The Law of Attraction is a conspiracy thriller, romantic mystery, and meta-publishing novel about prediction, fate, manipulation, and the possibility that belief itself can alter events. Its heroine is Amy Shaw, a former Washington Post crime reporter now working as an assistant librarian at Harvard’s Widener Library while trying to sell a memoir about the […]
The Checkout Girl is a psychological thriller about obsession, class envy, reinvention, and the terrifying cost of wanting another woman’s life. It begins in June 2025, with a glamorous blonde woman walking into a Dublin supermarket with two little girls. She is rich, powerful, and beautifully dressed. She remembers Eleanor Nolan, “the checkout girl,” and […]
Dust Country is an outback thriller about a British backpacker, Beth Forrester, who tries to help a frightened child and is pulled into the path of a sadistic killer. It is also a survival story about heat, distance, male violence, and the terrifying emptiness of the Australian interior. The novel opens on Thursday with Inspector […]
Grenade is a first-person novel about Zuzu, a filmmaker in her mid-thirties who travels to Paris for the premiere of her first feature, A Woman Is the Weather, while trying to hold together a collapsing sense of self: her marriage, her stalled career, her grief after miscarriages, and the reappearance of Paloma, the world-famous pop […]
No One Dies in This House is a comic historical-mystery set inside the House of Lords in July 1987. Its central joke is also its detective engine: because the Palace of Westminster is technically a royal palace, an ancient hereditary official called the Coroner of the Verge may still have jurisdiction over deaths inside it. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bitter Melon is a tender, painful father-daughter novel about illness, estrangement, migration, masculinity, grief, Black British Caribbean family life and the unfinished work of learning how to love someone before time runs out. It follows Delroy, a Jamaican-born London bus driver, and his adult daughter Jalissa, a physicist and lecturer, as they travel to Jamaica […]
Everyday People is a warm, sharp, painful novel about queer friendship, sex, class, shame, chosen family and political awakening in 1970s London. It begins at a drag ball in 1973 and ends in early 1975 with its protagonist, Mark, beginning his first shift volunteering for Gay Switchboard. The movement of the novel is from spectatorship […]
This is a comic spy-caper, love story and memory piece set mainly in Britain in 1938, with an epilogue in 1959. It is narrated much later by Richard Hadley, looking back on the strange few days when he met Miss Lambert, became entangled in espionage, and briefly mistook adventure and danger for destiny. The novel […]