Contemporary

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, written at sixty-six, and it is far angrier about class and older men than it is about golf.

Let’s Kiss and Tell by Joss Richard

A sex columnist whose readers have all settled down needs a boyfriend by the end of the quarter. The news reporter she meets at a bar needs a plus-one for his ex's wedding. Joss Richard's second novel is funnier and sadder than its premise promises.

A Summer of Stars by Liana Cincotti

A disgraced tennis champion and the actor who once called her an excuse for a player are contractually dating for four months. Liana Cincotti's traditional debut is sharper about public shaming than it is about tennis.

Pink Ink by Avina St. Graves

A spoiler-free review of Pink Ink by Avina St. Graves: a film student re-stages real murders in pink fake blood, and the killer she idolises turns out to be grading her coursework. Honest praise, real criticism, content notes and read-alikes.

The Matryoshka Murders by Kay Williams

The Matryoshka Murders by Kay Williams is a political thriller set in 1991 Leningrad where an American filmmaker's camera catches something worth killing for. Murder, mystery, and a love story that crosses an ocean.

Popular

Subscribe

spot_imgspot_img