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...
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...
