REISSUES
Our pick of the paperbacks this month is THE GATHERING ( , out now, Penguin) by CJ Tudor, author of The Burning Girls. This supernatural police procedural is set in Deadhart, a small town in Alaska where the locals co-exist with a nearby colony of “vampyrs”. When a teenager’s found with his throat ripped out, blood drained, a female detective investigates. Is a bloodsucker responsible, or a psychopath? We said: “The characters are vividly drawn… Barbara Atkins is one of the most intriguing fictional investigators to have come along in an age.” Alix E Harrow’s gothic fairytale STARLING HOUSE ( , out now, Tor) reimagines Beauty And The Beast. Its heroine is Opal, a high-school drop-out from a former mining town who takes a job as a cleaner at the titular mansion, working for its brooding heir Arthur Starling. We said: