NATIONAL BESTSELLER | WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE | NBCC JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FINALISTOne of The New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2025**One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2025For readers of Jonathan Franzen and Nathan Hill comes a haymaker of an American novel about a missing teenage boy, cases of fluid and mistaken identity, and the transformative power of boxing....

NATIONAL BESTSELLER | WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE | NBCC JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FINALISTOne of The New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2025**One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2025For readers of Jonathan Franzen and Nathan Hill comes a haymaker of an American novel about a missing teenage boy, cases of fluid and mistaken identity, and the transformative power of boxing....

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A lovable con woman and a disgraced detective team up to find a redneck reality TV star in this raucous new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Squeeze Me.“Carl Hiaasen’s irresistible Razor Girl meets his usual sky-high standards for elegance, craziness and mike-drop humor.” —The New York TimesMerry Mansfield, the eponymous Razor Girl, specializes in kidnapping for th...

New York Times bestselling author Lee Child and the International Thriller Writers, Inc. present a collection of remarkable stories in First Thrills. Showcasing many of the organization's bestselling authors as well as rising stars in the genre, here are twenty-five brand-new, never-before published, stories packed with murder, mystery, and mayhem.*A cunning criminal thinks he can use a child to take the rap for his crimes.*A hospital intern turned body-snat...

Now a “provocative” and “impressive” (Variety) film from director Gia Coppola (Francis Ford Coppola’s granddaughter)—starring Emma Roberts, James Franco, Nat Wolff, and Val Kilmer—the fiction debut from James Franco that Vogue called “compelling and gutsy.”James Franco’s story collection traces the lives of a group of teenagers as they experiment with vices of all kinds, struggle with their families and one another, and succumb to self-destructive...

** "A beautifully woven tale of two love stories, past and present, that capture the complexities of love. Anna Gomez delivers a poignant story that juxtaposes the outward quest of a young woman to find her mother with the transformative journey of the heart." - New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Leylah Attar **Charlotte “Charlie” Hastings never missed her mother. But when Charlie's late father visits her in a dream and reveals the lette...

Robert McCammon, Norman Prentiss, Shawntelle Madison, Graham Masterton, and Richard Christian Matheson scale new heights of horror, suspense, and grimmest fantasy in Dark Screams: Volume Two, from Brian James Freeman and Richard Chizmar of the renowned Cemetery Dance Publications.THE DEEP END by Robert McCammonEveryone thinks the drowning death of Neil Calder in the local swimming pool was a tragic accident. Only his father knows better. Now, on the...

Once a competitive swimmer destined for Olympic gold, Duck Darley is now barely scraping by as an unlicensed PI, chasing down cheating spouses for the same Manhattan elite who once viewed him as equal . . .Duck’s lost glory days resurface when he’s hired to track down the teenaged sister of a former teammate turned Olympic champion. Privileged Madeline McKay vanished over Labor Day weekend, leaving behind a too-perfect West Village apartment and a promising athletic career...

A thrilling anthology of contemporary short crime fiction featuring work by Laura Lippman, Gabino Iglesias and others."Crime writers, forgive the pun, are killing it right now creatively," writes guest editor Alafair Burke in her introduction. "It was difficult—painful even—to narrow this year's Best American Mystery and Suspense to only twenty stories."Spanning from a mediocre spa in Florida, to New York's gritty East Village, to death row in Alabama, this...

Legendary rock star Zack Hatter, lead singer of the equally legendary rock band Groovy Train, has gone missing. The living embodiment of ‘sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll,’ his disappearance isn’t the first. But friends and family think this time it’s different. They think he was abducted, in Mexico. Or, maybe he’s dead.Mary Cooper, a PI in Los Angeles is hired by Zack’s business partner. While John Rockne, a PI from Grosse Pointe, Michigan is hired by Zack's ex-wife.Soon, the ...

"All the heavy hitters...came out for USA Noir...an important anthology of stories shrewdly culled by Johnny Temple."--New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)One of Zoom Street Magazine's Favorite Books of 2014Indie Books Roundup #1 Pick, Barnes & Noble Book BlogIncluded in Zoom Street Magazine's Summer Reading (Mysteries/Noir) RoundupOne of "1...

Discover dark mysteries nestled in every borough of the Big Apple in this collection of five noir short story anthologies.New York City Noir: The Five Borough Set collects the five NYC borough installments in our award-winning Akashic Noir Series into a single e-book edition: Brooklyn Noir, edited by Tim McLoughlin, Manhattan Noir, edited by Lawrence Block, Bronx Noir, edited by S.J. Rozan, Queens Noir, edited by Robert K...