Bookshots: ‘The Skeleton Road’ by Val McDermid
Review by Dean Fetzer
A skeleton, found on the roof of a crumbling building in Edinburgh, leads DCI Karen Pirie to the Balkan Wars and the lofty heights of Oxford.
Bookshots: 'Watch' by Cass J. McMain
Review by Leah Dearborn
A woman is summoned to the deathbed of her dying uncle, who informs her that the father who abandoned her at birth is a vampire.
Bookshots: 'No Mercy' by Eleanor Learmonth and Jenny Tabakoff
Review by Cath Murphy
Your ship goes down and you're washed up on a desert island with a bunch of strangers. Will you survive to tell the tale, or end up as the main course when supplies run out?
Making Sense of Brainiac Steven Pinker's New Book on Writing
Review by Taylor Houston
Eeee!!! A NEW STYLE GUIDE HAS ARRIVED – or has it?
Bookshots: "Asura Girl" by Otaro Maijo
Review by BH Shepherd
Hedonistic indulgence in casual sex and brutal, anime-grade violence abound in this award-winning novel.
Bookshots: 'The Annotated Mixtape' by Joshua Harmon
Review by Stephanie Bonjack
Essays on youth and ennui are preciously crafted and paired with songs that formed the soundtrack of this record collector's past.
Bookshots: 'The End of Days' by Jenny Erpenbeck
Review by Brian McGackin
There are so many ways a girl can die.
Bookshots: 'The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure' edited by C.D. Rose
Review by Tiffany Turpin Johnson
More a short story collection than a dictionary, this book is an homage to the many ways writers can fail.
Bookshots: 'Treat Us Like Dogs and We Will Become Wolves' by Carolyn Chute
Review by Dean Fetzer
Reporter Ivy Morelli is sent to meet a reclusive group known as “the Settlement”, investigating rumors of child slavery, guns and another Waco-in-the-making. What she finds is not what she expects.
Bookshots: 'Miracle Girls' by M.B. Caschetta
Review by Christopher Shultz
Vision-touched Cee-Cee and the war-protesting nuns of Christ's Most Precious Wounds are out to stop the Romeville Snatcher.
