Season’s Readings, everyone! As is generally true, there have been some marvelous books published in 2024, and I’m thrilled to share my favorites with you. I’ve listed these books in alphabetical…
Genoveva Dimova is a fantasy author and archaeologist. Originally from Bulgaria, she now lives in Scotland with her partner and a small army of houseplants. She believes in writing what you know, so…
Michelle Chouinard has written eight previous USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling mysteries under a different name. She has a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Stanford University and was…
Alex Segura is the bestselling and award-winning author of Secret Identity, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller and a New York Times Editor’s Choice and an NPR Best Mystery…
Marjorie McCown has spent her entire professional life in the story-telling business, though she started out on the visual side of the craft. She spent more than twenty-five years in Hollywood working…
Emily C. Hughes (she/her) wants to scare you. Formerly the editor of Unbound Worlds and TorNightfire.com, she writes about horror and curates a list of the year's new scary books. You can find her…
Tim Major is a writer and freelance editor from York, UK. His books include Snakeskins, Hope Island, three Sherlock Holmes novels, short story collection And the House Lights Dim and a monograph about…
Internationally bestselling author Joe R. Lansdale has received the Edgar, Raymond Chandler, Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Inkpot Awards. His work includes mysteries, Westerns, horror, thrillers…
Tod Goldberg is the New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen books, including the award-winning Gangsterland trilogy and Living Dead Girl, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His…
M. L. Rio holds an MA in Shakespeare studies from King’s College London and Shakespeare’s Globe and a PhD in English from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her bestselling first novel If We…
James Sugre is a vampire. He has lived for centuries, but has made some questionable choices. Bad choices, when it comes to investments. Now, he is broke. He has no money and is deep in debt. He can’t even afford his own reflection (they are available for a fee from Vampire Nation, an international conglomerate that both governs and provides for the world’s vampire population).
Wishes. We all make them, either silently to ourselves or possibly as a breathless whisper as we drop a coin in a fountain. The reason behind them can range from whimsical to deadly serious. And, in the "real world," they are, to quote Douglas Adams, "mostly harmless." In the world of fiction, however, wishes are entirely different.
The Ending Writes Itself is a marvelous read. Clarke will keep readers guessing and reevaluating as information is revealed and the body count rises, right up to the very last page.
Ang Evans Funeral Parlor ay halos kasinghaba na ng bayan sa Timog-Silangang Texas kung saan ito matatagpuan. Ito ay isang negosyong pang-henerasyon, pinangangasiwaan at ipinapasa sa mga babaeng Evans. Nariyan si Ducy, ang kasalukuyang matriarch ng pamilya, na anak ni Pie, na misteryosong nawala labingwalong taon na ang nakalilipas...
Noong 2020, ipinakilala ng VE Schwab sa mga mambabasa si Addie LaRue, isang dalagang gumawa ng kasunduang Faustian upang maiwasan ang isang hindi gustong kasal sa unang bahagi ng ika-18 siglong France. Sa The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, sinusundan ni Schwab si Addie sa paglipas ng mga siglo habang si Addie, sa pamamagitan ng kanyang sariling tuso at lakas ng kalooban, ay humuhubog...
Noong sampung taong gulang si Ebony "Ebby" Freeman, siya lamang ang nakasaksi sa isang bigong pagnanakaw sa bahay na nagresulta sa pagkamatay ng kanyang labinlimang taong gulang na kapatid na si Baz, at sa pagkawasak ng isang napakahalagang pamana ng pamilya. Ang katotohanan na si Ebby ay anak ng isang kilalang pamilyang Itim...
Binago ng buhay ni Dália ang umaga nang matagpuan ng katulong ang makinilyadong sulat na nagsasabing: "UMANGKA NG BAGONG TAGAPAG-INGAT NG MGA SUSI; MAAGAPAN; BAGO MAGBUKAS-BULAN NG LIWANAG" Alam ng lahat sa Capricious House ang ibig sabihin ng sulat at kung sino ang sumulat nito. Ang may-akda nito ay ang Ginang ng Capricious House, si Ginang Anatema, isang napakalaking gagamba/tao...
Noong 1924 sa London, si Lao She, isang mahiyain at batang akademiko, ay ipinatawag sa tahanan ng matematikong si Bertrand Russell. Pagdating niya, ipinaliwanag ni Russell na ang isang kaibigan at kasamahan, si Hukom Dee Ren Jie, ay maling inaresto kasama ang isang grupo ng mga Tsinong mapang-asar. Natatakot si Russell na kung ang pagkakakilanlan ni Dee ay...
