Silvia Moreno-Garcia Author Read Alikes
August 2021
If you enjoy reading books by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, try these authors whose titles are also accessible through Digital Library of Illinois (Overdrive and Libby apps) and Hoopla
My Heart is a Chainsaw
by Stephen Graham Jones

Protected by horror movies --especially the ones where the masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them, Jade Daniels, a teenage outcast of Blackfoot descent, pulls us into her dark mind when blood actually starts to spill at her rural lake town.

Scheduled release date: August 31, 2021 - place holds on physical copy or Overdrive/ Libby now.
 
The Ancestor 
by Danielle Trussoni

Inheriting a noble title, money and a castle in Italy, Alberta “Bert” Monte believes this sudden windfall is a dream come true until she arrives in Italy and unravels a dark legacy of ancestral treasures that is in her very genes. 

Available on Overdrive/ Libby and Hoopla. 
Hurricane Season
by Fernanda Melchor

The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse-by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals-propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters that most would write off as utterly irredeemable, forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village.

Available on Overdrive/ Libby.
The Survivors
by Jane Harper

Haunted by guilt for a reckless and consequential mistake in his youth, Kieran returns to his coastal hometown and his struggling fishing-industry parents, before the discovery of a body on the beach reveals long-held secrets. 

Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
The Perfect Nanny
by Leïla Slimani

A U.S. release of an award-winning best-seller from Morocco follows the relationship between a working French-Moroccan couple and their too-good-to-be-true nanny, whose devotion to their children spirals into a psychologically charged cycle of jealousies, resentments and violence.

Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
Later
by Stephen King

Jamie Conklin, a boy born with an unnatural ability to see and learn things no one else can, is enlisted to help an NYPD detective pursue a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave. 

Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
The City of Good Death 
by Priyanka Champaneri

A debut novel of family and love, memory and ritual and the ways in which we honor the living and the dead that takes readers inside India’s holy city of Banaras follows the lives of inseparable cousins Pramesh and Sagar, who live in a death hostel. 

Available on Hoopla. 
The Return
by Rachel Harrison

When their friend returns ill and haggard from a two-year absence with no memory of what happened, a circle of women, trapped inside a hotel by bad weather, become targeted by malevolent otherworldly phenomena. 

Available on Overdrive/ Libby.
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
by Marlon James

Hired to find a mysterious boy who disappeared three years before, Tracker joins a search party that follows the boy's trail through ancient cities and into dense forests, and encounter creatures intent on destroying them.

Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
Pieces of Her
by Karin Slaughter

The daughter of a woman who has wanted nothing more than a quiet life in her small beachside home embarks on a desperate search for answers when she discovers the explosive truth about her mother's true identity. 

Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
The Queen of the Tearling 
by Erika Johansen

Coming out of exile to ascend her rightful throne, Princess Kelsea Raleigh Glynn, with a cadre of soldiers and the magical Tearling sapphire to protect her, makes a daring decision that evokes the wrath of the evil Red Witch, forcing her to embark on a quest to save her kingdom and fulfill her destiny. 

Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby and Hoopla. 
In the Woods
by Tana French

Twenty years after witnessing the violent disappearances of two companions from their small Dublin suburb, detective Rob Ryan investigates a chillingly similar murder that takes place in the same wooded area, a case that forces him to piece together his traumatic memories. 

Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby and Hoopla. 
Djinn City
by Saad Z. Hossain

Indelbed is a lonely kid living in a crumbling mansion in the super dense, super chaotic third world capital Of Bangladesh. His father, Dr. Kaikobad, is the black sheep of their clan, the once illustrious Khan Rahman family. A drunken loutish widower, herefuses to allow Indelbed go to school, and the only thing Indelbed knows about his mother is the official cause of her early demise: "Death by Indelbed." But When Dr. Kaikobad falls into a supernatural coma, Indelbed and his older cousin, the wise-cracking slacker Rais, learn that Indelbed's dad was in fact a magician--and a trusted emissary to the Djinn (or genie) world. And the Djinns, as it turns out, are displeased. A "hunt" has been announced, and ten year-old Indelbed is the prey. Still reeling from the fact that genies actually exist, Indelbed finds himself on the run. Soon, the boys are at the center of a great Diinn controversy, one tied to the continuing fallout from an ancient war, with ramifications for the future of life as we know it.

Available on Hoopla.
You Belong to Me
by Colin Harrison

A successful immigration lawyer and cartography hobbyist investigates a mysterious rival at the same time his beautiful neighbor is whisked away by a stranger in military fatigues in front of her powerful, possessive Iranian lawyer husband.

Physical copy available only.
The Girl from Rawblood
by Catriona Ward

Iris Villarca, the last in her family line, inherits a curse of heartbreak and death, but dares to defy this curse, with terrifying consequences.

Available on Hoopla. 
The Best Bad Things
by Katrina Marie Carrasco

Dismissed from the Pinkerton Detective Agency for her penchant for going undercover as a man, 19th-century espionage agent Alma Rosales navigates multiple complex identities while tracking stolen opium for an alluring mastermind smuggler. 

Available on Hoopla. 
The Supernatural Enhancements
by Edgar Cantero

Inheriting an eerie estate in the Virginia woods, a skeptical man wonders about his family member's suicide and realizes that the house harbors both ghosts and terrible secrets, in a story told through journal entries, scrawled notes, security footage, audio recordings and advertisements.

Available on Overdrive/ Libby.
Mr. Splitfoot
by Samantha Hunt

Interweaving two separate narratives in different points of time that move toward the same point in crisis, a contemporary gothic novel follows Cora, who finds herself accidentally pregnant, as she is taken on a strange mission by her Aunt Ruth, who is mute and full of intention, across the entire state of New York toward a mysterious reckoning.

Available on Overdrive/ Libby and Hoopla. 
The Good Sister
by Sally Hepworth

Twin sisters who are polar opposites but who are harboring a deep, dark secret about their sociopathic mother must face the consequences of both her actions and their own when one tries to start a family. 

Waitlist - place holds on physical copy or on Overdrive/ Libby now.
A Master of Djinn
by P. Djèlí Clark

In 1912 Cairo, a new world where the Egyptian Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities maintains an uneasy peace, the Ministry’s youngest agent, Fatima, must stop an imposter who threatens to tear apart the very fabric of this new Egyptian society. 

Waitlist on Overdrive/ Libby- place holds there now.  
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