Archives de catégorie : London 2026 Fiction

DELICATE CREATURES de Kimi Cunningham Grant

Part Where the Crawdads Sing and part The God of the Woods, this novel blends a compelling mystery told across multiple points of view and timelines, gorgeous nature writing, and an unforgettable love story for the ages.

DELICATE CREATURES
by Kimi Cunningham Grant
Minotaur Books/St. Martin’s, Summer 2027

Blue Hollow, West Virginia, 2005. Local journalist Britt has a terrible shock when she arrives at the home of her best friend, Des, to find blood all over the kitchen. Des, her son and her husband are all missing. Twenty years earlier, Ozias and his mother, Mari, arrive in the small town, hoping for a fresh start. The trouble is, the very white town of Blue Hollow isn’t welcoming to two multiracial outsiders, except for Des, their young neighbor who lives up the mountain. Over time, Des and Ozias fall in love and dream of a life together, but when Ozias decides to join the army and is later deployed to Kuwait, Des eventually has no choice but to move on. Then, one night in 1992, Ozias returns to Blue Hollow, his homecoming marked by a night of shocking violence.

Years later, when Britt makes her discovery at Des’s house, the sheriff and the town are quick to tie Ozias to the crime scene, given his recent return to Blue Hollow and his history with Des. But Britt isn’t so sure. After all, she has secrets of her own, one of which is a very good reason to suspect Des’s husband, Gary, might be to blame. Britt isn’t the only one hiding something, though, and as the search for answers heats up, a gripping drama unfolds. Blue Hollow is rife with secrets and preconceptions, and there are people in this town who will stop at nothing to keep the truth from coming to light.

Kimi Cunningham Grant is the author of Fallen Mountains, Silver Like Dust, These Silent Woods, and The Nature of Disappearing. Kimi is a two-time winner of a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Prize in Poetry and a recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship in creative nonfiction. Her poems and essays have appeared in Fathom, Literary Mama, RATTLE, Poet Lore, and Whitefish Review. She lives with her family in Pennsylvania.

EVERY LIE I TOLD de Hilary Davidson

From bestselling and award-winning author Hilary Davidson, a propulsive, twisty thriller about the devastating consequences of the lies we tell to protect others–and ourselves.

EVERY LIE I TOLD
by Hilary Davidson
Blackstone, June 2026
(via Aaron Priest Literary)

How far would you go to protect a killer?

Jackie Swift does whatever it takes to succeed. At work, she spins lies to protect questionable clients at a shady public-relations firm. At home, she helps her younger sister, Madi, evade consequences for dangerous choices she’s made about friends and drugs. But Jackie’s professional and personal worlds collide one night when she gets a call from Madi telling her she overdosed. Rushing to the rescue, Jackie stumbles on an awful scene at an Upper East Side mansion. Madi is nowhere to be found, but she’s left behind a dead body.

Worse for Jackie, she knows the dead man all too well: it’s her former boss and mentor, and she’s been paid to cover up his crimes in the past.

Jackie is willing to do anything to protect her missing sister, even as the NYPD builds a case against Madi, who may be involved in the deaths of other sexually abusive men. As Jackie searches for her sister–and sets up plausible suspects to take Madi’s place in the eyes of the police–she’s haunted by the terrible things she’s done in service of her career. And she soon discovers there are people who’ve been waiting in the shadows for a chance to take her down.

Hilary Davidson is the bestselling author of seven crime novels, including The Damage Done and Her Last Breath. Her fiction has won two Anthony Awards, a Derringer Award, and a host of other accolades. She is also the author of more than fifty short stories, two crime-fiction collections, and a novella. In her prior life as a travel journalist, Hilary authored eighteen nonfiction books. Originally from Toronto, she has called New York City home since 2001. Visit her online at www.hilarydavidson.com.

THE FINDER de Marilyn Medlock

A southern gothic suspense about a young woman who can hear the voices of the dead, and when she hears a recently killed woman implore “Find her…” she is set on a course to uncover the secrets of a powerful Charleston family.

