Archives de catégorie : London 2025 Fiction

CAN’T YOU HEAR ME KNOCKING d’Erin A. Craig

A gothic thriller that blends psychological suspense with elements of classic horror, perfect for fans of Marisha Pessl’s Night Film, Riley Sager’s Home Before Dark, and Alix Harrow’s Starling House.

CAN’T YOU HEAR ME KNOCKING
by Erin A. Craig
Pantheon Books, Summer 2027
(via Sterling Lord Literistic)

Everyone in the world has heard of Holly in Everhallow. They’ve read the books—or at least listened to the radio broadcasts. But very few people know the real little girl behind the stories—Holiday Harris. Holiday never asked to be a muse for Holly’s creator, Herbert Atkinson, and she certainly never dreamed of the fame that came along with any of it.

Fifteen years have passed and now, as an adult, Holiday is entirely unrecognizable as her beloved counterpart. After Herbert’s death in 1974, Holiday returns to California, renting a room at the Chateau Marmont, keen on building a life as far removed from Everhallow as she can get. There she meets Brett Barten, notoriously private but endlessly celebrated, who seems to have struck a perfect balance flickering in and out of the spotlight in a way that greatly appeals to Holiday. He’s witty and razor smart and, best of all, he’s never read Holly. Their courtship is dazzling and intense and when Brett dies tragically on the morning of their wedding, Holiday is consumed by grief. Nothing can pull her from the fog until she’s summoned to the office of the Barten family’s attorney. Days before the wedding, Brett altered his will, leaving nearly all his estate—including a Big Sur cabin purchased as a surprise honeymoon gift—to Holiday. Upon first impression, the cabin is an idyllic dream. But everything at the cabin is not what it seems, and a darker truth slowly reveals itself.

Erin A. Craig is the author of the bestselling Sisters of Salt young adult fantasy novels and The Thirteenth Child. She holds a BFA in Theatre Design and Production from the University of Michigan. When she is not stage-managing tragic operas with hunchbacks, séances, or murderous clowns, she writes books that are just as spooky. An avid reader, basketball fan, and collector of typewriters, Erin makes her home in Michigan with her husband and daughter.

SISTER, BUTCHER, SISTER de KD Aldyn

The chilling prose of Karin Slaughter meets the high-stakes plotting of The Butcher and the Wren in a dark debut following three normal sisters, their own forgotten traumas, and the serial killer that lives within one, begging the question: can you ever truly recognize the evil around you?

SISTER, BUTCHER, SISTER
by KD Aldyn
Poisoned Pen Press/Sourcebooks, June 2025

Three sisters. One killer. Which one is SHE?

The Rowling sisters have always been people you can understand – with partners and children, homes and dreams. And secrets, the sisters have those too. But when Kate, the eldest, finally returns to buy her late grandfather’s home, the dark things each sister has kept buried soon rise to the surface.

Is Kate having unexplained visions tied to a past she can hardly recall? Is Aurora, the married mother of two, finally acting out in the face of her sisters’ indiscretions? Is Peggy, the youngest and a recovering addict, able to move on from the memories that haunt her?

And then there’s SHE.

SHE is one of them, but SHE is not like them at all. SHE is defined only by the carnage she lets the world see, the murders that have swept through their coastal community. And as the police close in on their newest serial killer, scrutiny lands on the Rowlings, forcing them to face their demons and reveal all they have kept hidden.

KD Aldyn lives everywhere and nowhere (home is where the Wi-Fi is). She most often wears black (and sometimes red) and sometimes dances like Elaine from Seinfeld. SISTER, BUTCHER, SISTER is her debut.

THE GIRLS BEFORE de Kate Alice Marshall

There is a girl in a basement. The door has stopped opening. The light is gone.
The next book from this acclaimed and bestselling author.

THE GIRLS BEFORE
by Kate Alice Marshall
Flatiron Books, February 2026

Stranger is trapped in the dark, with only her imagination and the scribbles on the wall left by long-dead girls to keep her company. Nearly out of food and water, she makes one last attempt to escape. But what will happen if the door opens? Audrey is a search and rescue expert who never stopped looking for her ex-best friend, Janie, who disappeared when they were teenagers. Janie used to love the local legend of a forest witch who saves girls from bad men, but Audrey knows now that for every one saved, there’s always another one lost. When she stumbles upon evidence in the forest that a teenage runaway might have actually been kidnapped from land belonging to the town’s wealthiest family, she will have to dig through decades of secrets to reveal the biggest one of all: what happened to the girls before.

Kate Alice Marshall is the USA Today bestselling author of What Lies in the Woods, No One Can Know, A Killing Cold, and multiple novels for younger readers. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family.

GHOST DETECTIVE d’Alice Arisugawa

A detective’s ghost investigates his own unsolved murder in this Japanese modern crime classic.

GHOST DETECTIVE
by Alice Arisugawa
Pushkin Press, Autumn 2026

The beach at night. A detective by the name of Tatsuya Kanzaki is summoned by his division chief and killed, but his lingering attachments and bewilderment at his sudden murder leave him unable to pass onto the next world.

Unfortunately, nobody can see Kanzaki—not his killer, Kyodo, nor his fiancée, Sumako—nobody except Hayakawa, his psychic junior.

While investigating his own murder through Hayakawa’s powers, Kyodo is found dead in a locked room. His death can only mean one thing. Somebody else is the mastermind behind Kanzaki’s murder…

Step by step, Kanzaki and Hayakawa inch closer to the truth. But reaching closure means passing on, and Kanzaki must brace himself for his final goodbyes.

Translated by Cathy Hirano.

Alice Arisugawa was born in 1959 in Osaka and graduated from Doshisha University. While there, he studied mystery novels and eventually debuted as an author in 1989. Ghost Detective, first published in 2000, is one of his best-loved novels and has been adapted for the stage in Japan.

PARALLEL LINES de Tashie Bhuiyan

A heart-wrenching speculative-tinged adult debut from author Tashie Bhuiyan, for fans of Matt Haig, Rebecca Serle, and Everything Everywhere All At Once.

PARALLEL LINES
by Tashie Bhuiyan
Gallery, Summer 2026
(via Park, Fine & Brower)

Two estranged twin sisters. One who left. One who stayed.

Astoria and Grace Sadiya share a past, but their presents couldn’t be more different. Seven years ago, after a massive fight, Astoria left home and never looked back while Grace stayed with their parents in New York. They haven’t seen each other since. Until their twenty-fifth birthday, when they blow out their candles and make the same wish—only to wake up in an alternate universe together. Stuck traveling from universe to universe, Grace wants nothing more than to return to her own world, despite her growing fear that her parents will only ever see her as a burden. Meanwhile, Astoria is desperate to find a timeline where her best friend and first love unquestionably reciprocates her feelings. Unable to move through the multiverse without each other, the sisters reluctantly join forces in hopes of locating a universe where both their wishes come true.

But the longer Astoria and Grace spend together, the closer they come to confronting the secrets and suffering of their childhoods, and the pain and betrayal of the night Astoria ran away. Can the sisters accept that they are reflections of one another, two halves of the same whole, when neither of them likes what they see in the mirror? And after seven years of festering silence, can they find their way to a universe where they have unconditional love and each other—or are their paths destined to always run parallel?

Tashie Bhuiyan is the author of the Young Adult novels Counting Down With You, A Show For Two, Stay With My Heart, and the forthcoming I’ll Pretend You’re Mine. She is a New Yorker through and through, and hopes to change the world, one book at a time. She loves writing stories about gaining agency through growth and surviving against all odds. When she’s not doing that, she’s probably traveling, attending a concert, or bothering her cat, Zuko.