Ben Thibodaux is a juvenile delinquent. After getting arrested for attempting to hold up a convenience store with a fake gun, he’s discovered to have stolen a boat and broken into a string of fishing camps along the Louisiana bayou a ways from his home in Lafitte. Fully expecting to go to juvie for his…
Growing up as the daughter and apprentice of a demon-priest, or Capuwa, was never going to make Amara the most popular girl in her village. But with the British consolidating their power on 19th-century Sri Lanka, her family’s position grows ever more tenuous in the face of the almost militant Christianity the British have brought…
I have a weakness for comic book writers who turn their hands to writing long-form prose, so I jumped at the chance to review Grant Morrison’s new novel, Luda. A sort of gender-fluid All About Eve wrapped in a Phantom Of The Opera shell, this dazzling debut follows drag artist Luci La Bang as she…
Homicide detective Eve Dallas stands in for victims, making their pain her own. The circumstance of their death fuels her energy to avenge them and bring them justice. No crimes affect her more deeply than sexual abuse and exploitation of children: Eve’s painful past gives her a visceral understanding. Her father repeatedly raped and terrorized…
When twenty-two-year-old Henry Bird goes missing one night, his mother and pregnant girlfriend are completely at a loss. Henry was last seen by his bandmates leaving their performance venue. Things hadn’t gone as well as Henry wanted with their second set, so he elected to walk back to their motel by himself to blow off…
This fast-paced novel reminiscent of both Paula Hawkins’ The Girl On The Train and Sarah Pinborough’s Behind Her Eyes has plenty of surprises in store for any fans of thrillers with a paranormal twist. Casey Fletcher is an actress living in exile on Lake Greene, in the Vermont hideaway of her mother, beloved musical theater…
