We review an array of excellent fiction this week, including Paul Tremblay's second short story collection, The Beast You Are, with its "15 genre-bending gems"; the thriller An Evil Heart, in which Linda Castillo's "skillful storytelling" continues to follow chief of police Kate Burkholder in an Amish Ohio town; Hope, Andrew Ridker's "loving and hilarious satire of liberal pieties"; and Everyone Wants to Know, Kelly Loy Gilbert's "transfixing, provocative" novel about the fallout of a reality-TV star family. Plus so many more!
Don't miss the inner workings of the collaboration between Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle, co-authors of Ebony Gate, in The Writer's Life.
--Jennifer M. Brown, senior editor, Shelf Awareness