Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks.
Lisa Jewell, It Could Have Been Her
(Atria)
“With a shrewd command of the narrative, Jewell turns a chance encounter into a disturbing treatise on the past’s ability to assert itself in ways both unwelcome and unlikely . . . . [a] pitch-black spine-tingler.”
–Publishers Weekly
Catherine Steadman, Nine Lives
(Bantam)
“A sleek, unsettling puzzle of a novel—a gripping and haunting exploration of identity and the heavy cost of survival.”
–Harlan Coben
EL Chen, Slasher Summer
(Crown)
“A smart, disturbing homage to the slasher tradition, reimagined with contemporary teeth. Slasher Summer will stay with you long after the blood has dried.”
–Daphne Fama
Carol Snow, The Girl on the Beach
(Crooked Lane)
“In a world of privilege and pretense, a young girl vanishes. Carol Snow’s propulsive and gripping The Girl On The Beach reels you in with a darkly charged love triangle and rich, compelling characters—none of them innocent. Just when you think you understand what happened, a shocking twist upends everything.”
–Mary Dixie Carter
Allison Brennan, Whisper Creek
(Minotaur)
“Brennan skillfully juxtaposes external and internal conflicts as they merge into a frantic climax. A compelling, quick read, Brennan’s latest will attract her many fans and anyone interested in the challenges facing America’s small farmers.”
–Booklist
Charlie Harris, Mendo
(Counterpoint)
“Oxford University researcher Harris debuts with a freewheeling history of the grassroots marijuana industry in California’s rural Mendocino County . . . It makes for a raucous look at the renegades that built the Emerald Triangle ”
–Publishers Weekly
Ru Marshall, American Trickster
(OR Books)
“Marshall reveals in this detailed, well-documented, and revelatory biography, early suspicions . . . that Castaneda’s writings are mostly, if not entirely, fictional.”
–Booklist
Alexandra Sokoloff, Craig Robertson, The Grapevine
(Blackstone)
“Raw, wrenching, and totally compelling–The Grapevine hooked me from start to end.”
–Ruth Ware
Laura Evans, Little Wild
(Henry Holt)
“Forbidden love meets witchy magic . . . A lyrical, peculiar, romantic, and fantastic mélange.”
–Kirkus
Harlan Coben, C.J. Box, Birds of Prey
(The Mysterious Press)
“Birds of a feather flock together in this collection celebrating predators, both airborne and earthbound. . . . There are predators and there are prey, and these stories make it easy to root for the victims. Coben and Box have an eagle eye for what makes a good story.”
–Kirkus
