This week there are 27 new and notable books publishing, including three we have our eyes on.
In The Seven O’Clock Club by Amelia Ireland, four strangers are brought together to participate in an experimental treatment designed to heal broken hearts. “Readers will be charmed by the well-drawn characters and impressed by Ireland's high-wire act. It's irresistible” (Publishers Weekly).
For mystery readers, we have One Death at a Time by Abbi Waxman, in which a cranky former actress teams up with her Gen Z sobriety sponsor to solve the murder that threatens to send her back to prison. Kirkus calls it, “sharp and clever!”
And for fans of true crime, we have The Fairbanks Four by Brian Patrick O’Donoghue, “a story of a brutal crime, a broken justice system, and after a long 15 years, redemption in a frigid Alaska town. A powerful story of a wrong made right, or as right as it can be” (New York Journal of Books).
You'll find brief information on 10 titles below, and descriptions and reviews for all of them in our New This Week section.
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The BookBrowse Team
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There are too many books published each week for you to read about them all, let alone read them all. So we do the legwork for you, scouring the publishers' catalogs and the pre-publication reviews to pick out what we believe to be among the best and most interesting. You can see them all in our “What’s New” section.
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The Seven O'Clock Club
by Amelia Ireland
On sale Apr 15 from Berkley Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 368 pages
Members' Rating: 4.5/5
Four strangers are brought together to participate in an experimental treatment designed to heal broken hearts in this surprising and heartfelt debut novel from author Amelia Ireland.
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One Death at a Time
by Abbi Waxman
On sale Apr 15 from Berkley Books
Genre: Mysteries. 400 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4.5/5
A cranky former actress teams up with her Gen Z sobriety sponsor to solve the murder that threatens to send her back to prison in this dazzling new mystery novel from the USA Today bestselling author of The Bookish Life of Nina Hill.
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The Fairbanks Four: Murder, Injustice, and the Birth of a Movement
by Brian Patrick O’Donoghue
On sale Apr 15 from Sourcebooks
Genre: True Crime. 352 pages
Members' Rating: 4.0/5
One murder, four guilty convictions, and a community determined to find justice.
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Bitter Texas Honey: A Novel
by Ashley Whitaker
Debut Author
On sale Apr 15 from Dutton
Genre: Literary Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
The Royal Tenenbaums meets Fleabag in this hilarious and dizzyingly smart debut about an over-the-top evangelical Texan family—and the daughter at its center racing to finish her very important novel before her ex-boyfriend finishes his.
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Open, Heaven: A Novel
by Seán Hewitt
Debut Author
On sale Apr 15 from Knopf
Genre: Literary Fiction. 224 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A stunning debut novel from the acclaimed young Irish poet Seán Hewitt, reminiscent of Garth Greenwell and Justin Torres in the intensity of its evocation of sexual awakening.
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stay with me
by Hanne Orstavik
On sale Apr 15 from Archipelago Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 250 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
A breathless, propulsive look into the caustic sides of love, from the beloved Norwegian winner of the PEN translation prize and National Book Award Finalist.
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Coram House: A Novel
by Bailey Seybolt
Debut Author
On sale Apr 15 from Atria Books
Genre: Thrillers. 320 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
Sharp Objects meets I Have Some Questions for You in this haunting novel—inspired by a true story—about a crime writer who risks everything as she investigates the mystery of two deaths, decades apart, at a crumbling Vermont orphanage.
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Hyo the Hellmaker
by Mina Ikemoto Ghosh
Debut Author
On sale Apr 15 from Scholastic Press
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History (Young Adult). 544 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
From debut author Mina Ikemoto Ghosh comes a stunningly illustrated, high-fantasy debut novel. Meet the Hakai Family Hellmakers: Purveyors of artisan hells and unlucky days to inflict on your enemies. They'll make it personal...for a price!
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The Raven Scholar: Eternal Path Trilogy #1
by Antonia Hodgson
On sale Apr 15 from Orbit
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 672 pages
Critics' Consensus: 5/5
From an electrifying new voice in epic fantasy comes a masterfully woven tale of imperial intrigue, cutthroat competition, and one scholar's quest to uncover the truth.
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Into the Ice: The Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-Year-Old Mystery
by Mark Synnott
On sale Apr 15 from Dutton
Genre: Travel & Adventure. 432 pages
Critics' Consensus: 4/5
New York Times bestselling author Mark Synnott has climbed with Alex Honnold. He's scaled Mt. Everest. But in 2022, he realized there was a dream he'd never realized—to sail the Northwest Passage in his own boat, a feat only four hundred or so sailors had ever accomplished—and in doing so, try to solve the mystery of what happened to legendary nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin and his ships, HMS Erebus and Terror.
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