by Kristopher | Apr 16, 2015 | Review
No one can claim that Catriona McPherson plays it safe with her writing. Few authors today take as many risks as Catriona does in terms of genre, style, tone, and the various other components of writing. Even in her Dandy Gilver historical mystery series, McPherson...
by Kristopher | Apr 7, 2015 | Review
With the first two books in the Gabriella Giovanni series (Blessed are the Dead and Blessed are the Meek), Kristi Belcamino built a firm foundation on which to solidify her crime fiction career, but in book three – Blessed Are Those Who Weep – readers will realize...
by Kristopher | Mar 27, 2015 | Review
Hallie Ephron is an author who plays by her own rules. She doesn’t produce a new novel every year, she doesn’t write a series, and she creates works in both the fiction and non-fiction realms. The end result is that while she doesn’t have the same long list of...
by Kristopher | Mar 20, 2015 | Review
There are countless examples of fictional journalists who end up deeply embroiled in crime solving within the crime fiction genre. One may immediately think of Laura Lippman’s Tess Monaghan or Lindsay Gordon from Val McDermid’s first excellent series. More recently,...
by Kristopher | Feb 27, 2015 | Review
Every few years there is a book that is released which immediately feels like a classic – something readers will re-visit over and over again, always discovering new things within the magical words on the page. This year, that book is My Sunshine Away by M. O....