by Kristopher | Jul 24, 2015 | Review
In Mary Kubica’s sophomore novel, Pretty Baby, the voices of a trio of narrators blend and clash to tell the story of three broken individuals trying to make themselves whole again. Readers who sampled Kubica’s debut novel, The Good Girl, already know that she is a...
by Kristopher | Jul 17, 2015 | Review
Reading books about the abduction and murder of children is never easy, but in her new book, First One Missing, Tammy Cohen presents one of the most harrowing reads of the year. What is truly remarkable is that she does it without the graphic violence so prevalent in...
by Kristopher | Jul 7, 2015 | Review
Little Pretty Things is like a literary mash-up of Judy Blume and Megan Abbott, told in what is becoming the distinctive voice of its creator, Lori Rader-Day. On the surface, Little Pretty Things is about the death of Madeleine Bell and how her closest childhood...
by Kristopher | Jun 19, 2015 | Review
Crime fiction of late has been filled with stories featuring unlikeable and unreliable narrators – most of them women. Readers seem to either love or hate this narrative technique; there is very little middle ground on the subject. The Truth and Other Lies by Sascha...
by Kristopher | Jun 17, 2015 | Review
In Land of Shadows, Rachel Howzell Hall does for Los Angeles what Laura Lippman has done for Baltimore. Yes, that means that she is revealing the underbelly of the city – the less polished façade – devoid of the allure most tourists are attracted to. But more...
