Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks.
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J. Lincoln Fenn, The Nightmarchers
(Gallery)
“The Nightmarchers creeps up on you stealthily like a primordial vine, wraps itself around you, and before you know it, you are consumed in its elegant prose and unable to put it down. J Lincoln Fenn weaves a tale that unfolds, layer by layer, revealing terrible and fascinating secrets at every level until you reach its devastating core.”
–Kate Maruyama
Louise Penny, The Grey Wolf
(Minotaur)
“This series has always excelled.”
–New York Times Book Review
Jennifer Graeser Dornbush, Frozen Lives
(Blackstone)
“Jennifer Dornbush has crafted a thriller that haunts the mind and can keep you deep in the pages into the wee hours! A not-to-miss psychological mystery with twists and turns throughout.”
–Heather Graham
Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta, Feast While You Can
(Grand Central)
“[A] tantalizing novel. . . With arresting body horror, electric suspense, and intense sex scenes, the story moves at a breakneck clip. This carefully calibrated tale of queer desire is a feast for the senses.”
–Publishers Weekly
Olivia Blacke, A New Lease on Death
(Minotaur)
“This pair of amateur detectives just works, and readers will root for them and the friendship they’re building.”
–Booklist
Tod Goldberg (ed.), Eight Very Bad Nights: A Collection of Hanukkah Noir
(Soho)
“An engaging Hanukkah anthology that scrambles the holiday’s traditions into eight so-bad-they’re-good nights.”
–Paula Woods, Los Angeles Times
Nick Cutter, The Queen
(Gallery)
“This fast-paced and suspenseful story…is one of the most entertaining novels readers will encounter this year…disturbing on every level…Readers will be engulfed by the story from the moment they open the book, while the echoing hum of what they just experienced will buzz around in their heads long after they finish…Cutter is at the top of his game here, providing an intensely visceral and gripping tale.”
–Library Journal
Mike Fu, Masquerade
(Tin House)
“A surreal, queer, coming-of-age mystery set between New York and Shanghai.”
–Time
Emma C. Wells, This Girl’s a Killer
(Poisoned Pen)
“In her fierce and feminist debut, Emma C. Wells combines taut thriller plotting with sharp, sassy humor and introduces an indelible antiheroine I’d follow anywhere. Cordelia Black is the ultimate girl’s girl, and as far as I’m concerned, she’s done nothing wrong ever in her life. All hail the new queen of the ‘Good for Her’ genre!”
–Layne Fargo
CJ Skuse, In Bloom
(HQ)
“This darkly comic novel…has the potential to become a cult classic.”
–Daily Mail