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Lisa Tuttle was born and raised in Austin, Texas, but moved to Britain in the 1980s. Her first novel, Windhaven, co-written with George R.R. Martin, was followed by a dozen fantasy, science fiction and horror adult and YA novels, and hundreds of award-winning short stories, collected in several volumes. She now lives with her writer husband and their daughter on the side of a Scottish loch.Sleepwalkers, psychics, and the spirits of the dead (or are they?) make for <b>a heady stew</b> in Lisa Tuttle's <i>The Somnambulist and the Psychic Thief</i>, the first full-length novel about Jasper Jesperson and Miss Lane, <b>a dauntless duo of Victorian detectives</b> first introduced in her stories for <i>Down These Strange Streets</i> and <i>Rogues</i>. They're <b>an entertaining pair</b>, and it's great to see them back in action in a longer work. <b>Here's hoping this is only the first</b> in a long series of Lane and Jesperson adventures. Tuttle does <b>a lovely job of putting us back in the foggy streets of Victorian London</b> in <b>this lively, entertaining blend of murder mystery and supernatural adventure</b>. <b>Arthur Conan Doyle would have approved</b>.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN, author of The Game of Thrones on The Somnambulist and the Psychic Thief
The whole book is <b>delightful to read</b>. Tuttle handles the nuances of the Victorian environment with <b>skilful impeccability</b>
BRITISH FANTASY SOCIETY ON The Witch at Wayside Cross
A regular, yet interesting 'whodunnit' with lots of culprits as <b>the story twists along, at a good pace</b>, never slowing down and yet <b>always giving you just enough to go on</b>
FLICKERING MYTH on The Witch at Wayside Cross
Lisa Tuttle has quietly been writing r<b>emarkable, chilling short stories </b>and p<b>owerful, haunting novels</b> for many years now, and doing it <b>so easily and so well </b>that one almost takes it, and her, for granted. This would be <b>as big a mistake as not reading Lisa Tuttle </b>
NEIL GAIMAN
Should you find yourself in need of a discreet investigation into any sort of mystery, crime or puzzling circumstances, think of Jesperson and Lane . . .
Jesperson and Lane have just solved their first major case when a man bangs violently on their door - and almost immediately drops dead. The police rule death by natural causes, but the detectives are determined to find out what really happened . . .
Mr Manning was screaming about witches before his death.
The case takes them to Mr Manning's Norfolk home, a land of mysterious Shrieking Pits and ancient knowledge. Mr Manning was himself a member of the enigmatic School of Ancient British Wisdom, and not the first to suffer a similar fate. Local gossip suggests that he was secretly engaged to one of the three lovely sisters who reside at Wayside Cross - but which one? Are they really witches, as the gossips also claim?
And what does all this have to do with the mysterious Shrieking Pits and a mother desperate to find her missing baby?
Jesperson and Lane, at your service.
'One of the SF and fantasy & horror field's most urbane - and much under-appreciated- writers' Love Reading