by Kristopher | Mar 20, 2018 | Guest Posts
From the Booking Desk: I am happy to welcome Matthew Iden to BOLO Books today. Matthew has written within a wide variety of sub-genres, with most of them landing at various locations along the mystery/thriller continuum. When I heard more about his new novel –...
by Kristopher | Mar 19, 2018 | Bolo
From The Booking Desk: Another Monday, another eclectic list of books being released this week. This week is the beginning of Spring, so it is getting to be time to start planning your summer holiday reading. Any of these books would make great destinations for your...
by Kristopher | Mar 16, 2018 | Composite Sketch
From the Booking Desk: This is no denying that have been a fan of Lori Rader-Day from the very beginning of her career. In fact, my critique of her second novel, Little Pretty Things, is one of my reviews that I most cherish. Fortunately I have been able to get to...
by Kristopher | Mar 15, 2018 | Review
Towards the end of Stephen Sondheim’s musical Into the Woods, the Witch sings the lines “Careful the things you say, children will listen.” This is advice that Asako Adachi, the mother at the center of Kanae Minato’s Edgar Award-nominated novel Penance, should have...
by Kristopher | Mar 14, 2018 | APB
This is the eleventh post for 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...
by Kristopher | Mar 13, 2018 | Review
The Hate U Give is Angie Thomas’ Edgar Award-nominated debut and it also happens to be one of the most important young adult novels of all time. Of course, this praise could be hyperbolic, but the significance of works that make tangible the social problems of the day...
by Kristopher | Mar 12, 2018 | Bolo
From The Booking Desk: It’s quite an eclectic list of new releases this week; there literally is something for everyone. We may have lost an hour this past week (it’s Daylight Saving Time here in the US), but publishing is not slowing down....
by Kristopher | Mar 9, 2018 | Composite Sketch
From the Booking Desk: Debra Goldstein and I first became acquainted via her role as Monitoring Project Liaison for Sisters in Crime. In 2016, I was asked to contribute to this “counting project” which looks at the volume of crime fiction reviews published...
by Kristopher | Mar 8, 2018 | Articles
From the Booking Desk: Angel Luis Colón has been a long-time fan and supporter of BOLO Books, so when he approached me to ask if I would be willing to host the cover reveal for his latest novel, I was more than happy to oblige. Pull & Pray is the follow-up...
by Kristopher | Mar 7, 2018 | Review
Come and Find Me is the fifth book in Sarah Hilary’s excellent and vastly under-rated mystery series. Like the others that precede it, this new novel puts DI Marnie Rome and her partner, Noah Jake, through the ringer – both emotionally and physically. However, as...
