by Allyson Longueira | Feb 25, 2014
Subtle Interpretations
A Faerie Justice Story
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Robert Cooper came to Paris to find translators for the International Tribunal in Nuremberg. When he finds a beautiful, talented woman working at the Paris Telephone Exchange, he thinks her gift with languages seems magical. Or maybe the magic comes when she touches him. But when he discovers her secret, he begins to wonder if he should take her to Germany after all.
Chilling murders, mind-blowing suspense, a touch of time travel and a bit of romance combine to a thought-provoking, entertaining vacation from reality.
by Allyson Longueira | Feb 25, 2014
Judgment
A Faerie Justice Story
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Tyrone has come home, if home still exists. Once upon a time, he was part of the People, the faerie people that hide in plain sight throughout Europe. He grew up in Nuremberg, only to leave centuries ago to live with the humans. Now he returns to photograph a human trial, one guaranteed to bring justice to a world without justice. And he hopes to find his People, one last time.
Chilling murders, mind-blowing suspense, a touch of time travel and a bit of romance combine to a thought-provoking, entertaining vacation from reality.
by Allyson Longueira | Feb 23, 2014
The Thrill of the Hunt
A Faerie Justice Story
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Her family called her Hilda, before the war, before the Great Wulf murdered them all with his mind. Now the war has ended, leaving Europe in ruin, and the remaining Nazis have scattered. Hilda hunts them, but really, she hunts him. And thanks to an old friend, she has tracked him to Argentina. She should kill him, but she has doubts. She won’t know if she can until they’re face to face, until the time comes for one of them to die.
[Rusch’s horror novels are] horror in the same way that Robert Bloch’s Psycho is—horror of the soul.
by Allyson Longueira | Feb 23, 2014
The War and After
Five Stories of Magic & Revenge
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The entire world convulsed in the middle of the 20th century. Everything changed—even the magical universe. From faerie to mages, from wizards to war criminals, the Second World War touched every single life.
The War and After explores the effect of the Second World War on the magical world in five different stories spanning thirty years—from the 1920s as the war glimmered in the distance to the 1950s when it had just barely passed. Included are “Corpse Vision,” “Dark Corners,” “Subtle Interpretations,” “Judgment,” and “The Thrill of the Hunt.”
“Like early Ray Bradbury, Rusch has the ability to switch on a universal dark.”
—The London Times
by Allyson Longueira | Feb 23, 2014
Show Trial
A Faerie Justice Novella
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
When Robert Cooper first sees Nathalie Renard, he finds himself drawn to her. She seems ethereal, magical. And when he finally meets her, he finds her even more beguiling.
But Robert has a job to do, and Nathalie seems the best candidate from the Paris Telephone Exchange to hire as a translator.
As the Allied governments move forward with their plan to put the surviving Nazis on trial, however, Nathalie’s view of justice begins to worry Robert. Can he trust her to do the job? Or is her reason for taking it in the first place darker than he imagines?
Rusch excels at the novella length and this is no exception. The genre element is in many ways a small part of this story. It is more a viewing of a very important time in world history, with fantastic overtones. It questions whether the lawful method of jurisprudence is either hopeful or self-serving.
