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Grave Reservations: Plucky Psychic Takes on Murder Cold Case
I discovered Cherie Priest through her supernatural neo-noir short story “Heavy Metal” in the Rogues anthology. Dazzled by her spare, gripping prose, perfectly delivered by narrator Scott Brick, I decided to give some of her longer works a shot. Grave Reservations blends elements of supernatural intrigue with detective noir, a combination that caught my attention…
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Mister Monday: Kid Hero Saves Magical World
I believe I read an interview with Garth Nix in the early 2000s in which the reporter claimed that his new series, The Keys to the Kingdom, was destined to supplant the Harry Potter series. I can’t find any evidence of this interview anywhere, but the name and the claim quietly filed itself in the…