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Rebellion and ruin await in the gripping second installment of Evan Leikams debut fantasy series, perfect for fans of Joe Abercrombie, R.F. Kuang, and Nicholas Eames.The king is dead. Shes still alive. The revolution is yet to come... The riveting adventure continues in the sequel to Evan Leikams breakout fantasy debut Anji Kills a King.Anji has survived a dozen different deaths. The king is dead, her family is dead, the fabled mercenaries of the Menagerie are deadand shes still here, the price that was on her head now jingling as coins in her own pocket.In the wake of her journey, the city she once called home has changed, and a revolution is brewing in a camp on the riverbank. A revolution Anjis new windfall was meant to fund, and still could if she can forgive them for being willing to throw her life away to do it. But building a bright new kingdom wont be as simple as cutting one kings throat... and in a city of dark alleys and desperate times, her path will take her to shadowy places she never could have expected.

From Chuck Tingle, USA Today bestselling author of Bury Your Gays, comes Fabulous Bodies, a supernatural joyride where Drive meets Beetlejuice.Fashion influencer by day and grave robber by night, Poppy Stringer is on call when Eddie Michaelsa flamboyant, piano-slamming rockstar and queer iconunexpectedly dies. All Poppy has to do is retrieve Eddies body from the medical examiners office, but what starts as a routine delivery quickly goes off course when Eddie wakes up.Now, Poppy must fight for her life in a blood-soaked night of carnage and fabulous entertainment all across Palm Springs.

An unoccupied flat. A freshly dressed bed. The body of a young woman laid out neatly on the duvet. The dead girl looks familiar troublingly familiar but Detective Inspector Cassie May cant place her. And to compound her troubles, Cassie has just started dating the flats owner, James Flynn.When her boyfriend is accused of murder, an ambitious young DI risks her career and her life by defying her bosses, the security services, and a crime syndicate, to prove the innocence of a man who seems more worried about the long-buried secrets she might unearth than the murder charge hanging over him.Set across the leafiest of Sheffield suburbs, the sink estates of South Manchester, and the bleak and snowy Pennine moors that separate them, The Wythenshawe Dandy presents a discomforting picture of a world where privilege and wretchedness coexist.

In this thrilling sequel to The Gryphon King, old rivalries and new threats pull Bataar and Nohra into a swirling cauldron of gods, monsters and djinn.The second book in the sweeping Southwest Asian-inspired epic fantasy trilogy, perfect for fans of Godkiller and Shannon Chakraborty.With Bataars campaign to conquer Dumakra victorious, he turns his eyes to Aglea in the north, where pagan berserkers rule over inhospitable marshes and ritualistically butcher unicorns. Prince Nassar and his entourage have also fled to Aglea to rally his supporterstaking the ghoulish variant of vermilrot they unearthed from the abandoned depths of Anhabar with them. Nohra and Bataar are soon to be married. Nohra has not forgiven the rhahs sins against Kalafar or her family, but her thirst for vengeance wars with her feelings for Qaira. Bataars supernatural gifts are increasingly powerful, and his hold on Dumakra more secure by the day. Serving him is now the only path Nohra can see that ends with her younger brother one day restored to Kalafars throne.The power struggle between Bataar and Nassar fast becomes a swirling conflict of religions and gods: the Agleans revere Darya for her demonic powers; Nohra and Qaira are heralded as the two manifestations of Dumakras Goddess; and Bataar is the walking embodiment of his peoples Preeminent spirit. In this febrile atmosphere, the ghoul sickness is spreading rapidly, and monsters continue to encroach on human towns, causing violence and dismay. The war, and the world, hang in the balance. Just one wrong move could tip everything into chaos.

Secret cults, forbidden knowledge, and cryptic prophecies await in this companion collection to Shadows Over Innsmouth, containing 12 more short stories inspired by the legendary horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.Featuring stories from some of the biggest names in horror fiction, including H. P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Caitlin R. Kiernan, and many more.This newly redesigned edition also includes a revised and updated Introduction and Contributor Notes, along with additional artwork exclusive to this printing.In this companion to the acclaimed anthology Shadows Over Innsmouth, World Fantasy Award-winning editor Stephen Jones assembles some of todays most talented horror authorsthe finest of the modern Lovecraftian acolytes.Return to Innsmouth with these 12 haunting horror stories and encounter a scientist who stumbles upon a secret cult, a thief whose heist goes horrifically awry, and a magician who usurps a prophecy only to bring about something much, much worseplus H. P. Lovecrafts previously discarded draft of The Shadow Over Innsmouth! This newly redesigned edition also includes a revised and updated Introduction and Contributor Notes, along with additional artwork exclusive to this printing.Featuring stories from: H. P. Lovecraft Ramsey Campbell Hugh B. Cave Basil Copper John Glasby Caitlin R. Kiernan Brian Lumley Richard A. Lupoff Paul McAuley Kim Newman Michael Marshall Smith Steve Rasnic Tem

