USA Today | July 22, 2026
The Death Row Club by V. A. Vazquez is a USA TODAY bestseller for the week of July 22.
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Timeout | July 13, 2026
Ever since #BookTok exploded on TikTok, literary criticism has opened to so many more people. Readers from different backgrounds and genres have been able to share their thoughts openly, creating a space that belongs to the general public rather than professional critics.
The Secrets We Hide by Karin Slaughter (Mystery/Thriller)
Set in a small Georgia town, this thriller follows investigators racing to uncover the truth in a community where everyone seems to be hiding something.
“Karin Slaughter is the best thriller writer working today, and this new series just shows she’s at the top of her game.” – @baker.reads
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Oprah Daily | July 13, 2026
As I was writing my newest book, The Secrets We Hide, I was thinking about how to make the twists more intense. . . . This process had me thinking about some of the dark and twisty books that have stuck with me the most. Here are some of my all-time favorites. Warning: these TBRs are so intense that they may keep you up at night.
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Forbes | July 7, 2026
It’s awards season for the comic book industry, with the Eisner Awards due to be handed out in two weeks at San Diego Comic-Con. Another prestigious award, the Harveys, which are presented annually at New York Comic Con, just announced their 2026 nominees, featuring some of the top graphic novels, webcomics, international comics and media tie-ins of the past year.
Best Children’s Book
This category honors outstanding comics and graphic novels that inspire young readers through imaginative storytelling, memorable characters, and accessible adventures
• Inbetweens by Faith Erin Hicks (First Second)
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The Atlantic Journal-Constitution | July 5, 2026
Readers can’t seem to get enough of thrillers and mysteries, and there’s no shortage of writers eager to deliver them. Here are five new ones coming out this summer, including four by Atlanta authors ranging from veteran megaseller Karin Slaughter to up-and-comer Frank Reddy.
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Parade | July 2, 2026
Summerween is here, and that means it’s time to focus on the horrors and the thrillers. The Death Row Club by V.A. Vazquez will offer that on July 14, 2026. It’s perfect for fans of Riley Sager and Jessica Knoll, bringing a take on friendship, loyalty, and parenthood.
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Oprah Daily | June 25, 2026
Naturally, many of us are craving juicy page-turners that give us access to somewhere fabulous—plus the wicked satisfaction of discovering that paradise is actually populated by terrible people, ghoulish secrets, and/or a corpse or two stinking up that white sand beach.
This is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter
Slaughter has crafted an intricate, chilling mystery that also looks into the complicated history of a single family—a thriller much richer and more disturbing than your classic whodunit.
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Southern Living | June 19, 2026
Nothing beats a summer book club gathering where friendship, good books, conversation, and okay—maybe a cocktail or two—collide.
All The Little Houses by May Cobb
In 1980s Longview, Texas, ambitious social climber Charleigh Andersen has built a powerful life for herself and her daughter, Nellie, using control, charm, and a bit of ruthless determination, but when a seemingly wholesome new family moves to town, it threatens to expose old insecurities and unravel the carefully constructed world Charleigh has fought to maintain.
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Jezebel | June 18, 2026
If you’ve watched Netflix’s The Hunting Wives—and if you haven’t, consider this a plea to fix your life immediately—then you already know that May Cobb is unmatched when it comes to writing stories about both East Texas culture and messy, generally unhinged groups of women.
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Good Housekeeping | June 8, 2026
For the first time ever, BookTok just released an official US #BookTok summer reading list to help you curate your summer reads.
The Secrets We Hide by Karin Slaughter
In a small Georgia town where everybody is hiding something, Sheriff Emmy and her ex-federal agent sister Jude must find the truth behind a bloody crime scene on a quiet street.
"Karin Slaughter the best thriller writing working today, and this new series just shows she’s at the top of her game." — TikTok creator @baker.reads
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WOMEN | June 6, 2026
Some literary thrillers will stick with you for a day or two, while others will shake you to your core. These are the books that have you paranoid and enduring sleepless nights, or even sleeping with a nightlight on. Many thriller aficionados agree that Karin Slaughter's body of work falls into the latter group. That's why Kindle readers can't seem to get enough of her thrilling mystery books.
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Hollywood Reporter | May 11, 2026
The Good Daughter, starring Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy, will premiere Nov. 12. Based on a novel by Karin Slaughter (who’s also the showrunner), the drama centers on sisters Charlotte (Fahy) and Samantha (Byrne) Quinn, who “have spent the last 20 years trying to piece together the lives that were fractured by a single night of violence,” the logline reads. “When another attack splinters the small town of Pikeville, Charlotte — lawyer like her father — is the first witness on the scene. As the case unfolds and twists through painful memories and buried secrets, what emerges is not just a story of survival,but of enduring ties between a father, his daughters and the complex bond between sisters.” Brendan Gleeson, Harper Steele, Olivia Williams, Drew Cheek, Audrey Grace Marshall and Michael Dorman also star.
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People | May 7, 2026
Fresh off the success of the Netflix series adaptation of her beloved novel The Hunting Wives, author May Cobb is back with another heart-pounding book.
The novel is a sequel to Cobb's 2026 thriller All the Little Houses.
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Book Riot | April 9, 2026
De Robertis has achieved something exceptional with Cantoras by writing about what it was like to live in Uruguay’s dictatorship through the lives of five gay women who are looking for family, solace, love, safety, and freedom. Reading this during the current downfall of democracy in the U.S. was alarming but also hopeful. There is a beautiful spirit woven throughout the entire novel about creating family, enduring, finding/making a refuge, and what the future can be. Very few books have left me holding them as if to hug them into my body forever the way Cantoras did. And for all the sprinkles on top, De Robertis beautifully narrates the audiobook.
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USA today | april 2, 2026
"All the Little Houses" by May Cobb
Get ready for more juicy small-town gossip from the author of “The Hunting Wives.” “All the Little Houses” follows the well-to-do Andersons in small-town Texas who always get what they want, especially daughter Nellie and mother Charleigh. But when a new “prairie-kissed” family moves to town and climbs up the ranks, the social standing of the new-money Andersons teeters on collapse.
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Criminal Element | March 30, 2026
I loved May Cobb’s The Hunting Wives (now deservingly an HBO series), so believe me when I tell you that her latest novel, a salaciously unhinged interpretation of Little House On The Prairie set in 1980s Texas, may be the best thing she’s ever written!
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CBC | March 24, 2026
Faith Erin Hicks’ new book InBetweens is not a memoir. She wants to be clear on that. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have memoir-ish aspects.
“It is based very, very loosely on my experience going to a high pressure animation college in Ontario,” says the Vancouver-based artist. “The characters are younger than I was. I decided to make them younger because I wanted there to be the tension of 'is this the path for me?'"
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Stowe Center | March 11, 2026
With great excitement, the Stowe Center announces Princess Joy L. Perry as our 2026 Stowe Prize for Literary Activism winner, author of This Here is Love (W.W. Norton & Company, 2025), a powerful historical novel set in 1619 that explores love, resistance, and the human cost of oppression. Through evocative and unflinching prose, Perry illuminates the psychological and moral complexities of a society built on bondage, inviting readers to confront the enduring legacy of injustice while recognizing love as a force of survival, connection, and defiance.
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