First Chance Chance Book 1 Kasey Lansdale Blackstone Publishing September 2026 First Chance by Kasey Lansdale is her debut novel. People might recognize the last name because her dad, Joe R. Lansdale, was a writer with the long-running Hap & Leonard series. Just...
Where There’s Smoke Coldren County Book 2 Rachel Louise Adams Minotaur Books October 2026 Where There’s Smoke by Rachel Louise Adams can be read separately, but it will be helpful to read book one, No Rest for the Wicked, first. Reading these two books in order will...
Sleepers in the Snow, by Joanne Harris is a thoughtful, engrossing novel, which on the surface is a study in the complexities of dementia, but on a deeper level, it really can be read as an updated and inverted work of folk horror. It is not a thriller in the traditional sense.
Unearthed Circle of the Red Lily Book 3 Betrayed Circle of the Red Lily Book 4 Anna J. Stewart Tule Publisher Unearthed and Betrayed by Anna J. Stewart continues the “Red Lily Series.” Unearthed’s plot has forensic investigator Dr. Cassia Davis living a life of...
Dead Girls Beth Kubrick Simon & Schuster September 2026 Dead Girls by Beth Kubrick is a horror graphic novel in the same vein as the “Scream” type of movies. Ashley is the daughter of Evelyn Hargreeves, one of the youngest female serial killers on record. After...
Our Noble Selves is a delightful comic novel, one that only Kate Atkinson can write. While crimes do occur, the primary “action” surrounds the formulation and execution of 1951’s “Festival of Britain,” a grand, post-war, feel-good bash. It’s a major effort to lift the UK out of the doldrums following the trauma and destruction of WWII.
