by Kristopher | Oct 28, 2020 | Review
Like watching foreign films, experiencing books from other countries – even in translation – exposes readers to different sensibilities which may be prevalent in those regions. For those who expect novels to follow a set trajectory, this can be challenging at times....
by Kristopher | Oct 20, 2020 | Review
When Susi Holliday’s The Last Resort begins, seven strangers board an airplane on their way to a remote island for a mysterious weekend arranged by an elusive host. With that setup, it is impossible for crime fiction genre fans not to immediately think of Dame Agatha...
by Kristopher | Oct 7, 2020 | Review
Invitation to Murder is the ninth anthology in the collection from the Chesapeake Chapter of Sisters in Crime. Previous releases in the Chesapeake Crimes series have contained many award-winning short stories by many of the best writers in the region. This new...
by Kristopher | Oct 2, 2020 | Review
Lisa Unger continues to produce one of the most varied collections of writings in the crime fiction genre. Each of her works – even when they are linked as part of the same series – stand alone in their uniqueness. Her novels never tell the same story twice and refuse...
by Kristopher | Sep 29, 2020 | Review
In his exceptional debut novel, A Line of Blood, Ben McPherson presented a stand-alone domestic suspense novel from the perspective of the husband. He now returns with The Island and once again focuses on a family in crisis, however, unlike the strain in that earlier...
by Kristopher | Sep 18, 2020 | Review
Imagine, if you will, this Venn diagram: the murder mystery is a subset of crime fiction which is both a subset of literature and a subset of social commentary. Or perhaps this diagram: truth and lies are two distinctive sets of data that would seem to be mutually...
