The winner of the 2015 Bony Blithe Award

by | May 31, 2015 | Awards

  The Bony Blithe Light Mystery Award was presented tonight at The Hot House Restaurant & Bar in Toronto. The Bloody Words Light Mystery Award is an annual juried literary prize, presented at the Bloody Words Mystery Conference for a “book that makes us...

2015 Arthur Ellis Award winners

by | May 29, 2015 | Awards

Last night, at the Arthur Ellis Gala in Toronto, The Crime Writers of Canada presented the 2015 Arthur Ellis Awards. Best Novel C.C. Humphreys, Plague, Doubleday Canada Rest of the Shortlist Brenda Chapman, Cold Mourning, Dundurn Press Barbara Fradkin, None so Blind,...

Film Review: CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA

by | May 29, 2015 | Films

CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA Written and Directed by Oliver Assayas Starring: Juliet Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloe Grace Moretz I was planning to review the new AVENGERS movie but after seeing it, decided that there was no sense spoiling it with faint praise (at best) for...

FLAME OUT by MP Cooley Reviewed

by | May 29, 2015 | Reviews

FLAME OUT M.P. Cooley May 2015 William Morrow While out on patrol, June Lyons stumbles on a fire at the abandoned Sleep-Tite factory. As the fire starts to rage, she realizes there is a woman inside—and on fire. June manages to get the badly burned woman out, but the...

SO NUDE, SO DEAD by Ed McBain

by | May 28, 2015 | Books

It’s no secret that Ed McBain was a favorite author around these offices so when Hard Case Crime announced McBain first crime novel being brought back after 50 years we were a bit excited. SO NUDE, SO DEAD. OK, you already have me with the title. A piano prodigy...

DEAD TO ME By Mary McCoy reviewed

by | May 28, 2015 | Reviews

DEAD TO ME Mary McCoy 2015 Hyperion Alice used to worship her older sister Annie. But Annie walked out of the family and hasn’t been heard from for four years…until today. Alice and her older sister Annie grew up in a Hollywood household. Their parents weren’t famous...