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  • Re: (review) Speak Daggers to Her (Bast, volume 1) by Rosemary Edghill

    From Tony Nance@3:633/10 to All on Friday, April 17, 2026 19:51:13
    On 4/17/26 6:10 PM, Default User wrote:
    James Nicoll wrote:

    Speak Daggers to Her (Bast, volume 1) by Rosemary Edghill

    Did Miriam Seabrook die of natural causes or was she murdered
    by her creepy coven? Witch Bast will find out.


    Mysteries featuring supernatural elements are quite popular these days.

    Indeed they are. By accident[1], I am reading two of these back-to-back.

    The one I just finished is the debut by James J Butcher (Dead Man's
    Hand)[2], which is something like his dad would write.

    And the other, which I just started 2 hours ago, is by C.M. Waggoner
    (The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society), and is shaping up to be
    Murder, She Wrote except in upstate New York, and Jessica is a
    librarian, rather than an author. No supernatural yet, but it is
    promised on the back cover, and in the title of the book, and where I
    found it in the store ("Fantasy"[3]).

    Tony
    [1] I didn't realize it until you mentioned this.
    [2] Someone here mentioned the 3rd one, and it made me check out the
    first one - so thank you to <whoever it was>.
    [3] Very specifically "Fantasy", which is adjacent to "Science Fiction",
    They do indeed split authors' works across the sections, and on two
    occasions, I've even seen books in the same series split across both
    sections. Those had to be mistakes, right?


    Witches in particular have a number of series. Quite a few ghosts as
    well. These are not usually marketed as SF.





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  • From Lynn McGuire@3:633/10 to All on Friday, April 17, 2026 22:56:43
    On 4/17/2026 5:10 PM, Default User wrote:
    James Nicoll wrote:

    Speak Daggers to Her (Bast, volume 1) by Rosemary Edghill

    Did Miriam Seabrook die of natural causes or was she murdered
    by her creepy coven? Witch Bast will find out.


    Mysteries featuring supernatural elements are quite popular these days. Witches in particular have a number of series. Quite a few ghosts as
    well. These are not usually marketed as SF.


    Brian

    I like these supernatural mysteries. And yes, they are SF, Speculative Fiction.

    "Don of the Dead (Pepper Martin Mysteries, No. 1)" by Casey Daniels
    https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060821469

    Lynn


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