Debut

“Love and death, suffering and addiction, family and displacement, all become interwoven into a commentary on the present intractable mess.

You know those stories that go bump in the night? This, most definitely, is one of those. Marcus Kliewer’s first novel is an old-fashioned ghost story about a haunted house.

“The Instrumentalist is a marvel, a story rich in texture and detail.”

Reading The Singer Sisters, what comes immediately to mind is not the soap-opera-like drama of Fleetwood Mac circa 1977’s Rumours, but the thinly veiled miniseries made of those s

“explodes with brilliant language. . . . a lovely, richly written first novel.”

The premise for Pearson’s story, Bright and Tender Dark, is a classic whodunit. Karlie Richards is a college student in North Carolina, and she is murdered.

Brat, the debut novel of Gabriel Smith, has been alternately described as “thrillingly claustrophobic” (Ed Park, author of Same Bed Different Dreams) and “jauntily creepy” (Gabrie

This book is about blood. Not the kind that immediately comes to mind—there is very little violence or bloodshed in its pages.

“an intimate novel, closely and brilliantly observed . . .”

“succeeds thanks to Samson’s finely rendered characterizations and twists that are believable yet impossible to predict.”

“Officials forcibly remove her to the New York School for Girls where she is essentially imprisoned and turned into an indentured servant.

“And I didn’t ask any questions,” the narrator of Nicola Solvinic’s debut mystery-thriller The Hunter’s Daughter, says in her first-person account of what it’s like having been raised by a