Tales From The Thin Blue Line 28

by | Nov 4, 2014 | Features

Protests, like Occupy Wall Street, have been happening long before the financial domination of big banks. People deign to take time from the important business of living life so that they can point out the bad behavior of the few who have gained power in society....

STANDED by Alex Kava

by | Nov 3, 2014 | Books, Reviews

Stranded Alex Kava July 2014 Anchor Books Stranded by Alex Kava is a very intense thriller that involves a violent serial killer. What makes this book stand out is the ratio of heroines to heroes, more than two to one. The female characters all have different...

FALLEN ANGEL by Chuck Logan

by | Nov 3, 2014 | Books, Reviews

FALLEN ANGEL Chuck Logan October, 2014 Conquill Press I’ve been in this business now long enough to know that I’ll never figure it out. Why Chuck Logan’s Fallen Angel couldn’t find a home in traditional publishing is beyond me. Chuck, after shopping his manuscript...

Film Review: PRIDE

by | Oct 31, 2014 | Films

PRIDE Directed by Matthew Warchus Written by Stephen Beresford Starring Bill Nighy, Dominic West, Ben Schnetzer, George MacKay, Faye Marsay, Imelda Staunton You would have to have a heart of stone not to be moved by PRIDE. In 1984, miners in Wales are in the midst of...

MAYBE I SHOULD JUST SHOOT YOU IN THE FACE

by | Oct 30, 2014 | Books, Reviews

2014 ZELMER PULP PRESS  Sometimes, reviewing books for Crimespree really is the best job ever. I get to read and review cool stuff that I probably would have gone out and read anyway. But would I have gone out and taken a flyer on something new? Maybe…or maybe not....

Five that influenced me: Trey R Barker

by | Oct 29, 2014 | Five Things

Mom’s bookshelves were a wonderland of universes. Harlan Ellison’s Again, Dangerous Visions (the title of which scared me to death when I was exceedingly young), Fahrenheit 451, The Stand, Down To A Sunless Sea. Simak and Clarke, Hemingway and Steinbeck; Bruce...