Hope everyone had a good holiday with a chance to rest, relax and enjoy some time with family and friends. And hopefully you got some gifts, too - and if you're like me, you've probably got some gift-cards to Amazon or Barnes & Noble (or both) now burning a hole in your pocket.
You've been good this year, so why not treat yourself to something nice?
Here's a few recommendations. Click the titles to be whisked away.
You've been good this year, so why not treat yourself to something nice?
Here's a few recommendations. Click the titles to be whisked away.
Unusual novel and not what I expected, but very enjoyable and highly recommended.
While hyped as a horror novel, it's more of a dark, vaguely-humorous crime novel about a young woman who made all the wrong decisions at every turn of her life and incited her own murder by trying to ruin the lives of those around her. The novel is her ghost's recollection of her life--interspersed with brief passages of her haunting Seattle--as she tries to figure out who, exactly, killed her.
While hyped as a horror novel, it's more of a dark, vaguely-humorous crime novel about a young woman who made all the wrong decisions at every turn of her life and incited her own murder by trying to ruin the lives of those around her. The novel is her ghost's recollection of her life--interspersed with brief passages of her haunting Seattle--as she tries to figure out who, exactly, killed her.
I've written about this book a couple times here before, but I cannot say enough good enough it. Joey Connelly is a retired professional hit-man pulled, unwillingly, back into one last job for his old boss, which takes him way up into the rural reaches of Maine, to the town of Wesserunsett.
There's a lot of threads woven together in this novel and Bagley does it all very well. It reads like a Westlake novel from his early noir period with overtones of his later comedic work. Don't think that this a Westlake homage, though - Bitter Water Blues is entirely original and fantastic.
There's a lot of threads woven together in this novel and Bagley does it all very well. It reads like a Westlake novel from his early noir period with overtones of his later comedic work. Don't think that this a Westlake homage, though - Bitter Water Blues is entirely original and fantastic.
In 1888 London, while Jack the Ripper stalks the streets, so, too, does Mr. Dry, the so-called Deptford Assassin.Along with a psychic sensitive to the chaotic goings on of the time, the two of them show us a different side of a story and time that's been told over and over again, though never quite like this.
If you're a Ripper fan and looking for something out of the ordinary, give it a try.
If you're a Ripper fan and looking for something out of the ordinary, give it a try.
A collection of short stories covering the range from Sherlock Holmes to Lovecraftian cosmic horrors and everything in between, there's enough weirdness here to satisfy even the most hardcore fans of both traditional weird fiction and the so-called New Weird.
And last, but hopefully not least, if you've got anything left on those gift-cards, I'd appreciate your giving a chance to my novel THIS ROUGH OLD WORLD.
California Noir meets Lovecraftian cosmic horror in a love song to all the things I enjoy and fear.
California Noir meets Lovecraftian cosmic horror in a love song to all the things I enjoy and fear.
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