
Recent Reviews
A Killing in Costumes – The BOLO Books Review
Zac Bissonnette is releasing his debut cozy mystery, A Killing in Costumes, at a time when the current publishing marketplace is celebrating diversity of all kinds. Through planned intent or lucky happenstance, Bissonnette’s novel capitalizes on this trend with what...
The Disinvited Guest – The BOLO Books Review
Carol Goodman is one of those rare authors readers can always rely on to present a gripping story, well told – regardless of each particular novel’s chosen subject matter. As such, many fans will flock to her newest novel eager to see what Goodman has in store this...
First Born – The BOLO Books Review
Between his underrated Tuva Moodyson series and his critically acclaimed stand-alone The Last Thing to Burn, Scottish author Will Dean has proven himself more than astute at writing from the female perspective. This trend continues in what might be his most powerful...
Recent Interviews
Patti Abbott – The BOLO Books Interview
From the Booking Desk: I am thrilled to welcome Patricia Abbott here to BOLO Books today to discuss her new short story collection: I Bring Sorrow and Other Stories of Transgression. The book is available now and you all are going to want to experience these stories...
Alafair Burke – The BOLO Books Interview
From the Booking Desk: Hopefully, at this point you have already pre-ordered Alafair Burke's new book, The Wife. Critical praise of this novel has been very strong and I even called it "an instant classic," so it should be no surprise that I invited Alafair here to...
Kristopher Zgorski – Behind the Blogger
From the Booking Desk: Depending on what device you are viewing BOLO Books on, you may notice over the next few weeks that we are changing up the look of the blog. I am working with someone who knows much more about these things than I do - more on that later - but...
Recent Articles
Cover Reveal – Lawyers, Guns, and Money
From The Booking Desk: The trend of having short story anthologies centered around the songs of a specific performer doesn't appear to be ending anytime soon. These unique prompts seem to bring about a wide variety of extremely high-quality stories. Art Taylor's...
Anna Dowdall on Unreasonable Facsimiles – A BOLO Books Guest Post
Unreasonable Facsimilesby Anna Dowdall When I was at my Montreal launch in December, a reader of April on Paris Street (Guernica Editions) complimented me on my research for the Paris chapters, where private eye Ashley Smeeton finds herself out of depth on the job...
Catriona McPherson on Group Living – A BOLO Books Guest Post
Bunnies in a Burrow SCOT MIST opens on Friday the 13th of March 2020 in Cuento, California. The state is closing county by county and the owners of the Last Ditch Motel have decided to fill their twelve rooms with people in need of sanctuary and then pull up the...