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Straight Silver
by Dan Abnett
A mid-period Gaunt's Ghosts novel. Trench warfare on a barely-habitable Imperial world. Dan Abnett doing WWI in space and meaning it.
The Price of Murder
by Bruce Alexander
The tenth (and posthumous) Sir John Fielding. Bruce Alexander's widow finished what he had begun, and the result is more graceful than continuation novels usually are.
Smuggler's Moon
by Bruce Alexander
The eighth Sir John Fielding. Bruce Alexander takes the blind magistrate to the Kentish coast for smuggling, dragoons, and the kind of countryside violence London does not see.
Royal Cat
by Garrison Allen
The second Penelope Warren cat cozy. A Renaissance Faire, a death, and Mycroft the Abyssinian still attending royally.
Murder on the Caronia
by Conrad Allen
The fourth Dillman and Masefield. Cunard's newest liner, a music-hall act in steerage, and a body that should not have been found.
Murder on the Minnesota
by Conrad Allen
The third Dillman and Masefield mystery, this time on a Pacific crossing. Conrad Allen at his most relaxed.
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.