A group with telepathic connections to animals fights a plot that endangers their world in the gripping postapocalyptic novel "Imber". Deborah Mistina’s absorbing science fiction novel "Imber" is set in a postapocalyptic future, with... Read More

Federal intrusions reach a boiling point in the engrossing political thriller "The Architects of Control", in which challenges to people’s liberty are sometimes fatal. Unlikely allies stand in the way of an AI-assisted takeover of... Read More

Set in the hinterlands of Norway just above the Arctic Circle, Ørjan Karlsson’s novel "Into the Dark" is both a literal and figurative chiller about a hunt for a deranged serial killer. In this series-continuing title, Jakob, a police... Read More

A killer is on the loose in Eugen Bacon’s speculative novel "Muntu". Ivory heads an investigation into a possible serial killer who murders men, leaving behind ashes and the men’s partners in catatonic states. With few leads and a... Read More

In Jim Butcher’s riveting fantasy novella "Out Law", a wizard faces a demonic enemy who seeks to feed on the world. After the Windy City is decimated by the Battle of Chicago, Harry, a wizard, reunites with John, an underworld criminal... Read More

In Claire Fuller’s haunting thriller "Hunger and Thirst", a teenager’s isolation in a decrepit, abandoned house coincides with a grisly murder. In the summer of 1987, sixteen-year-old Ursula moves from foster homes and a halfway... Read More

A woman’s homecoming stirs dark suspicions in Melanie McCabe’s brooding historical thriller Road Longer Than Memory. In 1976, Sara, a high school senior, witnesses a fellow student, Nina’s, heated argument. Fear prevents her from... Read More

Centering a Methodist religious settlement along the Guyandotte River in West Virginia, The Cowbird’s Song is a detailed historical novel. In Joe Markko’s expansive historical novel The Cowbird’s Song, multiple lives and timelines,... Read More