by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 31, 2011 | Books
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...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 26, 2011 | Books
After submitting my manuscript last year for the upcoming Billy Boyle novel—the sixth—titled A Mortal Terror, the good folks at Soho Press asked for some cover ideas. Readers are often interested in what goes into the design of a book cover, and how much input authors...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 22, 2011 | Books, Films
The folks at IGN have been kind enough to share the Red Band trailer for DRIVE. Based on a story by James Sallis, Drive is a dark tale set in Southern California and Arizona, and centers on a stuntman (Ryan Gosling) who is also a wheelman during robberies. Things get...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 22, 2011 | Books
Charlaine Harris made headlines last week with the news that book thirteen is it. Sookie and the rest of her cast of characters from The Southern Vampire Series are wrapping up their story lines. The news spread like wild fire throughout both the internet and print...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 20, 2011 | Books
Exposed brickwork is all the rage in Surrey. My Uncle John has an entire bathroom that looks like it was carted over directly from Berlin. But I get the feeling the naked bricks here at the Zuela Guesthouse in Luang Nam Tha, Laos, are more a homage to the cost of...
