Far Station sits at the edge of the known universe. Former Admiral Niko Larson retired from the Grand Military of the Hive Mind and now works at a restaurant called The Last Chance with the remnants of her old unit. They are forced onto a sentient ship convinced that it is being stolen and must survive the machinations of a sadistic pirate king to keep the dream of The Last Chance alive.

Freya Lockwood returns to her English hometown when her estranged mentor, antiques dealer Arthur Crockleford, dies under mysterious circumstances. She received a letter from Arthur asking her to investigate, sent days before his death, and she teams with her Aunt Carole to follow clues to an old manor hosting an antiques weekend. There the antiques are poor reproductions and guests seem secretive and menacing, and Freya and Carole try to discover what Arthur was involved in before the killer strikes again.

A down-on-his-luck delivery driver is unexpectedly recruited into a clandestine scientific organization that studies and protects gigantic kaiju living in a parallel ecosystem reached through a portal; what begins as a temp job becomes a fast-paced mix of monster action and workplace comedy as the team works to preserve the creatures while fighting off corporate and military forces that want to exploit them. The protagonist learns the ropes amid bureaucratic absurdities, ethical dilemmas about conservation versus profit, and growing personal bonds, leading to high-stakes rescue missions and battles in both worlds. The novel pairs sharp humor and social observation with energetic monster-adventure storytelling.

Maple Bay, Nova Scotia, is a seaside town steeped in pirate lore, family secrets, grudges, and a legendary lost treasure. Peter Barnett, nearing forty, answers a mysterious letter to his estranged family mansion; seventeen-year-old Dandy Feltzen follows a final request and a clue from her late grandfather; Cass Jones takes a housesitting job and finds material for a book and a helpful sailor. Their paths collide as bodies begin to pile up and buried truths come to light.

Cornwall, 1730. Red learns the Cornish Square of Sevens from her father, who before his death places her with a gentleman scholar and leaves a document with the method's secret. Raised in Bath, she uses fortune telling to delight high society while she pursues who her mother was and the enemies her father feared. Her search takes her to London, Devon, the Bartholomew Fair, and the grand houses of two powerful families, bringing the possibility of reward and the risk of grave danger.

Chromatacia was rebuilt after an unspecified catastrophe and is ordered by citizens' limited color perception. Professions, marriages, and leisure are dictated by visual ability, and the National Color enforces the rules. On the fringes of Red Sector West, Eddie Russett is pressured into an arranged marriage while facing trial for a murder he denies and risking execution by soporific color exposure. He is in an illegal relationship with his co-defendant Jane Grey, and they search for a hidden truth that might save them.

Natalka and Edwin run a detective agency in Shoreham, Sussex. Natalka lives with Benedict while her Ukrainian mother Valentyna joins them, making the tiny flat crowded. When local writer Melody Chambers is found dead and her family suspects murder, the pair trace a lead to a writers' retreat. After another writer dies they turn to detective Harbinder Kaur and uncover a plot stranger than fiction.

Riverside Close is a picture-perfect gated community of six houses where residents enjoy gardens and tranquility. The arrival of the Kentworthy family with four giant gas-guzzling cars, shrieking children and plans for a garish swimming pool unsettles the neighbors. When Giles Kentworthy is found dead on his doorstep with a crossbow bolt in his chest, Detective Hawthorne must untangle tensions and motives in a case where everyone is a suspect.

In 1965 a fortune-teller tells teenage Frances Adams she will be murdered. She spends a lifetime compiling dirt on everyone she meets to prevent that fate, but nearly sixty years later she is found dead at her sprawling country estate. Her great-niece Annie arrives and must sift through Frances's files and a village of possible suspects to catch the killer before she becomes the next target.

A hostile prime minister launched the Monochrome inquiry two years earlier to investigate historical over-reaching by the British Secret Service. Griselda Fleet and Malcolm Kyle were seconded to Monochrome and given access to classified archives, but MI5's First Desk blocked their work and the probe collapsed. On the eve of its closure an unexplained MI5 file surfaces, revealing the buried history of a classified 1994 Berlin operation that ended in tragedy and scandal and whose cover-up has rewritten thirty years of Service history.

A xenobiologist surveying an uncolonized world discovers an ancient alien relic that bonds with her, transforming her body and mind and thrusting her into a galaxy-spanning conflict; as she struggles to control a sentient, invasive technology that grants terrifying powers and links her to other intelligences, she becomes both a target and a fulcrum in escalating wars, political intrigue, and desperate attempts to understand and survive forces far older and stranger than humanity, blending big-picture space opera battles with intimate character-driven reckonings about identity and otherness.

The McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts is a clandestine college that teaches the fine art of murder. To gain admission, a student must have an ethical reason for erasing someone who deeply deserves death. The campus, whose location is unknown even to those who study there, is where students can be practice targets and where the mandatory graduation thesis is getting away with the perfect murder of someone whose death will make the world a better place.

