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Crimespree Magazine is a must-read for anyone who loves crime fiction and its authors. Since its inaugural issue in June 2004, Crimespree has celebrated the genre in all its varieties, covering different sub-genres and styles.

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INTERVIEW WITH SHELLEY SHEPARD GRAY

2 days ago | crimespreemag.com | Elise Cooper

UnshakenShelley Shepard GrayRevell PubJune 2025Unshaken by Shelley Shepard Gray is a romantic suspense story. She is one of the special authors that can write all different types of genres. But her romantic suspense stories have an Amish twist that are riveting. She has many layers to the characters that include interesting backstories where the characters have dreams, fears, and hope. The story has the plot of the 1985 Harrison Ford movie “Witness” turned 180-degrees.
FRIDAYREADS & CRIMESPREE GIVEAWAY: Sister, Butcher, Sister by KD Aldyn

1 week ago | crimespreemag.com | Erin Goseer Mitchell

A dark debut following three normal sisters, their own forgotten traumas, and the serial killer that lives within one, begging the question: can you ever truly recognize the evil around you? Three sisters. One killer. Which one is SHE? The Rowling sisters have always been people you can understand – with partners and children, homes and dreams. And secrets, the sisters have those too.
Lee Child to Headline Inaugural Whitby Literature Festival

1 week ago | crimespreemag.com | Erin Goseer Mitchell

Lee Child, the author behind the global phenomenon, Jack Reacher, headlines the inaugural Whitby Lit Fest. The blockbuster author will be in conversation with the TV personality, Rob Rinder. Lee will be discussing the new Reacher book – Exit Strategy – co-written with his brother, Andrew Child. The 30th title in the Jack Reacher series is published on 4 November. Child will also discuss his first ever autobiographical collection, The Stories Behind the Stories, which is published this September.
INTERVIEW WITH JOHNNY JOEY JONES

1 week ago | crimespreemag.com | Elise Cooper

Behind The BadgeJohnny Joey JonesHarper CollinsJune 17th, 2025Behind The Badge by Johnny Joey Jones is a look at first responders. It is a collection of the different professions of first responders showing readers in their own words the triumph, tragedy, success, and failures of what they must endure each day. Jones provides military analysis across all Fox News media platforms, including Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network.
Shortlists For Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2025 and McDermid Debut Award

3 weeks ago | crimespreemag.com | Erin Goseer Mitchell

Harrogate International Festivals has announced the shortlists for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2025, the UK and Ireland’s most prestigious crime fiction award, and the McDermid Debut Award for new writers. The winners of both awards will be revealed on the opening night of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Thursday 17 July.
INTERVIEW WITH AMANDA FLOER

3 weeks ago | crimespreemag.com | Elise Cooper

I DIED FOR BEAUTYNOT THEY WHO SOARAMANDA FLOWERI Died for Beauty by Amanda Flower is the last Emily Dickinson book of the series. Not They Who Soar is the second book of the Katharine Wright series. I Died for Beautyhas Emily Dickinson and her maid Willa investigating a fire inAmherst, 1857. As Amherst families attempt to keep their homes warm, fears of fire abound because of one of the worst winters in New England’s history.
FRIDAYREADS & CRIMESPREE GIVEAWAY: Don’t Forget Me, Little Bessie by James Lee BUrke

3 weeks ago | crimespreemag.com | Erin Goseer Mitchell

James Lee Burke tells his most thrilling and insightful story yet through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Bessie HollandAt the beginning of the twentieth century, as America grapples with forces of human and natural violence more powerful than humanity has ever seen, Bessie Holland yearns for the love that she has never known. She finds a soulmate and mentor in a brilliant but tormented suffragette English teacher, who inspires Bessie to fight the forces of evil that permeate her world.
The Gold Trailer

3 weeks ago | crimespreemag.com | Erin Goseer Mitchell

by | Jun 5, 2025 | Home Entertainment, TV The true crime drama The Gold stars Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey) and Jack Lowden (Slow Horses) and is inspired by the historic 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery – one of the largest in British history – when 7,000 bricks of pure gold bullion were stolen, smelted, and money laundered over decades.
Crimespree’s Most Anticipated Summer Reads

4 weeks ago | crimespreemag.com | Erin Goseer Mitchell

We blinked, and summer is upon us! We asked our most trusted book recommenders (including Kristopher Zgorski of BOLO Books and Aubrey Hamilton of Happiness is a Book) to share some of their most anticipated books of the summer, and their recommendations combined with ours are below.
FRIDAYREADS & CRIMESPREE GIVEAWAY: No Lie Lasts Forever by Mark Stevens

1 month ago | crimespreemag.com | Erin Goseer Mitchell

Zodiac with a terrifying twist, in a taut thriller about a reformed serial killer and the disgraced journalist he coaxes into finding the imposter trading on his name. When a reporter dies in a shockingly familiar way, the media rushes to announce the return of the PDQ Killer. The city of Denver reels, but no one more than Harry Kugel. After all, he is the PDQ Killer—or was fifteen years ago. And he didn’t do this.