Crime novelist and screenwriter Lynda La Plante (best known for the award-winning TV series, Prime Suspect starring Helen Mirren), was awarded a United Kingdom CBE Medal as part of the Queen's Birthday Honors List.
The War on Crime radio show featured as guests crime writer Diane Fanning, discussing the case of a mother who murdered her children in Plano TX and now wants to be released from a mental hospital; Kelly Siegler, a Texas prosecutor and Women in Crime Ink Contributor who talked about that same case, and Gil Alba, a law enforcement expert and P.I. who dicussed the tragic Oklahoma child slayings.
The Lifetime Movie Network's recent broadcast of The Capture of the Green River Killer, LMN’s March 2008 TV adaptation of Dave Reichert’s book, was apparently a huge success. The two-part movie smashed through past ratings records, attracting more than 2 million viewers to a network whose normal primetime audience is less than 500,000.
NPR aired a piece on how murder-mystery audiobooks help keep truck drivers awake, as part of its summer series called "Roadside Reviews," in which truckers will offer their recommendations of the best and worst books for listening.
NPR also reported on the new move afoot to try to change the decades-old publishing model of returning unsold books, as spearheaded by a new imprint at Harper Collins.
And "Masterpiece Theater" on PBS is broadcasting a summer lineup of British crime thrillers, starting with the first of three “Inspector Lewis” films, followed by episodes of "Foyle's War," "The Inspector Lynley Series," and "Sally Lockhart."
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