From witchy murder mysteries to ancient curses, here are our most anticipated horror books from indie and small presses this January!

Trying something different this year and breaking up by genre, so if you’re looking for SFF/H, Crime Fiction, or Graphic Novels, just keep scrolling! (Yes, some of those distinctions are a li…

From the Booking Desk: It’s always a wonderful day when Catriona McPherson visits BOLO Books. My blog is a regular stop on her marketing efforts for each book, but what makes them so special …

I don’t know what I would do without my Vanity Fair magazine subscription. I read the back page first, because[...]

Today we welcome back the lovely and uber-talented Catriona McPherson who has stopped by to share a bit about her soon to be released book, SCOT'S EGGS.

Classic album reviews from the 1970's and 1980's

The author took inspiration from the Jersey Shore of his youth—with its Haunted Mansion and legendary music scene—for his latest novel.

Halloween doesn’t always have to be bone-chilling horror and blood-curdling screams (though we do love a good scare!) There’s a […]

Mrs Pargeter (Melita to no one but her late husband) has always kept her distance from the shady businesses that her late husband was engaged in. The lifestyle it has set her up in is extremely com…

My Review: There’s a curse on ‘The Scottish Play’, or so the old acting tradition goes. Part of that curse is that if any of the actors in the play utter the play’s actual title, that the production will be doomed. It’s possible that tradition arose because The Tragedy of Macbeth has the potential to be a rather expensive play to put on, and a lot of theaters that did so went out of business because they were already in financial trouble and hoping that a splashy production would rescue them.

Severn House has scooped The Swan, a romantic suspense novel from the late New York Times-bestselling author Julie Garwood, to be completed by her son Bryan Garwood.

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Severn House, the genre fiction imprint of Canongate Books, has acquired Old Boys, New Rules, a queer, dark academia thriller by American trans author Alex Myers.

The publishing world gets a savage skewering in this intricate meta-mystery from Ripley (Mr. Campion’s Christmas). For years, Ro...

My Review: Sherlock Holmes’ investment in his experiment pays surprising dividends for the ‘Great Detective’ in this third book in the Irregular Detective series. The physician who has been misplaced is Holmes’ own friend and chronicler, Dr. John H. Watson, while Holmes is out of town and out of reach on some mysterious errand of his own - or more likely at the behest of his brother Mycroft.

4/5: I had the pleasure of reading Throwing Shadows by Claire Booth, it's the seventh adventure in the Ozarks with sheriff Hank Worth. This time we also get a little civil war history in the mystery, ...