It’s new release Tuesday! Here are the ones I’m most excited about or have read an ARC for 🙂
Fantasy
Wayward Souls by Susan J. Morris
This is the second book in the Harker and Moriarty sapphic supernatural mystery series from Morris and it’s even wilder than the first book. It’s also an indie book published from Bindery. Read my full review here!
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Horror
The Haunting of Room 904 by Erika T. Wurth (PAPERBACK)
From the author of White Horse (“Twisty and electric.” —The New York Times Book Review) comes a terrifying and resonant novel about a woman who uses her unique gift to learn the truth about her sister’s death.
About the author:
Erika T. Wurth’s WHITE HORSE is a New York Times editors pick, a Good Morning America buzz pick, and an Indie Next, Target book of the Month, and BOTM Pick. She is both a Kenyon and Sewanee fellow, has published in The Kenyon Review, Buzzfeed, and The Writer’s Chronicle, and is a narrative artist for the Meow Wolf Denver installation. She is an urban Native of Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee descent. She lives in Denver with her partner, step-kids and two incredibly fluffy dogs. THE HAUNTING OF ROOM 904 is out now.
Mystery
The Malt Whisky Murders by Natalie Jayne Clark
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 BLOODY SCOTLAND DEBUT PRIZE
Whisky is a bloody business . . .
When a dilapidated distillery comes up for sale in rural Kintyre, Eilidh and her wife Morag jump at the chance. But their ambition to run the first women-owned whisky distillery in Scotland seems to be scuppered when a grisly, decades-old secret is revealed: two dead bodies have been stuffed into barrels, perfectly preserved in single malt.
To add to their woes, a TV crew has just arrived and the townsfolk will not leave them alone. Eilidh becomes obsessed with solving the murders while juggling whisky tastings, ceilidhs, protests and scandals – everything you’d expect from a wee Scottish town imprisoned by its own geography. And no matter how hard you try, the locals will always find out your secrets.
“darkly funny sapphic crime tale” set in Scotland about whiskey?? I’ll have one of those please 🙂
About the author:
Natalie Jayne Clark is a neurodivergent writer, editor and producer based in Perth. Natalie writes for SNACK Magazine, is the Assistant Producer for StAnza Poetry Festival, and works across the arts and culture industry in a variety of roles. She first became interested in whisky as a student in Stirling, and has since passed her Whisky Ambassador tests with full marks and become an accredited Whisky Ambassador. She has visited several distilleries across Scotland and Ireland, and hopes to one day visit more distilleries across the world.
Magical Realism
How to Hold Someone In Your Heart by Mizuki Tsujimura, Yuki Tejima (Translated by)
The much-anticipated follow-up novel to the instant national bestseller Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon picks up seven years later with go-between Ayumi, a young man caught between the demands of everyday life and his extraordinary gift: reuniting the living with the dead.
About the author:
Mizuki Tsujimura is a bestselling Japanese author whose books have sold over 10 million copies. Several of her books have been made into high-profile Japanese-language films and manga. Loved by booksellers and readers alike, she has won both the Japan Booksellers’ award and the more literary Naoki Prize.
That’s all for this week! There are of course a lot more coming out, but the ones I didn’t include on this list either included a bit too much romance or trigger warnings I avoid.
Cheers and see you next week!
