelligence mission in Tehran Jack meets with his old high school friend, Seth Gregory. Later Seth disappears and Jack is told he is a possible traitor. It becomes...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 25, 2015 | Books
SOME LIKE IT WITCHY Heather Blake May 5, 2015 Obsidian When Darcy Merriweather agrees to help Cherise Goodwin hunt for a new home, she doesn’t realize she’s essentially signing herself up for yet another murder investigation. But when the pair goes to tour the old...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 24, 2015 | Reviews
The President’s Shadow Third book in the Culper Ring series Brad Meltzer Grand Central Publishing June 16th, 2015 THE PRESIDENT’S SHADOW by Brad Meltzer is the final book in the Beecher series. As with all his books, he intertwines history with an action packed...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 24, 2015 | Behind the Book
Sometimes you choose the book and sometimes the book chooses you. Then there are times when the book doesn’t “choose” you, it dragoons you. In the case of “I, Ripper,” happily, it was the latter. Jack the Ripper simply marched in and...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 24, 2015 | Books
Purple Rain: PURPLE RAIN was the first R-rated movie I snuck into. I had to—I had listened to the album endlessly and needed to see Prince perform. Prince had already blown the minds of me and my Catholic junior high school friends—we parsed the lyrics to “Little Red...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 22, 2015 | TV
Having watched episode one of the new TRUE DETECTIVE, an episode that you have Mr. Rogers contemplating suicide, I find myself appreciating the art of it, but I want…no, need something to make me become emotionally attached to it. If nothing else, I am looking...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 22, 2015 | Reviews
UNDER FIRE: a Tom Clancy novel Grant Blackwood June 16th, 2015 G. P. Putnam and Sons Under Fire a Tom Clancy novel by Grant Blackwood has the return of Jack Ryan Jr. as the protagonist. Since Tom Clancy’s death his legacy is carried on with authors Mark Greaney and...
