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Millennium Series Trilogy

Sweep the Confetti and Crack Your Knuckles, It’s a New Year!

By Crime HQ

January 2, 2012

Whether you love P.I.’s, procedurals, Golden Age, cozies, Westerns, historicals, thrillers, noir, true crime, movies, TV shows, even comics or videogames, we’re blasting double barrels of a 20-12-gauge year around here! The Washington Post has a terrific slideshow of New Year’s Eve celebrations around the world, including this Times Square clean-up crew captured by John…

All Kinds of Dragon Tattoo Going On

By Crime HQ

September 23, 2011

As we approach the December 21st U.S. release date for the English-language remake of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, directed by David Fincher) there are all kind of new teasers worth viewing, from the very latest “official” trailer— —to this slightly less official, but more colorful…

Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander/ Columbia Pictures

First Peek at David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

By Clare Toohey

May 31, 2011

Via Steven Zeitchik and the L.A. Times blog 24 Frames: “Was it leaked from a European theater or stealthily put there by Sony? Whatever your conspiracy theory, the source is perhaps less important than the content of this so-called ”feel-bad“ Christmas movie, all of which comes at us fast, gritty and stylish…[There’s a] blink-and-you’ll-miss-it nudity…

The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Stieg Larsson’s Girl Breaks the Rules

By Joanna Novins

May 15, 2011

Several months ago, I attended a writer’s conference where the draw included the founder of a major literary agency speaking on crafting the big scenes for a blockbuster novel—(and no, it wasn’t Donald Maass, who has written a well-known and fascinating book on writing the breakout novel). In preparation for the presentation, the speaker asked that…

Liz Lemon with Poptart in mouth

Irresistible Itineraries: Crime Fiction as Travelogue

By Elyse Dinh-McCrillis

May 12, 2011

As much as I pride myself on being an independent thinker, I admit I occasionally succumb to the power of suggestion. I have found myself watching TV after a perfectly fulfilling Thanksgiving dinner, wearing stretchy pants already crying uncle at the waist line, and suddenly feeling hungry for French fries, because a McDonald’s commercial comes…

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