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Supernatural Crime Fiction (woo woo) Booklist
Page Modified: June 1, 2007
Mystery, Suspense, and Crime Fiction with supernatural elements.
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 Rainy Season
Author: Blaylock, James P.
Publisher: Ace List Price: $ 21.95 ISBN: 0441006183 Date: 1999
PW
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
PW Kirkus LJ
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
PW
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
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.
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
Booklist
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
PW
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
PW
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
PW
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
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.
Updated 11.29.04
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