Recent Reviews

Baby Teeth – The BOLO Books Review

Hanna is cold and cruel and creepy. Hanna is manipulative and will get what she wants no matter the cost. Hanna is a villain who will lodge in the reader’s mind for a very long time, becoming both legend and archetype. Hanna also happens to be seven years old. Readers...

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The Disappearing – THE BOLO Books Review

Lori Roy is the first woman to win both the Best First Novel and Best Novel Edgar Awards – for Bent Road and Let Me Die in His Footsteps respectively. Until She Comes Home, her second novel, was also a finalist for the Best Novel Edgar Award. Her newest Southern...

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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...

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Recent Interviews

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Recent Articles

New Lisa Unger Covers

From the Booking Desk: Anyone who follows BOLO Books knows how much I love the novels of Lisa Unger - and in particular, those that are set in the fictional town of The Hollows. In her new newsletter, Lisa reveals the cover of her soon-to-be released novella, as well...

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BOLO Books’ Top Reads of 2015

From the Booking Desk: This year's list of Top Reads was almost painful to create. Narrowing the list down was far from easy and as a result, some really great books did not make the cut. The competition was so heated that I had to increase the Top Ten to a Top Twelve...

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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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