The Poison Garden by Alex Marwood
★★★☆☆ They call us the Dead. Inside the Ark, the survivalist cult in The Poison Garden, main character Romy and her siblings are taught that all outsiders will be killed in an imminent but...
Category: Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
The Wickerlight by Mary Watson
★★★★☆ YA fantasy, murder mystery, and romance, The Wickerlight by Mary Watson follows Zara as she desperately seeks answers to her sister’s death and final days and David as he searches for his role...
Swipe Right for Murder by Derek Milman
★★★☆☆ While on spring break during his senior year, Aiden is just looking for a hookup to kill time and soothe wounds from his past, but when he wakes up next to a dead...
Curious Toys by Elizabeth Hand
★★★★☆ The early 20th Century, creepy carnivals, gender-bending teenagers, outsider art: Rarely does a novel tick as many of my boxes on the back cover alone as Curious Toys by Elizabeth Hand. Set in...
Our War by Craig DiLouie
★★☆☆☆ Political novels usually fall into two categories. Some books take themselves very seriously, composed of intellectual arguments thinly veiled with story. Others are entertaining airport/beach books that take today’s headlines and run to...
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
★☆☆☆☆ Miracle Creek is a courtroom drama mystery that kicks off with several plot points whose red herring status is plainly obvious. After slogging through a false narrative stretched far longer than necessary, it’s...
Fall, or Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson
★★★☆☆ Billionaire tech magnate Richard “Dodge” Forthrast dies while undergoing a medical procedure. His family learns that he has requested that his brain be cryogenically preserved, and when the technology becomes available, digitally uploaded....
Reamde by Neal Stephenson
★★★★☆ In the early 1990’s Neal Stephenson became a geek fiction icon with the cyberpunk novels Snow Crash and The Diamond Age. Since that time, his novels have veered from science fiction deeply into...
Odd Partners, edited by Anne Perry
★★★★☆ Never has murder and the telling of it been so delightful! In this new collection of short fiction, editor Anne Perry has brought together twenty established and rising stars of the literary murder...
