5/27/2023 0 Comments The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton![]() ![]() The animal stands between the guilty and the Undertow, a force that swallows up any zoos whose animals are killed. In this alternate-universe version of South Africa, murderers (called “zoos”) carry their guilt with them in the form of a spirit animal that’s bound to them and gives them magical powers. Clarke Award for the best science-fiction novel went to Lauren Beukes’s Zoo City.īefore it is a science-fiction novel, “Zoo City” is a detective story, the tale of a woman thrust into the middle of a mystery. But there are annual prizes in genre fiction that catch everyone’s attention, and two were given out last week: The Edgar Award for the best mystery novel went to Steve Hamilton’s The Lock Artist, and the Arthur C. Anything tarred with the labels mystery, western, sci-fi or fantasy goes on its own separate shelf, far away from the high culture of literary fiction. ![]()
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