by Kristopher | Aug 30, 2016 | Interview
From the Booking Desk: I recently reviewed Owen Matthews’ The Fixes here on the blog. And last year, I reviewed his YA debut – How to Win at High School. To say that I am thrilled to welcome Owen Laukkanen (the real man behind the Owen Matthews pen name)...
by Kristopher | Aug 26, 2016 | Review
Thomas Mullen’s Darktown is an important book. Inspired by – and dedicated to – the legacy left by the first eight African-American officers hired by the Atlanta police department, the novel does much to explain the problems of institutionalized racism inherent in law...
by Kristopher | Aug 23, 2016 | APB
From the Booking Desk: This is the fifth post for this new feature here at BOLO Books – The APB (All Points Bulletin). As always, competition for these slots was tough. I have already read many of these titles, so I can wholeheartedly endorse this list. There are many...
by Kristopher | Aug 19, 2016 | Review
When Owen Laukkanen ventured into the young adult writing world under the pen name of Owen Matthews, he created a new, unique style that is all his own. Just as with the Anthony-Award nominated How to Win at High School, Owen’s new YA novel, The Fixes, employs the...
by Kristopher | Aug 16, 2016 | Review
Navigating the balance between familiar and fresh can be tricky business, but with her debut crime fiction title, Black Wood, SJI Holliday makes it look easy. Black Wood is one of those novels that employs the use of unreliable memory as a device to heighten the...
by Kristopher | Aug 12, 2016 | Review
Flynn Berry’s Under the Harrow is a crime fiction debut that packs quite a punch. This slim volume is so densely packed with descriptive language and beautiful imagery that readers will struggle with wanting to read faster to know what happens and slowing down to...
by Kristopher | Aug 5, 2016 | Review
Since her debut novel, Last Rituals, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir has been one of the most popular Icelandic authors of crime fiction. In 2015, The Silence of the Sea was awarded the Petrona Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year. The Silence of the Sea is the...
by Kristopher | Aug 3, 2016 | Review
After writing a Frankenstein-inspired novel, some short fiction, and many poems, Kate Horsley is now making her crime fiction debut with The American Girl. It is the story of an outsider thrust into a tangled web without the benefit of memory and a story of the woman...
by Kristopher | Aug 2, 2016 | Bolo
Predictions concerning James Patterson’s BookShots initiative ran the gamut from their being the saving grace of the publishing industry to their being responsible for the dumbing down of the World’s populace. One might easily surmise that the true reality resides...