THE FINDER
by Marilyn Medlock
Crooked Lane, May 2027
(via Aaron Priest Literary)

Alice Belrose has been suppressing her innate gift—the ability to converse with the dead—because her mother also spoke to the dead, and now she’s living in a psychiatric hospital, fragile in both mind and body. But when Alice is asked by the matriarch of one of Charleston’s wealthiest and most powerful families to sit with the body of a woman just brought to the nearby mortuary, Alice’s gift can no longer be denied. Because Alice can hear the dead woman’s voice imploring: Find her… Those two words set Alice on a mysterious and treacherous course to uncover the secrets of the dead woman’s past–secrets that others in this close community will kill to keep buried.

Marilyn Medlock, who also writes under the name Amanda Stevens, is the award-winning author of over fifty novels, including the modern gothic series, The Graveyard Queen. Her books have been described as eerie and atmospheric, “a new take on the classic ghost story.” Born and raised in the rural south, she now resides in Houston, Texas.

THE WILL de Maggie Smith

THE WILL is part psychological thriller, and part meditation on motherhood, the rabbit holes of magical thinking, and the terrifying power of desire. This deeply unnerving, yet psychologically relatable story by New York Times bestselling author and poet Maggie Smith will appeal to fans of Helen Phillips’ The Need, Ashley Audrain’s The Push, and Rachel Yoder’s Nightbitch.

THE WILL
by Maggie Smith
Knopf, 2027
(via the David Black Agency)

When Caroline’s sister and brother-in-law are killed in a car accident, the couple’s will names Caroline as the guardian of their two young children. After years of miscarriages and failed fertility treatments, Caroline had said she’d do anything to be a mother. Anything. Grieving her only sibling and struggling to parent two heartbroken children, Caroline begins to unravel, convinced she willed the accident in some Faustian bargain. But that’s impossible—isn’t it?

Maggie Smith is the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of nine books of poetry and prose, including You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Good Bones, Goldenrod, Keep Moving, and My Thoughts Have Wings. A 2011 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Smith has also received a Pushcart Prize, and numerous grants and awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Ohio Arts Council, the Greater Columbus Arts Council, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been widely published, appearing in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Nation, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Best American Poetry, and more. She is the host of The Slowdown podcast, and she writes about craft in her bestselling Substack newsletter, For Dear Life. You can find her on social media @MaggieSmithPoet.

GRINGAS de Manola Gonzalez Rosillo

The first Luisa may have passed away, but that won’t stop her from giving her granddaughter unsolicited advice from beyond the grave.

GRINGAS
by Manola Gonzalez Rosillo
Bloomsbury, Winter 2028
(via Frances Goldin Literary)

In 1950s Mexico, Luisa is a sheltered young woman who jumps at the chance to escape her hometown of Obregón for a bustling Mexico City. There, she meets and falls in love with Victor, a handsome lawyer with grand political ambitions for improving the future of their country. But as Luisa ascends the social ladder into the opulent, treacherous center of Mexico City’s elite, Victor’s behavior becomes increasingly suspicious, just as Luisa’s roles as wife and mother grow ever more claustrophobic. As her marriage fractures, Luisa must decide how to wield her power within a patriarchal society—and makes a risky choice to go behind her husband’s back.

Decades later, a tragic incident endangers Luisa’s family, forcing them to flee to Tijuana and try to obtain American visas. During this upheaval, the third and final Luisa is born, the last in a line of proud Mexican matriarchs. Over the next decade, the first Luisa, now Abuela, discovers what the price of crossing the border will mean for her family as they move between Mexico and America, navigating the opaque immigration process while raising the third Luisa as an Americanized border child and, much to Abuela’s mortification, slowly losing the privilege and identity to which they’d become accustomed. But only Abuela knows that she’s the one who caused the family’s downfall, and must confess her secrets before it’s too late.

Moving between the past and the present, GRINGAS explores the sacred bond between grandmother and granddaughter while navigating questions of class privilege, family loyalty, and assimilation. It has the intergenerational, wisecracking family dynamics of Elizabeth Acevedo’s Family Lore and the playful perspectives of Melissa Lozada-Oliva’s Calendaria—with a dash of the pithy humor of a Mexican Gilmore Girls, if Emily Gilmore had grabbed the reins of the story.

Manola Gonzalez Rosillo is a Mexican-Spanish-American writer originally from San Diego, California. She is a Reese’s Book Club LitUp Fellowship Finalist and Columbia M.F.A grad, where she received the Fondation Femme Debut scholarship and the Writing Program scholarship. She has been published by The Bare Life Review, Columbia Magazine, Philadelphia Magazine and Longreads.