The human Tillie may have died a decade ago, but the spiders that inhabit her bones have only just started living.If their roles had been reversed, she did not know if she could have found his courage to stay. To rewrite the boundaries of humanity to keep him squarely inside it, no matter how monstrous he became.Half of Tillie's life is perfect. She and her husband live in an idyllic cottage with model trains in the attic, a studio for her art, and...

11 hard-boiled crimes featuring a cast of memorable anthropomorphic animals.New Growl has always had too much crime. From the 20s until its inevitable collapse, eleven authors are exposing the city's seedy underbelly.The upper echelon, the lower class, and all of the animals in between have their share of problems. Some hire the private detectives or jet to a private island to escape, while others are the ones on-call and in the trenches.It's famili...