“Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you’re not careful it will drown you.” – Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory
Big Little Truths by Liane Moriarty ★
fiction / suspense / mystery.
The last time we saw the women of Big Little Lies—Madeline, Celeste, Jane, Renata, and Bonnie—their children were five years old. If someone wasn’t invited to a birthday party, feelings were hurt. But ten years have passed and the kids are in high school, navigating all of the drama that accompanies teendom (goodbye playdates, hello drugs, sex, and alcohol).
When the high school principal receives a threatening package in the mail, word quickly spreads throughout the community and parents are in an uproar. But Madeline, Celeste, Jane, Renata, and Bonnie have other things to worry about. Celeste’s mother-in-law, Mary Louise, is behaving oddly—is it old-age forgetfulness and bluntness or something more sinister? Madeline is facing perhaps the biggest challenge of her life, Jane is at a dangerous fork in her marriage, Bonnie has realized there’s only so much solace in yoga. And Renata? Renata is living her best life—revenge is sweet.
When a stranger begins lurking around the school asking supposedly innocent questions, this tightly connected group of women must finally face the full repercussions of the big little truths they have and haven’t shared with their kids. Because the stakes are now much higher than not being invited to an ice-skating party—and the ice has never been thinner for any of them.
“…I absolutely loved this book – even more than the first one… I loved being back in this world, and somehow Moriarty has managed to make the wait of more than a decade completely worth it.” – Kathryn, Tea Leaves & Reads
“Returning to the world of Big Little Lies feels like catching up with old friends… Moriarty’s trademark blend of razor-sharp wit, psychological insight, and irresistible suspense is at full strength… Whether you’re returning to Pirriwee or meeting these characters for the first time, Big Little Truths is a funny, compassionate reminder that growing older doesn’t necessarily make life any less messy.” – Apple Books Review
“…Liane Moriarty examines the complexities of modern women’s lives, shining light on family dynamics and long-hidden truths with wit and compassion. Whether you’ve read Big Little Lies or not, this is the perfect novel for longtime fans and new readers alike.” – Criminal Element
The Book of the Jaguar by Victor Ladis Schultz
fiction / fantasy.
The legions of New Serraña have a sacred custom: when a legionnaire falls in battle, a member of their company must bear the body home to the dead soldier’s family. Álbaro Ceynos is the only surviving member of his company. He’d been garrisoned at Presidio Los Primos, known as the realm’s safest assignment, until a fabled monster emerged from legend, crept down from the mountains, and laid waste to the old fortress.
Now, with one horse, one wagon, one sword, and all his slain brethren, Álbaro the bonebearer roams a decaying empire, bringing home his comrades’ remains. As he meets an array of mourners who move him to question past choices and future commitments, he’ll reveal how the tragedy unfolded, death by death, and how it is that he yet lives.
“The Book of the Jaguar is both a gripping high-fantasy epic and a probing meditation of loss. It’s a book you’ll want to pore over again and again, both for the inventiveness of the world and the questions with which it leaves you. This is an absolute feat of imagination and love.” – Michael Welch, Chicago Review of Books
“An addictive read. Story by story, a fascinating world is revealed, at times heartbreaking, comic, or terrifying, but always compassionate and original. A fantasy has never felt so real, its people so true.” – Sue Burke, Semiosis
Changing Gender by Susan Stryker
nonfiction / memoir / history / sociology.
That gender is a hotly contested topic becomes ever clearer as antigender ideology continues to be mobilized by the far right and transgender people’s lives are increasingly targeted. But what are we talking about when we talk about gender? Where did the concept itself come from, and where might it go?
In Changing Gender, the leading trans scholar Susan Stryker invites readers to ride along on her lifelong quest to uncover what gender means and does. She traces the gender concept’s roots in grammar and tells the story of how it transformed into a battleground of the culture wars. From the origins of “Yankee Doodle” to acid trips in Joshua Tree National Park, from nineteenth-century phrenology to present-day anti-trans conspiracy theorists, Stryker finds surprising places to tune in to the origins, idiosyncrasies, and generative possibilities of the gender concept. Along the way, she weaves stories drawn from her lifetime as a pathbreaking historian, filmmaker, activist, and founding figure of transgender studies.
Poignant and deeply researched, lyrical and authoritative, Changing Gender is a book for our fraught time, exposing limiting assumptions about gender across the political spectrum and imagining what life might look like if some of those limitations were lifted. Ultimately, Stryker argues, to change gender is to change what it means to be human―and to change reality itself.
