New Books: 21 February 2023

Armstrong, Kelley: Murder at Haven’s Rock

(St. Martin’s Minotaur 978-1-250-86541-0, $27.99, 352pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, February 21, 2023)

Associational mystery novel from the NY Times bestselling author, the first in the Haven’s Rock series, a spinoff from the Rockton series.

 

 

Feehan, Brian: Harmony of Lies

(Penguin Random House/Jove 978-0-593-44055-1, $8.99, 336pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audio, February 21, 2023)

This paranormal romance novel is the second in the Alice & Owen series, about two humans born with magic, which makes them targets for the We.

 

 

Hannah, Andrea: Where Darkness Blooms

(St. Martin’s/Wednesday Books 978-1-250-84262-6, $18.99, 320pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, February 21, 2023)

This young-adult supernatural thriller is about the women in the town of Bishop who keep disappearing — and four young women who lose their mothers are tired of it.

 

 

Klapecki, S.J.: Station Six

(AK Press 978-1-84935-478-3, $17.00, 224pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, February 21, 2023)

A debut SF novel. Workers start to fight back against management plans to turn their space station into a vacation destination with minimal human staff. Part of the AK Black Dawn series of radical speculative fiction.

 

 

Nogle, Christi: The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future

(Flame Tree Press UK 978-1-78758-804-2, $26.95, 224pp, formats: hardcover, trade paperback, ebook, audio, February 21, 2023)

The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future is whimsical and dreadful, verdant and sinister. Readers of “quiet horror” or “slow-burn horror” will enjoy this collection.

 

 

Onwualu, Chinelo, ed.: Ex Marginalia: Essays on Writing Speculative Fiction from the Margins

(Hydra House 978-1-957898-00-1, $19.95, pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, ebook, audio, February 21, 2023)

Non-fiction anthology of 21 essays (one a reprint) by authors of color (many LGBTQIA+ as well) on writing and publishing in a literary community where they still often find themselves marginalized. Authors include P. Djèlí Clark, S.B. Divya, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, and Malka Older.

 

 

 

Roth, Veronica: Arch-Conspirator

 

(Tor 978-1-250-85546-6, $19.99, 128pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, February 21, 2023)

SF novella, a futuristic reimagining of Sophocles’s Antigone, from the bestselling author of Divergent. Simultaneous with the UK (Titan) edition.

 

 

 

Ruff, Matt: The Destroyer of Worlds: A Return to Lovecraft Country

 

(Harper 978-0-06-325689-7, $30.00, 320pp, formats: hardcover, audio, February 21, 2023)

Lovecraftian novel, sequel to Lovecraft Country. Life seems to be getting back to normal, but old foes, secrets from the past, miracle cures, and magic potions add up to major trouble.

 

 

Snyder, Lucy A.: Sister, Maiden, Monster

(Tor/Nightfire 978-1-250-82565-0, $17.99, 272pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, February 21, 2023)

Fantasy/horror post-apocalyptic novel about three women banding together for survival after humanity is radically altered by a virus. Expanded from the Stoker Award-winning story “Magdala Amygdala”. Simultaneous with the Titan Books UK edition.

 

 

Wees, Alyssa: Nocturne

 

(Penguin Random House/Del Rey 978-0-593-35747-7, $27.00, 240pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, February 21, 2023)

This dark fantasy/gothic romance novel is set in 1930s Chicago, where a ballerina is torn between her dreams and her mysterious new patron. Ebook also available. Simultaneous with the Del Rey UK edition.

 

 

Wheeler, Jeff: The Betrayed

 

(Amazon/47North 978-1542035187, $16.99, 333pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, February 21, 2023)

Historical fantasy novel, the third book in the Dawning of Muirwood series.

 

 

Therin, Allie: Liar City

 

(Harlequin/Carina Adores 978-1-335-62194-8, $18.99, 416pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, February 28, 2023)

Paranormal mystery romance novel, the first in a series set in an alternate present-day Seattle where genetic empaths read emotion through touch, and two men investigate the murder of an antiempath senator.