by Kristopher | May 13, 2016 | Review
With just three novels currently available, Sarah Hilary has quickly risen to “must buy” status for many crime fiction aficionados. Her Marnie Rome series of books are guaranteed to feature hot-button topics, relevant themes, quality writing, and some of the most...
by Kristopher | May 12, 2016 | Review
2016 has been quite a year for Marcia Clark. The FX network aired their series, American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson and finally the public was able witness the behind-the-scenes tribulation that plagued the participants of this legendary court case. Once...
by Kristopher | May 3, 2016 | Review
Statistically, the occurrences of violent crime in Iceland are miniscule, but with Nightblind Ragnar Jónasson shows readers that the gap between a low crime rate and a low rate of reported crime is a chasm rather than a crack. When his English-language debut Snowblind...
by Kristopher | Apr 27, 2016 | Review
When I interviewed Laura Lippman last year, she had this to say about her next book: “I’m writing a crazy-ambitious stand-alone, a crime novel that asks readers to rethink an American classic.” With or without that in mind, astute readers will certainly see the echoes...
by Kristopher | Apr 22, 2016 | Review
(This is the second in a series looking at the work of Bouchercon 2016 Guests of Honor.) Reading the standalone novels of Harlan Coben is like placing yourself in front of a firing line, except instead of bullets, you are going to be assaulted with plot twists and...
