Finalists for the 2012 Ngaio Marsh Award

by | Aug 7, 2012 | Awards, Books

The 2012 Ngaio Marsh Finalists: COLLECTING COOPER by Paul Cleave (Simon & Schuster) LUTHER: The Calling by Neil Cross (Simon & Schuster) BY ANY MEANS by Ben Sanders (HarperCollins) BOUND by Vanda Symon (Penguin) The winner will be announced on September 1st at...

International poster for LOOPER

by | Aug 6, 2012 | Films

The swell folks at Yahoo U.K. have posted the new international poster for Rian Johnson’s upcoming LOOPER. LOOPER stars stars Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Noah Segan, Piper Perabo and Jeff Daniels. In the future, time travel will...

Karin Slaughter and Grace

by | Aug 6, 2012 | Books, Pet Spotlight

Editor’s Note: This week, best-selling author Karin Slaughter joins us for a tale about the intelligence, and curiosity, of Grace, her Maine Coon cat. As Criminal, my twelfth book, came out last month, I started to look back at my career as a whole.  Am I happy...

Teen Trends: Gripping Reads

by | Aug 5, 2012 | Books

Editor’s note: Amy regularly writes about young adult fiction in Crimespree Magazine. The following column first appeared in issue 47. It is interesting to see that paranormal elements remain strong in teen mysteries but now cross other genres too like...