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The French Illusion by John Grisham
A mother in Maryland spends six months telling her friends her son-in-law is recovering from bad shellfish in a Paris hospital. He is not in a hospital. Grisham's fortieth novel is about the lies decent people are ordered to tell, and the bill that comes with them.
The French Illusion by John Grisham
A mother in Maryland spends six months telling her friends her son-in-law is recovering from bad shellfish in a Paris hospital. He is not in a hospital. Grisham's fortieth novel is about the lies decent people are ordered to tell, and the bill that comes with them.
We Chase Shadows by Richard Osman
In a Hampshire pub garden, a woman who has sold more books than almost anyone alive is introduced to a stranger as Steve's mate. The second We Solve Murders novel is a comedy about murder and a much sadder book about market value.
The Amateur by Chris Bohjalian
A tear in a practice net, a name shouted across a hot lawn, a boy who looks up. Chris Bohjalian builds a whole novel out of one second in 1978, and the trial that follows is really about who a Westchester village was prepared to blame.
Stay Buried by Jennifer McMahon
Four times a year the people of a Vermont village set gifts on the doorstep, lock the door and go to bed early. Nobody looks. Jennifer McMahon's new novel is about what a town will keep doing for a hundred years rather than admit what it did once.
Dreamland by Olivie Blake
A movie star's hillside villa, a son nobody has seen in years, and a summer of murdered women. Olivie Blake's Hollywood horror novel is at its best when it stops being a thriller and starts being an autopsy of who gets believed.
Reliquary by Hannah Whitten
The five opening sections of this novel are titled dead, men, tell, no, lies. By the time a reader notices, the heroine has already accepted the invitation. Hannah Whitten's first horror novel is a trap built in plain sight.
Let’s Kiss and Tell by Joss Richard
Between every chapter sits a published column, paywall and all, describing the same relationship the chapters have just shown. Joss Richard's second novel is a fake-dating comedy about the distance between what people write down and what they mean.
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The French Illusion by John Grisham
A mother in Maryland spends six months telling her friends her son-in-law is recovering from bad shellfish in a Paris hospital. He is not in a hospital. Grisham's fortieth novel is about the lies decent people are ordered to tell, and the bill that comes with them.
We Chase Shadows by Richard Osman
In a Hampshire pub garden, a woman who has sold more books than almost anyone alive is introduced to a stranger as Steve's mate. The second We Solve Murders novel is a comedy about murder and a much sadder book about market value.
The Amateur by Chris Bohjalian
A tear in a practice net, a name shouted across a hot lawn, a boy who looks up. Chris Bohjalian builds a whole novel out of one second in 1978, and the trial that follows is really about who a Westchester village was prepared to blame.
Stay Buried by Jennifer McMahon
Four times a year the people of a Vermont village set gifts on the doorstep, lock the door and go to bed early. Nobody looks. Jennifer McMahon's new novel is about what a town will keep doing for a hundred years rather than admit what it did once.
Dreamland by Olivie Blake
A movie star's hillside villa, a son nobody has seen in years, and a summer of murdered women. Olivie Blake's Hollywood horror novel is at its best when it stops being a thriller and starts being an autopsy of who gets believed.
