
Hobtown Mystery Stories Vol. 3
The Secret of the Saucer
Oni Press · Print & ebook · November 25, 2025
Hobtown Mystery Stories Vol.
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- Who it’s for
- A rural election-season mystery turns delightfully strange as conspiracy, aliens, and friendship all get tangled.
- Themes
- Surreal mysteries, Conspiracy and reality, Strained friendships
- Pacing
- Fast
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"Detective fiction is about getting to the bottom of things; weird fiction is about the abyss in its bottomless depths. “Hobtown Mystery Stories,” in their layered and satisfying surrealism, are about both.... utterly weird, dreamlike." —New York Times Book Review 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.
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The third must-read volume of the page-turning series that the New York Times calls “forceful and haunting” starts here for the first time ever in a fully colored edition from creators Kris Bertin and Alexander Forbes! The lines between conspiracy and reality tangle during election season in Hobtown as a new-old member of the Teen Detective Club surfaces to challenge Dana’s leadership and redirect the group’s attention back to the discounted but pressing concern that “ALIENS!” are among us. On a grander scale, amid the town’s hotly contested mayoral race, the arrival of a flying saucer and a chaotic “Ape Lord” being pursued by the local Knitting Circle have the teen sleuths of Hobtown unsure if they’re coming or going, as literal backward thinking tears at the threads of their friendships and their grasp on their latest case . . .
Mystery Meets the Abyss
A rural election-season mystery turns delightfully strange as conspiracy, aliens, and friendship all get tangled.
Come here for
- Teen sleuths, a flying saucer, and an unusually persistent Ape Lord
- Mystery with surreal, dreamlike edges
Expect
- A strange case that blurs conspiracy and reality
- Friendships and clues pulled into the same tangle
Where it sits
| Crime & Mystery Comics | 95% |
|---|---|
| Alien Contact Comics | 59% |
| Science Fiction Comics | 38% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Crime & Mystery Comics
- Alien Contact Comics
- Sci-Fi Crime
- Authors
- Kris Bertin
- Publisher
- Oni Press
- Published
- November 25, 2025
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Surreal mysteries · Conspiracy and reality · Strained friendships
- Reading lane
- Crime & Mystery Comics