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Once upon a time I had a friend named Diana who I spoke to every day. We were bound to each other through history and affection, as close as friends could be. Then she betrayed me. Bright, ambitious, and hopelessly competitive, Annie and Diana were inseparable young actresses cutting their teeth...

For fans of Bella Mackie, Katy Brent, and Joanna Wallace, a sharp-witted and twisty feminist revenge thriller about a murderous wedding planner who offers a special add-on for willing brides-to-be: a professional hit on their brutish fiancés. Ava Vaughn doesn’t just plan the wedding. She...

Sometimes a secret is just a story we haven't told yet. This is what I will tell you about myself, before anyone else gets the chance. I am a social worker. I have two young children and a still-handsome lawyer husband, Will. My job is usually keeping families together, but I’ve never been...

An irreverent and at times surreal crime romp through the literal underworld of Los Angeles alongside a female dirtbag PI who gets herself in bigger and bigger trouble as she investigates a client’s murder—the debut novel by the screenwriter of Black Christmas No sooner has private...

From acclaimed author Kit Frick comes a darkly funny suspense novel starring a horror writer who reluctantly returns to her hometown to confront her past, only to find herself accused of carrying out her main character’s vengeful crimes. The Night of the Party... it's going to be a killer time...

From Booker-shortlisted author Steve Toltz, an audacious comic lament for a world that no longer knows itself “The cure for loneliness causes loneliness. That’s the human condition.” In a reeling world of fraudsters and hypnotists, sleep talkers and estranged twins, false alibis and second...

From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Love Me Stalk Me comes the third book in the dark rom-com series Obsessively Yours about a woman whose online life faces very real danger with an in-person stalker—until a morally gray cyber spy steps in to protect her. Raven Bennett doesn't do real men...

Darkness descends on the mountain town of Blackwood once more when Sheriff Ryder Knox finds a bloodied woman running from the woods―and realizes something far worse than him is already hunting her...

A stay-at-home dad, along with two buddies from his luckless recreational baseball team, band together to solve a potential murder amongst their squad—all while trying to stay out of trouble with their wives and, someday, someday win a game. Batter up! The Bad News Dads are a recreational...

A riotous debut spy comedy that follows an elderly retired CIA operative who has to dust off his skills after spotting his old foe at a party, for fans of Slow Horses and Killers of a Certain Age. Harvey Fox—eighty-three years-old, widowed, and retired from the CIA—has been thrown out of yet...

The LA comedy scene is all about killing on stage, but after her toxic ex is murdered, PJ's standup career is on the line, in this debut thriller. Standup comic PJ Jones is going places. She recently secured a spot at a prestigious comedy festival, an opportunity that could be just the catalyst...

A laugh-out-loud, irreverent, and twisty new mystery from the bestselling author of The Retirement Plan about a suburban mom who is dying to fit in and must uncover the hidden secrets of her new neighbourhood—and thwart a murder plot—for fans of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone and...

A comic thriller following Claire, a hammer-wielding serial killer, who takes a job in a pub—a place where people are literally lining up to get hammered—only to learn another murderer is encroaching on her turf, from the author of You'd Look Better as a Ghost What use is a part-time serial...

A retired hitman's wife dying for a fresh start must uncover the hidden secrets of her new neighborhood—and stop a murder plot. Soph Kowalski is used to living in the shadows. Being married to a hitman, she’s had to keep a low profile. But after closing that dark chapter, she and Mike move...

When Lee Black - once the golden child of the crime community, now miserly creative writing lecturer - opens his student's work-in-progress, he is at first confused, then slightly disturbed, and then, finally, flattered. It's fanfiction. But what the awkward, brilliant Bella has done with his...

A group of six Filipina New Yorkers—self-described “Third World witches” who grew up with fascists, goons, and torture apologists—find themselves entangled in a high-profile murder investigation. At a West Village restaurant after Trump’s first election, six friends gather to eat...

In this page-turning psychological thriller, a young woman’s engagement unearths a twisted conspiracy from her college days—and a killer who will do anything to keep the truth buried Freshly engaged to a prominent senator’s son, Adriana should feel happy. Instead, the engagement reopens...

Boyle, a virtuoso of the American short story, creates daring imaginative leaps as he affirms the sheer joy of storytelling in this propulsive new work. A timely masterpiece, The End Is Only a Beginning underscores T. C. Boyle’s reputation as “one of the greatest storytellers in this...

A dark orm-com about a man who accidentally kidnaps the wrong woman—kickstarting a sensual game of cat-and-mouse. After Killian accidentally abducts the wrong woman, he’s shocked when she proposes a cat-and-mouse game of captor-captive. They will take turns abducting and holding each other...

All Fours meets Albert Camus in this joyful, mordant, poignant, and engrossing novel by “a master storyteller” (The Guardian) Middle-aged and done with the cheap promises of capitalism, the biting, horny, and philosophical Mina abandons Manhattan for Edinburgh and a life devoted to pleasure...