RT Book Reviews: Nijkamp’s emotional, powerful debut fictionalizes an all-too-frequent occurrence in today’s world. Her strong storytelling pulls readers into a school shooting, leaving them amongst the gunman’s victims in Opportunity High’s auditorium.
Congratulations to the DMLA authors on Barnes & Noble’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2015 List!
Congratulations to DMLA clients nominated for a 2015 Goodreads Choice Award!
Best Science Fiction:
Star Wars: Aftermath – Chuck Wendig
Best Fantasy:
Vision in Silver – Anne Bishop
The Aeronaut’s Windlass – Jim Butcher
Best Horror:
The Border – Robert McCammon
Congratulations to the DMLA clients nominated for a 2015 RT Reviewers’ Choice Award!
Best Science Fiction Novel 2015
Cassandra Rose Clarke – Our Lady of the Ice
Best Fantasy Adventure Novel 2015
Elizabeth Bear – Karen Memory
Jim Butcher – The Aeronaut’s Windlass
Best Urban Fantasy Worldbuilding 2015
Anne Bishop – Vision in Silver
Booklist: Crime-fighting duo FBI agent Carla Windermere and Minnesota BCA agent Kirk Stevens (The Stolen Ones, 2015) are drawn into the hunt for an online predator when questions arise about the suicide of a classmate of Stevens’ daughter, Andrea. After promising Andrea they’d poke around, Windermere and Stevens find that the troubled teen forged a suicide pact with a girl she met on an online suicide site. FBI tech experts determine that the girl’s heavily cloaked identity is a cover for a predator who has lured other teens to their deaths. Chat logs reveal that their predator has two other victims lined up, and the hunt for a cunning killer becomes a desperate bid to save a young girl’s life. Suspension of disbelief is required as Windermere and Stevens’ boss authorizes an arsenal of resources for a case he declares isn’t under FBI or BCA jurisdiction, but Laukkanen skillfully distracts from this pesky detail with earnest characterization and incomparable pacing. This is a guaranteed lost weekend for Laukkanen’s fans and for anyone those seeking a Lee Child–like adrenaline rush.
Kirkus: “In a conflagrant climax overflowing with images of glory and wonder, Duane neatly manages to pull together and tie off plot threads that have been dangling since the earliest volumes.”
Paul Cornell’s Chalk, about a fourteen-year-old boy forever changed by a horrifying act of schoolyard violence who taps into the ancient magic of the land to enact revenge on his tormenters, to Lee Harris at Tor.com, by Stacia Decker.
Congratulations to DMLA authors who made Amazon’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of 2015 list!
SFX Magazine: …Christopher goes deeper than pastiche. Ray’s primitive systems can only retain 24 hours of memory, so each day he’s a clean slate, briefed on the case by Ada – and it’s not clear he can trust her. This is wonderfully noir, leaving Ray slightly adrift between the forces trying to manipulate him. And in true Chandler style, Ray quickly becomes implicated in the very case he’s investigating, making things even knottier. Made To Kill is book one of a trilogy. We’d happily go for more than three.
Read the full Made to Kill review in SFX Magazine.
Congratulations to Elizabeth Bear on Karen Memory being included in Library Journal‘s Best Books of 2015!