Supernatural Crime Fiction

Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

• The Rainy Season
  Author: Blaylock, James P.
  Publisher: Ace List Price: $ 21.95 ISBN: 0441006183 Date: 1999
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  After the sudden death of his wife, Phil Ainsworth senses an eerie presence in the house. His niece, left in his care, is a special child who can sense powerful emotions from the past - and see the uncanny powers closing around them.
  
• The Hummingbird Wizard
  Author: Blevins, Meredith
  Publisher: Forge $ 24.95 ISBN: 0765307693 Date: 2003
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  Driving full-steam-ahead with her life after the unexpected death of her husband, Annie Szabo was not planning on veering off course again. Sexy, witty, and original, Blevins paints a portrait of a vibrant family, led by two women who refuse to let a little homicide ruin their enjoyment of life.
  Suggested Reading: Debuts | Magic & Magicians | All Stars
  Updated 8.13.03
• Prayer of the Bone
  Author: Bryers, Paul
  Publisher: Bloomsbury Price: $ 23.95 ISBN: 1582340226 Date: 1999
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  When a young woman arrives in Maine to collect the remains of her sister, who was supposedly mauled to death by a bear, she encounters a police investigation that is not only tracking bears and picking over 300-year-old settler's bones, but is finding its way through tribal conditions and shape-shifting humans.
  
• Ship of the Damned
  Author: David, James F.
  Publisher: Forge $ 25.95 ISBN: 0312872038 Date: 2000
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  In a mesmerizing new psychological thriller, a modern warship with nuclear warheads has recently vanished in a green-gray mist over the North Atlantic on October 28, 1943, an event which spelled disaster for the members of the crew.
  Updated 7/14/00
• Tropic of Night
  Author: Gruber, Michael
  Publisher: Morrow $ 24.95 ISBN: 0060509546 Date: 2003
  Kirkus PW
  One of the most frightening and imaginative novels of suspense to arrive in decades, Tropic of Night pits an anthropologist against a powerful shaman who becomes Miami's most feared serial killer.
  Updated 1.29.03
• Descent
  Author: Long, Jeff
  Publisher: Crown List Price: $ 24 ISBN: 0609602394 Date: 1999
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  The subterranean kingdom of humanity's deepest fears erupts into the world with terrible reality. The demonic hordes exist. So, too, does their satanic overlord, whose ultimate purpose remains shrouded in the darkness over which he reigns.
  
• Lamplighter
  Author: O'Neill, Anthony
  Publisher: Scribner $ 25 ISBN: 0743243498 Date: 2003
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  Elegantly written and ingeniously executed, The Lamplighter inhabits the pre-Freudian era and explores the dangers of the suppressed imagination. Set in 19th-century Edinburgh, it features a professor of philosophy and his assistant as they unravel a series of gruesome murders and their connection to a troubled young woman.
  Updated 3.13.03
• Waiting
  Author: Robinson, Frank M.
  Publisher: Forge Price: $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312866526 Date: 1999
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  They are among us, and they've been here for a long time - waiting. One ordinary man in San Francisco, Arthur Banks, begins to find them out, and immediately his life and family are in danger. It's a paranoid's worst nightmare - but that's just where it starts. He may well be fighting for the survival of the entire human race.
  
• Mr. X
  Author: Straub, Peter
  Publisher: Random House List Price: $ 25.95 ISBN: 0679401385 Date: 1999
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  The bestselling author of Ghost Story returns to the supernatural genre for the first time in over a decade. Over the week culminating in his 35th birthday, Ned Dunstan endures a series of extraordinary events which reveal the long-withheld secret of his identity.
  Suggested Reading: Scary Stars
• With Red Hands
  Author: Woodworth, Stephen
  Publisher: Dell $ 6.99 (paper) ISBN: 0553586459 Date: 2005
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  Following up his supernatural thriller Through Violet Eyes, Woodworth continues to chronicle the otherworldly twists and turns in the life of "Violet" Natalie Lindstrom.
  Updated 11.29.04