by Crimespree Magazine | May 2, 2014 | Awards
Mystery Writers of America have announced the winners for the 2014 Edgar Allan Poe Awards. Best Novel ORDINARY GRACE by William Kent Krueger (Simon & Schuster – Atria Books) Best First Novel RED SPARROW by Jason Matthews (Simon & Schuster – Scribner)...
by Crimespree Magazine | Apr 30, 2014 | Books, Reviews
KING OF THE WEEDS Mickey Spillane/Max Allan Collins 2014 Titan Books A few years back we ran a cover story with Max Allan Collins in which he discussed Mickey Spillane and talked about being asked by Spillane to finish unfinished projects that he had. Max Allan...
by Crimespree Magazine | Apr 29, 2014 | Features
The Case of the Unreliable Narrator In most novels, the narrator serves as the readersメ guide. Whether in third person or first, the narratorメs voice takes us by the hand and leads us, phrase by phrase, sentence by sentence, page by page. The narrator grounds us, sets...
by Crimespree Magazine | Apr 27, 2014 | Flashback
You aren’t what you eat Simon Kernick June 2004 The thing about food is that when you’re at an age that you can gobble up as much of the stuff as you like without putting on a pound in weight, you never appreciate it. Then, when you get a bit older and learn to...
by Crimespree Magazine | Apr 26, 2014 | Features
The Auschwitz Escape is a riveting novel by best-selling author Joel C. Rosenberg. Using the Holocaust as a backdrop it becomes a psychological, political, and historical thriller intertwined with the mystery of how the concentration camp victims escape and whether...