Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks.
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Victor Suthammanont, Hollow Spaces
(Counterpoint)
“With its strong messages about racism, sexism, jealousy, lust, and love plus deeply flawed and often unlikable characters, graphic sex, physical and psychological trauma, and a bleak view of humanity, hard-core thriller fans will find the pulse-pounding twists and unexpected turns in Suthammanont’s debut gripping.” —Booklist
Joy Fielding, Jenny Cooper Has a Secret
(Ballantine)
“[Joy] Fielding’s excellent latest nestles a murder mystery inside a witty novel of friendship and loss. . . . Punchy, surprising, and sweet in equal measure, this tale of twisted sisterhood is a home run.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
Morgan Richter, The Understudy
(Knopf)
” Richter (The Divide) delivers plenty of show-stopping moments. . . . From dress rehearsals and deaths through final flowers, feathers, and fanaticism, Richter’s novel stays mostly at fever pitch in a way that will intrigue even readers who don’t give a fig about opera’s theatrics.” —Library Journal
Rachel Eve Moulton, Tantrum
(Putnam)
“Who says babies can’t be scary? In Tantrum, Rachel Eve Moulton weaves together a horror story that will undoubtedly speak to the fears of anyone who has ever thought long and hard about motherhood.” —Harper’s Bazaar
Hamburg Noir, ed. by Jan Karsten
(Akashic)
[A] vivid and memorable portrait of Hamburg’s seedy past and present—Publishers Weekly
Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Art of a Lie
(Atria)
“Nothing short of exceptional. . . . meticulously researched and with writing as carefully, delicious crafted as the sweets filling its pages.”
—The Bookseller (UK)
Rhys Bowen, Mrs Endicott’s Splendid Adventure
(Lake Union)
“A delightful story of a heroine whose inner strength triumphs over adversity.”—Kirkus Reviews
Eli Cranor, Mississippi Blue 42
(Soho Crime)
“If you’re a football fan who can’t bear to wait two months until the start of the season, this novel — the first in a planned series, by a real-life former football quarterback and coach, and about an FBI agent investigating a college program — should hit the spot.”
—Orange County Register
Scott Carson, Departure 37
(Atria)
“Wildly imaginative and genuinely, nailbitingly suspenseful.”– Booklist
Claire Andrews, A Beautiful and Terrible Murder
(Little Brown Books for Young Readers)
* “Free of vanity, indifferent to the male gaze, and portrayed without objectification, Daphne’s the compelling hero of an epic closer in tone to its Homeric source than to many pop-culture iterations…. ” -—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
