by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 21, 2013 | Home Entertainment, TV
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...
by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 21, 2013 | TV
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...
by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 21, 2013 | TV
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...
by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 20, 2013 | Awards, Books
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)...
by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 20, 2013 | Films
Universal Pictures, along with ImageMovers, have hired Jonathan Herman to adapt Andrew Pyper’s THE DEMONOLOGIST for the big screen. Professor David Ullman’s expertise in the literature of the demonic—notably Milton’s Paradise Lost—has won him wide acclaim. But...
by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 20, 2013 | Awards, Books
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)...
by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 20, 2013 | Awards, Books
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...
by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 19, 2013 | TV
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...
by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 18, 2013 | TV
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...
by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 18, 2013 | Books, Reviews
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...