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“Beyond the Veil”: Halloween + Live Music = Murder!
It’s probably safe to say that Halloween is one of the greatest holidays of the year (costumes plus ghost stories always equal fun in my book), but alas it has fallen on hard times recently. The...
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It’s All In The Game: Sherlock Holmes and The House of Silk
Halfway through The House of Silk a lost tale which purports to take place a decade before the great detective “was found dead at his home on the Downs, stretched out and still, that great mind...
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Mystery, Murdered: Jack Glass by Adam Roberts
When hours into the uncomfortably compelling story of survival in the extremes of space with which this masterful murder mystery begins, and it dawns on you that you’ve been tricked into sympathising...
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Clockwork Sherlock: The Executioner’s Heart by George Mann
George Mann, writer of several Doctor Who audio scripts and novels, editor of several SFF and mystery anthologies, and creator of the noir mystery series The Ghost, sets his sight on Victorian London...
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Murder Most Mysterious: Drakenfeld by Mark Charan Newton
Once upon a time, fantasy was fun. It still has its moments, I suppose, but broadly speaking, these are fewer and farther between in 2013 than in previous years. Though I would argue that it is at or...
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The Price of Life: The Happier Dead by Ivo Stourton
As one of the twentieth century’s most missed musicians once wondered, who wants to live forever? A better question to ask, perhaps: who among us doesn’t? As far back as in The Epic of Gilgamesh, one...
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Behind the Simulated Sky: The Forever Watch by David Ramirez
No one on the Noah knows how or why or when the Earth went to hell—only that it did, and if humanity is to stand the slightest chance of surviving, the monolithic generation ship that these several...
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Terror in the Thames: Murder by Sarah Pinborough
Mayhem was “a moody whodunit with an horrific twist, set in London during Jack the Ripper’s red reign.” This was essentially set dressing, however. Instead of simply reiterating that grisly business,...
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Which Way to Murder Town? Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris
When 22-year-old phone psychic Manfred Bernardo moved to Midnight, Texas, he was looking for a quiet place to go unnoticed. Turns out, that’s what everyone else in the dusty little crossroads town...
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An Empty Vessel: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by...
“From July of his sophomore year in college until the following January, all Tsukuru Tazaki could think about was dying.” So begins Haruki Murakami’s first novel since the bloat of the book many...
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Second Sight: Visions by Kelley Armstrong
Olivia Taylor-Jones is back and just as kick-ass as ever in Visions, Kelley Armstrong’s bewitching second entry in her Cainsville series. When we first met Liv, her whole life was shattered with the...
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What Happened, If It Happened: J by Howard Jacobson
Alongside Us, The Bone Clocks, and How To Be Both, J by Howard Jacobson was one of a number of novels longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in advance of its publication date. A source of frustration...
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A False Premise: Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz
The great detective and his greatest enemy are dead—or so it is said. “After the confrontation that the world has come to know as ‘The Final Problem,’ [though] there was nothing final about it, as we...
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City of Contradictions: Retribution by Mark Charan Newton
The laid-back detective drama of Drakenfeld marked a propitious departure for Mark Charan Newton: an assured move from the weird and sometimes wonderful fantasy with which he had made his name to a...
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Click-Clack: Wolves by Simon Ings
Wolves has been hailed as Simon Ing’s “spectacular return to SF,” and it is that, I think—though the text’s spare speculative elements only come into focus in advance of the finale, when the augmented...
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The Map is Not the Territory: Something Coming Through by Paul McAuley
Spinning off a series of experimental short stories, Something Coming Through marks the actual factual start of an extraordinary new project by Paul McAuley, the award-winning author of the Quiet War...
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Aliette de Bodard Nukes Notre-Dame
After a period of anticipation so great that it may have given me brain pain, The House of Shattered Wings, Aliette de Bodard’s first full-length fiction in more than four years, is almost upon us....
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Miracle on Sycamore Street: Finders Keepers by Stephen King
I’m probably preaching to the converted here, but let me let you in on a little secret to some: though books are a big deal to people like you and me, we’re outnumbered by those folks who wind their...
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No Strings Attached: Crashing Heaven by Al Robertson
Seriously satisfying cyberpunk action meets thoughtful moral philosophy with a dash of detective noir and a supersized side of striking science in Crashing Heaven—the year’s best debut to date, and...
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Orbit Books Acquires Mur Lafferty’s Clonetastic Space Thriller Six Wakes
We can all agree that generation ship stories are awesome. And because they share the same claustrophobic setting, it makes sense that a lot of them center on a mysterious murder committed by someone...
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