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I’M NOT HERE TO HUNT RABBITS de Josh Kendall

This debut is a raw, tantalizing love story wrapped in a thriller that contains as much psychological intrigue as there is action – from one of the most acclaimed editors of the genre.

I’M NOT HERE TO HUNT RABBITS: A Novel
by Josh Kendall
Putnam, Spring 2027
(via The Gernert Company)

Smith thought he had left it all behind: the intense, dangerous work in Afghanistan; the grueling training; the vast reach of his former employer – the mysterious organization Cornerstone; and most of all Helen – the woman he loved and who was now gone forever. Better to start new in a place where no one knows him – Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Security for a local kingpin named Sabadi and his family. A job he could do in his sleep.

But something is off about the whole assignment. The previous security detail seems to know more than they are letting on about the nature of the job and what Sabadi is planning in Ethiopia. Smith is left in the dark, and for the first time in his life, he is not sure where the threats are coming from. The only things he is certain of are that Cornerstone knows he is here and he will have to confront his past with Helen to make it out of Addis Ababa alive.

A different kind of thriller, one in which the tension comes as much from what’s unsaid as what is left in, from an acclaimed editor of the genre, I’m Not Here to Hunt Rabbits is an existential suspense novel of a life on a knife’s edge.

Josh Kendall was VP and Executive Editor at Little, Brown, and Editorial Director of Mulholland Books where he worked with Walter Mosley, Attica Locke, Robert Galbraith, JJ Abrams, and Tana French among others. He’s worked in various editorial positions at Viking, Picador, and Scribner, and has also taught creative writing at Brooklyn College, University of Iowa, and The New School.

THE LINEUP de Nicholas Timms

Set against the backdrop of the iconic Byron Bay, this debut thriller dives into the hostile and sometimes violent world of competitive surfing.

THE LINEUP
by Nicholas Timms
PRH Australia, July 2026
(via The Pilkington Agency)

A killer on the loose. A surfer out of his depth…

Bo Curren was once a champion surfer. Now, at twenty-eight, he’s all washed up – unable even to set foot near the ocean.

Instead, he spends his days alone in his apartment, drowning his sorrows in whiskey and watching surfers on his laptop via the 24-hour surf webcam.

Then one day he sees something he shouldn’t. A camera trained on a deserted Byron Bay beach picks up a murder right there on the sand.

The police dismiss his report, and no bodies are found. Yet Bo knows what he saw.

And he has a clue: the murderer’s distinctive surfboard. If he can track that down, he’ll catch the killer.

But is he ready to dive back into a world where the rules are unspoken, outsiders aren’t welcome, and where secrets can be as dangerous as the waves?

A word from the editor, Bev Cousins: « I’m thrilled to be publishing Nicholas Timms’ sensational debut thriller, THE LINEUP. As a publisher of crime fiction for over thirty years both in the UK and Australia, it takes a very special book now to catch my eye – but I fell for this one hook, line and sinker. With heart-stopping ocean set-pieces amid tense detective scenes, Nicholas Timms masterfully balances the thrills of surfing with the twists and turns of the best crime fiction.’

‘The Lineup reads like a riptide. Once you’re in it it won’t let you go.’ — Michael Brissenden, bestselling author of Dust

‘The Lineup crashes into the Australian crime scene with the force of a perfect wave — a tense debut that drags you under and doesn’t let you surface until it’s done. Highly recommend.’ — R.W.R. McDonald, author of The Nancys

‘The kind of book that grabs you and doesn’t let go, The Lineup will sweep you away in an adrenaline rush of action and intrigue, all the while exploring a poignant thread about trauma and grief.’ — Jess Kitching, author of The Life Experiment

Nicholas Timms is a writer and former competitive surfer based in Sydney. Now working as a copywriter for a globally recognised advertising agency, he has been the creative mind behind several award-winning campaigns.

WHITEOUT de Carola Lovering

Carola Lovering has become known for her keen psychological suspense and portrayal of obsession and complicated relationships. In this new novel, she explores the complexities of marriage, sisterhood, and the capricious relationship between what is true and how the truth is remembered.

WHITEOUT
by Carola Lovering
St. Martin’s Press, March 2027

June Lyons has built a beautiful life in Aspen, Colorado, where she lives with her husband Shep and their young daughter Ivy. Shep is a bestselling author whose skyrocketing career has put June’s own ambitions on the backburner, but it’s a small price to pay. She has a gorgeous, mountainside home, and her sister Penny—her closest friend and confidante—lives just across town. But when June loses her second pregnancy in a tragic ski accident just weeks before her due date, the family’s world is immediately shattered, and everything that she thought she knew about her life is thrown into question.

