About the abiding love of two young men across lifetimes, January Sun’s fantastical graphic novel "The Reaper and the Waiting" is steeped in Chinese culture, mythology, and history. Dwelling in the liminal space between life and death,... Read More

In Alasdair Beckett-King’s playful mystery novel Montgomery Bonbon: Sabotage at Sea, a shipboard death leads to a buoyant investigation driven by a disguise and a deductive performance. When a sea captain dies and his body vanishes... Read More

In Terri Lewis’s affecting historical novella "When They Came Home", a shell-shocked soldier faces marital strain. In Kansas in 1919, Edith, a farmer’s daughter, is courted by Milton, a World War I veteran. Soon, they start a family... Read More

Set in the hinterlands of Norway just above the Arctic Circle, Ørjan Karlsson’s novel "Into the Dark" is both a literal and figurative chiller about a hunt for a deranged serial killer. In this series-continuing title, Jakob, a police... Read More

In Mario Elías’s surreal, unflinching novel "Beloved Disciples", a man grieves the death of his first love. Simón experiences heartbreak after losing Albi, the love of his life. He sees visions in which Albi-clone corpses pile up... Read More

In Lavie Tidhar’s clever and amusing novel in short stories "The Three Coffin Problem", a vampire judge and his otherwise unremarkable human sidekick travel through medieval Europe, solving a series of crimes involving the vampire... Read More

Zen Cho’s "The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo" is a witty historical romance about an up-and-coming writer’s entanglement with a literary legend in 1920s England. Through sharp, lively diary entries, Jade recounts how a negative book... Read More

Intrepid sisters brave a secret-laden circus in Alyssa Wilkinson’s splendid mystery novel "Unlucky Charm Summer". Left on the steps of an orphanage as a baby, eleven-year-old Duke is sure her parents are out there, waiting, somewhere.... Read More