The Guardian: In All Is Fair by Emma Newman (Angry Robot, £7.99), the third volume of the Split Worlds trilogy, our reality is mirrored by a magical realm called the Nether, where decadence and luxury are a thin veneer over a corrupt and iniquitous society. Feisty protagonist Cathy, the Duchess of Londinium, capital of Nether, investigates the disappearance of her governess and attempts to bring about equality for women.
Publishers Weekly: A blistering pace and a stomach-turning homicide-for-hire scheme rockets Laukkanen’s third thriller featuring the detective odd couple of Carla Windermere and Kirk Stevens (after 2012’s Criminal Enterprise) from Minneapolis to grungy venues all over the United States. Since Windermere, a gorgeous African-American FBI agent, and Stevens, a middle-aged and married investigator with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, first worked together, they’ve stayed close—though not as close as both suspect they easily could be.
DMLA congratulates Steve Bein on his novel Year of the Demon being named one of Library Journal’s Best SF/F Books of 2013!
DMLA congratulates Anne Bishop for making Kirkus’ Best SF/F Books of 2013 list for her novel Written in Red!
New York Times: Steve Weddle’s writing is downright dazzling in COUNTRY HARDBALL (Tyrus Books, cloth, $24.99; paper, $16.99), a first novel told in intertwined stories that present a shattering portrait of a depressed rural area on the Arkansas-Louisiana border that seems to be reverting to its wilderness state. Several of the narratives are seen through the eyes of Roy Alison, fresh out of prison and looking to start a new life.
Booklist: Cia is now a First Year student at the University. Her memory of the Testing has been erased, but the messages she left herself in her Communicator nurture her unease and distrust as she enters this new phase of her education. Although hoping to study engineering, she is instead assigned to the Government Studies program, where she distinguishes herself during the Induction period.
Kirkus: It’s 1879 in this alternate America where the Civil War still drags on, though both sides are utterly spent, Lincoln survived the assassination attempt (he’s confined to a wheelchair, however), and President Ulysses S. Grant has taken to the bottle, having despaired of politics in general and of the loathsome politicians that swarm around him. Young ex-slave and irascible genius Gideon Bardsley has invented a calculating machine, the Fiddlehead, that predicts disaster for both warring sides—but not by military means.
KINKED debuts at #132 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list! As a harpy, Sentinel Aryal is accustomed to dealing with hate, but Sentinel Quentin Caeravorn manages to inspire in her a burning ire unlike anything she’s ever known. Aryal believes the new Sentinel to be a criminal, and vows to take him out as soon as the opportunity arises. But the harpy’s incessant wrath has pushed Quentin to the limit, and forces him to make a deadly vow of his […]
Congratulations to all the DMLA clients nominated for the RT Awards! Career Achievement Award in Science Fiction/Fantasy: Elizabeth Bear and Anne Bishop RT Book of the Year Nominee: Written in Red – Anne Bishop (ROC) Innovative Historical Romance: A Lady’s Secret Weapon – Tracey Devlyn (Sourcebooks) Sensual Historical Romance: Forever A Lord – Delilah Marvelle (HQN) Historical Mystery: Midnight at Marble Arch – Anne Perry (Ballantine) Shapeshifter Romance: Kinked – Thea Harrison (Berkley) Urban Fantasy Novel: Written in Red – Anne Bishop (ROC) Urban Fantasy Novel: The Shambling Guide to New York City – […]
Bram Stoker Award nominee Ronald Malfi’s Little Girls, about a woman who, in the wake of her father’s death, moves with her husband and daughter back to her childhood home, and is haunted by a childhood tragedy that seems to be replaying itself with her daughter, as she becomes increasingly obsessed with investigating her father’s death, to Peter Senftleben at Kensington, by Cameron McClure.