I loved John Wiswell's last book, Someone to Build a Nest In. I'm definitely picking this one up!

The last line in this description hooked me. A hard-boiled fantasy noir. You don't see many of those, and it caught my attention.

Down-on-his-luck private eye Boubacar is a veteran caught between two worlds in a dust-covered West African city under French occupation, trying to avoid trouble while struggling to pay his bills. When a bleeding woman appears at his door only to vanish mysteriously, he's reluctantly drawn into the violent secrets of a city where French colonizers maintain uneasy control over fractured indigenous factions fighting to reclaim their heritage and supernatural abilities. As Bouba follows each clue deeper into the conspiracy, he must confront hidden parts of himself and decide what he's willing to sacrifice in this hard-boiled fantasy noir that blends Raymond Chandler with postcolonial African fantasy.

This strikes me as something fans of Blake Crouch would like. I really enjoyed Recursion, and I'm getting Recursion vibes with Esperance.

Detective Ethan Krol investigates an impossible crime in Chicago where a father and son are found dead with seawater in their lungs despite being hundreds of miles from any ocean. Meanwhile in Bristol, England, a mysterious woman named Abidemi Eniola with an unconvincing Nigerian accent and extraordinary technological abilities enlists local help to return strange heirlooms to their rightful owners. As Krol's investigation converges with Abi's mission, both discover they're caught in a deadly clash involving racism, intergenerational trauma, and an alien concept of justice in this whip-smart sci-fi thriller.

Strange New World is the fourth and final installment of the Dr. Greta Helsing series. I haven't followed this series, but it sounds like a fun, queer urban fantasy that I'd enjoy.

Dr. Greta Helsing, physician to the undead, reluctantly agrees to chaperone an anxious angel and sullen demon on a research road trip across America to test whether their literal allergic reactions to each other persist on Earth. Their mission stems from Heaven and Hell's struggle to collaborate under a new treaty, with New York City as their first stop to investigate this supernatural incompatibility. But when they arrive, Greta and her unlikely companions find themselves caught in the middle of brewing unrest in New York's monster underworld, forcing Greta to uncover what's gone wrong in both Heaven and Earth to protect those she loves.

The Starving Saints calls to me, mixing horror, fantasy, mystery, and queerness into something strange and horrifying. Mmmm yes, sign me up!

When the besieged Aymar Castle faces starvation after six months under siege, mysterious divine figures called the Constant Lady and her Saints arrive offering miraculous food and healing in exchange for worship, quickly entrancing the desperate survivors with intoxicating feasts of terrible origin. As the castle descends into hedonistic madness, three women—war hero Ser Voyne, paranoid nun-turned-sorceress Phosyne, and vengeful serving girl Treila—remain aware of the true horror unfolding around them. With shifting alliances and entangled pasts threatening to tear them apart, these three must overcome their own temptations and conflicts to save both the castle and themselves from their seductive but sinister saviors.

The cover of Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame makes me want to read it. The book looks delicious.

Yeva, a legendary masked dragon hunter who has never removed her armor in public since killing her first dragon at thirteen, is sent to the reclusive kingdom of Quanbao where dragons are rumored to be worshipped rather than feared. While searching for the dragon she's been tasked to slay, she finds herself unexpectedly welcomed by the kingdom's beautiful and mysterious monarch, Lady Sookhee, and begins to open her heart for the first time in years. As their bond deepens, Yeva must choose between fulfilling her sacred duty as a dragon slayer and betraying the love that has finally made her feel at home.