by Kristopher | Feb 17, 2025 | Bolo
Debra Goldstein is an author who can successfully write across many different tones: Light to Dark, and everything in between. My dear friend (and collaborator on the multi-award-winning short story “Ticket to Ride”) Dru Ann Love and I decided to celebrate...
by Kristopher | Feb 12, 2025 | Review
It has been said that sometimes the right story comes along at the right time, fulfilling a need for readers looking for answers. Under the Same Stars by Libba Bray is the perfect example. With the world in crisis and fascism once again on the rise, Under the Same...
by Kristopher | Feb 12, 2025 | Articles, Guest Posts
From the Booking Desk: I have been friends with Debra Goldstein for years, even working “for” her when she was heading the Sister In Crime Counting Project a number of years back. So I was delighted when she asked to do a guest post here on the blog. Look...
by Kristopher | Feb 6, 2025 | Review
History is the method by which we learn—so that we don’t make the same mistakes, so that we don’t feel so alone, and so that we recognize our accomplishments. In many ways, historical fiction serves the same purpose—educating while entertaining. For the queer...
by Kristopher | Feb 5, 2025 | underCOVER
From the Booking Desk: Marcia Talley is a fellow writer working in the DMV (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia) corridor and I have been a fan since her debut, Sing It To Her Bones first appeared in 1998. Marcia Talley will be the Guest of Honor at the 37th annual Malice...
by Kristopher | Feb 4, 2025 | Review
To the delight of his massive legion of fans, TJ Klune returns with a new supernatural standalone that shows us all that while our differences are what make us each unique, our ability to recognize our similarities is what ultimately makes us stronger. The Bones...
by Kristopher | Jan 29, 2025 | Review
Critically acclaimed author John McMahon launches a new procedural series with the addictive Head Cases. Perfect for fans of crime fiction that is both meticulously plotted and populated by offbeat characters, Head Cases is a series debut that readers will be talking...
by Kristopher | Jan 23, 2025 | Review
NOTE: This is NOT a mystery novel. This is a science fiction work, which I just happen to think is such an important work, I’m writing a “review” for it. History—and not just pop culture history—will look back on Nnedi Okorafor’s Death of the Author...
by Kristopher | Jan 16, 2025 | underCOVER
From the Booking Desk: The popularity of “Inspired By” anthologies in the crime fiction community continues to grow. I am honored that “Ticket to Ride” (the story I wrote in collaboration with Dru Ann Love) won the Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity...
by Kristopher | Jan 15, 2025 | Review
Icelandic crime fiction has been all the rage for a number of years now. Novels by residents of the island nation continue to receive critical acclaim from around the world, so it’s only natural that non-Iceland writers are beginning to utilize the location as well....
