Alex Bledsoe, Author . Night Shade $24.95 (232p) ISBN 978-1-59780-112-6
Equal parts sword-and-sorcery action/adventure and noir whodunit, Bledsoe's finely polished debut is evocative of fantasy legend Fritz Leiber's classic tales of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Bledsoe's narrative, while set in a...
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Alex Bledsoe, Author . Tor $24.95 (299p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2308-8
First published by Night Shade in 2006, this dark tale of vampires in 1970s Memphis is marred by racial stereotypes and grim perversions. Baron Rudolfo Vladimir Zginski, stabbed with a crucifix in 1915, reanimates 60 years later when pathologist...
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Alex Bledsoe, Author . Tor $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2221-0
Proving that 2007's The Sword-Edged Blonde
was no fluke, this sequel gives every evidence that Bledsoe's combination of sword and sorcery with hard-boiled detection will have a long and successful run. Eddie LaCrosse, a former noble who...
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Alex Bledsoe, Tor, $14.99 paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2384-2
Bledsoe captures Tennessee's seamy side in this sordid, oppressive sequel to 2009's Blood Groove. Baron Rudolfo Vladimir Zginski stalks 1970s Memphis after 60 years in limbo. The unrepentantly racist, misogynist vampire sinks his fangs into a new...
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Alex Bledsoe, Tor, $14.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2743-7
Bledsoe whips up a perfect blend of Arthurian legend and hard-boiled detecting in the third novel featuring "private sword jockey" Eddie LaCrosse (after 2009's Burn Me Deadly). While tracking a client's wayward husband on the island kingdom of Grand
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Alex Bledsoe. Tor, $15.99 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2744-4
Bronwyn Hyatt is a young Iraq War veteran invalided out of the Army after she's wounded in the kind of close combat situation that earns men Purple Hearts. Reporters are shocked to find that "The Bronwynator" and her smalltown Tennessee neighbors,...
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Alex Bledsoe. Tor, $14.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2745-1
Bledsoe’s fourth epic fantasy noir featuring “sword jockey” Eddie LaCrosse (after 2011’s Dark Jenny) is action-packed and witty, if slightly distant from the PI side of its family tree. LaCrosse’s investigative skills are called upon this time in...
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Alex Bledsoe. Tor, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3413-8
Rob Quillen, a folk singer whose girlfriend died in a plane crash, seeks out the mysterious Tufa people in search of the song he believes will mend his broken heart. Though the Tufa appear to be a racially ambiguous Appalachian subculture, they’re...
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Alex Bledsoe. Tor, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3414-5
Bledsoe’s fifth novel featuring “sword jockey” Eddie LaCrosse (after 2012’s Wake of the Bloody Angel) continues to play with the conventions of hard-boiled mystery and cod-medieval epic fantasy. Seeing a stranger attacked by a bear, LaCrosse...
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Alex Bledsoe. Tor, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7654-1
Bledsoe’s third tale (after Wisp of a Thing) of the Tufa—Appalachia-dwelling descendants of the Fae, all possessing great musical talent—sees two of their own returning, after a long exile, to fight for leadership of the community. Bo-Kate Wisby...
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Alex Bledsoe. Tor, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7656-5
Bledsoe’s fourth Tufa novel (following 2014’s Long Black Curl) weaves together the magic of off-Broadway theater with the lore and fantasy of the Tufa, Appalachia-dwelling exiles from the land of Faerie. Actor and dancer Matt Johanssen is picked to...
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Alex Bledsoe. Tor, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8334-1
In the gripping fifth novel starring the mysterious, fairy-descended Tufa (after Chapel of Ease), the Appalachian mountains of Tennessee once again come alive with magic, music, and mystery. Bledsoe adeptly blends fairy tales and folklore as he...
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Alex Bledsoe. Tor, $27.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8336-5
In Bledsoe’s multilayered sixth contemporary fantasy tale of the Tufa, exiled fae who long ago settled in the Appalachians, the discovery of a long-lost silent film offers up clues to their forgotten origins, as well as a potential way home. In the...
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