NCIS: Los Angeles just started (check out our reviews of the first and second episodes) and EW is already reporting an addition to the cast in Monet Mazur. More after the jump... ARTICLEURL Related posts:Review – NCIS: Los Angeles: IdentityNCIS Los Angeles: “The Only Easy Day” ReviewNCIS: “Reunion” Review

Late last year, dozens of Los Angeles writers converged at the Guadalajara Book Fair, which was celebrating the city as its international guest. Zócalo Public Square caught mystery writers Denise Hamilton and Gary Phillips, food guru Jonathan Gold, novelists Mark...

An unmanned aerial vehicle (also known as a UAV or "Predator") is hijacked during a training exercise. One of its Hellfire missiles is launched immediately, killing Marines on the ground. The other could be launched at anyone anytime. More after the jump... ARTICLEURL Related posts:Monet Mazur joins NCIS Los AngelesReview – NCIS: Los Angeles: IdentityNCIS Los Angeles: “The Only Easy Da...

On Friday evening, Los Angeles Times Book Editor David L. Ulin announced the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes during a ceremony at the Los Angeles Times building. Marilynne Robinson won the fiction prize for "Home;" Michael Koryta won the Mystery/Thriller prize for "Envy the Night;" Frank Bidart won the Poetry prize for "Watching the Spring Festival: Poems;" and Terry Pratchett won the YA prize ...

North Korean defector Danny Su, working on a classified DARPA project, is shot while jetskiing. An old assassin nemesis of Vance's (Kelly Hu) is caught on camera fleeing the scene, and Su's American partner is found bludgeoned to death by a lamp. More after the jump... ARTICLEURL Related posts:Monet Mazur joins NCIS Los AngelesReview – NCIS: Los Angeles: IdentityNCIS: Los Angeles: ...

NCIS intervenes when former Marine Walton Monroe Flynn is pursued to LAX by the private security firm he worked for in Iraq. The firm accuses Flynn iof killing the Iraqi businessman he was supposed to protect, but NCIS uncovers a different story. More after the jump... ARTICLEURL Related posts:Review – NCIS: Los Angeles: IdentityMonet Mazur joins NCIS Los AngelesNCIS Los Angeles: “The ...

If you think "Narnia!" every time you find yourself on a tree-lined path, then come on down to the Los Angeles Public Library's Central Library to see Laura Miller talk about her book The Magician's Book: a Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia with David Ulin of the Los Angeles Times. Wednesday, December 10 at 7 pm. Part of the Aloud series, funded by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, admission is ...

In Los Angeles on Wednesday, February 18 . . .

After a brief altercation at a nightclub, a man crashes a car into the club, killing himself and Navy cryptologist Mostel Renney, and almost hitting a stripper. NCIS must look into the lives of all the involved parties to piece together the larger picture of what happened. More after the jump... Related posts:Review – NCIS: Los Angeles: Identity NCIS Los Angeles: “The Only Easy DayR...

I was chatting online the other day with Denise Hamilton, the Queen of Los Angeles Noir. Hamilton is a former Los Angeles Times journalist who is the author of five Eva Diamond novels, editor of Los Angeles Noir (Akashic Books), and author of last year's thriller, The Last Embrace (Scribner). The Chicago Sun Times says of Denise: "One of the brightest new talents to enter crime fiction over t...