Jim Butcher, Author, Kat Richardson, Author, Simon R. Green, Author . Roc $15 (368p) ISBN 978-0-451-46249-7
Readers will be delighted with this collection of original novellas tied to popular crime/fantasy series. The standout is Sniegoski’s “Noah’s Orphans,” in which angel PI Remy Chandler must solve the murder of the biblical Ark&
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Simon R. Green, Ace, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-441-01970-0
Private investigator John Taylor returns in the 12th novel (after 2010's The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny) of the Nightside, "the dark, secret, brooding heart of London." Having killed the former Walker, the voice of the Authorities, Taylor's now...
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Simon R. Green. Severn, $28.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8623-1
British author Green’s fun second Ishmael Jones mystery (after 2015’s The Dark Side of the Road) takes Jones, a space alien who crash landed on Earth in 1963 and is now able to pass as an eternally 20-something human, and Penny Belcourt, his...
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Simon Green. Ace, $7.99 mass market (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-25994-8
Seemingly unrelated back-to-back incidents have paranormal investigators hopping in Green’s fifth Ghost Finders novel (after Spirits from Beyond). JC Chance, Melody Chambers, and Happy Jack Palmer are called to a room where four university students...
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Simon R. Green. Open Road, $14.99 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-4804-9116-8
It’s hard not to feel that Green (Blue Moon Rising) is being a bit self-indulgent in his selection and description of the 17 short stories in this collection, which include fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He provides samples of his earliest...
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Simon R. Green. Roc, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-451-41431-1
Gumshoe mage Eddie Drood, aka “Shaman Bond,” finds his family ties strained in the scattershot eighth Secret Histories novel (after Casino Infernale). A phantom Voice tells Eddie that it’s holding his parents hostage. Eddie must find the mysterious...
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Simon R. Green. Roc, $16 trade paper (576p) ISBN 978-0-451-41466-3
It’s hard to invest in an epic fantasy, even one in which the personal and political stakes are high, when it includes heavy-handed parody and rapid, credulity-straining shifts in emotions. But that’s the challenge Green has created for readers in...
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Simon R. Green. Ace, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-937007-13-3
Green’s superlative 12th Nightside novel (after 2011’s A Hard Day’s Knight), set in a world “hidden deep in the dark and dangerous heart of London,” ratchets up the stakes for series protagonist John Taylor in an intricate and action-filled plot...
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Simon R. Green. Roc, $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-451-46395-1
Bestseller Green adds a winning fifth entry to his Secret Histories series (after From Hell with Love). Eddie Drood, aka secret agent Shaman Bond, and his family are the last line of defense between humanity and the big, bad, magical things that go...
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Simon R. Green, Author Roc $5.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-451-45363-1
Shadows Fall is an extraordinary town where legends--human and otherwise--go to live out their days as belief in them dies. Comic superheroes who never achieved true fame mingle with rock 'n' roll stars who died young; dinosaurs roam the park at...
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Simon R. Green, Author . Roc $14 (320p) ISBN 978-0-451-45867-4
The author of the popular Deathstalker series (Deathstalker War, etc.) offers another wildly fantastic extravaganza bound to please his many fans, even if it won't win him new ones. Toby Dexter, a bored 33-year-old clerk at Gandalf's...
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Simon R. Green, Ace, $7.99 mass market (272p) ISBN 9780441019168
If future novels in Green's new Ghost Finders series are as engaging as this one, they will hold up admirably against his previous work. Intellectual JC Chance, techno-geek Melody Chambers, and telepath Happy Jack Palmer are called upon to...
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Simon R. Green, Author Roc 24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-451-46332-6
This gripping, fast-paced, emotionally intense fourth volume in Green’s Secret Histories series (after 2009’s The Spy Who Haunted Me) is sure to delight fans of paranormal investigator Eddie Drood and his girlfriend, the fabulously strong and strong-
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Simon R. Green, Author . Ace $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-441-01816-1
The gripping, suspenseful, and wry 10th tale in the Nightside supernatural detective series proves every bit the equal of Jim Butcher's better-known Harry Dresden books. The action picks up not long after 2009's Just Another Judgement Day
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Simon R. Green, Author Roc $24.95 (388p) ISBN 978-0-451-46272-5
Green’s bright, fast-paced third Eddie “Shaman Bond” Drood adventure (after 2008’s Daemons Are Forever
) opens with rumors of a traitor undermining the Drood family’s efforts to guard humanity against paranormal and...
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Simon R. Green, Author . Roc $23.95 (406p) ISBN 978-0-451-46208-4
This lighthearted second installment (after 2007’s The Man with the Golden Torc
) in the adventures of “very secret agent” Eddie Drood follows the former rogue and reluctant patriarch as he struggles against enemies within and...
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Simon R. Green, Author . Ace $21.95 (246p) ISBN 978-0-441-01558-0
The engaging eighth book in Green’s popular offbeat Nightside series (after 2006’s Hell to Pay) drops another paranormal mystery in the lap of series hero John Taylor, a PI in the shadowy realm of Nightside. Pen Donavon, who claims to...
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Simon R. Green, Author . Roc $23.95 (393p) ISBN 978-0-451-46145-2
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eaders who recognize the pun on Ian Fleming's James Bond title, The Man with the Golden Gun, will find the secret agent in question has more up his sleeve than a fancy car and some high-tech gadgets in this first of a new fantasy series from...
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Simon R. Green, Author . Ace $6.99 (264p) ISBN 978-0-441-01460-6
Lady Damnation, Old Father Time, a world weary Count Dracula and the hard-drinking storybook character Bruin Bear are only a few of the beings that Green produces for his seventh novel set in the sinister and psychedelic world of Nightside. None,...
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Simon R. Green, Author . Roc $23.95 (377p) ISBN 978-0-451-46011-0
Bestseller Green's wild conclusion to his Deathstalker saga picks up moments after the cliffhanger ending of Deathstalker Return
(2004). Unjustly outlawed Lewis Deathstalker has just brought his ancestor Owen back from the dead to battle the...
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Simon R. Green, Author . Roc $23.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-451-42821-9
Bestseller Green's latest overstuffed entry in his Deathstalker epic (after 2003's Deathstalker Legacy
) tests our heroes to the limit as they seek the supposedly dead Owen Deathstalker, for they believe that only he can turn back the...
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Simon R. Green, Author . Roc $23.95 (472p) ISBN 978-0-451-45907-7
Bestseller Green, author of the Deathstalker series (Deathstalker War, etc.), which concluded with Owen Deathstalker and his ragtag comrades defeating the evil Empress Lionstone, presents a swashbuckling sequel, in which Owen's descendant Lewis...
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Simon R. Green, read by a full cast. GraphicAudio, unabridged, 8 CDs, 8 hrs., $19.99 ISBN 978-1-62851-0812
The latest addition to GraphicAudio’s rendering of Green’s Forest Kingdom fantasy series covers the first half of the fifth book. Captains Hawk and Fisher are busy running a school for heroes when an omen predicts the Demon Prince will return. The...
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