And the Halloween Reading List with even more spooky reading is also coming up, so stay tuned! The thing I like about doing these lists is I find some authors and books new to me, as well!
Apocalyptic - Post-Apocalyptic
Flood - A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller (The Reset Series Book 1) , Kellee L. Greene - How do you carry on after losing everything? They intended to save the planet but at the speed of light, the world catastrophically changed into a dark and deadly place. Millions of people lost their lives but for those who remained, the fight for their lives set. As those who remained worked to find a way to survive amid the destruction, others began a quest to take control of what was left. The race to survival is on, but in the end, will anyone win?
Pandemic, A.G. Riddle - A hundred miles north of Alaska, a US Coast Guard vessel discovers a sunken submarine at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean. It has no national identification. It doesn’t match the records of any known vessel. Deep within, researchers find evidence of a scientific experiment that will rewrite our basic understanding of the human race.
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The Edge of Collapse: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller (Book 1), Kyla Stone - In the dead of winter, an EMP attack destroys the U.S. power grid. No electricity. No cars or phones. The country is plunged into instant chaos. But for Hannah Sheridan, it's the best day of her life. For the last five years, she's been the captive of a sadistic psychopath--until the EMP releases the lock of her prison. Battered but not broken, she emerges into a hostile winter wilderness with nothing but her determination to survive. Reclusive ex-soldier Liam Coleman believed he was prepared for any disaster, until the EMP took everything he'd ever cared about in a matter of seconds. Two hundred frozen, perilous miles stand between them and their destination in rural Michigan. But the killing cold isn't the only threat, for Hannah's captor isn't about to let her go...
Unexpected World, (EMP Survivor Series Book 1), Chris Pike - Assistant District Attorney Dillon Stockdale is on the phone with his daughter when an EMP obliterates the entire electrical grid of the United States. Anything relying on a computer is fried, including the plane his daughter is on. Gripped with the terrifying realization the plane has crash-landed somewhere in the expansive and dangerous landscape of Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin, Dillon sets out to rescue her before it’s too late. He's determined, well-equipped, and nothing will stop him. Or will it?
Edgar Allan Poe
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Fantasy
Dragons' Magician, Steve Rouse - CAN DRAGONS AND MANKIND JOIN FORCES TO SAVE EACH OTHER? An evil wizard tries to conquer the dragons' kingdom in a fight to reunite dragons and humanity.
Ghosts and Monsters
The Haunting of Dr. Bowen: A Mystery in Lizzie Borden's Fall River, C.A. Verstraete - Dr. Seabury Bowen—physician to the infamous Lizzie Borden—swears he’s being stalked by spirits, though his beloved wife thinks it’s merely his imagination. Now, two years after the Borden murders, Dr. Bowen is determined to uncover the mysteries stirring up the city’s ancient, bloodthirsty specters. Can he discover who, or what, is shattering the peace before Fall River runs red? Or will he be the next victim? Companion novella (without zombies) to the Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter series. Bonus: For however longit lasts, the price of the paperback is cut to $7.69! Get it while it lasts!
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Books. A house with no reading material. An abandoned library full of glorious opportunity.
An independent bookshop owned by an eccentric woman and her robot companion. A family of unique children with incredible talents, who will stop at nothing to bring books into their lives...Welcome to The Library of Hope.
The Love-Haight Case Files Book 1, Jean Rabe and Donald J. Bingle - Supernatural beings are willing to fight for their legal rights! Since the Summer of Love, the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco has been known for attracting weird and unconventional souls, but things got even stranger when the monsters moved in.
Magic has returned to the world and with it a host of supernatural creatures—not just vampires and ghosts, but sentient gargoyles, ghouls, sprites, faeries, and more. The frightened citizenry, holier-than-thou bigots, headline-seeking reporters, and harried police refer to them as OTs (Other-Than-Humans), but Thomas Brock and Evelyn Love believe even supernatural creatures have legal rights. * Winner of three Silver Falchion Awards from Killer Nashville.
The Love-Haight Case Files Book 2, Fighting for Other-Than-Human-Rights, Jean Rabe and Donald J. Bingle - (Releases Sept. 20) Continue the series with more cases and more monsters as lawyers Thomas Brock and Evelyn Love fight for the rights of their supernatural creature clients in the City of Love. There's even an awesome Gargoyle with a "ton" of personality! Zombies, vamps and more!
Mystery
Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche, Nancy Springer - Fifteen-year-old Enola Holmes, younger sister of the famous Holmes family, has the wits, skills, and sleuthing inclinations of both her brothers. them both. When a young professional woman, Miss Letitia Glover, shows up on Sherlock's doorstep, desperate to learn more about the fate of her twin sister, it is Enola who steps up. It seems her sister, the former Felicity Glover, married the Earl of Dunhench and per a curt note from the Earl, has died. But Letitia Glover is convinced this isn't the truth, that she'd know--she'd feel--if her twin had died. (Loved the TV movie, too!)
