With a delectable chocolate cake with white icing and strawberries on the cover (far different than the one seen here), this book jumps right out at you. Featuring “Every Single Recipe from 2011-Over 750” this book theoretically has something good to eat for everyone. Featuring very few color photographs, lots of tips and suggestions, this […]

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Long familiar to readers via the Sheriff Dan Rhodes series novels Texas author Bill Crider has assembled a short collection of previously published stories featuring the good sheriff Dan Rhodes.  The Blacklin County Files: 5 Sheriff Dan Rhodes Stories read just like the good novels in that the stories feature humor, mystery, and the extensive […]

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As Lee Child recently did with his latest in the “Reacher series” titled The Affair: A Jack Reacher Novel author Nevada Barr takes readers back in time in this prequel to her Anna Pigeon series. The year is 1995 as The Rope: An Anna Pigeon Novel opens and Anna is thirty-five and adrift in a […]

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Recently released by Quake, a division of Echelon Press, this short e-book features two stories of police work aimed at the middle school reader. In both cases, humor is present in large amounts, dialogue is minimal, and the details of officers on patrol are many, bringing the reader a long for the ride. Both stories […]

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This is Sam Moffie’s fifth time at the printing press, and each book gets better and better. To Kill The Duke takes the reader back to the 1950’s the golden age of Hollywood and also the depths of the Cold War.
Sam openly admits that it is a work of fiction, however it is rooted in […]

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Prequels seem to be coming from numerous successful authors these days.  It is a tricky thing to do and, as Lee Child and Nevada Barr have recently showed, can have decidedly mixed results. That is not true in this case as One Perfect Shot:  The Posadas County Mysteries works on all levels. The book is […]

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Women posing with guns are not something new. There are plenty of sites on the Internet that depict this as well as several TV shows that specialize on this topic. But usually it is a case of women wearing bikinis or less, firing automatic weapons at some target, while literally everything moves in slow motion. […]

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It began long ago in the multiple award winning debut novel Killing Floor. 16 novels later the backstory of why Jack Reacher, US Army MP, left the service is finally told in The Affair.
 
It is 1997 and there is a problem in Mississippi. Somebody killed the very beautiful 27 year old Janice May Chapman in […]

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Dorothy Francis takes readers back to Key West in Killer in Control and it’s another good very atmospheric cozy style mystery from the author. Full of guilt and heavy with memories, suspended Iowa police officer Kitt Morgan plans on spending time with her sister, Janell and her husband, Rex at their bed and breakfast inn, […]

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Bill Travis first saw the beautiful woman while he was driving in heavy traffic on the loop near downtown Austin. The beautiful reddish blonde in the red roadster didn’t seem to mind that Bill Travis was staring at her. For a few minutes they played a cat and mouse game passing each other in the […]

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In Part one I looked at the album Antiques and Curios, it was a very fine album, but it was obvious that the band were still  trying to find their feet. From The Witchwood fixed that problem, but created many others.
I was lucky to have had the opportunity to have interviewed both Dave Cousins and […]

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To watch the film “The Iron Lady” is like trying to learn about a person from a list.
Grocer’s daughter, check. Politician, check. Anti Thatcher demonstrations, check. Falklands war, check. Going to celebrate the fall of the Iron curtain, check.
For anyone not aware of the history of the 1970’s and 1980’s, the quick scenes depicting some […]

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Nothern Lights – The Complete Collections is an ITV series that aired on BBC America and was produced from 2004-2008. The series follows the lifelong friends and rivals, Colin Armstrong (Ronson Green) and Howard Scott (Mark Benton) on their hilarious misadventures. From a stint in witness protection to an international Santa competition, there is never […]

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The Brontes of Haworth is a finely crafted portrait that explores the soaring artistic achievements and personal tragedies of England’s most accomplishes literary family. The drama is a sensitive exploration of the Brontes tender and tragic family history. Although it has never aired in the U.S. on TV, the miniseries did air in the U.K. […]

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New Tricks, Season 6 is a long-running, award winning series which combines compelling stories and likeable characters. It has a top-notch cast, which is now available on DVD, including Amanda Redman, Dennis Waterman, Alun Armstrong and James Bolam. The cast stars as a team of semi-retired detectives that set out to solve cold cases.
New Tricks […]

