shrouded skeleton statue

Daryl M.

Librarian


Posts by Daryl M.

  • Author Alma Katsu and her latest novels, The Fervor

    Interview With an Author: Alma Katsu

    Alma Katsu is the award-winning author of six novels, most recently Red Widow, The Deep, and The Hunger. She is a graduate of the master's writing program at Johns Hopkins University and received her…

  • Author Gary Philips and his latest novel, One-Shot Harry

    Interview With an Author: Gary Phillips

    Son of a mechanic and a librarian, Gary Philips has published various novels, comics, novellas, and short stories, worked in TV and edited or co-edited several anthologies including the Anthony…

  • Author Peter Swanson and his latest novel, Nine Lives

    Interview With an Author: Peter Swanson

    Peter Swanson is the New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, including The Kind Worth Killing, winner of the New England Society Book Award, and finalist for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel…

  • Author Kate Moore and her first novel, Only A Monster

    Interview With an Author: Vanessa Len

    Vanessa Len is an Australian author of Chinese-Malaysian and Maltese heritage. An educational editor, she has worked on everything from language learning programs to STEM resources, to professional…

  • Author Edward Ashton and his latest novel, Mickey7

    Interview With an Author: Edward Ashton

    Edward Ashton is the author of the novels Three Days in April and The End of Ordinary, as well as of short stories which have appeared in venues ranging from the newsletter of an Italian sausage…

  • Author Sequoia Nagamatsu and his debut novel, How High We Go in the Dark

    Interview With an Author: Sequoia Nagamatsu

    Sequoia Nagamatsu is a Japanese-American writer and managing editor of Psychopomp Magazine, an online quarterly dedicated to innovative prose. Originally from Hawaii and the San Francisco Bay Area, he…

  • Author Alex Segura and his latest novel, Secret Identity

    Interview With an Author: Alex Segura

    Alex Segura is the author of Star Wars Poe Dameron: Free Fall and the acclaimed Pete Fernandez Mystery series. He has also written a number of comic books, most notably the superhero noir The Black…

  • Author Freya Marske and her debut novel, A Marvellous Light

    Interview With an Author: Freya Marske

    Freya Marske is one of the co-hosts of Be the Serpent, a Hugo Award-nominated podcast about SFF, fandom, and literary tropes, and her work has sold to Analog and been shortlisted for Best Fantasy…

  • Author Andrea Hairston and her latest novel, Redwood and Wildfire

    Interview With an Author: Andrea Hairston

    Andrea Hairston is a novelist, essayist, playwright, and the Artistic Director of Chrysalis Theatre. She is the author of Mindscape, shortlisted for the Phillip K. Dick and Otherwise awards, and…

  • Journalist and editor, Eliza Reid and her first book, Secrets of the Sprakkar

    Interview With an Author: Eliza Reid

    Eliza Reid is a journalist, editor, and co-founder of the annual Iceland Writers Retreat. Eliza grew up on a hobby farm near Ottawa, Canada, and moved to Iceland in 2003, five years after winning a…


Reviews by Daryl M.

  • Cover image for The Murder of Mr. Ma

    The Murder of Mr. Ma

    • By: Nee, John Shen Yen, Rozan, SJ
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Năm 1924 tại London, Lao She, một học giả trẻ nhút nhát, được triệu đến nhà của nhà toán học Bertrand Russell. Khi đến nơi, Russell giải thích rằng một người bạn và đồng nghiệp của anh, Thẩm phán Dee Ren Jie, đã bị bắt nhầm cùng với một nhóm người Trung Quốc kích động. Russell lo sợ rằng nếu danh tính của Dee bị bại lộ...
  • Cover image for The Lost Story

    The Lost Story

    • By: Shaffer, Meg
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Mười lăm năm trước, Jeremy và Ralph mất tích trong chuyến đi thực tế cuối năm học đến khu rừng Red Crow State Forest ở Tây Virginia. Một khoảnh khắc trước, họ còn ở đó, rồi họ biến mất. Khu rừng đã được tìm kiếm nhiều lần, nhưng không bao giờ tìm thấy dấu vết nào của hai cậu bé. Và...
  • Cover image for Arthur and Teddy are Coming Out

    Arthur and Teddy are Coming Out

    Arthur Edwards đã sống trọn đời mình ở thị trấn nhỏ Northbridge thuộc miền bắc nước Anh. Ông lớn lên ở đó. Và ông đã gặp gỡ và kết hôn với vợ mình, Madeleine, cũng ở Northbridge. Northbridge là nơi Madeleine và ông nuôi dạy hai người con, Elizabeth và Patrick. Cũng như hầu hết các thị trấn nhỏ khác, bất kể...
  • Cover image for Star Struck

    Star Struck

    • By: McCown, Marjorie
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Khi độc giả chia tay Joey Jessup ở cuối cuốn "The Final Cut" của Marjorie McCown, cô đã phát hiện ra danh tính của kẻ sát nhân đã giết chết trợ lý đạo diễn Courtney Lisle trên phim trường một bộ phim siêu anh hùng kinh phí lớn. Cô đã sống sót sau một vụ ám sát hụt khi kẻ sát nhân...
  • Cover image for The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

    • By: Clark, P. Djèlí
    • Reviewed By: Daryl M.
    Eveen là một sát thủ chuyên nghiệp. Điều cần nhấn mạnh ở đây là từ "chuyên nghiệp". Cô ta là một sát thủ được hồi sinh, bị xóa sạch ký ức và phục vụ cho Nữ chúa Sát thủ, người đã cho cô ta cơ hội "sống" lần thứ hai. Cô ta làm việc hiệu quả, kín đáo và sẵn sàng thủ tiêu (thuật ngữ...
  • 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...