Library Journal thinks these Spring/Summer 2022 debuts should be on your radar! PAY DIRT ROAD by Samantha Jayne Allen“Winner of the 2019 Hillerman Prize, Allen’s multi-starred mystery features Annie McIntyre, working as a waitress after returning home post-college to her drought—and recession—wrecked Texas hometown. Alarmed when another waitress is strangled at a community bon fire—she […]
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LJ’s Best Debuts Winter 2022
Library Journal thinks these Winter 2022 debuts should be on your radar! OLGA DIES DREAMING by Xochitl Gonzalez“Olga Acevedo is a wedding planner to New York’s rich and powerful, brother Pedro (‘Prieto’) serves their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood as congressman, and all’s well until the activist mother who deserted them crashes back into their lives. Ambitious […]
LJ Winter/Spring 2020 Best Debut Novels
Library Journal‘s Best Debuts of Winter/Spring 2020 include these Macmillan titles! THE CACTUS LEAGUE by Emily Nemens, ISBN 9780374117948, on sale nowSHARKS IN THE TIME OF SAVIORS by Kawai Strong Washburn, ISBN 9780374272081, on sale nowTHE OTHER BENNET SISTER by Janice Hadlow, ISBN 9781250129413, on sale 3/31/20OONA OUT OF ORDER by Margarita Montimore, ISBN 9781250236609, […]
Library Journal Fall 2019/Winter 2020 Best Debuts
Discover new authors with Library Journal‘s Fall 2019/Winter 2020 Best Debuts round-up! SF/Fantasy ORMESHADOW by Priya Sharma Burning with resentment and intrigue, this fantastical family drama invites readers to dig up the secrets of the Belman family, and wonder whether myths and legends are real enough to answer for a history of sin. Literary Gems […]
LJ’s Best Fall 2018 & Winter 2019 Debuts
Library Journal‘s best debuts of Fall 2018 & Winter 2019 include these 7 Macmillan titles: A BORROWING OF BONES by Paula Munier Both traumatized by war, retired soldier Mercy Carr and her bomb-sniffing Belgian Malinois Elvis are running in the Vermont woods when Elvis discovers an abandoned baby, which brings in state game warden Troy […]
Booklist’s Best Debuts of 2017
Booklist‘s Top 10 First Novels of 2017 list includes two of our favorite debuts: GOODBYE, VITAMIN by Rachel Khong Rachel returns home to help her mother care for her father as he struggles with dementia in Khong’s tender, deadpan-funny, and affecting drama about memory, self, and caregiving. THE RESURRECTION OF JOAN ASHBY by Cherise Wolas […]
Booklist’s Best Crime
May is Mystery Month over at Booklist and to celebrate they’ve put together “Best of” reading lists with loads of Macmillan titles!
THE CAIRO AFFAIR by Olen Steinhauer
Steinhauer follows his acclaimed Milo Weaver trilogy with a stand-alone that is as emotionally rich as it is layered with intrigue. A career diplomat is shot dead in Budapest in front of his disbelieving wife, who is determined to find out why. This complex tale leaves us with the feeling that, despite all the information won, lost, hoarded, and put to use, the world of intelligence is no stronger than the fragile, fallible human beings who navigate it.
HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN by Louise Penny
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache has a new case involving the murder of the last surviving sister of quintuplets, a woman with ties to Three Pines, the idyllic, off-the-grid village outside Montreal where several of Gamache’s previous adventures have been set. The novel not only puts Gamache in harm’s way but also exposes Three Pines to defilement—a cozy setting under attack from a decidedly hard-boiled world. Another bravura performance from the magnificent Penny.
THE ORPHAN CHOIR by Sophie Hannah
Teetering on the edge of sanity, Louise Beeston retreats to a country home in England, hoping to escape the haunting choir music she hears continually. This riveting stand-alone, in which suspense snowballs to a climax that is all the more dire for its everyday contemporary English setting, is absolutely haunting, in every sense of the word.
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