A Measure of Darkness by Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman is the second book in the Clay Edison series, where the deputy coroner goes to extreme lengths for a forgotten Jane Doe. Fresh off of a suspension, Deputy Coroner Clay Edison is back on duty just in time to catch one of the bloodiest shootings in Oakland history. The…
The Trial and Execution of the Traitor George Washington by Charles Rosenberg is a thought-provoking novel that imagines what would have happened if the British had succeeded in kidnapping General George Washington. Colonel Jeremiah Black arrives on America’s shore in 1780 with no idea if he will succeed in his mission: to capture George Washington. Getting to…
Invitation to a Bonfire by Adrienne Celt is the seductive story of a dangerous love triangle, inspired by the infamous Nabokov marriage, with a spellbinding psychological thriller at its core. Zoya Andropova doesn’t feel like she belongs in the all-girls boarding school she finds herself in. After being shipped out of the newly-minted Soviet Union, 1920s…
Tiny Crimes, edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto, is a collection of 40 very short stories that reimagine the genre of crime writing from some of today’s most imaginative and thrilling writers. This introductory paragraph to Tiny Crimes—a collection of super short, teeny-tiny, itty-bitty tales of murder and mayhem, which were edited by Lincoln…
Daughters of Bad Men by Laura Oles is a debut novel that follows skip tracer Jamie Rush as she tries to escape her small-time criminal upbringing and put the skills she learned to good use. Jamie Rush has grown up on the rough side. The child and sibling of conmen, Jamie somehow managed to fall on…
A Matter of Chance by Julie Maloney follows a single mother’s neverending search for her missing daughter as each twist and turn brings her closer to finding the truth—but puts herself in increasing danger in the process. Maddy Stewart is vacationing on the New Jersey shore with her 8-year-old daughter, Vinni (short for Lavinia). They’re…
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann is a twisting, haunting, true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history. Oklahoma, 1920s. The Osage Nation is the richest group of people in the United States. An oil boom on their land has afforded…
Building on the world first seen in The Last Child, The Hush by John Hart delivers a stunning vision of a secret world, rarely seen (available February 27, 2018). Take a visual tour of The Hush with GIFnotes! For 150 years, the Freemantle family has owned the 6,000 acres of North Carolina know as Hush…
The Weight of an Infinite Sky by Carrie La Seur explores the heart and mystery of Big Sky Country in this evocative and atmospheric novel of family, home, love, and responsibility inspired by William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. After his father’s surprise death, Anthony Fry—son of cattle ranchers Dean and Sarah Fry—returns home to Billings, Montana, to…
Odd Child Out by Gilly Macmillan is the second book in the Detective Jim Clemo series (available October 3, 2017). Detective Jim Clemo is back on the Bristol police force after six months of enforced counseling. To ease him back into service, he’s given a case that doesn’t seem too difficult on the surface: Noah…
