by Kristopher | Jul 14, 2015 | Review
After the Storm is the seventh book in Linda Castillo’s Kate Burkholder series. From the beginning, Castillo has managed to mine the depths of Amish society by highlighting the culture clash between this isolationist group and the public at large. Castillo continues...
by Kristopher | Jul 10, 2015 | Interview
From the Booking Desk: At this year’s Malice Domestic, I ran into Cynthia Kuhn, who happens to be a member of the Mysteristas blog. She asked is I would like to stop by for an interview and of course, I said yes. Here is just a sampling of one of the great...
by Kristopher | Jul 8, 2015 | Interview, Review
From the Booking Desk: If you are a long-time follower of BOLO Books, you might remember an experimental project I tried a few years back. I wanted to combine a review with an interview. I called it an Inter(Re)view and Chris Holm was my first “victim.”...
by Kristopher | Jul 7, 2015 | Review
Little Pretty Things is like a literary mash-up of Judy Blume and Megan Abbott, told in what is becoming the distinctive voice of its creator, Lori Rader-Day. On the surface, Little Pretty Things is about the death of Madeleine Bell and how her closest childhood...
by Kristopher | Jul 2, 2015 | Ricochet
From The Booking Desk: The last two months have been busy ones here at BOLO Books. I hope that you have enjoyed our content and will keep coming back for frequent visits. Be sure to look over the list in case you missed anything lately. Have a great reading summer!...
by Kristopher | Jun 30, 2015 | Review
Snowblind, the debut English language mystery by Icelandic author Ragnar Jónasson may not have an official domestic release until later this year, but that is not stopping die-hard fans of the genre from hunting down a copy of the novel. Translated to English by...
by Kristopher | Jun 26, 2015 | Review
When it comes to exposing the odd inner workings of the human mind, Sophie Hannah always manages to make the extreme seem much more common place than any of us would like to think. In her new work, The Warning, Sophie Hannah examines the concept of the sociopath from...
by Kristopher | Jun 24, 2015 | Review
Back in March, I posted my first comic review when Dark Circle Comics released the debut issue of The Black Hood. Now, just about five months later, we have reached the end of that first storyline arc. Looking at this work as a whole only further solidifies the fact...
by Kristopher | Jun 19, 2015 | Review
Crime fiction of late has been filled with stories featuring unlikeable and unreliable narrators – most of them women. Readers seem to either love or hate this narrative technique; there is very little middle ground on the subject. The Truth and Other Lies by Sascha...
by Kristopher | Jun 17, 2015 | Review
In Land of Shadows, Rachel Howzell Hall does for Los Angeles what Laura Lippman has done for Baltimore. Yes, that means that she is revealing the underbelly of the city – the less polished façade – devoid of the allure most tourists are attracted to. But more...
