Hachette Library – Starred Reviews

★Steelborn

By: Taylor J. LaRue

Library Journal

Reya Connery plans to pull off one final job as the infamous Crimson Thief before leaving her criminal life behind. At first, everything goes according to plan, but during the mission, Reya makes a risky decision that costs her employer money. Furious over the lost payment, her employer gives Reya an ultimatum: repay the missing reward within 60 days or spend the next 10 years working off her debt. Desperate to find a way to repay the money, Reya crosses paths with the intimidating Caelan Halcyon. Caelan is racing against time, suffering from a deadly curse that is killing him slowly. He needs Reya’s skills to steal a rare cure that could save his life. Caelan leaves her little choice, but Reya agrees to help. Their mission becomes far more complicated than expected, and the cure proves difficult to obtain. Meanwhile, Reya struggles to keep a dangerous secret she has hidden since her parents’ deaths. As Caelan begins to uncover the truth, trust and attraction slowly grow between them. With Caelan’s life fading and the stakes rising, both must decide how far they are willing to go to achieve their goals.

VERDICT: Full of unexpected turns and rich adventure, LaRue’s debut fantasy story is a truly memorable read.

Requited: August 4th, 2026; ISBN: 9780316601627 Hardcover

★The Blue Flame

By: George Pelecanos

Booklist- Starred Review

From the always-superb Pelecanos comes a gritty, dark, violent crime story with a softer, gentler side that’s as charming as it is unexpected. Ex-cop-turned-PI Derek Strange (last seen in What It Was, 2012) loves old music, sports, his dog, his family, his neighborhood, and his city, but he’s also prideful, shrewd, tough, and hard as nails. He’s hired by sleazy drug lawyer Billy Lake to gather evidence that will help clear Lake’s client, Antone Anthony, of murder. Strange dislikes Lake and his ilk, but money is money—and Strange’s business, the aptly but oddly named “Strange Investigations,” needs an infusion of cash. As Strange digs into the case, he finds a dark and shocking tale of sex work, drug dealing, jealousy, revenge, greed, and blackmail. By the time he uncovers all the facts, a woman has been brutally murdered, innocent people have died, a grief-stricken father has done the unthinkable, and two evil men have had revenge heaped on them. Pelecanos’ realistic descriptions of life in the Black communities of Washington, DC, and his vividly depicted characters, authentic dialogue, and ability to infuse a story with both violence and warmth make this an outstanding read.

Cardinal: August 4th, 2026; ISBN: 9781538779101 Hardcover

★The Wound Is Where the Light Enters

By: Chris Young

Booklist- Starred Review

Young had a tough childhood in Clarksville, Tennessee, during which he and his brother often went hungry and witnessed both domestic violence and their mother’s drug addiction. As he got
older, Young turned to drug dealing, was caught in a federal drug raid, and was sent to the county jail. While there, he discovered the jail’s library and started to turn his life around. He started reading the encyclopedia and educated himself in philosophy, history, religion, and the sciences. His case finally went to trial, where he was found guilty. At his sentencing nearly a year later, Young addressed the court in such a powerful way that it left a lasting impression, especially on the judge who later resigned from the bench to fight to free Young from a double life sentence—which the judge himself had given Young. The second half of the book details
Young’s life in McCreary Federal Penitentiary and his struggles to continue his studies amidst the chaos and brutality. Eventually, his sentence was commuted to time served and he was released. Young’s story is a resonant, inspirational tale of redemption as well as a searing indictment of mandatory drug sentencing.

Little, Brown and Company: August 4th, 2026; ISBN: 9780316565288 Hardcover

★Muévelo

By: Miriam Zoila Pérez and Verónica Bayetti Flores

Booklist- Starred Review

Shake it up, the title directs, and that is exactly what Flores and Pérez, hosts of the Radio Menea podcast, do in this dynamic book jam-packed with information about Latin music, culture, and
energy. Drawing on their roots in the East Coast and Miami, the authors conscientiously invite experts to weigh in on topics for which their own experience is deficient. Bravely delving into the
“Latin” category conundrum, they carefully tease out and celebrate commonplaces and challenge previously accepted concepts, such as mestizaje and urban, while frankly addressing pain points in the lively conversations that fill the “¿Qué Más?” (what else?) section in each chapter. Flores and Pérez analyze well-known greats, from Celia Cruz to Selena to Bad Bunny, and their impact along with less well-known musicians, such as Dominican accordionista Fefita
La Grande, and they provide cross-cultural factoids. This kinetically designed book encourages readers to jump around to follow specific topics instead of reading straight through. Intrepid
readers and music lovers will enjoy this delightful journey through the kaleidoscope that is Latin music, from corrido tumbado to bachata to boogaloo. The ;pages dance with colorful graphics,
retro fonts, and Flores’ illustrations, and readers will relish the thoughtfully curated playlists, historical timelines, and essays about albums that dissect every song.

