Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks.
Miranda Smith, Scary Movie Night
(Bantam)
“A dazzling locked-room love letter to Hitchcock, Scary Movie Night is full of genuinely shocking reveals rooted in dark truths about the human heart. It’s a blockbuster, and Miranda Smith is a star.”—Ashley Winstead
Lucy Burdette, A Delicious Deception
(Crooked Lane Books)
“Well-drawn characters and an oddball mystery are buoyed by to-die-for appended recipes.”
–Kirkus Reviews
Araminta Hall, Unreliable Narrator
(Putnam)
“[A] twisting and devastating psychological thriller filled with tension and characters on the razor’s edge of calamity . . . With her [novel] Imperfect Women now a streaming show with an all-star cast, Hall’s new steamy summer thriller will be high on book-club TBRs.”
–Booklist
Arvind Ethan David, The Great Game
(Thomas & Mercer)
“The Great Game is an endlessly charming historical thriller, breathlessly paced and told with a sharp, original voice. The kind of debut novel that makes one excited for what comes next.”
–Ben H. Winters
Nathaniel Rich, Cloudthief
(MCD)
“[A] meticulously plotted, philosophically compelling caper . . . Engrossing . . . Genuine intellectual heft and fast-paced, nimbly plotted action can coexist, after all. Top-notch.”
–Kirkus Reviews
Ashley Winstead, Hot Girl Murder Club
(Minotaur)
“A savage #MeToo revenge fantasy… genuinely satisfying”
–Publishers Weekly
Teresa Dovalpage, The Novel Detective
(Soho Crime)
“With lovable characters, a gripping core mystery, and a vividly rendered setting, this bolsters Dovalpage’s reputation as a reliable purveyor of quality crime fiction. Readers will be entertained.”
—Publishers Weekly
Jo Piazza, The Parisian Heist
(Dutton)
“What a cocktail of art history, determination, and rich people behaving badly, with all capped by an art heist that will have readers holding their breath.”
—firstCLUE
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Intrigue
(Del Rey)
“A pulpy noir–telenovela mashup that would make James M. Cain jealous.”
–Los Angeles Times
Lo Patrick, The Sins of Summer Daughters
(Sourcebooks Landmark)
“Patrick’s latest recounts how the circumstances of our childhoods may never leave us…Thick with setting, this will appeal to readers of Kelly Mustian and Donna Everhart.”
–Booklist
Pamela Colloff, Catch the Devil
(Knopf)
“Unfolding in cinematic detail, Catch the Devil offers a riveting and disturbing account of the potentially fatal consequences of a criminal legal system that is more concerned with securing convictions than determining the truth and delivering justice.”
–NPR
Rebecca Wright Stevens, Sisters of the Midnight Sun
(Counterpoint)
“[A]n engrossing blend of memoir, travelogue, and courtroom drama about a double murder in the wilds of Alaska . . . The account culminates with courtroom fireworks, but it works equally well as a more modest fish out of water narrative. Readers will be rapt.”
–Publishers Weekly
