crime

As Dean and Randall get closer to Vegas, they both start rethinking the details of the job.

It’s the supreme accolade for crime fiction and, at £20,000, the most lucrative crime-writing prize in the world. Natasha Cooper reveals the contenders for the Duncan Lawrie Dagger.

Here’s a small press with big ambitions. One man publisher David Thompson is dedicated to reprinting classic crime and mystery titles to make them available to the next generation of readers. Busted Flush Press also publishes anthologies and has recently received recognition—an Edgar nomination—for one of its short stories.

Seattle police are looking for a man who attempted to mail to Paris a box full of books packed with handgun parts and ammunition. An alert clerk at a Wallingford UPS Store was preparing to ship the plastic-wrapped books on Jan. 31 when she noticed that one of the hardbacks rattled, according to police reports.

If you’re a writer, here’s your chance to win $5000 and a publishing contract with Borders. If you’re a reader, you can rate the first chapters and have your say on which work is destined to become the next bestseller.

On the beat though three very different districts in Chicago as seen through the eyes of a "wagoncop" (cop assigned to the paddy wagon.
Combo love/police story of one cops life.
NOT for the faint of heart!
The subtitle "drunks,derelicts and dead bodies" says it all!
A must read especially for cops signifigant others!
444 pages!
Available @ amazon.com & others

Nicole Brown Simpson’s sister Denise is calling for a boycott of the controversial O. J. book If I Did It. She makes a good point about not wanting to subject the children to a step-by-step how-to of Nicole’s murder, and she condemns the hypocrisy of the Goldman family in wanting to publish the manuscript.

A Polish author is being accused of murder because his novel details a real-life killing. Krystian Bala says he’s being framed.

Crime novelist turns criminal.
Bloody creepy!

It’s not uncommon for innocent people to end up behind bars…or worse. In his 277 page missive, Chester Porter examines the causes—human error, pressure form the media—and what should be done when such a miscarriage of justice occurs. What is that maxim? "Better that ten guilty persons go free than that one innocent suffer.”