Free Short Stories by Carola Dunn. Also, a new book by Carola Dunn is on the Way!

So, I went wandering over to Carola Dunn's website to see if she has anything coming out soon--most especially to see if she has any Daisy Dalrymple books coming up. She does! For more, read on!

I also found that there are three short stories by her up on Belgravehouse.com, so I have downloaded them. I have not read them yet, as I only just found them, and, besides, I am in the middle of rereading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, but I have them.


So the book: Superfluous Women Daisy Dalrymple #22 (wow!) is coming out in June, 2015, and is a proper country house, locked room mystery.

The official description from Goodreads:

In England in the late 1920s, The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, on a convalescent trip to the countryside, goes to visit three old school friends in the area. The three, all unmarried, have recently bought a house together. They are a part of the generation of "superfluous women"—brought up expecting marriage and a family, but left without any prospects after more than 700,000 British men were killed in the Great War.

Daisy and her husband Alec—Detective Inspector Alec Fletcher, of Scotland Yard —go for a Sunday lunch with Daisy’s friends, where one of the women mentions a wine cellar below their house, which remains curiously locked, no key to be found. Alec offers to pick the lock, but when he opens the door, what greets them is not a cache of wine, but the stench of a long-dead body.

And with that, what was a pleasant Sunday lunch has taken an unexpected turn. Now Daisy's three friends are the most obvious suspects in a murder and her husband Alec is a witness, so he can't officially take over the investigation. So before the local detective, Superintendent Crane, can officially bring charges against her friends, Daisy is determined to use all her resources (Alec) and skills to solve the mystery behind this perplexing locked-room crime.

It sounds like this will be very much Daisy's story as Alec cannot be the lead investigator and so cannot take the story galloping off in some other direction the way he did in Anthem for Doomed Youth Mind, I liked Anthem for a Doomed Youth, and I like Alec, but I have read twenty-one books because Daisy is the heroine, and I don't want to see the series becoming the Alec Fletcher mysteries. He can have his own series, if he wants.

Book Impatience and Anticipation

The Unwritten, Vol. 9: The Unwritten Fables is coming in July! That means there is going to be a crossover between the fabulously brilliant Fables and the fabulously weird Unwritten. How can it not be good?

And the library *already* has it on order! And I have it on hold.

But... it's not coming out until JULY. So I'm caught up on The Unwritten and almost caught up on Fables, and I'm going to have to wait. Woe is me!

How can I get through the wait? How do you get through waits like this?

Publication Information:

The Unwritten, Vol. 9: The Unwritten Fables
by Mike Carey (Goodreads Author), Peter Gross (Artist), Bill Willingham (Goodreads Author), Mark Buckingham (Artist)
Paperback, 160 pages
Expected publication: July 29th 2014 by Vertigo
ISBN 140124694X (ISBN13: 9781401246945)

Amazing New Books on the Horizon!

Poking around Goodreads & such & getting quite excited about upcoming books.

For example:

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons It's by Sam Kean who wrote The Disappearing Spoon, which was amazing. It's coming out in May.


The Castle Behind Thorns by Merrie Haskell. The Princess Curse was a fascinating retelling of Beauty and the Beast & Cupid and Psyche and had an herbalist for a heroine. Therefore, I am looking forward to Castle, while realizing I haven't read Handbook for Dragon Slayers and putting that on hold at the library.


I also want to read The Adventures of Beekle I don't think I've ever read anything by Santat, but I'm always going to line up to read about imaginary friends. Oh! I lied! I read and thoroughly enjoyed Sidekicks.

Oh, and I have to read Hawkeye, Vol. 3: L.A. Woman. I've been following Matt Fraction's run with interest, and I have to find out what happens next.

Aaand...I'd best stop looking for the moment as my list keeps growing! What are you looking forward to? I may be stopping for the night, but that doesn't mean I'm actually stopping adding books to my list.

Book Anticipation: Wicked Bugs by Amy Stewart

Yay! Amy Stewart (she of The Earth Moved and Wicked Plants) has a new book coming out! Wicked Bugs should be out in May.

Book Alert: The Bards of Bone Plain by Patricia McKillip and Pegasus by Robin McKinley

I keep meaning to tell everyone: The Bards of Bone Plain by Patricia McKillip and Pegasus by Robin McKinley are both out!!

No, I haven't read them yet, but there has been much dancing and secret rejoicing and there shall be much reading and, given the authors, rereading.

I am also glad that they're keeping the same cover artist and style for the McKillip books. I just wish they'd stuck to their old hardcover size; I really liked it--it was perfect for holding in the hands.  Still, this is a minor gripe, and does nothing to diminish the dancing.

An added note: if you don't happen to want to buy it just now, go to the library. If your library doesn't have it, talk to the librarian. Librarians are generally very nice about ordering things requested. It's one of their many virtues.