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An eighteen-year-old walks into a government office and is told to take a number. He waits the better part of an hour. When his number comes up he is questioned by an intake officer who asks him to rate his level of annoyance on a scale of one to ten, and then sends him to […]

A sweeping Hollywood novel that blends a migration story with artistic ambition and a deep love of classic monster cinema Hollywood fiction demands a certain degree of nuanced attention to artistic ambition. But not all Hollywood novels are created equal. Many attempt to intertwine an artist’s coming-of-age story with some form of industry critique, often […]

Partway through the spring conclave, the assembled scythes of MidMerica sit through a run of sales pitches. Vendors get ten minutes each to demonstrate new products to the Weaponsmaster, who controls procurement. One offers a digital poison that turns a person’s healing machinery against them; he uses the word victim and is dismissed on the […]

A mysterious dagger unlocks a world of ghosts and secret societies for a grieving young woman in this gripping paranormal fantasy. Grief weighs heavy on Gabbie Kress, but that doesn’t stop the world from carrying on. It’s been almost a year since Gabbie’s mother was hit by a car. A year of Gabbie just getting […]

Is confession enough if justice has failed? Noah Christopher understands that a good thriller requires more than inventive methods of dispatching victims. The Confessor succeeds not because of the body count but because it asks an unsettling question: What happens when the killer’s moral reasoning is just as compelling as the detective’s determination to stop […]

A detective comes to the rehabilitation unit a month after the shooting. He does not want to be there any more than the patient’s mother wants him there. He pulls a chair up beside a young woman in a wheelchair, takes out a notebook and a pen, and asks what she can tell him about […]

Terror stalks the pages of this arctic ecological horror novel. When Leandro Grass, an affluent if mysterious client, approaches Mark Steiner and Rob Granek about a trek to the North Pole, they should be delighted. As business partners and extreme guides, they have dreamed of an expedition to Antarctica for years. The cash Grass is […]

A clever sci-fi thriller that balances humor, suspense, and scientific curiosity while exploring the ethical dilemmas that emerge when extraordinary power falls into ordinary hands Schrödinger’s Glass starts with a bang: a catastrophic accident at the Heisenberg Accelerator and Research Center (HARC). When a failed experiment sends an unknown energy wave across the Chicago area, […]