JOHN C. BOLAND

Recent fiction

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2012 Private Eye Writers of America

Shamus Nominee, Best Original Novel in Paperback

LONG PIG by James L. Ross

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Publishers Weekly Review

"Charming thriller . . . chases across Europe and

tightly written gun battles. A delight for anyone

who enjoys French crime cinema from the 1970s."

Booklist Review

" 'I was abducted on Tuesday, the second evening

of October, and became an accomplice to murder

on Friday.' So testifies Charles Mistinguett. a shady

financial consultant, hotelier on the Cote d'Azur, and

semiretired crook. . . . Charles is everybody's fall guy,

but he's not quite ready to fall--and definitely not ready

to see his mistress, daughter and son fall with him.

"This slick thriller combines the noirish cool of French

cinema (think Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai) with

an almost jaunty, witty charm (Cary Grant in To Catch

a Thief and Charade). Stylishly written and cleverly

plotted crime fiction."

The President's dirty little secret

is worth your life.

After eighteen months in a federal prison,

Hayes Rutherford figures he's done with the

Washington crowd. He took the fall on a

Pentagon billing scandal like a good soldier

--silent and alone.

Now he's working at his daughter's detective

firm in Hollywood, where the toughest job may be

keeping the talent's nose out of the candy.

But when rumors ping the White House that someone

is shopping an ugly movie script about the war-hero

President, Hayes looks like suspect number one.

And the D.C. boys are more than ready to cancel

Hayes's act for good. Because there are some

stories that White House spin doctors can't

fix. Especially if they're true.

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Mystery Writers of America Edgar Nominee

Best Short Story (2011): "Marley's Revolution"

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Publishers Weekly Review

"A mix of old-line Commies, red-diaper babies,

and more recent Russian emigres . . . engaging."

Booklist Review

"Tamar Gillespie, a young artist with a disabled

husband, lives in a rural Connecticut village . . .

and paints dog portraits for a living. The village

population includes Ultra-Orthodox Jews as well

as old Communists and red-diaper babies who

consider Prague Spring a betrayal. When the

community board offers a run-down house to a

family of Jewish refugees from the new Russia, old

political feuds reappear. . . . Historical-mystery

readers who enjoy political debates will find much

to appreciate here."

Publishers Weekly Review

"Fans of hard-edged spy novels will hope that this
  outing for disgraced Wall Street banker Patrick
McCarry is but the first of many from Ross
(Long Pig). When McCarry�s firm makes him the
scapegoat after a hedge fund disaster, he
manages to find a new position in London. . . .
Assigned to handle Chester Holt, an American
looking to open a factory making engines in
  Hungary, McCarry learns on arriving in Budapest
that his new client is actually in the arms business.
Members of the American intelligence community
fear Holt may be pouring fuel on the continually
combustible Balkans. . . . The job turns dangerous,
  with twists straight out of a John le Carr� novel.
The narrator�s sardonic wit ('The skyway began to
  fill up with other nightcap drinkers, no more than half
of them well-dressed prostitutes�) helps keep the
tone from getting too gloomy, despite the
story�s basic darkness." Available February 2012

Publishers Weekly Starred Review

"Superior science thriller. . . . Boland's taut
   atmospherics are top-notch, and the
   evolutionary  themes he explores are
   easily accessible to nonscientists."

Mystery Scene Review:

"A riveting scientific suspense novel on the
order of the popular Preston and Child thrillers. . . .
   Boland makes complicated theories about DNA
   and genetically linked illnesses easily understood.
   And in contrast to many science-heavy suspense
   novelists, Boland also has the ability to create
   three-dimensional characters. [The hero's] love life
   is a mess; . . . and even brutish Luther turns out
   to be much, much more than your average killer. . . .
   Hominid never fails to make for exciting reading."
                                                 (Betty Webb)

BOOKS

THE LAST CRIMES OF CHARLES MISTINGUETT (May 2013) *

THE MAN WHO KNEW BRECHT (May 2012)

DEATH IN BUDAPEST (February 2012) *

HOMINID (October 2011)

LONG PIG (February 2011) *

LAST ISLAND SOUTH  (a Key West mystery)

OUT OF HER DEPTH (a Key West mystery)

30 YEARS IN THE PULPS
      (24 stories from Hitchcock's & Ellery Queen's)

   SHORT STORIES

"Killing Morris Gimple" (Hitchcock's - coming)

"The Gypsy Ring" (Hitchcock's - coming) *

"Last Night in Cannes" (Hitchcock's - coming) *

"The Freezer" (Hitchcock's - July/August 2013) *

"Marley's Winter" (Hitchcock's - November 2012)

"Marley's Rescue" (Hitchcock's - July/August 2012)

"Family Place" (Ellery Queen's - March 2012)

"Bears in Mind" (Hitchcock's - January/February 2012) *

"Swimming in Fog" (Hitchcock's - October 2011)

"Marley's Revolution" (Hitchcock's - June 2011) Edgar Nominee Best Short Story 2011

"Marley's Havana" (Hitchcock's - March 2011)

"Out of Her Depth" (Hitchcock's December 2009)

"200 Big Ones" (Hitchcock's March 2009)

"Last Island South" (Ellery Queen's Sept/Oct 2008) Shamus Nominee Best Short Story 2009

International Thriller Writers Finalist 2009

"Sargasso Sea" (Hitchcock's September 2008) Best Horror 2008 Honorable Mention

* By James L. Ross

JOHN C. BOLAND

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