Vote for Your Favorite Season of The Wire
By Crime HQ
May 9, 2017Let us know what you chose and why in the comments below!
Let us know what you chose and why in the comments below!
Certain television protagonists are not always the most honest, upstanding heroes that good-guy-always-wins Hollywood has trained us to expect. Some shows feature outright criminals and monsters, and manage to build a story around them that causes the viewer to sympathize with, and even root for, the antihero. Not all of these shows hit the mark,…
Certain shows’ protagonists are not always the most honest, upstanding “heroes” that the good-guy-always-wins Hollywood has trained us to expect them to be. Some shows feature down right criminals and monsters and somehow build a story around them that causes the viewer to sympathize with, and even root for, the antihero. Not all of these…
The Whites by Richard Price (writing as Harry Brandt) is the electrifying tale of a New York City police detective under siege by an unsolved murder, his own dark past, and a violent stalker seeking revenge (Available Now). Back in the run-and-gun days of the mid-1990s, when a young Billy Graves worked in the South…
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“Show me a hero, and I’ll give you a tragedy.” The Wire changed television and remains one of the greatest stories about life in an American city ever created. So, no pressure, David Simon, as we follow you to another embattled burg: Yonkers in 1987. Instead of the effects of the Drug War, this time…
The Whites by Richard Price (writing as Harry Brandt) is about a NYPD detective nearing retirement as he falls under siege by an unsolved murder, his own dark past, and a violent stalker (available February 17, 2015). You can listen to an exclusive audio excerpt below! Billy Graves heads the lobster shift for Detectives at…
Know what it's like to get sloppy on piña coladas with David Simon of The Wire? Let Richard Price tell you all about it… If you're thirsty for more, here are clips on singular cases that obsess cops and the joys of a pure crime novel. It's fortunate not everyone's definition of a play date…
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