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Freida McFadden has built an empire out of narrators who seem harmless right up until they aren’t, and Dear Debbie hands that trick to a woman whose entire job is dispensing calm, reasonable advice to other people’s chaos. The irony writes itself, and McFadden knows exactly how to twist it.

Imagine Death not as a scythe-wielding specter but as your slightly awkward neighbor down the hall, the one who nods at you in the stairwell and always seems to know more about your life than he should. That’s the premise animating Ben Reeves’ quietly audacious debut, “Everything Was Beautiful and

Grief is not usually what readers sign up for when they pick up a Dresden Files novel, but eighteen books into Jim Butcher’s saga about Chicago’s only professional wizard, Twelve Months asks its hero to sit with loss instead of outrunning it, and the series is better for it. The

Twenty-six books into a series, most espionage thrillers are coasting on momentum built decades ago. Daniel Silva’s Gabriel Allon saga isn’t one of them, and Ransom is proof the reigning master of the modern spy novel still has plenty left in the tank. Alice Winter has the kind of life

By book six of any series, a story usually shows its seams. Dungeon Crawler Carl instead shows its teeth. Matt Dinniman’s latest entry drops a Coast Guard veteran, a foul-mouthed talking cat, and a cast of alien-broadcast reality-show contestants onto the eighth floor of a dungeon built to entertain a

Laverne Cox has spent more than a decade being watched — as Sophia Burset on “Orange Is the New Black,” as the first openly transgender person nominated for a major acting Emmy, as a fixture of red carpets and cable news panels alike. In “Transcendent,” she turns the camera around.

John Grisham has spent nearly four decades teaching readers how the American legal system can be bent, exploited, and occasionally redeemed. With The Widow, he tries something he has rarely attempted in all that time: a genuine whodunit, told from inside the mind of a man who insists he didn’t

Every so often a manga arrives with art so meticulous it feels like it belongs in a museum rather than a monthly serialization, and “Witch Hat Atelier” is exactly that kind of arrival. Kamome Shirahama’s series has spent years climbing bestseller charts on the strength of word of mouth alone,

Some novels announce their ambition on the first page and then spend hundreds of pages proving they earned it. “The Covenant of Water” is one of them. Abraham Verghese, a physician as much as a novelist, has built a multigenerational saga so patient and so humane that its considerable length

There is something almost comforting about a stock market crash ninety-six years in the past, until you start reading Andrew Ross Sorkin’s account of it and realize how much of it you recognize. Giddy speculation, borrowed money chasing stocks nobody can quite explain the value of, financiers insisting this time