Dan Wells

John Wayne Cheever keeps his obsession with serial killers in check by a set of rigid rules that he lives by, hoping to the prevent himself from committing murder, but when a body turns up behind a laundromat, John must confront a danger outside himself.

Roman policier (suspense)

JOHN AND BROOKE ARE ON THEIR OWN, hitchhiking from town to town as they hunt the last of the Withered through the Midwest--but the Withered are hunting them back, and the FBI is close behind. With each new town, each new truck stop, each new highway, they get closer to a vicious killer who defies every principle of profiling and prediction John knows how to use. Meanwhile, Brooke's fractured psyche teeters on the edge of oblivion, overwhelmed by the hundreds of thousands of dead personalities sharing her mind. She flips in and out of lucidity, manifesting new names and thoughts and memories every day, until, at last, the one personality pops up that John never expected and has no idea how to deal with. This description comes from the publisher. Over Your Dead Body is the fifth book in the John Wayne Cleaver series, the first of which is I Am Not a Serial Killer.

The human race is all but extinct after a war with Partials--engineered organic beings identical to humans--has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by RM, a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island while the Partials have mysteriously retreated. The threat of the Partials is still imminent, but, worse, no baby has been born immune to RM in more than a decade. Our time is running out. Kira, a sixteen-year-old medic-in-training, is on the front lines of this battle, seeing RM ravage the community while mandatory pregnancy laws have pushed what's left of humanity to the brink of civil war, and she's not content to stand by and watch. But as she makes a desperate decision to save the last of her race, she will find that the survival of humans and Partials alike rests in her attempts to uncover the connections between them--connections that humanity has forgotten, or perhaps never even knew were there. Dan Wells, acclaimed author of I Am Not a Serial Killer, takes readers on a pulse-pounding journey into a world where the very concept of what it means to be human is in question--one where our humanity is both our greatest liability and our only hope for survival. This description comes from the publisher.

Overworld. It's more than just the world's most popular eSport--for thousands of VR teams around the globe. Overworld is life. It means fame and fortune, or maybe it's a ticket out of obscurity or poverty. If you have a connection to the internet and four friends you trust with your life, anything is possible. Marisa Carneseca is on the hunt for a mysterious hacker named Grendel when she receives word that her amateur Overworld team has been invited to Forward Motion, one of the most exclusive tournaments of the year. For Marisa, this could mean everything--a chance to finally go pro and to help her family, stuck in an LA neighborhood on the wrong side of the growing divide between the rich and the poor. But Forward Motion turns out to be more than it seems--rife with corruption, infighting, and danger--and Marisa runs headlong into Alain Bensoussan, a beautiful, dangerous underground freedom fighter who reveals to her the darker side of the forces behind the tournament. It soon becomes clear that, in this game, winning might be the only way to get out alive. Dan Wells returns to the dark, perilous world of 2050 Los Angeles with another pulse-pounding story of betrayal, mystery, and suspense set in a stunning tech-noir landscape. This description comes from the publisher. Ones and Zeroes is the second Mirador novel, the first of which is Bluescreen.

John Wayne Cleaver hunts demons: They've killed his neighbors, his family, and the girl he loves, but in the end he's always won. Now he works for a secret government kill team, using his gift to hunt and kill as many monsters as he can...but the monsters have noticed, and the quiet game of cat and mouse is about to erupt into a full-scale supernatural war. John doesn't want the life he's stuck with. He doesn't want the FBI bossing him around, he doesn't want his only friend imprisoned in a mental ward, and he doesn't want to face the terrifying cannibal who calls himself The Hunter. John doesn't want to kill people. But as the song says, you can't always get what you want. John has learned that the hard way; his clothes have the stains to prove it. When John again faces evil, he'll know what he has to do. This description comes from the publisher. The Devil's Only Friend is the first book of the second John Wayne Cleaver trilogy, the first of the first of which is I Am Not a Serial Killer.

Paranoid schizophrenic Michael Shipman has hallucinations and complex horror fantasies that are complicated by his discovery of what may or may not be real monsters.

Los Angeles in 2050 is a city of open doors, as long as you have the right connections. One of those connections is a djinni--a smart device implanted right in a person's head. In a world where virtually everyone is online twenty-four hours a day, this connection is like oxygen--and a world like that presents plenty of opportunities for someone who knows how to manipulate it. Marisa Carneseca is one of those people. She might spend her days in Mirdaor, the small, vibrant LA neighborhood where her family owns a restaurant, but she lives on the net--going to school, playing games, hanging out, or doing things of more questionable legality with her friends Sahara and Anja. And it's Anja who first gets her hands on Bluescreen--a virtual drug that plugs right into a person's djinni and delivers a massive, nonchemical, completely safe high. But in this city, when something sounds too good to be true, it usually is, and Mari and her friends soon find themselves in the middle of a conspiracy that is much bigger than they ever suspected. Dan wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence, returns with a stunning new vision of the near future--a breathless cyber-thriller where privacy is the world's most rare resource and nothing, not even the thoughts in our heads, is safe. This description comes from the publisher. Bluescreen is the first book in the Mirador series.

