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Monika can''t bring herself to celebrate her last summer before college. Instead, she''s still grieving the loss of the one classmate who didn''t make it to graduation, a boy named Shun with whom she had a complicated relationship. Then, during her final Japanese Club meeting, Monika hears about the Yomigaeri Tunnel, a local urban legend. Those who venture into this mythological passageway undergo harrowing trials to confront their hidden secrets and worst fears. According to the lore, anyone who makes it through the journey is rewarded with the ability to resurrect one soul from the dead. Monika jumps at the chance to bring back Shun, but she soon discovers she''s not alone. Sharp-tongued and fierce Shiori is hell-bent on reviving her mother and won''t let anyone stop her. As Monika and Shiori confront the ghosts of their pasts, they have to decide: Are they friends, or foes? This emotional, offbeat book about hope and healing is an essential read for anyone who''s ever needed a friend in the darkness.

One morning at the cafe, Nico notices Cilia, a seven-year-old girl he has never seen before, playing with OneWag on the floor. He later discovers she has left a note in the dog''s collar-Please help my babbo. With help from Daniele of the local carabinieri, Nico discovers that Cilia''s father, Saverio, has fled town following an unfortunate incident. His business partner was killed at their electronics store, and Saverio is the main suspect. Cilia''s mother, who just moved to Gravigna to get away from Pitigliano''s wagging tongues, asks Nico to find the real killer. Against his better judgment, Nico accepts for Cilia''s sake and soon finds himself tangling with a large cast of suspects and an unhelpful local carabinier as he pursues the truth.

Perfect for crime readers who love a mix of humour and suspense-in the vein of Janet Evanovich and Kellye Garrett. Professor Daphne Ouverture has chosen a simple life. She spends her days grading papers, going on atrocious dates, and telling herself that her small world suits her just fine. Until Sam Taylor dies. The rising star of Harrison University''s anthropology department was never one of Daphne''s favorite colleagues. Arrogant Sam rarely ever acknowledged her existence. But that hasn''t stopped Sam''s killer from believing that Daphne has something that belonged to Sam-something the killer will stop at nothing to get. In between grading papers and navigating her disastrous love life, Daphne embarks on a deadly investigation to find out what connects her to Sam''s murder-with the help of local detective Asma Ahmed and an alluring former-detective-turned-bookseller, Rowan Peterson. As Daphne gets closer to the truth, she begins to uncover a secret history of injustice on campus and off. But to find the killer, Daphne will have to face the one past she''s vowed never to study: her own. Readers who can''t resist a well-crafted mystery spun by a comic voice will pull an all-nighter to read this series opener.

Sergeant Akal Singh, an unwilling transplant to Fiji, is just starting to settle into his life in the capital city of Suva when he is sent to the neighboring island of Ovalau on a series of fool''s errands. First: investigate strange reports of Germans, thousands of miles from the front of World War I. Second: chaperone two strong-willed European ladies, Mary and Katherine, on a sight-seeing tour. And third: supervise the only police officer currently on Ovalau, an eighteen-year-old constable with a penchant for hysterics. Accompanied by his friend Taviti, who is visiting his uncle, the local chief, Akal sets off on these seemingly straightforward tasks. Instead, they become embroiled in a series of local issues: the gruesome death of an unpopular local and the imprisonment of a group of Norwegian sailors in Taviti''s uncle''s village. To add to Akal''s woes, Katherine, the charming aspiring journalist, harbors an agenda of her own. Will Akal be able to keep her - and himself - out of trouble before anybody else gets killed? Nilima Rao''s debut, A Disappearance in Fiji, was a critical darling and award-winner, ending up on multiple best-of-year roundups. This next installment in the Sergeant Akal Singh series has all the charm and sparkle of the first book, with even more fascinating historical insight into the realities of life on Fiji at the start of the twentieth century.

