by Kristopher | Oct 9, 2019 | Review
There is a special kind of joy in picking up a book one has only the sparsest knowledge of and finding inside a brilliantly conceived “plot” that makes one wonder how no one had thought of this before. The quotes around plot are intentional, because while The Remaking...
by Kristopher | Oct 8, 2019 | Review
Michael Nava published the first mystery featuring Henry Rios, A Little Death, in 1986 and the last, Rag and Bone, in 2001. Both of these novels and the five in-between were all released well before our contemporary efforts to embrace diverse voices within the crime...
by Kristopher | Oct 4, 2019 | Composite Sketch
From the Booking Desk: I met Wendall Thomas last year when I was organizing the Speed-Dating sessions for Bouchercon 2018 in St. Petersburg. If you have read her novels (and you really should read them), you will not be shocked to learn that she was just as funny and...
by Kristopher | Oct 1, 2019 | Review
Vanessa Lillie is wasting no time in making a name for herself in the crime fiction community. She is active on the social media aspects of the business, attends events for and with our tribe, and her debut novel, Little Voices, from Thomas & Mercer was chosen for...
by Kristopher | Sep 30, 2019 | Bolo
From the Booking Desk: This is a good week to visit your local bookstore – there are so many great book releases. Tara Laskowski – One Night Gone (Graydon House, Paperback, $16.99, 10/01/2019) BOLO Books Comments: The BOLO Books Review of One Night Gone posted...
by Kristopher | Sep 27, 2019 | Review
Cops and lawyers are a mainstay of crime fiction, so when readers discover that Dervla McTeirnan’s new novella, The Sisters – released exclusively as an Audible Original – revolves around siblings in these professions, it is not a shock. Since this is an Ireland-set...
by Kristopher | Sep 27, 2019 | Composite Sketch
From the Booking Desk: Josh Pachter is an excellent short story writer and has edited (or co-edited) a variety of anthologies. As members of the same Sisters in Crime Chapter (shout out to the Chessie Chapter!), we often attend the same events and it is always a...
by Kristopher | Sep 26, 2019 | Review
There is a particular joy in watching a writer one admires journey from their initial successes into a new career phase. In the case of Tara Laskowski, her track record with short story publication in literary journals, genre-focused magazines, and a few small-press...
by Kristopher | Sep 24, 2019 | APB
Time for another entry in this incredibly popular feature here at BOLO Books – The APB (All Points Bulletin).As always, competition for these slots was tough. Which books are generating that elusive buzz in the publishing industry? Which are books that I personally...
by Kristopher | Sep 23, 2019 | Bolo
From the Booking Desk: The BOLO Report this week has a decidedly lighter tone than is typical here on the blog. But with two cozy series I’ve been reading from the beginning and a new genre-mashup, these are the books to look for this week. Leigh Perry – The...
