Vast and sparsely populated, you can isolate characters in Northern Alaska in a way that’s hard to match anywhere else on earth. Here, there’s no running to a house and pounding on the door for help because the nearest house is over a hundred miles away. There’s no phoning the police or a friend […]

DVD Review of Sherlock– The Abominable Bride (We have a DVD Review of Sherlock– The Abominable Bride by our film critic Christopher Chan who probes the depth of this hit tv series.) Improbably but thankfully, the BBC series Sherlock, which transplanted Holmes and Watson to the present day and correspondingly updated some of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s mysteries, […]

Top Ten Songs About Crime In my debut novel, The Big Rewind, a mix tape leads my hipster detective, Jett Bennett, on a quest to solve her friend KitKat’s murder. I’ve always collected pop music, from vinyl to mix tapes to mp3s, and songs about crime make up a considerable portion of my playlist. Here […]