Recent Reviews
Detectives in the Shadows – The BOLO Books Review
Susanna Lee’s Detectives in the Shadows examines the topic, trajectory, and transcendence of the “private eye” in crime fiction from its origins through to the present day. While it is a scholarly work from an academic press, the writing here is clear and concise, as...
From Beer to Eternity – The BOLO Books Review
The cozy mystery sub-genre is an important and too often overlooked corner of the crime fiction world. Anyone who reads them knows how difficult it is to craft and plot an effective one – maybe even harder than some of the other sub-genres. In my opinion, a cozy...
Rules for Being Dead – The BOLO Books Review
Every season or so, there's a book that seemingly comes out of the blue that manages to knock our socks off. Rules for Being Dead is that book for the Summer of 2020. And its author, Kim Powers, is a bona fide breath of fresh air on the literary landscape. Honestly,...
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Recent Articles
BOLO – Week of June 3, 2018
From The Booking Desk: This weekend, I did my first solo library event at the Enoch Pratt Free Library - Light Street Branch. That was tons of fun and I hope that some readers were introduced to books and authors they might not have been aware of. Today's list...
Tara Laskowski – A BOLO Books Composite Sketch
From The Booking Desk: It will surprise no one that I first met Tara Laskowski because of my friendship with her husband, Art Taylor. But very quickly, I discovered that Tara was also an excellent writer, a loyal friend, a witty conversationalist, and a wonderful...
Summer Reading @ Enoch Pratt Free Library
From the Booking Desk: Don't forget that I will be speaking about the hottest books for your summer reading this Saturday at the Enoch Pratt Free Library on Light Street in Baltimore at 3PM. I would love to see as many of you as possible there, but for those that are...
