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Review: “Dark Ride” by Lou Berney
I was loitering at my local Barnes & Noble one day, just wandering, waiting for inspiration to strike. There were a few tables I liked to visit first upon any visit to the bookstore—chiefly, the new fiction arrivals—and I moseyed on over there. An unassuming trade...
An Interview with Lou Berney, Chronicler of Heartland Crime
When did you read your first Lou Berney book? Maybe you've been there from the beginning, when he kickstarted his career with a New Yorker short-work sale followed by the release of his strong collection of stories, The Road to Bobby Joe. Or perhaps you started with...
Going BACK TO THE DIRT with Frank Bill: An Interview
I remember when I first spotted Frank Bill's debut story collection Crimes in Southern Indiana on the New Release table at my favorite local bookstore—that stark cover art, that sepia photo of the burned-out car, that scrawled title treatment. On the back, that...
Review: “Everybody Knows” by Jordan Harper
Jordan Harper is one of those authors for whom you can pinpoint exactly the first time you encountered him. For me, it was back in 2017, when I plucked his debut novel She Rides Shotgun off the Barnes & Noble shelf and began reading—and kept reading, line after...
An Interview with Jordan Harper, Dark Poet of SoCal
If you're like most readers, you first encountered the fiction of Jordan Harper in his gritty, affecting debut novel, She Rides Shotgun. It's one of those crime novels you might call a slow grower—finding modest initial success and then gradually accumulating...
Review: “Desert Star” by Michael Connelly
I'm proud to say I've been reading Michael Connelly since the beginning. I still remember devouring the early review copies (Black Echo, Black Ice, Concrete Blonde) that we received at B. Dalton—and spreading word of mouth as loudly as I could. Even met the man a few...
Review: “Now Is Not the Time to Panic” by Kevin Wilson
Kevin Wilson came to prominence with his 2011 novel The Family Fang, the celebrated story of a family of performance artists—their early comic misadventures contrasted with their emotional struggles later in life. The book was adapted to film in 2015, starring Jason...
TESSA GOES DOWN available now!
Hey folks, well, after a long lead-up, my naughty crime thriller Tessa Goes Down is finally on shelves, both physical and virtual. You can order the paperback from any bookstore, including Barnes & Noble and Amazon, and you can download the ebook...
TESSA GOES DOWN: A Title with Multiple Meanings
The first job of a great title is to spark the imagination: It has to grab the reader as surely as the cover art, compelling him or her to pick up the book. And obviously the title has to capture something essential about the story, whether a plot element or a...
CrimeFictionLover Interviews Jason Bovberg
Hey all, here’s part of an interview I did about Tessa Goes Down for the UK website Crime Fiction Lover. You can see the entire interview in its original form at CrimeFictionLover. The writer of the interview, Garrick Webster, posed some incisive questions about the...
Bio
Jason Bovberg is the author of Tessa Goes Down, Loser Baby, the Blood trilogy—Blood Red, Draw Blood, and Blood Dawn—and The Naked Dame. His forthcoming books include A Small Poisonous Act, a suburban noir novel, and Little Miss Nobody, a mystery based on a true crime. He is editor/publisher of Dark Highway Press, which published the controversial, erotic fairy tale Santa Steps Out and the weird western anthology Skull Full of Spurs. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his wife Barb, his daughters Harper and Sophie, and his canines Rocky and Rango.
‘Blood Red’ Book Trailer