Running Press Adult: August 18th, 2026; ISBN: 9798894140452 Hardcover

★In the Time of the Butterflies: The Graphic Novel

By: Julia Alvarez

Illustrated and adapted by: Krystal Quiles

Booklist- Starred Review

Quiles, an award-winning illustrator, artfully adapts Alvarez’s acclaimed 1994 novel based on the real-life Mirabal sisters who opposed Rafael Trujillo’s dictatorship in the Dominican Republic at the expense of their lives. On November 25, 1960, Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa Mirabal were murdered by the Trujillo regime on their way home from visiting their husbands, who were being held as political prisoners. Their sister, Dedé, was the only one left to tell their story. The narrative opens in Dedé’s point of view and is framed through her accounts of her sisters’ stories to Minerva’s adult daughter on the anniversary of their deaths. Readers are taken through each of the sisters’ coming-of age under Trujillo’s rule, following each of them as they discover the truth of the regime and become involved with the revolution— where they operated under the codename mariposas, or butterflies. Each sister has a coordinating color to signal to the reader who they are reading about: green for Minerva, pink for María Teresa, yellow for Patria, and a mournful blue for Dedé. Throughout, there is no mistaking Trujillo’s presence, as he is depicted in a bright, blood red. The somber art gives weight to the heartbreaking tale of women who were warriors, dreamers, and mothers. This stunning work of memory, grief, and resistance will undoubtedly bring new readers to Alvarez’s important work and ignite interest in the historic events it describes.

Algonquin: September 1st, 2026; ISBN: 9781643753768 Hardcover

★Lump

By: Allison Sweet Grant

Booklist- Starred Review

“It’s almost impossible to describe the view from the inside of our own head to someone who’s looking out a wholly different window. And that’s everybody,” says Grant. But that’s exactly what
she does in this poignantly painful yet hopeful account. When Grant is diagnosed with breast cancer, she decides to record her journey in the way she knows best, poetry. In this series of reflections, the author recounts the shock of her diagnosis, the anxiety over her future, the pain and boredom of treatment, and the countless kindnesses shown to her by friends, family, and caregivers. She’s not afraid to rail against the unfairness of the diagnosis or the loss of hair or hours of treatment. She weighs things lost against the one thing she kept, her life. Her verse is filled with vivid images and keen observations that bring the whole experience to life. This isn’t
an easy read. But for someone going through cancer treatment or someone who loves someone going through cancer treatment, this is an honest look at what goes on behind the scenes that will make a patient feel heard and understood, give a caregiver real insights into the process, and offer both a sense of hope.

Little, Brown and Company: September 15th, 2026; ISBN: 9780316608367 Hardcover

★The Perilous Fight

By: Colin Kaepernick and Nick Chiles

Booklist- Starred Review

The first three games of the 2016 preseason, San Francisco 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick sat on a cooler near the bench, apart from his standing teammates, during the playing of the national anthem in a quiet protest over the recent killings of Black men by police officers. Until, spectacularly, his protest was quiet no more. As Kaepernick writes, amid a media firestorm, free safety Eric Reid suggested to him that before the next game, they join their teammates and take a knee rather than appear disrespectful. “Disrespectful to whom?” Kaepernick writes. “How could pointing out police killing Black folks be more disrespectful than police killing Black folks?” Kaepernick and Reid together famously took a knee, inflaming while also animating and even elevating the ongoing national “conversation” over civil rights in America. This autobiography may lack the granular detail fans might seek in the backstories of their sports heroes, but Kaepernick, biracial son of an adoptive white family, offers a candid, observant, generous chronicle of his development as an elite, suddenly dispensable NFL quarterback and also of the relentless, high-profile civil rights warrior he’s become. Kaepernick’s painful truths—especially barbed about the racism he’s experienced within the NFL but also in the outside world—find their mark here.

