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623 honest reviews across fiction, non-fiction, mystery, sci-fi, romance, and more.
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The Cretan Teat
by Brian W. Aldiss
A Brian Aldiss late novel set on Crete, half-memoir and half-rumination on faith, marriage, and the lasting strangeness of the Aegean.
Super-State: A Novel of a Future Europe
by Brian W. Aldiss
Late Aldiss imagining a politically unified near-future European super-state. Strange, sprawling, sometimes brilliant.
Little Knell
by Catherine Aird
The 18th Inspector Sloan. A piece of garden statuary, a missing mother, and Catherine Aird at her most procedural.
Nightshade
by Susan Wittig Albert
The 16th China Bayles. China's family history collides with a cold-case murder in Pecan Springs. Sue Wittig Albert in her late prime.
Bleeding Hearts
by Susan Wittig Albert
The 14th China Bayles. A house fire, a missing manuscript, and a community college English department at its most cozy and its most poisonous.
Of Chiefs and Champions
by Robert Adams
The fourth Castaways in Time novel by Robert Adams. Tudor-period historical fantasy with a modern American time-traveler. Pulp at full throttle.
The Greenway
by Jane Adams
Jane Adams's 1995 debut. A vanished child, twenty years later, on an East Anglian footpath. Quiet British psychological mystery.
Touch of Evil
by C. T. Adams
The first Thrall novel. C. T. Adams writing a different shape of vampire urban fantasy: courier, cult, and a heroine with one good day a week.
Hunter's Moon
by C. T. Adams
The first Sazi novel by C. T. Adams and Cathy Clamp. Werewolf-hitman urban fantasy with one of the better paranormal romance setups of the 2000s.
Murder on Ice
by Alina Adams
The first Alina Adams figure-skating mystery. ABC researcher solving rink murders. Skating fan service done well.
Starship Titanic
by Douglas Adams
A novelization of the Douglas Adams computer game, written by Terry Jones. Half Adams, half Monty Python, all 90s eccentricity.
Desert Cat
by Garrison Allen
The first Penelope Warren cat cozy. An Empress Josephine of an Abyssinian, a desert town, and Garrison Allen's reliable cozy template.
Death at Whitechapel
by Bill Albert
A Robin Paige (Bill Albert co-writing as Bill and Susan) Victorian mystery. Charles and Kate Sheridan investigating Jack the Ripper aftershocks.
Collision
by Jeff Abbott
A Jeff Abbott standalone thriller. Two strangers, one very bad coincidence, and a fast-moving piece of mid-2000s suspense.
Murder on the Lusitania
by Conrad Allen
The first Dillman and Masefield ocean-liner mystery. Conrad Allen setting up the formula on the real RMS Lusitania.
Color of Death
by Bruce Alexander
The seventh Sir John Fielding novel. Bruce Alexander on race, theft, and 1770s London. Quietly one of the strongest in the series.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
by Joan Aiken
Joan Aiken novelizing the Disney film. A surprisingly thoughtful piece of work-for-hire.
The Cockatrice Boys
by Joan Aiken
Joan Aiken writing strange YA dystopia. A post-monster-invasion Britain, a brother and sister, and a tone you cannot quite categorize.
So Vile a Sin
by Ben Aaronovitch
A 1997 Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures novel co-written by Ben Aaronovitch and Kate Orman. Operatic, dense, the end of a long arc.
The Only Good Yankee
by Jeff Abbott
The second Jordan Poteet mystery. Jeff Abbott loosening up and writing his small Texas town with full confidence.
Titanicus
by Dan Abnett
Dan Abnett writing the Warhammer 40K novel that nobody asked for and that turned out to be one of his best. Giant war-machines, factory cities, and an honest piece of social fiction underneath the metal.
The Tutor
by Peter Abrahams
Peter Abrahams's slow-burning suburban thriller about a tutor who is not what he says he is.
Tears of Pearl
by Tasha Alexander
The fourth Lady Emily mystery. Constantinople, harem politics, and Tasha Alexander's most ambitious setting to date.
The Toughest Indian in the World
by Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie's 2000 story collection. Tougher, sadder, more sexually frank than Lone Ranger and Tonto. The follow-up earns itself.