Erica Ruth’s Gift Guide

by | Dec 17, 2013 | Books

These are a few of my favorite things this year, and just may end up being the favorite thing of that crime-fiction lover on your holiday gift list: CRASHED by Timothy Hallinan This is the first in the Junior Bender series, which is quickly followed by LITTLE ELVISES...

SILENT CITY by Alex Segura

by | Dec 16, 2013 | Books, Reviews

SILENT CITY Codorus Press October 2013 Mood is everything in a novel. Music sounds richer. Colors seem deeper. Memories take you back to specific times and places; some happy, most are sad. Alex Segura nails the mood his first time out with his debut novel, SILENT...

Pet Spotlight: Chris Collett and Susie

by | Dec 16, 2013 | Pet Spotlight

Our Yorkshire terrier Susie is, we suspect, not the most intelligent creature in the world. There was the time she careered headlong into a patio door; the rock pool she thought she could leap across, landing instead plum in the middle. We’re on good terms with...

DVD gift ideas

by | Dec 14, 2013 | Home Entertainment

BURN NOTICE: The Complete Series Fox Home Entertainment Over the course of seven seasons, Michael Westen and company have battled crime lords, drug cartels, shadowy government organizations and international terrorists. When the series begins, Michael (Jeffrey...

2013 Specsavers National Book Award winners

by | Dec 13, 2013 | Awards

The 2013 Specsavers National Book Award winners were announced, earlier this week,  at London’s Mandarin Oriental Hotel. Specsavers Popular Fiction Book of the Year: An Officer and a Spy, by Robert Harris (Cornerstone) Other nominees: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy...

First poster for SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR

by | Dec 13, 2013 | Films

Yahoo Movies has debuted the first promo poster for Robert Rodriguez’s SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR. The second film features a number of returning members: Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson and Jamie King. Coming on board are Josh...

Film Review: PHILOMENA

by | Dec 13, 2013 | Films

Directed by Stephen Frears Written by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope Starring: Judi Dench, Steve Coogan Philomena is the story of an Irish woman (Dench), forced to give her baby up by an order of Catholic nuns in the fifties, and her lifelong search to find the child. The...