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Hessa, a priestess of the goddess of war, has the ability to turn her enemies’ bones to dust with a single scream.

The Stranger Times by CK McDonnell review — a supernatural

And as for the assistant editor, well, that job is more of a revolving door, and it’s just revolved to reveal a woman named Hannah Willis, who’s got a bunch of problems of her own. Her first job is to investigate how the software was stolen; what follows is a page-turning thriller in which Tanta soon discovers that trusted colleagues are not playing by the same rules. Radio Life is a complex mosaic novel filtered through the viewpoints of a large cast that builds a convincing picture of a future world riven by opposing ideologies. Throw in gambling debts, this precarious plumbing situation, a whole new way of swearing, and this one detective inspector with what could only be referred to as ‘a lot of baggage’ and all of it adds up to another hectic week in the life of this newspaper that’s committed to reporting the truth that no one else will touch. Assistant Editor Hannah has come back from getting messily divorced to discover that someone is trying to kidnap a member of their staff and while editor Vincent Banecroft would be delighted to see the back of any of his team, he doesn’t like people touching his stuff – it’s the principle of the thing.McDonnell lives in Manchester and spends most of his days in an office in his back garden, with only his dog and his imagination for company. With Banecroft distracted, the shock resignation of assistant editor, Hannah Willis, couldn’t have come at a worse time. This is McDonnell’s tenth, although the previous nine appeared under his full name Caimh; the switch to initials signals a switch of genre, from noir-inflected crime romps to supernatural comedy.

The Stranger Times - Penguin Books UK

Throw in a precarious plumbing situation, gambling debts, an entirely new way of swearing, and a certain detective inspector with what could be kindly referred to as 'a lot of baggage' and it all adds up to another hectic week in the life of the newspaper committed to reporting the truth that nobody else will touch. It’s great to be back with the original cast, and readers are sure to love the new additions introduced in this sequel.

Its aim is to record knowledge of the Gone World in the hope of resurrecting the technology of the past. Their editor is a foul-tempered, drunken, and foul-mouthed husk of a man that thinks rather little of the publication that he edits.