Gabriela Menchaca and Edwin Saucedo are hardworking, undocumented employees at the Detmer Foods chicken plant in Springdale, Arkansas, just a stone''s throw from the trailer park where they''ve lived together for seven years. While dealing with personal tragedies of their own, the young couple endures the brutal, dehumanizing conditions at the plant in exchange for barebones pay. When the plant manager, Luke Jackson, fires Edwin to set an example for the rest of the workers - and to show the higherups that he''s ready for a major promotion - Edwin is determined to get revenge on Luke and his wife, Mimi, a new mother who stays at home with her six-month-old son. Edwin''s impulsive action sets in motion a devastating chain of events that illuminates the deeply entrenched power dynamics between those who revel at the top and those who toil at the bottom. From the nationally bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author of Don''t Know Tough and Ozark Dogs comes another edge-of-your-seat noir thriller that exposes the dark, bloody heart of life on the margins in the American South and the bleak underside of a bygone American Dream.

''I wish to become one of those round vacuum cleaner robots.'' That''s what Machi prays for at the altar of Japanese goddess Benzaiten. Ever since her two best friends decided they want nothing to do with her, Machi hasn''t been able to speak. After months of online school and a carousel of therapists, she can no longer see the point of being human. She doesn''t expect Benzaiten to hear her prayer, much less offer a different prayer on Machi''s behalf - that Machi discover the beauty of humanity, ultimately restoring her to her previous self. Benzaiten is enamoured with the human world and, as she''s the goddess of love, humanity is enamoured right back. Being second-best once again isn''t helping Machi move past her trauma, and with each adventure they share, Machi is reminded of everything she''s lost. It isn''t until Machi starts interacting with the souls of the dead - which tends to happen around Benzaiten - that she starts to rediscover her place among the living. From an author to watch, The Lost Souls of Benzaiten is a highly original debut about the nature of happiness and the potential for healing.

Robert Doughten Savile, a.k.a. ''Doughty'', is the son of a once-wealthy, now hard-up family from Darien, Connecticut. Doughty lives in a perpetual cloud of delusion, convinced of his own genius, and certain that the wealth and high status that he believes to be his birthright are just around the corner. While he has zero capacity to accurately assess his own abilities or prospects, he cruises through life on the sheer force of his own sense of entitlement, dropping out of college and landing in New York City in the early ''90s, a city brimming with both prosperity and desperation. He cons his way from a bed at the YMCA to a posh Soho loft, and enters abusive, gaslighting relationships with a pair of women, a bartender and a middle-aged book editor. He spins elaborate tales about his imaginary high-power job in real estate while, in reality, he passes his days watching VHS tapes of George Carlin specials, smoking crack in Tompkins Square Park, and engaging in occasional sex work in the restrooms of Grand Central Station. Fans of true crime podcasts about con men like Dirty John and Who the Hell Is Hamish? will revel in this novel and its portrait of the sociopath as a young loser. The Stalker is horrifying and illuminating, shocking yet hilarious, a novel confirming Paula Bomer as a contemporary master of the pitch-black comic novel.

Fehmi and Sener have been together forty years - no small feat for any pair, but especially admirable for a gay couple in Turkey. Behind closed doors, their life on Buyukada, an idyllic island near Istanbul, is like a powder keg that needs only one spark to blow. That spark soon comes in the form of Deniz, the wildly handsome and troubled teenager next door, who immediately catches Fehmi''s eye. This ''harmless'' crush immediately raises Sener''s hackles; although he doesn''t think Deniz would ever reciprocate Fehmi''s feelings, it''s not a risk he''s willing to take. But when one betrayal leads to another, Deniz hatches a plan, and the sultry summer takes a dark turn as the couple''s relationship is put to the test like never before. Will lust or love win the day? One thing''s for sure: not everyone will be getting out of this love triangle alive. Dishy, suspenseful, and boiling over with black humour, Yigit Karaahmet''s debut makes a fierce political statement about supporting ''gay wrongs'' while also introducing a shockingly lovable pair of antiheroes who could be Tom Ripley''s grandfathers.

