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...
by Kristopher | Dec 17, 2015 | underCOVER
From the Booking Desk: Anyone who follows BOLO Books knows how much I love the novels of Lisa Unger – and in particular, those that are set in the fictional town of The Hollows. In her new newsletter, Lisa reveals the cover of her soon-to-be released novella, as...
by Kristopher | Dec 11, 2015 | Review
One of the more popular sub-genres of crime fiction has always been the historical. Whether you are talking about legends like Barbara Peters and Lindsey Davis or more recent practitioners of the category such as Rhys Bowen and Susan Elia MacNeal, readers love to...
by Kristopher | Dec 4, 2015 | Bolo
From the Booking Desk: This year’s list of Top Reads was almost painful to create. Narrowing the list down was far from easy and as a result, some really great books did not make the cut. The competition was so heated that I had to increase the Top Ten to a Top...
by Kristopher | Dec 2, 2015 | Bolo
Reading Young Americans is likely a bit like actually living through the era the novel depicts – fun and flirty with an unmistakable edge to both. Josh Stallings has crafted a collection of characters you can’t help but root for and a plot that hustles across the page...
by Kristopher | Nov 27, 2015 | Review
Similar to Helen Smith’s short story from last year – called “Real Elves”– “Bryant & May and the Secret Santa” tells a holiday story set in the uniquely British local of a department store Santa’s Wonderland. “Bryant & May and the...
by Kristopher | Nov 25, 2015 | Review
Fans of crime fiction know that sometimes the criminal element of the story is the least interesting part of the reading experience. That is certainly the case with A Line of Blood by Ben McPherson. In this novel, the death at the center of the story is simply the...
