Each week as part of SunLit — The Sun’s literature section — we feature staff recommendations from book stores across Colorado. This week, the staff from Poor Richard’s Books in Colorado Springs recommends tales of mystery, horror and the quest for the night sky.
The Grey Wolf
By Louise PennyMinotaur Books$30October 2024Purchase
From the publisher: Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide at the Sûreté, as he sits with his wife in their back garden. Reine-Marie watches with increasing unease as her husband refuses to pick up, though he clearly knows who is on the other end. When he finally answers, his rage shatters the calm of their quiet Sunday morning.That’s only the first in a sequence of strange events that begin “The Grey Wolf,” the 19th novel in Louise Penny’s bestselling series. A missing coat, an intruder alarm, a note for Gamache reading “this might interest you,” a puzzling scrap of paper with a mysterious list — and then a murder. All propel Chief Inspector Gamache and his team toward a terrible realization. Something much more sinister than any one murder or any one case is fast approaching.
From Jeffery Payne, assistant retail manager: Louise Penny’s writing acumen continues to grow and flourish. Multilayered plot lines and incredibly defined and original characters (love that Ruth…and the duck!) envelope us into a fast-paced mystery thriller in “The Grey Wolf.”
Doubts about loyalty and whom to trust throw Inspector Gamache into a very troubling scenario that has the potential to affect millions of people. Not even the hidden village of Three Pines will be able to come out unscathed. Honestly the storyline in this latest volume in this series is scary because it really could happen. You won’t take water for granted ever again.
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
By Steven Graham JonesS&S/Saga Press$29.99March 2025Purchase
From the publisher: A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits. This is a Native American revenge story written by one of the new masters of horror, Stephen Graham Jones.
From Jeffery Payne, assistant retail manager: This book will grab you and won’t let go.
The cadence of the dialogues will lull the reader into a quiet, graceful peace then shake them with a dissonance of violence in both actions and words. Using a horrific event from our Western history we fall into a tale where an “everlasting soul” shares his story with an unlikely listener. An eerie read with creepy vibes and deep emotions. This one will linger like an unforgettable nightmare…and it should.
The Wild Dark
By Craig ChildsTorrey House Press$24.95May 2025Purchase
From the publisher: At a time when most people on Earth live in regions of acute light pollution, Craig Childs takes us on a journey to rediscover the awesome power of night itself.
Seeking not the absence of light, but the presence of the universe, master storyteller Craig Childs sets out to bike from the blinding lights of the Las Vegas Strip to one of the darkest spots in North America. A fearless explorer of both the natural world and the human imagination, Childs guides us on a quest to rediscover the heavens and to ask: “What does it do to us to not see the night sky?” This is at once an adventure story, a field guide, and a celebration of the awesome power of night itself, inviting us to look up and to look inward, eyes wide and sparkling with stars.
From Jeffery Payne: I miss stars, I mean lots of stars.
I have been privileged, and incredibly grateful, to reside in two Dark Sky Cities over the years. The sight of countless stars in the night sky is impressive, and overwhelming.
Craig Childs takes his pen and turns his gaze upward towards the celestial world in his latest release. I have been a brobdingnagian (I learned a new word this week and couldn’t wait to use it….) fan of Mr. Childs for years.
Through his inquisitive and determined drive, we leave the city of glitz and glamour, pedal toward a space where harsh, glaring light subside and lean into the quiet, dark of night. “The Wild Dark” urges us to step back a few paces, look up and appreciate the evening sky.
THIS WEEK’S BOOK RECS COME FROM:
Poor Richard’s Books
320 N. Tejon St., Colorado Springs
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