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Now Win This!: Early Bird Sweeptakes

By Crime HQ

January 28, 2014

Register to enter for a chance to win a seven-book bundle, including advance copies you’re dying to read and brand-new releases! Click here to enter for a chance to win! This is NOT a Comments Sweepstakes. You must click the link above to enter. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE DOES NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING.…

Brad Meltzer’s Newest Heroes are Children

By Brian Bandell

January 16, 2014

Brad Meltzer is best known for his thrillers that incorporate historical facts and politics but now he’s taking a swerve in his career path, branching out into children’s books with the January releases of I Am Abraham Lincoln and I Am Amelia Earhart, illustrated by Christopher Eliopoulous. “I made this for the three most important…

Former Haitian policeman Jean Baptiste with Raylan Givens and Deputy Marshal Sutter

Justified Season 5 Premiere: “A Murder of Crowes”

By Regina Thorne

January 8, 2014

On the Twelfth Day of Christmas (give or take a day!), the Justified team gave me a whole murder of Crowes, and I couldn’t be happier about it. As much as I loved Season 4 (and I did!), I have to confess that I missed the misadventures of Malaprop Meister and general screwup Dewey Crowe,…

The Isle of Youth: Stories by Laura van den Berg

Fresh Meat: The Isle of Youth: Stories by Laura van den Berg

By Jenny Maloney

November 4, 2013

The Isle of Youth: Stories by Laura van den Berg is a short fiction collection exploring the diverse lives of women with deep secrets (available November 5, 2013). There are seven stories comprising Laura van den Berg’s new collection, Isle of Youth, and each is more fearsome than the last. Broken, struggling relationships between husbands…

Silent City by Alex Segura

Fresh Meat: Silent City by Alex Segura

By Dave Richards

October 23, 2013

Silent City by Alex Segura is the first book in a new series about reporter-turned-P.I., Pete Fernandez (available October 29, 2013). It takes a hard man to become a private investigator.  Raymond Chandler's Phillip Marlowe investigated crimes for the Los Angeles' D.A.'s Office before he went into business for himself. Robert B. Parker's Spenser was…

Accused Facebook killer Derek Medina and his wife during happier status updates along with online confession.

Social Media Confessions: Seeking Viral Fame in Murder

By Brian Bandell

August 24, 2013

Derek Medina is no deviously clever Zodiac Killer, but he may be the modern version. In a story that made headlines around the world, the Miami man shot his wife  and posted a photo of her bloody corpse on Facebook, along with his confession. But it was more than a simple confession. It was a…

The Cat Sitter's Cradle by Blaize and John Clement

Fresh Meat: The Cat Sitter’s Cradle by Blaize & John Clement

By Terrie Farley Moran

July 6, 2013

The Cat Sitter's Cradle by Blaize & John Clement is the eighth in the cozy mystery series featuring Florida pet sitter, Dixie Hemingway (available July 9, 2013). Dixie Hemingway (no relation to you-know-who) is back! Dixie is a cat sitter on the gorgeous but sleepy Florida barrier island of Siesta Key. It was not so…

Richard Dean Anderson as MacGyver

Close Call, Florida, But Mullet-Lovin McGyver Ain’t Mad.

By Crime HQ

July 1, 2013

MacGyver has proved the mullet is advantageous, even necessary, for the safe conduction of super brain power. So what about that just-signed legislation on the size of mullets? Well, according to Florida Today, it may not imperil the scientific progress (not to mention the stone cold badness) of humanity after all. Hat tip: Fark. Image…

Key Death by Jude Hardin

Fresh Meat: Key Death by Jude Hardin

By Neliza Drew

June 20, 2013

Key Death by Jude Hardin is the fifth Nicholas Colt Florida-based thriller (available June 25, 2013). So, you’re in between episodes of The Glades, you already finished the last Tim Dorsey book, and you still need a crazy-people-in-Florida fix. Jude Hardin’s latest Nicholas Colt book, Key Death, is the perfect solution. Former guitarist, former P.I.,…

Tropical Summer Reads

By Kristin Centorcelli

May 25, 2013

Summer is right around the corner, and how better to pass the time than with some reads set in exotic locales or, just as fun, on the beach? Whether you’re looking for something light and breezy or a walk on the darker side of summer, no worries, we’ve got you covered! If it’s a light,…

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