Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks.
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Layne Fargo, They Never Learn
(Gallery/Scout Press)
“Fargo shocks and entertains while delivering a scathing take-down of campus rape culture. Fans of Chelsea Cain will appreciate this fiercely feminist twist on serial killer fiction.”
–Publishers Weekly
Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto (eds), Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Stories of Horror
(Catapult)
“Masterful . . . In fewer than 1,500 words, each of these vivid, visceral tales engages with horrors with striking immediacy. This carefully crafted and genuinely scary collection is sure to impress.”
–Publishers Weekly
Alexander McCall Smith, How to Raise an Elephant
(Pantheon)
“With humour enlivening every page, this series is unlike any other detective fiction you’ve read. Before you know it, you’ll be in love with Gaborone and Botswana”
–Africa.com
John Grisham, A Time for Mercy
(Doubleday)
“A small-town Mississippi courtroom becomes the setting for a trademark Grisham legal tussle.”
–Kirkus Reviews
Ian Rankin, A Song for the Dark Times
(Little Brown)
“This fresh entry boasts the kind of storytelling that made Rankin famous.”
–Publisher’s Weekly
David Edmonds, The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle
(Princeton Univ. Press)
“Full of larger-than-life characters, intrigues, bust-ups, political upheavals, and international adventures, it also delivers unparalleled insights into the origins of analytic philosophy.”
–David Papineau
Mark A. Bradley, Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America
(Norton)
“Bradley fluidly interweaves union politics with insider accounts…. The result is both a juicy true crime story and a tribute to the power of effective labor movements.”
–Publishers Weekly
Carolyn Haines, A Garland of Bones
(Minotaur)
“Haines’s longtime admirers will be thrilled to spend the holidays with their favorite characters. New readers looking for an engaging story can start here.”
–Library Journal on A Gift of Bones
Lisa Jewell, Invisible Girl
(Atria)
“Lisa Jewell has a way of combining furiously twisty, utterly gripping plots with wonderfully rich characterisation—she has such compassion for her characters and we feel we know them utterly.”
–Lucy Foley
Vincent Zandri, The Girl Who Wasn’t There
(Oceanview)
“[The Girl Who Wasn’t There is an] engrossing thriller . . . a tangled web of death and deceit.”
–Publishers Weekly
