by Kristopher | Dec 30, 2015 | Review
Clare Mackintosh’s I Let You Go is a difficult book to review. There are revelations within the plot so integral to the success of the novel that revealing them would spoil the reader’s enjoyment. With that in mind, this review intentionally contains very few plot...
by Kristopher | Dec 28, 2015 | Review
Once in a while, you stumble upon a book with a premise so intriguing, so clever, you instantly know that if the author can pull this off, it is going to be a great book. After the Crash by Michel Bussi is just such a novel. On December 23, 1980, a plane crashes into...
by Kristopher | Dec 22, 2015 | Review
Gordon McAlpine’s Woman with a Blue Pencil certainly gets points for taking risks. It is rare that a book comes along in which the structure feels so completely original and inventive while also seeming like the only natural way to tell the tale at hand. Woman with a...
by Kristopher | Dec 18, 2015 | Review
Elizabeth George has been releasing books in the Thomas Lynley mystery series since 1988’s A Great Deliverance. The newest book in the series, A Banquet of Consequences, is the nineteenth. Fans who have felt that the last few novels have not been as strong as...
by Kristopher | Dec 11, 2015 | Review
One of the more popular sub-genres of crime fiction has always been the historical. Whether you are talking about legends like Barbara Peters and Lindsey Davis or more recent practitioners of the category such as Rhys Bowen and Susan Elia MacNeal, readers love to...