Los Angeles, August 1965. Anger and pent-up frustrations boil over in the Watts neighborhood after a traffic stop of two Black motorists. As the Watts riots explode, crime photographer Harry Ingram snaps photos at the scene, including images of the police as they unleash batons, dogs, and water hoses on civilians. When he captures the image of an unarmed activist being shot down by the cops, he winds up in the hospital, beaten, his camera missing. Proof of the unjust killing seems lost - until Ingram''s girlfriend, Anita Claire, retrieves the hidden film in a daring rescue. The photo makes front-page news. A recuperating Ingram is approached by Betty Payton, a comrade of Anita''s mother, who wants Ingram''s help tracking down her business associate Moses ''Mose'' Tolbert, last seen during the riots. Ingram follows the investigation down a rabbit hole of burglary rings, bank robberies, looted cash, and clandestine agendas-all the while grappling with his newfound fame, which puts him in the sightlines of LAPD''s secretive intelligence division. Ash Dark as Night is a nail-biting ride-along through midcentury Los Angeles with a crime fiction legend in the driver''s seat.

Rose, the mother of twentysomething aspiring writer Jules, has waited three months for answers about her daughter''s death. Why was she swimming alone when she feared the water? Why did she stop texting days before she was last seen? When the official investigation rules the death an accidental drowning, the body possibly lost forever in Central America''s deepest lake, an unsatisfied Rose travels to the memoir workshop herself. She hopes to draw her own conclusion - and find closure. When Rose arrives, she is swept into the curious world created by her daughter''s literary hero, the famous writing teacher Eva Marshall, a charismatic woman known for her candid - and controversial - memoirs. As Rose uncovers details about the days leading up to Jules''s disappearance, she begins to suspect that this glamorous retreat package is hiding ugly truths. Is Lake Atitlan a place where traumatized women come to heal or a place where deeper injury is inflicted? The Deepest Lake is both a sharp look at the sometimes toxic, exclusionary world of high-class writing workshops and an achingly poignant view of a mother''s grief.

Sebastian lived a childhood of privilege in Mexico City. Now in his twenties, he has a degree from Yale, an American girlfriend, and a slot in the University of Iowa''s MFA program. But Sebastian''s life is shaken by the Trump administration''s restrictions on immigrants, his mother''s terminal cancer, the cracks in his relationship, and his father''s forced resignation at the hands of Mexico''s new president. As he struggles through the Trump and Lopez Obrador years, Sebastian must confront his father''s role in the Mexican drug war and navigate his whiteness in Mexican contexts even as he is often perceived as a person of colour in the US. As he does so, the novel moves through centuries of Mexican literary history, from the 17th century letters of a peevishly polymathic Spanish colonizer to the contemporary packaging of Mexican writers for a US audience. Split between the US and Mexico, this stunning debut explores whiteness, power, immigration, and the history of Mexican literature, to wrestle with the contradictory relationship between two countries bound by geography and torn apart by politics.

Jasmine Cheng has grown up on stories spun by her beautiful, erratic mother. Together, they''re the Phoenix and Dragon. Jasmine''s father is the god Pangu, creator of the heavens and earth. Her mother may have boyfriends, but Jasmine chases them away. Because for her mother, love brings chaos, sleepless nights, and frightening episodes. It''s Jasmine''s job to keep their home life stable, especially now that a social worker has started to keep tabs on them. When the sudden arrival of Cal, her mother''s old flame, fractures their delicate world, a series of events unfolds that will send Jasmine on a cross-country journey to the West Coast - and into her past. Trapped in a tangle of fantasy and reality, Jasmine becomes determined to shatter the illusion for good, even as her mother''s refusal to be honest drives a deeper wedge between them. Will the crack in their fantasy destroy her, or finally let the light in? Selina Li Bi''s magical debut perfectly portrays the pain of growing up in a less-than-magical world and introduces a remarkable new voice in young adult fiction.

