Here’s to a long life full of purpose for A Stitch in Crime, the youngest but equally bold and assured sibling to Justin Robinson’s City of Devils, Fifty Feet of Trouble, and Wolfman Confidential.
The first three books in this neo-noir pulp monsterverse series focused on hard-boiled (anti-)hero Nick Moss, the last human gumshoe left in LA. Nick has managed to elude the monsters who wish to turn him, but his cases get increasingly convoluted and perilous—and lead him to places he’s not remotely eager to revisit. Wolfman Confidential featured a fascinating new presence: Jane Stitch, a smart, resourceful, ghost-ridden meat golem, who had already featured in the bonus story “A Touch of Verdigris”.
In A Stitch in Crime Jane embarks on adventures of her own. Assembled from the corpses of six women, she’s haunted by impulses she can’t control and memories that aren’t hers. When she returns to her hometown to solve the mystery of her creation, she finds herself drawn unwillingly into a war between rival gangs of monsters for control over the patch of desert she once called home.
Her creator, the only one who knows where she came from, has an agenda of his own and it doesn’t include helping Jane put to rest the ghosts of her past lives. In the desert, among thundering herds of giant ants, in the shadow of a frozen blob, Jane is determined to solve the riddle of herself. Or die—again—trying.
A Stitch in Crime is available as print and digital in the customary places (Amazon, B&N, Kobo) and on our website. If you order from the site, the print version comes accompanied by its digital twin, and the PDF of the digital bundle contains the customary fabled illustrations of Fernando Caire. For extra confirmation of your excellent taste in purchasing A Stitch in Crime, here are some enthusiastic reviews:
An important postscript: during the last three weeks, our website underwent a major overhaul to update infrastructure and improve performance. As with all complex projects, this required enormous skill and attention to detail. The process was invisible to public view, though one more minor tweak is necessary for the comment function. Currently, commenters’ names appear only if they enter an associated website when they post a comment. Rest assured that the commenter names are present in the database, and they’ll appear next to the comments as soon as the Stitch launch is past and we can finish our tinkering without the risk of disturbing other functions. My heartfelt thanks to Scottie Watts, website wrangler in charge!
