Less than four years ago, Janice Hallett tells me, she could have summed up her writing career with the words “years of failure.” Today, at 55, she is a fixture on the bestseller lists and is being hailed as the new queen of cozy crime. Readers flock to tell her that her novels are saving […]
Sign up for our books newsletter with the latest reviews, author interviews, industry news, and more. Fiction in hardcover: August 24, 2024 Rank title author editor List price Last week Weeks on the list 1 The Briar Club Kate Quinn William Morrow Paperbacks 25,99 € 3 7 2 Born from blood and ashes Jennifer L. […]
Sign up for our books newsletter with the latest reviews, author interviews, industry news, and more. Fiction in hardcover: August 17, 2024 Rank title author editor List price Last week Weeks on the list 1 What did you do? Shari Lapena Doubleday Canada 26,95 € 1 2 2 Fire and Bones Kathy Reichs Simon & […]
Following the pandemic-induced boom in “cozy crime” led by Richard Osman, several authors who might be described as “cozy-adjacent” have begun to tackle the subject. In “Death at the Sign of the Rook,” her sixth Jackson Brodie novel, Kate Atkinson is the latest to tell us that her private detective hero refuses to read “old-fashioned, […]
Sign up for our books newsletter with the latest reviews, author interviews, industry news, and more. Fiction in hardcover: August 10, 2024 Rank title author editor List price Last week Weeks on the list 1 What did you do? Shari Lapena Doubleday Canada 26,95 € – 1 2 The Briar Club Kate Quinn William Morrow […]
