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Master of locked-door thrillers, Ruth Ware, is back with a fast-paced game of cat and mouse set in a luxurious ski chalet high in the French Alps. When the cofounder of Snoop, a trendy London-based tech startup, organizes a weeklong trip in the French Alps, it starts out as a corporate retreat like any other. But when a devastating avalanche leaves the group cut off from all access to the outside world, survival trumps synergy. As each hour passes without any sign of rescue, panic mounts, the chalet grows colder, and the group dwindles further…one by one.
Happy Tuesday! I hope you all had a fantastic (and socially distant) holiday weekend, and that you’re ready to dive into the week with new book releases! I’m extra excited about this bunch of new books! I especially can’t wait to get my hands on a copy of Charming as a Verb by Ben Philippe and The Dare Sisters by Jess Rinker!
Don’t forget to catch Liberty and Vanessa on this week’s episode of All the Books, where they discuss some of their most anticipated releases of the week!
And without further ado, here we go!
What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez
In this new novel from National Book Award winner Sigrid Nunez, a woman recounts six times she encountered other people–strangers, people from her past, casual acquaintances–and how her interaction with them prompted them to pour their hearts out to her. This is a novel about human connection and the need to share our stories with other people, and it sounds like the perfect follow up for readers who loved The Friend.
The Cat I Never Named: A True Story of Love, War, and Survival by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess
Set against the backdrop of the Bosnian genocide in 1992, this is the story of Amra’s family and how their lives change drastically and seemingly overnight when the Serbs take control of the army and her hometown is surrounded by bigotry and hate. Soon her family faces danger and starvation on all sides, but through it all a stray cat appears and acts as a guardian to the family.
Before She Was Helen by Caroline B. Cooney
As a kid, I inhaled Caroline B. Cooney’s mysteries and thrillers for kids and teens (who here also read and was horrified by The Face on the Milk Carton?), so it’s exciting to see that her newest book is a mystery for adults! Clemmie is checking up on a neighbor when she stumbles across something remarkable—and so she takes a photo on her phone and sends it to a few people. When the photo goes viral, and it turns out that her neighbor’s house is a crime scene, Clemmie is suddenly facing intense scrutiny—which is bad for her, because she’s got some big secrets that are nearly half a century old that she doesn’t want getting out.
Happy reading!
Tirzah