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Daryl M.

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Posts by Daryl M.

  • Genoveva Dimova and her 2 book covers

    Entrevista con una autora: Genoveva Dimova

    Genoveva Dimova es autora de fantasía y arqueóloga. Originaria de Bulgaria, ahora reside en Escocia con su pareja y un pequeño ejército de plantas de interior. Cree en escribir sobre lo que se conoce…

  • Michelle Chouinard and her book

    Entrevista con una autora: Michelle Chouinard

    Michelle Chouinard ha escrito ocho novelas de misterio superventas de USA Today y Publishers Weekly bajo un nombre diferente. Tiene un doctorado en psicología del desarrollo por la Universidad de…

  • Author Alex Segura and his book Alter Ego

    Entrevista con un autor: Alex Segura

    Alex Segura es el autor superventas y galardonado de Identidad Secreta, ganador del Premio del Libro de Los Angeles Times en la categoría de Misterio/Suspense, además de ser elegido por el Editor del…

  • Author Marjorie McCown and her latest novel, Star Struck

    Entrevista con una autora: Marjorie McCown

    Marjorie McCown ha dedicado toda su vida profesional al mundo de la narración, aunque comenzó en el ámbito visual. Pasó más de veinticinco años en Hollywood trabajando como miembro clave de los…

  • Author Emily C. Hughes and her first book, Horror For Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

    Entrevista con una autora: Emily C. Hughes

    Emily C. Hughes (ella) quiere asustarte. Anteriormente editora de Unbound Worlds y TorNightfire.com, escribe sobre terror y selecciona una lista de los nuevos libros de terror del año. Puedes…

  • Author Tim Major and his latest novel, Jekyll & Hyde: Consulting Detectives

    Entrevista con un autor: Tim Major

    Tim Major es escritor y editor independiente de York, Reino Unido. Entre sus libros se incluyen Snakeskins, Hope Island, tres novelas de Sherlock Holmes, la colección de relatos "And the House Lights…

  • Author Joe R. Lansdale and his latest short story collection, In the Mad Mountains

    Entrevista con un autor: Joe R. Lansdale

    El autor de éxito internacional Joe R. Lansdale ha recibido los premios Edgar, Raymond Chandler, Bram Stoker, British Fantasy e Inkpot. Su obra abarca misterio, western, terror, thrillers, pulp…

  • Author Tod Goldberg and his latest anthology, Eight Very Bad Nights

    Entrevista con un autor: Tod Goldberg

    Tod Goldberg es el autor más vendido del New York Times con más de una docena de libros, incluyendo la galardonada trilogía Gangsterland y Living Dead Girl, finalista del Premio del Libro de Los…

  • Author M. L. Rio and her first novella, Graveyard Shift

    Entrevista con un autor: ML Rio

    ML Rio tiene una maestría en estudios shakespearianos del King's College de Londres y el Shakespeare's Globe, y un doctorado en inglés de la Universidad de Maryland, College Park. Su primera novela,…

  • Translator, Shanna Tan of book Marigold Mind Laundry by Chŏng-ŭn Yun

    Entrevista con la traductora Shanna Tan

    Shanna Tan es una traductora singapurense que trabaja con coreano, chino y japonés. Entre sus traducciones se incluyen "Bienvenidos a la Librería Hyunam-dong" de Hwang Bo-reum y "Lavandería Sonriente…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    • By: Clark, P. Djèlí
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Eveen es una asesina profesional. El énfasis en esa afirmación debe recaer en "profesional". Es una asesina reanimada, sin recuerdos y al servicio de la Matrona de Asesinos que hizo posible su segunda oportunidad en la "vida". Es eficiente, discreta y dispuesta a eliminar (el término...
  • Cover image for A Short Walk Through a Wide World

    A Short Walk Through a Wide World

    • By: Westerbeke, Douglas
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Three sisters gather at what they have decided is a wishing well near their home in Paris. The year is 1885. There are so many terrible things happening in the world that they decide they each will make a wish and sacrifice something important to them by casting it into...
  • Cover image for The Twilight Garden

    The Twilight Garden

    • By: Adams, Sara Nisha
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    There are two residences on Eastbourne Road in Stoke Newington on the outskirts of London. Winston has lived in #79, with his boyfriend Lewis, for several years. Bernice, recently divorced, has just purchased #77 as a new home for herself and her young son, Sebastian. The two houses share a...
  • Cover image for How to Solve Your Own Murder

    How to Solve Your Own Murder

    • By: Perrin, Kristen
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Annie’s Great Aunt Frances has always been a presence in Annie’s life. A rather nebulous, undefined presence, but a presence none the less. Great Aunt Frances owns the house in Chelsea where Annie has grown up with her mother. Communication from Great Aunt Frances has always been sporadic at best...
  • Cover image for The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    • By: Khan, Shubnum
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Fifteen-year-old Sana has just moved to Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa, with her father. Her mother, a victim of cancer, died a few years earlier and her father believes the move to the once grand, now dilapidated, estate that is an odd type of apartment...
  • Cover image for Women of Good Fortune

    Women of Good Fortune

    Sophie Wan opens her debut novel with this bit of information:“Sheng nu – ‘leftover women’ – unmarried women over the age of twenty-seven. Later adopted by the internet community to refer to often well-educated women who had passed the appropriate age for marriage.”Wan then goes on to introduce readers to...
  • Cover image for The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

    • By: Khan, Shubnum
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.

    Fifteen-year-old Sana has just moved to Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa, with her father. Her mother, a victim of cancer, died a few years earlier and her father believes the move to the once grand, now dilapidated, estate that is an odd type of apartment...

  • Cover image for The Fox Wife

    The Fox Wife

    • By: Choo, Yangsze
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    A detective is approached about discovering the identity of a young woman who is found dead and frozen outside a restaurant. A grieving mother undertakes a search to locate the man she holds responsible for her daughter’s death. As each travels across Manchuria in the early 20th century, it becomes...
  • Cover image for The Book of Doors

    The Book of Doors

    • By: Brown, Gareth
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Cassie Andrews is living a quiet life in New York City. She spends her days and evenings working in a bookshop, and when she goes home each night, more often than not, she curls up with a good book. A set of unusual circumstances in the bookstore result in Cassie...
  • Cover image for The Fragile Threads of Power

    The Fragile Threads of Power

    • By: Schwab, Victoria
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    It’s been seven years since the events at the end of V.E. Schwab’s A Conjuring of Light. In Red London, Lila and Kell have been sailing the seas as privateers on her ship, the Grey Barron (They also secretly perform tasks for Red London’s crown.). Rhy Maresh, Kell’s brother, has...