“Beautiful and speculative… This is a brave book, written during a moment when such bravery matters more than ever, and it belongs alongside works of activism and advocacy while also sharing the introspective, beautiful poetics of memoirs by authors such as Terry Tempest Williams and Helen Macdonald.” – Emily Bowles, Library Journal, STARRED REVIEW
“…mandatory reading… [Stryker is] uniquely gifted at explaining and contextualizing the history of transness as we know it in ways that are clear, accessible, enlightening, and entertaining.” – Calvin Kasulke, Literary Hub
“This triumphant exploration of a complex topic deserves to become an instant classic… Chapter IX of Susan Stryker’s Changing Gender should be read and studied by students and scholars for generations to come; without exaggeration, it makes this book one of the most important texts ever written about how to define gender… In Stryker’s hands, the issues surrounding gender are discussed, debated, and deconstructed to ensure that all readers — even transphobic ones — enjoy a well-researched immersion in the subject.” – Douglas C. MacLeod Jr., Washington Independent Review of Books
Crocodilopolis by John Manuel Arias ★
fiction.
Once a powerful, cold-blooded politician in Costa Rica, Seth Oreamundo is now living in exile in Washington, DC – and his younger brother Osario is to blame. Born into a corrupt political dynasty and raised on a seemingly idyllic coffee estate, the Oreamundo brothers were destined for greatness. But a dark family secret and a scandalous double crossing sent their lives into a tailspin, changing the country forever.
Osario must pay, and Seth decides the only way to do so is to return home to Costa Rica and feed his brother to the infamous river of crocodiles from their childhood. What follows is a spellbinding story of revenge alternating between Seth’s murderous plans and memories of the brothers’ upbringing. With the wisdom of biblical myth and the soapy wit of a telenovela, Crocodilopolis is a masterful interrogation of power, masculinity, destiny, and legacy from a literary star on the rise.
“Brotherhood! Masculinity! Unhinged, extravagant revenge plans! John Manuel Arias’s sophomore novel is sharp, hungry, and full of teeth.” – McKayla Coyle, Literary Hub
“This impressive novel lingered in my mind for days after I finished it.” – Brian Tanguay, California Review of Books
“[A] lush and suspenseful saga… Unlike his misguided protagonist, Arias remains in control to the very end of this un-put-downable novel.” – Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
“Any writer who attempts to combine sweeping historical fiction with achingly elegant prose is walking a tightrope indeed. In Crocodilopolis, John Manuel Arias pulls it off… Will the next generation of Oreamundo children be doomed to repeat the mistakes of their parents, or do Andrés and Horacio have a chance to break the curse? In bejeweled language, Arias asks these and other incisive questions in this gem of a story.” – Mariko Hewer, Washington Independent Review of Books
Daggerbound by T. Kingfisher ★
fiction / fantasy / romance.
Learned Edmund, a disillusioned scholar, is transporting yet another precious relic from one stuffy temple to a different stuffy temple. Another great adventure for the ages…
But when Edmund is set upon by bandits, in desperation, he breaks the cardinal rule and grabs for the relic, an ancient sword. To his surprise, instead of unsheathing a rusty, ancient weapon, an alarmingly handsome man appears, wielding daggers of blue steel and cutting the thieves down.
This man is the Dervish, an immortal warrior who’s been trapped for centuries in a sword of enchanted steel, and is angry as hell about it. He hates the curse that put him there, and he wants to hate Edmund, just as he has hated every wielder before him.
But the damned scholar is just so sweet and clever and kind. And while the Dervish may be able to protect Edmund from bandits, cultists, dragons, and strange inhuman diplomats, he may find it much harder to protect his own heart.
“What an absolute delight of a fantasy adventure! Kingfisher has a way of capturing what it feels like to play Dungeons and Dragons with your friends, but in novel form. The perfect balance of humor, romance, and edge of your seat action.” – Emma Lucore, The Indie Next List
Dèy by Edwidge Danticat ★
fiction.
