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Cross Genres Booklist
Page Modified: June 1, 2007
Cowboys, Aliens, Vampires, and other Paranormal or Cross Genre Adventures
A list of books, many of which received at least one starred review (indicating a work of unusual merit) from the following review sources: Booklist (BL), Publisher's Weekly (PW), Kirkus, and Library Journal (LJ). Additional titles of interest may be included on this list. Titles are alphabetically by author. Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.
- The Discrete Charm of Charlie
Monk
Author: Ambrose, David
Publisher: Warner $ 23.95 ISBN: 0446527963 Date: 2003
Kirkus
Booklist
Charlie Monk is the ultimate spy. He has no conscience, no fear--and no memory. Dr. Susan Flemyng, thinks she may have found a way to give him his memory back. As the two of them embark on a series of experiments to recover Charlie's long-lost memory, they find something terrifying in the deepest recesses of his mind.
Suggested Reading: Amnesia Stars
Updated 3.13.03 - The Silent Children
Author: Campbell, Ramsey
Publisher: Forge $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312870566 Date: 2000
PW
Hector Woollie kills children, "liberating" them from "abusive" parents, and his next victims are Ian and Charlotte. Ian can hear his mother weeping right through the wall the duplex shares with the madman's hiding place. Yet if the children make so much a peep, Hector will slit their throats.
Suggested Reading: Serial Killers
Updated 6/27/00 - Shadows in the Starlight
Author: Cunningham, Elaine
Publisher: Tor $ 23.95 ISBN: 0765309718 Date: 2006
Kirkus
Imagine Laurel Hamilton mixed with a liberal dose of Andrew Vachs, and osterized in a Tolkienesque blender with a young heroine that combines the best elements of both Dark Angel and Alias and you have Gwen "GiGi" Gellman of Changeling Detective Agency.
Updated 11.9.05 - Ship of the Damned
Author: David, James F.
Publisher: Forge $ 25.95 ISBN: 0312872038 Date: 2000
PW
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.
Suggested Reading: Supernatural Stars
Updated 7/14/00 - American Gods
Author: Gaiman, Neil
Publisher: Avon $ 26 ISBN: 0380973650 Date: 2001
Kirkus
A master of inventive fiction pens the story of an ex-con who is offered a job as a bodyguard for Mr. Wednesday, a trickster and a rogue. Shadow soon learns that his role in the man's schemes are far more dangerous and dark than he could have ever imagined.
Updated 5/17/01 - Cerulean Sins
Author: Hamilton, Laurell K.
Publisher: Berkley $ 22.95 ISBN: 0425188361 Date: 2003
PW
Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, learns what it's like to be at the new end of a centuries-old bloodline--and just how far she'll let herself get pushed around by one of the oldest vampires alive . . . or should one say "dead"?
Suggested Reading: Vampires
Updated 3.27.03 - Holmes on the Range
Author: Hockensmith, Steve
Publisher: Minotaur $ 22.95 ISBN: 0312347804 Date: 2006
LJ PW
Somewhere due west of Deadwood, a pair of unlikely cowboy sleuths investigate murder just like their hero, Sherlock Holmes, who they come to know by scouring "Harper's Weekly" for the detective stories.
Suggested Reading: Cross Genres | Elementary Stars
Updated 11.7.05 - Holmes on the Range
Author: Hockensmith, Steve
Publisher: Minotaur $ 22.95 ISBN: 0312347804 Date: 2006
LJ PW
Somewhere due west of Deadwood, a pair of unlikely cowboy sleuths investigate murder just like their hero, Sherlock Holmes, who they come to know by scouring "Harper's Weekly" for the detective stories.
Suggested Reading: Elementary Stars | Western Stars
Updated 11.7.05 - Shadow Touch
Author: Liu, Marjorie M.
Publisher: Love Spell $ 6.99 ISBN: 0505526301 Date: 2006
PW
The second release in Marjorie Liu's Paranormal Romance series featuring the Dirk & Steele Detective Agency. When Artur Loginov awakens imprisoned by a rival group of psychics and supermen, he must use his powers to escape and find true love." A striking paranormal romance.--"Publishers Weekly".
Suggested Reading:| Romance
Updated 12.2.05 - Spares
Author: Smith, Michael Marshall
Publisher: Bantam List Price: $22.95 ISBN: 055310604x Date: 1997
PW
Booklist
Kirkus
For the last five years, Jack Randall has been hiding out on a Spares Farm, working at the only job still available to him: guarding people who have never seen the outside world - people who can't even spell the word "escape". Now Jack is on the run with seven of the Farm's inmates - and the people who own them will do anything to get them back - anything.
Suggested Reading: All Stars - All the Rage: Repairman Jack
Author: Wilson, F. Paul
Publisher: Forge $ 25.95 ISBN: 0312867964 Date: 2000
PW
In the new Repairman Jack thriller, Jack fights against a new street drug called Berserk. "Repairman Jack is one of the most original and intriguing characters to arise out of contemporary fiction in ages. His adventures are hugely entertaining".--Dean Koontz.
Updated 9/21/00 - Sims
Author: Wilson, F. Paul
Publisher: Forge $ 25.95 ISBN: 0765305518 Date: 2003
Kirkus
A new science thriller, Sims takes place in the very near future, when the science of genetics is fulfilling its vaunted potential. It's a world where genetically transmitted diseases are being eliminated, and manual labor is gradually being transferred to "sims", genetically altered chimps who occupy a gray zone between simian and human.
Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens
Updated 2.23.03 - Crisscross: A Repairman
Jack Novel
Author: Wilson, F. Paul
Publisher: Forge $ 24.95 ISBN: 0765306913 Date: 2004
Kirkus
An anonymous mercenary, with no last name and no social security number, Jack has thrilled a veritable army of readers ever since his bestselling debut in The Tomb. In his latest gripping adventure, he takes on two cases at once.
Updated 8.9.04 - With Red Hands
Author: Woodworth, Stephen
Publisher: Dell $ 6.99 (paper) ISBN: 0553586459 Date: 2005
PW
Following up his supernatural thriller Through Violet Eyes, Woodworth continues to chronicle the otherworldly twists and turns in the life of "Violet" Natalie Lindstrom.
Suggested Reading: Supernatural Stars
Updated 11.29.04
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