TENSE NEAR-FUTURE THRILLER with a high-tech, high-stakes global setting. Satisfying conclusion to a timely trilogy. A MINUS

STATE TECTONICS (THE CENTENAL CYCLE #3) (HARDCOVER)
Tor.com
2018

PARANORMAL COZY MYSTERY set at a magical circus. Lots of fun and a well-built plot. B PLUS

GO FOR THE JUGGLER (MAGICAL MIDWAY PARANORMAL COZY MYSTERIES BOOK 4)
Badchen Publishing
2018

AN ASTEROID ON A COLLISION COURSE with Earth. A private company leads an international effort to deflect it. Intriguing SF tale with an unusual framing structure! B PLUS

THE CERBERUS ASTEROID DIVERSION PROGRAM: SUMMARY OF FINDINGS FROM THE SEVERAL U.S. GOV’T INVESTIGATIONS INTO CIVIDAN LABORATORIES
Cividan Laboratories
2018

GORGEOUS SCIENCE FICTION set in a future where robots are humans’ closest companions. Lush prose, fascinating ideas. Translated from Catalan! A MINUS

THE VESTIGIAL HEART: A NOVEL OF THE ROBOT AGE
MIT Press
2018

SUPERNATURAL SPY YARN set in an alternate 1938 where the living and the dead run complementary intelligence agencies. Clever and spooky. B PLUS

SUMMERLAND (HARDCOVER)
Tor Books
2018

HORRIFYING SUPERNATURAL TALE set in 1918 France; intriguing ideas but prose could use some pruning. SOLID B

DOVE KEEPER
Emily Deibler
2018

CREEPY TRUE CRIME tale of a tennis coach’s predations on wealthy Manhattan teens also paints a grim portrait of a privileged, hollow life. SOLID B

YOU ALL GROW UP & LEAVE ME A MEMOIR OF TEENAGE OBSESSION
WILLIAM MORROW & COMPANY INC
2018

STYLISH PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER in the grand tradition of Patricia Highsmith, with a vivid 1950s Morocco setting. A MINUS

TANGERINE (HARDCOVER)
Ecco
2018

AFTER HER PARTNER’S death, a young writer wanders a dreamlike San Francisco. Lovely, elegiac novel in stories. B PLUS

THE FIFTH WOMAN (MARY MCCARTHY PRIZE IN SHORT FICTION) (PAPERBACK)
Sarabande Books
2018

ANARCHIST DEMON HUNTERS on the run find more dire magic than they had bargained for. Suspenseful and smart. B PLUS

THE BARROW WILL SEND WHAT IT MAY (DANIELLE CAIN #2) (PAPERBACK)
Tor.com
2018