Recent Reviews

Conviction – The BOLO Books Review

By this point, you have likely read at least one crime novel that uses our culture's current obsession with true crime podcasts as a storytelling device. It has become clear that we are still at the early stages of this trend and market saturation remains a distant...

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Crime Travel – The BOLO Books Review

Time travel has always been a popular subject in our culture. From H.G. Wells' The Time Machine through to current obsessions like Diana Gabaldon's Outlander, this plot device has proven its ability to open up all kinds of possibilities. Back to the Future mined it...

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Still Catching Up – Another Collection of Reviews

From The Booking Desk: You may be seeing countless lists of favorite 2019 books (including BOLO Books' own Top Reads of 2019 rundown), but there are still reviews from the year I haven't yet been able to post. Here are three more for newly released books that are all...

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Recent Interviews

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Recent Articles

Tracy Fenton – A BOLO Books Composite Sketch

From the Booking Desk: Many of you probably know - or know of - Tracy Fenton via her wonderful Facebook "group," THE Book Club (TBC) which launched in 2015. To say that this secret group became a bit of a juggenaut would be a vast understatement and that is due in no...

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Let’s celebrate another year!

From the Booking Desk: Today marks 5 years of BOLO Books!  Where has the time gone? When I started BOLO Books in October of 2012, I had no idea how much joy and fulfillment it would bring to my life. Books have always been a central focus for me and to be able to help...

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Laura McHugh – A BOLO Books Composite Sketch

From the Booking Desk: There was no Composite Sketch last week because of Bouchercon - the International crime fiction convention. The plan is to skip only Bouchercon week and Malice Domestic week for this feature, so that will give us all 50 Composite Sketches each...

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About

Welcome to BOLO Books. The blog name comes from the common police acronym meaning “be on the look out.” (or “be on the lookout” – depending on your source). This is especially appropriate in this case, as this blog will focus on books in the mystery and thriller genre. Crime fiction is my passion and I want to share that with you.

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