Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks.
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Austin Kelley, The Fact Checker
(Atlantic Monthly)
“In his sort-of-mystery debut, with understated humor and zippy prose, former New Yorker fact-checker Kelley is a fluid and funny writer, divertingly digressing on the nature of fact-checking and filling out a backstory for the narrating fact-checker, who, both well-informed and hilariously unaware, is as charmingly pedantic as a character could be.”
–Annie Bostrom, Booklist
Bailey Seybolt, Coram House
(Atria)
“Seybolt blends true crime and fiction in this absorbing debut. Seybolt skillfully blends points of view. Part Gothic novel (with creepy Coram House playing a role) and part investigative reporting procedural, this will both disturb and fascinate readers.”
–Booklist
Abbi Waxman, One Death at a Time
(Berkley)
“Full of the witty banter and laugh-out-loud scenarios readers have come to expect from Waxman, this raucous romp around Tinseltown with an odd couple of sleuths will delight readers.”
–Library Journal
Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Divorce
(Blackstone)
“Rose has a lot of fun with her characters’ attempts to implicate each other in the book’s overlapping criminal investigations and maintains wicked tension from the opening pages…A ride worth taking.”
–Publishers Weekly
Matthew Sullivan, Midnight in Soap Lake
(Hanover Square)
“Midnight in Soap Lake hooked me from page one. This twisty, smart thriller is brimming with complex characters, a page-turning plot and big questions of science, nature, marriage and murder. Matthew Sullivan expertly blends fact, fable and the evocative setting of Soap Lake in rural Washington state to create a spellbinding novel—I adored it.”
–Tara Conklin
Jonathan Coe, The Proof of My Innocence
(Europa Editions)
“A smart yarn with biting humor, ingenious clues, and a satisfying twist.”
–Booklist
Abigail Dean, The Death of Us
(Viking)
“This wonderful novel is a page-turner par excellence, written with unobtrusive brilliance, [and] full of sharply observed lines…. Dean has taken a case that closely resembles California’s Golden State Killer and combined it with the story of Isabel and Edward, a couple whose love is put under a breaking strain by an almost unimaginable tragedy…. The Death of Us lives up to the hype. Read it for story, always appreciating the no-showing-off clarity of its prose.”
—Stephen King
Lindy Ryan, Another Fine Mess
(Minotaur)
“Sometimes the dead can ruin your life. Lindy Ryan’s Another Fine Mess is a rich and captivating story about family legacy, history, lore, and of course murder. Delightfully alluring and richly suspenseful.”
–Cynthia Pelayo
C.S. Harris, Who Will Remember
(Berkley)
“Harris does her usual superior job of combining a page-turning fair-play plot with plausible period detail. Both series fans and newcomers will be captivated.”
–Publishers Weekly
Michael Amos Cody, Streets of Nashville
(Madville Publishing)
“Cody’s Streets of Nashville is a lyrical love letter to the musicians who built the city as well as a powerful exploration of friendship and brutality. With his authentic, empathetic voice, Cody is a welcome addition to Southern crime fiction. I look forward to more Ezra MacRae stories to come!”
–Heather Levy