Legacy Lit: September 15th, 2026; ISBN: 9781538777879 Hardcover

★Yakuza

By: Andrew Rankin

Library Journal- Starred Review

Rankin (Seppuku: A History of Samurai Suicide) explores the role of the yakuza in Japanese society through a detailed history of the
Japanese mafia from its origins to the present. The Tokugawa Shogunate (1603–1868) ended the chaotic Warring States period,
thereby reducing the demand for the skills of samurai warriors. Some of them turned to underground activities to find a new role for themselves. This trend gave rise to the various criminal groups known as the yakuza; notions of values such as chivalry still influence these groups today. The Tokugawa era ended with the Meiji Restoration in 1868, and the new government cracked down on these organizations. But in the early 20th century, the government found these groups useful for cracking down on dissidents. In the post World War II era, yakuza groups reached the zenith of their power, forming large conglomerates and semi-legitimate enterprises. However, the economic downturn of the 1990s has weakened them and transformed them into social pariahs.

VERDICT Highly recommended for readers interested in modern Japanese history or the history of criminal organizations generally.

Basic Books: September 15th, 2026; ISBN: 9781541607675 Hardcover

★Die Famous

By: Michael Koryta

Savannah Cody truly loves Eddie “Nickel” Terhune, but there are days when she could easily kill him—like when she hears that a reward is out for Eddie and the other members of Al Brady’s gang after their most recent bank robbery. Considering all the grief she has endured as Eddie’s romantic partner (if not his legal wife) and the mother of their young son Alford, Savannah figures it’s only fair that she be the one to track Eddie down and claim the reward for his capture, dead or alive. With Alford and her father Wendell, an
Indiana farmer who once worked as a detective, Savannah sets off on a road trip to get her man back, one way or another. Writing with a delectably desiccated sense of wit, Edgar winner Koryta (An Honest Man) chronicles a United States still shaking off the Great Depression. His flair for nuanced characterization shines as he deftly pivots between multiple viewpoints in this perfectly tuned, noir
tinged plot that thoughtfully explores fame, family, faith, and love.

VERDICT Readers who fell for the complicated charms of DennisLehane’s Live by Night or Joseph Kanon’s Los Alamos will be equally dazzled by Koryta’s superbly written and stunning novel.

Booklist- Starred Review

When his mother announces that she intends to kill his father, Alford is mainly upset that she’s taking him along. He’s never met Nickel Terhune, and despite wondering plenty about Nickel’s
criminal life, he doubts he’ll find answers on Savannah Cody’s murderous road trip. But Savannah manages to forge a bond with her cautious son, even if she can’t decide whether she
wants to kill Nickel or marry him. When Nickel is broken out of jail by gang leader Al Brady, Hoover’s FBI charges Savannah as a conspirator. Avoiding the electric chair depends on handing Nickel over to the feds, which forces Savannah to choose between her son and her ill fated love for his outlaw father. Savannah’s own father, a renowned former detective, joins her vibes-driven manhunt, succumbing to her determination and the deeper promise of healing their relationship. Koryta is at his best with this genre-defying story, blending propulsive action with compelling emotional weight that will linger with readers. Shoot-outs and getaways are tense and vivid, but so are the moments of connection and heartbreak, and confrontation of Depression-era realities, all woven tightly into the story of a family’s quest to twist fate. Highly recommended for crime, historical, and literary fiction book groups.

Little, Brown and Company: September 22nd, 2026; ISBN: 9780316535991 Hardcover

★Die Famous

By: Michael Koryta

Booklist- Starred Review

The latest speculative offering from the author of The Power (2017) and The Future (2023) mixes autobiography with the fictional discovery of a new species of mammal, the mysterious, house
pet-size mimmoths, whose distinctive features are an elephant-like trunk and a fanned tail. Alderman, reeling from her mother’s death a few months prior, snaps the first picture of a mimmoth while sitting with her widowed father, and the image goes viral. The sudden appearance of the mimmoths around the world is greeted with a mixture of curiosity and fear, inducing Alderman to conduct her own investigation into the mimmoths and their effects on the
environment and even humanity. At the same time, she’s navigating the devastating grief she feels at the loss of her mother, an experience she recognizes as being both universal and deeply
specific. As the world gets used to the presence of the mimmoths, so, too, does Alderman learn to live with her grief, not just for the loss of her mother but also for the many lost pregnancies
she’s suffered, which the doctors cannot explain. Powerful and emotional while being both whimsical and grounded, this wholly original blend of memoir and fiction will resonate deeply with
readers.

