by Crimespree Magazine | Oct 22, 2013 | Books, Reviews
Emily Bestler Books/Atria Pub date: October 22, 2013 Samuel Johnson has now twice done battle with – and twice emerged victorious over – the forces of evil. If anyone’s earned the right to a bit of peace, it’s him. Unfortunately, though, all is not...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 6, 2013 | Books
Simon & Schuster Pub date: July 9, 2013 Meet Isabel Spellman: chief shareholder and newly minted president of Spellman Investigations, a/k/a the boss. Unfortunately for Izzy, though, being in charge isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Her parents (who make up 50% of...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 2, 2013 | Books, Reviews
A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery William Morrow Pub date: 7/9/2013 Seattle innkeeper Judith McMonigle Flynn has decided to hang up her magnifying glass and retire from amateur sleuthing. Unfortunately, however, nobody told that to Ruby Tooms, who booked a room at Judith’s...
by Crimespree Magazine | May 11, 2013 | Books, Reviews
ECW Press Pub Date: May 1, 2013 When 23-year-old Alexandra “Sacha” Westlake is found dead on a glacier in Whistler, British Columbia, her wrists slit and her snowboard still attached to her feet, it’s generally assumed she committed suicide. Sacha’s mother Martha,...
by Crimespree Magazine | Apr 19, 2013 | Books, Reviews
Bantam Pub date: April 30, 2013 The discovery of teenager Karen Hansen’s mutilated corpse in the belfry of the All Faith Chapel shakes the tiny town of Eastport, Maine to its core. Could one of their own have done such a thing? The consensus is no, so the police turn...
by Crimespree Magazine | Apr 17, 2013 | Books
The first Maureen Coughlin novel, The Devil She Knows, was supposed to be the end, not the beginning. It was my third Staten Island novel. It put a neat cap on a crime fiction trilogy about where I grew up, and finally gave a novel to a character I had carried and...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 15, 2013 | Books, Reviews
CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE Putnam March 21, 2013 Carter Tomlin used to be a good person. He was a family man, an accountant – someone who worked hard and paid his taxes. The lay-off changed all that, though. Now Carter Tomlin robs banks. At first, he told himself the heists...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 12, 2013 | Books, Reviews
Berkley Prime Crime Pub Date: March 5, 2013 When Bear Wells and his wife comply with their daughter Jo’s texted request – a simple, two-word message imploring them to “come home” – they don’t expect to find her alone in their darkened house, cradling the dead body of...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 11, 2013 | Pet Spotlight
I had no idea what I was in for when I picked out Binkley. Or, for that matter, when I named her. She caught my eye some thirteen years ago, a tiger-striped little curlicue of gray and black sleeping on the topmost rung of a carpeted play structure in the kitten room...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 5, 2013 | TV
THR has reported that Sara Gran will be working with the producers ( John Wells, Andrew Stearn and Christopher Chulack) of SOUTHLAND on a proposed TNT series featuring her character Claire DeWitt. Clare debuted in CLAIRE DeWITT AND THE CITY OF THE DEAD, a story set in...
