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New Fiction, Mystery & Science Fiction March 2026 |
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Daughter of Egypt
by Marie Benedict
In the 1920s, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon made headlines around the world with the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. But behind it all stood Lady Evelyn Herbert, daughter of Lord Carnarvon, whose daring spirit and relentless curiosity made the momentous find possible. Nearly 3,000 years earlier, another woman defied the expectations of her time: Hatshepsut, Egypt's lost pharaoh. When Evelyn becomes obsessed with finding Hatshepsut's secret tomb, she risks everything to uncover the truth about her reign. But as danger closes in and political tensions rise, she must make a choice: protect her father's legacy, or forge her own.
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Life: A Love Story
by Elizabeth Berg
As 92-year-old Florence Greene nears the end of her life, she writes a letter to Ruthie, the woman who grew up next door to her, describing the items she is leaving Ruthie in her will. But as it goes on, telling surprising stories about those little things Flo leaves behind, an unforgettable portrait of the life she has lived emerges. The letter starts off as an autobiography in things, but it turns out to do much more than that: ultimately, it will transform Flo and those around her, as she helps others find the fulfillment that living a full life has led her to understand.
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Python's Kiss: Stories
by Louise Erdrich
From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich comes a captivating collection of short stories, written over the past two decades, featuring a wide range of characters. A tribal newsletter editor whose son tells her a story that nothing in her experience can encompass. Immigrant farmers whose tenuous hold on the earth, and sanity, is challenged. A girl who decides to spend her life with a stone. A man confronted with a folk-singing thief. A woman who enters a corporately owned afterlife to seek revenge on her father. Accompanied by illustrations by her daughter Aza Erdrich Abe, these stories offer an opportunity to celebrate the wisdom and imagination of one of America's most important writers.
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Lady Tremaine
by Rachel Hochhauser
A reimagining of Cinderella, as told through the eyes of its iconic "evil" stepmother. A widow twice-over, Etheldreda is now saddled with the care of her two children and a priggish stepdaughter. When a royal ball offers the chance to secure the future she desperately desires, Etheldreda must risk her secrets, pride, and limited resources in pursuit of an invitation for her daughters, only to see her hopes fulfilled by the wrong one. As an engagement to the heir of the kingdom proceeds, she discovers a sordid secret hidden in the depths of the royal family, forcing her to choose between the security she's sought for years and the wellbeing of the feckless stepdaughter who has rebuffed her at every turn.
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Son of Nobody
by Yann Martel
From the author of the international bestseller Life of Pi, a brilliant retelling of the Trojan War from the perspective of two commoners: an ancient soldier and a modern scholar.
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It Girl
by Allison Pataki
At the dawn of the twentieth century, shopgirl Evelyn is recruited as a studio model and soon catches the eye of the preeminent artists of the age, and she becomes the iconic Gibson Girl, the most sought-after figure and face of her time. Enter a parade of powerful and power-hungry men, from a world-famous architect to a wealthy railroad heir and playboy of high society. Each man promises comfort, glamour, security, and even love. But when Evelyn finds herself at the center of a murder of passion declared the Crime of the Century, she is blamed. In the media frenzy that spirals around her, Evelyn realizes that to survive, she will have to write her own ending.
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A Far-Flung Life
by M. L. Stedman
Western Australia, 1958. A truck rumbles along a lonely outback road. A moment’s inattention, and in a few muddled seconds the lives of the MacBride family are shattered. Set in the expanse of a vast landscape, where the weather is a capricious god and a million-acre sheep station is barely a dot on the map, A Far-flung Life explores the hearts of a handful of isolated souls and the secrets they shield in order to survive. From the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Light Between Oceans.
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Lake Effect
by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Nest comes a wry and tender portrait of two families forever changed when a love affair between two neighbors in 1970s Rochester reverberates for decades. Written with Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's signature humor and insight, Lake Effect is a wise and probing look at love and desire, mothers and daughters, loss and grief, and what we owe the people we love most.
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The News from Dublin: Stories
by Colm Toibin
From one of the world's best living literary writers comes a collection of short stories, many never-before-published, set across Ireland, Spain, and America, about the complexities of family, longing, loss, and love. Toibin's stories are rich with the complexities of family dynamics, the haunting pull of the past, and the quiet revelations that define our lives, and his characters -- whether navigating the aftermath of war or forbidden love or the quiet struggles mundane life -- are rendered with empathy and insight.
