by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 25, 2012 | Books, Reviews
MONSTER by Dave Zeltserman The Overlook Press August 2012 I’ve always wanted to use the phrase, “local boy done good,” and now I can. Dave Zeltserman is from the Boston area and is the autor of Pariah, Killer, Outsourced and The Caretaker of Lorne Field. The first...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 25, 2012 | Books, Five Things
Not necessarily my favorite albums, but definitely “life-changing music,” in roughly chronological order. 1. The Who: “Who’s Next” I heard this at exactly the right time when I was a teenager, about ten years after it was released. It...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 23, 2012 | Books
Is it true that the more things change, the more they stay the same? Looking around, it’s tempting to say that the old phrase is right on the money. The big banks have been caught cheating again. The politicians are still calling each other names. Doom and gloom...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 23, 2012 | Books, Pet Spotlight
Writers need felines. Period. We have five cats. All are strays or former feral fur babies. This latest showed up out of the blue a few weeks ago and camped on my door mat, next to the invisible sign that reads “Sucker.” (In the past, a peacock, two dogs,...
by Crimespree Magazine | Jul 20, 2012 | Books, Five Things
Today, we have a legend of the crime fiction community. James Lee Burke, who will be releasing his 20th novel, CREOLE BELLE, on July 17th, sent us a list of 5 works he feels most influenced his work. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Studs Lonnigan by James...
