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Excerpts

Top Dog

Jens Lapidus, translated by Alice Menzies

"There was something off about the closet. Roksana didn’t know what it was, but it gave her bad vibes."


Madame Victoria

Catherine Leroux

"And yet, while nothing else disgusts him, neither blood nor gangrene nor shit nor vomit, Germain can hardly bear the sight of a corpse."


City of Ash and Red

Hye-young Pyun, Translated by Sora Kim-Russell

"Having finished his clumsy detective work, the man shook his head. Regardless of whether he or Yujin was the culprit, there was no way he could have blacked it out so completely, no matter how much he’d drunk that night."


Past Tense

Lee Child

"There were no dependent children separately identified as Stan Reacher. Not in Laconia, New Hampshire, the year he was supposed to be two."


The Fallen Architect

Charles Belfoure

"Compared to his living accommodations for the last five years, his plush, scarlet upholstered seat in the first-class compartment felt cozy and quite luxurious. Watching the lush green countryside blur by the window soothed him and cleared the cobwebs from his head."


The Lovecraft Squad: Dreaming

By Reggie Oliver, Series Created by Stephen Jones

"On this day we made landfall at the Island which has no name and is not marked on any map."


Dead Ringer

Kate Kessler

"Some days, like people, were assholes. For Agent Rachel Ward, the eighteenth of May was the biggest asshole of them all."


Open Your Eyes

Paula Daly

"Another year of my life . . . wasted. All that work. All that time I’d devoted when I could have been doing something else. Something more productive."


In The House In The Dark Of The Woods

Laird Hunt

"After what felt like many minutes of walking, I stopped. I thought of calling out to Captain Jane or the first-folk man or anyone at all but could not make my lips move."


The Lady Killer

Masako Togawa, Translated by Simon Grove

"Last of all, the calloused finger that should one day have worn a wedding ring slipped and lost its grip. All contact with reality lost, she plunged to the earth below."



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