The 9th Traverse City Film Festival

by | Aug 23, 2013 | Films

Since the price of accommodations at the Film Festival have gone up every year, this may be our last trip to northern Michigan for a while. Paying $300 a night for a room normally $90 seems outrageous. But a friend put us up in her house on Spider Lake so we did get...

BRUCE NOIR in Asbury Park

by | Aug 22, 2013 | Events, Films

Wallace Stroby and Dennis Tofoya  are taking part in a fairly cool event: BRUCE NOIR. Friday and Saturday, in Asbury Park, The Showroom Cinema will host the event which look atn the noir genre and its influence on Bruce Springsteen’s life and work. Springsteen himself...

Tom Schreck’s Albany

by | Aug 22, 2013 | Features

I’m a Bouchercon regular and my books take place in and around a fictional Albany, New York. I thought it might be helpful to give the Crimespree family an insider’s look at this year’s host city. First of all, a disclaimer: I’m not on any committee, nor am I...

Crimespree on Comics: Sweet Tooth

by | Aug 22, 2013 | Comics

Vertigo Writer: Jeff Lemire Artist: Jeff Lemire Post-apocalyptic stories are a dime a dozen. They’re showing up in all forms of media and they’re starting to get repetitive. So, when one comes along that showcases an original idea by a voice that deserves to be heard...

DEAD LIONS by Mick Herron

by | Aug 21, 2013 | Books, Reviews

Soho Crime May 7th, 2013 The Slough House in London is where the MI5 screw-ups—or the “slow horses”—of the spy world are sent to ride out the rest of their careers. The agency hopes that by sending them into obscurity to push around papers they will soon quit from the...