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Thomas Kies Author Of Whisper Room

From Thomas' 3 favorite reads in 2023.

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Thomas' 3 favorite reads in 2023

Thomas Kies Why Thomas loves this book

Five Decembers was a hard-boiled mystery in the style of Dashiell Hammett that begins just before Pearl Harbor and then was set in Japan throughout the rest of the war. 

In addition to the mystery itself was an improbable love story between the American detective and a Japanese woman who harbored and hid him behind enemy lines. Wonderfully written, it was the book I quite literally couldn’t put down.

By James Kestrel ,

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4 authors picked Five Decembers as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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Winner of the 2022 Edgar Award for Best Novel

"War, imprisonment, torture, romance...The novel has an almost operatic symmetry, and Kestrel turns a beautiful phrase."
-New York Times

Five Decembers is a gripping thriller, a staggering portrait of war, and a heartbreaking love story, as unforgettable as All the Light We Cannot See.

NOMINATED FOR BEST THRILLER IN THE 2022 BARRY AWARDS

FINALIST FOR THE HAMMETT PRIZE 2021

"Read this book for its palpitating story, its perfect emotional and physical detailing and, most of all, for its unforgettable conjuring of a steamy quicksilver world that will be new to almost…


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The Rosewood Penny by J.S. Fields,

2023 Queer Indie Award Nominee!

The dragons of Yuro have been hunted to extinction.

On a small, isolated island, in a reclusive forest, lives bandit leader Marani and her brother Jacks. With their outlaw band they rob from the rich to feed themselves, raiding carriages and dodging the occasional vindictive…

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