Elizabeth Hand – Chip Crockett’s Christmas Carol
In time for the holiday season, here’s a novella about a man who doesn’t like Christmas, but must face childhood memories and child-raising realities over the holidays.
Author: Diandra Rodriguez
Robert McCammon – Speaks the Nightbird
A witch-trial mystery set in the colonial Carolinas reveals deeper conspiracy.
Thomas Tryon – Lady (1974)
A young boy strikes up a friendship with the mysterious Lady, but this friendship and his notions about the world will be challenged by tempers and scandal.
Andy Mulligan – Trash
Kids who live and work in a trash heap find a mysterious package they must hide from the police.
Hannibal – Season 1
Hannibal overturns expectations of crime procedurals and Lecter incarnations by focusing on the first-hand and secondhand effects of murder on the mind.
In the Flesh
If the living dead could be ‘rehabilitated,’ could they still return to their previous lives?
Esi Edugyan – Half-Blood Blues
Jazz musicians of mixed nationalities and ethnicities struggle to survive Nazi Berlin and occupied Paris. Decades later, the survivors still face the consequences of their choices.
Adam Johnson – The Orphan Master’s Son
This year’s Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction is a good but not exemplary drama of shifting views and identities in North Korea.
Patrick Ness – A Monster Calls
Readers of all ages can appreciate this heartrending story of loss and monsters.
John Ajvide Lindqvist – Little Star
It begins with a baby found in a forest. It ends with a scene of carnage set to the sounds of ABBA.