Little, Brown: September 22nd, 2026; ISBN: 9780316594776 Hardcover

★American Hagwon

By: Min Jin Lee

Booklist- Starred Review

The third title in Lee’s Diaspora Quartet arrives almost a decade after the international phenomenon Pachinko (2017), preceded by Free Food for Millionaires (2007). The final installment, Marshall Plan, is in the works as well as a memoir, Name Recognition. In this immersive masterpiece, Lee takes on Korea’s all-consuming obsession with education. At the core of her intricate epic is the Koh family: Korean-born parents John and Helen, their New Jersey-born sons Bo and DH, and daughter Mido. The novel opens in 1992 when the Kohs have recently moved from Australia to Seoul, where getting into the right hagwon, or after-school cram school, irrevocably determines the direction of each of their lives. Bo struggles alone in Seoul far too long; DH returns to elite U.S. institutions through the generosity of a new friend’s family; and Mido, with the least schooling, likely has the clearest understanding of what a genuine education should be. Betrayal scatters the family to Australia, then to southern California, and back again to Korea. In between, John and Helen suffer and sacrifice; Helen’s sister, Sonya, succumbs to decades of longing; payback topples John’s former boss and his philandering lover; and Mido falls in love with the man she’ll likely never marry. Beyond irresistible storytelling, Lee expertly confronts broken systems, familial expectations, and peripatetic identities with empathy and brilliance.

Cardinal: September 29th, 2026; ISBN: 9781538752036 Hardcover

★The Only Way Out Is Up

By: Django Wexler

Booklist- Starred Review

When you live at the literal bottom of society’s well, you will do anything to survive. Hunting mindless metal robots with an implacable urge to kill all humans is one option. Seventeen-year old Taj is a survivor. If he manages to fight off a multi-limbed, stabbing horror, he can claim a bounty and salvage its parts to improve his own built-from-scratch automaton. Star, Taj’s sassy robot companion, is unique. He can move independently and communicate due to an indestructible red jewel core inscribed with the word “think.” The pair plan to win bigger prizes in the fighting arena, but an early loss causes Taj to switch to stealing from the wealthy who live a level above. This gamble will lead Taj and Star into a treacherous world of danger and deceit. After concluding his Dark Lord Davi duology, the prolific Wexler has written a novel inspired by his favorite type of anime: progression fantasy. He has added fighting robots engaged in thrillingly detailed battle sequences and used Kabbalah mysticism for its naming conventions. This humorous, action-packed story of survival, found family, AI, a heavy dose of haves versus have-nots, and unanswered questions continues with the next volume of the proposed Sigilist trilogy.

Library Journal– Starred Review

Wexler’s (Everybody Wants To Rule the World Except Me) latest is a video game–style tale. In a world born of a giant junk-pit, where each tier of life is better than the one below it, life at the bottom of the heap is not for the weak. Protagonist Taj may not be the physically strongest, but he has something no one else does: a runic that can think. Most runics are small discs with an action word on them, imbuing the disc with that action. Star is different; he is made from a ruby instead of clay, and he is alive. Taj keeps Star hidden, but when his family is in danger, he must take drastic action, such as teaming up with someone from the upper rings, to fight in a runic tournament for the chance to ascend beyond the heap. But Star’s ability to think draws more attention than either he or Taj bargained for.

VERDICT This incredibly satisfying new adult progression fantasy is brimming with action-packed, fast-paced adventure where characters narrated in the first person fight for justice, freedom, and the possibility of changing the unfair systems of their world.

Orbit: September 29th, 2026; ISBN: 9780316392600 Paperback

★The Savage Mind

By: David Treuer

Booklist- Starred Review

In his latest eviscerating title, award-winner Treuer (The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, 2019) delivers a piercing and propulsive treatise on the distorted relationship between America’s violent history and its treasured frontier mythology. Written in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, this is an artful combination of memoir, historical analysis, and reportage. Treuer charges through the nation’s past at a brisk pace, sparing no one from his incisive analysis, including Christopher Columbus, George Washington, and, especially, General Henry Sibley, who oversaw the infamous 1862 mass hanging of 38 members of the Dakota Sioux at Mankato, Minnesota. Treuer
is relentless in his consideration of such events, noting the public spectacle of incidents such as Mankato, the continuing plague of school shootings, and the ever-present defensive declarations
of fear that has marked the killings of Philandro Castile, Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin, and far too many others. The frontier, he notes, “moved” into those who committed their murders. The violence of that era, which arrived with the would-be conquerors, then evolved into a matter of policy, has transcended its origins and become a tortured way of life. Truthfulness is the only cure, and reckoning must not be denied. This is Treuer at his best, emotional, brilliant, and relentless.

