by Kristopher | Aug 16, 2013 | Review
With Lake Thirteen, Greg Herren has written a ghost story that will not only appeal to its teenaged target audience, but a story that will also resonate with anyone who remembers the summer vacations of their youth. You know the type – multiple families traveling to...
by Kristopher | Aug 9, 2013 | Review
Fans of Downton Abbey will feel a sense of home-coming when they enter Kingsdown Place, the major setting in Rhys Bowen’s newest novel, Heirs and Graces. The book is the sixth in the Royal Spyness series, and like the others, it is a dream come true for Masterpiece...
by Kristopher | Aug 6, 2013 | Interview
From the Booking Desk: BOLOBooks is pleased to welcome Vicki Delany to the blog. I first met Vicki at the Canucks evening event celebrating Canadian authors at last year’s Bouchercon. Then she also attended this year’s Festival of Mystery at which I...
by Kristopher | Jul 23, 2013 | Review
On Sunday July 14, news broke that The Cuckoo’s Calling, the debut novel by Robert Galbraith was actually written by J K Rowling. Since J K Rowling was using this pseudonym in order to garner honest reviews of the novel, rather than reviews weighted with the baggage...
by Kristopher | Jul 5, 2013 | Review
Imagine a group of teenage girls joining together to exact revenge on one wealthy family they believe to be responsible for wrongs perpetrated against a member of their clique. That is the premise of the new young adult novel, This is W. A. R., by Lisa and Laura...
