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But as Thomas Mullen lets it be known in LIGHTNING MEN (37Ink/Atria, $26), Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith are also valuable assets in neighborhoods where white residents are literally up in arms over the black families buying homes on their blocks.

With racial barriers slowly dropping in the 1950s, token black cops are badly needed on the Atlanta police force. Even Skellig, the levelheaded owner of the cab service, hears the voices of men he’s killed in battle (“troubletroubletroublebadtrouble”) while he’s driving.

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The plot of Hart Hanson’s first novel is ragged, but his furiously funny storytelling voice is full of moral indignation on behalf of unstable war vets like Ripple, the dispatcher who lost both legs in Afghanistan and now draws violent cartoons all the livelong day, and Tinkertoy, a mechanical genius with a scary case of post-traumatic stress paranoia.

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Meet the great guys who work at Oasis Limo Services in THE DRIVER (Dutton, $26). Phillips’s resourceful heroine gives new meaning to the term “tiger mom.”

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Gin Phillips taps that primal fear in FIERCE KINGDOM (Viking, $25), a heart-thumping thriller about a mother who finds herself and her 4-year-old son running for their lives among cages of unhappy wildlife after two crack marksmen start hunting down zoo visitors like animals. Of all the places where you really do not want to meet a couple of nut cases with rifles, a zoo full of “wild things in boxes” ranks high. Their methods are extremely thoughtful and inventive they just aren’t entirely lawful. They pull off the biggest heroin bust in memory, put down an all-out gang war and handle quotidian misdeeds like regular gentlemen. But just because they’re no-good crooks doesn’t mean these roughnecks can’t police their turf. The crooked New York cops in Don Winslow’s excellent police procedural, THE FORCE (Morrow/HarperCollins, $27.99), have minds in the gutter and share a vocabulary as ripe as rotten fruit. alerts Harry Hole, Nesbo’s gloomy Norwegian detective, that this repulsive killer is having fun with Harry, tempting him to come out and play. The good citizens of “melancholic, reserved, efficient” Oslo are paralyzed with fear and loathing, but the murderer’s bizarre M.O.

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Here comes Bad Santa with a sack of the year’s best crime and mystery thrillers, full of psychos and sickos for the naughty kids.įirst to crawl out of the bag is Jo Nesbo’s monstrous villain in THE THIRST (Knopf, $26.95), a serial killer who stalks his victims on Tinder, rips out their throats with dentures made of metal spikes and drinks their blood. Not only is it truly frightening - it’s also unique, clever, and hauntingly beautiful.Ho, ho, ho! Let Jolly Santa hand out his boring, politically correct presents to all the good boys and girls. Pulling from a mix of real-world Taiwanese history and mythology, and effortlessly nailing the heavy, atmospheric terror of classic survival horror games, Detention is an absolute gem. In Early Access for three full years before its official launch in August, Darkwood asks players to scavenge for supplies by day and endure the dangers of the dark wilderness by night. In a genre oversaturated with crafting-heavy survival mash-ups, Darkwood shines.

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Set partially in an abandoned animator’s workshop, the episodic series (which has yet to conclude) promises to “forever ruin your childhood love of cartoons.” More than a handful of smaller indie gems shined through the big-name franchises, and a few even housed secrets darker than we could've imagined.īendy and the Ink Machine (PC, Mac, Linux)Ĭuphead got all the love this year for its painstaking recreation of old-timey animation, but Bendy and the Ink Machine also put a new spin on vintage cartoons. The 2015 hit SOMA finally launched on Xbox One and unveiled its all-new Safe Mode, making it a great time for new players to dive in. A beloved old franchise returned to its roots in Resident Evil 7: Biohazard.

2017 turned out to be a fantastic year for horror games.

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