Fool’s Moon by Diane A.S. Stuckart is the first book in the Tarot Cats Mystery series, where two tarot-savvy cats and their tenderhearted human outwit a cruel criminal in this animal-centric whodunit. Ruby Sparks in filling in for her extremely talented cousin at Botanica Santa Rosa, a metaphysical shop in… Read more
The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem is a new-age Noir rooted deep in today’s tumultuous landscape. Jonathan Lethem’s The Feral Detective is one of the best deconstructions of detective noir narratives published in the last decade. Smart, weird, unique, and told from the perspective of the woman who asks for help… Read more
In The Red Ribbon by H. B. Lyle, Captain Vernon Kell’s fledgling secret intelligence service faces being shut down before it has even begun its job of saving the British Empire from German and Russian spies. The spring of 1910 was a turbulent time in England. King Edward VII died… Read more
Hushed in Death by Stephen Kelly is the third book in the Inspector Lamb series set in the spring of 1942 at a hospital for veterans in rural England that leaves Lamb with a village full of suspects. Hushed in Death opens very somberly. The Elton House’s gardener Joseph Lee is… Read more
City of Secrets by Victoria Thompson is the second book in the Counterfeit Lady series starring on-the-run Elizabeth Miles. In the author’s note at the end of this novel, Victoria Thompson hopes that the reader had as much fun reading the novel as she had writing it. I would like to… Read more
The Lovecraft Squad: Dreaming, edited by Stephen Jones, is the third volume in the new interconnected trilogy that reveals the origins of “The Lovecraft Squad”—a super-secret worldwide organization dedicated to battling the eldritch monstrosities given form in H. P. Lovecraft’s fevered imagination. The Lovecraft Squad is a secret branch of… Read more
A Shot in the Dark is a wryly entertaining new crime novel from Lynne Truss, New York Times bestselling author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves. Inspired by a visit to London’s famed Detection Club, Lynne Truss took the characters of her popular radio serial Inspector Steine and wrote this hilarious novel of bumbling policemen… Read more
Jessica Fletcher investigates a mysterious manuscript with deadly consequences in the latest entry in the USA Today bestselling Murder, She Wrote series… Jon Land is an accomplished and award-winning novelist in his own right—the critically acclaimed Caitlin Strong thrillers rank among his credits—and yet he had a daunting task in assuming authorship… Read more
101 by Tom Pitts is set in California only a few months before the legalization of marijuana. The game is about to change. Tom Pitts’ new book, 101, is his third novel. He has also written two novellas. Of this output, I’ve read all but one of the novellas, and… Read more
A compelling, eerie new novel from John Ajvide Lindqvist, the internationally bestselling author of Let the Right One In. Lindqvist’s I Am Behind You is easily one of the weirdest books of 2018. It occupies a rare interstitial space between mystery, literary fiction, philosophy, horror, and surrealism. The plot is deceptively… Read more
