One Foot In The Fade – Another Step Into Madness

With the third and clearly not final installment of the Phillip Fetch Archives, this series has become the only fantasy cop series that I actually endorse. Many fantasy cop books I have read tend to be problematic from a conceptual standpoint. They love to take the fun part of detective tropes and meld it with…

Nightwatch On The Hinterlands – Weep For Me Vakarina

K. Eason, the beloved author of the Rory Thorne series, is back with a new spinoff book. Nightwatch On The Hinterlands is a new sci-fi mystery set in the universe of Rory Thorne, following an unlikely duo who must discover the motive behind an unusual murder. The book takes place in the very rich and…

Gutter Mage – Old Dog, New Tricks

When I picked up Gutter Mage by J.S. Kelley, I expected a fairly tried and true fantasy/mystery thriller based on the back of the book. What I got instead was a mix of horror, profanity, existential crises, and a tried and true fantasy/mystery thriller. The book is profound in that it manages to both be…