by Kristopher | Jan 7, 2020 | Review
There is a long tradition of crime fiction being inspired by true life crimes. This runs the gamut from direct fictionalizations of actual cases to plots that simply harken back to various aspects of the cases that proved the launching point for the writing. Jess...
by Kristopher | Jan 6, 2020 | Review
Most people are aware of the existence of scammers working out of impoverished foreign locations, using technology for a nefarious purpose, but it takes a forward-thinking writer such as Kwei Quartey to take readers behind the scenes of these “operations,” exposing...
by Kristopher | Jan 3, 2020 | Bolo
From the Booking Desk: The beauty of conventions like Bouchercon and Malice Domestic is that it allows readers to be introduced to new writers – some of the start of their careers, others further in. I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Gale Massey at the St....
by Kristopher | Dec 26, 2019 | Review
From the Booking Desk: When I post my Top Reads list each year, I never actually rank the books and I rarely mention what my very favorite book is for any given year. This is largely because it is never as cut and dried as it might seem. There are so many factors that...
by Kristopher | Dec 20, 2019 | Composite Sketch
From the Booking Desk: Around Thanksgiving, in the spirit of giving back, I opened up the opportunity to have a Composite Sketch on BOLO Books to the first five people who reached out to me expressing interest. We have seen some of those profiles already and a few...
by Kristopher | Dec 16, 2019 | Review
From the Booking Desk: During the holiday season, it is always tough to keep up with blogging work along with all the demands of the day job, family obligations, festive appointments, and just general life. But I don’t want to let the days pass without...
by Kristopher | Dec 13, 2019 | Composite Sketch
From the Booking Desk: Vicki Delany is another of those authors I was fortunate enough to meet when I first started attending mystery conventions. Even though she lives to our North in Canada, she regularly attends the cons around the country. Every conversation I...
by Kristopher | Dec 12, 2019 | Review
By this point, you have likely read at least one crime novel that uses our culture’s current obsession with true crime podcasts as a storytelling device. It has become clear that we are still at the early stages of this trend and market saturation remains a...
by Kristopher | Dec 10, 2019 | Review
Time travel has always been a popular subject in our culture. From H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine through to current obsessions like Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander, this plot device has proven its ability to open up all kinds of possibilities. Back to the Future...
by Kristopher | Dec 6, 2019 | Composite Sketch
From the Booking Desk: The crime writing community is like a big family – sometimes dysfunctional, as all families are – but there are always those members that stand out (and stand up.) Leslie Budewitz is one of those community members that everybody...
