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Review · Festival of the Rougarou: A Southern Gothic Horror
Elias Wrenmoor's humid, exacting Southern Gothic turns a missing bell stroke into a reckoning with what a small town agrees not to say.
Review · Hollow Trail
Harlan Boone Cartwright sends a retired detective north with the daughter he never met, and mostly earns his silences.
Review · Funeral for a Grifter
Mickey Bloom opens his border noir series with a grifter, a gospel-voiced hunter and a trunk full of trouble, and builds it like a con.
Review · The Wind in the Tamarisk
Sofia Zahra Safar's patient novel of a daughter, her dead father's notebooks and a thirsty oasis treats grief as a form of measurement, and very nearly gets the sums right.
Review · Remember Me When the Stars Fade
Aria Wren Holloway's grief novel about a fog-bound coastal town that erases its lost is gorgeous and gutting, and a little too fond of leaving clues in boxes.
Review · God Save the Queen's Accountant
Veronica Winslow sends a penniless Marx into Buckingham Palace as Royal Accountant and builds a warm, sharp farce on the simple fact that somebody has to read the bill.
Review · The Programmer God
Sylas Virell's quiet, grave novel about a programmer at Jupiter whose simulated world keeps rediscovering the gods he left out, and keeps answering in his own handwriting.