NEAR-FUTURE DREAM TECHNOLOGY offers powers that can be used to help—or to harm. Spooky SF thriller with heartbreaks along the way. B PLUS

THE DREAM MAKER: A SCI-FI THRILLER NOVEL
Igor Bedê
2019

HAPLESS INTERDIMENSIONAL DETECTIVES try to solve mysteries and mend rifts between multiverses without losing their sanity or friendship. Fun comic SF! B PLUS

DUCKETT & DYER: DICKS FOR HIRE
dSdF
2019

A HISTORY OF CONSPIRACY THEORIES combines scholarly depth and breadth with an engaging, readable style, and points out some unsettling trends. B PLUS

CONSPIRACIES OF CONSPIRACIES (HARDCOVER)
University of Chicago Press
2019

AN INCARCERATED WOMAN’S STRUGGLES, both unique and sadly familiar, are at the center of this delicate, heartbreaking English novel. B PLUS

ALL THE GOOD THINGS (PAPERBACK)
Europa Editions
2019

A SPACE CARNIVAL’S “FREAKS” go to battle in rebellion against an intergalactic megacorporation. Imaginative, thought-provoking, epic. B PLUS

JACK JETSTARK’S INTERGALACTIC FREAKSHOW
World Weaver Press
2018

HALLUCINATORY JOYRIDE THROUGH PRISON life, literary fads, Internet culture, Sri Lankan politics, and above all the magic of words. Wild, eloquent novel. B PLUS

RIOTS I HAVE KNOWN (HARDCOVER)
Simon & Schuster
2019

A BURGLAR FINDS HERSELF in more trouble than she bargained for when she stumbles across a murder scene. Tense thriller with great L.A. flavor! B PLUS

THE BURGLAR (HARDCOVER)
Mysterious Press
2019

CRYOGENIC INDENTURED SERVANTS on a desolate, rocky moon find different ways of coping with loneliness, near-immortality. Smart, thoughtful, exciting! B PLUS

SYCORAX: BOOK 1: THE UNIQUE MIRANDA TRILOGY
Akolutos Press
2019

A WITCHES’ BIKER GANG fights threats both human and paranormal. Sassy mystery with some well-played romantic tension! B PLUS

BAD TO THE CRONE
WinchesterShaw Publications
2019

A SHADY LADY FLEES her life of crime in 1921 New York, takes refuge in Portland’s “premier Negro hotel,” and helps uncover Klan crimes and other horrors. Fascinating, serious thriller. B PLUS

THE PARAGON HOTEL
G.P. Putnam’s Sons
2019