by Jason Bovberg | Mar 6, 2026 | Reviews
You know you’re in for something special when you pick up a Jordan Harper novel. And by “something special,” I mean that his books are reliably dark, unique, precise gems of crime fiction. These are not the kinds of books you rush through. No, you...
by Jason Bovberg | Jul 15, 2024 | Reviews
Joe R. Lansdale has been crankin’ out Hap & Leonard stories for 34 years. Let that sink in! It was 1990 when I first picked up Savage Season, a nasty little paperback thriller with one of the coolest cover paintings I’d ever seen. Heck, you’re a...
by Jason Bovberg | Jun 18, 2024 | Reviews
There’s a type of crime story that’s simply a great “hang.” In the film world, that definition would apply to Quentin Tarantino’s recent Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which was more about its characters, actor Rick Dalton and stuntman...
by Jason Bovberg | Dec 20, 2023 | Journalism, Publishing, Reviews
Sometimes an author bursts onto the scene, and you’re hooked immediately. My first Duane Swierczynski book was The Wheelman, which I discovered on the New Fiction shelves at the Tattered Cover in Denver. On the back cover, I read several enthusiastic blurbs from...
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...
