Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks.
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Stephanie Wrobel, Hitchcock Hotel
(Berkley)
“[T]his locked-room mystery contains masterful pacing, with suspense built around the identity of the victim and then the discovery of the killer. Wrobel’s third novel (after This Might Hurt, 2022) artfully blends suspense with mystery, tying in quotes from Hitchcock as well as research about his work that will be intriguing to Hitchcock amateurs and aficionados alike.”
–Booklist
Abbott Kahler, Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II
(Crown)
“A wild ride through an extraordinary true story, Eden Undone is addictive and astonishing. It combines a forgotten piece of history with the urgency of a murder mystery in the most unlikely setting. It will captivate you.”
Susan Orlean
Val McDermid, Queen Macbeth
(Atlantic Monthly)
“Terse, atmospheric, and superbly reimagined, McDermid’s latest . . . perfectly captures the terror of living in a medieval Scotland riven by violence. Scottish history enthusiasts will enjoy.”
–Library Journal
Sam Wiebe, Ocean Drive
(Harbour Publishing)
“[The] plot unfolds with absolute command of pace, tension and mood…Sam Wiebe goes from strength to strength, with stellar characters, memorable settings, and clockwork plotting.”
–Vancouver Sun
Margot Harrison, The Midnight Club
(Graydon House)
“The Midnight Club is a strange, riveting, brilliant fable about smart people seduced by the darkest, most forbidden fantasy. Like a fever-dream of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.”
–Lev Grossman
Elyse Graham, Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spes of World War II
(Ecco)
“An engaging study of wartime American intelligence. . . . Graham makes a good case for studying the humanities as both an instrument of learning and a weapon of war. Bibliophiles with a taste for cloak-and-dagger work will enjoy this lively book.”
–Kirkus Reviews
Wright Thompson, The Barn: The Secret History of a Mississippi Murder
(Penguin)
“Carefully weighing each word as though it’s being set on the scales of justice, Thompson presents a deeply felt and vitally written history of conscience with infinite consequence.”
–Booklist
Sophie White, Where I End
(Erewhon)
“Tremendous; the transition from pity to fear, as we warily circle Aoileann’s brutalised psyche, is brilliantly done.”
–The Guardian
Jen Wheeler, A Cure for Sorrow
(Lake Union)
“Wheeler creates a dark world set against the backdrop of America’s first medical school, with cadavers, ghosts, secrets, and ancient brownstone mansions adding gothic imagery to her book’s blend of horror and mystery with historical fiction.”
–Booklist
Victoria Gilbert, A Killer Clue
(Crooked Lane Books)
“Gilbert stacks the proceedings with solid suspects, convincing red herrings, and a treasure trove of trivia about mid–20th century mystery authors. Golden Age whodunit fans will have fun.”
–Publishers Weekly
