TNT cancels KING & MAXWELL

After just one season, TNT is saying goodbye to KING & MAXWELL, the series featuring the characters of David Baldacci. Jon Tenney and Rebecca Romijn were Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, former Secret Service agents turned private Investigators. The series averaged...

TNT cancels KING & MAXWELL

After just one season, TNT is saying goodbye to KING & MAXWELL, the series featuring the characters of David Baldacci. Jon Tenney and Rebecca Romijn were Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, former Secret Service agents turned private Investigators. The series averaged...

NBC developing Linwood Barclay's NEVER LOOK AWAY

Linwood Barclay’s NEVER LOOK AWAY is being developed by NBC. A warm summer Saturday. An amusement park. David Harwood is glad to be spending some quality time with his wife, Jan, and their four-year-old son. But what begins as a pleasant family outing turns into...

2013 Shamus Award winners

A short while ago, The Private Eye Writers of America presented the 2013 Shamus Awards at the PWA Banquet at Bouchercon in Albany, New York, Best Hardcover P.I. Novel: TAKEN, by Robert Crais (Putnam) Other nominees: ROBERT B. PARKER’S LULLABY, by Ace Atkins (Putnam)...

2013 Barry Award winners

Thursday night, Deadly Pleasures magazine presented the 2013 BARRY Awards. Best Novel: THE BLACKHOUSE, by Peter May (Silver Oak) Other Nominees GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn (Crown) TRUST YOUR EYES, by Linwood Barclay (NAL) DEFENDING JACOB, by William Landay (Delacorte)...

2013 MaCavity Award winners

Last night, at Bouchercon, the 2013 MaCavity Awards were handed out. Best Mystery Novel: THE BEAUTIFUL MYSTERY by Louise Penny (Minotaur) Other finalists: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (Crown) The Black House by Peter May (Silver Oak) The Other Woman by Hank Philippi...

TNT orders Steven Bochco's MURDER IN THE FIRST.

TNT has greenlit Murder in the First, a new scripted drama from Emmy®-winner Steven Bochco and starring Taye Diggs (Private Practice) and Kathleen Robertson (Boss). Co-created by Bochco and Eric Lodal (The Locrian Mode), Murder in the First also stars Tom Felton...

More cast for Showtime's PENNY DREADFUL

PENNY DREADFUL, Showtime’s upcoming horror/adventure series continues to fill out the cast. Billie Piper (DR. WHO, Showtime’s SECRET DIARY OF A CALL GIRL) has agreed to play Brona Croft, an Irish immigrant to Victorian London trying to escape a dark and...

The Thicket by Joe R. Lansdale

Little, Brown & Company Publication date: Sept 10th, 2013 I’ve written before about how I feel Joe Lansdale is one of the 2 greatest living crime writers. In my eyes, the man can do no wrong at all. Something about his style just grabs me by the throat and leaves...