by Kristopher | Feb 9, 2017 | Review
When SJI Holliday’s debut novel, Black Wood, appeared in 2015, it was immediately clear that she was not going to follow standard genre conventions. Just as she did with that novel, the second in the series – Willow Walk – defies expectations while still telling a...
by Kristopher | Feb 7, 2017 | Review
One of the most powerful things about fiction is that at times it can allow us to experience in a tangible way situations that are foreign to us. Some novels allow us to travel to a distant time or place, walk in the footsteps of another, or see events through...
by Kristopher | Feb 3, 2017 | Review
Sara Blaedel is the Denmark-based author of the Louise Rick mystery series. Next week, the sixth book to be translated into English will be released. Like its predecessors, The Lost Woman uses the tropes of the crime fiction genre in order to tackle topical and...
by Kristopher | Feb 1, 2017 | Review
With Garden of Lamentations, Deborah Crombie has tended to her skills as a nuanced crime writer to cultivate her multiple plot-lines into what ultimately resembles a lush word bouquet. In Garden of Lamentations, help from Gemma James is solicited in the case of a...
by Kristopher | Jan 27, 2017 | Review
Who Killed Jason Blossom? This appears to be the lingering question that will propel viewers through the first season of Riverdale. Oh, in case you hadn’t heard, Riverdale is the new television show (airing on The CW) based on characters from the Archie comics. The...
by Kristopher | Jan 26, 2017 | Review
From the Booking Desk: Hopefully by now you have heard that Ian Rankin will be participating in a rare US book tour to celebrate the 30th anniversary of his first John Rebus novel. He will be making several stops local to me – in Baltimore, Washington DC, and...
