Something Strange and Deadly (Something Strange and Deadly #1)

Something Strange and Deadly (Something Strange and Deadly #1) by Susan Dennard is a Fantasy release, out on October 29, 2026.

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Something Strange and Deadly (Something Strange and Deadly #1) Release Date: October 29, 2026

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New York Times-bestselling author Susan Dennard’s glittering adult debut is perfect for fans of Emily Wilde and Veronica Speedwell…but with a few walking corpses thrown in.

It’s the start of the Gilded Age in Philadelphia, and Eleanor Fitt—broke, unmarried, and fluent in Shakespeare—has spent the last six years holding her family together. When her brilliant (but woefully hapless) brother fails to step off a train from New York again, Eleanor is prepared to be furious.

What she is not prepared for is her brother having been kidnapped by a necromancer.

As the Bard put it, O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!

Armed with a parasol and no money, Eleanor tracks down a ragtag team known as the Spirit-Hunters, who consist of an elegant theurgist, a woman with a baseball bat, and a (much too charming) engineer. In their company, Eleanor soon finds herself playing every role forbidden to a young lady of high society: investigator, liar, medium, thief.

Yet the closer she and the Spirit-Hunters get to the truth of the necromancer, the more Eleanor realizes that, while the walking dead might be brutal and frightening to fight against…

Sometimes it’s the living we ought to fear most.

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