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The Blue Book: A New Novel by Scottish Writer A. L. Kennedy

On March 9, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, by Editor

From one of the U.K.’s most dazzling novelists — whom Richard Ford has called “a profound writer” — comes this daring new novel set in the unsteady, self-contained world of a luxury liner. The Blue Book is both a portrait of two methodical con artists and a meditation on “how love is a private language, a set of codes, to which the outside world ought not admit impediment”

Rage Against the Dying, A Scorching, Human Novel by Becky Masterman

On March 8, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, by Editor

With a fiercely original and compelling voice, Becky Masterman’s Rage Against the Dying marks the heart-stopping debut of a brilliant new thriller writer. You have never met an (ex) FBI agent like Brigid Quinn.

American Tropic, A Southern Gothic with a Pro-Environment Veneer by Thomas Sanchez

On January 18, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, by Editor

Thomas Sanchez’s American Tropic is a heart-racing ecological thriller that showcases today’s headline issues. Sanchez’s first Key West novel, Mile Zero, was hailed by The Washington Post Book World as a “holy terror of a book of immense power and passion,” acclaimed by The New York Times Book Review as “dazzling,” and lauded by Vanity Fair as “mythmaking and magisterial.”

Errantry: Strange Stories to Inspire Wonder and Horror by Elizabeth Hand

On December 11, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

No one is innocent, no one unexamined in award-winner Elizabeth Hand’s new collection. From the summer isles to the mysterious people next door all the way to the odd guy one cubicle over, Hand teases apart the dark strangenesses of everyday life to show us the impossibilities, broken dreams, and improbable dreams that surely can never come true.

The Fifty Year Sword, A Ghost Story for Grown-Ups by Mark Z. Danielewski

On October 27, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Vampires, Werewolves, Fantasy, by Editor

In this story set in East Texas, a local seamstress named Chintana finds herself responsible for five orphans who are not only captivated by a storyteller’s tale of vengeance but by the long black box he sets before them. As midnight approaches, the box is opened, a fateful dare is made, and the children as well as Chintana come face to face with the consequences of a malice retold and now foretold.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War and Evil Brain-Chewers by Max Brooks

On September 12, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Science Fiction, by Editor

The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet.

The Devil in Silver: A Novel Set in a Mental Ward by Victor LaValle

On September 5, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, by Editor

The Devil in Silver brilliantly brings together the compelling themes that spark all of Victor LaValle’s radiant fiction: faith, race, class, madness, and our relationship with the unseen and the uncanny. More than that, it’s a thrillingly suspenseful work of literary horror about friendship, love, and the courage to slay our own demons.

Breed: A Novel About the Perils of Fertility Treatment Turning Gory by Chase Novak

On August 17, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, by Editor

Alex and Leslie Twisden lead charmed lives-fabulous jobs, a luxurious town house on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, a passionate marriage. What they don’t have is a child, and as they try one infertility treatment after the next, yearning turns into obsession. As a last-ditch attempt to make their dream of parenthood come true, Alex and Leslie travel deep into Slovenia, where they submit to a painful and terrifying procedure that finally gives them what they so fervently desire . . . but with awful consequences.

The Black Isle, A Cinematically Epic Ghost Story by Sandi Tan

On August 6, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, by Editor

Taking readers from the 1920s, through the Japanese occupation during WWII, to the Isle’s radical transformation into a gleaming cosmopolitan city, THE BLACK ISLE is a sweeping epic–a deeply imagined, fiercely original tale from a vibrant new voice in fiction.

Talulla Rising, The Sequel to “The Last Werewolf” by Glen Duncan

On June 28, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, Vampire Corner, Vampires, Werewolves, Fantasy, by Editor

Harnessing the same audacious imagination and dark humor, the same depths of horror and sympathy, the same full-tilt narrative energy with which he crafted his acclaimed novel The Last Werewolf, Glen Duncan now gives us a heroine like no other, the definitive twenty-first-century female of the species.