by Erin Mitchell | Jan 30, 2025 | Home Entertainment, TV
AMC Networks today released the official trailer for the highly-anticipated third season of its critically acclaimed noir drama series, Dark Winds. Starring Zahn McClarnon (The Son, Westworld, Fargo), Kiowa Gordon (The Red Road, Roswell, New Mexico), Jessica...
by David Cairns | Jan 29, 2025 | Behind the Book, Features
I’m often asked, “Why and how do you write about crime and detectives in the 19th century?” The answer, I think, lies in a combination of early influences and personal history. As a youngster, authors like Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Wilkie Collins...
by Erin Mitchell | Jan 29, 2025 | Events
Harrogate International Festivals has announced the Special Guests for the 2025 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, the globally renowned celebration of crime fiction taking place 17-20 July 2025. Lee and Andrew Child, Irvine Welsh, Attica Locke, Kate...
by Erin Mitchell | Jan 29, 2025 | Home Entertainment, TV
MASTERPIECE PBS announced today that it has commissioned Marble Hall Murders, an adaptation of the third and final installment in best-selling novelist Anthony Horowitz’s Susan Ryeland series. This is a follow-up to the critically acclaimed fan-favorites Magpie...
by Elise Cooper | Jan 28, 2025 | Author Interviews, Books, Features
B is for Bonnet Amish ABCs Book 2 Unforgotten Amish Suspense Book 2 Shelley Shepard Gray Revell Publishers B is for Bonnet and Unforgotten by Shelley Shepard Gray are both riveting stories. B is for Bonnet continues the story of four English raised siblings, Martin,...
by Erin Mitchell | Jan 28, 2025 | Author Workspaces, Features
For most of my decade-plus career as a published mystery novelist, I’ve worked in what I call my “accidental office,” a converted breakfast nook that sits off the kitchen in our 1930 house in Columbus, Ohio. Early on, when I also held down a full-time journalism job,...
by Elise Cooper | Jan 25, 2025 | Author Interviews, Books, Features
Arctic Pursuit McKenna Code book 1 Harlequin Pub January 21st, 2025 Arctic Pursuit by Anna J. Stewart is a suspenseful story. The plot has FBI Agent Ty Savakis deciding to go ‘off the books’ to help a witness, Alice, he worked with years ago. She is targeted by...
by Erin Mitchell | Jan 23, 2025 | Awards, Features
Mick Herron is the 2025 recipient of the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Diamond Dagger. The award recognises authors whose crime writing careers have been marked by sustained excellence, and who have made a significant contribution to the genre. One of the UK’s most...
by Sarah Reida | Jan 23, 2025 | Books, Reviews
Well-written and thoughtful, Ashley Winstead’s This Book Will Bury Me is a must-read for true crime fans, although it may be too dark for those who live off popcorn thrillers. Following the unexpected death of her father, 24-year-old college student Jane Sharp finds...
by James Bartlett | Jan 17, 2025 | Behind the Book, Features
I was in one of my favorite places – the Central Library in downtown Los Angeles – when I first learned about the murder of Cecil Wells in Fairbanks, Alaska in 1953. Flicking through the newspaper archives, I read that the prime suspect in the case, Cecil’s wife...
