by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 14, 2013 | Books, Reviews
Farrar, Straus and Giroux May 5th, 2013 The cover of this book grabbed me: a fist smashing a face and I knew I had to read it. The library came through. It was on the new release shelf. I read it in two days. It would have gone quicker if real life hadn’t...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 13, 2013 | Books, Reviews
New Pulp Press Pub date: April 1st, 2009 Sometimes you pick up a book and it starts slow. You wonder if it’s worth finishing. You put it down for a minute. You think about it. You remember that even though it was starting slow, you knew something was there. So you...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 12, 2013 | Awards, Books
The Lambda Literary Foundation has announced the finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards. Awards are presented in 22 categories, but here are the finalists for the Mystery categories: Gay Mystery Bokassa’s Last Apostle, by Rod Shelton (Paradise Press UK) Dos Equis,...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 12, 2013 | Books, Reviews
Berkley Prime Crime Pub Date: March 5, 2013 When Bear Wells and his wife comply with their daughter Jo’s texted request – a simple, two-word message imploring them to “come home” – they don’t expect to find her alone in their darkened house, cradling the dead body of...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 11, 2013 | Pet Spotlight
I had no idea what I was in for when I picked out Binkley. Or, for that matter, when I named her. She caught my eye some thirteen years ago, a tiger-striped little curlicue of gray and black sleeping on the topmost rung of a carpeted play structure in the kitten room...
