by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 13, 2013 | Books, Reviews
New Pulp Press Pub date: April 1st, 2009 Sometimes you pick up a book and it starts slow. You wonder if it’s worth finishing. You put it down for a minute. You think about it. You remember that even though it was starting slow, you knew something was there. So you...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 13, 2013 | Five Things
A Love Supreme: John Coltrane. Music that keeps you transfixed in one holy place, can’t really be explained in words. My protagonist Erik Winter listen to Coltrane most hours of the day, especially in the wolf hour, between 4 and 5 AM, when everything is at its...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 12, 2013 | Awards, Books
The Lambda Literary Foundation has announced the finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards. Awards are presented in 22 categories, but here are the finalists for the Mystery categories: Gay Mystery Bokassa’s Last Apostle, by Rod Shelton (Paradise Press UK) Dos Equis,...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 12, 2013 | Books, Reviews
Berkley Prime Crime Pub Date: March 5, 2013 When Bear Wells and his wife comply with their daughter Jo’s texted request – a simple, two-word message imploring them to “come home” – they don’t expect to find her alone in their darkened house, cradling the dead body of...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 12, 2013 | Home Entertainment
March 26th sees the DVD release of EASY MONEY, the Swedish crime thriller based on the novel Snabba Cash by Jens Lapidus. Lower-class business student JW (Joel Kinnaman from AMC’s ‘The Killing’) falls in love with a sexy heiress while living a double...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 11, 2013 | Pet Spotlight
I had no idea what I was in for when I picked out Binkley. Or, for that matter, when I named her. She caught my eye some thirteen years ago, a tiger-striped little curlicue of gray and black sleeping on the topmost rung of a carpeted play structure in the kitten room...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 10, 2013 | Books
March 26th sees the release of ORDINARY GRACE, William Kent Krueger’s 14th novel. OG may well be Kent’s most personal novel to date. The story has been bouncing around Kent’s head for over five years. When the time was right, OG went from an idea to...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 9, 2013 | Books
On Tuesday, Hilary Davidson returned to The Mysterious Bookshop to celebrate the release of EVIL IN ALL ITS DISGUISES, the 3rd book in the Lily Moore series. When travel writer Lily Moore joins a group of journalists for an all-expenses-paid press junket to Acapulco,...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 9, 2013 | Books
Behind the Book, or The Story Behind My Story Jenny Milchman Originally in Crimespree 49 Writing a mystery is something of a mystery itself. Where do ideas come from? How do all those words get on the page? And what would make an otherwise perfectly pleasant person...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
