“Listen to your mother.” Excellent words of advice, so today on the occasion of Mother’s Day, we are going to give some of our mothers the opportunity to make crime fiction book and TV recommendations. Of course, it just wouldn’t be right unless I started with my own lovely and talented mother whose favorite authors…
Readers of mystery fiction may or may not be the most avid fans of their particular genre but they’ve got to be high on the list. Which might go a long way toward explaining why so much mystery fiction takes place in and around bookstores, and particularly mystery bookstores. It would take someone much better…
If you watched the TNT Mystery Movie Night presentation of Mary Higgins Clark’s and Carol Higgins Clark’s Deck the Halls last night, what did you think? Did it kidnap your interest then feed it some Christmas cookies before releasing it? And what do you think now about the concept? At HQ, we’ve found the movies…
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…
We bow to no one in our love of the slightly retro concept of the made-for-TV-movie, and had mentioned how we’re looking forward to TNT inaugurating its Mystery Movie Night with new adaptations of crime novels from 6 authors. With the first installment nigh, we’re going to find out even more! Here’s the trailer for…
Perhaps because my own family had more than a few “boundary issues” and privacy was at a minimum, I’ve always been fond of mysteries that focus on long-hidden family secrets. In her newest novel, Hell To Pay, Wendy Corsi Staub reveals more buried secrets than any genealogical excavator could possibly hope to find. In many…
We know, we know, it’s not even Labor Day!! But we’ve been waiting to hear more about some shows we have our beady eyes upon, and here obligingly comes TNT’s press release about its fall/winter crime schedule. Leverage, starring Timothy Hutton, cons its way through the remaining 8 episodes of season 4 starting November 27th. The…
I’m a reader because of Nancy Drew. Back in the Dark Ages when young adult fiction consisted of Sweet Valley High and Judy Blume, it was Nancy who got me reading. I liked the puzzle. I liked following the story and trying to unravel the mystery right along with Nancy, even if she did get…
