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There’s a particular kind of dread that comes from realizing the stranger you’ve been flirting with online might be exactly as dangerous as he seems — and that you might not mind. That’s the current running through Navessa Allen’s “Lights Out,” a dark romance that turns a late-night, liquor-fueled text

Gabriel Allon has retired more times than most spies get to die once, and “Ransom” finds Daniel Silva’s most durable creation pulled back into the field for the twenty-sixth time — proof that even a restorer of old masters can’t fully step away from watching the world come apart. When

Bruce Lipton has spent decades arguing that biology owes people an apology — that the field oversold a picture of life as a grim competition between selfish genes, when the mechanisms underneath tell a more cooperative story. “Beyond Darwin,” co-written with Patricia King, is his most ambitious attempt yet to

Imagine waking up and knowing, with total certainty, that someone tried to kill you — and that the only witness who can identify them is a version of your own mind that no longer works the way it used to. That is the premise Freida McFadden builds “Brain Damage” around,

There is a particular kind of chill that comes from watching a warning arrive too late to feel like a warning anymore, and that is the register Congressman Jared Huffman writes in for most of “No Prophets: The Fight to Save Democracy from Christian Nationalism.” He opens not with an

Every era gets the political scare book it deserves, and for Silicon Valley’s current moment of outsized wealth and outsized ambition, Gil Durán’s “The Nerd Reich” is shaping up to be one of the most talked-about entries in the genre. Durán, a journalist and former political operative, isn’t interested in

Cork O’Connor has never much trusted his own premonitions, but “God’s Country,” the twenty-second installment in William Kent Krueger’s long-running series, opens with him unable to shake one: a sense of dread hanging over a family trip into the Boundary Waters that he can’t quite name and can’t quite ignore.

There’s a particular kind of dread that sets in when a case stops making sense — when the people responsible for chaos genuinely believe they’re the good guys. That’s the engine driving “Delusional,” the eighteenth entry in James Patterson and James O. Born’s Michael Bennett series, and it’s a sharper,

Few reporting teams have the access that Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan have built over the past decade, and Regime Change is the clearest demonstration yet of what that access can produce. The book is a detailed, on-the-ground account of the first year of Donald Trump’s second presidency, built from

Seventeen years is a long time to make readers wait for a follow-up. Kathryn Stockett, whose debut The Help became a cultural phenomenon, has finally returned with The Calamity Club, and the wait turns out to have been worth it. Set in Depression-era Mississippi, the novel follows a group of