The JillsKaren Parkman. Ballantine, $30 (384p) ISBN 978-0-593-98292-1
Parkman debuts with a thrilling mystery that offers an immersive view into the lives of NFL cheerleaders. Ginny Barton is a Jill, as the Buffalo Bills’ cheerleaders are called. One Sunday, her best friend and fellow squad member Jeanine Chanowitz fails to show up for a game. As the days pass and Jea... Continue reading »
The CyclistTim Sullivan. Atlantic Crime, $17 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-8021-6777-4
Sullivan’s shrewd second procedural featuring neurodivergent detective sergeant George Cross (after The Dentist) opens with Cross being called to the site of a Somerset demolition crew’s grisly discovery. When the crew leads Cross to the male corpse wrapped in polythene that they found in a... Continue reading »
An Amateur Witch’s Guide to MurderK. Valentin. Alcove, $19.99 trade paper (336p) ISBN 979-8-89242-343-4
An air of dark whimsy pervades Valentin’s thoroughly entertaining debut. In the five years since Mateo Borrero’s less-than-maternal witch of a mother went missing, the 23-year-old has just been trying to get by; not helping matters is the fact that he’s possessed by a demon. Working at a print shop ... Continue reading »
Female FantasyIman Hariri-Kia. Cosmo Reads, $18.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-72827-064-7
A devoted romantasy fan embarks on an outrageous quest to find her soulmate in this hilarious and intelligent romp from Hariri-Kia (The Most Famous Girl in the World). A dutiful copywriter by day and beloved fan fiction writer by night, Joonie Saboonchi credits A Tale of Salt Water and ... Continue reading »
Fela: The Music Is the WeaponJibola Fagbamiye and Conor McCreery. Amistad, $48 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-305879-8
This rousing celebration of Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti (1938–1977)—Afrobeat star, truth-teller, commune leader, and frequent “rascal”—blends brisk biographical storytelling with urgent cultural and political history, gorgeous evocations of the power of music and dance, and bursts of bloody violence both fa... Continue reading »
Death of the First IdeaRickey Laurentiis. Knopf, $27 (160p) ISBN 978-0-593-80270-0
Laurentiis’s visionary sophomore outing (after Boy with Thorn) showcases her incredible lyric range and incisive commentary. At its core, the collection charts a 10-year period from 2015 to 2025 chronicling the speaker’s gender transition; along the way, the poems address the speaker’s poli... Continue reading »
The Long March HomeMarcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee. Revell, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8007-4275-1
In this tour de force from Brotherton (A Bright and Blinding Sun) and Lee (A Single Light), four friends’ lives change irrevocably when America becomes embroiled in WWII. In 1930s Mobile, Ala., preacher’s son Jimmy Propfield shares an idyllic upbringing with childhood sweetheart Cl... Continue reading »
Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself, and ChinaJung Chang. Harper, $35 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-348004-9
Historian Chang (Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister) parallels China’s political upheavals with the evolution of her and her mother’s relationship in this powerful memoir. Born in 1952 Yibin to an influential Communist couple who were frequently imprisoned for speaking out against Mao Ze... Continue reading »
Indian Block Printing: An Inspirational Project BookTess Grace and Holly Jones. Herbert, $25 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-78994-341-2
This stellar debut from Grace and Jones, cofounders of the U.K.’s Indian Block Print Co., teaches readers the art of block printing, a centuries-old method of using wooden blocks carved with intricate patterns to hand-print designs onto fabric and paper. The 14 projects vary in difficulty, with some... Continue reading »
Beard: A Memoir of a MarriageKelly Foster Lundquist. Eerdmans, $28.99 (250p) ISBN 978-0-80288-473-2
Lundquist, an English professor at North Hennepin Community College in Minnesota, debuts with a wrenching account of the breakup of her marriage to a gay man. Lundquist met her future husband in the late 1990s at a Christian camp, where the two bonded over their love of TV soaps and off-kilter humor... Continue reading »
The Swan’s DaughterRoshani Chokshi. Wednesday, $22 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-87310-1
To become ruler of the Isle of Malys, one must win the hand—or literal heart—of a male descendant of the royal bloodline, resulting in sometimes deadly consequences in this sharp romantasy by Chokshi (The Spirit Glass). Unless Prince Arris meets a girl who loves him, any potential bride... Continue reading »
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