Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks.
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Bethany C. Morrow, Cherish Farrah
(Dutton)
“Morrow returns to adult fiction with a chilling thriller about race, class, and female friendship… The shocking ending to this suspenseful novel with a masterfully drawn narrative voice will leave readers breathless.”
Booklist
Sara Gran, The Book of the Most Precious Substances
(Dreamland Books)
“Gran perfectly captures the eccentric world of antiquarian bookselling while portraying a profound and magical reckoning with loss and the possibility of going on. She has outdone herself. ”
Publishers Weekly, starred review
Mia P. Manansala, Homicide and Halo-Halo
(Berkley Books)
“While the follow-up to Arsenic and Adobo is a cozy mystery, it’s darker, dealing with PTSD, predatory behavior, dismissive attitudes toward mental health, and other issues. Filipino American food and culture, as well as family and community, remain essential elements in the story.”
Library Journal, starred review
Henry Farthing, The Ghost Moths
(Blackstone)
“Farthing’s sprawling plot unfolds in short, elegantly written chapters…An ambitious, stylishly written, thought-provoking tale.”
Kirkus Reviews
Kristen Bird, The Night She Went Missing
(MIRA)
“Bird’s gripping debut…does a good job dramatizing the extraordinary lengths mothers will go to protect their children. This twisty…tale of misdeeds among the privileged shows real promise.”
Publishers Weekly
Emilya Naymark, Behind the Lie
(Crooked Lane)
“Naymark hits the rhythms of small-town life perfectly and maintains tension by alternating perspectives. Lisa Unger fans will want to take a look.”
Publishers Weekly, starred review
Sarah Blake, Clean Air
(Algonquin)
“[An] engrossing and suspenseful tale that simultaneously delivers a lyrical homage to motherhood and a piercing vision of the fragility of humankind’s relationship with the natural world.”
Booklist
Calla Henkel, Other People’s Clothes
(Doubleday)
“Absorbing and electric…Henkel masterfully brings every inch of Hailey and Zoe’s world to life with her live-wire prose.”
Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Jonathan Kellerman, City of the Dead
(Ballantine)
“The death of a naked man, hit early one morning by a van near the UCLA campus, kicks off bestseller Kellerman’s complex 37th Alex Delaware novel (after 2021’s Serpentine).”
Publishers Weekly
Rick Bleiweiss, Pignon Scorbion and the Barbershop Detectives
(Blackstone)
“Bleiweiss’s entertaining debut introduces Chief Police Insp. Pignon Scorbion…Golden age fans appreciative of a light approach to traditional tropes will be eager for a sequel.”
Publishers Weekly
Editor’s correction: a previous version of this post stated that Calla Henkel’s Other People’s Clothes was to be published on the 8th, not the 1st, as is the case.
