Harmattan Season

"This is a brilliant blending of worlds and traditions--West African lore meets Easy Rawlins--which makes for something absolutely devourable. And that's exactly what I did. Without a doubt, this is Onyebuchi at his best!" --Jason Reynolds

Fortune always left whatever room I walked into, which is why I don't leave my place much these days...

Veteran and private eye Boubacar doesn't need much--least of all trouble--but trouble always seems to find him. Work has dried up, and he'd 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 hard-won clue reveals horrifying new truths, Bouba may have to carve out parts of himself he's long kept hidden, and decide what he's willing to offer next.

From the visionary author of Riot Baby and Goliath, Harmattan Season is a gripping fantasy noir in the tradition of Chandler, Hammond, and Christie that will have you by the throat--both dryly funny and unforgettably evocative.

Author: Tochi Onyebuchi
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 01/27/2026
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.43w x 0.66d
ISBN13: 9781250814494
ISBN10: 1250814499
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Fantasy | Contemporary
- Fiction | Fantasy | Dark Fantasy
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Hard-Boiled

About the Author
Tochi Onyebuchi is the author of Goliath, a Locus Award and Dragon Award finalist, the young adult novel Beasts Made of Night, which won the Ilube Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel by an African, its sequel, Crown of Thunder, and War Girls. His novella Riot 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 économique from Sciences Po, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.