Annamaria Alfieri’s Invisible Country is a wonderful mystery set in Paraguay in the mid-1800s. If you are curious about the book, you can check out the Invisible Country Fresh Meat. The book has such an interesting premise and setting. The art of Joel Nakamura immediately evoked this world for me. Joel did an amazing series…
Die a Stranger is Steve Hamilton’s newest Alex McKnight novel, and it’s thrilling. The book opens with a plane secretly landing on a remote, abandoned air strip in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and a drug trafficking deal gone wrong. Below is my very first design for the cover. Until writing this, I had not realized how…
Note from the hijackers HQ: Art director David Rotstein has been sharing the ideas and processes behind book cover design on a Tumblr site—check out his previous posts on Gone Missing by Linda Castillo and The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny for examples. Gorgeous, right? No jury of other crime fans would ever convict us for…
