by Kristopher | Jul 15, 2022 | Review
The innate ability to know how a story needs to be told is a skill that is typically honed over years, but in the case of Jennifer Hillier, this key storytelling tool seems to be part of her DNA. From the start, with the deliciously unsettling Creep (and the follow up...
by Kristopher | Jul 12, 2022 | Review
Simon Toyne burst onto the literary landscape with his unique Sanctus trilogy – a DaVinci Code style narrative with deeper characterization and superlative narrative skills. Toyne followed this with a minor pivot when he released his Solomon Creed duology (The...
by Kristopher | Jun 28, 2022 | Guest Posts
A Quiet War In Place of Fear is Helen Crowther’s story. It’s about her trepidatious leap into professional life from her tenement background, about the fears of her parents, about the scorn (or is it envy?) of her wee sister, and about the judgement of neighbours and...
by Kristopher | Jun 27, 2022 | Review
After translating all of Agatha Christie’s novels into Icelandic for publication in his home country, Ragnar Jónasson launched his own crime fiction career with two highly-regarded series – the Dark Iceland books, which I dubbed as “cozy noir,” for their unique...
by Kristopher | Jun 22, 2022 | Review
Sandra SG Wong’s first foray into crime fiction was with her alternate-history, semi-paranormal trilogy featuring private investigator Lola Starke. Now she is making a pivot and her new book, In the Dark We Forget, is an unusual blend of mystery, domestic suspense,...
by Kristopher | Jun 1, 2022 | Review
J. M. Miro’s Ordinary Monsters is a debut Fantasy novel from an established author working under a pseudonym. With time Ordinary Monsters will be reflected back upon as the start of an incredible epic fantasy. Dickensian in scope (with the Victorian details of...
