The Blackhouse (BOLO Review)

Peter May is part of an ever-growing contingent of mystery writers who simply through the magic of their words are able to transport readers to a foreign location so completely as to make them believe they have actually been there.  These authors include Ann Cleeves,...

What We Saw At Night (BOLO Review)

What We Saw At Night is the newest Young Adult title from Jacquelyn Mitchard and the first release from the new Soho Teen imprint.  It is exciting to see Soho Press venture into the YA arena and it’s nice to see Mitchard try her hand at a mystery for teens. In...

The Wrath of Angels
(BOLO Review)

The Wrath of Angels is the eleventh book in John Connolly’s Charlie Parker series.  In this outing, Charlie is asked to help location the wreckage of an airplane that is hidden in the woods of Maine.  What follows is a mythic journey or quest novel in which various...

BOLO Books’ TOP 12 of ’12

DAY FOUR

From the Booking Desk: This post continues my list of the best reads of 2012. You can find the books from DAY ONE, TWO and THREE – here, here, and here. NOTE:  These books appear in no particular order, as I would find it impossible to rank them....

BOLO Books’ TOP 12 of ’12

DAY THREE

From the Booking Desk: This post continues my list of the best reads of 2012. The books from DAY ONE and DAY TWO can be found here and here. NOTE:  These books appear in no particular order, as I would find it impossible to rank them....

BOLO Books’ TOP 12 of ’12

DAY TWO

From the Booking Desk: This post continues my list of the best reads of 2012. You can find the books from DAY ONE here. NOTE:  These books appear in no particular order, as I would find it impossible to rank them....

BOLO Books’ TOP 12 of ’12

DAY ONE

From the Booking Desk: The next few posts (over the next two weeks) will focus on my favorite books of 2012.  I have decided to do 10 mystery themed books and 2 books from other genres.  They will all be books that I have read and loved in the calendar year 2012...

Invisible (BOLO Review)

Carla Buckley – Invisible (Bantam, Paperback, $15.00, 12/11/2012) If the literary output of Jodi Picoult were to mate with that of Michael Crichton, the resulting progeny would almost certainly resemble a Carla Buckley novel.  With the publication of Invisible,...

Carla Buckley – Interview

From The Booking Desk: Carla Buckley joins us today for an interview about her new novel Invisible.  Carla burst on the scene in 2010 with her debut novel, The Things That Keep Us Here.  Fans, like myself, have been anxiously awaiting her next book, wondering where...