Ariel S. Winter. Hard Case Crime, $25.99 (672p) ISBN 978-0-85768-581-0
This isn’t a first novel so much as a series of three discrete but interrelated first novels, each written (with apologies from the author) in the style of a different iconic thriller writer—Georges Simenon, Raymond Chandler, and Jim Thompson,...
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Ariel S. Winter. Atria/Bestler, $25 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4767-9785-4
Winter (The Twenty-Year Death) follows up his debut, a lively homage to noir detective fiction, with a less successful foray into science fiction: a torpid melodrama in which robots and humans seethe with jealousy and resentment toward one another....
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Ariel S. Winter. Atria/Bestler, $17 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-4767-9788-5
A murder mystery in a world ruled by robots drives the plot of this entertaining if overstuffed near-future dystopian tale from Winter (Barren Cove). Humans are granted Preserves to rebuild their society without the presence of robots. Police Chief...
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Ariel S. Winter, illus. by David Hitch. S&S/Aladdin, $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4424-2016-8
The oft-seen theme of fitting in versus individuality is given an odd twist in this book about a boy who feels unimportant. “Lysander Singleton was the only only child at Twin Oaks Elementary. Everyone else was a twin.” While some of first-time...
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