by Kristopher | May 12, 2017 | Review
From the Booking Desk: When you walk through the bookroom at one of the many crime fiction conventions worldwide, you just never know what you might discover. You could stumble upon a first edition of that book you love, a signed copy of a new bestseller, or a book to...
by Kristopher | May 11, 2017 | Review
Crime Song is the second book in David Swinson’s series featuring anti-hero Frank Marr. As with the series debut, The Second Girl, Swinson excels at the policing elements of the plot due to his own history with the occupation. David Swinson’s attitude toward the...
by Kristopher | May 10, 2017 | Conference Recap
From the Booking Desk: Malice Domestic is the yearly crime fiction convention held in/near Bethesda, Maryland. About half the size of Bouchercon, Malice Domestic is a cozier affair – in all definitions of the word. Since Malice celebrates the traditional mystery,...
by Kristopher | May 9, 2017 | Review
By design, most books in a crime fiction series allow readers to follow the lives of the main character and perhaps some of the secondary players over the course of time. However, it is more rare that readers are given access to re-visit with a character who was...
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...
