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Real Estate

Better Homes and Corpses: New Excerpt

By Kathleen Bridge

August 2, 2015

Better Homes and Corpses by Kathleen Bridge is the debut cozy in the Hamptons Home & Garden Mystery Series set in the swanky east-end of Long Island, NY (available August 4, 2015). In between scouring estate sales for her new interior design business, Cottages by the Sea, Meg visits the swanky East Hampton home of…

True Crime Thursday: Revisiting Richard Lloyd Parry’s People Who Eat Darkness

By Crime HQ

March 26, 2015

Lucie Blackman left home with her sights set on Tokyo and her mind set on money, but what awaited her was worse than she ever imagined. Working as a hostess in a seedy Roppongi night club, it wouldn't be long before Lucie went missing, with only a strange message left by a mysterious stranger serving…

Robert Durst was Reading about Himself before Arrest

By Joe Brosnan

March 19, 2015

Robert Durst, the subject of the HBO documentary The Jinx, directed by Andrew Jarecki, was arrested over the weekend in New Orleans for the murder of longtime friend Susan Berman. According to NBC News, a subsequent search of Durst's Houston home revealed among other things, a copy of Without a Trace: Inside the Robert Durst…

Introducing The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst: HBO’s 6-Part Documentary Series

By Joe Brosnan

January 30, 2015

The story seems familiar enough. We’ve all seen the wealthy kid who learns that happiness can’t be bought; the sibling who doesn’t want to enter the family business; the abusive marriage that seemed so perfect for a brief moment way back when; the feuding apartment neighbors who argue over small problems; the unhappy suburban wife…

Fresh Meat: Shark Skin Suite by Tim Dorsey

By Neliza Drew

January 26, 2015

Shark Skin Suite by Tim Dorsey is the 18th humorous escapade of Florida serial killer Serge Storm, and this time, after binging on a collection of legal films, he's ready to try his own hand at  upholding the law (available January 27, 2015). Tim Dorsey’s back with his 18th Serge Storm’s book, Shark Skin Suite.…

A Pleasure and a Calling: New Excerpt

By Phil Hogan

January 5, 2015

A Pleasure and a Calling by Phil Hogan is stand-alone psychological thriller about a real estate agent from a small English village who keeps a set of keys to every house he's ever sold (available January 6, 2014). Mr. Heming loves the leafy English village where he lives. As a local real estate agent, he…

Truth Be Told, a Jane Ryland and Jake Brogan novel, by Hank Phillippi Ryan

Fresh Meat: Truth Be Told by Hank Phillippi Ryan

By Elizabeth Kerri Mahon

October 7, 2014

Truth Be Told by Hank Phillippi Ryan is the third novel featuring Jane Ryland and Jake Brogan, a Boston journalist and cop, whose new investigations of murder amid shady foreclosures and the cold case of the Lilac Sunday murder become as complicatedly intertwined as their relationship (available October 7, 2014). The novel begins on an unseasonably…

Morbid Technoloy: Has Someone Died in Your House?

By Crime HQ

November 27, 2013

Using a valid U.S. address (and for a small fee), Died in House instantly searches millions of records to determine if a death has occurred at that location, and if so, will try to retrieve who, when, what caused it, not to mention the “vitality status” of previous residents. From co-founder Roy Condrey's Lapham's Quarterly…

The Halloran House Hotel NYC

The Scene of the Crime: Heistworthy Hotels

By Dirk Robertson

October 14, 2011

Just as in real estate, in crime location is everything. And plenty of criminals choose hotels as the scenes of their felonious fun. Take Darius Guppy, for example. A gem merchant so well-bred and connected that if he were food, he would be Ossetra caviar, Guppy checked into Room 1208 of New York’s Halloran House…

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