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Vermont Conversation: Author Chris Bohjalian on writing, activism and challenging the language of genocide

How Chris Bohjalian Spent His Summer Vacation…

The Amateur begins with a death and builds to a courtroom drama, a trial for involuntary manslaughter. This is not a spoiler: the narrator in my new novel – a tale framed as a memo...

The Amateur by Chris Bohjalian

In August 1978 an eighteen-year-old golf prodigy drives a ball through a torn practice net and kills a caddy fifteen yards away. Bohjalian's twenty-sixth novel is her memoir, writt...

BOUDOIR

A dreamy, secretive teenage girl named Teddý living on a farm in rural Iceland has a chance encounter with a visiting cartographer in 1962. When he discovers her gift for mathemati...

Until Midnight by Luanne Rice

About the Book:Rhode Island’s picturesque Ocean House is the perfect setting for Kate Woodward and Conor Reid’s fairy-tale wedding weekend. But there may not be a happily ever afte...

IN THE DEW OF LITTLE THINGS

On a Tuesday morning in 2024, three Atlanta-based women receive the unfathomable news that the fourth member of their close-knit friend group is missing. From that devastating mome...

LOVE FROM AFAR

At 42, New Hampshire ski salesman Frank Cadwallader has settled into an increasingly lifeless marriage. A lifelong Quaker, he joins a peace mission to the Soviet Union, but the fir...

BLIZZARD OF LIES

Wedge, an award-winning journalist and Boston Herald veteran, opens in media res: It is just past 1 a.m. on January 29, 2022, a nor’easter is burying the South Shore of Massachuset...

Chloe Benjamin’s ‘Under Story’ is speculative, urgent

Science fiction and fantasy blend in a novel that bursts with big themes: love and loss, family and parenthood, science and nature, and risking everything for a second chance.

RELIQUARY

After finding a love that was more than she’d ever hoped for, Claire Sutherland finds herself alone again. A boating accident left her a deeply traumatized orphan. A mysterious neu...

Restless Bones by Gillian French

About the Book:When a missing woman’s body is discovered in a submerged car one year after her disappearance, Shaw Connolly is called to process the scene. She finds a single print...

The Women in White by Sarah Pekkanen

 In 1964, four remarkable young women at a prestigious university became the subjects of parapsychology experiments by a visionary scientist. On the cusp of a historic breakthrough...

Verity by Colleen Hoover

A struggling writer discovers a hidden manuscript that may reveal the terrible truth behind the Crawford family's tragedies. The post Verity by Colleen Hoover appeared first on Joe...

Ellis Blake’s Top 5 Missing-Persons Novels

My latest novel NO PRISONERS is published on July 21st. It’s a thriller about a woman in New Mexico searching for her missing husband. The unanswered question is the basic engine o...

Then Again: When a mysterious killer stalked the men of Bristol

Storm Tide by Paul Doiron

About the Book:When the magnificent home of entrepreneur Brian Malloy mysteriously goes up in flames, Maine game warden Mike Bowditch tries to pull Malloy’s burning body from the f...

Under Story by Chloe Benjamin

A spoiler-free review of Under Story by Chloe Benjamin: a grieving mycologist takes a dishwashing job at McMurdo Station, a dome of pink light appears over the ice, and the physici...

William Kent Krueger and the Noir of the North

The writer has been on a 30-year murder spree—imaginative and imaginary, but oh so successful. Better get up to speed with his work now, because it’s all going Hollywood soon.

THE INEVITABLE UNDOING OF ZAHARA DOUGLASS

After a meteoric rise within the National Ballet Theatre, Zahara Douglass, a 21-year-old Black ballerina, has the life she always dreamed of. But Zahara is emotionally detached, ha...

Luanne Rice on Crafting Character-Driven Suspense Set on Rhode Island’s Iconic Coast

“It begins and ends with characters. I am ready to start a new novel when a character speaks to me and tells me her name….” This is the tried-and-true approach that has sustained L...

A GOOD MAN

As the story opens in 2001, journalist Elizabeth Allen drags herself up off the floor after her husband, a disgraced rock star, has brutally beaten her in their Upper West Side apa...

The French Illusion by John Grisham

Two American newlyweds are lifted off a Normandy road on the fifth day of their honeymoon. Both families pay two million dollars. Only the bride comes home. Grisham's fortieth nove...

THE DOLL HOUSE

When Burke Weathers, Garrett Weathers’ rich and famous author grandfather, dies, his will includes an unusual stipulation: Garrett and his mother will only inherit if they spend a...

This 'Whistler' Fan Theory Will Blow Your Mind—Book Clubs Are Fighting

Book clubs are known for lively discussions, but one debate over Ann Patchett‘s latest bestseller Whistler nearly ended in a parking lot fistfight. The reason? A fan theory about t...