Medium Dead: A Toni Carey Mystery, Book 2, Kate Thornton - Toni Carey is busy moving into her uncle's cottage when Sheriff's Detective Peter Martin sends her a visitor. The women of Loma Vista are under the spell of a charismatic preacher, and some have disappeared. Can Ray Collins actually contact the dead? When her visitor is found dead at the Plato Institute, a low-key think tank at the edge of town, Toni becomes intrigued by the murder. But the chief suspect is a charming sleep doctor who may hold the key to Toni's dreams.
Murder Outside the Lines, Krista Davis - With Halloween just around the corner, the fall colors in Georgetown are brilliant. As manager of the Color Me Read bookstore, coloring book creator Florrie Fox has arranged for psychic author Hilda Rattenhorst to read from Spooktacular Ghost Stories. But the celebrity medium arrives for the event in hysterics, insisting she just saw a bare foot sticking out of a rolled-up carpet in a nearby alley. Is someone trying to sweep murder under the rug?
One of Us: A Tower District Mystery Book 1, Lorie Lewis Ham - First in a new series from the publisher of Kings River Life and the Mystery Rat's Maze Podcast. Children’s book author Roxi Carlucci finds herself starting over again after her publisher drops her book series. With no income, she has to pack up her life on the California Coast, along with her pet rat Merlin, and move in with her cousin, P.I. Stephen Carlucci, who lives in Fresno, CA. When he talks her into helping out with a community theatre production, little does she know someone would be murdered during a rehearsal, and that she and Stephen would be hired to find the killer.
The Best Mystery Stories of the Year, Lee Child, editor - Short mysteries from noted authors like Stephen King and Joyce Carol Oates, plus short story authors including Michael Bracken, John Floyd and others.
The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries, Otto Penzler, editor - (Releases Oct. 19) If you like your mysteries with gaslights, Bobbies and London fog, enjoy favorites from classic authors like Arthur Conan Doyle to Oscar Wilde, Dickens and more. 640 pages.
Under a Dead Man's Hat: A Jude Avery Thriller, Robert W. Walker - Two Chicago medical examiners go after the toughest serial killer cases. Coming soon - the sequel, Under a Dead Woman's Corset, Robert W. Walker is a mystery featuring Edgar Allan Poe. See Prospective Press .(A new cover is coming!)
Zombie
Bunker: Mission Critical Series, Book 1, Jay J. Falconer - Cyber-Attacks. EMPs. Invasion. War. When the end comes, few will have the ability to survive. When a coordinated EMP attack takes out the nation’s power grid, a small town finds itself at ground zero of an all-out invasion.With limited options and no time to prepare, the citizens have no choice but to turn to a mysterious drifter, Jack Bunker, for help.The former combat engineer has the skills to keep them alive, but he won’t be able to do it alone, not against an overwhelmingly superior force. Somehow he’ll have to find a way to transform the mild-mannered townsfolk into military-grade warriors and lead them into battle, despite his dark past that leads some to wonder whose side is he really on?
Crawlerz, Book 1: Red Sky in the Morning, RS Merritt - Are you ready for the end?An ancient tomb is unearthed live on cable TV after months of hype. It's billed as the archeological equivalent of Shark Week. The actual footage takes a turn no one ever expected. Those minutes of footage will be combed over by governments worldwide seeking to understand what horror came out of that tomb. They watched the news for weeks as an infection spread quickly across the globe. The videos posted online of people ripping into each other like cannibals on PCP were unreal. The support from the authorities was a joke. No one had a plan in place for this. At least not a plan that involved saving everyone...
Empty Graves, Jonathan Maberry - (Releases 9/1) 15 zombie tales span genres and Maberry's career. Includes a new unpublished story, from Wildfire Press.
Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter, C.A. Verstraete - Think you know the Lizzie Borden story? You know... Lizzie Borden took an axe.... She was acquitted but... what if she did kill her father and stepmother for a good reason? Because they'd turned into.... zombies! Follows the real-life events of the trial with some twists!
Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter 2: The Axe Will Fall, C.A. Verstraete - The story continues past the trial. Now Lizzie and the citizens of Fall River must battle a new surge of flesh-eaters, this time with a heartbreaking twist: the infected creatures are friends and family, hidden away by their grief-stricken caregivers. When her sister Emma becomes a pawn in the growing war against the undead, Lizzie has no choice but to pick up her axe again. With the help of her charming self-defense instructor, Pierre, she vows to end the horrific zombie menace, once and for all. But can she overcome her personal demons and the rampaging monsters, no matter the cost? NOTE: There are spoilers if you haven't read book 1.
Here Be Zombies, Twelve tales of zombies and zombie hunters explore "Alice's Adventures in Underland" and more.
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