When Cassie Fitzgerald attends a school reunion nearly twenty years after she and friends killed a classmate, she tries to keep the past buried. Cassie is now a married mother and a police officer who has almost erased the memory of that night. After MP Garfield Rice is found dead at the reunion, DI Harbinder Kaur leads the inquiry while Cassie suspects one of her classmates has struck again and skews the investigation until another attendee is found dead in Bleeding Heart Yard.

Set in a dark, pulsing Mexico City, this gritty urban fantasy follows a young vampire who flees the provinces into the metropolis and becomes entangled with a small-time thief and violent blood-dealing factions; as rival clans and corrupt humans clash over supply, power and survival, the story unfolds as a noir-tinged exploration of hunger, migration, class and the brutal compromises required to live in the city’s shadowy margins.

A sharp, darkly comic near-future story about a woman who escapes a decade-long marriage to a controlling tech billionaire only to discover he’s been monitoring and manipulating her with invasive technology; she retreats to her eccentric, emotionally fragile father while the husband uses corporate power, surveillance and manufactured companionship to try to reclaim her. Part satire of Silicon Valley hubris and part psychological fable, the novel skewers the commodification of intimacy and probes questions of identity, autonomy and the human cost of being constantly connected, mixing surreal set pieces with surprisingly raw emotional stakes.

A sharp, world-weary security chief who keeps a luxury hotel for time travelers running into trouble must investigate a suspicious death that pulls back the curtains on corporate machinations and political intrigue spanning eras; chasing clues through shifting timelines, they confront personal grief and the moral cost of policing history while navigating a tense, noir-tinged mystery wrapped in clever speculative worldbuilding.

A warm, food-forward cozy mystery following a Filipino American woman who inherits her grandmother’s bakery and suddenly finds herself at the center of a local poisoning investigation; relying on family recipes, community ties, and her culinary skills, she works to clear her name, unearths small-town secrets, explores identity and grief, and navigates a slow-burning romance while the novel serves up humor, mouthwatering descriptions of Filipino food, and a comforting-but-twisty mystery.

A ninety-year-old woman with a heart condition dies and Detective Sergeant Harbinder Kaur initially sees nothing suspicious. Natalka found many crime novels dedicated to Peggy, each bearing a mysterious postscript: PS: for PS. A gunman breaks in to steal a book and an author is found dead soon after. As attacks spread from an Aberdeen literary festival to Edinburgh, Kaur follows leads across Europe and questions how authors devise such realistic crimes.

Fake Fruit Factory is a comedic novel set in the eccentric small town of Dyson, Ohio. When NASA determines an errant satellite will crash there, the town's young mayor uses the ensuing media circus to attract tourism and try to save his bankrupt rust belt community. The town's motley cast includes mayor Bo Rutili, lottery winner Donna Urinating Bear Queen, and aging ex-mayor Old Man Packwicz, whose bizarre schemes may determine Dyson's fate.

A wry, compassionate physician who specializes in treating vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural patients in modern London is jolted into a dangerous investigation when one of her patients is violently killed; using medical skill, stubborn curiosity, and a ragged band of supernatural and human allies, she navigates occult politics, long-buried secrets, and rising prejudice to uncover the truth, balancing day-to-day care, personal loyalties, and the darker forces that threaten her community.

A cunning, penniless thief is drawn into a perilous journey after a botched job leaves him trapped by debt and danger; forced into uneasy alliances, he must navigate a savage, monster-haunted world full of ruthless cultists, strange magics, and ancient, hungry powers. Relying on quick wits, petty schemes, and reluctant loyalties, he fights to survive long enough to seize a chance at freedom, in a darkly comic, brutal fantasy that balances bawdy humor with violent stakes and unexpected tenderness.

Four women are bound to notorious gangster Boysie Singh. Popo is brilliant and vulnerable, determined to escape past traps; Mana Lala is a devoted mother whose only tie to her man is their little boy. Doris hopes to reshape her husband into a path to climb the social ladder despite awful stories, while Rosie wants only to mind her business, her lover Etty, and her store. They recount the man they believed could love or free them and how some survived to tell the tale.

A powerful anthology of personal essays and reportage that exposes how rape culture permeates everyday life, recounts survivors’ experiences of assault and the often-inadequate personal, legal, and cultural responses, and interrogates the intersections of gender, race, power, and consent while calling for accountability, empathy, and systemic change.

After a whirlwind marriage is cut short by her husband’s sudden death, a young woman must navigate raw grief while facing his adult children, who doubt her place in his life and contest his legacy; the resulting tensions, small acts of kindness, and unexpected alliances force her to reexamine love, identity, and what it means to begin again.