Alberta Books for the Fiction Lover

We’ve rounded up eight fantastic books for the fiction lovers in your life. This list has it all; mystery, sci-fi, comics, fantasy, and more! Check out all the great books below.

A Dark Death by Alice Fitzpatrick

Kate Galway is looking forward to a quiet summer working on her latest novel at her home on Meredith Island. For a place hardly anyone has heard of, her sleepy Welsh island is attracting a lot of visitors, including a conman posing as a psychic and a group of archaeology students who believe they’ve unearthed a Roman temple. Part-way through the dig, the students make an even more startling discovery: a body ritualistically laid out in their trench. When amateur sleuth Kate learns that both the island mechanic and her friend’s son are prime suspects, she and hedonistic artist Siobhan Fitzgerald feel they have no choice but to get involved.

A Dark Death

Alice Fitzpatrick

Published: Jun 01, 2025 by Stonehouse Publishing
ISBN: 9781988754628

A Song to Drown the World by Rowena Spring

Marguerite is a seawitch, born to wield the ocean’s power. But when she’s abandoned in a desert – a place where the tides are just a distant memory – her magic fails her. Stripped of control, surrounded by heat and silence, she’s forced to confront a world she can’t bend to her will.

Then come the strangers: a wanderer with quiet strength, his sister whose sharp gaze sees too much, and a wisewoman who seems to know Marguerite better than she knows herself. These unlikely companions teach her to survive in the harshest of lands, but Marguerite’s presence awakens something ancient beneath the sands – something dangerous.

A Song to Drown the World

Rowena Spring

Published: Sep 1, 2025 by EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
ISBN: 9781770532540

Starship Librarians edited by Shannon Allen & JR Campbell

The glasses, the bun, the woolly sweater, the “shush” capable of reducing grown people to tears–we all know what the Librarians of the past looked like. But what about the Librarians of tomorrow? They’re in spacesuits and uniforms because they’re not getting left behind. Humanity needs them still. Always. Whether essential crew in the grand exploration of the space, defenders of knowledge in bleak radioactive tomorrows, or idealists in the halls of Neo-Alexandria, the librarians of tomorrow are here to serve.

Starship Librarians

Shannon Allen & JR Campbell

Published: Aug, 2025 by Tyche Books.
ISBN: 978-1-989407-86-8

Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Lucas K. Law and Derwin Mak

Follow twenty-three science fiction and fantasy authors on their journeys through Asia and beyond. Stories that explore magic and science. Stories about love, revenge, and choices. Stories that challenge ideas about race, belonging, and politics. Stories about where we come from and where we are going. Each wrestling between ghostly pasts and uncertain future. Each trying to find a voice in history.

Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy

Fonda Lee , Rati Mehrotra , Anne Carly Abad

Published: Oct 08, 2017 by Laksa Media Groups Inc.
ISBN: 9781988140049

The Sun the Moon Forgot by B.J. Wagner

Kassia McCullough will stop at nothing to enact revenge on Pretorious Grant, the man she holds responsible for her father’s suicide. When Grant’s half-brother escapes from prison, Kassia may just have her chance. Earth Detective Max Danzig has his own reasons for pursuing the nefarious siblings. The newly escaped convict murdered his partner, and Max is determined to bring him in alive. Brought together by their mutual quest for vengeance, Kassia, Max, and an outlawed AI named Alex embark on a perilous journey, encountering awe-inspiring alien sea creatures, bounty hunters, and maybe even a bit of romance along the way.

The Moon the Sun Forgot

B.J. Wagner

Published: Mar 04, 2025 by Mythic Roads Press
ISBN: 9781738125449

Alberta Comics: Love

Alberta Comics: Love features 50 original short comic stories told by Albertan storytellers. From romance to comedy, memoir to science fiction. A group of sparrows, tired from their flight, take refuge inside a heart-shaped hole. A tree spirit proves itself to be a muse, mentor and best friend. Two young nuns laboriously write, hide, then destroy love letters to each other. In this second volume of comics by Alberta creators, love wins the day, in all kinds of ways.

Love

Published: Sep 17, 2025 by Renegade Arts Entertainment
ISBN: 9781998489572

Blue Hours by Alison Acheson

Keith has always striven to break rules as he navigates full-time parenting and supports the career of his successful photographer wife. Her unexpected illness and death leaves both him and his son Charlie in bits. When they take a road trip, a journey begins that does not end when they return home. Keith must deal with revelations that complicate his grief, even as Charlie’s response is unsettling. Together, father and son connect with loved ones, strangers, and each other. Life’s magical and mystical moments emerge. Is it enough to heal, though?

Blue Hours

Alison Acheson

Published: May 01, 2025 by Freehand Books
ISBN: 9781990601897

A Murder in the Meadow by Victoria Chatham

Antiques dealer Monaghan Wilkes has made many enemies in the village of Sixpenny Cross and its surroundings. When he is found dead beside the pond in a local meadow, no one is surprised.

A Murder in the Meadow: Six Penny Cross Murder Mysteries

Alberta Books for the Fiction Lover