Publishers Weekly: In this gripping follow-up to 2012’s Daughter of the Sword, Tokyo police officer Oshiro Mariko is now working in the Narcotics division. In the aftermath of a raid, an ancient mask is stolen, and its Yakuza owner demands that Mariko retrieve it. Her search for the mask leads her to a cult with a deadly agenda and a centuries-old mystery connected to the legendary sword she now possesses. Continue reading »
England in the fourteenth century: a land of poverty and opulence, prayer and plague
witchcraft and necromancy.
As a child, Elisha witnessed the burning of a witch outside of London, and saw her transformed into an angel at the moment of her death, though all around him denied this vision. He swore that the next time he might have the chance to bind an angel’s wounds, he would be ready. And so he became a barber surgeon, at the lowest ranks of the medical profession, following the only healer’s path available to a peasant’s son. Continue reading »
I Travel by Night marks Robert McCammon’s triumphant return to the sort of flamboyant, go-for-broke horror fiction that has earned him an international reputation and a legion of devoted fans. The terrors of the Dark Society, the gothic sensibilities of old New Orleans, and the tortured existence of the unforgettable vampire adventurer Trevor Lawson all combine into a heady brew that will thrill McCammon s loyal readers and earn him new ones as well. Continue reading »
Andrew Dare has found his mate in Silver, but they haven’t found the pack they can call home. Some of his old friends think he should return and challenge Roanoke for leadership of all the werewolf packs on the East Coast. But Andrew has baggage—his violent history with the packs of Spain and the rumors of his lack of control. And then there’s Silver—the werewolf who has lost her wild self to a monster’s assault, and who can no longer shift forms. But perhaps together they can overcome all the doubters.
Philip K. Dick Award winner Brian Francis Slattery’s THE FALL OF THE FAMILY HIGHTOWER, a literary novel describing the twisted fates and turbulent histories of two boys named after the grandfather they share, a self-made man, sometime criminal, and son of Cleveland, Ohio, to Amber Qureshi at Seven Stories by Cameron McClure.
Robert McCammon’s THE RIVER OF SOULS, the fifth novel in his series of historical thrillers featuring the “Early American James Bond,” where a man joins a search party up a haunted river, to find a slave accused of murder, though he knows that the true murderer is among the search party, to Bill Schafer at Subterranean Press, for publication in Spring 2014, by Cameron McClure
LOST EVERYTHING wins the Philip K. Dick Award!
From the author of the critically acclaimed literary SF novels Spaceman Blues and Liberation comes an incandescent and thrilling post-apocalyptic tale in the vein of 1984 or The Road. Continue reading »
Kirkus Reviews: Strong (Burning the Sea, 2002) presents a disturbing and erotic narrative about the lives of an oddly matched married couple who host a teenage girl for the summer.
Ray Shepard is a prominent architect who marries Evelyn, a former circus employee/manicurist with a dark past, after he meets her while both attend a show under the big top. Evelyn’s arms and torso are heavily tattooed, and she keeps her skin hidden from Ray’s colleagues and friends Continue reading »