Recent Reviews

Cast the First Stone – The BOLO Books Review

“And so you left your hometown To try out for the part Everybody's pretty little angel With a pretty little heart” Melissa Etheridge, Map of the Stars Hollywood has always been that elusive locale folks dream of running off to – a place where stardom, acceptance, and...

read more

The Long Drop – The BOLO Books Review

Denise Mina’s The Long Drop is a unique book in the crime fiction genre. Not quite true crime, but also not a fictional tale, The Long Drop is somewhat similar to the method Truman Capote used with In Cold Blood – fiction inspired by actual events. However you...

read more

More Bookshots – The BOLO Books Review(s)

From the Booking Desk: On a recent road trip, my car-mates and I decided to listen to two novellas from James Patterson’s Bookshots output during the journey. My only other experience with Bookshots was reading and reviewing The Witnesses, written in collaboration...

read more

Recent Interviews

No Results Found

The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.

Recent Articles

Seven Kinds of Hell
(BOLO Review)

Sometime in 2008, Dana Cameron was contacted by her friends Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner.  They wanted her to submit a story for their new anthology, Wolfsbane and Mistletoe.  Since the story would require the combination of a holiday setting and werewolf...

read more

Louise Penny Cover

From The Booking Desk: On Facebook today, Louise Penny finally revealed the cover for the next Inspector Gamache Novel.  The book will be released on August 27th, 2013.  Louise is keeping the plot of the book under wraps for now, but those that are current with the...

read more

The Burning Air (BOLO Review)

Erin Kelly’s third stand-alone novel, The Burning Air, will continue to cement her status as a writer known for her complex psychological novels in which discord in the past threatens the equilibrium of the present. The Burning Air focuses on one family as they are...

read more

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.

Read More