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The Internet Bride

By Gregory Ward

With the exception of Kondor (his one attempt at a standard international-espionage thriller) Gregory Ward’s suspense fiction always offers readers a feast of seriously flawed characters doing evil to each other in the confines of ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Isobel Gunn

By Audrey Thomas

To escape, Isobel Gunn is willing to give up everything she has: home, family, identity. Granted, the home, in Scotland’s backward, storm-tossed Orkney Islands, isn’t much. The family’s even less: poor as porridge, father drunk, ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Menace

By L.R. Wright

It’s been 16 years since I reviewed the late L.R. Wright’s first mystery, The Suspect, and it is with considerable sadness that I now review Menace, her posthumous final work. Much has changed over the ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Permanence

By Karl Schroeder

In Toronto sci-fi writer Karl Shroeder’s follow-up to Ventus, his highly acclaimed debut novel, young Rue Cassels is on the run from her abusive brother. Fleeing from a colonial outpost of the sunless Halo-Worlds, she ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels