by Crimespree Magazine | Feb 20, 2013 | Books, Reviews
Crown publishing Pub date: Feb 19th, 2013 As I write this Whitey’s lawyers are trying to convince a judge that Whitey basically had a license to kill granted to him by high level members of the U.S. government. You need to know before I go any further, this story is...
by Crimespree Magazine | Feb 20, 2013 | Flashback
Originally run in Crimespree issue 12, May 2006 Kate Stine is one of the nicest and smartest people in the crime-writing world. This year, the MWA is giving Kate and her husband, Brian Skupin, an Ellery Queen Award — by the time you read this they’ll have...
by Crimespree Magazine | Feb 20, 2013 | Five Things
Five Books that Greatly Influenced My Love of Writing By Gail Lukasik I began my writing career as a poet and still write the occasional poem. The book of poetry that had the most profound impact on both my poetry and my fiction writing was William Carlos...
by Crimespree Magazine | Feb 19, 2013 | Flashback
Originally ran in Crimespree issue 11 Mar 2006 By Ayo Onatade Look what the cat dragged in! – Mysterious Cats “I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat”. – Edgar Allan Poe Let me preface this article by saying that I do not hate cats. Despite the fact...
by Crimespree Magazine | Feb 19, 2013 | Books, Reviews
THE WRATH OF ANGELS by John Connolly 2013 from Atria (US)/ Hodder & Stoughton (UK) I’ve been reading John Connolly since the first book picking up EVERY DEAD THING the week it came out. Charlie Parker continues to be one of my all time favorite series...