Fiction

Stevie Bell turns eighteen, fails an exam, breaks up with her parents and goes to New York for Christmas. Her next-door neighbour reads her cards, asks whether a murder can be stopped before it happens, and is dead by the evening.

Two hundred years before the game begins, a vampire lord offers his six enslaved spawn a contest: bring back the rarest blood in the world and one of you will finally be made free. Kingfisher gives Astarion a lawyer's brain and a paladin to break.

A Memphis psychic dynasty is down to one condemned mansion, one eviction notice, and one granddaughter born without the family mark. Reviving the Halloween show is the only way to keep the roof on, and the only way to wake what killed her parents.

A woman steals electricity from the last grid in a collapsed city, and an old physicist in a museum basement wants her to steal all of it at once. Hernan Diaz follows Trust with a novel about power in both senses of the word.

A megachurch First Lady spends eighteen years perfecting her disguise, then learns who her father was. Deesha Philyaw's debut novel is a comic performance built on top of a crime, and the footnotes carry what the narrator cannot say aloud.