Little, Brown and Company: October 6th, 2026; ISBN: 9780316599436 Hardcover

★Unspeakable Things

By: Elizabeth Hand

Booklist- Starred Review

Hand pays homage to gothic literature and England’s postwar, bohemian Bright Young Things social set, evoking the period’s glamorous excesses and social dangers with atmospheric
menace and knife-edged desire. Raised in a remote Cornish manor by her socially exiled father and his partner, Martin, Olivia Madden believes she’s found everything she wants in the surrounding moors. But when she meets Tamsin Griggs, Olivia becomes obsessed with exploring their shared passion. Seizing the opportunity to act on consuming desire, Olivia arranges for her cousin Simon, temporarily visiting until gossip of his reckless debauchery quiets, to tutor them together. Their fated love affair is blissful until Tamsin confesses that she caused a man’s death while defending herself from his violations. Keeping their secret is unbearable until Simon offers an escape to the house party and masquerade at the landmark estate Ledges. Immersed in the Bright Young Things’ glamour and daring flaunting of social rules, Olivia and Tamsin’s wildness grows darker and more powerful as they eliminate threats to trap them in society’s expectations. Olivia’s unfamiliarity with the social scene at the Ledges infuses a layer of
wrong-footedness into the story that will shake readers’ confidence in her risky plays. Hand tops her masterful storytelling in A Haunting on the Hill (2023) with this must-read.

Little, Brown and Company: October 13th, 2026; ISBN: 9780316579056 Hardcover

★Bird Anatomy

By: Julia Rothman, With Michael Hearst

Booklist- Starred Review

Illustrator-author Rothman (Wildlife Anatomy, 2023) turns her whimsical eye to the world of birds in this marvelous introduction to avian life. Beginning with a bird walk led by her father, she
learns the joy of “spotting something small and wondrous” and presents a celebration of that wondrous life through her insightful drawings. Working with writer Hearst (Unusual Creatures,
2012) Rothman pens a quick flyby of bird anatomy, flight and feathers, behavior, food, nesting, and threats. With short and simple paragraphs, heavily illustrated with Rothman’s color drawings,
the authors impart a wealth of knowledge in an easy-to-understand manner that is a pleasure to read. Illustrating such facets of ornithology as starling murmurations, the hollow bones in many
birds’ skeletons, bird habitats from forest to wetlands to the poles, how birds’ beaks help them both find food and eat it, how a crest can make a bird scary or sexy, and the range of colors in
birds’ plumage reveal Rothman’s eye for the gestalt of each bird. Full of cool facts and oh-wow moments, this is a book for both seasoned birders and those just starting out of all ages.
Rothman’s art makes even the driest facts a feast for the eye.

Little, Brown and Company: October 13th, 2026; ISBN: 9781635869781 Hardcover

★As We Fall Through Time

By: Claire North

One day, Cal, a time-traveler who slips through walls into other eras, meets and falls for a Napoleonic soldier. Afterwards, he feels there is no choice but to risk breaking the rules of time travel to keep Olivier alive even though it might spawn destructive paradoxes. Despite his efforts, his lover mysteriously vanishes from existence completely. Meanwhile, Cal’s colleague Fadimatu creates a massive
paradox when she stumbles across her own desiccated corpse. Cal and Fadimatu investigate a slowly unraveling timeline to discover which oddities are part of the problem. North (Slow Gods) creates the perfect time-travel novel, ensuring that the only paradoxes are the ones they purposely place within the story. The captivating prose and thoughtful exploration of love, grief, and hope will please fans of Matt Haig’s How To Stop Time, while the intricate worldbuilding and twisty plot will fascinate fans of Kate Mascarenhas’s The Psychology of Time Travel and Tom Sweterlitsch’s The Gone World.

VERDICT North’s writing feels like sinking into a dream, fully immersing readers in Cal’s race to save his lover, outrun grief, and stop a growing paradox from obliterating a massive chunk of time and space.

