Archives de catégorie : Frankfurt 2022 Adult Fiction

WE SOLVE MURDERS de Richard Osman

A brand new series. An iconic new detective team. And a thrilling new murder to solve . . .

WE SOLVE MURDERS
by Richard Osman
Viking, September 2024
(via Mushens Entertainment)

Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar habits and routines: the pub quiz, his favourite bench, his cat waiting for him when he comes home. His days of adventure are over: adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy’s business now.

Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul. As a private security officer, she doesn’t stay still long enough for habits or routines. She’s currently on a remote island keeping world-famous author Rosie D’Antonio alive. Which was meant to be an easy job . . .

Then a dead body, a bag of money and a killer with their sights on Amy have her sending an SOS to the only person she trusts. A breakneck race around the world begins, but can Amy and Steve stay one step ahead of a deadly enemy?

Richard Osman is a creative director for Endemol UK. He has worked as an executive producer on numerous shows. Richard’s debut novel The Thursday Murder Club has been published in over 40 territories and has spent as many weeks as #1 on the Sunday Times Bestseller List in the UK. He became a New York Times bestseller, has been nominated for an Edgar Award in the US, and is also an international bestseller in Sweden, Iceland, and Germany.

MISS AUSTEN INVESTIGATES: THE HAPLESS MILLINER de Jessica Bull

The first in a series set in Regency Britain, sprinkled with the wit and liveliness of Jane Austen and the addictive intrigue of cosy crime novels such as The Windsor Knot by SJ Bennett and The Appeal by Janice Hallett.

MISS AUSTEN INVESTIGATES: THE HAPLESS MILLINER
by Jessica Bull
‎ Michael Joseph UK/Union Square US, early 2024
(via Mushens Entertainment)

Hampshire, 1795: A young Jane Austen is plotting to secure a marriage proposal from Tom Lefroy when she uncovers the body of a murdered woman. After her beloved brother, Georgie, is implicated in the crime, Jane has six weeks to expose the real killer, or Georgie will face the gallows.
Jane Austen – witty, spirited, and incredibly clever – is suddenly thrust into a mystery when a milliner’s dead body is found locked inside a cupboard in the middle of a ball. When Jane’s brother Georgie is found with some jewellery belonging to the deceased, the local officials see it as an open and shut case: one which is likely to end with his death. Jane is certain that he is innocent, and there is more to the murder than meets the eye. Her investigations send her on a journey through local society, as Jane’s suspect list keeps on growing – and her keen observational skills of people will be put to the test to solve the crime, and save her brother.

The second volume, MISS AUSTEN INVESTIGATES: THE FOREIGN PRINCESS, will be published by Michael Joseph in early 2025.

Jessica Bull grew up in South East London, where she still lives with her husband, two daughters, and far too many pets. She’s addicted to stories and studied English Literature at Bristol University, and Information Science at City University, London. She began work as a librarian (under the false impression she could sit and read all day), before becoming a communications consultant. MISS AUSTEN INVESTIGATES: THE HAPLESS MILLINER is her debut novel.

THE RIFT WALKER SERIES de Clay Harmon

An epic new fantasy in a world of ice, fire, and magic, set on a bitterly cold place where people live below in cavernous cities that rely on geothermal energy, where power comes from binding people to the rocks and metals via life-threatening trials.

THE RIFT WALKER SERIES
by Clay Harmon
‎ Solaris, 2022 / 2024
(via JABberwocky)

Book 1: FLAMES OF MIRA (July 2022)
Born through life-threatening trials that bind chemical elements to the human body, Ig was forged in the boiling volcanoes under Mira’s frozen lands. One of the most powerful known elementals, he serves as an enforcer for Magnate Sorrelo Adriann. Ig is blessed with great power, but cursed with a flesh binding that ties him until death to serve Sorrelo, and if he tries to disobey any one of Sorrelo’s cruel commands, the flesh binding magic will instantly kill him.
When Sorrelo is overthrown, Ig quickly learns he can do far worse than what has been asked of him so far. If he can’t escape the flesh binding in time, Ig will have to kill friend and foe alike to stop his master reclaiming the throne, or sacrifice himself trying.

