Following a career as an award-winning screenwriter and director for the past two decades, Katie Tallo of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, decided she wanted to write a novel. The end result is a complex, character-driven thriller she has aptly titled Dark August. The protagonist in this saga is Augusta ‘Gus’ Monet, a young woman who is…
What’s Left of Me Is Yours is a gripping debut set in modern-day Tokyo and inspired by a true crime that charts a young woman’s search for the truth about her mother’s life—and her murder. Stephanie Scott’s What’s Left of Me Is Yours is an outstanding novel that occupies the interstitial space between crime and…
In Alex Finlay’s Every Last Fear (Minotaur Books, March 2021) a family made infamous by a true-crime documentary is found dead, leaving their surviving son to uncover the truth about their final days. For the first time, you can check out the cover here and read on for an exclusive excerpt from this highly anticipated…
Maggie D’arcy’s life was shaped by her relationship with her cousin Erin Flaherty. They were as close as sisters: Erin lived with Maggie’s family on and off for years. Erin’s dad, Danny, owns Flaherty’s, an Irish bar on Long Island. Sarah Stewart Taylor has a dab hand in bringing locales to life, like Flaherty’s bar…
The Fire Thief by Debra Bokur is the first book in the new Dark Paradise Mystery series featuring Detective Kali Māhoe, where the Maui scenery may be beautiful, but dangerous secrets are buried beneath paradise. Oh, to be on gorgeous Maui in times like these—especially if you live in an area where the weather is…
Prologue When the car bypassed the main terminal building and pulled up next to a sign that said PRIVATE JET CENTER, Emily breathed in so fast she almost choked. “You’re kidding me,” she said to her driver (her very own driver!), who smiled and opened the door for her like she was Cinderella. A security…
You Let Me In delivers a stunning tale from debut author Camilla Bruce, combining a sinister domestic atmosphere with otherwordly thrills. You Let Me In by Norwegian writer Camilla Bruce is a mixed genre novel that will grab you by the throat and not let you go. This “modern fairy tale” is in the tradition of…
The Missing Sister by Elle Marr is a thrilling debut, set in Paris, where one twin sister has seemingly vanished, and the other must scramble to solve the mystery and find her sister before the danger turns deadly. Elle Marr is far from being the first author to choose the Catacombs of Paris as her…
The Only Child by Mi-Ae Seo is an eerie and absorbing novel following a criminal psychologist who has discovered shocking and possibly dangerous connections between a serial killer and her stepdaughter. Yi Seonkyeong is a young criminal psychologist who’s just wrapping up her first semester of teaching when she receives a curious request. A convicted serial killer named…
In his new dystopian novel, The Last Day, Andrew Hunter Murray explores a question we all wonder: What happens on the day the earth stands still? Andrew Hunter Murray took an idea that sounds simple – the world stops turning – and spun it into a gripping novel about those with power and sunlight on…
