Archives de catégorie : Frankfurt 2026 Adult Fiction

DOG MOM de Madi Stine

Satirical horror debut perfect for fans of Girl Dinner and Motherthing, about the lengths to which a doting dog mom will go for her bloodthirsty fur baby.

DOG MOM
by Madi Stine
akaSTORY/Abrams, January 2028

Phoebe has felt alone all her life. She’s the outsider in her adopted family, and she’s always felt her parent’s love is conditional on her being good. Her marriage is no better, and when Phoebe experiences a late–term miscarriage, it destroys any hope she’s harbored of finally finding unconditional love. Until she meets Teddy…

Teddy is a stray wolf dog. Though Teddy’s origins are mysterious, it’s clear he’s all alone in the world too. He’s injured, starving, and needs Phoebe’s help to survive. Although Teddy treats Phoebe’s house like a toilet and massacres her unused baby toys, he gets Phoebe out of bed to tend to his messes. In a way, he takes better care of Phoebe than her husband, Quinn, ever has.

As Phoebe’s bond with Teddy intensifies, he fills that void deep within her. The one that convinced her she was unlovable, unworthy. With Teddy to look after, she feels whole again. Soon, Teddy is the most important part of her life. And nothing comes between a girl and her beloved dog. Not the meddling next door neighbor. Not her family. Not her husband.

Madi Stine is an award–winning writer/director based in Los Angeles. She earned a BA in Film and English from Harvard University where she graduated with honors and was a Fulbright Scholar. As a Fulbright Scholar, she affiliated with the University of British Columbia, researching and writing a historical screenplay set on the Canadian frontier. Madi then relocated to New York where she earned an MFA in Screenwriting/Directing from Columbia University. While at Columbia, her horror–comedy short, Rose & Pinky are Metal, screened in the US and internationally before being acquired by ShortsTV. DOG MOM, her debut novel, is based on her original screenplay of the same name, which was named a 2025 script competition finalist at the Austin Film Festival.

OPPO de Christopher Beha

From National Book Award–longlisted Christopher Beha, a gripping, twisty novel that pulls back the curtain on who really tips the needle of politics and updates the great political thrillers of the past—those from Graham Greene, John LeCarré, and Robert Stone—for our own fractured, tumultuous era.

OPPO
by Christopher Beha
Tin House, May 2027
(via The Gernert Company)

When tech billionaire Romulus Rice buys the Washington Star, the paper’s journalists celebrate, thinking they will finally have the resources to compete with the new media giants and return the Star to its glory days. With a lawless president—Rice’s fellow tech oligarch, Mario Adrian—having seized power through questionable means, the country has never needed their work more. But Rice installs a former tabloid hack with a worryingly friendly relationship to the president as the paper’s new editor, and the staff is left with a choice: stick around to fight the good fight, or jump from a sinking ship.

One of the Star’s hottest young reporters, Keith Reece, chooses to jump—joining a prominent opposition research firm run by former Star reporter Tony Greenstone. His colleague—and work wife—Colleen McDormand stays behind, becoming the paper’s White House correspondent. From their different perches, Colleen and Keith each stumble on a dramatic conspiracy that will ultimately implicate not just President Adrian but also Greenstone and Rice. As they tussle professionally and personally, the pair comes to question how much they can trust each other—or anyone else.

Taking place over the course of a single, crucial election season, OPPO builds toward a startling climax in which Colleen and Keith are both forced to question who and what they’ve been working for all along, and whether they are rebuilding their world . . . or destroying it.

« Oppo is everything a political thriller needs to be: smart, sharp, and incisive—without being cynical. I couldn’t put it down.” —Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl

“Cannily conceived and fetchingly populated, Beha’s Oppo is a subversive delight. Our politics and news media have given us little thrill of late—but this wonderfully plotted novel is an exception!” —Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ayad Akhtar

Christopher Beha is the author of two memoirs, The Whole Five Feet and Why I Am Not an Atheist, and three previous novels, Arts & Entertainments, What Happened to Sophie Wilder, and The Index of Self-Destructive Acts, longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award.

DUST SETTLES NORTH de Deena ElGenaidi

It’s 2012, and post-revolution Egypt is sparking with political energy—but Hannah and Zain are numb.

DUST SETTLES NORTH
by Deena ElGenaidi
Bindery Books, September 2025
(via Context Literary)

The flight from New York to Cairo is long—longer still for two siblings on a journey to bury their mother. When they discover their father’s unforgivable betrayal, what’s left of their family crumbles.

Hannah gives up her spot at Columbia Law to remain in Egypt, where she navigates romantic entanglements and a new culture. Back in America, Zain’s self-destructive behavior begins to catch up with him, leaving him to wonder whether he’s any different from his father.

When the siblings reunite in Cairo months later, Zain is nearing rock bottom, and Hannah finds herself in the middle of the Arab Spring uprising. Together they confront shared secrets and reconcile their conservative upbringing with their new beliefs as adults. Will they heal together, or has the loss of their only bridge—their mother—set them permanently adrift?

A tender reflection on the effects of grief and loss, this deeply felt novel explores how siblings come together to mend a fractured family and, in the process, find themselves.

Deena ElGenaidi writes about the arts, identity, and pop culture for a number of publications, including Nylon, MTV News, Oprah Magazine, Longreads, Catapult, Vulture, and more. She wrote, directed, and produced the award-winning comedy web series Codependent. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her cat, Sasha. DUST SETTLES NORTH is her first novel.

WE ARE FINE de Gretchen Lieberum

Sometimes you don’t blow up your own mid-life. Sometimes, life blows it up for you. And sometimes…that makes you want things you shouldn’t want.

WE ARE FINE
by Gretchen Lieberum
Cardinal/Hachette US, TBD 2028
(via The Gernert Company)

Sarah is a middle-aged, married LA props stylist—wife to reliable Charlie (giver of excellent bear-hugs and perpetrator of just one teensy, immediately regretted affair); mother to ethereal Gracie (fourteen years old, hilarious and still poignantly becoming). Give Sarah a few more years and she might round the corner to a proper mid-life crisis, exploding the first stable family she’s ever known in search of something forever on the tip of her tongue. But woman flails and the universe laughs; Sarah, it turns out, might not have a few more years. 

WE ARE FINE spins life-affirming comedy from tragedy in this tenderly off-kilter, hot and bothered novel about a married woman who has a bomb go off in her life in the form of a possibly terminal diagnosis. Instead of informing her husband and daughter, Sarah drives east into the Mojave desert as she runs from an uncertain future and toward an unexpected journey of self-discovery, reckoning, and most pressingly, reconnection with her decades long, sexually explosive situationship, the charismatic JP, who’s never quite let Sarah go…

Alternating between Sarah’s present and key moments from her past that flash before our eyes like the best kind of Greatest Hits album, WE ARE FINE is singer-songwriter Gretchen Lieberum’s propulsive, darkly comic, emotionally honest embrace of a novel about life and death, grief and lust, limerence and the true meaning of love.

Gretchen Lieberum is a Los Angeles based singer-songwriter. In 2013, she co-founded Prince tribute band Princess with actress-comedian and SNL alumni Maya Rudolph, performing everywhere from the Hollywood Bowl, to Carnegie Hall along with D’Angelo and Elvis Costello, to the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. In addition to playing with Princess, Gretchen has written and recorded four albums of original music, both independently and with the support of Lakeshore Records in the US and Nomadic records in the UK. Gretchen’s latest project, an album of reimagined jazz and pop standards titled “This May Only Be A Dream,” was produced by BAFTA award winning composer and musician Keefus Ciancia (True Detective, Killing Eve). Gretchen graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz with a BA in American Literature. She is a married mom of two and a breast cancer survivor.

HEART OF GLASS de Jennifer Hillier

A serial killer recants his long-ago confession regarding a small-town high school girl—and her then-best friends are forced to confront what really happened that night and what’s happening now.

HEART OF GLASS
by Jennifer Hillier
Minotaur/St. Martin’s Press, August 2026

Twenty-five years ago in Seaside, Washington, a charming drifter named Sam met three inseparable teenage girls at the local amusement park. Days later, one of them was found dead, her body surfacing in a flooded cranberry bog not far from where she was murdered.

Barb and Nicolette were shocked to learn that the man they all met at Wonderland was the Carnival Killer. After he’s arrested for the murders of five young women – one of whom was their best friend, Lorelei – Nicolette moved to the city to pursue her dreams of being famous. Barb stayed behind in Seaside, eventually becoming a reporter for the local paper. Their past safely behind them, they’ve both moved on with their lives.

But when the Carnival Killer recants his confession and a new body washes ashore on the eve of Wonderland’s grand reopening, the secrets that Barb and Nicolette have worked so hard to bury begin to resurface, threatening to destroy everything in their carefully constructed lives.

Instant New York Times bestseller

« Jennifer Hillier is the master of suspense. » —Freida McFadden

« Amazing dialogue, complex characters and a dazzling plot. Never has betrayal seemed so fascinating. . . No one maps the valley of fear that exists in the hearts of her characters better than Jennifer Hillier. She doesn’t just write thrillers, she creates epics that take you beyond the event horizon where what we think we know breaks down and we just hold on for dear life. Not to be missed! » ―S.A Cosby

« Hillier delivers another knockout thriller with compulsively readable prose and sly, subtle twists. A must-read. » —Booklist (starred review)

Jennifer Hillier was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, and lived in the Seattle area for years before returning home to Toronto, where she now lives with her family.