Every Man a Menace

From a CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award finalist comes a vital, edgy new novel centered on a massive shipment of ecstasy and the group of ex-cons, scam artists, nightclub…

Essays in Zen Buddhism

Cat Brushing

A rousing and original debut story collection that probes the erotic, emotional, and intellectual lives of elder women, Cat Brushing will be published in the author’s 80th year…

After the Blue Hour

“Rechy . . . continues to write with such elegance and lyricism . . . A mind so singularly attuned to the layers and landscapes of American life.” —Susan Straight,…

Clear My Name

A rising star in domestic suspense broadens her canvas in a brilliant new thriller in which a woman convicted of murdering her husband’s lover waits to be exonerated by a…

Don’t Tell Me the Truth About Love

Funny, tender, quirky, vulnerable, and exquisitely readable, Don’t Tell Me the Truth About Love—in seven virtuoso stories—explores contemporary relationships with wicked finesse and humor—perfect for your left-of-center Valentine….

DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense

The latest collection from exquisite prose stylist Joyce Carol Oates focuses on the inner lives of vulnerable girls and women—some victimized, others provoked, by deep emotional unrest, to commit violence…

The Devil I Know

A witty, captivating novel of greed and hubris set amid the Celtic Tiger and its ignominious downfall, by a writer who, Barbara Kingsolver has said, “packs a stunning worldly wisdom…

Delicious

“At once sexy and repulsive, the novel manages to plant sharp moral and cultural barbs in its gorge-feast of a plot.” —Publishers Weekly…

Cross and Burn

“McDermid is at the top of her form in this sizzling story. . . . You will not put this one down until the final sentence.” —Margaret Cannon, Globe and…