In her research for Under My Skin [Park Row Books], the chilling tale of a photographer haunted–both night and day–by the unsolved murder of her husband, master storyteller Lisa Unger delved into an impressive reading list that included works by Carl Jung, a photography treatise by Susan Sontag, and Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams. The result is a novelization of the complicated lengths our minds go to fill in the blanks after trauma (read more…)

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Travel from the Balkans to England, Iraq to NYC, and finally to an ordinary home in Kansas on The Day of the Killing, when a frantic 911 calls in the opening pages of Annie Ward’s Beautiful Bad [March, 2019] summons the police to a shocking crime scene. Loved the read? Request the entire ARC on Netgalley, here.   Early praise for Beautiful Bad: “As imaginatively constructed as it is compelling. Filled with (read more…)

‘Tis the (election) season! Feeling a bit of political fatigue as we head into the 2018 elections? Book Clubbish has the perfect book club kit remedy for you. The West Wing meets Sex and the City in Aimee Agresti’s Campaign Widows [Graydon House], a wickedly sharp, wildly fun take on the Washington landscape. Follow the misadventures of the “widows,” an inner circle of DC elites who forge unlikely friendships and unbreakable bonds over the (read more…)

In Mike Chen’s cinematic sci-fi debut, Here and Now and Then [January, MIRA Books],  a father torn between two homes–and two times–will travel anywhere, and everywhen, to save his only daughter. Don’t miss the book that Publishers Weekly calls in their starred review a “heartfelt and thrilling debut“: “Chen revitalizes the trope of the absent and unavailable father by placing Kin Stewart in an impossible situation: despite living on the (read more…)