by Crimespree Magazine | Oct 19, 2014 | Events
U.S. fans of British crime fiction have a treat coming. Acclaimed British writer Paul Charles will be doing a 7 state tour to support DOWN ON CYPRUS AVENUE. Some of these dates will see Charles team up with John Connolly and Stuart Neville. In the first of a new...
by Crimespree Magazine | Oct 18, 2014 | TV
The cast and crew of THE WIRE, a show I consider to be the best drama in the history of television, reunited to talk about the show and their experiences. With a few notable exceptions, most of the primary players were on hand at Paleyfest to look back at the iconic...
by Crimespree Magazine | Oct 17, 2014 | Films
GONE GIRL Directed by David Fincher Written by Gillian Flynn, based on her novel Starrint Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Kim Dickens, Carrie Coon, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry SPOILERS GALORE I was ready to write a review of GONE GIRL this week although everyone with...
by Crimespree Magazine | Oct 16, 2014 | Features
Andrew Kaplan William Morrow October 7th, 2014 Saul’s Game is an original novel of the Homeland series written by best selling author Andrew Kaplan. It is a prequel that takes fans of this series back to 2009 and before. The plot includes the backstory on many of the...
by Crimespree Magazine | Oct 15, 2014 | Books, Reviews
FULL MEASURE, by T. Jefferson Parker, is a departure from the crime novels he has written in the past. This book is about the bond between siblings as well as those connected through military service. It puts a potent face to the names and numbers of those serving as...
by Crimespree Magazine | Oct 15, 2014 | Events
Haunted P.I. Charlie Parker returns, on October 28th, in John Connolly’s THE WOLF IN THE WINTER. The community of Prosperous, Maine has always thrived when others have suffered. Its inhabitants are wealthy, its children’s future secure. It shuns outsiders. It...
by Crimespree Magazine | Oct 15, 2014 | Features
Behind the Book: Why I Write Writing a thriller that gets positive reviews from magazines, journals, and best of all, readers, is the ultimate thrill for me. It’s a fantastic adrenaline rush, not that my life has been lacking in rushes. I’ve been a professional jazz...
by Crimespree Magazine | Oct 15, 2014 | Home Entertainment
Robert Rodreguiz and Frank Miller have finally re-teamed and returned to the noir world of SIN CITY. A Dame To Kill For did not thrill audiences like the first film, but I still totally dug the style. Scandal, murder, betrayal and mystery surround the lives of several...
by Crimespree Magazine | Oct 14, 2014 | Features
You’re a small town police officer in the quiet mountain town of Boulder, Colorado. You have never investigated a major crime. After all, major crimes don’t occur in small towns. At least, not the type of major event programmed into the minds of average...
by Crimespree Magazine | Oct 13, 2014 | TV
FOX has ordered six more episodes of this fall’s breakout new drama series, GOTHAM, it was announced today by Dana Walden and Gary Newman, Chairmen and CEOs of Fox Television Group. The announcement raises the series order to 22 episodes. “GOTHAM debuted as one of the...