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This Story Might Save Your Life
by Tiffany Crum
Benny Abbott and Joy Moore host a popular podcast about near-death experiences, and thanks to the management of Joy's husband Xander, they've built a lucrative empire. But when Benny arrives at Joy and Xander’s one morning to record, he finds shattered glass and an empty house. Millions of devoted listeners think they know the real Benny and Joy. But as the hours tick by, and the odds seem increasingly stacked against Joy and Xander being found alive, not even the most devoted fans could guess the secrets they have hidden from the world -- and from each other.
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The Keeper
by Tana French
On a cold night in a remote Irish village, a girl goes missing. Sweet, loving Rachel Holohan was about to be engaged to the son of the local big shot. Instead, she's dead in the river. In a close-knit small town, a death like this isn't simple. It comes wrapped in generations-old grudges and power struggles, and it splits the town in two. Retired Chicago detective Cal Hooper has friends here and he owes them loyalty, but his fiancee Lena wants nothing to do with it. As the feud becomes more vicious, their settled peace starts to crack apart. And when they uncover a scheme that casts a new light on Rachel's death and threatens the whole village, they find themselves in the firing line.
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Strangers in the Villa
by Robyn Harding
Sydney Lowe's life in New York is shattered when her husband, Curtis, admits to a meaningless affair with a client. Begging for forgiveness and vowing to prove his devotion, Curtis suggests they retreat to a remote hilltop house in Spain to repair their marriage. High above the Mediterranean, Sydney and Curtis are working on the isolated property and their relationship when a pair of Australian travelers turn up at their door in dire need of help. Lonely for companionship and desperate for free labor, Sydney and Curtis invite the attractive young couple to stay. But as the days pass, dark secrets come to light, the Lowes' bond is tested, and not everyone will leave the villa alive.
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The Dark Time
by Nick Petrie
Peter Ash comes to the aid of an investigative reporter who may have stumbled on a story more explosive than even he can handle. Katelyn Thorsen is an independent journalist who receives a very specific death threat. From the moment Peter arrives, he's thrown into a maelstrom of violence trying to protect Katelyn and her daughter and discover the source of the threat, but this challenge may be too much for him -- with enormous consequences should he fail.
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Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief
by Benjamin Stevenson
Ten heists. Ten suspects. A murder mystery only Ernest Cunningham can solve. During a bank robbery, the doors are chained shut and no one can get in or out, which means that when someone in the bank is murdered, everyone is a suspect. Turns out, more than one person planned to rob the bank today. Who is stealing what? Are they willing to kill for it? Can Ernest solve the crime before the police kick down the door?
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The Delivery
by Andrew Welsh-Huggins
Freelance courier Mercury Carter races against time and across New England to rescue a trafficking victim in this new thriller from the author of The Mailman.
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New Science Fiction & Fantasy
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This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me
by Ilona Andrews
When Maggie wakes up in a gutter, it doesn't take her long to recognize Kair Toren, a city she knows intimately from the pages of the famously unfinished dark fantasy series she's been obsessively reading and re-reading while waiting years for the final novel. Her only tools for navigating this gritty world of rival warlords, magic, and mayhem? Her encyclopedic knowledge of the plot, the setting, and the characters' ambitions and fates. But while she quickly discovers she cannot be killed, the same cannot be said for the characters she's come to love. Soon, instead of trying to get home, she finds herself enmeshed in their schemes, all while trying to save them and the kingdom of Rellas from the way she knows their stories will end: in a cataclysmic war.
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Daughter of Crows
by Mark Lawrence
The survivor of a brutal academy must exhume her own past in this first book in a new series. The Academy of Kindness exists to create agents of retribution, cast in the image of the Furies against whom even the gods hesitate to stand. Each year a hundred girls are sold to the Academy. Ten years later only three will emerge. The Academy's halls run with blood. The few that survive its decade-long nightmare leave its gates as avatars of vengeance, bound to uphold the oldest of laws. Only the most desperate would sell their child to the Academy. But Rue ... she sold herself. And now, a lifetime later, just as she has discovered peace, war has been brought to an old woman's doorstep.
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