“Is home the place where we are born? Or is it the place where we die?” These questions haunt Magnolia, a successful Haitian American real estate agent in Miami. When she hears gunfire while at a shopping mall, she takes shelter in a nearby restaurant, cowering with fellow shoppers and diners. Once she’s safely home, Magnolia keeps this traumatic event from everyone. But given her life back, she begins to see everything clearly: her extraordinary bond with her daughter, Zoë; her nearly broken relationship with Zoë’s father; the challenges of her mentally troubled mother, whose unraveling patterns Magnolia worries she’s spiraling toward herself; and her father’s affair with a woman who has borne him a child. While struggling through the labyrinth of her past, Magnolia must also come to terms with the losses sustained that life-altering day, and nearly every day by her parents and sibling in Haiti.
Can love or family protect us from harm? Does optimism or fear win out in one’s heart? Which side will prevail for Magnolia? Pulled between these questions, each of which involves a high-stakes choice—Miami or Haiti, single or married, mortal or ghost, before or after—Magnolia is a narrator who is “yon pati koukouy, part firefly”: flitting and shimmering between different worlds.
Taking as its title a Haitian Kreyòl word for mourning, Dèy is a profoundly warm and moving novel about the importance not only of sharing grief but also of inseverable family ties. Brave and striking, Dèy is one of Danticat’s most powerful and deeply affecting works yet, told with her signature “unfaltering voice and evocative beauty” (Boston Globe).
“…Danticat delivers a resounding testament to the strength gained by sharing, whether in celebration, fear, grief, or family memories. This delicate and wonderful novel draws beauty from heartache.” – Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
“In graceful, gimlet-eyed prose, Edwidge Danticat stares down preconceptions of family and belonging, lending her novel propulsion and promise.” – Hamilton Cain, Time
“Edwidge Danticat is an international treasure, and her sixth novel, Dèy, proves it. Its title means ‘mourning’ in Haitian Kreyòl. Yes, there’s a lot of mourning in this book, but it’s intertwined with joy and hope… Danticat warns not to do like Magnolia and keep that pain hidden from your loved ones. In dark times, love and community are everything.” – Arlene McKanic, BookPage, STARRED REVIEW
“By the last page, Dèy facilitates reflection on multiple losses. Chiefly, for the lives we once knew as we strive for agency; for our nations and neighborhoods alike; and for the idea of loved ones as they ‘should’ be versus who they are. Danticat carries us through each storyline in her signature heavy-yet-light style, crafting an evocative commentary on life in America today — and perhaps her most American novel yet.” – Macollvie J. Neel, The Haitian Times
The Ghost of the Mountains: Unraveling the Secrets of the Snow Leopard by Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi
nonfiction / science / nature / animals / memoir.
Snow leopards have a special grip on the human imagination, a symbol of the mysteries that still exist on our planet. These elusive predators live solitary lives in the highest reaches of the Himalaya, moving along rock faces like smoke. They are also the flagship species of Himalayan conservation, key to preserving this austere, delicate ecosystem.
Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi is one of the world’s leading snow leopard scientists. In The Ghost of the Mountains, he offers an evocative and personal account of his decades of work in this field, from his exhilarating adventures on the high peaks to his efforts to build a community-based, collaborative model for protecting the snow leopards and their remaining habitat. That habitat is increasingly under threat as encroaching development, ongoing armed conflict, and rapidly intensifying climate change transform this region.
Thrilling, illuminating, and filled with transportive storytelling, The Ghost of the Mountains reveals the challenges facing a beautiful, fragile ecosystem in the midst of a major transition. As Suryawanshi describes his crucial work as a conservationist in a rapidly changing world, he also conveys an infectious sense of wonder. For him, every snow leopard encounter is still a transcendent experience, offering a renewed sense of meaning and purpose.
“[A] highly readable tale of conservation.” – Nancy Bent, Booklist, STARRED REVIEW
“This is one for all of us who love silvery-grey snow leopards, those fabulous and elusive beasts… Suryawanshi has studied them in the wild, exploring every aspect of their lives from habitat to prey to population – sometimes living for months in the world’s toughest, most remote environments.” – Liz Else, New Scientist
“…compelling and intimate… This is a gritty and detailed portrait of an often misunderstood and endangered species in an increasingly hostile, crowded and hot environment… The effect of this book is a gradual stripping away of mystification, revealing the snow leopard to be fragile and beautiful just like any other inhabitant of high mountain ranges… but no less wondrous for it, and no less deserving of our attention and respect.” – Edward Posnett, The Guardian
Heart of Glass by Jennifer Hillier ★
fiction / suspense / mystery.
Twenty-five years ago in Seaside, Washington, a charming drifter named Sam met three inseparable teenage girls at the local amusement park. Days later, one of them was found dead, her body surfacing in a flooded cranberry bog not far from where she was murdered.
