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Robert B. Parker

Tom Selleck as Jesse Stone, police chief of Paradise, Massachusetts

Tom Selleck’s Jesse Stone Returns with Doubt

By Crime HQ

May 8, 2012

The next installment of the Jesse Stone movies airs on CBS Sunday, May 20th. These films—starring and produced by Tom Selleck and based upon the novels by Robert B. Parker—have consistently been fan favorites among book-to-screen TV adaptations. But will Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt be the last one? According to Jay Bobbin at…

Robert B. Parker’s Lullaby, a Spenser novel by Ace Atkins

Robert B. Parker’s Spenser Reborn with Ace Atkins as Author

By Jake Hinkson

January 18, 2012

When the news broke last year that Putnam had tapped mystery writer Ace Atkins to pen a new Spenser novel, I sat dumbfounded for a full minute. At first, it struck me as a purely bad idea, a cheap scheme by a publisher to keep a lucrative franchise going. I mean, how can you have…

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The Hallmark of Mystery and the Mystery of Hallmark

By William I. Lengeman III

December 10, 2011

Most of us probably know Hallmark as the greeting card people, but if your cable TV lineup extends beyond the basic selections you may have noticed that somewhere higher up there in the channel range is a creature known as the Hallmark Movie Channel. While Hallmark’s not going to give Hollywood a run for their…

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Crime Fiction’s Ten Greatest Bromances

By Deborah Lacy

December 9, 2011

As a genre, mystery is famous for its loners, guys like Jack Reacher, Monk and Lucas Davenport. But mysteries are also rife with bromances, all you have to do is look. What exactly is a bromance? The term is used to describe a non-sexual relationship between two men that are unusually close. In mystery, this…

Robert Urich as Spenser for Hire

Most Excellent Investigators: The Better Casting Decisions

By Crime HQ

November 7, 2011

Here on Criminal Element there’s been talk about horrific casting decisions (Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher) and ones that make you go “hmm” (Jason Statham as Richard Stark’s Parker), but there’s also another class of casting decisions that gets less notice, those that just absolutely work. In fact, this post was inspired by one of…

Blood Bowl is a popular role playing game in card-based and video versions.

Football’s as Ripe (and Rotten) for Noir as Boxing

By Gary Phillips

September 30, 2011

Pro football season is upon us once again much to the chagrin of my wife.  “Are they always playing a game?” she will voice. With ESPN, NFL Network, and the broadcast channels, Sunday morning through Sunday night games, Monday night football, plus games on Thursdays and what not, there’s a lot of dang football to…

Death Brackets

Death Brackets: Toughest Dicks vs. Baddest Thriller Heroes: First Round, Part 2

By Guy Bergstrom

September 28, 2011

This is the third installment in our Death Brackets: Toughest Dicks vs Baddest Thriller Heroes.  In the intro, you learned the rules and met the contestants.  In Part 1 of the First Round, we gave you the first four matches of our Savage Sixteen.  Today, the last four. And then the competition gets really stiff!

Death Brackets: The Contest and The Contestants

By Guy Bergstrom

September 26, 2011

Mysteries and thrillers, by nature, are populated by tough guys. Detectives who hunt down serial killers. Spies who uncover dangerous traitors. Assassins who take out the worst bad guys on the planet — and anti-heroes like Dexter and Hannibal Lecter with enough goodness in their dark hearts that they sometimes turn their characters around and…

Sometimes you just have to start fresh...

Somebody Stop Them: Wearing Out Series’ Welcome

By Susan Amper

July 11, 2011

I was not among the 218,000 first-day buyers of Janet Evanovich’s Smokin Seventeen. Sixteen was enough for me. In fact, eight was enough. Writing book after book with the same characters and gimmicks is a difficult proposition. Arthur Conan Doyle set an unfortunate example. He tired of Sherlock Holmes and tried to kill him off.…

Spenser: A Look Back at Robert Parker

By Jake Hinkson

April 29, 2011

Robert B. Parker’s latest Spenser novel, Sixkill, hits shelves and e-readers everywhere on May 3rd. Though Parker passed away unexpectedly last January, it may be premature to assume this will be the last time we see Spenser in action. I mean, Parker died last year and still released three books. For all we know, he…

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