Debut Authors

 

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Author

Title

Daniel Abraham

Shadow In Summer

Kim Addonizio

Little Beauties

Pamela Aidan

An Assembly Such as This

Tamara Alexander

Rekindled

Paul Anderson

Hunger’s Bride

Lori Andrews

Sequence

Marie Arana

Cellophane

Lindsay Jane Ashford

Frozen

Tom Bailey

The Grace That Keeps This World

Maggie Barbieri

Murder 101

Nancy Verde Barr

Last Bite

Mitchell Bartoy

The Devil’s Own Rag Doll

Robert Bear

Blow the House Down

Lisa Tawn Bergren

The Begotten

Sarah Bilston

Bed Rest

Jeremy Blachman

Anonymous Lawyer

Amanda Boyden

Pretty Little Dirty

John Boyne

Crippen

Elisabeth Brink

Save Your Own

Andrew Britton

The American

Hester Brown

The Little Lady Agency

Peter C. Brown

The Fugitive Wife

Gina Buonaguro

The Sidewalk Artist

James Church

The Corpse in the Koryo

Clare Clarke

The Great Stink

Jane Cleland

Consigned to Death

Blaize Clement

Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter

Christine Conrad

Mademoiselle Benoir

Laura Dave

London is the Best City in America

Marisa De los Santos

Love walked In

Debra Dean

The Madonnas of Leningrad

Ronlyn Domingue

The Mercy of Thin Air

Keith Donohue

The Stolen Child

Robert Dugoni

The Jury Master

Carolly Erickson

The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette

Kjell Eriksson

The Princess of Burundi

Diana Evans

26a

Karen Fisher

A Sudden Country

Kathryn Fox

Malicious Intent

Brian Freeman

Immoral

Lisa Fugard

Skinner’s Drift

Pamela Gien

The Syringa Tree

Alice Greenway

White Ghost Girls

Dick Gregory

Dinner with a Perfect Stranger

John Hideyo Hamamura

Color of the Sea

Catherine Hanrahan

Lost Girls and love Hotels

John Hart

The King of Lies

Kenneth J. Harvey

The Town That Forgot How To Breathe

Tony Hendra

The Messiah of Morris Avenue

Sheila Heti

Ticknor

Robert Hicks

A Widow of the South

T.L. Hines

Waking Lazarus

Steve Hockensmith

Holmes on the Range

Thomas Holland

One Drop of Blood

Anne Holt

What is Mine

Laurie Horowitz

The Family Fortune

Arnaldur Indridason

Jar City

Uzodinma Iweala

Beasts of No Nation

David Keck

In the Eye of Heaven

Raymond Khoury

The Last Templar

Marshall Klimasewiski

The Cottagers

Richard Kunzmann

Bloody Harvest

Thomas Lakeman

The Shadow Catchers

Rebecca Lee

The City is a Rising

Judith Lindbergh

The Thrall’s Tale

O.Z. Livaneli

Bliss

Victoria Lustbader

Hidden

Jim Lynch

The Highest Tide

Layne Maheu

Song of the Crow

Paul Malmont

The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril

Cody McFadyen

Shadow Man

Ellen Meister

Secret Confessions of the Applewood PTA

Meg Mullins

The Rug Merchant

Galt Niederhoffer

A Taxonomy of Barnacles

Martin O’Brien

Jacquot and the Waterman

Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck

The Dressmaker

Louise Penny

Still Life

Marisha Pessl

Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Per Petterson

In the wake

Cornelia Read

A Field of Darkness

Roger Rosenblatt

Lapham Rising

Jed Rubenfeld

The Interpretation of Murder

Amy Scheibe

What Do You Do All Day?

NancyKay Shapiro

What Love Means to You People

Heather Sharfeddin

Blackbelly

Zoe Sharp

First Drop

Leslie Sherrod

Like Sheep Gone Astray

Anne Easter Smith

A Rose for the Crown

Alexandra Sokoloff

The Harrowing

John Speed

The Temple Dancer

Kathryn Springer

Front Porch Princess

Brian Strause

Maybe a Miracle

Charyl Strayed

Torch

Michelle Tea

Rose of No Man’s Land

F.X. Toole

Pound for Pound

Valerie Trueblood

Seven Loves

Lisa Unger

Beautiful Lies

Lara Vapnyar

Memoirs of a Muse

Richard Wagamese

Dream Wheels

Wendy Wasserstein

Elements of Style

J.B. White

The Sultan’s Seal

Michelle Wildgen

You’re Not You

A.J. Zerries

The Lost Van Gogh

 

 

 

 

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