Recent Reviews
Five Mini Reviews – Fall 2024
From the Booking Desk: Occasionally, I get so behind on telling you all what I am reading that I don't have time to post full-length reviews of each. But I do still want to make you aware of the many gems I have discovered in my consumption this Fall. So, here you...
Midsummer Mysteries – The BOLO Books Review
Midsummer Mysteries (edited by Martin Edwards) is a short story anthology produced by members of the Crime Writers’ Association. Despite that organizations aim toward celebrating British crime writing, their anthologies often include authors based in other...
Burn This Night – The BOLO Books Review
On paper, Burn This Night would seem like an impossibly complex tale more inclined to confuse than to entertain, so the fact that Alex Kenna successfully makes it work while also managing to maximize the emotional payoff is testament to her skills as a writer. Readers...
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Recent Articles
Cover Reveal – Steadying the Ark
From the Booking Desk: Parents are allowed to gush about their children's successes, so when Josh Pachter told me that his daughter would be publishing a crime novel, I was both thrilled and immediately interested in reading it - not the least of which because it will...
APB – Fall 2021
Time for another entry in this incredibly popular feature here at BOLO Books – The APB (All Points Bulletin).As always, competition for these slots was tough. Which books are generating that elusive buzz in the publishing industry? Which are books that I personally...
Catriona McPherson on Fairy Tales – A BOLO Books Guest Post
Once upon a time, they lived happily ever after When I conceived of the story in my new book, I worried that no one would know it was a fairytale deep down, that no one would get it. Part of the problem stemmed from setting it in the post-industrial landscape of...
