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Book Review: Quiet in Her Bones by Nalini Singh

By Janet Webb

February 26, 2021

Some titles and opening words have the power to propel us instantly into an unsolved mystery, as with Nalini Singh’s Quiet in Her Bones: My mother vanished ten years ago.   So did a quarter of a million dollars in cash.   Thief. Bitch. Criminal.   Now, she’s back.   Her bones clothed in scarlet…

A Madness of Sunshine: New Excerpt

By Nalini Singh

November 14, 2019

The house also featured a new porch stocked with a number of whitewashed rocking chairs. Nubile young women occupied two of those chairs. “Oh, hello,” one said in a cheerful way. “Shane’s writing, so he can’t see you right now. But we’d be happy to visit.” “Interrupt him,” the cop said in such a flat…

Donna Malane Excerpt: My Brother’s Keeper

By Donna Malane

December 11, 2017

From New Zealand author Donna Malane, My Brother's Keeper is a dark and twisting mystery that leaves no stone―or page―unturned (available December 19, 2017). Diane Rowe is a missing persons expert. Ex-con Karen needs Diane's help to track down her fourteen-year-old daughter, Sunny, whom she's lost contact with while she's been in prison. To Diane,…

11 of the Best Fictional Island Cops

By John Keyse-Walker

September 13, 2016

Most of us love the idea of islands—their beauty, their singularity, their separation from the wider world. And, of course, we all believe that life may somehow be easier on islands, more laid back, simpler, even Edenic. But islands have their dark side, too. And just as most of us are drawn to the mythic…

Under the Radar: Genre Movies You May Have Missed — The Frighteners

By Angie Barry

January 23, 2015

I love the mainstream, popular, and critically acclaimed films as much as the next person. The last thing I’d consider myself is a cinematic snob. But there are times when a truly amazing movie slips into—and out of—theaters without much buzz before fading into obscurity. So I’d like to bring a few of those gems…

Under the Radar: Genre Movies You May Have Missed — Black Sheep

By Angie Barry

November 19, 2014

I love the mainstream, popular, and critically acclaimed films as much as the next person. The last thing I’d consider myself is a cinematic snob. But there are times when a truly amazing movie slips into—and out of—theaters without much buzz before fading into obscurity. So I’d like to bring a few of those gems…

Reviving the Mockumentary: Trailer for What We Do in the Shadows

By Joe Brosnan

May 2, 2014

The trailer for What We Do in the Shadows starts off like the same trailer we see every three months: a dramatic musical buildup in a strategically-darkened, run-down house that ends with a haunting image. Sometimes, it's a scary looking girl. Sometimes, it's what seems to be the result of an acid-trip-gone-wrong. And sometimes, it's…

Ngaio Marsh: The Kiwi Killer

By Terrie Farley Moran

April 4, 2014

In 1888, Henry Marsh, the oldest son of a large English family, immigrated to New Zealand, where he met New Zealand-born Rose Elizabeth Seager. Her father was a prominent public official. After they married, Edith Ngaio Marsh was born in the late 1890s in Christchurch, the largest city on the South Island. She was an…

Death on Deman by Paul Thomas

Fresh Meat: Death on Demand by Paul Thomas

By Leslie Gilbert Elman

October 4, 2013

Death on Demand by Paul Thomas is a police procedural featuring Maori detective Tito Ihaka and set in Auckland, New Zealand (available October 8, 2013). Tito Ihaka possesses all the qualities that make a police procedural protagonist: street smarts, an insolent manner, an appreciation for the female form, and a facility with snappy banter, most…

Now Win This!: The Paul Cleave Sweepstakes

By Crime HQ

September 10, 2013

    This Sweepstakes has ended. Summer may be over, but we're giving you one more chance to get away with a full set of seven Paul Cleave novels! Set in Christchurch, New Zealand, and introducing the Christchurch Carver (among other monsters), the novels' protagonists alternate between heroes and villains and those between in dark,…

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