A Dangerous Collaboration, the fourth installment of Deanna Raybourn’s Veronica Speedwell Mysteries, has everything a mystery reader could want: a spooky castle on a shadowy isle, a missing bride, and a murderer. In their fourth outing, A Dangerous Collaboration by Deanna Raybourn, Veronica (the semi-legitimate daughter of the Prince of Wales) and Stoker (aka the Honourable Revelstoke…
Castle ended this month, after eight seasons on the air, amid a swirl of controversy. The show chose not to renew Stania Katic’s contract, and plans for Season 9 included Rick Castle (Nathan Fillion) as the lead, with no Kate Beckett, despite the fact the show was based on the relationship between the characters. Despite…
Sleuth fans, we’re back again, and this time with an even longer list of the best women detectives, crime fighters, and amateur mystery solvers pop culture has to offer. When we published a round-up of 13 of the best female sleuths earlier in the month, we were delighted to see what readers had to say…
I will never be Buddy the Elf. Anyone who's known me for longer than a hot minute knows the Yuletide season turns me into an absolute Grinch pre-heart-growing-three-times-bigger. The sight of green and red lights actually makes me break out into itchy hives. And don't even get me started on the jingly carols. Which means,…
For me, it all started with Ned and Nancy. Nancy Drew was an independent woman (girl) but she still made room in her busy sleuthing schedule to let Ned hang around and bounce clues off. He was the best type of book boyfriend. Then came Moonlighting (1985-1989). Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) lost her money to a…
It's one thing when we, as non-celebrities, track down our celebrity dopplegangers, but last week Nathan Fillion joined the ranks. Fillion spent part of his week tracking down his celebrity doppelgangers—asking fans via Twitter to weigh in on celebs they had confused him for. Among the dopplegangers are actors such as Jeremy Renner, Tim Guinee,…
It is a tenet of television that a show featuring sexual tension between two lead characters should never consummate their relationship lest the show lose what made it great in the first place. It certainly was true in Moonlighting, and some would say, with Bones or X-Files. Be it a sitcom or drama, if the…
In honor of Father's Day this weekend, we wanted to celebrate 10 of our favorite dads of TV crime. Half are crime-fighters, half are criminals, but each dad leaves an indelible mark (and dirty socks). 1) Jack Bauer of 24 Being a member of his family is like having a giant, flashing neon bullseye painted…
On Monday, June 10, TNT will premiere King & Maxwell, a new private eye drama with romantic overtones. The show stars Jon Tenney (Fritz from The Closer and Major Crimes) and Rebecca Romijn (Alexis Meade from Ugly Betty). The main characters, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, are based on characters created by David Baldacci who…
We don't know what to do with ourselves since losing half of one of the most kick-ass love-hate teams on TV. (Check out all our recaps and provocative commentary here.) Sure, brothers Merle and Daryl Dixon suspected, undermined, infuriated, and disappointed each other, but that's what partnership and family is all about, right? When the…
