Recent Reviews
The Real Michael Swann – The BOLO Books Review
Two thousand and eighteen just might become the year of the domestic thriller. Authors are blending the global and the intimate in fresh and exciting ways. Just as Karen Cleveland did in Need to Know, Bryan Reardon manages to use the backdrop of a political incident...
Lying in Wait – The BOLO Books Review
Liz Nugent is one of those rare authors willing to take true risks with her writing. In terms of structure, themes, and character depth, Nugent defiantly refuses to adhere to long-held crime fiction conventions. Her debut novel, Unraveling Oliver, made an instant...
Providence – The BOLO Books Review
Truly unclassifiable novels are rare these days – most everything is a mash-up of various tropes from familiar styles – but occasionally something so unique comes along, breaking new ground while seemingly utterly familiar or at least somehow anticipated at the same...
Recent Interviews
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Recent Articles
Wendy Tyson interviews Kristopher Zgorski
The Thrill Begins, the blog associated with the International Thriller Writers (ITW) society, is devoting this week to an examination of crime fiction critics and the support they provide to authors and readers. I was honored when Wendy Tyson asked to interview me...
2015 Stats
From the Booking Desk: I am often asked how I decide what to review. This is far too complicated a process for me to distill into one blog post, but in 2014 I started to post an analysis of how I obtained the books I ended up reviewing. Here is the data for 2015....
Happy Holidays!
From the Booking Desk: Things will be a little quiet around here for the rest of 2015. Don't worry, I'll pop in with a review or two, just not as often as usual. BOLO Books will be back into full swing with the New Year. In the meantime, I did want to wish you all a...
