Recent Reviews
Can You Solve the Murder? – The BOLO Books Review
The first “Choose Your Own Adventure” novel—The Cave of Time—was published in 1979, setting in motion an almost two-decade publishing journey. Young readers at the time discovered a new way to experience the act of reading, by becoming part of the story. At critical...
Home Before Dark – The BOLO Books Review
The Forbidden Iceland series (The Creak on the Stairs, Girls Who Lie, Night Shadows, etc.) by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir features one of the most complex and addictive narrative arcs readers are likely to find—not just in Icelandic crime fiction, but in crime fiction in...
Writers and Liars – The BOLO Books Review
This is your annual reminder that Carol Goodman, along with being both an exceptional writer and first-class citizen of humanity, is one of those career authors who has mastered a difficult skill—the art of continually giving fans exactly what they want (the same)...
Recent Interviews
Liz Nugent –
The BOLO Books Interview
From the Booking Desk: Today, I am happy to welcome Liz Nugent to BOLO Books. Liz is the author of Unravelling Oliver. If you missed the review of Unravelling Oliver, check it out before continuing on to this wonderful interview with Liz Nugent. I suspect you will...
Lisa Alber –
BOLO Books Interview
From the Booking Desk: I first "met" Lisa Alber via the comments section on the Jungle Red Writers blog. Those that follow BOLO Books know that I frequent that wonderful site run by a great collection of female authors. I was even asked by Hank Phillippi Ryan to...
BOLO Books Interviews –
So Far…
From the Booking Desk: I realized recently that my list of followers has grown tremendously since I first started the blog in late 2012. I thought that it might be a good idea to compile a list of the interviews I have done into one post, in case some of you missed...
Recent Articles
Sarah M Chen – A BOLO Books Composite Sketch
From the Booking Desk: I first met Sarah M Chen when she co-edited two unique anthologies with E. A. Aymar and we did some promotion on the blog. Those volumes--The Night of Flood and The Swamp Killers--are both still favorites of mine and well worth picking up. But...
Cover Reveal – The Virgin Homicides
From the Booking Desk: Catching up with Neil Plakcy at the various crime fiction conventions each year is always a delight. When he told me at Malice Domestic this year that he would be releasing the thirteenth book in his Mahu Investigations series featuring fan...
Cover Reveal – Sanctuary Motel
From the Booking Desk: Alan Orloff graciously agreed to be one of my first guest on WE ARE WHAT WE READ, so when he asked me if I would be interested in hosting the cover reveal for his new novel (coming in October from Level Best Books), I quickly said yes....
