Emilia and Charlotte became high school best friends in 1999 and stayed close for nearly 20 years until Charlotte killed herself in 2018 at the age of 34. Emilia McKenzie’s book, But You Have Friends, is a celebration and a memorial of their friendship.
Jack’s got two cases on the go in this one: find out if a wealthy, connected woman is a black widow-type killer of men she marries, and locate an elderly sadist who went by the nickname “Lucifer” when she worked at the notorious Magdalene Laundries. Vengeance is on the menu - but will persistently drunk Jack be able to serve it?
I was put off from reading any more Miracleman for a number of years after trying and failing to get through Alan Moore’s unreadable third book but recently saw this one on the shelf and decided to give it a shot. Neil Gaiman took over writing duties from The Original Writer (as Moore demanded to be credited in the new Marvel reprints, because he can really hold a grudge) and he can write a decent comic, eh - maybe his Miracleman would be an improvement?
Andreas, a homeless drunk in 1934 Paris, has an unexpected stroke of luck. After a generous stranger gives him 200 francs, Andreas - as a man of honour - endeavours to repay the loan to the church of St Therese. But this is just the first in a series of “miracles” the vagrant experiences in Joseph Roth’s final book, The Legend of the Holy Drinker.
Agatha Christie meets The Great British Bake-Off as one of the show’s contestants gets poisoned by another contestant - but whodunit?
An elderly novelist writing his latest book has a fall and gets help. Then he remembers his dead wife and how they met. The book ends shortly after that.
Since the dawn of Zeb Wells’ Spidey run readers have been axing themselves what that opening scene meant and wha hoppen to him and MJ’s relationship - how come she married to Some Guy wiz kids not Peter’s? Well, five books in and Zebby’s now answering them q’s with some a’s. And, as always when it comes to Pete and MJ, it’s… complicated.
A giant talking frog asks for the help of an ordinary businessman to help him save Tokyo from a disastrous earthquake. A woman hires a private investigator to find her missing husband. Another woman recounts her 20th birthday when she met an odd restaurateur who offered her a wish. A man revisits his coastal childhood home where the death of his friend during a typhoon haunts his entire life.
14 year old Richard’s friend gets eaten by a phone and then another one gets turned into an animal. He gets blamed for their disappearances. There’s a spooky house in the woods. Whas gon on…
The ever prolific Simon Hanselmann is back with a Megg and Mogg spinoff book featuring the outrageously depraved Werewolf Jones and his wretched offspring, Diesel and Jaxon, in Werewolf Jones & Sons Deluxe Summer Fun Annual.
Trudy and Gabby have managed to quell the supernatural horrors plaguing their ranch - but here comes Trudy’s god-fearing ex-military fascistic father Joseph and his sadistic goons to drag back his long-lost daughter from her wicked ways! Ah yes, what’s more horrifying than ghosts and monsters? Intolerant, overbearing religious zealots.
Someone is killing the tinkers (gypsy travellers) and the Guards aren’t doing anything to find out the culprit or stop the murders - so the leader of one of the clans reaches out to private investigator Jack Taylor to help them.