A pitch-black, Dexter-like thriller from the winner of the 2024 Crime Writers Associations Debut Dagger, in which a Tokyo paparazzo commits murders in order to generate the photos his magazines readership ghoulish demands. A razor-sharp skewering of our darkest fantasies and obsession with true crime for fans of Bella Mackies How to Kill Your Family and Oyinkan Braithwaites My Sister, The Serial Killer.Ken Kato is a half-British, half-Japanese photojournalist working for a low-brow weekly magazine in Tokyo. He achieved fame with a photograph of a boy who drowned in the tsunami that hit Japan in 2011, who he could have saved had he not been more concerned with finding the right light and composition for his shot.Four years later, he has failed to repeat that success and, facing irrelevancy (and, worse, redundancy), he decides to turn serial killer to generate his own attention-grabbing pictures for which hes inevitably always first on the scene. His magazine then publishes the pictures, causing a sensation in a society where murder is almost unheard of, and tripling its sales figures.Hoping to impress his colleague Hayashis estranged wife Makoto, who he is stalking after a short affair (though she clearly sees things differently), Kato murders only men and women with the same name as her. Inevitably the police are suspicious, but can find no evidence as he is meticulous in his planning and execution. Katos editor is also suspicious, but is willing to ignore the evidence in front of him as sales boom.A pitch-dark satire on where ambition will take us, as well as our ghoulish obsession with true crime and our fascination with morally repellent serial killers, The Makoto Murders asks plenty of uncomfortable questions of the reader while never forgetting its first and foremost a page-turning thriller.

A savage, hypnotic dive into the lives and deaths of a coven of vampires living in 19th Century Paris, perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Laura Purcell and Elizabeth KostovaParis, 1869. The Theatre Saint-Simeon is the place to be, if you can get in. The black slips of paper that guarantee entry are rare and highly desired, and given only to certain persons. The actors on stage are magnetic and ageless, performing only at midnight and never seen during the dayArnault and his clan of vampires have survived for as long as they have by observing a rigid set of rules. At night, they perform on stage at the Theatre Saint-Simeon, picking off just enough people in the audience to survive. But they understand the city, and how to live in it without being noticed.Their peace is shattered first with a visit from Beatrice, a witch who forms a strange connection to Arnault; then with the arrival of Victor de Rouvray and his sister Françoise, vampires from a very different world. And, as Arnault grows closer and closer to the beautiful, enigmatic Victor, he risks becoming distracted from the constant bickering of his immortal friends, from the daily running of the theatre, and worse, from the premonitions of blood, death and starvation that he receives at night.For a terrible change is on the horizon, revolt and revolution are brewing in the streets and soon, the city, and Arnault will never be the same again.

A twisty New York City-set mystery that sees Teddy Roosevelts daughter, Alice Roosevelt, team up with Holmes and Watson to save the president from a kidnapping and attempted assassination on the eve of international peace talks. Holmess British parlour tricks meet hard-boiled American noir in this pastiche for fans of Gareth Rubins Holmes and Moriarty.Celebrity socialite Alice Roosevelt is taking London by storm in 1905 when her letter containing sensitive details of upcoming peace talks between Japan and Russia is stolen. The case pulls Holmes from retirement, and with Alices help the letter is retrieved.After returning to the U.S., Alice goes missing. At Teddy Roosevelts request, Holmes and Watson travel to New York where they discover Alice has turned detective herself, working undercover to thwart a kidnapping plot targeting her father. Her warnings are dismissed, but then the president is kidnapped. Alice and the detective duo join forces to search for her father, only to lose Holmes to the escaping kidnappers.Alice proves herself the equal to the great detective by leading Watson in the rescue of Teddy Roosevelt as well as Holmes, but the stakes are higher than they realise. In a race against time, they must stop a plan to bomb the peace talks or risk an escalation of war on a global scale.

