by Kristopher | Sep 21, 2017 | Composite Sketch
From the Booking Desk: When I first launched the Composite Sketch feature, I always intended to one day fill out the questionnaire for myself. Fortunately, Sherry Harris had the same idea and asked me if the Wicked Cozy Author blog could host me for the posting of...
by Kristopher | Sep 20, 2017 | Review
Best Day Ever is a domestic suspense novel from Kaira Rouda. Set over just one twenty-four-hour period, Best Day Ever is a prime example of a compulsively readable book with surprises at every turn. Told from the perspective of Paul Strom, Best Day Ever documents the...
by Kristopher | Sep 19, 2017 | Review
With just this first issue, Black Cat Mystery Magazine has laid a solid claim as the newest location for quality short crime fiction. Featuring both new and reprint stories, John Gregory Betancourt and Carla Coupe have opened their arms to embrace the short story...
by Kristopher | Sep 15, 2017 | Composite Sketch
From the Booking Desk: While she won’t remember this – there is no reason she should – I first met Marcia Talley at a standard bookstore event in Annapolis, Maryland in 1999. Her first book, Sing It To Her Bones had just been released and the...
by Kristopher | Sep 14, 2017 | Review
Robert B. Parker’s The Hangman’s Sonnet is the fourth book in the Jesse Stone series that Reed Farrel Coleman has written. If there was any doubt that Coleman has managed to pay homage to the legacy of Robert B. Parker while also stamping the series continuation with...
by Kristopher | Sep 13, 2017 | Review
A reverse bildungsroman may seem like a bit of an oxymoron, but that is exactly what e. lockhart gifts to readers with her new young adult novel, Genuine Fraud. By manipulating this predominately Victorian art form, lockhart tells a fascinating tale peppered with...
by Kristopher | Sep 12, 2017 | Guest Posts
From the Booking Desk: Today is launch day for Cheryl L. Reed’s new thriller, Poison Girls. As soon as I heard the premise behind this novel, I was intrigued and I am happy to welcome Cheryl to BOLO Books to tell you a bit more about how this novel came to be....
by Kristopher | Sep 8, 2017 | Composite Sketch
From the Booking Desk: David Brown is a Deputy Director of Publicity at Atria Books, a division of Simon and Schuster. He also happens to be one of the early champions of my BOLO Books blog. He has been responsible for publicity campaigns for the likes of John...
by Kristopher | Sep 7, 2017 | APB
From the Booking Desk: This is the ninth 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...
by Kristopher | Sep 6, 2017 | Review
Like the legacy bestowed by the Texas Blues music forming its backbone, the tragedy at the core of Attica Locke’s Bluebird, Bluebird is worthy of no less than Shakespeare himself. Told in lyrical prose at an unremitting yet leisurely pace, this novel marks the...
