The Missing Mummies

Lisa Tuttle has quietly been writing remarkable, chilling short stories and powerful, haunting novels for many years now, and doing it so easily and so well that one almost takes it, and her, for granted. This would be as big a mistake as not reading Lisa Tuttle

- NEIL GAIMAN

Sleepwalkers, psychics, and the spirits of the dead (or are they?) make for a heady stew in Lisa Tuttle's The Somnambulist and the Psychic Thief, the first full-length novel about Jasper Jesperson and Miss Lane, a dauntless duo of Victorian detectives first introduced in her stories for Down These Strange Streets and Rogues. They're an entertaining pair, and it's great to see them back in action in a longer work. Here's hoping this is only the first in a long series of Lane and Jesperson adventures. Tuttle does a lovely job of putting us back in the foggy streets of Victorian London in this lively, entertaining blend of murder mystery and supernatural adventure. Arthur Conan Doyle would have approved - GEORGE R.R. MARTIN on The Somnambulist and the Psychic Thief

A stylish, distinctive storyteller

- WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD

This John W. Campbell Award-winning author remains one of fantasy's best - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Her ability as a storyteller is equalled only by her skill in portraying her characters with a few, precise words

- SF SITE

Tuttle's work is a treasure trove, a vast and fearful kingdom in itself

- THOMAS TESSIER, author of The Night Walker

Whether fantasy or science fiction, Tuttle's stories generally centre on derangements within family units. Her touch is deft, chilly, exact - JOHN CLUTE, co-author of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Lisa Tuttle's short stories have a way of lingering long after you've read them . . . intelligent and well crafted - THE GOOD BOOK GUIDE