Recent Reviews
A Quartet of Mystery – 4 Mini Reviews from BOLO Books
From the Booking Desk: Continuing my new plan to post mini-reviews together in the hopes of creating cross-over readers in a selection of sub-genres, this week we have 4 short reviews - three historicals and a contemporary police procedural. But these books have links...
Hide Away – The BOLO Books Review
Every so often the crime fiction canon welcomes a new character who is instantly iconic. There is no easy formula for making this happen; otherwise it would not be nearly as rare an occurrence as it is. In theory, it is likely some elusive combination of character...
The Lucky One – The BOLO Books Review
With the release of four novels under her wings – The Black Hour, Little Pretty Things, The Day I Died, and Under a Dark Sky – Lori Rader-Day has established herself as one of the most consistently-excellent and thoroughly-unpredictable writers of crime fiction. Part...
Recent Interviews
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Recent Articles
Katrina Niidas Holm – A BOLO Books Composite Sketch
From the Booking Desk: I am unable to pinpoint exactly when Katrina entered my life; it's almost like she has always been there, lending an ear and lending a hand. Most definitely, it started on social media - probably when I interrupted a conversation she and her...
Stop By Career Authors
From the Booking Desk: The wonderful Hank Phillippi Ryan recently asked me to submit a guest post for the new industry blog she is working with - Career Authors. This will be of particular interest to authors who are looking to pitch their novels to book review blogs...
BOLO Books’ Top Reads of 2017
From the Booking Desk: Now that it has been announced that I will be awarded the MWA Raven Award in 2018, one might think compiling a list of Top Reads would come with even more pressure, but in all honestly, I have always taken this task very seriously - debating my...
