The Stacks
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613 honest reviews across fiction, non-fiction, mystery, sci-fi, romance, and more.
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Dangerous Games
by Joan Aiken
A Joan Aiken Wolves Chronicles entry. Dido Twite in Roman Britain and Aiken at her wild best.
Hammers of Ulric
by Dan Abnett
A 1990s Warhammer Fantasy with Dan Abnett, Nik Vincent, and James Wallis. The Cult of Ulric, three knights, the Empire in winter mode.
Amendment of Life
by Catherine Aird
The 19th Inspector Sloan. A body in a country church maze and Catherine Aird in her purest form.
Moon's Web
by C. T. Adams
The second Sazi novel by C. T. Adams and Cathy Clamp. Tony Giodone learning to live as a werewolf in Chicago without becoming the kind of werewolf the Council wants.
Projection
by Keith Ablow
The second Frank Clevenger novel. Keith Ablow at his most clinical, with a state hospital murder and a witness who is presenting as someone she is not.
Edge of Fear
by Cherry Adair
A Cherry Adair Black Rose Chronicles entry. Romantic suspense with telekinesis and a deeply ridiculous global threat. Honest fun.
The Witch of Watergate
by Warren Adler
A Warren Adler Fiona Fitzgerald mystery. DC homicide detective on a journalist's murder, with Watergate-era backstory.
Holly Blues
by Susan Wittig Albert
The 18th China Bayles. Holiday-themed and unusually serious. McQuaid's ex-wife is back in town and the investigation hits closer to home than the series usually allows.
Hatchet Job
by Harold Adams
A mid-period Carl Wilcox mystery by Harold Adams. Depression-era South Dakota, an itinerant sign painter, and a community that knows how to keep its own counsel.
The Last Mermaid
by Shana Abe
Shana Abe writing a dual-timeline romance about a marine archaeologist and the medieval mermaid she may or may not be tracking. Pretty and slight.
Get Off at Babylon
by Marvin Albert
A Pete Sawyer Riviera mystery by Marvin Albert. Half-French American PI in the South of France. Old-school hard-boiled with sun.
Quaker Silence
by Irene Allen
The first Elizabeth Elliot mystery. Quaker clerk as accidental detective in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Unusually thoughtful cozy.
Isaac Asimov's Inferno
by Roger MacBride Allen
The second Caliban novel. Roger MacBride Allen writing the smartest authorized Asimov sequels of the post-Foundation era.
Hidden Agenda
by Skye Alexander
The first Skye Alexander mystery. Astrologer-detective in Salem, MA. Niche cozy with more research than the genre needs.
Bloody Bonsai
by Peter Abresch
The first James P. Dandy mystery. Retiree as accidental detective at a bonsai convention. Reliably likeable cozy.
Dive Deep and Deadly
by Glynn Marsh Alam
The first Luanne Fogarty mystery. Glynn Marsh Alam writing the Florida diving subculture as a regional cozy.
Sea of Green
by Thomas Adcock
The first Neil Hockaday mystery by Thomas Adcock. NYPD detective in mid-90s Hell's Kitchen, before the neighborhood got polite.
Grimspace
by Ann Aguirre
The first Sirantha Jax novel. Ann Aguirre writing tough-femme space opera with one foot in Firefly and one in romance.
River Of Darkness
by Rennie Airth
The first John Madden mystery. Post-WWI English countryside, a returning detective, and a serial killer whose methods come straight from the trenches.
The Plague Dogs
by Richard Adams
Richard Adams's third novel. Two laboratory dogs escape in the Lake District. The book that broke me as a 12-year-old.
Maia
by Richard Adams
Richard Adams's prequel to Shardik. A 1,400-page erotic-political fantasy that is one of the strangest entries in any major writer's bibliography.
Shardik
by Richard Adams
Richard Adams's 1974 follow-up to Watership Down. A religious epic about a hunter and a giant bear. Difficult, devastating, deeply serious.
The Youngest Miss Ward
by Joan Aiken
Joan Aiken writing about the third Ward sister, the one Austen never bothered with in Mansfield Park. Quietly subversive.
Baseball Cat
by Garrison Allen
The fourth Penelope Warren cat cozy. Garrison Allen putting his Marine bookstore owner at a desert spring training camp. Reliable cozy comfort.