Discover bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutantos debut dark fantasy following an assassin, a scholar, a con man, and a guard racing to save their world from a miracle gone wrong.Mara has no memory of life before her assassin training behind the fortress-like walls of Tchu-Morrokhai, which has been her world since she was five. Practicing discipline and strategy, sacrifice and solitude, she has dedicated herself to resisting the Divine Empresss plans of eradicating the all-but-forgotten magic. She longs for a world once again filled with magicand freedom and love. And shell do whatever it takes to find those things.In the faraway city of Velingard, Livya is the privileged daughter of the revered scientist whose invention of an indestructible new metal was the catalyst for a great revolution. Yet Livyas bored of suitors and balls, more interested in philosophical debates. But when an invite to a secret salon leads to a kidnapping attempt, Livya is suddenly on the runwith the unlikely aid of charming con man Kaian, a once dear childhood friend inexplicably turned frosty stranger.Captain Fonde has served Velingard faithfully in the twenty years since the revolution, and all has been peaceful... until now, when hes informed that their "indestructible" metal is inexplicably starting to crumble. Ships, bridges, buildings, statuestheir entire post-revolution world is literally about to come apart. Could it be that the metaland therefore the revolutionwas flawed all along? Or is there something darkerevil, ancient, inhumanat play?With stunning world-building, Jesse Q. Sutanto weaves an epic tale of characters whose lives irrevocably intertwineand unravelas paths collide across continents, racing toward an explosive twist that will forever change all of their fates...

A thrilling and cataclysmic collection of city-smashing titans and the desperate coalitions of humanity clinging to survival in the wreckage, from the New York Times-bestselling and multiple award-winning editors.Featuring bestselling and award-winning authors such as Tananarive Due, Christopher Golden, Seanan McGuire, Scott Sigler and Steve Alten, author of The Meg.An explosive collection of monster terror, featuring 25 original tales of creatures the size of skyscrapers. See cities shattered and worlds ended, as great beasts rise from the deep.Featuring work from: Steve Alten Linda D. Addison Kevin J. Anderson Maurice Broaddus Tananarive Due Luke Dumas Kane Gilmour Maxwell Gold Christopher Golden Henry Herz Jamal Hodge Ai Jiang Alma Katsu Tim Lebbon Jonathan Maberry Seanan McGuire Lee Murray Tobi Ogundiran Cynthia Pelayo Jeremy Robinson Michelle Sagara Scott Sigler Ben Spada Anne Walsh

James Sallis collection of five novellas.James Sallis is a superb writer - TimesJames SallisWorlds Edge presents five masterful novellasDayenu, Carriers, Settlers, Allotments, and Reconstructionexploring fractured societies, human resilience, and the fragile intersections of morality and survival. Salliss prose, as sharp as it is evocative, captures the nuances of his dystopian and near-future settings, resonating with themes of dislocation and identity. Widely regarded as a pivotal voice in contemporary US fiction, Salliss work aligns with literary giants such as Cormac McCarthy and Denis Johnson, weaving the poetic bleakness of the former with the incisive character studies of the latter. These stories draw readers into a world both intimate and unyielding, where existential questions lurk beneath stark, elegant narratives.

After a month of various people clearing up various messes, Felicity Jardine is finally cleared to go back to her little village cottage. But when a celebratory cream tea with her new and well-connected friend Percy is interrupted by a snipers bullet, shes off again, to a safe house in Notting Hill. There her only contact is her former colleague Matthew, still with MI6, who offers her a bit of investigation she can do online to pass the time. But Felicity is not one to work from home when she can be out and getting stuck in, especially when someone on the inside seems to be betraying her...

Travis Smith is Death in the modern world. He lives with his cat in a grey English town. He offers people comfort in their final days and hours of life. Hes stoic, gentle, a little naive, despite what he knows. Hes handsome, he seems young, despite what he is. Each death has a meaning to him, and he never tries to change anyones fate. He listens and never judges, and ultimately escorts each of them to rest.Travis is desperately lonely, and when he crosses paths with young single midwife called Dalia who lives across the way and her boisterous eight-year-old daughter Layla, he cant help but be drawn to them. Dalia is beautiful and overwhelmed, and Layla seems to have a never-ending trove of small treasures to show Travis, and hes never felt the importance of making every moment count so clearly. Because he knows whats to come, and he cant make himself look away. As he learns what it means to really experience death, hes torn between his nature and his newfound understanding of theimportant things about being alive.

One calm night in Twickenham, a businessman named Tom Treadnor is shot off his barstool at The Queen. Superintendent Richard Jury is called in to investigate, and quickly realizes that everyone in Treadnors life - from his widow, Alice, to the staff at his manor, to his business partner - had differing opinions of him.Meanwhile, Wiggins, Jurys partner at New Scotland Yard, becomes sidetracked by an investigation of his own: his sister, missing for years and presumed dead, has just sent a postcard to their mother. When Wiggins takes off in search of his sister, the two investigations begin to converge.Funny, eccentric and fueled by Richard Jurys talent for seeing clues in the most unlikely places, The Red Queen is a welcome return to a classic character and an exciting addition to a series that has been called delightful, surprising, even magical (Washington Post).

