Good news: Pumpkin spice lattes are back! Better news: Harlequin’s upcoming books are AMAZING! Best news: We already paired them with your favorite coffee house favorites… BELOW ARE SOME OF THE TITLES LIBRARIANS HAVE ALREADY FALLEN IN LOVE WITH ON GALLEYCHAT*:   Evergreen Tidings From The Baumgartners: Caramel Latte  Sweet and Addictive (Park Row Books; Oct. 16) The Spite Game: Pumpkin Spice Latte Sharp and Halloween-y (MIRA; October 30) Restoration Heights: Dark Mocha Latte (read more…)

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…)

“It’s a kids’ book…” PS. Don’t be like Fred. Find out more about the book here.

Apparently New Regency Pictures loves Stephen Giles’s “fun and wicked read” (Matthew Sullivan, author of Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore) as much as we do–so much so that Variety reports that they bought the film rights for The Boy at the Keyhole [Hanover Square Press], to be produced by Arnon Milchan (Pretty Woman, The Revenant, and Birdman). “I am over the moon that a production company with the pedigree of New Regency have shown such faith (read more…)

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…)