THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR FANS OF FILM NOIR. Be careful when you’re trolling the Internet looking for cheap box sets. Not every obscure B-movie is a gem awaiting rediscovery. As a good rule of thumb, for example, beware of anything directed by William Berke or Sam Newfield. You will be forgiven if…
This week, the boys in blue of Tampa, Florida arrested a 17-year-old high school student named Jared Cano for plotting to blow up his school in hopes “to cause more casualties than were suffered at Columbine.“ The kid had a manifesto, fuses, timers, the whole nine-yards for DIY carnage. The good news is he was…
A retired FBI agent from the Detroit field office, Paul Lindsay has written several novels. But most recently, under the pseudonym Noah Boyd, he’s begun a series about another ex-FBI agent named Steve Vail. Millenium Films has acquired Boyd’s novel, The Bricklayer (can you guess Vail’s post-feeb occupation?), and Gerard Butler will play the Chicago…
As any romantic suspense reader worth her salt will tell you, some branches of law enforcement get more love than others when it comes time for hero building. But thanks to the magic of blogging, this reader can and will build her own all-star team of romantic suspense heroes. A team representing more than just…
He’s back in circulation, with the hope that DNA matches may clear a frightening number of cold cases in which he was suspected. Heck, this’ll catch ones where no one even thought of him. According to Diane Alter of AHN: Before he was sent to the electric chair in in 1989, notorious serial killer Ted…
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…
I just finished rewatching the first season of Haven, and of all the returning summer shows, I’m looking forward to this one the most. The series is based on the Stephen King novella The Colorado Kid, published by Hard Case Crime. I haven’t read the book, but judging from reviews I’d say the connection between…
Can you identify this woman of modest raiment, resolutely bearing her Bible and hatchet? No, not Lizzie Borden, who tends to look positively serene in photos. This is Carry A. Nation (even if many misspell her as “Carrie” and the A. really stands for Amelia), crusader for national temperance, posed as if to enter a saloon…
Next week, network TV executives will converge on New York City to announce their new fall TV schedules. More than 80 new pilots are currently being screened and selected to join returning favorite shows, and here’s a glimpse at a few of the criminally inclined that we’re hoping to see on the boob tube come…