In the months that follow June’s devastating loss, what exacerbates her despair is the fact that she can’t remember anything about the crash. Why was she on skis, so late in her pregnancy? Why wasn’t Shep with her? And what if it wasn’t actually an accident? Determined to find the answers that no one can seem to provide, June begins to piece together what happened that day, intent on unveiling the truth at any cost—even if it reveals something about herself, or her marriage, that she’d rather not face.

Brimming with secrets and twists and including a past timeline that follows June and Penny through their early years in Aspen, Whiteout excavates the thin line between fact and fiction, memory and reality, as it explores the complexities of marriage, sisterhood, motherhood, and grief.

Carola Lovering is the bestselling author of the novels Tell Me Lies, Too Good to Be True, Can’t Look Away, and Bye, Baby. She is a graduate of Colorado College, and her work has appeared in Vogue, New York Magazine, W Magazine, National Geographic, Marie Claire, and Yoga Journal, among other publications. Her novel Tell Me Lies is now a television series for Hulu. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two young children.

PLAYING COLTRANE d’Andre Hardy

Former NFL player Andre Hardy’s debut, featuring a young man who has risen from the rarely seen dark side of San Diego to the upper echelons of the city’s elite, serving as the fixer to a corrupt kingmaker who now wants to get out and focus on his family, but first he’s got to survive one last job. A potent and atmospheric new vision of the hard-boiled detective and noir genres.

PLAYING COLTRANE
by Andre Hardy
Grand Central, September 2026
(via Writers House)

Like the complex, morally ambiguous protagonists written by Hammett, Chandler, Macdonald, Cain and their many descendants, Coltrane Davis is at once a knight and a hustler. He has risen to wealth and success, graduating from San Diego’s back alleys to the halls of power through his partnership with Saul Sollman, a crooked kingmaker among the city’s elite. Running multimillion dollar scams with Saul, he has been Saul’s fixer, but now he wants out of the hustle so that he can focus on his teenage daughter’s burgeoning tennis career and finally be the dad he has always wanted to be. But when the San Diego Chargers’ star running back disappears one evening before a big game, Coltrane is drawn into an investigation of what happened by Saul and his protégé, the player’s agent; at the same time, Coltrane’s daughter’s closest friend disappears into San Diego’s underworld of drugs and prostitution, and Coltrane is haunted by his failure to save her from San Diego’s sex industry. Torn by the unreconcilable demands of the life he can’t seem to quit, Coltrane brings himself and his loved ones to the brink of destruction in his quest to free himself once and for all of Saul’s control.

PLAYING COLTRANE is brimming with gorgeous writing about place, music, and the hard-fought struggle for personal growth against legacies of violence and neglect.

Andre Hardy is a former NFL running back and Antioch University MFA graduate whose essays and short fiction have appeared in journals and anthologies. His extraordinary journey from professional athlete to Big Five-published novelist infuses his storytelling with grit, rhythm, and authenticity. With this novel, he establishes himself as a breakout voice in contemporary crime fiction, speaking to identity, resilience, and justice with global resonance.

POPPY CREEK d’Ivy Fang

A con woman posing as an exorcist must trust in ghosts—and confront her own—when she’s called to a remote bed and breakfast for a job…but she’ll soon learn that the spirits are not the most dangerous guests in residence.

POPPY CREEK
by Ivy Fang
Tor Nightfire, Spring 2027
(via Park, Fine & Brower)

Laurel Meng calls herself an exorcist, but she’s never performed a real exorcism. All she needs to secure her paychecks—spread ever thinner in the face of her mother’s mounting medical bills—is her white clients’ overactive imaginations and boundless ignorance.

So when Annie Shaye-Matsuda calls, convinced her late son Taika’s restless spirit is haunting her quaint bed and breakfast, Laurel is relieved to have found a new mark—not a moment too soon, given the mortgage payment she’s defaulted on. But when voices in the walls warn her to leave, she begins to suspect something far worse than Taika lingers in the bones of Poppy Creek Bed and Breakfast. And that something is intent on trapping her there.

Confronted with the real deal—crawling specters made of dirt, doors that lead nowhere, blood running through the plumbing—Laurel can’t fake her way out of this one. She must ally with a ghost to perform a true exorcism if she hopes to uncover the truth and escape with her money in hand. But secrets are buried amidst the flowerbeds of Poppy Creek, and if Laurel’s not careful, she’ll end up just like them…or worse.

For fans of The Eyes are the Best Part, We Used to Live Here, and Pet Sematary, POPPY CREEK is a novel about love and loss, and the horror that grows from them. It is the author’s debut.

Ivy Fang grew up along the briny California coasts and now lives and works in the Bay Area. When she’s writing, Ivy is usually digging into horror, fantasy worlds, blood-spattered romance, and families that weather every storm. When she’s not writing, she can be found playing video games or enjoying a good scoop of ice cream with a Chinese drama.