Tag: Charles de Lint

  • The Road to Lisdoonvarna

    By Charles de Lint Place: Publisher & Year: Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2001 Genre: Mystery, hard boiled crime fiction ISBN: 9781892284914 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 190 Setting: Ottawa, Canada Time period: mid 1980s Plot summary: Private investigator, Jake Swann, has a big heart, especially when it comes to his friends.  When Jake discovers that…

  • Promises To Keep

    By Charles De Lint Place: Publisher & Year: Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007 Genre: Fantasy, contemporary fantasy, urban fantasy, mythic fiction, paranormal Series: Newford; 20 (according to NoveList) or 21 (according to Goodreads) ISBN: 9781596061262 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 173 Setting: Newford, Canada Time period: late 1960s – 1973 Plot summary: In 1972,…

  • The Mystery of Grace

    By Charles de Lint Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Tor, 2009 Genres: Fantasy, contemporary fantasy, urban fantasy, mythic fiction, paranormal ISBN: 9780765317568 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 269 Setting: Solona, Arizona (along the San Pedro River and I-10) Time period: Contemporary Plot summary: When Grace Quintero’s grandfather died, she started smoking again.  Her…

  • What the Mouse Found and Other Stories

    By Charles de Lint Place: Publisher & Year: Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2008 Genres: Fantasy, contemporary fantasy, short stories ISBN: 9781596061590 Intended audience: “written for nieces, nephews, and the children of friends” (p. 10) Number of pages: 64 Setting: Three stories are set in the woods; one is set in a neighborhood, and another along…