by Kristopher | Jun 6, 2017 | Review
Once again zipping around the narrow streets of Paris on her pink motorbike, Aimée Leduc returns in the seventeenth novel in Cara Black’s popular series. Murder in Saint-Germain finds Aimée dealing with issues on both the professional and personal front. There are two...
by Kristopher | Jun 2, 2017 | Composite Sketch
From the Booking Desk: Today marks the launch of a new weekly feature here at BOLO Books: The BOLO Books Composite Sketch. Look for a new sketch every Friday. This feature will pose a unique set of interview questions to authors, fans, and other crime fiction...
by Kristopher | Jun 1, 2017 | Review
The power of a novel can often be weighed by how long after finishing it the story remains in one’s mind. One of Erin Kelly’s earlier novels, The Burning Air, is one that continually comes up in discussions of plots that resonate in the mind for extended periods. Next...
by Kristopher | May 31, 2017 | Interview
From the Booking Desk: Depending on what device you are viewing BOLO Books on, you may notice over the next few weeks that we are changing up the look of the blog. I am working with someone who knows much more about these things than I do – more on that later...
by Kristopher | May 30, 2017 | Review
To law enforcement and the world, Jacob Halbrook is a kidnapper and a rapist, but to Helena Pelletier he is simply “father.” In The Marsh King’s Daughter, the new novel by Karen Dionne, the complexity of this familial relationship is examined over the course of time...
by Kristopher | May 26, 2017 | Review
“And so you left your hometown To try out for the part Everybody’s pretty little angel With a pretty little heart” Melissa Etheridge, Map of the Stars Hollywood has always been that elusive locale folks dream of running off to – a place where stardom,...
by Kristopher | May 25, 2017 | Review
Denise Mina’s The Long Drop is a unique book in the crime fiction genre. Not quite true crime, but also not a fictional tale, The Long Drop is somewhat similar to the method Truman Capote used with In Cold Blood – fiction inspired by actual events. However you...
by Kristopher | May 18, 2017 | Review
From the Booking Desk: On a recent road trip, my car-mates and I decided to listen to two novellas from James Patterson’s Bookshots output during the journey. My only other experience with Bookshots was reading and reviewing The Witnesses, written in collaboration...
by Kristopher | May 17, 2017 | Bolo
From the Booking Desk: The 2017 Anthony Award nominations have been announced on the Toronto Bouchercon website. Please check there for any changes or updates. Below is a list of the nominees along with links to the BOLO Books review of those titles covered here on...
by Kristopher | May 16, 2017 | Review
When a writer sets out to tell a very timely story with direct correlation to current events, it can be a tricky endeavor. For most, reading is viewed as a pastime, an entertainment if you will, and being bombarded with depressing current affairs can sometimes alter...
