Two BOLOBooks Mini-Reviews

From the Booking Desk: This week, I have two shorter reviews to present.   Each of these books would fall under the larger category of the traditional or cozy mystery.  Since I want to get word out about these books as soon as possible, I am combining them into one...

The Innocence Game (BOLOBooks Review)

Michael Harvey’s new novel, The Innocence Game, is a cautionary tale of high-level corruption in various institutions.  Within the frame-work of a mystery story, Harvey addresses the concept of wrongful convictions and the long-term effects of past events on present...

Stolen (BOLOBooks Review)

Since he published his first novel, Delirious, Daniel Palmer has been garnering acclaim from critics and loyalty from fans.  Now with the publication of his third stand-alone thriller, Stolen, he is poised to receive his best reviews yet. Stolen is very much a book of...

Deadly Harvest
(BOLOBooks Review)

To most of us, Botswana seems like an exotic and distant place, full of unfamiliar customs and strange beliefs.  The writing team of Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip (writing as Michael Stanley) set out to change that a number of years ago with their mystery series...

A Murder at Rosamund’s Gate
(BOLO Review)

Susanna Calkins debut novel is a captivating historical mystery which documents A Murder at Rosamund’s Gate.  Set in seventeenth-century London, the novel tells the story of Lucy Campion, a chambermaid turned amateur sleuth, as she struggles to find her place in...