4 BOOKS I CAN’T WAIT TO READ

The Last Murder at the End of the World

by Stuart Turton

The Devil and the Dark Water was so electrifying I have high hopes for The Last Murder, where 122 people escape a killer fog on a Greek island utopia. After a scientist is stabbed, the security system – which keeps the murderous mist at bay – fails, the residents’ memories are wiped and they have just 50 hours to solve the crime before they all die.

The Love of My Afterlife by Kirsty Greenwood

Delphie chokes on a microwaveable hamburger, then meets the man of her dreams in the afterworld. Ha! Delphie’s romance-novel-loving otherworldly counsellor gives her a second chance: If she can find Jonah, now back on Earth, in 10 days, she can stay in the land of the living – and Jonah’s arms.

Long Island Compromise

by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

The New York Times journalist wrote Fleishman is in Trouble, an inimitable novel about an acrimonious divorce she adapted for a TV series starring Jesse Eisenberg and Claire Danes. That’s all I need to dive into this novel about a rich Jewish family on Long Island that is irrevocably changed by its patriarch’s brutal kidnapping, in a tale about attaining the American dream and losing it all.

The Widow’s Guide to Dead Bastards by Jessica Waite

After her husband has a heart attack, the Calgary memoirist discovers he was a philandering porn addict drowning in debt. Waite goes through the motions – being a mother to their nine-year-old son, writing the dead bastard’s eulogy – as she grieves a man with terrible secrets and reviews their life for signs of rot.