Patricia Briggs. Ace, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-441-02003-4
Briggs's third installation in the Alpha and Omega series (after Hunting Ground) suffuses a paranormal procedural with political conflict and relationship issues between dominant Alpha werewolf Charles Cornick and his Omega mate Anna Latham. Now...
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Patricia Briggs. Ace, $27 (384p) ISBN 978-0-425-28127-7
Briggs delivers her usual action and danger in the 10th Mercy Thompson urban fantasy (after Fire Touched), and adds a surprising playfulness. Mercy, a cunning coyote shifter and ghostwalker, is kidnapped and taken to Italy by Iacopo Bonarata, the...
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Patricia Briggs . Ace, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-425-25675-6
Briggs’s Alpha & Omega novels are more episodic than those in the Mercy Thompson series, allowing for a more intimate focus. In her new A&O book, werewolves Charles and Anna Cornick investigate a gruesome supernatural mystery, visit a terminally ill
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Patricia Briggs. Ace, $26.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-425-26500-0
This rich collection includes all six previously published Mercy Thompson short stories, along with four new ones and two epilogue-like outtakes. There’s a little something for everyone. “The Star of David” offers up monsters and Christmas cheer; “Ro
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Patricia Briggs. Ace, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-425-25674-9
In the winning eighth urban fantasy (after Frost Burned) featuring coyote shapeshifter and car mechanic Mercy Thompson, Briggs adds Canary Islands mythology and garden-variety jealousy. Mercy is mated to Adam, the Alpha of the Tri-Cities werewolves.
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Patricia Briggs, Author . Ace $7.99 (287p) ISBN 978-0-441-01566-5
Shape-shifter Mercy Thompson has a complex life, juggling two werewolf lovers and a job working for a fae mechanic; things get even more hectic when her boss and mentor is arrested for killing a citizen of the fae reservation. As the fae seem...
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Patricia Briggs, Author Ace $7.99 (292p) ISBN 978-0-441-01473-6
A sorcerer-turned-vampire wreaks havoc on Washington's Tri-Cities, causing death, destruction and a paranormal faceoff in the second of Briggs's series featuring Mercy Thompson, a mechanic and ""walker"": one who can turn into a coyote at will....
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Patricia Briggs, Author . Ace $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-441-01819-2
Coyote-shifting garage mechanic Mercedes Thompson, now mated to Adam, the Alpha of the local werewolf pack, embarks on her exciting fifth dark fantasy adventure (after 2009's bestselling Bone Crossed
). Three subplots—Mercy's attempt
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Patricia Briggs, Author . Ace $24.95 (309p) ISBN 978-0-441-01676-1
Briggs makes a well-deserved move into hardcover with the rousing fourth adventure for kick-ass were-coyote auto mechanic Mercedes Thompson. Healing in body and spirit after the events of 2008's Iron Kissed
, Mercy is preparing to marry alpha...
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Patricia Briggs, Author, Maurizio Manzieri, Illustrator . Subterranean $35 (105p) ISBN 978-1-59606-287-0
This terrific little story, originally published in a 2007 anthology, is the first in Patricia Briggs's Alpha and Omega series. Changed against her will three years earlier, frightened, beaten-down Anna Latham doesn't know she is an omega...
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Patricia Briggs, David Lawrence, and Todd Herman. Berkley, $26.50 (128p) ISBN 978-0-441-01848-2
Briggs’s Mercy Thompson urban fantasy series has its fans, with her novel Cry Wolf hitting the New York Times bestseller list a few years back. But based on this poorly conceived graphic novel adaptation, it’s hard to see why. Set in a small Montana
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Patricia Briggs. Ace, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-425-28129-1
The suspenseful 11th Mercy Thompson urban fantasy opens with the Columbia Basin Pack of shape-shifters contending with a plague of zombies and the unfamiliar witch who must be creating them. When they go to their local gray witch for help, they find
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Patricia Briggs. Ace, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-0-440-00161-4
A new threat comes to Washington State’s Tri-Cities in Briggs’s solid 13th Mercy Thompson urban fantasy (after Smoke Bitten). Secrets come out and tensions rise among the Columbia Basin shape-shifter pack when it is implicated in the disappearance...
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Edited by Laurell K. Hamilton and William McCaskey. Berkley, $17 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-593-09920-9
“You’re holding hope in your hands,” Hamilton writes in the foreword to this sweet escapist speculative anthology, which exclusively features tales with happy endings. This upbeat ethos is perhaps best demonstrated in Larry Correia’s “Mr. Positive,...
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