Hi, Book Friends!
Guess what? I’m heading out to Nashville tomorrow for a surprise work trip, but before I do all of that, I wanted to check in with all of you and talk to you about books. Just so you know, next time you hear from me, I’ll be in Nashville. Pretty cool. Alright, let’s do this.
Book Deals and Reveals
Lizzie and Darcy are back to solve another mystery in Tirzah Price’s new novel, In Want of A Suspect. This is the first in a new spin-off series featuring everyone’s favorite couple from Pride and Premeditation. It’s out on November 12.
AMC has ordered a third season of their supernatural anthology series, The Terror. This season will be based on The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle.
Speaking of horror, Richard Chizmar has revealed the cover of his new novel Memorials. It hits shelves on October 22.
Electric Literature has the exclusive cover reveal of The Empusium by Nobel Prize-winning author Olga Tokarczuk. The novel, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, will be published by Riverhead on September 24.
And here’s the cover reveal of Jessica Vitalis’ Unsinkable Cayenne, a historical novel in verse out from Greenwillow/HarperCollins on October 29th.
Anna Diop is set to star opposite Corey Hawkins and Willem Dafoe in the upcoming film adaptation of Walter Mosley’s The Man in My Basement, directed by Nadia Latif.
Here’s the teaser trailer for Dark Matter, based on the novel by Blake Crouch. It premieres on Apple TV on May 8.
America Ferrera’s feature directorial debut, I Am Not Your Mexican Daughter, is in development at Amazon MGM Studios’ Orion Pictures. The film, based on Erika Sánchez’s New York Times bestselling novel, will be written by screenwriter Linda Yvette Chávez.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Emily Nussbaum has announced her new book about reality TV entitled Cue the Sun! It’s out on June 25.
Book Riot Recommends
Hi, welcome to everyone’s favorite segment of Book Radar called Book Riot Recommends. This is where I’ll talk to you about all the books I’m reading, the books I’m loving, and the books I can’t wait to read and love in the near future. I think you’re going to love them too!
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Can’t Wait for This One!
Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan (Doubleday, May 21)
You’ve heard of Kevin Kwan. And you’ve definitely heard of the international bestselling novel Crazy Rich Asians. Now Kwan is back with a page-turner of a romance with a beautiful, tropical setting.
Rufus Leung Gresham is seemingly the perfect catch. He’s the future Duke of Greshambury and the son of a former Hong Kong supermodel. But he also has a mountain of debt. And so his mother gives him one option: attend his sister’s wedding at a luxury eco-resort and seduce a woman with money.
Now, his only question is who to choose from the long list of fabulous guests, including sultans, barons, and oligarchs. There’s French hotel heiress Solène de Courcy; there’s venture capital genius Martha Dung; but then there’s also Eden Tong. Eden is the true love of Rufus’s life, but she has nothing near the kind of wealth that Rufus needs to marry into to save his family fortune.
When a volcano erupts and destroys the wedding, secrets are revealed, and all of the Gresham family plans to go up in flames.
Words of Literary Wisdom
“Without the sun, what’s the moon? Just a rock in the outer dark. Its illumination just a trick. Just a trick from the sun’s light, which it steals. And that’s what Beauty is too.”
— Rouge by Mona Awad
And Here’s A Cat Picture!
It’s Mardi Gras season, and while we were very excited about getting the king cake, Murray was, of course, more excited about the king cake box!
Shout out to Gambino’s for the king cake. This was delicious, and yes, they deliver nationwide!
Alright, everyone! See you soon, Nashville. Have a great weekend!