Bingo Squares: The Afterlife (HM) Extremely briefly at the very end, not a focus of the plot Older Protagonist Published in 2026 (HM) Murder Mystery (HM) Maybe: one of the 3 timelines is (mostly) about tracking down a supernatural serial killer. It's not much of a conventional mystery plot but it could perhaps count. Cat Squasher The Red Winter lands pretty solidly as an 8/10 for me, which is impressive for a debut novel. The Red Winter intrigued me early on with its framing device. The story unfolds as a kind of memoir narrated by Sebastian in 2013. There’s something immediately compelling about a narrator who is seemingly immortal, or at least impossibly long-lived, looking back across centuries. The footnotes and little meta touches, especially the references to Sebastian’s own books and the fake websites on which to purchase them, add a wonderful sense of texture and personality.…