Award-winning author Tochi Onyebuchis new standalone novel is hard-boiled fantasy noir: Raymond Chandler meets P. Djl Clark in a postcolonial West Africa.

Fortune always left whatever room I walked into, which is why I dont leave my place much these days…

Veteran and private eye Boubacar doesnt need muchleast of all troublebut trouble always seems to find him. Work has dried up, and hed rather be left alone to deal with his bills as the Harmattan rolls in to coat the city in dust, but Bouba is a down on his luck deux fois, suspended between two cultures and two worlds.

When a bleeding woman stumbles onto his doorway, only to vanish just as quickly, Bouba reluctantly finds himself enmeshed in the secrets of a city boiling on the brink of violence. The French occupiers are keen to keep the peace at any cost, and the indigenous dugulen have long been shattered into restless factions vying for a chance to reclaim their lost heritage and abilities. As each hardwon clue reveals horrifying new truths, Bouba may have to carve out parts of himself hes long kept hidden, and decide what hes willing to offer next.

From the visionary author ofRiot BabyandGoliath,Harmattan Seasonis a gripping fantasy noir in the tradition of Chandler, Hammond, and Christie that will have you by the throatboth dryly funny and unforgettably evocative.

Tochi Onyebuchi is the author ofGoliath, a Locus Award and Dragon Award finalist, the young adult novelBeasts Made of Night, which won the Ilube Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel by an African, its sequel,Crown of Thunder, andWar Girls. His novellaRiot Baby,a finalist for the Hugo, the Nebula, the Locus, and the NAACP Image Awards, won an Ignyte Award, the New England Book Award for Fiction, and an ALA Alex Award.He holds a B.A. from Yale, a M.F.A. in screenwriting from the Tisch School of the Arts, a Master’s degree in droit conomique from Sciences Po, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.

• Publisher: Tor Books (May 27, 2025)
• Hardcover: 240pages
• ISBN-13:9781250782977
• Dimensions:5.25 x 0.74 x 8.29 inches | 1 pounds
• Language:English
• BISAC: Fantasy, Mystery, Thrillers & Crime