No Place for Us is a historical novel about tyranny, rescue, exile, racism, Jewish flight from Nazi Europe, and the strange moral bargains people make when trying to survive inside a dictatorship. It links two historical horrors that at first seem separate: Trujillo’s 1937 massacre of Haitians and Haitian-Dominicans in the Dominican Republic, and the […]
Never Breathe Easy is a political family thriller about Argentina’s Dirty War, exile, journalism, guilt, stolen children, false identities and the way historical violence keeps echoing through generations. It moves between Buenos Aires in the 1970s, Mexico and New York in exile, Rome in the 1980s and 1990s, and an Umbrian farmhouse where the buried […]
The Heights is a London crime novel about luxury property, dirty money, class, corruption, art, celebrity, policing and the moral rot hidden inside “super-prime” real estate. It begins with the death of a young night concierge in one of London’s most exclusive apartment buildings and ends with the building’s developer throwing himself from his own […]
The Witch is a dual-timeline gothic thriller set in Woodhaven, Massachusetts, around an old family estate called Pemberton. One timeline follows Julia, a twenty-seven-year-old woman in the present day who returns to the house she has avoided since childhood. The other follows Caroline Eldridge in 1692, a young woman who lived at Pemberton and was […]
Big Little Truths returns to Pirriwee ten years after the events of Big Little Lies. The old kindergarten parents are now the parents of teenagers, and the central joke of the novel’s epigraph becomes painfully true: little kids, little problems; big kids, big problems. Madeline, Celeste, Jane, Renata and Bonnie are still connected by friendship, […]
The Unknown unfolds through the perspective of Marin Keane, a struggling, largely anonymous actress whose life abruptly changes when she is cast in her first feature film. Marin has spent years hovering on the margins of success, defined by small theatrical roles and a humiliating pharmaceutical commercial, and she carries deep insecurities about her talent, […]
The novel begins with Matthew Phillips, a middle-aged heart surgeon in Edinburgh who is exhausted, emotionally disconnected from his family, and quietly unraveling under the pressure of his professional life. When he receives a jury citation, he deliberately does not seek exemption, even though he could easily do so because of his job. He sees […]
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir’s novel Syndafall is a dark psychological thriller that follows several seemingly separate lives which gradually, and tragically, intersect. The novel explores guilt, repression, moral responsibility and the devastating consequences of mistakes that are never confronted. Although the narrative shifts between characters, the story unfolds as a single chain of cause and effect, in […]
Woman Down follows Petra Rose, a bestselling novelist whose career and personal stability collapse after a public scandal tied to the film adaptation of her most famous book. Once widely adored, Petra becomes the target of online outrage when leaked messages reveal that she privately supported major creative changes to the movie, including the removal […]