Alex Segura. Polis (PGW, dist.), $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-940610-75-7
At the start of Segura’s muddled sequel to 2013’s Silent City, a drunken Pete Fernandez, former copy editor for the Miami Times, is enduring a thorough beating in an alleyway, and his fortunes only go downhill from there. Life for Pete consists of...
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Alex Segura. Polis (PGW, dist.), $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-943818-25-9
Segura’s flawed third Pete Fernandez mystery (after 2016’s Down the Darkest Street) finds the Miami, Fla., PI, who’s been doing routine investigative work, drawn into a re-examination of the notorious Gaspar Verela case. Verela, a former Miami...
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Alex Segura. Polis, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-947993-04-4
Early in Segura’s convoluted fourth mystery featuring recovering alcoholic Pete Fernandez (after 2017’s Dangerous Ends), Ellen McRyan walks into Fernandez Investigations, located in a Spring Valley, N.Y., strip mall. Ellen is the wife of ambitious,...
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Alex Segura. Polis, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-1-947993-59-4
Segura’s workmanlike fifth Pete Fernandez mystery (after 2018’s Blackout) finds the recovering-alcoholic Miami, Fla., PI running a small bookstore after undergoing months of physical and psychological therapy. Pete feels he ought to be trying to...
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Alex Segura, Monica Gallagher, and George Kambadais. Dark Horse, $19.99 trade paper (136p) ISBN 978-1-5067-2446-1
This breezy superhero noir from crime and comics writer/editor Segura (Miami Midnight) introduces a heroine who pulls up the pulp roots of masked hero adventures to plant a smart contemporary context. Small-city journalist Lara Dominguez is Lois...
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Alex Segura. Flatiron, $27.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-80174-6
Set in 1975, this outstanding novel from Anthony Award winner Segura (the Pete Fernandez series) stars Carmen Valdez, an obsessive comic book fan since her childhood in Miami, Fla., who now lives in New York City and works on the periphery of her...
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Alex Segura. Flatiron, $28.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-80177-7
Crime and comics make for a lively mix in Segura’s enticing follow-up to Secret Identity. Comic book artist turned filmmaker Annie Bustamente has been offered the opportunity of a lifetime: lead artist on a reboot of The Legendary Lynx, the...
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Alex Segura and Rob Hart. Blackstone, $27.99 (324p) ISBN 979-8-212-21879-5
Segura (Secret Identity) and Hart (The Paradox Hotel) interweave their styles seamlessly in this stellar blend of space opera and spy thriller, set after Earth has become almost uninhabitable. With humanity concentrated on the lunar colony of New...
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Alex Segura and Sandy Jarrell. Mad Cave, $17.99 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-1-5458-1400-0
This entertaining and self-aware graphic novel spotlights the Lynx, star of the comics series at the center of Segura’s novel Secret Identity. After reporter Simon Upton disappears, office secretary Claudia Calla springs into action as the Lynx, a...
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