by Kristopher | Mar 10, 2015 | Review
The union between noir-style crime fiction and comic books is hardly groundbreaking. After all, what is Gotham if not a crime infested inner-city setting filled with corruption? The same goes for Frank Miller’s classic Sin City. What makes The Black Hood stand out in...
by Kristopher | Mar 6, 2015 | Review
Sarie Holland is just your typical high school honor student. That is, until she finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time and suddenly because embroiled in a world she knows nothing about. Duane Swierczynski has taken his typical noir story-telling style and...
by Kristopher | Mar 4, 2015 | Ricochet
From The Booking Desk: It is hard to believe that this Ricochet post is only covering the first two months of the year. I could easily fill up a short Best Of List with some of the reviewed titles here. In case you missed any of them, here is what has been happening...
by Kristopher | Mar 4, 2015 | Interview
From the Booking desk: Azar Nafisi is probably not the name you expected to see on a crime fiction blog this morning, but the truth of the matter is that Azar is supportive of all genres of literature and the dissemination of its power world-wide. Best known for the...
by Kristopher | Feb 27, 2015 | Review
Every few years there is a book that is released which immediately feels like a classic – something readers will re-visit over and over again, always discovering new things within the magical words on the page. This year, that book is My Sunshine Away by M. O....
by Kristopher | Feb 26, 2015 | Conference Recap
From The Booking Desk: The organizing committee for this year’s Bouchercon in Raleigh are trying something new with the Anthony Award nomination procedure. Word of this began to spread yesterday via social media, but they have asked me to post something here on...
by Kristopher | Feb 25, 2015 | Conference Recap
From The Booking Desk: Last November, I read the new Tess Monaghan novel by Laura Lippman. Since then, I have anxiously awaiting the time when the public at large would be able to experience Hush Hush. That moment is now upon us. Last night, Laura Lippman appeared...
by Kristopher | Feb 24, 2015 | Interview
From the Booking Desk: It is my great honor and privilege to welcome Laura Lippman to BOLO Books today. I have to confess that as a native Baltimorean, having Laura here on the blog is a bit like discovering the Holy Grail. That said, I think you all are going to...
by Kristopher | Feb 20, 2015 | Review
When Laura Lippman had Tess Monaghan give birth to her daughter Carla Scout, it seemed like the death knell for the series. After all, Tess was hardly the type to put her daughter in danger to continue her career. But then, at the end of last year’s stand-alone novel,...
by Kristopher | Feb 19, 2015 | Bolo
When Maggie Barbieri’s Once Upon a Lie first appeared, readers did not know what to expect. Here was a dark, contemporary thriller from an author best known for her light-hearted cozy mystery series. All doubts vanished once the novel was read however. And now, the...