Barb and Nicolette were shocked to learn that the man they all met at Wonderland was the Carnival Killer. After he’s arrested for the murders of five young women – one of whom was their best friend, Lorelei – Nicolette moved to the city to pursue her dreams of being famous. Barb stayed behind in Seaside, eventually becoming a reporter for the local paper. Their past safely behind them, they’ve both moved on with their lives.
But when the Carnival Killer recants his confession and a new body washes ashore on the eve of Wonderland’s grand reopening, the secrets that Barb and Nicolette have worked so hard to bury begin to resurface, threatening to destroy everything in their carefully constructed lives.
“…deliciously chilling…” – Olline H. Cogdill, South Florida Sun Sentinel
“Hillier delivers another knockout thriller with compulsively readable prose and sly, subtle twists. A must-read.” – Cari Dubiel, Booklist, STARRED REVIEW
“…juicy and spicy, voyeuristic and indulgent, layered and complex, gripping and satisfying. Another wildly entertaining thriller from an author who always delivers.” – Steve Netter, The Best Thriller Books
“Put on your detective hat and grab your magnifying glass—as each piece of this book’s puzzle clicked into place, we couldn’t wait to re-read and catch all of the clever hints and clues that we missed along the way.” – Book of the Month
Nobody Broke Your Heart: An Intimate Biography of Elliott Smith by Jamie Fisher
nonfiction / biography / music / history.
Nobody Broke Your Heart is a tender, nuanced narrative of Elliott Smith, one of the most influential and tragic musicians of the 1990s, whose records are deeply beloved to this day, written by New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker–published author Jamie Fisher.
Starting with his childhood in Texas, following him through his making as an artist in Portland and New York, and reckoning honestly with his unmaking in Los Angeles, Fisher has used never-before-seen archival evidence (unheard recordings, draft lyrics, photos, and correspondence) alongside extensive interviews with friends, family, girlfriends, and collaborators to shed light on the real Elliott Smith, in all his complexity.
Vividly animating Elliott’s world and analyzing his work and legacy in loving depth, Nobody Broke Your Heart is an essential book for anyone who loves Elliott Smith and his music—and anyone who’s loved someone grappling with addiction and mental illness.
“[A] riveting, comprehensive biography… Fisher achieves the rarest feat in music biography; she conjures Smith’s presence rather than merely mourning his absence.” – Freda Love Smith, Booklist, STARRED REVIEW
“The bighearted biography that Smith and his acolytes deserve.” – Kirkus Reviews
“Fisher does nimble work in burrowing beneath the tortured artist stereotype to paint Smith as a sensitive, giving, eccentric, and sometimes obstinate musician whose ability to feel deeply was both his gift and his downfall. For Smith’s fans, this is a must.” – Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
Not a Word by Linwood Barclay
fiction / suspense / mystery.
Every family has secrets, but when Reece visits his parents’ house, he’s shocked to find them in bed, dead. At first glance it looks like a murder-suicide perpetrated by his father, but on closer inspection there’s clearly more to the story. For starters, inconsistencies in the crime scene suggest his dad may not have shot himself.
As Reece, shaken by his horrifying discovery, awaits questioning from the police, his phone lights up with a call. It’s the last person he ever would have expected to hear from.
Reeling from the day’s events, Reece finds himself questioning everything he thought he knew about his parents—and whether he and his own family are in danger now. While the authorities work to untangle the baffling crime scene, Reece is pulled into a web of secrets linked to the unscrupulous pharma company his father worked for years ago.
In order to protect the people he loves most, he’ll have to dig deep into his own past to understand who his parents were, what they did, and who they hurt—before he ends up paying for their sins.
“[A] tense tale of domestic suspense… The plot twists come fast and furious as past and present collide, but never at the expense of readers’ emotional investment—following Reece as he grapples with his family’s undoing is genuinely heartbreaking. It’s a winner.” – Publishers Weekly
“Author Linwood Barclay has written the novel of the summer with so many twists and turns, you need a scorecard. This one is not to be missed.” – Red Carpet Crash
“Barclay is a terrific plotter, but his most prominent gift is his ability to anchor his stories with characters who feel like everyday, ordinary people—it’s easy to imagine that something like this could actually happen and to speculate about how we would react if we were in Reece’s position. There are multiple plot twists, but they feel entirely organic, like naturally occurring twists and turns—like real life being its unpredictable self. First-class storytelling from a first-rate novelist.” – David Pitt, Booklist
Portrait of a Witch Undone by K.S. Shay
fiction / fantasy / mystery / historical fiction.
