by Crimespree Magazine | Jan 7, 2014 | Books, Reviews
ALEX Pierre Lemaitre (translated from French by Frank Wynne) 2013 Quercus ALEX, by Pierre Lemaitre, is the first title brought to us by Quercus’s Maclehose Press imprint – translated lit and crime fiction. Quercus, a UK publishing company, has...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jan 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
by Crimespree Magazine | Jan 7, 2014 | Books, Reviews
Pub date: Jan 9th 2014 Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam Let me start this review by saying that this is going to be one of my favorite books of 2014, it’s that good. It’s a prequel to BAD THINGS HAPPEN and VERY BAD MEN which feature David Loogan. THE LAST DEAD GIRL is set in...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jan 6, 2014 | Books, Comics
With 2013 in the rear view mirror, the Crimespree crew has been doing a lot of thinking about what impacted us last year. Today, we will offer up some of the titles that we felt were noteworthy. They will be broken into a couple of categories: Reads (Books, Comics)...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jan 6, 2014 | Features
SAVING SUSAN SILVERMAN I went to see a movie last night and it was one of the first movies in a while that made me inspired about publishing. Plenty of great movies inspire me about movies, but this movie was, at its heart, about how books can help us work through the...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jan 5, 2014 | TV
There have been few situations in which I have been this pumped for a new series. TRUE DETECTIVE, starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson premieres January 12, 2014.
by Crimespree Magazine | Jan 3, 2014 | Author Interviews, Books
How long have you been a writer? I first began writing creatively in the fifth grade—I’m 52 now—with short stories and later became the school newspaper editor when I was only in the 8th Grade. I continued running the paper through high school graduation. During my...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jan 3, 2014 | Comics, News
The Disney folks have done a lot of things to entertain me over the years but I think I say somewhat safely that they are kind of control freaks. A friend of ours works at one of the parks as a princess and she’s not allowed to say anywhere on the internet that...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jan 3, 2014 | Films
Two and a half months before it’s release, Rob Thomas and co are offering up the first trailer for the Veronica Mars film. Years after walking away from her past as a teenage private eye, Veronica Mars gets pulled back to her hometown, an ex-boyfriend with...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jan 3, 2014 | Films
Written and Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen Starring: Oscar Issac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Adam Driver The Coen Brothers, for my money, have the strongest writing and directorial credits in the history of U.S. movies. Yes, there have been a few misses: BURN...
