Briley Lester, a junior associate with a prestigious Chicago law firm, is handed a career-making case. Jeffrey Tomassi, the son …Read the Rest
Archive for February, 2010
Book Review: Death Message by Mark Billingham
It’s not often that a homicide detective receives a picture of a victim prior to the murder, but that’s exactly …Read the Rest
Book Review: Blood Moon by Garry Disher
To say that Adrian Wishart was a control freak would be an understatement. It is, therefore, perhaps understandable that when …Read the Rest
Book Review: Survivor in Death by J.D. Robb
Our book club’s book for June was SURVIVOR IN DEATH, the 19th in the Eve Dallas series of NYC police …Read the Rest
Book Review: The Price of Blood by Declan Hughes
The latest in the Ed Loy series has the Irish PI looking for a jockey who disappeared years before after …Read the Rest
Book Review: The Face-Changers by Thomas Perry
Our book club’s book for May was THE FACE-CHANGERS, a Jane Whitefield novel by Thomas Perry. For those who have …Read the Rest
Book Review: Safer by Sean Doolittle
The front cover of “Safer,” Sean Doolittle’s superlative new novel, depicts neighborhood scenes, at once bucolic, mundane and lovely – …Read the Rest
Book Review: Boca Knights by Steven M. Forman
Eddie Perlmutter was always a street brawler, a “puny Jewish kid from the upscale suburb of Brookline,” Massachusetts, and from …Read the Rest
Book Review: Murder in the Latin Quarter by Cara Black
This series always provides an interesting mystery involving Paris. Aimee Leduc is surprised one day when she is visited by …Read the Rest
Book Review: The Semantics of Murder by Aifric Campbell
Jay Hamilton is a 51-year-old West London psychoanalyst who, unknown to his ‘clients’ [as they apparently, since he is not …Read the Rest
E-Book Sales On The Rise
The Bookseller reports that e-book sales increased 176.6% in 2009 in the US, while sales of trade paperbacks, mass market …Read the Rest
Comic Review: The Last Days of American Crime by Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini
The U.S. government has perfected a broadcast signal that will extinguish criminal thoughts. Graham Brick, a fifty-four-year-old grifter, discovers the …Read the Rest
New Posters for The Killer Inside Me
Some new posters for the upcoming adaptation of Jim Thompson’s pulp classic, The Killer Inside Me have surfaced. One is …Read the Rest
Movie Review: Shutter Island
Shutter Island, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Leonardo Dicaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Max Von Sydow, Michelle Williams, Patricia Clarkson, …Read the Rest
Book Review: Bloodstorm by Sam Millar
Bloodstorm by Sam Millar is a good, solid and enjoyable PI novel that is competently told. A reader venturing into …Read the Rest
Graphic Novel Review: The Chill by Jason Starr & Mick Bertilorenzi
The Chill is far and away the best of what Vertigo Crime has put out thus far. Yes, I’m still …Read the Rest
Jack Getze to participate in virtual panel
Spinetingler’s very own Jack Getze, is going to be on a virtual panel hosted by the Mysterious Matters blog this …Read the Rest
The Editor’s Desk: A Word on the Craft of Fiction
Three Big Problems Because we are writers, too, every one of us here at Spinetingler hates form rejections. We know …Read the Rest
Book Review: Doubleback by Libby Fischer Hellman
Ellie Foreman, single mother of 18-year-old Rachel and an independent commercial video producer and the protagonist in one of the …Read the Rest
Book Review: Winter of Secrets by Vicki Delany
Sex permeates this latest Molly Smith mystery. Several young university students from eastern Canada visit a B&B in Trafalgar, BC, …Read the Rest
