Adult & Contemporary Fiction

Marjan's magical adventures continue with her search for an elusive bird. But might the quest cost her more than she's ready to lose?In this transporting and suspenseful companion to the New York Times bestselling Once There Was that’s perfect for...

Dazzling and transportive, Gate to Kagoshima is perfect for fans of Thea Guanzon — a story of love across generations and ancestral ties that bind."Gate to Kagoshima is an action-packed adventure that opens in Scotland and makes its way to...

The Princess Bride meets Travis Baldree in Tea You at the Altar, the third cosy fantasy in Rebecca Thorne's bestselling Tomes & Tea series. Our sapphic adventurers must navigate the ultimate maelstrom – their own wedding!Kianthe and Reyna are...

Rural Cyprus, 1925. Despo is recently married, heavily pregnant and deeply afraid. The twelve days of Christmas are beginning – the time when, according to local folklore, creatures known as kalikantzari come up from Hell to wreak havoc...

The breakout stars from Oseman’s Solitaire and subsequent graphic novel icons return in a typically tender and absorbing novella which finds the couple questioning whether their seemingly-perfect relationship can survive Nick’s departure for...

A poisoned chocolate. A stolen dress. An elusive catburglar. Drag’s not just dramatic, it’s deadly.By day, Joe is a hotel accountant, invisibly sitting behind their desk and playing by the rules. By night, donned in sequins, they take to...

A totally gripping and spine-tingling psychological thriller with twists and turns that will leave you breathless. Fans of The Sanatorium, The Hunting Party and The Castaways will be completely hooked from the very first page until the final, shocking...

On this island, not only nature is murderous.A dream comes true for Maddy as she takes part in a novel television experiment in which eight strangers must survive on a deserted Scottish island for a year with minimal equipment and incommunicado. 18...

"A superior, creeping psychological thriller taut with tension and drama." —The Seattle Times. "Easily the creepiest setting for a suspense novel since the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King's The Shining." —BookPage From the critically acclaimed...

A writer’s search for her missing friend becomes a real-life thriller in a twisting novel of suspense by the New York Times bestselling author of These Toxic Things. Bailey Meadows has just moved into the remote Topanga Canyon home of thriller...

Five young women eager for success rely on the unspeakable to make their dreams come true in a chilling novel about martyrdom, ritual, and obsession by the author of We Ate the Dark.   Art student Jo Kozak and her fellow classmates and best friends,...

From Vulture's "master of horror" Clay McLeod Chapman, a relentless and emotionally charged social horror novel about a family on the run from a demonic possession epidemic that spreads through media, for fans of The Last of Us and When Evil Lurks.Noah...

ONE OF THE BOSTON GLOBE'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR.A love story about what it means to be an outsider from the most imaginative new voice in international fiction. In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a man she hardly knows, but...

A quiet, poetic, and exquisitely gorgeous novel describing a wandering mythic figure in a Kyoto monastery, by the National Book Award winner. The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old monastery in...

ONE OF NPR’s “BOOKS WE LOVE" 2024.NAMED ONE OF THE OBSERVER’S 10 BEST NEW NOVELISTS FOR 2024."The stakes could barely be higher in Leo Vardiashvili’s propulsive page-turner…It’s a spellbinding achievement."—The...

Baba Yaga is an old hag who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. She is one of the most pervasive and powerful creatures in all mythology. She appears in many forms: as Pupa, a tricksy, cantankerous old woman who keeps her...

Eva can trace the route to Pim’s farm with her eyes closed, even though she has not been to Bovenmeer for many years. There she grew up among the rape fields and dairy farms. There lies also the root of all their grief. Eva was one of three...

From The Man Booker International Prize finalist Robert Seethaler comes a tender, heartbreaking story of one young man and his friendship with Sigmund Freud during the Nazi occupation of Vienna. Seventeen-year-old Franz Huchel journeys to Vienna to...

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.“Erotic, paranoiac and lightly fantastical.” —The Wall Street Journal.“Ismail Kadare's readers are astonished every year when the Nobel committee overlooks him. . . . A Girl in...

Trust no one and live to tell the tale in this breakneck locked-room thriller set on a lavish countryside estate. Taut and terrifying, this is perfect for fans of Lucy Foley and Laura Dave.Succession meets Saltburn in a crackling locked-room thriller of...