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MORIARTY by John Gardner — It is the turn of the century and, having survived the struggle with Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls, Prof. James Moriarty is alive and well and about to realize his plans to establish crime syndicates in the major cities of the United States. But suddenly he is called back to London, where his vast criminal society has been overrun by a rival concern led by the shadowy Sir Jordan Jack Idell — or Idle Jack — a supposed gentleman hoodlum acting on behalf of criminal elements in France, Italy, Spain, and Germany. As Moriarty fights back, he revolts against those who attempt to oust him from his rightful place as king of “Napoleon of Crime.”
ALL THE WINDWRACKED STARS by Elizabeth Bear — It all began with Ragnarok, with the Children of the Light and the Tarnished ones battling to the death in the ice and the dark. At the end of the long battle, one Valkyrie survived, wounded, and one valraven — the steeds of the valkyrie. Because they lived, Valdyrgard was not wholly destroyed. Because the valraven was transformed in the last miracle offered to a Child of the Light, Valdyrgard was changed to a world where magic and technology worked hand in hand. Some 2,500 years later, Muire is in the last city on the dying planet, where the Technomancer rules what’s left of humanity. She’s caught sight of someone she has not seen since the Last Battle: Mingan the Wolf is hunting in her city.
BLOOD SINS by Kay Hooper — Tessa Gray made the perfect victim. Which was why Noah Bishop of the FBI’s Special Crimes Unit recruited her to play the role of grieving widow. As the supposed new owner of property coveted by the Church of the Everlasting Sin, she’d be irresistible bait for the reclusive and charismatic Rev. Samuel. His fortified compound in the mountains near Grace, N.C., had been the last known residence of two women murdered in ways that defied scientific explanation. The killer they’re hunting is the most terrifying they’ve ever faced and shakes even the most seasoned agents: a soulless, megalomaniacal cult leader who can use their own weapons, talents and tactics against them.
DRAGONHEART by Todd McCaffrey — The grim specter of sickness looms over the Weyrs of Pern, felling fire-lizards and posing a potentially devastating threat to their dragon cousins, Pern’s sole defense against the deadly phenomenon that is Thread. Fiona, the youngest and only surviving daughter of Lord Bemin, is just coming of age, and about to assume the duties of a Weyrwoman, when word spreads that dragons have indeed begun succumbing to the new contagion. With the next season of Threadfall quickly approaching, and the already diminished ranks of the dragons once more under siege, every Weyr across Pern is in crisis mode. It is hardly the time for disturbing distractions — such as the strange voice Fiona suddenly hears in her mind at the darkest and most urgent moments.
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