Articles by Ali Karim

About Ali Karim
Ali Karim loves reading, writing and reviewing books. He is the Assistant Editor at Shots Magazine, contributing editor for January Magazine and The Rap Sheet. He also writes for Mystery Readers International, Crimespree and Strand Magazine among many others, specializing in Crime and Thriller Fiction.
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Reaching for Answers: Heather Martin Talks with Lee Child

November 3, 2020 Ali Karim 1

  In 2003, the World Crime and Mystery Convention known as Bouchercon was held in Las Vegas. Always a terrific event, I’m not the only one who thought that year was special. Lee Child was Toastmaster, and he was great at it. Just seven books into his Jack Reacher series, it was still relatively early in Child’s career and the event seemed to set the stage for all of the brilliance that was yet to […]

After Bird Box

January 22, 2019 Ali Karim 1

I enjoyed the Netflix Film Bird Box, even though the end was a little too neat for my liking. I discovered Bird Box was adapted from a debut novel by a young writer named Josh Malerman, released in 2004. It had missed my radar when it came out. It must have gotten lost in the slipstream of my life, lost amongst the activity at the time. As it turns out, Malerman is also an accomplished singer/songrwriter […]