Archives de catégorie : Frankfurt 2025 Adult Fiction

MURDER MOST DELICIOUS de Danielle Postel-Vinay

Thursday Murder Club meets Butter—with a dash of the healing fiction of Days at the Morisaki Bookshop—in this heart-warming and delectable mystery set in Paris featuring two women in need of comfort: an American sommelier who has lost her sense of taste and an agoraphobic detective afraid to leave her quaint Parisian neighborhood.

MURDER MOST DELICIOUS
by Danielle Postel-Vinay
HarperCollins, May 2026
(via Writers House)

Olivia Branch has a legendary palette—or, rather, had. She was a master sommelier—a distinction given to only 269 people in the world, and only a handful of them women–with a mental catalogue for the scent and taste of wines that ran into the thousands. She was even, for a time, the youngest-ever Head Sommelier at the most prestigious French restaurant in New York City. That is, until Covid robbed her of one of her greatest weapons: her sense of taste.

While Olivia manages to keep this a secret for as long as she possibly can, her cover is blown one disastrous evening when she fails to identify one of the most important wines of her career. Reeling from the public humiliation, adrift, and massively depressed, she gets a miraculous second-chance opportunity in the form of an invitation from Jacques de Bizet—an old friend and celebrity chef in Paris—who invites her to fly to France to interview with him. Everything finally seems to be turning around for Olivia…until the esteemed gourmand takes his first sip and immediately drops dead.

Augusta Dupin is a former detective. Eccentric and intimidating in her intellect, she’d solved some of the hardest cases to come through the Sûreté de Paris. That is, until Covid arrived, and with it, a severe flare-up of her childhood agoraphobia. Unable to leave the borders of her tiny neighborhood, she was forced to quit her job, but she just can’t seem to give up her passion for mysteries. And now, one has landed right at her doorstep: Who killed the neighborhood’s dear friend and favorite chef Jacques? And who is the mysterious American woman who fled the scene of the crime?

In this captivating mystery full of sensual delights and adventures, Olivia and Augusta must join forces with a group of neighborhood amateur sleuths—a pâtissier, a café owner, a perfumer, and a florist—to solve the crime, and along the way find fresh purpose for their lives. Set against the backdrop of the enchanting Seventh Arrondissement, readers will be immediately transported to the cozy, charming Parisian neighborhood where friendship, food and creature comforts have the power to soothe the soul in dark times.

Danielle Postel-Vinay is the French alter-ego of The New York Times and internationally bestselling author Danielle Trussoni, whose books have won The Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Le Prix Bête Noire des Libraires and been translated into more than thirty languages. She spends part of the year in Paris with her French husband and their family.

WIFEHOUSE de Sonya Walger

Told over the course of one year, through the shifting perspectives of wife, husband, lover, best friend and children, Walger paints a contradictory, nuanced portrait of a woman who walks away from every role that tradition and society have expected of her.

WIFEHOUSE
by Sonya Walger
Union Square, April 2026
(via Park, Fine & Brower)

Annie and Hector have been hosting their friends Candace, Edouard, and their son, Remy, in the guest house of their Connecticut home for many months while their friends’ home undergoes renovations.

As a thank-you, Candace gifts Annie French lessons with twenty-six-year-old local French tutor, Thierry. Hector, an actor, goes to film on location, leaving Annie—newly bereaving her mother—to single-parent their two kids.

As the lessons progress, she finds herself unexpectedly vulnerable to the charms of a man closer in age to her own teenage daughter than to her own. A new life for Annie emerges, one she could never have foreseen.

Sonya Walger is an award-winning actress, best known for her role as Penny Widmore on Lost and Molly Cobb in the first three seasons of Apple TV+’s For All Mankind. Other career highlights include the original Broadway production of Frost/Nixon, Parenthood, Tell Me You Love Me, Scandal, Flashforward, and In Treatment. She studied English Literature at Christ Church, Oxford and was the host of the literary podcast, Bookish. Her first book, Lion, a semiautobiographical novel was published by New York Review Books in February 2025. She lives in Malibu, California.

I HOPE EDEN READS THIS d’Eli Rallo

For two women, the term ‘best friend’ has never been enough. They’ve met every milestone side-by-side, from first kisses to sick parents, and moving to New York City. But now, they’re no longer speaking.

