JOHN C. BOLAND

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ITW INTERVIEW 2011

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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 Carré 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 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

  "Marley's Winter"  (Hitchcock's - coming)
  
  "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