Kris Bertin

Hobtown Mystery Stories

1 - Hobtown Mystery Stories Vol. 1: The Case Of The Missing Men (Mar-2024)

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  Hobtown Mystery Stories Vol. 3: The Secret of the Saucer
  

  • Nov-2025
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  Return to Hobtown, the charming rural village in Nova Scotia at the heart of surreal and haunting mysteries, and home to the after—school Teen Detective Club dedicated to solving them. The third must—read volume of the page—turning ser...

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  Hobtown Mystery Stories Vol. 2: The Cursed Hermit
  

  • Nov-2024
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  2024 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Graphic Novel Finalist Welcome back to Hobtown, the charming but bleak rural village whose placid exterior belies the surreal underbelly teeming below. . . . The second must-read volume of the page-turning series tha...

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  Hobtown Mystery Stories Vol. 1: The Case Of The Missing Men
  

  • Mar-2024
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  Hobtown Mystery Stories - 1
  

  Welcome to Hobtown, a charmingly bleak village (Population: 2,006) in the hinterlands of Nova Scotia, 1996. It’s an easy place to get bored or depressed, if you don’t make your own fun. Hobtown Regional High’s top girl Dana Nance runs The Teen ...

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  The Cursed Hermit
  

  • Dec-2019
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  Praise for The Case of the Missing Men:

  “It’s Bertin’s confident, idiosyncratic tone and Forbes’ small, unnerving, almost Jack Chick�"like art that makes this such a weirdly warm-hearted nightmare.” ―Booklist (Starred Review)

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  Use Your Imagination
  

  • Oct-2019
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  A woman becomes obsessed with a story about her family from 1890 -- when a naked, mute girl stumbled onto their property -- and whether or not it really happened. A self-help guru and his chief strategist take their most affluent and unstable clients...

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  The Case of the Missing Men
  

  • Nov-2017
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  "Kris Bertin's stories are a revelation, a triumph -- each stamped with the mark of a new and rising genius." -- David Adams Richards

  The Case of the Missing Men is the first part of an ongoing mystery thriller set in a strange and remote E...

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  Bad Things Happen
  

  • Jul-2016
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  The characters in Bad Things Happen -- professors, janitors, webcam models, small-time criminals -- are between things. Between jobs and marriages, states of sobriety, joy and anguish; between who they are and who they want to be. Kris Bertin's un...

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