DVD Review– Black Work   Black Work is a three-part miniseries, with each episode lasting about forty-seven minutes. As the show begins, Jo Gillespie is a police officer whose marriage is in uncertain waters. Her husband, Ryan (Kenny Doughty), a fellow detective, has been distant lately, though he has shown signs of wanting to repair […]

Top Ten Female Detectives Decades ago, in an address to the Jane Austen Society of the United Kingdom, renowned novelist P.D. James theorized that the roots of detective fiction run all the way back to Austen herself. In short, James believed that long before hard-boiled private eyes ever set foot in San Francisco, or Wilkie […]

I usually don’t have much use for “Top 5” lists when it comes to books. Art is subjective and heaven knows I’m no literary authority. So don’t look at what follows as a Top 5 list; rather, look at it as a list of tales, in no particular order, that had the most lasting impact […]