WE ARE ALL GUILTY HERE by Karin Slaughter - BookBub 'The Best Books Yet to Come in 2025'

BookBub | July 2, 2025

We Are All Guilty Here
Karin Slaughter

In New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter’s latest mystery, Officer Emmy Clifton faces a personal reckoning when two teenage girls go missing in the small town of North Falls. As Emmy investigates, she discovers the girls had secrets that may have led to murder — sending her on a race to uncover the truth in her seemingly close-knit community.

Release date: August 12

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WE ARE ALL GUILTY HERE by Karin Slaughter - New York Post 'The 30 best beach reads for summer 2025'

New York Post | May 24, 2025

We Are All Guilty Here
Karin Slaughter (William Morrow)

The blockbuster author of the Will Trent books is kicking off a new series with this mystery set in a small town called North Falls.

When two teenage girls go missing, Officer Emily Clifton vows to find her daughter’s friends, but the teens are hiding unexpected secrets. Aug. 12.

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WILL TRENT by Karin Slaughter - People 'Hear Me Out, Will Trent Is the Best TV Show on Air Right Now'

People | May 13, 2025

There are a lot of good TV shows on air right now, but ABC's Will Trent may just be the best — and not just because the cast includes a tiny, scene-stealing Chihuahua named Betty.

Set in a version of Atlanta where people can wear three-piece suits, sweater vests and neck scarves all year round without dying of heat exhaustion, the series focuses on Special Agent Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigations (GBI). As played by Ramón Rodríguez, Will is guarded, even haunted at times, but always searching for a way to make the world a safer place.

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OUR MOTHER'S NAMES by Uma Menon - Publishers Weekly 'Children’s Books for Mother's Day and Father’s Day 2025'

Publishers Weekly | April 28, 2025

Our Mothers’ Names: Love in Many Languages

Uma Menon, illus. by Rahele Jomepour Bell. Candlewick, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5362-2250-0. Ages 4–8. A child’s investigation into the many different words for mother opens up the world of languages in this cross-cultural reflection. Jomepour Bell’s mixed-media illustrations show mothers and children dancing, crafting, baking, and celebrating throughout this fond accounting of maternal monikers.

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WILL TRENT by Karin Slaughter - Deadline '‘Will Trent’ Renewed For Season 4 At ABC'

Deadline | April 3, 2025

Based on Karin Slaughter’s New York Times bestselling “Will Trent series, Special Agent Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation was abandoned at birth and endured a harsh coming-of-age in Atlanta’s overwhelmed foster care system. Now, he uses his unique point of view in the pursuit of justice and has the highest clearance rate in the GBI.

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OUR MOTHER'S NAMES by Uma Menon - Publishers Weekly review

Publishers Weekly | March 24, 2025

Our Mothers’ Names: Love in Many Languages

Uma Menon, illus. by Rahele Jomepour Bell. Candlewick, $18.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-5362-2250-0

A child’s investigation into the many different words for mother opens up the world of languages in this cross-cultural reflection. A pajamaed narrator begins, “When I wake up, the first person to greet me is my mother”—known as Amma, in Malayalam. Playing with bilingual friend Angelina, whose family is from Mexico City, the narrator learns that Mamá is the Spanish word for mother. And through other friends, the protagonist learns how mothers are addressed in countries around the world. The canvas like surface of Jomepour Bell’s heavily textured mixed-media illustrations are a backdrop for crisp-edged mothers and children dancing, crafting, baking, and celebrating throughout this fond accounting of maternal monikers. Characters are portrayed with various skin tones. Language facts conclude. Ages 4–8. (Apr.)

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CASUALTIES OF TRUTH by Lauren Francis-Sharma - New Yorker 'Briefly Noted'

New Yorker | March 24, 2025

Casualties of Truth, by Lauren Francis-Sharma (Atlantic Monthly). “Memories were dangerous things, grenades with shaky pins,” Prudence—a wealthy housewife, and the central character of this pointed novel—reflects, after a man from her past reappears and forces her to relive long-suppressed experiences. Twenty-two years earlier, Prudence spent time in South Africa, observing Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings. The horrors she was made to confront, however, transcended the courtroom in which the sessions were held. The story, alternating between two time lines, tests the limits of forgiveness and explores the boundary between resistance and revenge. “Violence? What is violence?” Prudence once asked her therapist. Now, faced with an impossible decision, she learns how “very violent a person might become to maintain their hold on life.”

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CASUALTIES OF TRUTH by Lauren Francis-Sharma - MPRNews 'This author witnessed South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation hearings. Years later, she wrote about it'

MPRNews | March 21, 2025

Lauren Francis-Sharma was a young law student interning in Johannesburg in 1996 when she was given the opportunity to observe portions of the Truth and Reconciliation Amnesty Hearings, which were set up to expose the horrors of apartheid in South Africa.

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THE HUNTING WIVES by May Cobb - The Hollywood Reporter 'From ‘The Housemaid’ to ‘The Women in Cabin 10’: Upcoming Book Adaptations in 2025'

The Hollywood Reporter | march 4, 2025

Starz will have an eight-episode series adaptation of May Cobb’s The Hunting Wives. Rebecca Cutter wrote the adaptation and will serve as showrunner. The book, published in 2021, centers on Sophie O’Neill, who settles down with her husband and young son in a small Texas town. Things change when she meets socialite Margot Banks, who is part of an elite clique secretly known as the Hunting Wives. Tensions escalate and danger lurks after the body of a teenage girl is discovered in the woods where the Hunting Wives meet.

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EAT BITTER ANASTASIA by Soma Mei Sheng Frazier - Publishers Lunch 'Today's Deals'

Publishers Lunch | February 27, 2025

Author of OFF THE BOOKS Soma Mei Sheng Fraizer's EAT BITTER ANASTASIA, about a would-be photographer and museum curator who inherits her grandfather's Victorian home in Oakland's Chinatown, along with all of its needed repairs, and will have to decide if she is going to "eat bitter" and take care of her grandfather's legacy, or leave it all behind for grad school, to Micaela Carr at Holt, with Andy Tan-Delli Cicchi editing, by Victoria Sanders at Victoria Sanders & Associates (world).

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THE GOOD DAUGHTER by Karin Slaughter - DEADLINE 'Brendan Gleeson, Harper Steele, Paula Malcomson & Jake McDorman Board Peacock’s ‘The Good Daughter’'

DEADLINE | February 19, 2025

Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning actor Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin) and Harper Steele (Will & Harper) have joined the cast of the Peacock limited series The Good Daughter in series regular roles alongside Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy.

Writer / Executive Producer: Karin Slaughter (Pieces of Her, Will Trent).

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CHLOE by Connie Brisco - The Minnesota Star Tribune 'Five books we can’t wait to read in March"

The Minnesota Star Tribune | February 18, 2025

Chloe, Connie Briscoe

This one had me at “‘Rebecca,’ but make her Black.” Angel is working as a private chef for a family in an exclusive Black enclave on Martha’s Vineyard when a visiting billionaire falls for her. But he’s mourning the death of his wife, Rebecca — er, Chloe — and anyone who has read Daphne du Maurier’s Gothic “Rebecca” knows things will be much more complicated than they seem. Briscoe also includes a creepy housekeeper, named Ida instead of Mrs. Danvers, and it will be fun to see how she deals with the fact that most readers already know the devious “Rebecca” twist. The “Chloe” subtitle, “A Novel of Secrets and Lies,” offers a few clues. March 11

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