Recent Reviews
Where the Shadows Lie – The BOLO Books Review
Readers of JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings know the legend of the “One Ring” and its destruction on Mordor, but what if those legends were inspired by actual events? What if they were based on the lore of a long-lost Icelandic Saga? That is the premise of Where...
Gallows Rock – The BOLO Books Review
In Gallows Rock, the fourth book in Yrsa Sigurdardoittir’s "Children’s House" series, a traditional site for executions during ancient times becomes the harrowing location for a modern-day Icelandic murder. For this outing, the main character is Detective Huldar, but...
Hold Me Down – The BOLO Books Review
A former music journalist (and musician, for that matter), Clea Simon successfully wove that milieu into her 2017 stand-alone crime novel, World Enough, set in Boston’s underground club scene. Now four years later, Simon is releasing Hold Me Down, another stand-alone...
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Recent Articles
Hendricks and Pekkanen at HoCo Library
On Saturday afternoon, January 12, 2019, I attended a book event at the Miller Branch of the Howard Country Library in Maryland. This event was to celebrate the release of Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen’s second novel together, An Anonymous Girl. If you are a...
Maya Corrigan – A BOLO Books Composite Sketch
From the Booking Desk: I discovered Maya Corrigan and her Five Ingredient Mysteries because she is a member of my local chapter of Sister in Crime - in fact, she is currently the President of that Chesapeake Chapter of SiC. Her presentations at our chapter's yearly...
Unspeakable Crimes – A BOLO Books Event Recap
On Saturday, January 5, 2019, I attended an event called Unspeakable Crimes: LGBTQ Mystery Writing at East City Bookshop in Washington, DC. I thought that my followers might enjoy getting a sense of what this event was like. This is not intended to be a full recap of...
