by Kristopher | May 5, 2017 | Review
When news breaks about the release date of a new Dennis Lehane novel, a buzz justifiably begins to build within the crime fiction community. Things followed that existing standard when Mr. Lehane’s latest novel, Since We Fell, was announced at the beginning of the...
by Kristopher | May 4, 2017 | Review
Los Angeles, California. The self-proclaimed City of Angels, land of facades and facelifts where money and movies dominate, but masks and manipulation are de rigueur. This is the setting for Kristi Belcamino’s new novel, her young adult debut. Appropriately titled...
by Kristopher | Apr 27, 2017 | Conference Recap
From the Booking Desk: Malice Domestic begins in Bethesda, Maryland tomorrow. I hope that you are going to be there. Please be sure to say hello! I’ll be hanging out the entire weekend, so keep your eye peeled for the EYEBALL. On Saturday morning at 10 AM, I...
by Kristopher | Apr 21, 2017 | Review
With her new stand-alone novel, The Red Hunter, Lisa Unger ventures beyond her beloved locale of The Hollows, to present a novel which succinctly and effectively details the long legacy wrought by violence in the lives of two complex women. Claudia Bishop moves with...
by Kristopher | Apr 20, 2017 | Review
Dr. Zoe Goldman was first introduced in Sandra Block’s Little Black Lies. This debut was then followed by The Girl Without A Name. And now with The Secret Room, Zoe’s story comes to an end. While each of these books work perfectly well as stand-alone mysteries, the...
by Kristopher | Apr 19, 2017 | Bolo
From the Booking Desk: It seemed as though everyone was watching 13 Reasons Why over the last week or so. As a result, I decided to delay my posting for a bit. While the below is mostly spoiler-free – the policy here at BOLO Books – I wanted folks to...
by Kristopher | Apr 18, 2017 | Review
High school is a turbulent time as young people struggle to ascertain who they are, what they want to do with their lives, and a myriad of other huge life-altering decisions. This makes it a perfect backdrop for a Lisa Scottoline novel – she loves nothing better than...
by Kristopher | Apr 13, 2017 | Bolo
From the Booking Desk: If you are an e-mail subscriber to the blog, you may have noticed that you have not been getting notifications for about a week. This was the result of an error created when one of the main applications for WordPress was updated. I have now...
by Kristopher | Apr 13, 2017 | Review
Friends do favors for each other all the time; so when Emily asks Stephanie to pick up her son after school, she thinks nothing of it. After all, she has to pick up her own son and the two boys love to have playtime, so no big deal, right? Except that Emily never...
by Kristopher | Apr 6, 2017 | Review
The cozy mystery sub-genre is populated with a plethora of amateur sleuths working a multitude of day-jobs as they solve crimes on the side; but rarely have I encountered such an inspired occupation as that found in Jill Orr’s debut mystery, The Good Byline. Riley...
