Currently Browsing: mystery
May 19, 2011
Minette Walters has a thing about persecution. It’s not big-scale organized prejudiced thuggery so much that interests her, but the petty scapegoating, by random crowds, of whoever’s handiest and most vulnerable. In The Ice House, three women are outsiders in their home town because it’s assumed they are lesbians; in The Sculptress, the central character is ostracized because she’s...
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Get your Snakebite here!
Apr 8, 2011
I love crime capers. I gobble them up like buttered popcorn. My favorite of this genre in recent years is Mark Haskell Smith, who was kind enough to accept my Facebook friend request...
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You should totally get Baked.
Mar 31, 2011
One of my favorite things to do on or before a vacation is to hit a bookstore and prowl through the mystery and true crime sections, searching for books that combine reasonably deft writing with somewhat gothic content: child disappearances, dark forgotten secrets, people living double lives. Arty stuff, you know, on that thin-thin line between a soupcon of sleaze and ewww, that’s totally gross! I...
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Tana French: Gloriously sordid
Nov 1, 2010
So if the point of Favorite Thing Ever is to make you feel an overwhelming desire to share our passion for the things we love, the question for your favorite columnist is: how do we hook you?
Back in 2002, The Spike (yes, again!) hooked me on this new cop show, Boomtown, by telling me about David McNorris. She characterized him as a Los Angeles Assistant District Attorney, a real straight arrow… at...
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Taste a little Boomtown
You have a limited amount of time, so why spend it reading about things that suck or are only kind of okay? Favorite thing EVER is not a review site. We're unrepentant fans, and this is the stuff we love. Hope you like gushing, because we're about to embarrass ourselves.
