by Kristopher | Jan 13, 2016 | Review
Secrets & Lies is an Australian television series starring Martin Henderson. It was recently remade for American television with Ryan Phillippe and received decent enough ratings to warrant a season two later this year. I will admit that I have not seen the...
by Kristopher | Jan 8, 2016 | Review
Otto Penzler’s Mysterious Press has been releasing Bibliomysteries for a number of years now. These are short stories written by some of the leading names in crime fiction. Each of the stories focuses the central mystery around the concept of books – every one of them...
by Kristopher | Jan 7, 2016 | Articles
From the Booking Desk: I am often asked how I decide what to review. This is far too complicated a process for me to distill into one blog post, but in 2014 I started to post an analysis of how I obtained the books I ended up reviewing. Here is the data for 2015....
by Kristopher | Jan 5, 2016 | Review
With just two crime fiction novel releases under her belt, Alex Marwood has positioned herself as one of the leading tastemakers of the genre. This week, her third psychological suspense novel, The Darkest Secret, was released in the United Kingdom and it will further...
by Kristopher | Dec 30, 2015 | Review
Clare Mackintosh’s I Let You Go is a difficult book to review. There are revelations within the plot so integral to the success of the novel that revealing them would spoil the reader’s enjoyment. With that in mind, this review intentionally contains very few plot...
by Kristopher | Dec 28, 2015 | Review
Once in a while, you stumble upon a book with a premise so intriguing, so clever, you instantly know that if the author can pull this off, it is going to be a great book. After the Crash by Michel Bussi is just such a novel. On December 23, 1980, a plane crashes into...
by Kristopher | Dec 24, 2015 | Articles
From the Booking Desk: Things will be a little quiet around here for the rest of 2015. Don’t worry, I’ll pop in with a review or two, just not as often as usual. BOLO Books will be back into full swing with the New Year. In the meantime, I did want to...
by Kristopher | Dec 22, 2015 | Review
Gordon McAlpine’s Woman with a Blue Pencil certainly gets points for taking risks. It is rare that a book comes along in which the structure feels so completely original and inventive while also seeming like the only natural way to tell the tale at hand. Woman with a...
by Kristopher | Dec 20, 2015 | Bolo
From the Booking Desk: Happy Holidays! Dru Ann, Lesa, and I have gathered together to present another “Triple” post. We may have strayed a bit from our usual coverage of books, but we are still talking about crime. Read on to find out how. DRU ANN LOVE:...
by Kristopher | Dec 18, 2015 | Review
Elizabeth George has been releasing books in the Thomas Lynley mystery series since 1988’s A Great Deliverance. The newest book in the series, A Banquet of Consequences, is the nineteenth. Fans who have felt that the last few novels have not been as strong as...
