by Kristopher | Aug 21, 2013 | Interview
From the Booking Desk: BOLOBooks is happy to welcome Susan M. Boyer to the blog today. Susan’s first novel, Lowcountry Boil, won the Agatha Award for best first novel and the follow-up will officially be released shortly (but Susan has tweeted that copies are...
by Kristopher | Aug 16, 2013 | Review
With Lake Thirteen, Greg Herren has written a ghost story that will not only appeal to its teenaged target audience, but a story that will also resonate with anyone who remembers the summer vacations of their youth. You know the type – multiple families traveling to...
by Kristopher | Aug 9, 2013 | Review
Fans of Downton Abbey will feel a sense of home-coming when they enter Kingsdown Place, the major setting in Rhys Bowen’s newest novel, Heirs and Graces. The book is the sixth in the Royal Spyness series, and like the others, it is a dream come true for Masterpiece...
by Kristopher | Aug 6, 2013 | Interview
From the Booking Desk: BOLOBooks is pleased to welcome Vicki Delany to the blog. I first met Vicki at the Canucks evening event celebrating Canadian authors at last year’s Bouchercon. Then she also attended this year’s Festival of Mystery at which I...
by Kristopher | Aug 2, 2013 | Review
From the Booking Desk: Yesterday, BOLOBooks featured an interview with Alex Marwood about her writing process and her newest book, The Wicked Girls; today we are happy to present our review of the novel. ...
by Kristopher | Aug 1, 2013 | Interview
From the Booking Desk: This past weekend I read The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood and it quickly became clear that this book was likely to be one of my favorites for the year. I couldn’t be more excited to introduce Alex to all of you, so I asked her if she...
by Kristopher | Jul 26, 2013 | Review
Recently, John Connolly published a new novella called The Wanderer in Unknown Realms. Like his more recent novels, this short work explores the supernatural world as it seeps into our everyday surroundings. Perfect for reading on a summer evening, The Wanderer in...
by Kristopher | Jul 24, 2013 | underCOVER
From the Booking Desk: BOLOBooks is proud to take part in the cover reveal blog tour for CJ Lyons’ debut YA novel, Broken. Follow the link to view this wonderful cover and to read a brief publisher supplied Q&A with CJ. For Scarlet Killian, every day is a...
by Kristopher | Jul 23, 2013 | Review
On Sunday July 14, news broke that The Cuckoo’s Calling, the debut novel by Robert Galbraith was actually written by J K Rowling. Since J K Rowling was using this pseudonym in order to garner honest reviews of the novel, rather than reviews weighted with the baggage...
by Kristopher | Jul 19, 2013 | Review
In one of those strange coincidences only the Universe can explain, around the time advance copies of Koethi Zan’s debut novel The Never List were being printed, the world was riveted by the newscasts reporting the rescue of three women from a cellar dungeon in...