When Dr. Gul Delani receives a call in the middle of the night from the Sindh police, she thinks they may have finally found her niece, Mahnaz - a precocious, politically conscious teenage girl who went missing three years prior. Gul has been racked with grief since Mahnaz''s disappearance, and distracts herself through work: she''s a talented curator at the Museum of Heritage and History in Karachi, one of the country''s leading experts in archaeology and ancient civilizations, a hard-won position for a woman. But there is no news of Mahnaz. Instead, Gul is summoned to a narcotics investigation in a remote desert region in western Pakistan. In her wildest dreams, Gul couldn''t have imagined what she''d find there: amid a drug bust gone wrong, there is a mummy - life-size, seemingly authentic, its sarcophagus decorated with symbols from Persepolis, the capital of the Achaemenid Empire. The discovery confounds everyone. It is both too good to be true, and for Gul, too precious to leave in careless or corrupt hands. Aided by her team of unlikely misfits, Gul will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of it, even as her quest for the truth puts her in the throes of a dangerous conspiracy and threatens to collide with her ongoing search for Mahnaz. A portrait of a city fueled by corruption and a woman relentlessly in pursuit of justice, The Museum Detective is an exciting, gritty new crime thriller that announces a whip-smart and brilliant sleuth and builds to a stunning, emotional conclusion that readers won''t soon forget.

It begins with hallucinations. From their living room window, Leo sees a man on stilts, an acting troupe, a pair of swans paddling on the Manhattan streets below. Then he''s unable to perform simple tasks and experiences a host of other erratic disturbances, none of which his doctors can explain. Leo, 53, a research scientist, and Addie, a collage artist, have a loving and happy marriage. They''d planned on many more years of work and travel, dinner with friends, quiet evenings at home with the cat. But as Leo''s periods of lucidity become rarer, those dreams fall away, and Addie finds herself less and less able to cope with an increasingly unbearable present. Eventually, Leo is diagnosed with early onset dementia in the form of Lewy body disease. Life expectancy ranges from 3 to 20 years. A decidedly uncharacteristic act of violence makes it clear that he cannot live at home. He moves first to an assisted living facility and then to a small apartment with a caretaker, where, over time, he descends into full cognitive decline. Addie''s agony, anger, and guilt result in self-imposed isolation, which mirrors Leo''s diminished life. And so for years, all she can do is watch him die - too soon, and yet not soon enough. Kirshenbaum captures the pair''s final years, months, and days in short scenes that burn with despair, dark humour, and rage, tracking the brutal destruction of the disease as well as the moments of love and beauty that still exist for them.

F.H. Batacan''s first novel, Smaller and Smaller Circles, was an instant classic when it was published in 1999, a masterpiece of Filipino crime that won the Philippine Book Award. In this, her second work of fiction, she gives us a far-ranging collection that explores the darkest corners of human experience, depicting with pitch black humor the systems of class and politics that her characters are trapped in, and the moments violence - accidental or otherwise - that can, at any moment, shatter their lives. The driver for a wealthy family witnesses the aftermath of the disappearance of the family''s twelve-year-old son. A field investigator for the World Health Organization travels the world giving presentations about a biomedical enzyme that will lead to the extinction of the human race. And Father Augusto Saenz, the Jesuit priest and forensic anthropologist from Smaller and Smaller Circles, returns to investigate the murder of a woman whose secretive life holds the key to her death. Sure to cement Batacan''s status as a crime writer of global status, Accidents Happen is a probing and relentless series of dark excursions into worlds where the smallest moments are infused with life and vibrating with menace, and death is always close at hand.

In 72 hours, a blockbuster expose will reveal Victoria Stevens''s multibillion-dollar startup as a massive fraud. And Victoria has gone missing. Has she faked her death, leaving her husband, Guy Sarvananthan, to face the fallout- and potential jail time? Should Guy flee to his native Sri Lanka, an outcast and a failure? Or embrace denial? Opting for the latter, he takes the corporate jet to a private Caribbean island, where the 0.0001% have gathered to decide which one of the world''s biggest problems to ''eradicate forever.'' Guy drinks and drugs his way into oblivion, through manicured jungles and aboard superyachts, amid captains of industry, legions of staff, and unlikely saboteurs. Meanwhile, Victoria narrates her side of the story from an off-the-grid location in the California desert. In scribbled diary entries shot through with cultish self-help mantras, she plots her comeback, confident she''ll prove everyone wrong. Again.