I HOPE EDEN READS THIS
by Eli Rallo
Grand Central, Spring 2027
(via Park, Fine & Brower)

Penny Straker’s whole world has fallen apart. She’s self-sabotaging—missing meetings at work and convincing herself that all of her friends are hanging out without her. She can’t eat, think, or sleep, and is falling into bad habits, like ghosting her therapist and obsessively swiping on Hinge. This is worse than a breakup. Penny hasn’t just lost Eden Wilmington…she’s lost her entire sense of self and understanding of her past.

Now, Penny is revisiting every moment of their friendship, trying to understand where things went so wrong. Is it because Penny doesn’t like Eden’s fiancé—or is it because of the huge secret Penny’s been keeping from Eden since the summer before college? And is there any heartbreak more painful than the end of a friendship?

Vulnerable, funny, heartbreaking, and utterly relatable, I HOPE EDEN READS THIS will appeal to fans of Such A Fun Age and Good Material.

Eli Rallo is the author of the bestelling essay collection I Didn’t Know I Needed This and a content creator who reaches over 1M followers on TikTok and Instagram. She is the founder of Prose Hoes Literary Salon, the host of the Miss Congeniality podcast, and a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

WHAT WE COME BACK TO de Chloe Michelle Howarth

The hotly-anticipated third novel from the author of Sunburn, which sold over 100,000 copies and was shortlisted for the Nero Book Award, the British Book Awards and the Polari Prize.

WHAT WE COME BACK TO
by Chloe Michelle Howarth
Publisher TK
(via Northbank Talent Management)

Aly and Meadhbh meet at a party that changes the course of their lives. Meadhbh has just moved to London from small-town Ireland with her best friend Saoirse, and Aly has been living in a penthouse paid for her by parents while she completes yet another degree. They are worlds apart, yet they cannot take their eyes off each other, and they fall instantly and madly in love.

We follow them from London in 2000 to Kilcoom in 2006, navigating obsessions, affairs and estrangements but always coming back to each other. Told through their alternating perspectives, this tender and addictive novel is for fans of Coco Mellor’s Cleopatra and Frankenstein and Nicola Dinan’s Bellies.

Chloe Michelle Howarth was born in July 1996. She grew up in the West Cork countryside, which has served as an inspiration for her writing. She attended university at IADT in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, where she studied English, Media and Cultural Studies. Chloe currently lives in Brighton. Her debut novel, Sunburn, was shortlisted for the 2024 Polari First Book Prize, the 2024 Book of the Year: Discover Award at the British Book Awards and the 2023 Nero Book Award for Debut Fiction and longlisted for the 2024 Diverse Book Awards.

MOBIUS, INC. d’Adam Fawer

The impossible can be done—if he can raise enough money. A sci-fi thriller set in the back-stabbing world of New York City’s Silicon Alley.

MOBIUS, INC.
by Adam Fawer
April Yayıncılık (Turkey), October 2024
(via Liza Dawson Associates)

Caleb had it all—brilliant wife, adorable son, fantastic career as CFO at a hot tech startup. But he screws up and in one moment it all vanishes.

His son dies while Caleb is distracted by a work text, his marriage disintegrates, and the arrogant CEO Caleb recruited and mentored for eight years fires him. In a drunken rage, Caleb tweets out every salary at his company. This goes over about as well as you might expect.

Desperate, Caleb agrees to meet with a new start-up recommended by his mentor Jim, a brilliant but callous billionaire venture capitalist.

The company—Mobius, Inc.—is located in one room in a fifth-floor walkup in deepest Brooklyn. The founders—Andy, a slippery trust fund kid, and Rowan, an inscrutable genius physicist—are half Caleb’s age and already hate each other.

But Rowan has invented a Temporal Displacement Portal, a device that receives messages from the future. Instantly Caleb knows: Mobius is his salvation. He will go back in time and save his son. Fix everything.

Rowan says going back is impossible, but after decades in tech, Caleb knows that the impossible can be done—if he can raise enough money.

All he has to do is navigate the venture capitalists who hate him, keep Andy and Rowan from killing each other, and not get fired. Or worse.

Adam Fawer (born 1970 in New York City) is an American Novelist. Improbable, his first novel, has been translated into eighteen languages and won the 2006 International Thriller Writers Award for best first novel. His second novel, Empathy, has been published in 2008 in German, Japanese and Turkish. Fawer holds undergraduate and master’s degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. During his corporate career, Fawer worked for a variety of companies including Sony Music, J.P. Morgan, and most recently, About.com, where he was the chief operating officer. He lives in New York with his partner and two sons.