Ali Karim

Assistant Editor at Shotsmag

Former Chemistry Teacher, now Hazmat Specialist (Industrial Chemistry) and Writer, Editor, Reviewer & Literary Commentator for Crime, Thriller & Horror Fiction

Articles

Ticket to Ride: Seichō Matsumoto

1 month ago | wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com | Ali Karim

Readers of Crime and MysteryFiction are often restless, always on the lookout for something new, somethingfresh and thought provoking – far from what we term the “same old, same old.”I would like to talk about awriter from the past, from Japan – a writer who is making inroads with thecritics and now into the mainstream thanks to the efforts of PenguinClassics.
SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL

1 month ago | wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com | Ali Karim |Ayo Onatade

CrimeFest, one of Europe’s leading crime writing conventions, has announced the shortlists for its final annual awards. The awards began 17 years ago when CrimeFest launched in 2008; they honour the best crime fiction and non-fiction books released in the UK in the last year. 2025 will be the final awards as organisers announced this year CrimeFest will come to an end. The awards feature the hotly-contended Specsavers Debut Crime Novel Award, which offers a £1,000 cash prize.
SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL

Feb 28, 2025 | wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com | Ayo Onatade |Ali Karim

January 2025Murder on the Marlow Belle is by Robert Thorogood. Verity Beresford is worried about her husband. Oliver didn’t come home last night so of course Verity goes straight to Judith Potts, Marlow’s resident amateur sleuth, for help. Oliver, founder of the Marlow Amateur Dramatic Society, had hired The Marlow Belle, a private pleasure cruiser, for an exclusive party with the MADS committee but no one remembers seeing him disembark.
Michael Joseph PenguinRandomHouse Crime Party 2025

Feb 18, 2025 | wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com | Ali Karim

The Shots Magazine team of Blogger Ayo Onatade accompaniedby Editors Mike Stotter and Ali Karim were delighted to accept invitations tothe 2025 Michael Joseph annual crime fiction party, hosted in The Crypt at St Martins-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square,. London. We have been attending for many years now, previewing theforthcoming crime fiction publications that would be released by this importantimprint of the PenguinRandomHouse group.
SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL

Feb 18, 2025 | wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com | Ali Karim |Ayo Onatade

January 2025Murder, jealousy, and deceit underscore three interlocking mysteries as Holmes and Watson take on a high profile case at Windsor Castle, a boy drowned in the Serpentine, and a crusading women’s rights activist who suspects a traitor in her organization. The cases send them into danger into locales as varied as the Palace itself, a dockland cannery, an arts and crafts atelier, and a Gypsy encampment. But is there peril underfoot as well – right at 221B Baker Street?
SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL

Oct 28, 2024 | wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com | Ayo Onatade |Ali Karim

“Black storms shake the sky/ Dark clouds blind our eyes…” are the opening lines of The Varsovian, a song of Polish origins the Spanish anarchist movement adopted as an anthem at the end of the nineteenth century. The novel’s title refers to the first line of this song that is entitled To the barricades in Catalan and Spanish.
(PDF) A Study on Impact of Social Commerce on Customer Purchase Intention

Oct 22, 2024 | researchgate.net | Muhammad Junaid |Ali Karim |Zhao Huang |Nisita Wardhani |Abaid Ullah Zafar |Sameera K C | +9 more

PDF | This project aims to investigate the impact of social commerce on customer purchase intention. Social commerce refers to the utilization of social... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
You might want to wash your hands before reading this

Oct 17, 2024 | niagarafallsreview.ca | Ali Karim

Stroll through the toy section of any dollar or department store and you’re likely to see them: wiggly, jiggly, sensory-type toys with soft spikes, tentacles and offshoots. Whether they’re on your shopping list or not, it’s almost impossible to walk by and not touch them. As an expert in infection prevention and control (IPAC), it’s a little easier not to.
You might want to wash your hands before reading this

Oct 17, 2024 | stcatharinesstandard.ca | Ali Karim

Stroll through the toy section of any dollar or department store and you’re likely to see them: wiggly, jiggly, sensory-type toys with soft spikes, tentacles and offshoots. Whether they’re on your shopping list or not, it’s almost impossible to walk by and not touch them. As an expert in infection prevention and control (IPAC), it’s a little easier not to.
The Picture of Deon Meyer

Oct 12, 2024 | wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com | Ali Karim

We hadn’t seen Deon Meyer inthe UK for a few years, much of the interruption being the COVID-19 globalpandemic – which was eerily echoed in his extraordinary novel FEVER released in the summer of2017. FEVER was met with hugeacclaim – here’s the Shots Magazine review HERE – it also enjoyed asecond burst of interest in 2020-2021 during the global pandemic years due toits apocalyptic themes that had migrated from fiction into fact.