Even sinister cults need accountants. "Soul Remains", the second book in the Terribly Serious Darkness series by Sam Hooker, finds Sloot neck-deep in necromantic trouble. This whimsical, wry novel sends Sloot deeper into a magical world... Read More

"Look the Other Way" is a moralistic screenplay about a common evil that packs a punch. In Michael Mohan Joshua and Patrick Foley’s "Look the Other Way", the horrors of domestic abuse and sexual assault are translated for the silver... Read More

In the future of Beth Kander’s "Original Syn", singularity has been achieved, leading to two branches of humanoids: Originals, who are deprived of technological enhancement; and Syns, enhanced humans who are physically ageless and... Read More

Percy’s Field combines great naturalism and regional storytelling with the pleasure of detective fiction … not to be missed. Percy’s Field by Christopher Brookhouse is an inverted detective story. It is obvious early on in the... Read More

Alcy Leyva’s "And Then There Were Crows" is a funny and fast novel in which angels and demons unexpectedly invade the isolated existence of the book’s endearing and prickly protagonist, Amanda Grey. Public spaces make Grey anxious;... Read More

"The Girl from Blind River" is a gritty debut thriller about high-stakes poker in a small town in New York. Jamie Elders, born with a gift for cards and a criminal streak, learns that Blind River is a hard place to live and an even... Read More

Finnish author Antti Tuomainen’s "The Man Who Died" is a bizarre, twisty, darkly comic novel about a man investigating his own murder. It’s a tightly paced Scandinavian thriller with a wicked sense of humor and a bumbling... Read More

In his new novel "Everything Is Borrowed", Nathaniel Popkin looks through the eyes of a modern-day architect to explore how a city’s history can echo through the years. Popkin expertly plays with time. His writing is beautifully... Read More