“With some of the most unique and fascinating worldbuilding I’ve ever seen in a fantasy novel, Flames of Mira is a captivating read from start to finish.” – Nick Martell, author of The Two-Faced Queen

Book 2: INTO THE RIFT (Summer 2024)
After stopping the mercenary army and saving Augustin, Jakar and Efadora set their sights on Sulian Daw, where Jakar plans to hunt down the cultists who enslaved him and save the elemental children he grew up beside. But first, that will mean crossing the Rift, the most treacherous place in Ra Thuzan. Back in Mira, Ester, fledgling smith of the Foundry must track down the smith’s source of power after it goes missing. And if she fails, it will mean the death of everyone in the Foundry at the hands of the Sovereign and the child prince.

Clay Harmon has spent most of his life in California’s Central Valley, growing up outside of Yosemite, then moving to Fresno, where he worked at a B&N while studying Business Administration & Marketing. He now works in marketing for a software development firm. In his off-time, he lifts weights, loses at video games, and terrorizes his cats. He currently lives in Saratoga Springs, Utah, with his wife.

IN THE LOBBY OF THE DREAM HOTEL de Genevieve Plunkett

“A truly brilliant novel. This is a story about madness and music, forbidden love, entrapment and escape—all written in Plunkett’s electric and propulsive prose. It’s the most compelling novel I’ve read all year; I couldn’t put it down. Stunning. »—Anna Hogeland, author of The Long Answer

IN THE LOBBY OF THE DREAM HOTEL
by Genevieve Plunkett
‎ Catapult, August 2023
(via Defiore &Co.)

Portia, a young mother and amateur musician, lives a life ruled by doctors. Having been committed to a psychiatric hospital in her twenties, she must remain cautious about her mental health, especially when a strange series of delusions begin to resurface a decade later. To make matters more complicated, Portia discovers one day that she is in love with her band’s drummer, Theo. Portia and Theo find out that they have a somewhat incredible—almost magical—connection, that not even they can understand. Portia, feeling guilty, confesses this psychic love affair to her husband Nathan who is a powerful figure, a prosecutor, in their Vermont town.
Charismatic and manipulative, he initiates an intervention with Portia’s parents, convincing them that their daughter’s decision to leave him and her claims of emotional abuse are symptoms of her mental illness. Portia is hospitalized for a second time in her life. There, Portia must face the delusions of her past. She must also decide whether she can trust her own intuition and accept the beauty and strangeness of her life, without being influenced by her past, her family’s pressure, or her diagnosis.

Genevieve Plunkett is the recipient of an O. Henry Award and the author of the story collection Prepare Her. Her work has also appeared in The Best Small Fictions, and journals such as New England Review, The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, The Colorado Review, Willow Springs, Literary Hub, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, and Refinery29. She lives in Vermont with her two children.

CHILDREN OF TOMORROW de J.R. Burgmann

An imaginative tour de force and an unforgettable family saga by a new voice in climate fiction.

CHILDREN OF TOMORROW
by J.R. Burgmann
‎ Upswell Publishing/Black Inc. Australia, March 2023

CHILDREN OF TOMORROW is an episodic saga, a sweeping history of family and friendship, spanning multiple generations and geographies across the twenty-first century. This web of characters struggle, both individually and collectively, through a time of unprecedented, escalating change.
Beginning in 2016, Arne Bakke witnesses the historic devastation of that summer’s bushfires across the ancient wilderness of Tasmania. Elsewhere, Londoner Evie Weatherall witnesses extreme climate events in her travels. They each see a dangerous future forming. When their paths collide in Melbourne, Australia, where they are both enrolled in a PhD, they and their group of close friends are set on course to witness and struggle together against the coming century, an age of great individual and planetary loss.
CHILDREN OF TOMORROW depicts an all-too-real future history, rushing on at an unstoppable speed and fracturing the lives of its many characters, the effects of which ripple throughout subsequent generations and the earth they inherit.

J.R. Burgmann is a writer and critic. He is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and received his PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies from Monash University, where he is based at the Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub. CHILDREN OF TOMORROW, his debut novel, was highly commended in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2021 in the category of unpublished manuscripts. In 2022 he was awarded a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship.