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THE LONGEST DEATH by Kevin Jagernauth, on sale December 1, 2026 ✨

In this brilliant crime debut—a daring heist thriller and homage to ’50s pulp noir—two men fall in love and vow to escape to the Big City together . . . no matter the cost.

OUR ADVANTAGES AWAIT! So says the sign leading to the heart of Riverton, USA. But to the mild-mannered, terminally bored Richard Cobson, small-town life offers nothing but the desperate desire to escape it. Richard’s humdrum existence is made marginally better when he realizes he can get away with skimming money from the Eddy & Dowd Safe Deposit Company, where he works. Then the handsome, smooth-talking Marlon Montgomery comes to town, and the two fall madly in love. One is a lonely number for a getaway heist; two betters the odds. Together, they concoct a plan to rob Eddy & Dowd’s vault and escape to the Big City.

But Richard and Marlon’s foolhardy scheme is complicated threefold: by Gloria, a recent divorcée who wants in on the plan; by Frank Todd, a disgraced cop desperate to restore his reputation; and by Mr. Dowd, the paranoid owner of Eddy & Dowd. As these characters’ lives collide in explosive and ultimately fatal ways, the prospect of freedom for Richard and Marlon becomes a matter of what they’re willing to pay for it.

Cover Reveal: BACKWATER by James Sallis, on sale September 1 ✨

When an old friend from his days on the police force makes a plea for him to come and help with what seems to be a murder case, jazz guitarist Bishop steps back into a former life. Two major problems, though. The job’s in the town where he grew up, to which he vowed never to return. And his friend disappears, leaving Bishop with responsibilities he never anticipated or wanted. Not to mention a couple more murders.

Bishop slips into his old role as easily as into well-worn, comfortable old clothes. Getting his bearings in the town’s close society and among his own memories is a different matter. This breathtaking novel from grandmaster of noir James Sallis, author of the cult classic DRIVE is both a resonant detective procedural and a poignant examination of human nature.

“Landis is a sublime observer. Her characters feel several things at once and even the most deluded and destructive have their own motives and intricacies . . . The drama of it — convincing, startling, wrenching — brings revelations at every turn.” —The New York Times Book Review

Read the full review now: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/books/review/dylan-landis-rainey-royal-list-of-all-possible-desires.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gVA.jugD.CVLC1C_hxE3g&smid=url-share

This dazzling novel in stories follows Rainey Royal—a young artist coming of age through the tumult of New York City in the ’70s and ’80s—and her family across generations of obsession, betrayal, and reinvention.

By turns shocking, sensual, and deeply humane, LIST OF ALL POSSIBLE DESIRES is a haunting portrait of family and history. It is joined by the expanded re-issues of the novel RAINEY ROYAL and the novel in stories NORMAL PEOPLE DON’T LIVE LIKE THIS to create the Rainey Royal Cycle. Each book stands on its own, but together they echo and amplify each other, creating a rich and intense world that can be accessed from any point in the cycle.

Happy to THE GREAT HOUSES OF PILL HILL by Diane Josefowicz 🏡🔪

A scintillating, wickedly intricate locked-room mystery following an unconventional woman who makes miniatures of murder scenes and finds herself entangled in a real one when the client of her dream job turns up dead.

Hannah “Cookie” Cooke, an interior decorator with a sideline making miniature reproductions of crime scenes for the local police department, lands her dream job when New Preston’s wealthiest couple hires her to renovate their historic New England home. But things go spectacularly wrong when her client Chuck—with whom she is having an affair—is murdered at the housewarming party.

The detective on the case commissions one of Cookie’s miniatures to help solve the baffling murder. While grappling with her own complicated role in Chuck’s life—and the thorny layers of her own envies, resentments, and ambitions—Cookie delves into the strange details of his death, including his overly involved therapist, his wife’s nebulous textile empire, and a room decorated in nineteenth-century Egyptian kitsch hidden on the premises. In untangling the mystery, Cookie reveals an ugly truth about New Preston’s elite that might prove deadly.

At once an irreverent interpretation of the hard-boiled genre and a skewering of traditional domesticity, this show-stopping work of crime fiction is crackling with narrative voice, resulting in a read that is equally engrossing and electrifying.

Happy to ABSENCE by Andrew Dana Hudson 🫧

In this gripping, moving, and genre-blending speculative debut, the world is unraveling from an epidemic of human vanishing. Two rookie agents from the Bureau of Depopulation Affairs are dispatched to small-town Kansas to investigate a woman who claims to have returned from Spontaneous Human Absence, offering answers that could change everything.

People are “popping.” Disappearing, one by one, into thin air. A global cataclysm known as Spontaneous Human Absence. In a world where prospects for survival are increasingly grim, hopelessness prevails, political rifts widen, and doomsday predictions flourish.

Harvey Ellis works the night shift for the Bureau of Depopulation Affairs, an ad hoc federal agency meant to contain and catalog the crisis. Harvey’s job: to investigate claims of Absence, and, if validated, issue a standard government stipend to boost morale. Still recovering from losses of his own, Harvey is content in his routine—until his life is shaken by an unexpected assignment from the central office.

A woman long thought Absent has reappeared in her hometown of Dawnville, Kansas, claiming she’s been to the other side and back. But is her wild and irresistible account true, or is she just the latest false prophet, offering hope to a world desperate for it? Together with his no-BS partner, Shonda Erins, Harvey travels to Dawnville to find out.

A resonant portrait of a world beset by confusion and dismay, Andrew Dana Hudson’s debut is a vividly imagined novel of cosmic proportions, examining life in a time of exception and the stories we tell to get by. Available now wherever books are sold.

This Mother’s Day bring your whole flock to a screening of The Sheep Detectives with a live chat with author Leonie Swann, whose book THREE BAGS FULL inspired the movie! Live events will be in Phoenixville, PA; New York, NY; and Westerly, RI.

Learn more and get tickets now at https://books.sohopress.com/three-bags-full-screenings