Orbit: October 19th, 2026; ISBN: 9780316586467 Paperback

★Hanging and Burning

By: Walter Mosley

Booklist- Starred Review

Once again, his invincible Grandmother Brenda recruits private eye Joe King Oliver for a seemingly simple case that morphs into a labyrinth of treacherous secrets and violent confrontations. Fortunately, Joe has his ways and some highly skilled, intrepid, and loyal allies, including his daughter, Aja-Denise, who runs his Brooklyn office. His mission is to find Twyla, the granddaughter of Arman Babylon, who is receiving cancer treatments at the same high-end Los Angeles hospital as Joe’s grandmother. But Arman is a gangster with a still dangerous past and Twyla, for all her toughness and evasiveness, is more tangled up in that mess than she thinks. As the investigation—involving nightclubs and a jazz singer, roofies and collusion, and lots of strong, alluring women, many attracted to Joe and vice versa—escalates and complicates, Leaf, Joe’s elusive love, reenters his life with fresh determination. Mosley, witty and incisive, is in the zone in the fourth King Oliver novel, following Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right (2025), lingering over the fashion choices, build, and temperament of each intriguing character; choreographing match-point dialogue and down-to-the-wire showdowns, paying tribute to the transporting beauty of jazz, relishing the absurd, and exploring the interplay of family and crime. HIGH-DEMAND

Little, Brown: October 20th, 2026; ISBN: 9780316573207 Hardcover

★The Hollow

By: Michael Connelly

Booklist- Starred Review

Twenty-five years after Vietnam vet and LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch first appeared in The Black Hollow, which won Connelly his first Edgar Award, Bosch appears yet again. Since his
last outing in Two Kinds of Truth (2017), Harry has retired from the force and slowed down with age-related ailments, but he still draws on his strengths—crime-solving brilliance and an almost
superhuman determination—to solve cases as a volunteer with the LAPD’s Cold Case Unit and as a private eye. In the twenty-first Bosch adventure, Harry works two cold cases, both chilling,
as in the first scene in a cemetery, where a murderer talks at the woman he put in the grave. The second case is even more unnerving and cuts to Bosch’s core. Sixty years ago, a teenage Bosch was assigned into a brutal foster-care facility that left his best friend dead. Bosch gets the opportunity, finally, to investigate and uses the tiny scraps of evidence available to ferret out what happened. The story toggles between past and present. The staff at the center will remind readers of the sadists of Dickens’ boarding schools, giving a visceral feel to Bosch’s determination to avenge his friend’s murder. Bosch fans will rejoice at this knockout return.

Little, Brown: October 27th, 2026; ISBN: 9780316563857 Hardcover

★Dark Country

By: Adam Plantinga

Booklist- Starred Review

A few pages of Plantinga’s remarkable crime novel, the third in his Kurt Agento series, will hook readers and convince them to keep reading, ignoring their responsibilities. The author is a San
Francisco cop, and he’s poured his experience into his main man, one-time police officer Argento. Readers catch up with Argento on the run from former cop colleagues, hiding in a parish priest’s residence and earning his keep as a lawnmower man. There, he becomes the protector of a teenage boy, a Syrian refugee being pursued by some scary people for a reason that isn’t revealed until late in the novel. Getting there is an exhilarating journey, some of it inside Argento’s head. Introspection can be a sin in this hard-boiled world, but not as Plantinga does it; when three toughs corner Argento, the action stops as he takes a whole page pondering his
situation and deciding what to do. The writing is smart, witty, and a perfect fuse for what follows. Plus, Plantinga salts his narrative with insider cop tactics; for example, ask eyewitnesses to pretend they’re a bird flying over the scene they’re describing, and they might recall something new.

Grand Central Publishing: October 27th, 2026; ISBN: 9781538778869 Hardcover

★The Heights

By: Ian Rankin

Booklist- Starred Review

You don’t get much bigger in contemporary crime fiction than multi-million copy best-selling author and international award winner Ian Rankin. In this newest book, deviating from his usual,
Rankin switches the scene to London and introduces a new cop: Detective Sergeant Gillian Gishnof the Metropolitan Police. Gish must untangle both committed and impending murders in a
luxurious high-rise favored by famous actors and pop singers and by infamous billionaires. A twenty-three-year-old night watchman is found dead of a head wound on the night of a lavish party hosted by the building’s owner. An all-access key has gone missing, raising the possibility that the murderer may still be on the loose. Rankin ingeniously combines straightforward police procedure with the flavor of a country house mystery here. The high-rise only has 11 permanent residents, so the people gathered at the owner’s party have that cozy, country house blend of strangers, intimates, and people with secrets and hidden ties thrown together and united by
imminent danger. Detective Sergeant Gish, from a hardscrabble background far removed from this atmosphere of wealth and privilege, is a joy to watch.

Cardinal: November 3rd, 2026; ISBN: 9781538776100 Hardcover