*On the first day, there was mystery.* Arthur Penhaligon is not supposed to be a hero. He is, in fact, supposed to die an early death. But then he is saved by a key shaped like the minute hand of a clock. Arthur is safe—but his world is not. Along with the key comes a plague brought by bizarre creatures from another realm. A stranger named Mister Monday, his avenging messengers with blood-stained wings, and an army of dog-faced Fetchers will stop at nothing to get the key back—even if it means...
HAMMAJANG | adjective. Definition: In a disorderly or chaotic state; messed up. Chiefly in predicative use, esp. in all hammajang. Etymology: A borrowing from Hawaiian Pidgin. Source: Oxford English Dictionary.Edie is done with crime. Eight years behind bars changes a person - costs them too much time with too many of the people who need them most.And it's all Angel's fault. She sold Edie out in what should have been the greatest moment of their lives. Instead, Edie was shipped off to the icy pr...
The Accord, a virtual utopia where the soul lives on after death and your perceptions are bound only by your imagination.This is the setting for a tale of love, murder and revenge that crosses the boundaries between the real world and this virtual reality. When Noah and Priscilla escape into the Accord to flee her murderous husband, he plots to destroy the whole Accord and them with it. How can they hope to escape their stalker when he can become anything or anyone he desires and where does the...
The Bendatti Vendetta
by Robbie Morrison, John Burns, and James M Hanson
For years rumours have circulated amongst the law enforcement agencies and intelligence services of Europe about a mysterious order known only as the Bendatti. Where legitimate authority has no power, the Bendatti strike; not for justice but for retribution and vengeance! Collected for the first time, this bullet-spilling, high-octane adventure, features the fully-painted art of British comics legend John Burns (Modesty Blaise, Nikolai Dante & Judge Dredd) and is written by the hugely talented R...
The Body in the Snowdrift (Faith Fairchild Mystery, #15) (Ulverscroft)
by Katherine Hall Page
Faith Fairchild's father-in-law plans to celebrate his seventieth birthday by treating the entire family - his children, their spouses, and his grandchildren - to a weeklong stay at the Pine Slopes ski resort. All starts well until Faith discovers a body on one of the cross-country trails. Then Pine Slopes' star chef vanishes without a trace and one catastrophe follows another: a malicious prank, a break-in at the Fairchilds' condo and the sabotage of one of the chairlifts. Who is the mysterious...
You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot.Come for the pew-pew space battles, stay for the most relatable A.I. you’ll read this century.—I’m usually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus...
Something is rotten in the court of the faerie queen. A deadly spirit is killing off the faerie, and it has mysterious ties to Shakespeare's play, Hamlet. The only one who can stop it is the immortal Cross, a charming rogue who also happens to be a drunk, a thief, and an angel killer.
In a world ravaged by climate change, a young woman's job of enforcing Britain's one-child policy is compromised when she discovers an illegal sibling on the ministry hit list, and that sibling is hers… `A tightly paced plot set in an all-too imaginable future … a page-turning, thought-provoking read´ Jo Callaghan ‘With echoes of V for Vendetta, ONE serves as a stark warning, challenging societal norms and individual sacrifices in the face of adversity’ SciFi Now Book of the Month ‘Pl...
She's got ice in her heart and a kiss on her lips...1939, New York. Private Eye, Melody Malone, is hired to find a stolen ruby, the Eye of Horus. The ruby might hold the secret to the location of Cleopatra's tomb - but everyone who comes into contact with it dies. Can Melody escape the ruby's curse?1939, New York. River Song, author of the Melody Malone Mysteries, is forced to find a reality-altering weapon, the Eye of Horus - but everyone who comes into contact with it dies. River doesn't belie...
Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell
by Professor of English Paul Kane
The World’s Greatest Detective Meets Horror’s Most Notorious Villains! Late 1895, and Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion Dr John Watson are called upon to investigate a missing persons case. On the face of it, this seems like a mystery that Holmes might relish – as the person in question vanished from a locked room. But this is just the start of an investigation that will draw the pair into contact with a shadowy organisation talked about in whispers, known only as the ‘Order of the Gas...
Rico Dredd: The Titan Years (Rico Dredd: The Titan Years)
by Michael Carroll
You know about me. I’m Rico Dredd, Joe Dredd’s big brother. I’m the clone that went bad, that brought shame on Judge Fargo’s legacy. I was the very best the Academy of Law ever turned out. But after less than a year on the streets of Mega-City One, I was brought down, sentenced, shipped out to Titan for twenty years. Yeah, you know about Rico Dredd. But do you know what really happened? Why I did it? What it was like out there on the edge of space, doing time in the Bronze? Truth is, mister...
The Irregulars (The Copper County Irregulars, #4) (Irregulars of Copper County, #1)
by John Schreiber
READ THE THRILLING, ACERBIC AND HILARIOUS NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF SOON I WILL BE INVINCIBLE 'The Avengers meets The Breakfast Club… wry and engaging' James Swallow, Sunday Times bestselling author of Nomad'A spiky, fierce, erudite riff on the wonderful world of silver age superheroes' Charles Stross, bestselling author of The Atrocity Archives'Blending the lurid, anything-goes madness of Silver Age comic books with emotionally complicated characters and realistic consequences on a cosmic scal...
The Singularity Initiative (The Vanguard Chronicles, #2)
by Per Damgaard Husted