Gruley's THE HANGING TREE Optioned

Bryan Gruley is reporting that writer/director John Gray has purchased the film option for THE HANGING TREE, the second book in his Starvation Lake series. When Gracie McBride, the wild girl who had left town eighteen years earlier, is found dead in an apparent...

Guilty Pleasures: Nerd of Noir

In later years I would recognize that Kevin Costner once made good films. Films like No Way Out, Revenge, Bull Durham, The Untouchables – guy won a directing Oscar for Dances With Wolves, even. But on my eighth birthday at the Pavillion Theater, Kevin Costner...

A letter to Whitey Bulger

(Editor’s Note: Just a heads up to those of a more delacate nature: This article contains adult language. If you are offended by that sort of thing, you might want to stop reading.) Dear Whitey, I bet you watched a lot of TV in the years you were on the run....

2011 Ngaio Marsh Award finalists announced.

THE FINALISTS for the 2011 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel, which will be presented as part of the upcoming Christchurch Arts Festival, have been announced today. The award, now in its second year, is made annually for the best crime, mystery, or thriller novel...