Reviews
The Blackhouse (BOLO Review)
Peter May is part of an ever-growing contingent of mystery writers who simply through the magic of their words are able to transport readers to a foreign location so completely as to make them believe they have actually been there. These authors include Ann Cleeves,...
What We Saw At Night (BOLO Review)
What We Saw At Night is the newest Young Adult title from Jacquelyn Mitchard and the first release from the new Soho Teen imprint. It is exciting to see Soho Press venture into the YA arena and it's nice to see Mitchard try her hand at a mystery for teens. In the...
The Wrath of Angels
(BOLO Review)
The Wrath of Angels is the eleventh book in John Connolly’s Charlie Parker series. In this outing, Charlie is asked to help location the wreckage of an airplane that is hidden in the woods of Maine. What follows is a mythic journey or quest novel in which various...
BOLO Books TOP 12 of ’12 (GALLERY)
You can read the BOLO Books comments about each of the books here: DAY ONE, DAY TWO, DAY THREE and DAY FOUR. Happy New Year Everyone! And join me in 2013 for more great content - book reviews,...
BOLO Books’ TOP 12 of ’12
DAY FOUR
From the Booking Desk: This post continues my list of the best reads of 2012. You can find the books from DAY ONE, TWO and THREE - here, here, and here. NOTE: These books appear in no particular order, as I would find it impossible to rank them....
BOLO Books’ TOP 12 of ’12
DAY THREE
From the Booking Desk: This post continues my list of the best reads of 2012. The books from DAY ONE and DAY TWO can be found here and here. NOTE: These books appear in no particular order, as I would find it impossible to rank them....
BOLO Books’ TOP 12 of ’12
DAY TWO
From the Booking Desk: This post continues my list of the best reads of 2012. You can find the books from DAY ONE here. NOTE: These books appear in no particular order, as I would find it impossible to rank them....
BOLO Books’ TOP 12 of ’12
DAY ONE
From the Booking Desk: The next few posts (over the next two weeks) will focus on my favorite books of 2012. I have decided to do 10 mystery themed books and 2 books from other genres. They will all be books that I have read and loved in the calendar year 2012...
Invisible (BOLO Review)
Carla Buckley - Invisible (Bantam, Paperback, $15.00, 12/11/2012) If the literary output of Jodi Picoult were to mate with that of Michael Crichton, the resulting progeny would almost certainly resemble a Carla Buckley novel. With the publication of Invisible, her...
Hanging By A Thread
(BOLO Review)
Sophie Littlefield - Hanging By A Thread (Delacorte Books for Young Readers, Hardcover, $16.99, 9/11/2012) The young adult section of the bookstore is jam-packed with paranormal romances. Most of them deal with vampires, werewolves, faeries and the like. In Hanging...
Blood Bond (BOLO Review)
When fans of Sophie Littlefield pick up Blood Bond, her new e-book only release, they will be expecting to encounter strong character development and a tightly-woven plot and that is exactly what they will discover. The main character of the novel, Joe Bashir, is a...
Who Could That Be at This Hour? (Review)
Lemony Snicket - Who Could That Be at This Hour? (Little, Brown for Young Readers, Hardcover, $15.99, 10/23/12) Joyous! Unexpected! Joyously unexpected! ‘Joyous’ is a word which here means it puts a smile on your face. ‘Unexpected’ is a word which here means out of...
The Amber Amulet (Review)
From the Booking Desk: Let’s call today’s review a mini-review. The book in question, The Amber Amulet by Craig Silvey, was sent to me from Australia by a dear friend. I think that most US readers will have difficulty locating a copy of the book, but I still wanted to...
The Vanishing Point (Review)
Val McDermid - The Vanishing Point (Atlantic Monthly Press, Hardcover, $25.00, 10/02/2012) Val McDermid is probably best known for her series of novels featuring criminal profiler Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan, which was adapted into the television series, Wire in...
The Cutting Season (Review)
Attica Locke - The Cutting Season (HarperCollins, Hardcover, $25.99, 9/18/2012) If Toni Morrison were to write a traditional murder mystery, it would likely look something like Attica Locke’s The Cutting Season. This is not to imply that the novel rehashes well-trod...