by Kristopher | Mar 8, 2024 | Review
Fans of Hank Phillippi Ryan’s Jane Ryland series and Christina Kovac’s The Cutaway will want to grab a copy of Off The Air, the debut novel by Christina Estes. Like those other novels, Estes makes her reporter—Jolene Garcia—the voice of the narrative, but in...
by Kristopher | Mar 7, 2024 | Review
King Nyx by Kirsten Bakis is one of the strangest and most unclassifiable novels readers are likely to stumble upon. Every time you think you have a grasp on what you think it might be, Bakis subverts that expectation and King Nyx becomes something completely...
by Kristopher | Mar 4, 2024 | Bolo
From the Booking Desk: By now you have probably heard that the short short I wrote in collaboration with Dru Ann Love has been nominated for a Agatha Award for Best Short Story of the Year. Those winners will be announced at this year’s Malice Domestic...
by Kristopher | Mar 1, 2024 | Review
Continuing his quozy (queer cozy) series that began with the critically-acclaimed and quadruple crime fiction award-nominated Devil’s Chew Toy, Rob Osler’s latest—Cirque Du Slay—proves that his winning combination of lovably-relatable characters, play-fair mysteries,...
by Kristopher | Feb 29, 2024 | Review
Last year, K. B. Jackson launched her middle-grade Sasquatch Hunters series with The Sasquatch of Hawthorne Elementary. That book is now an Agatha Award Nominee for Best Children’s/YA Mystery, which makes the release of the sequel—The Sasquatch of Harriman Lake—all...
by Kristopher | Feb 26, 2024 | Bolo
Episode Ten of my new YouTube vlog WE ARE WHAT WE READ is now available for you to enjoy. On this episode, my co-host Shawn Reilly Simmons and I are joined by guests Valerie (V. M.) Burns, Annette Dashofy, Clair Lamb, Tara Laskowski, K. T. Nguyen, and Deb Wells. The...
