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Love & Bullets: Megabomb Edition

Nick Kolakowski

"Bill knew the bastards were following him."


Winter Water

Susanne Jansson

"A pale sun was shining outside, and Martin hadn’t bothered to clean up the breakfast dishes."


No Beauties or Monsters

Tara Goedjen

"Her stepbrother’s voice isn’t as soft as the hypnosis record­ing, but when he counts down slowly—five, four, three, two, one—an image comes to Rylie: a boulder, gray in the moonlight."


From A Dark Horizon

Luke McCallin

"It had been Russia, and she had not been a farmer’s daughter, but she had been flaxen."


Don’t Fear the Reaper

Stephen Graham Jones

"In the summer of 2015 a rough beast slouched out of the shadows and into the waking nightmares of an unsuspecting world."


A Blizzard of Polar Bears

Alice Henderson

"xxxx"


Murder Book

Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell

"This is when she befriends Ted Bundy (of all people)."


Hokuloa Road:
Exclusive Cover Reveal and First Look

Elizabeth Hand

"Grady turned his attention to the landscape on his right."


The Many Lives of Jimmy Leighton

Dave Thomas and Max Allan Collins

"Cherry Street ran between Main and Harvard, a short, narrow street clogged with police vehicles, fire trucks and an ambulance, painting the night red and blue."


As the Wicked Watch

Tamron Hall

"'Jordan, we’re live in sixty,' said Tracy Klein, my favorite field producer, nudging me to get into place."



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