Voices of Thunder

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Summary: Cross-genre fiction at its best!
Review: Roberson's Spencer Finch is everything a detective/reporter should be--wry, hard drinking, battle scarred, and charmingly self-deprecating. He comes from the classic Phillip Marlow mold, but he's somehow more appealing in his foibles.

Perfectly paced, even with its detours into Greek plays, Middle English ballads, pulp crime novels and western legends (all written in the appropriate style), the book is entirely engrossing and utterly different from anything out there.

Clockwork Storybook has produced another very talented writer.

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Summary: Kinky Friedman meets Neil Gaiman! Cool!
Review: The back cover blurb of this book led me to think that this would be either the coolest book ever, or one of the worst. Fortunately I was pleasantly surprised. Roberson has created a whole new thing: a supernatural murder mystery. I think that fans of both mysteries and sf/fantasy would like it. Mostly it's just a very interesting story about a freelance journalist who gets caught up in a web of intrigue surrounding a mysterious ancient artifact. The book digresses into faithful reproductions of pulp crime stories, western tales, even a "lost" greek tragedy. I recommend this to anyone who likes mysteries with a little something different thrown in.