Recent Reviews
Park Avenue – The BOLO Books Review
After much success in the Young Adult arena, Renée Ahdieh is set to make her mark on the Adult Fiction market with the unforgettable Park Avenue. Early buzz is making comparisons to Crazy Rich Asians, Succession, and even Dickins’s Bleak House—all of which are...
Kaua’i Storm – The BOLO Books Review
Tori Eldridge infuses her writing with spirit and specificity, finding a personal connection to every story, whether it’s through the unparalleled morality of a character like Lily Wong (the heroine of her popular Ninja series), or the epic and ancestral scope of a...
Whistle – The BOLO Books Review
Linwood Barclay has been writing exceptional crime fiction for just about two decades at this point. Readers know to trust his name. Those books—often tales of the “every man” who gets caught up in extreme circumstances—feature strong plotting and relatable...
Recent Interviews
Deanna Raybourn – The BOLO Books Interview
From The Booking Desk: I am thrilled to welcome Deanna Raybourn to BOLO Books for this launch day interview. The first novel is her new Victorian mystery series, A Curious Beginning, is out today. If you missed my spoiler-free review of this wonderful series debut,...
Paul Cleave – The BOLO Books Interview
From the Booking Desk: Please join me in welcoming Paul Cleave to BOLO Books. Paul has written a series of loosely connected novels set in New Zealand and today marks the publication of his new stand-alone novel, Trust No One. Read on to find out how Paul organized...
BOLO Books interviewed by The Mysteristas
From the Booking Desk: At this year's Malice Domestic, I ran into Cynthia Kuhn, who happens to be a member of the Mysteristas blog. She asked is I would like to stop by for an interview and of course, I said yes. Here is just a sampling of one of the great questions...
Recent Articles
We Are What We Read – Episode Ten Available
Episode Ten of my new YouTube vlog WE ARE WHAT WE READ is now available for you to enjoy. On this episode, my co-host Shawn Reilly Simmons and I are joined by guests Valerie (V. M.) Burns, Annette Dashofy, Clair Lamb, Tara Laskowski, K. T. Nguyen, and Deb Wells. The...
I am an Agatha Award Nominee!
From the Booking Desk: For those that did not hear, yesterday the board of Malice Domestic announced the nominations for this year's Agatha Awards. It is a stellar list all around, but I am thrilled to say that "Ticket to Ride" the short story I wrote in collaboration...
We Are What We Read – Episode Nine available
Episode Nine of my new YouTube vlog WE ARE WHAT WE READ is now available for you to enjoy. In this special episode, the focus is on short stories, with some very talented practitioners of the form who also happen to know a lot about the history of the short story. On...
