Books by Katherine Kurtz and Complete Book Reviews
Katherine Kurtz, Author . Ace $23.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-441-01060-8
In this exquisitely detailed Deryni fantasy, her first since King Kelson's Bride
(2000), veteran Kurtz lays out the history of the Deryni before the time of King Kelson, focusing on the characters whose heirs will become important players in...
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Katherine Kurtz, Author . Ace $24.95 (279p) ISBN 978-0-441-01282-4
In bestseller Kurtz's morbid second tale of her new Deryni trilogy—following 2003's In the King's Service
and set before the King Kelson novels—King Donal Haldane is mourning the loss of his bastard son, Krispin, a boy he...
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Katherine Kurtz, Author . Ace $24.95 (449p) ISBN 978-0-441-01526-9
Fans of Kurtz's Chronicles of the Deryni will enjoy this convoluted conclusion to the newly revised trilogy (after Deryni Rising
and Deryni Checkmate
) originally published some 30 years ago. After much struggle, 14-year-old Kelson Haldane has
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Katherine Kurtz, Author Del Rey Books $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-345-36117-2
In a charming grimoireok/eed , or book of spells, Kurtz tells her fans everything they could wish to know about her creations, the Deryni, a race of people with magical powers who inhabit a medieval Europe-like land. This fictional encyclopedia...
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Katherine Kurtz, Author Ace Books $22.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-441-00732-5
The latest entry in the bestselling Deryni series is, like its predecessors, set in a land analogous to medieval Wales and featuring the Deryni, a human minority with magical powers. It also resolves the longstanding question of when King Kelson...
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Katherine Kurtz, Author Ace Books $21.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-441-00725-7
Young adults will best appreciate this light, sentimental fantasy about the gargoyles who watch over the churches of Dublin, whether Catholic, Protestant or deconsecrated, from bestselling veteran Kurtz (the Deryni series, etc.). More mature readers,
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Katherine Kurtz, Author Del Rey Books $20 (490p) ISBN 978-0-345-33260-8
A young king seeks to save his people from powerful and corrupt nobles and prelates in this middle volume of the latest Deryni trilogy (following The Harrowing of Gwynedd ). Crippled Prince Javan gains the throne of Gwynedd after the death of his...
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Katherine Kurtz, Author Del Rey Books $22 (421p) ISBN 978-0-345-33262-2
A small band of rebels attempts to overcome a tyranny of church and corrupt nobility in the rousing and tragic conclusion to Kurtz's fourth Deryni trilogy. When Marek of Festil, the bastard son of Gwynedd's last Deryni king, makes a move to gain the
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Katherine Kurtz, Author Spectra Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07562-5
Blending historical detail and supernatural fantasy, as in her Deryni series and Lammas Night, Kurtz depicts a believable alternate American Revolution driven by the occult machinations of an age-old Master as well as destiny and Masonic solidarity.
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Katherine Kurtz. Ace, $26.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-425-27668-6
Kurtz returns to her magical medieval world after an eight-year hiatus to complete the Childe Morgan trilogy (following Childe Morgan) within her long-running Deryni series. Eight-year-old Alaric Morgan is despised by many because of his magical...
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Katherine Kurtz, Author, Deborah Turner Harris, Joint Author Aspect $21.5 (456p) ISBN 978-0-446-52260-1
Kurtz and Harris's Adept series established the authors as reliable voices in fantasy. Here, as in two story anthologies edited by Kurtz (On Crusade, etc.), the subject is the enigmatic Knights Templar, the powerful religious-military order renowned
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Katherine Kurtz, Author, Deborah Turner Harris, With Ace Books $6.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-441-00343-3
When a wizard's sword is stolen from a museum in present-day Scotland, FBI psychiatrist Sir Adam Sinclair is sure that the crime represents something serious. Through a mutual acquaintance, he meets and befriends Peregrine Lovat, a troubled painter...
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Katherine Kurtz, Author, Deborah Turner Harris, With Ace Books $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-441-00367-9
Pouring old wine into new bottles once again, Kurtz and Harris serve up another vintage dark fantasy in this fifth adventure about reincarnated Adept Adam Sinclair and his efforts to contain ancient occult forces simmering beneath the civilized...
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Edited by David Farland. Galaxy, $15.95 trade paper (450p) ISBN 978-1-61986-659-1
This hefty, competent anthology showcases 12 consistently solid short stories, each accompanied by a full-color illustration. Though Farland cites originality, plot, emotional effect, and memorability as criteria for his selections, most of these...
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