by Kristopher | Jan 22, 2018 | Interview
From the Booking Desk: Hopefully, at this point you have already pre-ordered Alafair Burke’s new book, The Wife. Critical praise of this novel has been very strong and I even called it “an instant classic,” so it should be no surprise that I invited...
by Kristopher | Jan 22, 2018 | Bolo
From The Booking Desk: Weeks like this are wonderful for readers, but thankfully they don’t come along too often. So many high-profile and wonderful books are being released – each of them a must-read – that even narrowing it down to four was...
by Kristopher | Jan 19, 2018 | Composite Sketch
From the Booking Desk: I knew of Nadine Nettmann before I knew Nadine Nettmann – let’s face it, she writes a wine-themed mystery series, so that was bound to be on my radar. However, when I met her in person at various conferences, that was when I...
by Kristopher | Jan 18, 2018 | Review
Monica Hesse’s American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land is a non-fiction book examining a string of arsons that plagued a Virginia county in the Fall of 2012 and Spring of 2013. In looking at the case from first burning ember through to conviction,...
by Kristopher | Jan 17, 2018 | Review
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines anatomy as “a separating or dividing into parts for detailed examination” and scandal as “a circumstance or action that offends propriety or established moral conceptions or disgraces those associated with it,” which makes...
by Kristopher | Jan 16, 2018 | Bolo
From The Booking Desk: I delayed this week’s BOLO report by a day because yesterday was a celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.s birthday and life. With that in mind, I would like to share one of my favorite quotes from this great man: “We are not makers...
by Kristopher | Jan 12, 2018 | Composite Sketch
From the Booking Desk: In many ways, it seems that some corners of the crime fiction ceiling would collapse without Margery Flax. I first became acquainted with Margery via her organization of the Mystery Writers of America booth at BookExpo America. While other...
by Kristopher | Jan 10, 2018 | Articles
From the Booking Desk: If you are a member of a book club or book discussion group, the new initiative from Tall Poppy Writers and Francis Ford Coppola Winery is something you may be interested in. These two organizations have joined together to launch a new service...
by Kristopher | Jan 9, 2018 | Review
“Misunderstandings don’t happen when a situation is black and white. They only happen when there are shades of gray, when there could be two different versions of the same damn thing.” (Burke, The Wife) Few art forms examine society’s ills as incisively as does crime...
by Kristopher | Jan 8, 2018 | Review
Sujata Massey burst on the crime fiction landscape in 1997 with her award-winning debut, The Salaryman’s Wife. This was followed by several more critically-acclaimed novels in the Rei Shimura mystery series. In 2013, Massey took a brief detour to explore India’s past...
