by Crimespree Magazine | Oct 15, 2011 | Books, News
Dennis Lehane rocks, I have thought that since we first met back in…well, it was a long f**kin’ time ago. Dennis was a rising crime writer about whom, big things were predicted. He has more hair and we both had fewer lines. Those predictions came true and much of...
by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 18, 2011 | Books
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Pub date: August 2011 MSRP: $25.95 I want to thank Daniel Polansky for writing this book. Low Town forced me to use my imagination in ways I was unaccustomed to and I loved it. Polansky took crime and fantasy and created a hardboiled...
by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 15, 2011 | Books, Comics
Here’s the trick to reading zombie fiction: You are going to have to read/wade through an ocean of mediocre crap to find the books that make you say, “Right on.” That’s it, that’s all there is to it. Some are, at very least, entertaining, while some outright suck and...
by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 13, 2011 | Books
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc. Pub date: April 2011 MSRP: $24.95 I spotted this on the shelf in the true crime section of Barnes and Noble. The cover nailed me. A wraparound photograph of two tattooed hands pressed over a man’s face with his eyes barely showing....
by Crimespree Magazine | Sep 11, 2011 | Books
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Pub date: July 2011 MSRP: $26.95 I’d like to suggest an alternate title for this book. I’m thinking of something along the lines of Whiskey Tango Hell (“whiskey tango” is phonetics for white trash, hell should be self explanatory)....