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Anastasia Pollack is not having a good time lately. Her husband Karl recently died in Vegas.  The fact that he died on a roulette table at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas was pretty bad. The fact that he was a closet gambler, cleaned out every account they had without her knowing about it, and […]

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 This is a guest article by author John Cherry. He is the author of two books, Better Than Lennon and Paul McCartney’s Solo Music Career 1970-2010 he can be found at Betterthanlennon.com - Simon
The advertised start time for the Zac Brown Band (ZBB) show at Germain Arena in Naples, FL was 7 PM. I […]

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World War I is getting some attention in the entertainment industry lately, with the high class hit “Downton Abbey” and now the Stephen Spielburg film “War Horse”.
The plot is simple: think of Lassie comes home (the 1943 version) of a beloved animal separated from his master and trying to survive. Except in this one it […]

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This is a guest article by author John Cherry. He is the author of two books, Better Than Lennon and Paul McCartney’s Solo Music Career 1970-2010 he can be found at Betterthanlennon.com - Simon
I had heard the music from James McCartney’s first release, an EP titled “Available Light.” This CD has all of the […]

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This is a guest article by author John Cherry. He is the author of two books, Better Than Lennon and Paul McCartney’s Solo Music Career 1970-2010 he can be found at Betterthanlennon.com - Simon
JULIAN LENNON-“EVERYTHING CHANGES”
I was pleased to learn that Julian Lennon had returned to the recording studio after an extended absence. […]

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The Fate Of Pryde is the second book in the series The Trilogy Of Remembrance. In book one The Drawing Lesson the reader was introduced to Turner Prize winning painter Alexander Wainwright. You can read the review here.
The Fate Of Pryde once more takes the reader into Alexander’s creative world. Famed as a landscape artist […]

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 Most restaurants can get at least one thing right - that signature dish, five dollar happy hour drinks, or even a special molten chocolate dessert. Unfortunately, not too many get it all right. I have found an exception straddling the border between midtown and Hells Kitchen (350 W. 50th Street) in New York City. Enter […]

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The newest anthology from the New York/Tri-state Chapter of Sister’s in Crime is another good, though often very somber, entertaining read. Filled with 22 stories, the book edited by Terrie Farley Moran, frequently pays homage to the past while also lamenting a present not everyone wanted. Occasionally amusing, most often the tales are about rectifying […]

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David Cross has been one of my favorite comedians since 2002’s standup album “Shut Up, You F*ing Baby!” His performances in “Mr. Show” and “Arrested Development,” along with his various movie roles, definitely haven’t hurt. He’s awkward, funny and strangely confident and self-deprecating at the same time. So after getting a sneak preview of this […]

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For the past few years I have compiled a list of my favorite books read. It was a surprisingly difficult task, the caliber of new authors is so high that to chose one over another is next to impossible.
2011 was no exception, time and time again wonderful books crossed my desk. It makes me happy […]

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P. I. Jake Hannigan has a “…square jaw and skepticism that can’t be bought on Sundays in Blue Law States.”  (Page 5) That means he has a fondness for alcohol and will indulge that fondness whenever the mood strikes including his own office. That is where Professor Durgen found him on a certain Monday morning.
 
Professor […]

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Virgil Flowers returns in SHOCK WAVE and the read is a good one. This is the fifth novel of the series and this time he is chasing a bomber. Virgil is based in Mankato, Minnesota and therefore routinely covers the southern part of the state for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. He also goes […]

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I spend a fair amount of time talking to people connected with the movie world. They tend to be larger than life, and always entertaining. There seems to be little rhyme or reason as to how a movie comes into being, or what subject it might be about.
Next March the poor unsuspecting world is […]

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A Film By Arnd Wachter
The world is a very diverse place. There are great discoveries to be made, but few people take the effort. Foreign lands, foreign cultures, and foreign languages just seem to hinder the process. It is easier to stay within the boundaries of Disneyland than travel to some far flung country. Disney […]

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Jingle hell is a delightful Christmas comedy that has just been released on DVD, you can read the review here.
The always great people at Janson Media, the distributor, arrainged an interview with the films producer and co-writer Carter Anne McGowan. Usually I have lots of time for research for an interview, however this one happened […]

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