Writer Andy Weir clearly has a type. After stranding a guy all alone on Mars in his novel The Martian, Weir has now stranded a different guy on a spaceship in his new novel Project Hail Mary (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook). Though as he explains in this email interview, the new guy isn’t entirely alone on that ship.
Ari Marmell’s cosmic horror / noir mystery Litany Of Dreams (paperback, Kindle) is not the first novel based on a board game. Heck, it’s not even the first based on Fantasy Flight’s H.P. Lovecraft-inspired board game Arkham Horror.
But what sets it apart — as Marmell explains in the following email interview — is that unlike most, Litany is actually a prequel that helps set up elements of the Arkham world.
While space is mysterious, it’s not often the setting for mystery novels. But that’s exactly where writer J.T. Nicholas has set Re-Coil (paperback, Kindle), a cyberpunk sci-fi space opera mystery. In the following email interview, Nicholas discusses what inspired and influenced this whodunnit, and whether there will be more mysteries in space anytime soon.
For the sixth time in as many years, writer Matt Coyle is torturing the titular P.I. of his Rick Cahill series in a new crime novel.But as he explains in the following email interview about Lost Tomorrows (hardcover, paperback, Kindle), just because this new mystery may give Rick some closure, that doesn’t mean his story is closed.
While so many post-apocalyptic novels are bleak and hopeless, Carrie Vaughn bucked that tradition with her (relatively) more hopeful post-apocalyptic mystery Bannerless. In the following email interview about The Wild Dead (paperback, Kindle), the second book in The Bannerless Saga, Vaughn discusses where she got the idea for this second post-apocalyptic mystery, what inspired it, and where this series may (or may not, as the case may be) be going.
One of thing that made Thomas Harris’ The Silence Of The Lambs so intriguing was that a criminal helped catch another criminal. But in his new noir crime novel The Moment Before Drowning (hardcover, Kindle), writer James Brydon puts his own spin on this predicament by having a man accused of a crime tasked with solving a murder while awaiting his own trial.
When we consider novels about the apocalypse, we usually think of science fiction or dystopian sci-fi. But while those genres are applicable to Peng Shepherd’s debut novel, The Book Of M (hardcover, Kindle), in the following email interview about it, she revealed that her post-apocalyptic tale also has elements of fantasy, mystery, and thrillers as well.
While human cloning hasn’t been perfected, yet, it’s still a controversial topic that’s inspired moral, ethical, and spiritual debates. But all of these discussions have been about whether human cloning should or should not be allowed, not what happens when it does. It’s those latter kinds of questions that inspired aspects of Mur Laffery’s new sci-fi murder mystery novel Six Wakes (paperback, digital, audiobook), as you’ll see in the following interview.