¿Y si ganar fuera la única forma de salir con vida? El Supramundo es mucho más que un simple deporte. El Supramundo es fama, fortuna y riqueza. Marisa Carneseca está cazando a un misterioso hacker llamado Grendel, cuando se entera de que su equipo amateur del Supramundo participará en el Foward Motion, uno de los campeonatos más exclusivos del año. Para Marisa, esa invitación significa muchas cosas: una posibilidad de salir adelante y de ayudar a su familia. Pero Foward Motion resulta ser mucho más que un torneo de caridad: la corrupción, las disputas internas y el peligro acechan en cada esquina. Marisa contará con la ayuda de Alain, un joven sexy y peligroso, que le demostrará que, a veces, es necesario correr riesgos inimaginados Searching for a mysterious hacker when her Overworld team is invited to compete in an exclusive tournament, Marisa discovers that the event is rife with corruption, infighting, and dangers that render winning the only way to survive.

Blending fresh new science fiction with a futuristic dash of magic, The Grimm Future is a unique anthology of reimagined Grimm fairy tales from some of today's most exciting authors—along with the original stories that inspired them. The Grimm Future examines our humanity and what that term might come to mean through the eyes of future generations as society advances into an age when technology consumes nearly every aspect of our lives or has ultimately changed life as we know it. How might these timeless stories evolve? Given the relentless onrush of technology, there is even greater need for fairy tales and Grimm magic in our future. Read on! Table of Contents: "Intrduction" by Erin Underwood "Pair of Ugly Stepsisters, Three of a Kind" by Garth Nix, based upon multiple Grimm fairy tales, including "Little Brother and Little Sister," "Rapunzel," "Little Red-Cap," and "Cinderella" "The Iron Man" by Max Gladstone, based upon "Iron John" "Zel and Grets" by Maura McHugh, based upon "Hansel & Gretel" "For Want of a Nail" by Sandra McDonald & Stephen D. Covey, based upon "The Nail" "The Shroud" by Dan Wells, based upon "The Shroud" "Long-Term Employment" by Mike Resnick, based upon "Death's Messengers" "Swan Dive" by Nancy Holder, based upon "The Six Swans" "The White Rat" by Dana Cameron, based upon "The White Snake" "Origins" by Carlos Hernandez, based upon "The Star-Talers" "Angie Taylor in: Peril Beneath the Earth's Crust" by John Langan, based upon "The Brave Little Tailor" "The Three Snake-Leaves" by Jeffrey Ford, based upon "The Three Snake-Leaves" "The Madman's Ungrateful Child" by Peadar Ó Guillín, based upon "The Bremen Town-Musicians" "Stories of the Trees, Stories of the Birds, Stories of the Bones" by Kat Howard, based upon "The Juniper Tree" "Be Still, and Listen" by Seanan McGuire, based upon "Little Briar-Rose"

LOS ANGELES, 2050. A FUTURE STILL TRAPPED IN THE PAST... For all the mysteries teen hacker Marisa Carneseca has solved, one has always eluded her: when she was two years old, she was in a car accident in which she lost her arm, and a mob boss's wife, Zenaida de Maldonado, lost her life. No one can tell her what she was doing in that car, or how it led to the feud between the Carnescas and the Maldonados. Even in a world where technology connects everyone's minds, it would seem that some secrets can still remain hidden. Those secrets rise violently to the surface when Zenaida's freshly severed hand shows up at the scene of a gangland shooting. If Zenaida is--or was-- still alive, it means there's even more about Marisa's past that she doesn't know. And when everyone from Lost Angeles gangs to the world's largest genetic engineering firms becomes involved in the case, it's clear there's more happening under the surface than anyone cares to admit. The truth is out there, and Marisa will have to thread together lost friends, corporate assassins, a gang lord's digital brain, and what might be a literal ghost from the past in order to find it. Dan Wells's widely acclaimed Mirador series continues with his most shocking, visionary, pulse-pounding story. This description comes from the publisher. Active Memory is the third book in the Mirador series, the first of which is Bluescreen.

John Wayne Cleaver saved his town from a murderer even more appalling than the serial killers he obsessively studies. But it turns out even demons have friends, and the disappearance of one has brought another to Clayton County. No one in Clayton is safe unless John can vanquish two nightmarish adversaries: the unknown demon he must hunt and the inner demon he can never escape.