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Colin Cotterill has taken Dr. Siri Paiboun on countless adventures making use of his detective skills more than any other profession he might have mastered.
It seems there will never be a shortage of criminal conspiracies for our beloved doctor to solve as he returns to the helm once again in Don’t Eat Me.
This time around the whole mystery revolves around a skeleton which has been gnawed on, as well as the art of turning on movie camera.
John Heubusch is certainly intent on using the Shroud of Turin for all its worth in his fictional works, with his second novel of The Shroud Series, titled The Second Coming , continuing the saga surrounding the legendary piece of cloth.
This time around, it seems a fallen angel has been accidentally resurrected with some of the blood from the shroud, and Dr. Jon Bondurant, avowed atheist, races against time to stop the fiend’s cataclysmic plans. The key, however, might lie in a child also created with DNA from the Shroud of Turin, believed to be that of Jesus Christ himself.
Cixin Liu has broken many frontiers in international science-fiction with his highly-acclaimed Three-Body Problem trilogy, and it seems the rest of the world couldn’t get enough as another one of his inventive novels received a translation, titled Ball Lightning.
In it, we follow the story of a young man who devotes his life to deciphering the unnatural phenomenon which took the life of his parents, the titular ball lightning. His search, however, takes him to an entirely new frontier where generals, physicists and madmen pursue scientific discovery, no matter the cost.
Scott A. Huesing is an author unlike most others. While most of those who write books about war have either researched or imagined the ordeal, Huesing is a man who lived through it first-hand and spent 24 years of his life in service of the U.S. Army.
Recently he decided to share a slice of his experience with the rest of the world in his autobiographical memoir titled Echo in Ramadi. In it, he recounts the period from winter 2006 to spring 2007 during which he led Echo Company through the deadly streets of Ramadi, Iraq, where fighting kept raging on a daily basis and took its toll on everyone involved.
Keith Gessen is in a better position than most to truly ponder on the relation between home and country, having grown up in the United States since the age of six after his family emigrated there from the Soviet Union.
In A Terrible Country, he presents us with a man in his mid-30s by the name of Andrei who went through the exact same path, with a small difference: he chooses to come back to the country he left behind so many years ago. With few prospects to dream about in the U.S., he hopes to find in Moscow the topic for an article to propel his career… unsuspecting of an infinitely greater prize to his journey: profound insights into the human soul.
