Book Review

The Fall Affair by Vi Keeland

A burned-out New York divorce lawyer inherits a crumbling Tuscan antique shop, a hundred acres of leased vineyard, and one non-negotiable clause: live there for three months or get nothing. The romance is charming. The dead woman who arranged all of it is the best character in the book.

My Sister Is Going to Kill Me by Nina Simon

One sister has built a career on catching liars. The other lies the way most people clear their throats. Nina Simon strands them both on the Colorado River with a corpse, a wellness startup and no way out, and the result is the most entertaining locked-canyon mystery of the year.

Immortal Rose by Alexandra Bracken

A perfumer with white streaks in her red hair sells illegal magic by moonlight, and every bottle has cost her something she cannot get back. Bracken's first adult romantasy has the freshest magic system in the genre and an ending that refuses to be one.

Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead

Every bank in New York turns down Ray Carney's wife for a loan, so the furniture man goes back to fencing. The last Harlem Trilogy novel runs from 1981 to 1986 and asks one question over and over: what do you value enough to steal for?

Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead

A furniture dealer four years out of the crooked life needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter, and the only man who can get them is a corrupt detective with a subpoena and nothing left to lose. Whitehead's 1970s Harlem novel is angrier and funnier than the first.

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