June 1, 2020
The latest Ishmael Jones thriller finds the British secret agent (he also happens to be an extraterrestrial living among us as human) checking out an allegedly haunted house, vetting it for an interested buyer. Accompanied by his partner, Penny, and an assortment of colorful characters?including a celebrity ghost hunter and a newspaper reporter?Ishmael digs into the house's storied past. But after a seemingly inexplicable death, Ishmael realizes that the secrets of Harrow House could lie in its present, not in its past. This is a delightful series, a wonderful amalgam of horror, fantasy, science fiction, and mystery, well anchored in a solid reality by the cleverly designed and beautifully executed character of Ishmael Jones, who is constantly revealing interesting new facets of himself and who would make a great character in a movie (just sayin'). This thoroughly entertaining adventure works equally well with series followers and with newbies to the world of Ishmael Jones.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2020, American Library Association.)
October 15, 2021
Call him Ishmael Jones. That's the name he took, back in the 1960s, when he crashed to Earth in his spaceship. He was an alien then; now he's (sort of) human, working for a top-secret British government organization, investigating weird occurrences. In the tenth installment of this entertaining series, Ishmael has recently learned that there was another survivor of that spaceship crash, and this individual might be able to help him recover his lost memories. And so Ishmael returns to the village of Norton Hedley, which is known for its long history of paranormal sightings--ghosts, monsters, and other, well, weird things. All his life Ishmael has believed he crash-landed there by accident. But did he? Or did something draw him there, a kind of magnet pulling him in from outer space? And is the other survivor friend or foe? This genre-bending mix of fantasy and thriller is essential reading for series fans and for those who enjoy their fiction a little on the weird side.
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