Once, Maeve Ryan was the strongest witch of her generation. But Maeve messed up a spell to contact the Lady of the Fens, an eerie Revenant who lures the unwary to their deaths in the brackish marshlands of the North Shore. Maeve destroyed her reputation, hurt her best friend Ash, and tainted herself with unbound, wild magic that transforms witches into insane Revenants.
With unbound power eating away at Maeve’s mind, all she wants is to get rid of her magic. Forever. But Ash’s research into how the spell went awry leads in an unexpected direction: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and a link between the Lady and a decades-old art theft worth $500 million. When Ash disappears through a stolen painting’s empty frame, Maeve has to follow.
Inside is the Other Marsh, a haunting, deadly realm where only the Lady’s rules apply. Within this half-world lie secrets about North Shore’s history, Maeve’s failure, and the fate of the masterpieces that disappeared over three decades ago. But as Maeve fights toward the truth, she risks her friendship, her coven, and her life against enemies hiding in plain sight.
“[An] atmospheric, eerie contemporary fantasy debut…” – Reactor
“…this ever-moving story takes an inventive approach to everyday enchantments and the meaning of belief… Moving in its approaches to friendship, chosen families, and the magic of art, Portrait of a Witch Undone is an imaginative fantasy novel about sisterhood, loyalty, and letting go.” – Michelle Anne Schingler, Foreword Reviews
“…unforgettable… Shay excels at crafting magic that feels fresh… a deep, dark exploration of what it means to not only be linked to cruel intergenerational trauma, but have that trauma freshly unearthed… Maeve and Gabriel’s adventure is interspersed with images of the paintings stolen in the very real theft from the Gardner Museum in March of 1990, when the ominous number of 13 paintings were stolen and never recovered. Shay’s inventive reimagining of what that mystery would look like if a modern witch coven were involved is a delight, an energetic fantasy with a twist of mystery and a splash of art history.” – Stephanie Cohen Xu, BookPage, STARRED REVIEW
The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore ★
nonfiction / history / politics / technology.
“Much in history is headlong but few grand transformations have been more precipitate or more heedless than the rise of… the Artificial State,” writes Jill Lepore in this passionate account of how rule by machine has ravaged the world. Inspired by Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism, which argued in 1951 that the machinery of modern life was reshaping the very fundamentals of human existence, Lepore, profoundly disturbed by the technology revolution and by the soulless inundation of artificial intelligence, unfurls a new history for our own twenty-first century.
Building on an essay in The New Yorker in 2024, Lepore’s clarion call traces our increasing dependence on and strangulation by data. Political campaigns, awash in an avalanche of fake bots, have been reduced to attention-mining algorithms, while multinational media corporations dictate public discourse, and the era of the liberal nation-state seems to be coming to a rapid end, replaced by billionaire technocrats reliant on autocracy and the tools of AI.
With Orwellian overtones, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State demonstrates how technology has corroded global democracy, leading to the destruction of both human community and capacity for self-government, creating a new form of AI government, a digital citizen’s assembly, where AI will recommend the course of action to humans in place of human-run legislatures. Especially sobering with this proliferation of “dizzying, ever-changing schemes, prophesies, and predictions” is that the Artificial State has come at the expense of the natural world, leading to catastrophic loss of wildlife habitat and biodiversity.
Deliberately alarming, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, despite its abundance of dire facts, is not a funeral dirge; rather, it’s an inspiring wake-up call, written in Lepore’s typically elegiac prose, which demonstrates that nothing about the Artificial State was inevitable, for it is a “government without consent, even government without humans.” It can, Lepore asserts, be dismantled. Other heinous systems, like feudalism, fascism, and slavery, have also been dismantled, but disassembly requires identifying the parts, tracing the sources. It requires telling a new history. This is the purpose of The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State.
