by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 11, 2014 | Films
Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller offer fans another trailer for SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR. Like the first one, this flick has a pretty impressive cast: Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Powers Boothe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Eva Green, Dennis...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 11, 2014 | Awards
The Private Eye Writers of America have announced the finalists for the 2014 Shamus Awards. BEST HARDCOVER P.I. NOVEL Little Elvises by Timothy Hallinan The Mojito Coast by Richard Helms W is for Wasted by Sue Grafton The Good Cop by Brad Parks Nemesis by Bill...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 11, 2014 | Five Things
The problem with creating a protagonist in a crime series and writing her in the first-person voice is that often readers – and my friends – confuse her traits with my own. Alex Cooper is a prosecutor in New York City – a job I held for thirty years – but unlike me,...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 10, 2014 | Awards
The North American Branch of the International Association of Crime Writers has awarded the the 2013 Hammett Prize to Richard Lange’s ANGEL BABY. Other nominees: CATARACT CITY: A NOVEL by Craig Davidson (Doubleday Canada) GREEN LIGHT FOR MURDER by Heywood Gould...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 10, 2014 | Features
There was a master defense attorney in Milwaukee named James Shellow. He was nationally renowned, and had received a lot of press during the 1960’s civil rights protest era. He was also contacted quite frequently by defendants regarding controlled substance...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 9, 2014 | Books
The film site Deadline is reporting that Don Winslow has left Simon & Schuster and is returning to Knopf. Winslow spent most of his career with Knopf, leaving to pen SAVAGES and KINGS OF COOL for S&S. According to the article, his first book under the new deal...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 9, 2014 | TV
Comic book fans might want to look extra close at this trailer. After watching it, I had to dig though my Justice League and All Star Squadron comics to figure out where I had seen that helmet before. The series features Matt Ryan as John Constantine, demon hunter and...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 9, 2014 | Author Interviews
A Conversation with C.J. BOX Author of SHOTS FIRED Stories from Joe Pickett Country Michael Barson: In SHOTS FIRED, you have quite an array of different story types—four Joe Pickett tales, a solo Nate Romanowski, a couple of historicals, and several contemporary crime...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
by Crimespree Magazine | Jun 8, 2014 | Home Entertainment
THE ART OF THE STEAL Anchor Bay I am a sucker for heist movies and always have been. The art of the steal is all that I love about those films and more. This film has got elements of a good con, a well-executed heist and a bit of revenge thrown in for good measure....
