Recent Reviews
The Overnight Guest – The BOLO Books Review
The winter months are the perfect time to read The Overnight Guest, Heather Gudenkauf’s newest thriller teeming with suspense, shocks, and plenty of snow. Throughout her career, Gudenkauf has proven herself adapt at crafting complex storylines that rarely proceed in...
Burying the Newspaper Man – The BOLO Books Review
Thousands of books are published every year and yet the reading public only becomes aware of a small cross-section of those titles. Marketing teams at the big publishers and the limited space at mainstream media outlets often dictate how widespread knowledge of a...
Real Tigers – A BOLO Books Surveillance Review
Real Tigers is the third full-length novel in Mick Herron’s Slough House series. While the first two books in the series laid the important groundwork, it is in Real Tigers where all the various elements come together to create a near-perfect spy novel. Real Tigers...
Recent Interviews
Remote, Me – Kristopher’s Virtual Events
From the Booking Desk: I hope that this posting finds you and yours healthy and happy during this most stressful time in American history. Before I say anything else, please remember to VOTE; we need every voice to be heard during this unprecedented election.No doubt...
A Chat with Me – Kristopher Zgorski and John Valeri
From the Booking Desk: I was honored to be invited as a guest on John B. Valeri's YouTube show, Central Booking. If you have ever wanted to know more about the book blogging experience, this is the chat for you. We cover everything from the origins of the blog, the...
Honored to be an Advocate – Kristopher Zgorski
From the Booking Desk: In case you haven't been following along, the wonderful publishing blog - The Thrill Begins - has recently launched a series of posts highlighting some folks the regular bloggers there consider to be important advocates within our crime writing...
Recent Articles
Cover Reveal – In The Dark We Forget
From the Booking Desk: I first met Sandra SG Wong when I was part of the pub quiz team she led at the Toronto Bouchercon. Nevermind the fact that we did not win the quiz, because a friendship was born and that is so much more important. When Sandra asked if I would...
Iceland Noir – Recap
As anyone who follows me on my various social media sites has no doubt noticed, I have spent the last few weeks in Iceland. This trip was originally planned for November 2020, but of course the global pandemic had other ideas. Fortunately, we were able to adjust all...
Catriona McPherson on Academic Mysteries – A BOLO Books Guest Post
The first thing that needs to be said is THE MIRROR DANCE is not an academic mystery. It’s a Punch and Judy publishing stage-door academic mystery (and if it’s not number one on Amazon’s chart of them I’ll have done something very wrong). I always knew the action...
