FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2008
"Pleasantly and improbably weird, in typical deadpan Wolfe fashion."
Fantasy/science fiction/gumshoe noir from the versatile author of
Soldier of Sidon (2006, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: July 28, 2008
"Carey juggles characters and bits and pieces of plot like a man with a thousand arms, catching each word and positioning it in exactly the right place in this deftly crafted, can't-turn-the-page-fast-enough read."
Comic-book writer turned novelist Carey (
The Devil You Know, 2007) resurrects his hero, exorcist Felix Castor, for another throw-down with supernatural forces in this intricately plotted tale set in London.
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FICTION
Released: July 3, 2008
"A bit diffuse and too reliant on coincidence, but also often poignant and funny, especially about the self-destructive fools that love makes us. Dorst is a talent to watch."
Dorst's appealing debut features rookie cop Mike Mercer patrolling Colma, Calif., famed cemetery city in which the dead outnumber the living by a thousand to one.
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INDIE
Released: June 1, 2008
"This fast-moving thriller could benefit from judicious editing of storylines."
In Ranum's debut novel, a mysterious professor lures students to a secret lab where vampires and a serum imparting eternal life combine to go horribly awry.
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INDIE
Released: May 31, 2008
"A few good ingredients in an undercooked ghost story."
A small boy drowns in a Pennsylvania pond, enters the ranks of the ghostly and seemingly returns decades later to haunt the family indirectly responsible for his demise.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2008
"The third in Raymond's Factory series (The Devil's Home on Leave, 2007, etc.)--wonderfully wrought, violent and bleak, not for the faint of heart--plumbs the darkest depths of British noir."
From British author Raymond (1931–94), the story of a nameless sergeant working for the Metropolitan Police's department of unexpected deaths who is sent to a country town to investigate the case of a missing woman.
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FICTION
Released: April 1, 2008
"Superior hugger-mugger from an impressive new mistress of the genre."
History and mystery are engagingly blended in British author Mosse's bulky successor to
Labyrinth (2006).
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INDIE
Released: March 6, 2008
"Atmospheric tension builds slowly into a compelling and nightmarish vision."
Several story lines intermingle to reveal the Lovecraftian horrors at the heart of this novel.
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FICTION
Released: March 4, 2008
"An entertaining but shallow spin on a Southern Gothic."
Ghosts, more figurative that literal, haunt Jackson's third novel (
Between, Georgia, 2006, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 18, 2008
"One of Aunt Dimity's most suspenseful mysteries. Loyal fans will be thrilled by every new revelation."
After Lori's twins claim they saw a vampire in the woods, her investigations reveal some astonishing facts.
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 2008
"Flawed, but commendably ambitious and stuffed with ideas--many of them not well developed, but inspiring hope for a more disciplined second effort from this talented newcomer."
Cooperstown, N.Y., and its most famous native son provide first-time novelist Groff with much of the grist for this sprawling tale of a young woman searching for her father.
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 2008
"A refreshing leap across genres."
Rival gangs of werewolves duke it out for control of Los Angeles in this dark but oddly tender free-verse novel.
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