Strange Beasts - October 2024 GSFF Edition'An absolute joy to read' TJ Klune 'A whip smart, lusciously atmospheric adventure' Frances White 'Fantastic and fresh' Wesley Chu In Belle Epoque Paris, a monster is murdering powerful men. Stopping it may be a woman's job. When the Gendarmes ask the Royal Society for the Study of Abnormal Phenomena for help, they don't expect them to send Samantha Harker. She's a researcher, more used to papercuts than knife fights. Sam is also the daughter of

The last thing she remembers is standing outside the empty house

Full of insider detail

'There is nothing more terrifying than the monster that squats behind the door you dare not open

Rhianne expresses her inner world through line and colour

they're not old

arrives upon Lanka's shores

One wonders where they find time for so much mischief

who lives with his daughter Lauren and his cat Olivia in an ordinary house at the end of an ordinary street

author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY

More used to evading jealous husbands than the secret police

But sleep with one eye open because once you enter

Teenage perplexity displaces childhood dreams of Arthurian knights as her home turns into a place where the keeping of secrets has become a way of life