by Kristopher | Jul 13, 2026 | Review
Alexandra Sokoloff (Huntress Moon) and Craig Robertson (Random) have been entertaining readers for many years with their various crime fiction releases, but with the appearance of The Grapevine, this married couple join forces for the first time. Billed as The Lost...
by Kristopher | Jul 1, 2026 | Review
Curtis Ippolito’s Burying the Newspaper Man remains one of the under-appreciated gems of the neo-noir movement in crime fiction. With the release of his second full-length work—Waves of Burden—Ippolito proves that his success was no accident. This is a writer who...
by Kristopher | Jun 30, 2026 | Review
Jo Murray’s debut novel, Dissection of a Murder, is a serious contender for best crime fiction release of the year. Jo Murray is a former criminal barrister from North Yorkshire and her training and career bring incredible verisimilitude to her creative writing. Fans...
by Kristopher | May 22, 2026 | Review
“Sidebar” Reviews are extremely early reviews designed to encourage readers to pre-order novels that will be released later in the year. Mikita Brottman is probably most well known for her 2018 true crime release, An Unexplained Death, about the mysterious death at...
by Kristopher | May 8, 2026 | Review
“Sidebar” Reviews are extremely early reviews designed to encourage readers to pre-order novels that will be released later in the year. Some of the best horror fiction manages to depict real-world societal problems in such an extreme way that the risks...
by Kristopher | May 6, 2026 | Review
To the uninitiated, Louise Penny writing a political thriller may seem incongruous, but it doesn’t take much digging to understand just how natural a progression the release of The Last Mandarin actually is. As far back as The Nature of the Beast, readers began to see...
