The Blitz Experience

The Blitz Experience:
A Faerie Justice Story

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Tenesha McGuire misses her Grand immensely. She wishes she could visit her great-grandmother more often, but Grand lives in London and Tenesha in Chicago.

So, when an opportunity to chaperone a school trip to London allows her to spend time with Grand, she jumps at the chance.

But a visit to the Imperial War Museum’s Blitz Experience will bring Tenesha even closer to her Grand than she ever imagined. And reveal family secrets that will change Tenesha’s life forever.

“Rusch is a great storyteller.”
—RT Book Reviews

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Politicians, Lost Causers, and Abigail Lockwood

Historical

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Politicians, Lost Causers, and Abigail Lockwood

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

1912—In a world where President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial conviction guaranteed that Reconstruction not only had teeth but also continued into the 20th century, South Carolina stands out as a leader in change, a pioneer of laws that change the balance of power. This new United States, this new South, sees blacks and women rise to their rightful places of power alongside whites.

But that doesn’t stop Lost Causers from trying to return the country to its old ways.

So, when someone tries to stop presidential hopeful Kate Wells from speaking at an event organized by the influential Abigail Lockwood, Abigail knows the Lost Causers want to send her a message.

But her response might prove one they never expected.

“Rusch’s short fiction is golden.”
—Kansas City Star

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Thinkers

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Mystery

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Thinkers

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

In 1970, a group of Weathermen bombed a statue of Rodin’s The Thinker, where it sat outside the Cleveland Art Museum. The perpetrators were never caught.

In 2016, the museum celebrates its 100th anniversary. When Erika begins her internship at the museum, she finds herself assigned to the celebration preparations. As she researches the museum’s history, she can’t stop thinking about The Thinker and its bomb-damaged legs.

But when she comes face to face with history, she discovers that the past proves difficult to understand and even harder to explain.

Rusch’s short fiction is golden.

—Kansas City Star

A Dangerous Road: Reading Group Guide Edition

Smokey Dalton
Historical
Mystery

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A Dangerous Road: Reading Group Guide Edition

Kris Nelscott

New! Reader’s Guide Edition

With Discussion Questions

“Kris Nelscott can lay claim to the strongest series of detective novels now being written by an American author.” —Salon

Who is Smokey Dalton?

Private Investigator Smokey Dalton works for Memphis, Tennessee’s black community. He has almost no interaction with the white hierarchy, even though they exist only blocks away. So he’s surprised the day a white woman walks into his Beale Street office. Laura Hathaway has sought him out because he’s a beneficiary in her mother’s will, and Laura wants to know why.

So does Smokey. He’s never heard of the Hathaways, but his search will take him on a journey that will challenge everything he’s ever known, including his own identity.

Set against the backdrop of the strike and protests that will end with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, A Dangerous Road combines the politics of race, betrayal, unexpected love, and the terrible cost of trust.

It’s a story so memorable the Mystery Writers of America chose it as one of the top five novels of the year and the Historical Mystery Appreciation Society honored it as the winner of the Herodotus Award for Best Historical Mystery.

What the critics say:

“Powerful stuff, with a role for every major black actor in Hollywood.”—Kirkus Reviews

“More than just offering a puzzle, this novel encourages self-examination about identity, responsibility and the consequences of choices. Smokey proves himself a man of conscience able to make tough choices.” —Publishers Weekly

“Nelscott’s series setting, in the turbulent late ’60s, gives her books layers of issues of racism, class, and war, all of which still seem to remain sadly timely today.” —Oregonian

“It’s not hard to draw parallels between Nelscott’s PI Smokey Dalton and Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins, another secretive, canny black man trying to solve mysteries while circumspectly navigating the white world. But Dalton’s no knock-off. (Would you label the hundreds of hard-boiled detectives who’ve appeared in Raymond Chandler’s wake mere Marlow Xeroxes because they’re white?)” —Entertainment Weekly

The Smokey Dalton books are “a high-class crime series.” —Booklist

Read the whole series of gripping novels:

A Dangerous Road
Smoke-Filled Rooms
Thin Walls
Stone Cribs
War at Home
Days of Rage
Street Justice

Awards for the series:

The first Smokey Dalton novel, A Dangerous Road, won the Herodotus Award for Best Historical Mystery and was short-listed for the Edgar Award for Best Novel; the second, Smoke-Filled Rooms, was a PNBA Book Award finalist; and the third, Thin Walls, was one of the Chicago Tribune’s best mysteries of the year. Kirkus chose Days of Rage as one of the top ten mysteries of the year and it was also nominated for a Shamus award for the Best Private Eye Hardcover Novel of the Year. Street Justice was nominated for a Shamus award for the Best Original Paperback P.I. Novel.

Kris Nelscott is an open pen name used by New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch.

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Blaming the Arsonist

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Protectors
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Blaming the Arsonist

Kris Nelscott

UC Berkeley, January, 1969—In the midst of turbulent student protests on campus, a cherished building suddenly bursts into flames. Pammy Griffin, an alum who owns a women’s gym nearby, heads over to check out the fire and walks straight into a troubling mystery. Who wants Berkeley to burn? Hippies? Protesters? Or someone with an even darker motive?

But as Pammy investigates, she finds herself, and her gym, embroiled in a troubling turn of events. To catch the arsonist, she and members of her gym must confront some of society’s most brutal, and most hidden, violence using whatever weapons they can.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine’s Readers Choice Award 2017, Fifth Place.

“Nelscott recalls the era with vivid accuracy.”

<i>—St. Petersburg Times</i>