Changes Afoot

by | Feb 12, 2013 | Features

As Crimespree prepares for its 50th issue, there are changes afoot here at our online home. We’re redecorating, so to speak, and integrating the website and blog so you can find everything in one place. We’ll have some new functionality that we think...

Brosnan to star in Neville based LAST MAN OUT.

by | Feb 11, 2013 | Films

Pierce Brosnan is getting into the Stuart Neville business. Brosnan has signed on to star in LAST MAN OUT, the film based on Stuart’s 2012 novel THE GHOSTS OF BELFAST (known as THE TWELVE in the U.K.). Former paramilitary killer Gerry Fegan is haunted by his...

Hurray for Thuglit's Return

by | Feb 11, 2013 | Books

I can’t remember how I stumbled onto Thuglit. I’m happy I did though. I think it was the first paperback anthology… I do remember finding the website and going back through the archives, reading every single story they contained. These stories were like no crime...

The Brandon Terrell Interview

by | Feb 9, 2013 | Author Interviews, Books

Brandon, word on the street is you’ve got a new young adult book hitting the shelves and not just any book, but a book in the vein of the much-beloved “Choose Your Own Adventure” styles of my childhood. Please, tell us more! Whichever ‘street’ is feeding you...

2013 Agatha Award Nominees

by | Feb 8, 2013 | Awards, Books

The powers that be at Malice Domestic have released the nominees for this year’s Agatha Awards. Best Novel: The Diva Digs Up the Dirt by Krista Davis A Fatal Winter by G.M. Malliet The Buzzard Table by Margaret Maron The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny The...

Rebus – A New Agenda?

by | Feb 8, 2013 | Books, Flashback

From Crimespree # 5 Feb/Mar 2005   REBUS: A NEW AGENDA?   by Richard Flannery   Rankin has always insisted that Edinburgh is the hero of his novels. Fair enough, but this long-time reader has always had a soft spot for the central character, John Rebus....