At its recent annual conference in Chicago, Love is Murder announced the winners of the 2013 Lovey Awards, honoring the best in Midwest mystery fiction published or produced in 2012. And the winners are… Best First Novel: Perfidy by M.E. May Best Traditional Amateur Sleuth: The Lightkeeper’s Legacy by Kathleen Ernst Best Thriller: Company Orders…
Dead Things by Stephen Blackmoore is a supernatural noir novel set in Los Angeles about a necromancer hunting his sister’s killer (available February 5, 2013). In 2012, Stephen Blackmoore burst onto the scene with his supernatural noir City of the Lost, featuring the rough and tumble Joe Sunday. Now he’s back with Dead Things, the…
Bad Medicine Volume 1: New Moon by Nunzio deFilippis and Christina Weir is a paranormal police procedural/medical thriller graphic novel (available January 30, 2013). This graphic novel is split into two parts, following the exploits of a diverse inter-agency team as they investigate the involvement of biological agents in strange deaths reminiscent of classic monster…
Say what you will about the undead, they’re versatile. We’re already preparing for a hunka hunka zombie love from Warm Bodies, an upcoming movie based on the 2011 book by Isaac Marion. In late June or thereabouts, we’ll be visited by zombie detectives in R.I.P.D. (aka the Rest in Peace Department) a feature film based…
It is every teenager’s dream to find out that they are part of something special. They want to find out they have magical powers and can go to wizarding boarding schools. They dream of being whisked away to far-off lands through a wardrobe.But…. In some cases the dream means just being a part of a…
The Wrong Goodbye by Chris F. Holm is the second in the Sam Thornton, Soul Collector paranormal crime series (available September 25, 2012). If you remember Sam Thornton from Dead Harvest back in February, you know Heaven and Hell have been none too pleased with each other of late and that more than a few…
Obsession. The grand passion that drives a nominally sane member of society to destruction, murder, and madness. Great literature of every era has explored this topic: Ahab’s obsession with his white whale, Othello’s obsession with the fair Desdemona, Gollum’s obsession with the One Ring, and of course Plankton’s obsession with the secret recipe for the…
So I’m sure my reaction was similar to many when Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter was slated for release as a novel: “Srsly? Guys, Srsly?” I may be coming at the whole historical/horror mash-up genre a bit biased, and a bit worried, because this kind of thing is sort of my bag, but the extreme mash-ups…
The Portrait of Doreene Gray by Esri Allbritten is the second in her Chihuahua cozy mystery series (available July 7, 2012). A hidden portrait, a woman who looks very youthful at fifty, and a decades-old mystery all add up to lots of fun in Esri Allbritten’s The Portrait of Doreene Gray. While perusing newspaper clippings…
Despite the fact that they are known for eating brains, we don’t usually associate zombies with education and intellectual improvement. But the zombies are invading every sector of our society including one very near and dear to my own heart, education. I was absolutely ghastly at Geography as a kid. It seemed so . .…
