2024 Victorian romance. Anne Deveril has been letting herself fade into obscurity looking after her widowed mother. Mr Felix Hartford is apparently a feckless man-about-town. They were almost married six years ago, and they've spend the intervening time despising each other…
2024 SF, second of its series. The crew of the greatship Athens has found out something about what's been going on. Now she has to make it home.
Radlands is a post-apocalyptic two-player duelling game from 2021. It's designed by Daniel Piechnik, who has no other BGG credits.
2011 thriller, fourth of this ongoing series; translated from the original German by Rachel Ward. The owner of a Chinese restaurant hires Nea to get back a stolen videotape.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved fiddling with arrays and searching game states. (Note that this ends today.)
2017 mystery. Dale Whitehead's company has sent him to the BSD North convention, which isn't a good match for his ADD or anxieties. But when someone drops dead on stage, he seems to be the only person to have thought of murder.
More gaming with some nearby friends.
2019 fantasy short story, epilogue to Thornbound.. Two years later, Cassandra is determined to celebrate her anniversary.
Back to ACWest–now moved out of the Ramada and into the Telford International Centre down the road. With images; cc-by-sa on everything.
2023 mystery, seventh in the Karen Pirie series. As COVID restrictions start in Scotland, a researcher at the National Library contacts the Historic Cases Unit with an unfinished manuscript in the papers of a dead writer which shows some remarkable parallels with a real murder.
2023 fantasy. Kayla's day out at the State Fair suddenly includes a stranger telling her that she's the daughter of the previous Dark Lord of Zaradwin, and bringing her and her family across worlds to commence her rule of evil.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved list evaluation and poker hands. (Note that this ends today.)
2020 fantasy romance, first of a series. Theodora Ettings meets a fairy lord in the woods, and half her soul is stolen before her cousin Vanessa can rescue her. With her emotions largely missing, can she avoid scandal long enough to see Vanessa though her Season in London?
1989 mystery; Holt's first novel. Sheila Malory is a widow in a Devon town, who gets involved in all the local Good Works. Naturally that ends up including poking about in a local murder. US vt Mrs Malory Investigates.
2000 mystery, twentieth in Muller's series about Sharon McCone, private investigator in San Francisco. Sharon's father dies, and when she's going through his things she finds a very surprising document. Spoilers.
2024 romance/SF/mystery; 58th novel of Robb's In Death series (SF police procedurals). Someone's poisoning girls in public places; Dallas investigates.
2024 fantasy. Kiela and Caz flee from the sack of the Imperial Library with all the books they could save, and go to Kiela's birthplace on a remote island. They plan to keep their heads down. But problems aren't going to solve themselves.
2023 mystery, seventh in its series. It's 1966 in Brighton, and someone is murdering magicians' assistants again…
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved list analysis and Luhn's checksum algorithm. (Note that this ends today.)
Back to the boardgame café after only two weeks (with Essen in between).
2020 fantasy. Some wizards hurl lightning or speak with water. Mona helps the bread rise in her aunt's bakery, and occasionally animates a gingerbread man. But a dead body on the bakery floor is only the start of her problems.
I still go to Essen SPIEL. I still love Essen SPIEL.
2024 modern fantasy novella, set in the world of the Kate Daniels series. Roman is a servant of Chernobog, but that doesn't make him a bad person. And certainly when someone turns up semiconscious and claiming sanctuary he knows what to do…
2004 mystery, first in a series. In 1970 a small child goes missing while camping in the garden with her sister. In 1994 a young woman is murdered in her father's office. In 1979 a new mother is found clutching an axe next to her husband's body: "He woke the baby". And in the modern day former copper turned PI Jackson Brodie investigates.
2019 fantasy, second of its tetralogy. Five years later, Nahri is married to the heir of Daevabad; younger brother Ali has somehow survived an exile that was meant to kill him; and Darayavahoush is dead, but they won't let him rest.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved list evaluation and string manipulation. (Note that this ends today.)
2018 historical adventure, first in a trilogy. Having had a fatal row with her guardian, Margaret Fitzroy finds herself with no option but to be sent as a spy into the court of King George, as one of the maids-of-honour to the Princess of Wales.
2019 urban fantasy, third of its series. Lydia Crow is blackmailed by ex-boyfriend Paul Fox (of one of the other magical families of London) to work on a vaguely-defined case. But who killed the guy, and what dies his ghost want?
2024 urban fantasy, first of a planned series. Frankie and her siblings Matty and Josie run a garage for classic cars… and Frankie is a necromancer on the side.
2023 space-navy SF, third and last of its sub-series. Another ex-commonwealth state is under attack by an alliance of former naval commanders, and they appeal to the Dakotan Confederacy and the rump Commonwealth for help…
Back to the boardgame café.