Cosy, hopeful and uplifting, this heartwarming post-apocalyptic romance is perfect for fans of Fable for the End of the World and Emily Henry.Thirty years after the end of the world, a young woman enters into a marriage of convenience with a man she hardly knows so she can secure vital medical care for her beloved younger sister.The world might not have ended all at once. But end it did.Kayla Hollins is a survivor. Living in the fragmented wasteland of the Canadian Pacific Northwest, shes outlived a colony, a cult, a paramilitary group, and most of her family. So when her younger sister April falls seriously ill, Kayla will do anything to save her. They trek to Salt Spring Island, a beacon of hope in their otherwise brutalized world, which is rumoured to still have a hospital. But Salt Springs utopia comes with a price. Not just anyone can enter paradise or access their medical care, and Kaylas past is chequered.Desperate, Kayla makes a deal with Sid Charles, an aspiring politician with whom she had a chance encounter before arriving on Salt Spring. If Kayla and Sid get married, it will boost Sids chances of election, and grant April automatic access to the medical treatment she desperately needs. And in two years, when Kayla is eligible for citizenship herself, they can get a divorce. Simple, right?Sid is distant and cranky, but Kayla comes to learn he is also shockingly kind. The more time she spends with him and his ragtag group of rescued boys, the more she comes to admire him. But with Aprils treatment and Sids election on the lineand the constant terror of her past being discoveredKayla isnt sure she can risk trying to change their arrangement.Trapped together in the closest thing left to paradise, Kayla and Sid both know what it means for the world to end. But as they try to rebuild with the people of Salt Spring Island, there may be time left to saveif not the worldthemselves.

In an opulent villa near the English Channel lives a family. The father has a safe, a spanner, a candle and a maid called Rose. The son has a swing, a croquet set, a raincoat, a car. Some members of the family read crime novels to fall asleep (the father), some instead of sleeping (the son), and some to ease the loneliness of an unhappy marriage (the mother). Their equilibrium is shattered in the wake of a shocking incident and the twenty minutes of silence that follow. Darkly comedic and wonderfully strange, Twenty Minutes of Silence is a truly original take on the crime genre, inspired by a true story. Here Helene Bessette builds a world of intrigue, a world punctured by startling disruptions and unexpected shifts, and in doing so destroys and remakes the crime novel, creating a form wholly new.

The new novel by the international bestselling author of Fresh Water for Flowers When Agnes hears from the local police her Aunt Colette has died, she cant believe her ears. Her fathers sister Colette, her Tata, died three years ago and has been resting in peace in the cemetery of Gueugnon. Agnes is called to identify the body: there is no doubt, its Aunt Colette. But then, who rests under the stone engraved with Colettes name? And why did she fake her own death? So begins an investigation back in time, as Agnes pieces together the multitude of stories that lie behind her aunts second death. An intricate, compelling web of stories told with irony, delicacy and depth, Tata will keep readers glued to every page.

London, 1856. Ben Canaan is a young detective on the payroll of Her Majestys Executive, riding high on a string of successful cases. Then a notorious crime boss turns up murdered on the city streets, the latest in a series of brutal killings targeting the most powerful men in the global opium trade. To track down the culprits and prevent more blood from being shed, Ben is sent out to the newly-founded British colony of Hong Kong: a lawless frontier town on the southern shores of Chinas Great Qing Dynasty.Ben is plunged headlong into a labyrinthine conspiracy, set against the backdrop of an empire in collapse and a sweeping civil war. As his hunt brings him closer to the truth and the ruthless corporate interests that want him dead, Ben is forced to choose between what is necessary and what is just.

In stories of exquisite compression, Japanese-Argentine writer Alejandra Kamiya conjures absences, shadows and all that must remain unsaid.As dawn breaks, a woman prepares to make a perfect breakfast for her husband and son, while a subtle note of disquiet grows louder. A Japanese prisoner of war resolutely obeys a command as precise as it is inexplicable. Two girls discover themselves through electrically charged games, which they will recall in letters for the rest of their lives.Enigmatic yet sharply clear, The Fallen Trees Are Also the Forest is a book of quietly shattering epiphanies from a unique voice in international fiction.

When State Department interpreter Weaver is summoned to an off-the-books meeting during a G20 summit, he expects routine diplomacy. What he gets is a chilling glimpse into a secret arrangement between the White House and the Kremlin an arrangement that could destroy lives, careers, and nations. With only a red digital pen as evidence and a growing sense that he was never meant to walk away from that room, Weaver flees to the safety of England.But there is no safety.Hunted by invisible forces and unsure whom to trust, he must uncover the truth before the truth consumes him. The Interpreters Secret is a taut, sophisticated literary thriller about power, language, and the dangerous things left unsaid.