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Black Scorpion: The Tyrant Reborn: New Excerpt

By Jon Land

April 1, 2015

Black Scorpion: The Tyrant Reborn by Jon Land picks up five years after Michael Tiranno saved Las Vegas, and now he's tasked with bringing down a international human trafficking organization (available April 7, 2015). Five years have passed since Michael Tiranno saved the city of Las Vegas from a terrorist attack. And now a new…

Under the Radar: Genre Movies You May Have Missed — Bandits

By Angie Barry

February 28, 2015

As a reporter says in the opening prologue, Bandits (2001) is “part Bonnie and Clyde, part Barnum & Bailey.” It’s farcical comedy, crime melodrama, and a unique love story all rolled into one. Joe Blake (Bruce Willis) and Terry Collins (Billy Bob Thornton) are a pair of inmate pals who spontaneously decide to break out…

Pop Music Spells Freedom, Really, In Morse Code!

By Crime HQ

January 12, 2015

It's the story of a Columbian colonel, a Miami ad man, long-time hostages and the music of freedom. Colonel Espejo was running out of opportunities to rescue hostages held by the rural FARC, sometimes for more than a decade, so he turned to an ad man with a long-standing grudge against the guerillas to design…

Bogie and Bacall: Key Largo (1948)

By Jake Hinkson

September 13, 2014

In tribute to the late Lauren Bacall, we’re looking at the four classic films she made with husband and screen partner Humphrey Bogart between 1944 and 1948: To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Dark Passage, and Key Largo. Last week we looked at Delmer Daves’ Dark Passage. Today we’ll look at John Huston’s…

Home Invasion Hostages Were Merely Hallucinating

By Teddy P

September 3, 2014

A local newspaper carrier had an interesting Sunday morning when she heard a disturbance coming from one of the houses on her route. There were three people inside the house frantically screaming for help and banging on windows in an attempt to get the carrier's attention. They yelled out to her they had been shot…

Dead Line: A New Excerpt

By Chris Ewan

August 2, 2014

Dead Line by Chris Ewan is a standalone thriller featuring a hostage negotiator who must locate his kidnapped wife (available August 5, 2014). If you're a security expert, what do you do if your fiancée suddenly goes missing, presumably kidnapped? If you're Daniel Trent, a highly trained specialist in hostage negotiation, the answer is simple:…

Alvirah and Regan Team Up to Help Holiday Hostages

Mary and Carol Higgins Clark’s Deck the Halls: Crime and Family

By Crime HQ

December 19, 2011

Culminating the holiday season of crime for TNT Mystery Movie Night—though new bestsellers’ books have been picked up for next year already—is Deck the Halls, based upon Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark’s first co-authored Christmas mystery. This story brings together two of their series characters, Alvirah Meegan (Kathy Najimy), who’s a former cleaning…

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