Malice Domestic 2016

From the Booking Desk: Malice Domestic is this weekend in Bethesda, Maryland. This year, I will only be attending on Saturday, but in case you want to say hi, these are some of the places I will be. Saturday 10:10:50 – Group Dynamics: Sharing Detection Dru Ann...

Wilde Lake –
The BOLO Books Review

When I interviewed Laura Lippman last year, she had this to say about her next book: “I’m writing a crazy-ambitious stand-alone, a crime novel that asks readers to rethink an American classic.” With or without that in mind, astute readers will certainly see the echoes...

The Body in the Birches – The BOLO Books Review

Readers would be hard-pressed to find crime fiction more genteel than that written by Katherine Hall Page. Even though she is writing about murder, secrets, and other nefarious activity, Page does so with a restrained pen – making her a favorite of those who enjoy...

Fool Me Once –
The BOLO Books Review

(This is the second in a series looking at the work of Bouchercon 2016 Guests of Honor.) Reading the standalone novels of Harlan Coben is like placing yourself in front of a firing line, except instead of bullets, you are going to be assaulted with plot twists and...

Storm Warning – The BOLO Books Review

Every few years the Chesapeake Chapter of Sisters In Crime releases a themed short story anthology. Next week, their newest offering will be available and this time out the theme is weather. To whet your whistle, I wanted to give you a small sampling of the stories...

Quiet Neighbors –
The BOLO Books Review

In addition to her Dandy Gilver historical mystery series, Catriona McPherson continues to write stand-alone novels that defy categorization. Just this month Quiet Neighbors was released and while it is certainly a novel filled with secrets, at its core it is a...

Ovidia Yu – A BOLO Books Guest Post

From the Booking Desk: When you volunteer at conferences like Bouchercon and Malice Domestic, you are doing so much more than helping out the organizers of the event – which in and of itself would be rewarding enough – but you are also opening yourself up...

A Death Along the River Fleet –
The BOLO Books Review

Historical mysteries are a delight to read because they offer a glimpse into the past, but they are at their best when they also cause readers to reflect on the current state of life as well. Susanna Calkins’ Lucy Campion series does just that and the newest in that...

Sunset City – The BOLO Books Review

In the crime fiction genre, readers could easily fill a yearly to-be-read pile with novels by authors they have read before and/or series books they have been following for eons. But one should not discount the debut novels released each year. Within those books are...

American Psycho – Theater Thoughts from BOLO Books

American Psycho began life as a controversial novel by Bret Easton Ellis before becoming an equally shocking movie. Now, there is a stage production, wherein the story of the stunningly handsome psychopath Patrick Bateman is set to music written by Duncan Sheik. Yes,...