by Kristopher | Mar 31, 2015 | Interview
From The Booking Desk: I am thrilled to welcome Bryon Quertermous to BOLO Books today, not the least of which because he is one of the few people with a name that is harder to spell than my own. But seriously, Bryon is well-known and respected in the crime fiction...
by Kristopher | Mar 27, 2015 | Review
Hallie Ephron is an author who plays by her own rules. She doesn’t produce a new novel every year, she doesn’t write a series, and she creates works in both the fiction and non-fiction realms. The end result is that while she doesn’t have the same long list of...
by Kristopher | Mar 24, 2015 | Review
Hallie Ephron’s short story “Photoplay” serves as a prequel of sorts to her new full-length novel, Night Night, Sleep Tight. Many of the same characters appear in both pieces and yet Ephron succeeds in making each piece work as stand-alone narrative as...
by Kristopher | Mar 20, 2015 | Review
There are countless examples of fictional journalists who end up deeply embroiled in crime solving within the crime fiction genre. One may immediately think of Laura Lippman’s Tess Monaghan or Lindsay Gordon from Val McDermid’s first excellent series. More recently,...
by Kristopher | Mar 15, 2015 | underCOVER
From the Booking Desk: BOLO Books is once again honored to be part of the cover reveal for the new “A Family Skeleton Mystery” from Leigh Perry. The title of the new book is The Skeleton Haunts a House. If you are unfamiliar with this series, get your...
by Kristopher | Mar 13, 2015 | Review
From Revenge of the Nerds to Mean Girls, our cinema history is filled with tales of teens who manage to find a way to overcome some perceived disadvantage to become popular. Now, Owen Matthews’ debut Young Adult book – How to Win at High School – gives readers the...
by Kristopher | Mar 11, 2015 | Review
John Kander is no stranger to musicalizing controversial topics. With Fred Ebb, he brought us Weimar Republic Germany set to music with Cabaret, the squalor of Latin American prisons as seen through the eyes of an idol-worshipping gay window dresser in Kiss of the...
by Kristopher | Mar 10, 2015 | Review
The union between noir-style crime fiction and comic books is hardly groundbreaking. After all, what is Gotham if not a crime infested inner-city setting filled with corruption? The same goes for Frank Miller’s classic Sin City. What makes The Black Hood stand out in...
by Kristopher | Mar 6, 2015 | Review
Sarie Holland is just your typical high school honor student. That is, until she finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time and suddenly because embroiled in a world she knows nothing about. Duane Swierczynski has taken his typical noir story-telling style and...
by Kristopher | Mar 4, 2015 | Ricochet
From The Booking Desk: It is hard to believe that this Ricochet post is only covering the first two months of the year. I could easily fill up a short Best Of List with some of the reviewed titles here. In case you missed any of them, here is what has been happening...
