I’ve always been an indiscriminate reader. Growing up, I wasn’t surrounded with a wealth of reading material so I read whatever I could lay my hands on. I never had the luxury of considering myself a genre reader or even the inclination: satisfying the urge to read, no matter what the material, was paramount. And…
Sacrifice Fly by Tim O’Mara is a traditional mystery featuring a former New York City cop turned middle school teacher as he tries to find the killer of a student’s father (available October 16, 2012). I went into reading this novel expecting that, with a title like Sacrifice Fly, there would be a lot of…
Sailor Twain: or, the Mermaid in the Hudson by Mark Siegel is a graphic novel from First Second Press that collects the installments originally published at SailorTwain.com (available October 2, 2012). Set in 1887 New York, it opens with a cloaked woman finally tracking down the title character to a waterfront dive. He doesn’t want…
Invisible Murder by Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis is the second Nina Borg nordic mystery set in Denmark (available October 2, 2012). When I saw that this book had finally come on the market, I leapt at the chance to read it. I loved the first novel in the Nina Borg series, The Boy In…
The Incense Game by Laura Joh Rowland is the 16th book in the Sano Ichiro series. Set in feudal Japan, it follows the career of a samurai who struggles with the conflict between his adherence to the code of Bushido and his personal sense of integrity (available September 18, 2012). With this series, Laura Joh…
Blades of Winter by G.T. Almasi is the first in the Shadowstorm series, an action-packed thriller revolving around genetically enhanced spies in a reimagined version of the Cold War (available August 28, 2012). Blades Of Winter is G.T. Almasi’s debut novel, and promises to be the first in a series of exciting, action-packed thrillers revolving…
The Occultist, a graphic novel by Tim Seeley and Victor Drujiniu, is a combination urban fantasy and thriller (available July 31, 2012). The first volume of The Occultist collects the first five stories Dark Horse Comics published about their titular character, arranging them in a format that’s accessible to the new reader. The Occultist himself…
Fire Season by Jon Loomis is the third book in the police procedural series featuring reluctant interim police chief Frank Coffin (available July 17, 2012). Until a replacement can be found, Frank Coffin is pulling double duty as a detective and interim police chief for the Provincetown, Massachusetts, police force. Luckily, the off-season has just…
