by Kristopher | Aug 23, 2016 | APB
From the Booking Desk: This is the fifth post for this new feature here at BOLO Books – The APB (All Points Bulletin). As always, competition for these slots was tough. I have already read many of these titles, so I can wholeheartedly endorse this list. There are many...
by Kristopher | Aug 16, 2016 | Review
Navigating the balance between familiar and fresh can be tricky business, but with her debut crime fiction title, Black Wood, SJI Holliday makes it look easy. Black Wood is one of those novels that employs the use of unreliable memory as a device to heighten the...
by Kristopher | Aug 5, 2016 | Review
Since her debut novel, Last Rituals, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir has been one of the most popular Icelandic authors of crime fiction. In 2015, The Silence of the Sea was awarded the Petrona Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year. The Silence of the Sea is the...
by Kristopher | Aug 3, 2016 | Review
After writing a Frankenstein-inspired novel, some short fiction, and many poems, Kate Horsley is now making her crime fiction debut with The American Girl. It is the story of an outsider thrust into a tangled web without the benefit of memory and a story of the woman...
by Kristopher | Jul 28, 2016 | Review
With Blue Moon, Wendy Corsi Staub returns readers to Mundy’s Landing for Book Two of her addictive trilogy. Fans who have already read Blood Red know what to expect, but the good news is that Blue Moon reads just as well as a stand-alone as it does as part of this...