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Fresh Meat: Fear City by F. Paul Wilson

By Chad Eagleton

November 10, 2014

Fear City by F. Paul Wilson is the final book the Repairman Jack: The Early Years trilogy set in New York City in 1993 (available November 11, 2014). For new fans of F. Paul Wilson’s popular Repairman Jack character, Fear City is the last book in The Early Years Trilogy. For those of us who…

Rosewater: Jon Stewart’s Directorial Debut

By Crime HQ

August 29, 2014

Last summer, Jon Stewart took a three month hiatus from his nightly The Daily Show gig to travel to the Middle East. The result of his hiatus is Rosewater, a film that marks his first time as director and is adapted from Maziar Bahari's memior Then They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love,…

Detroit Breakdown by D.E. Johnson

Fresh Meat: Detroit Breakdown by D.E. Johnson

By Lois Karlin

September 2, 2012

Detroit Breakdown, the third book in the Will Anderson series by D.E. Johnson, is an historical noir mystery (available September 4, 2012). In Detroit Breakdown, which like D.E. Johnson’s earlier books is set in the Detroit of the early 1910s, the author doesn’t actually describe the thriving city so much as casually place the…

The Inquisitor by Mark Allen Smith

Now Win This!: Mark Allen Smith’s The Inquisitor

By Crime HQ

March 12, 2012

Sorry, this sweepstakes has ended. Stay tuned on our Sweepstakes page for more offers! Click here to log in or register for a chance to win a copy of the book! NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE DOES NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING. You must be 18 or older and a legal resident of the 50 United States…

Angel or Succubus? Prostitute or Heroine? Both?

Victimizing Our Heroines

By J. T. Ellison

July 14, 2011

Two years ago, I wrote a blog called What the F**K is Ladylike, and posted it to Murderati.com. In it, I posited that our culture finds it more acceptable for writers to create damaged heroines than to have strong, self-assured women as main characters. Reactions were, as would be expected, mixed.      

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