Here we go: exploring tangled histories and where to fantasize them. Should history be fantasized in Hong Kong, Japan, the USA, Afghanistan, Italy, a fictional land, or elsewhere? Wherever we go, we’re sure to run into stormy weather with dark high fantasy in fictional land, a paranormal murder mystery in the USA, and a historical fiction in Hong Kong. Lest you believe the lies that our skies are dark and in shadow, bring out the sun with an African American historical fiction and a satirical but funny murder mystery solved by a shrink. Catch me if you can in this cover-to-cover review of 9 new books and 1 debut author in this week’s Reader’s Forecast!

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Publishing Week: 28 July 2026