Reviews
"Sam Hooker’s smart, snarky new novel, The Winter Riddle, is the best farce of the season . . . a sprig of holiday holly: spiky, lovely, and essential winter reading." —Foreword Reviews
"[The Winter Riddle] ably weaves well-known fantasy tales with new ideas and offers a fun, fresh take on myth and legend.” —Publishers Weekly
"Inventive swearing, Norse mythology and espionage spin a farcical holiday tale surely like none before." —Trade Review, Booktrib
"Inventive swearing, Norse mythology and espionage spin a farcical holiday tale surely like none before." —Trade Review, Booktrib
Author Biography
Sam Hooker is a writer of darkly humorous fantasy novels about things like tyrannical despots and the masked scoundrels who tickle them without mercy. He knows all the best swear words, though he refuses to repeat them because he doesn't want to attract goblins. He is the author of Peril in the Old Country. He lives in Mission Viejo, California.