Sometimes, less is more. But sometimes, there’s delirious pleasure in heaping more upon more. Like, for example, when you take a perfectly wonderful candy bar—a symphony itself of caramel, nougat, peanuts, and chocolate—and freeze it onto a stick, then dip the thing in batter and deep-fry it. On paper, even to a lover of sweets,…
Back to school means the return of many of our favorite TV shows. Major Crimes, Copper, and Grimm have already started, and we’ll have to wait until 2013 for BBC’s Sherlock, but plenty more premieres await in the golden months ahead. Will Castle and Beckett’s relationship grow or disintegrate as a result of their tryst?…
On the one hand, there’s Kevin, offbeat computer geek, quite possibly the only man who can keep up with Penelope Garcia in terms of marrying nerdy know-how and creative quirk. On the other, there’s the impossibly cool Derek Morgan, brave and debonair enough to be out of anybody’s league. These two men share only two…
Here’s USA’s description of the movie Certain Prey, based upon John Sandford’s novel, to air two weeks from now: Lucas Davenport doesn’t need his job as Minneapolis’s Deputy Chief of Police; he could have retired long ago with the money he made designing computer simulations. But Davenport loves what he does just as much as…
Because I have a tendency to fall in love with shows that are soon canceled, I didn’t succumb to the siren song of Criminal Minds until A&E started airing the first few seasons in syndication. But, oh, have I made up for lost time! Now, six seasons in, I’m desperate for the season premiere coming…
Do you know this man? He appears at least a couple times a day in my Twitter stream. I think he’s hot. And a damned good writer. But even with all that going for him, if I went to a restaurant and he was sitting at a table in the corner, I would never recognize…
Years ago, before I had children, I worked for a large bookstore chain. I read everything that looked even slightly interesting, and I developed a love for crime stories. I carried that appreciation into my movie and television viewing. Mysteries are great, right? They puzzle your brain, and if the solution can be found in…
