Washing Up - Some Minor Works for the Record
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf (2004) Victor Pelevin Linger Awhile (2006) Russell Hoban The Poe Shadow (2006) Matthew Pearl The Mephisto Club (2006) Tess Gerritsen Black Magic Woman (Morris & Chastain #1, 2008) Justin Gustainis Two cautions about Pelevin's The Sacred Book of the Werewolf . Waterstones put this on their horror shelf but it is not a horror novel and it adds nothing consequential to the werewolf genre. It might just slip into the dark fantasy category but only at a stretch. It should sit nowhere else but under general fiction. The second is the claim on the dust jacket that it is 'very funny' or 'outrageously funny'. It is not - in English. It can be mildly amusing at times but I think you have to be a post-Soviet Russian to get this book. I would bet that it probably is 'funny' in Russian to Russians, though perhaps not 'very' or 'outrageously'. It is like that type of joke where the teller looks at