by Jason Bovberg | Sep 14, 2023 | Noir, Reviews
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...
by Jason Bovberg | Jan 10, 2023 | Reviews
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...
by Jason Bovberg | Nov 17, 2022 | Journalism, Publishing, Reviews
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...
by Jason Bovberg | Nov 1, 2022 | Publishing, Reviews
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...
by Jason Bovberg | Jul 21, 2022 | Publishing, Reviews
There’s a simmering subgenre of mystery fiction that you might call dark crime or horror noir, a shadowy, disturbing niche occupied—on occasion—by such writers as Joe R. Lansdale and Cormac McCarthy. It’s very much concerned with contemplating the darkest...
by Jason Bovberg | Apr 21, 2022 | Reviews
Chris Holm’s debut on the mystery scene back in 2012 was auspicious—at least to this crime-fiction lover. The first book of Holm’s “Collector” series, Dead Harvest, came out in a beautifully designed paperback from Angry Robot. An homage to...
