Clemency Pogue: Fairy Killer
10 best books like Clemency Pogue: Fairy Killer (J.T. Petty): His Hideous Heart, Resurrection Bay, The Fade Out: Act One, The Crossing Places, Modern Faerie Tales, Love & Luck, The Fade Out: Act Two, Trio for Blunt Instruments, Becoming the Dark Prince, The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún, Volume 3
| Author | Dahlia Adler |
| ISBN | 1250302773 |
Thirteen of YA’s most celebrated names reimagine Edgar Allan Poe’s most surprising, unsettling, and popular tales for a new generation.
Edgar Allan Poe may be a hundred and fifty years beyond this world, but the themes of his beloved works have much in common with modern young adult fiction....
Caleb Zelic, profoundly deaf since early childhood, has always lived on the outside - watching, picking up telltale signs people hide in a smile, a cough, a kiss. When a childhood friend is murdered, a sense of guilt and a determination to prove his own innocence sends Caleb on a hunt for the killer. But...
| Author | Ed Brubaker |
| ISBN | 1632151715 |
Brubaker and Phillips' newest hit series, The Fade Out, is an epic noir set in the world of noir itself, the backlots and bars of Hollywood at the end of its Golden Era. A movie stuck in endless reshoots, a writer damaged from the war and lost in the bottle, a dead movie star and the lookalike hired to replace...
| Author | Elly Griffiths |
| ISBN | 0547229895 |
Forensic archaeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway is in her late thirties and lives happily alone with her two cats in a bleak, remote area near Norfolk, land that was sacred to its Iron Age inhabitants—not quite earth, not quite sea. But her routine days of digging up bones and other ancient objects are harshly...
| Author | Holly Black |
| ISBN | 1442420200 |
In Tithe, sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she drifts from place to place with her mother’s rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. There, amid the blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient...
Addie is visiting Ireland for her aunt’s over-the-top destination wedding, and hoping she can stop thinking about the one horrible thing she did that left her miserable and heartbroken—and threatens her future. But her brother, Ian, isn’t about to let her forget, and his constant needling...
| Author | Ed Brubaker |
| ISBN | 1632154471 |
1940s, Hollywoodland, see? Up and coming starlet Valeria Sommers has been murdered, her death set up to look like a suicide - but her studio screenwriter friend Charlie Parish knows the real skinny! As Charlie begins putting the puzzle together, he falls for Valeria’s replacement, Maya Silver –...
Trio for Blunt Instruments
| Author | Rex Stout |
| ISBN | 0553241915 |
If Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, would ever admit to an Achilles' heel-which they wouldn't-it would be a weakness for damsels in distress. In these three charming chillers the duo answer the call of helpless heroines with nothing to lose-except their lives. First a beautiful young Aphrodite...
In this irresistibly-priced short story, catch a glimpse of the inner struggles and triumphs that drive Stalking Jack the Ripper's endearing but troubled hero.
Enigmatic, brooding, and darkly handsome, Thomas Cresswell has always been the one mystery Audrey Rose has never been able to...
The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún, Volume 3
| Author | Nagabe |
| ISBN | 1626925585 |
The first two volumes were largely tone-building (as opposed to world-building), as we knew little of what was going on. Very atmospheric. But in this third volume there is suddenly a great deal happening. We don't know everything, but we know enough to know there is a struggle between the two worlds,...
| Author | Carolina Garcia-Aguilera |
| ISBN | 0425156702 |
"A fascinating hero . . . Lupe Solano, a Cuban-American princess-turned-investigator . . . is immediately engaging" ("Miami Herald"). "Adventurous, refreshing . . . Young private investigator Lupe Solano . . . struggles to find the birth mother of an illegally adopted baby who needs a transplant....
Spider Kane and the Mystery Under the May-Apple
| Author | Mary Pope Osborne |
| ISBN | 0679808558 |
Leon Leafwing's new girlfriend, the lovely Mimi, has disappeared! His ladybug pals inform him that it's a case for Spider Kane, the dashing detective who is cool, clever and well heeled (eight times over). Spider Kane is on the case, and soon he and Leon are plunged into a web of intrigue, mystery and mayhem....
Overcommitted committee member Abby McCree gets in a patch of trouble trying to solve the murder of a pumpkin farmer …
The small town of Snowberry Creek, Washington, is gearing up for the Halloween Festival, and naturally Abby is on the planning committee. As part of her duties, she's picking...
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
| Author | J.H. Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0062869361 |
“Fast, funny, frightening—and filled with shocks and surprises. These books are my kind of fun. I want to live on Monsterstreet!” —R.L. Stine, author of the Goosebumps series
The Monsterstreet series kicks off with this chilling tale about a boy who discovers his father was killed...
Emma, der Faun und das vergessene Buch
| Author | Mechthild Gläser |
| ISBN | 3785585128 |
Als Emma beim Aufräumen in der Bibliothek ihres Internats ein altes Notizbuch findet, denkt sie zunächst, es wäre eine Art Chronik der Schule. Aber es ist genau umgekehrt: Alles, was man in dieses Buch hineinschreibt, wird tatsächlich wahr.
Natürlich beginnt Emma sofort damit, den Schulalltag...
Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford,...
I'm split on my feelings on this one. On one part I loved it. On another, I'm extremely frustrated no questions are being answered. If anything I have so many more questions!
(view spoiler)[Why was that guys sexual preference talked about at all? He is what he is, it shouldn't matter. Was it for...
Again I caved and picked the next one up even though I am still somewhat unsure whether I truly like the series. I think that the art style is alright, but the colouring is lovely, the story is just plain weird though. Honestly I have seen a lot of people saying 'what is this?' 'what's happening?' and such...
