“I know the soft velvet of the flesh side and the smooth, oiled surface of the hair side. I have studied the pattern of follicles, traced the network of veins that undergirds our most precious documents, the records of civilization, the rise and fall of human knowledge . . .” A child receives the body of Saint Lucia of Syracuse for her seventh birthday. A rebelling angel rewrites the Book of Judgment to protect the […]
Strolling on the seashore with her husband, Philomela Nightingale makes a grisly discovery. It drags the two of them beneath the island’s pristine paradise into a sleazy world of drug addiction and prostitution and turns their relaxing vacation into a nightmare beyond belief. Adding to her dismay, Philomela becomes a suspect. A sense of justice gradually rises to the fore, propelling her to use her intuition and powers of observation to help solve the puzzle […]
Everybody wants this child. The teacher who would save her. The graduate student who would study her. The cult leader who would worship her. The CIA agent who would take her apart. Everyone wants this child, but no one knows quite what to do with her. Not until they determine what part the indigo factor has played in her creation. Tinged with violence and page-turning suspense, The Indigo Factor introduces us to little Faun Wilkins, […]
On the airless Moon, where the daytime temperature approaches four hundred degrees and the night drops beyond two hundred below zero, where the sunlight can turn your babies into monsters, the thought of making a home would seem beyond even the wildest imagination. Tex and Dolly Baker saw it differently. In their fertile mind they turned a hole in the side of the mountain into a womb of life. Here, the cavern roof would protect […]
In The Cold Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty (Seventh Street Books), a Catholic cop tracks a killer operating amidst the sectarian violence of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Spring 1981. Northern Ireland. Belfast on the verge of outright civil war. The Thatcher government has flooded the area with soldiers, but nightly there are riots, bombings, and sectarian attacks. In the midst of the chaos, Sean Duffy, a young, witty, Catholic detective in the almost entirely Protestant Royal […]
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