The Burn Palace (BOLO Review)

The Burn Palace, by Stephen Dobyns, begins with the haunting image of a hospital bassinet containing a red and yellow snake where once an infant boy rested.   From there, the omniscient narrator takes us on a journey above the town of Brewster, RI.  As we are shown...

Seven Kinds of Hell
(BOLO Review)

Sometime in 2008, Dana Cameron was contacted by her friends Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner.  They wanted her to submit a story for their new anthology, Wolfsbane and Mistletoe.  Since the story would require the combination of a holiday setting and werewolf...

The Misadventures of
Edgar & Allan Poe
(BOLO Review)

The Misadventures of Edgar & Allan Poe by Gordon McAlpine and Sam Zuppardi The Misadventures of Edgar & Allan Poe by Gordon McAlpine is a middle-grade series that should appeal to young and old alike.  The first book in the series, The Tell-Tale Start, has...

The Burning Air (BOLO Review)

Erin Kelly’s third stand-alone novel, The Burning Air, will continue to cement her status as a writer known for her complex psychological novels in which discord in the past threatens the equilibrium of the present. The Burning Air focuses on one family as they are...

A Cold and Lonely Place
(BOLO Review)

Sara J. Henry’s second novel, A Cold and Lonely Place, is an atmospheric novel which exposes the reader to the Adirondacks and surrounding areas.  Henry uses her background in journalism to lend a credible verisimilitude to one reporter’s investigation into a life...