“Lepore’s concept of the Artificial State is capacious. It includes both a fantasy desired by a select few and a reality that is already with us… Intriguing, jewel-like stories are Lepore’s hallmark, and The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State sparkles with them… Lepore’s argument that humanity is in the process of ceding vast power to a tiny group of unelected businessmen – some of whom appear to be cartoon supervillains – is a sound one.” – Farrah Jarral, The Guardian
“[A] powerful anti-AI treatise… a fiery cri de coeur.” – Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
“Staggering, sobering, yet essential reading for all who want to understand the arc of this increasingly digital, online, corporate, and out-of-control world.” – Carol Haggas, Booklist, STARRED REVIEW
“…our current predicament isn’t just a matter of tech billionaires conspiring to generate profits by making us beholden to their technologies. Lepore, a historian at Harvard and a staff writer for The New Yorker, traces an origin story for the Artificial State that is at once more surprising and more tragic… Throughout her book, Lepore threads a bravura discussion of the relationship between the rise of the Artificial State and the destruction of the environment. We replaced animals by machines, and now we can imagine robots doing the same to us… Parts of The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State read like an elegy for a vanishing world. But Lepore says it isn’t too late. We humans know how to make a mess of things; we also know how to imagine a different future.” – Jennifer Szalai, New York Times
The Shadow Friends by Tess Gerritsen
fiction / mystery / suspense.
When a renowned disease expert and Russian defector dies mysteriously during a global affairs conference in Purity, Maine, the tight-knit band of former spies in the Martini Club once again sees their quiet coastal retirement interrupted by international intrigue. And when a waitress at the conference hotel is found murdered, Ingrid Slocum sees chilling links to a disastrous mission that nearly killed her three decades ago.
Desperate to uncover the truth, Ingrid’s drawn back into the game by a magnetic ex-CIA colleague―and former lover―who was with her on the long-ago doomed mission. He convinces her to join him, and together they head to Amsterdam to track down her would-be killer.
Ingrid’s frantic husband Lloyd and Maggie Bird are close behind, but a clandestine network of assassins is intent on stopping them. Forced to question every allegiance, the Martini Club must rely on the skills they tried to leave behind. Because in this game of revenge and deception, the past never dies―it just hides in the shadows.
“Gerritsen keeps the action churning at a steady clip without skimping on character development. This series is in good shape.” – Publishers Weekly
“It’s a fast-paced, fun thriller, and Gerritsen’s plotting and twists and turns never disappoint.” – Town & Country
“Tess Gerritsen delivers another wonderfully fun and intense spy novel that grabs you early and keeps you engaged to the bitter end… [offers] something cerebral and contemplative without sacrificing action and intrigue… a captivating, suspenseful and unpredictable story works fantastically well. Grab your favorite cocktail, cozy up on the couch and enjoy watching the exhilarating work of seasoned operatives who might be out of the game, but the game isn’t out of them.” – Steven Netter, The Best Thriller Books
Wicked Wanted Widows by Kimberly Belle, Cate Holahan, & Vanessa Lillie
fiction / mystery / romance / suspense / historical fiction.
The Widows are back in this thrilling third installment of the Young Rich Widows series! This time, a Providence bank robbery-turned-kidnapping creates chaos, as rescuing one of their own finds them on the wrong side of the law, risking everything they’ve built since their spouses’ murders: their friendship, their freedom, and even their lives.
To save Meredith, the widows find themselves breaking out of jails and into graveyards, chasing the ghosts of indentured servants, and racing through the pirate tunnels under Providence.
As if jailbreaks weren’t enough, old loves have also come to haunt many of the widows. For Krystle, bringing her friend home risks exposing more of Sal’s criminal past and destroying any chance of a post-prison happily-ever-after. For Justine, it means throwing herself into the crosshairs of both the law and her mother-in-law, threatening custody of her son and the career she needs to give them a fresh start. For Camille, bringing her bestie home tests her responsibilities to her new, found family and the firm she inherited.
Pressuring the widows’ loyalty even more are Meredith’s own conflicted feelings about newcomer Grace. Meredith begins to question what she’s really running from― or returning to. Sure, it’s 1988, and “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” is blaring on the radio. But maybe bad girls have the real blast.
The widows’ genuine bond has gotten them out of sticky situations time and time again. In this treacherous world of liars and thieves, however, their ties to each other will have to withstand the pull of what they want for themselves. And sisterhood might not be enough to save them.
“This is packed with action and adventure… It’s a lot of fun, and perfect for mystery fans.” – Alexandria Ingham, Parade
“Wittily narrated in alternating chapters by the widows, plus a likable Irish art thief named Grace, the plot careens from sweet to suspenseful. It’s good, fast-paced fun.” – Publishers Weekly
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