by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 22, 2013 | Books, Events
October 22 sees the release of CRITICAL MASS, the latest from mystery icon Sara Paretsky. V.I. Warshawski’s closest friend in Chicago is the Viennese-born doctor Lotty Herschel, who lost most of her family in the Holocaust. Lotty escaped to London in 1939 on the...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 21, 2013 | Books, Reviews
Soho Crime May 7th, 2013 The Slough House in London is where the MI5 screw-ups—or the “slow horses”—of the spy world are sent to ride out the rest of their careers. The agency hopes that by sending them into obscurity to push around papers they will soon quit from the...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 21, 2013 | Books, Reviews
HarperCollins Publishers Pub date: July 30th, 2013 It’s nice when you get to a point while reading a series of books that you get to consider the characters friends. You get the new book in the series and you can’t wait to see what your friends have been up to since...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 21, 2013 | Five Things
MAN ON FIRE (2004) — You kidding me? That hour-long first act, all about establishing the relationship between an ex-Spec Operator and a girl? Then the point at which the restraints come off and Creasy goes to do what he does. And the ending still makes me mist...
by Crimespree Magazine | Aug 20, 2013 | Books
Icon, legend, a master of the genre. None of these descriptions would be an exaggeration if applied to Elmore Leonard. Leonard has won every award in the genre (and many from beyond it), influenced generations of authors, had his characters adapted (with great...
