We’ve got a few nibbles of news to share: 1) They’re not calling the new movie based upon Lee Child’s novels One Shot anymore. They’re calling it Jack Reacher. Makes sense to us. Star Tom Cruise recently said he’s bringing to the part “everything but the height.” 2) The first part of the Hatfields &…
Silenced by Allison Brennan is a romantic thriller, fifth in the Lucy Kincaid crime series (available April 24, 2012). In Silenced, agent Lucy Kincaid nearly loses her grip on her climb toward acceptance in the FBI’s ranks. The troubled past that has driven her to succeed now threatens to derail her. As Allison Brennan’s Kincaid…
At long last, we have reached the finals. After some very tight races and some runaway landslides, we have the two most hated plot devices in crime fiction. Now it’s time to vote for the one you most want to see go away. Then we write an open letter to authors and ask them politely…
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…
According to the good people over at Deadline, Fox is going to be giving fans of the serial killer genre, and fans of Kevin Bacon, something new to gnaw on: The untitled Kevin Williamson project…is described as an edge-of-the-seat thriller about a diabolical serial killer who uses technology to create a cult of serial killers,…
Tonight, we will be reminded what conflicted, miserable lives we all led before DVR’s. Tonight, a trio of toddling young crime shows, all Seasons 3 or 4, return simul-freaking-taneously at 10-danged-o’clock, so even with dual tuners, we may still have to ask a friend to babysit one on their tuner or even to watch one…
Special Agent Bob Fitzpatrick was appointed ASAC (Assistant Special Agent in Charge) of the Boston office of the FBI in late 1980 with a clear mandate: “Kick ass and take names,” according to his superior Roy McKinnon in Washington. And the ass he really needed to kick was that of an Irish gangster named Whitey…
I’m an avid reader who enjoys a variety of genres. I discovered a number of good writers by reading series romances and have stayed loyal to them through the years although they’ve changed styles and even genres. Writers like Nora Roberts, Sandra Brown, Iris Johansen, and Tami Hoag have consistently done what they did in…
So maybe that movie Minority Report was on to something. Sure, they used psychics to predict crimes, but they got results, right? What if our police could detect threats well in advance and stop criminals before they act? Well the Department of Homeland Security may have found a way. The DHS has begun testing a…
Seems like we were just reporting on the casting of Gerard Butler as Steve Vail in The Bricklayer, based upon Noah Boyd’s novel about a retired FBI agent working the trades in Chicago. Now, we’ve learned that Paul Lindsay, a retired FBI agent and author of seven crime novels—his newest series under the pen name…
