We invite you to the depth-of-winter issue of the Ottawa Review of Books, brrr. In it, we hope to warm your literary interests with our reviewer team's insights into six recent works of fiction by Canadian writers, including four Ottawa authors. Taking a stroll on the dark side, Ian Shaw reviews A Plea for Constant Motion by Paul Carlucci, and Dessa Bayrock provides a tantalizing review of Waste by Andrew F. Sullivan. Jim Napier, Wendy Hawkin and Alex Binkley treat us to their takes on three new crime novels: Salvage by Stephen Maher, City of the Lost by Kelley Armstrong and Return to Kirk's Landing by Mike Young. To wrap up the line-up is Alex Binkley's review of Ian McKercher's wartime thriller, The Incrementalist. Read on and stay warm :)