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

The adage that travel broadens the mind is tested in a comic, thoughtful fashion in Vincent Chu’s novel "Nice Places". Feeling aimless, Georgie quits his dead-end technology job to travel the world for a year and learn about himself.... Read More

"The First Fascist" is Sergio Luzzatto’s absorbing biography of the Marquis de Morès, covering how he came to lead an antisemitic movement in the late 1800s that was later defined as fascist. The French son of former Italian nobility... Read More

Gigi Little’s novel "Who Killed One the Gun?" is both a hard-boiled detective story and a whimsical, existential meditation on destiny, self-determination, and forgiveness. One the Gun is a private eye tasked with finding the killer of... Read More

In Andrew Kaufman’s wry, bawdy, and surreal supernatural short story collection "Enjoy Your Stay at the Shamrock Motel", travelers at personal crossroads happen upon a motel where unexplainable events alter their perceptions of... Read More

A search for a missing journalist uncovers layers of conspiracy and betrayal in Domenic Stansberry’s intriguing novel "The Lizard", which is part thriller, part character study. S. E. Reynolds, a former reporter, makes his living... Read More

Christopher Hawkins’s punchy speculative novel "I Contain Multitudes" mixes a heady multiverse concept with an intimate story of self-discovery. Trina is on the run from a past she can’t remember. With each passing day, she finds... Read More

Sylvian Trudel’s novel "The Harmattan Winds" is an unusual coming-of-age tale imbued with undercurrents of magic, mystery, and tragedy. Hugues is an adopted orphan of unknown ethnic origins who falls under the spell of Hakébé, an... Read More