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Warlock Holmes - A Study in Brimstone

G S Denning · Titan Books (UK)
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Sherlock Holmes is an unparalleled genius. Warlock Holmes is an idiot. A font of arcane power, certainly. But he's brilliantly dim. Frankly, he couldn't deduce his way out of a paper bag. The only thing he has really got going for him are the might of a thousand demons and his stalwart...
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Lovecraft Country: A Novel

MATT RUFF · HARPERPERENNIAL
Pages: 400
Format: Print book

The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination that melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror and fantasy.Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose...
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The Warded Man: Book One of The Demon Cycle

Peter V Brett · Del Rey
Pages: 459
Format: Print book

As darkness falls after sunset, the corelings rise - demons who possess supernatural powers and burn with a consuming hatred of humanity. For hundreds of years the demons have terrorized the night, slowly culling the human herd that shelters behind magical wards - symbols of power whose...
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A Second Chance: The Chronicles of St. Mary's Book Three

Jodi Taylor · Night Shade Books
Pages: 335
Format: Print book

The third book in the bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone's cup of tea.Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary's Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don't call...
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The Invisible Library

Genevieve Cogman · ROC
Pages: 341
Format: Print book

Collecting books can be a dangerous prospect in this fun, time-traveling, fantasy adventure from a spectacular debut author. One thing any Librarian will tell you: the truth is much stranger than fiction... Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, a shadowy organization...
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The Sorcerer's Daughter: The Defenders of Shannara

Terry Brooks · Del Rey
Pages: 334
Format: Print book

The inspiration for the epic MTV series, the world of Shannara is brimming with untold stories and unexplored territory. Now bestselling author Terry Brooks breaks new ground with a standalone adventure that's sure to thrill veteran readers and recent converts alike.The mysterious, magic-wielding...
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Behind the Throne

K B Wagers · Orbit
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

"Excellent SF adventure debut. " -- "Publishers Weekly, " starred review Hail Bristol has made a name for herself in the galaxy for everything except what she was born to do: rule the Indranan Empire. When she is dragged back to her home planet to take her rightful place...
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The Winter Long

Seanan McGuire · DAW
Format: Book

Toby thought she understood her own past; she thought she knew the score. She was wrong. It's time to learn the truth.
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Altar of Eden

James Rollins · William Morrow; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Baghdad falls . . . and armed men are seen looting the city zoo. Amid a hail of bullets, a concealed underground lab is ransacked--and something horrific is set loose upon the world. Seven years later, Louisiana state veterinarian Lorna Polk investigates an abandoned shipwrecked fishing...
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The Dark Side

Anthony O'Neill · Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pages: 390
Format: Print book

In this dark and gripping sci-fi noir, an exiled police detective arrives at a lunar penal colony just as a psychotic android begins a murderous odyssey across the far side of the moon.Purgatory is the lawless moon colony of eccentric billionaire, Fletcher Brass: a mecca for war criminals,...
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The Last Mortal Bond

Brian Staveley · Tor
Pages: 652
Format: Print book

The trilogy that began with The Emperor's Blades and continued in The Providence of Fire reaches its epic conclusion, as war engulfs the Annurian Empire in Brian Staveley's The Last Mortal Bond The ancient csestriim are back to finish their purge of humanity; armies march against the capital;...
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Mightier than the Sword

K J PARKER · Subterranean
Pages: 136
Format: Hardcover

An Imperial legate is called into see his aunt, who just happens to be the empress running the civilized world while her husband's in his sick bed. After some chastisement, she dispatches her nephew to take care of the dreaded Land and Sea Raiders, pirates who've been attacking...
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Coyote Dreams

C E Murphy · Luna Books
Pages: 408
Format: Paperback

Instead of powerful forces storming Seattle, a more insidious invasion is happening. Most of Joanne Walker's fellow cops are down with the blue flu - or rather the blue sleep. Yet there's no physical cause anyone can point to - and it keeps spreading.It has to be magical, Joanne...
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The edge of worlds

Martha Wells · Night Shade Books
Pages: 388
Format: Print book

An expedition of groundlings from the Empire of Kish have traveled through the Three Worlds to the Indigo Cloud court of the Raksura, shape-shifting creatures of flight that live in large family groups. The groundlings have found a sealed ancient city at the edge of the shallow seas, near...
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Covert Game

Christine Feehan · Berkley
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Treason, torture and temptation haunt the GhostWalkers in their most dangerous adventure yet, as Christine Feehan's #1 New York Times bestselling series hits an explosive new high.Rescuing an industrial spy from the hands of a criminal mastermind is a suicide mission for the GhostWalkers....
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