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Are ewe ready? THE SHEEP DETECTIVES, based on Leonie Swann’s bestselling mystery, THREE BAGS FULL, is in theaters May 8! Read the book before you watch and discover why the smartest sheep in Glennkill (and possibly the world) have captured the hearts of readers.
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Are ewe ready? THE SHEEP DETECTIVES, based on Leonie Swann’s bestselling mystery, THREE BAGS FULL, is in theaters May 8! Read the book before you watch and discover why the smartest sheep in Glennkill (and possibly the world) have captured the hearts of readers.
@thesheepdetectives@AmazonMGMStudios
#TheSheepDetectives #ThreeBagsFull #LeonieSwann #BigBadWool #SohoCrime
Join us for an exclusive preview of AN ARTFUL DODGE by Karen Odden! Karen will be discussing her thrilling new heist novel with bestselling author Susan Elia MacNeal.
Victorian London comes to vivid life in this riveting heist novel about an all-female thieving gang and one young woman’s heroic plan to escape a life of crime. Twenty-year-old Kit Jimeson is one of the highest earners in a notorious thieving ring in South London. Even though Kit dreams of a different life for herself, she is sucked into the heist of a lifetime when the former leader of the ring returns from incarceration and is set on getting revenge.
Attend this free virtual event for a chance to win a Mystery to Me Books gift card! RSVP using the link in our bio or go to https://www.crowdcast.io/c/artful-dodge-preview-
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❤️🔥🌴🍒 Set against the neon-lit porn world of 1980s Los Angeles, LOVERS XXX by @allierowbottom is a raw and evocative portrait of sex, friendship, and the perilous edge of liberation for two young women, from the author of AESTHETICA.
Los Angeles, 1982. Eighteen-year-old Jude, newly out of reform school, is searching for her best friend, Winnie, when she falls under the spell of an older man with a motorcycle, a needle, and a taste for danger.
What begins as escape soon unravels into motel rooms, stickups, and drug binges. Jude eventually finds Winnie, now Velvet, dancing at a Sunset Strip club. Together they imagine a future—bartending, writing, building a life of their own—but the same world that offers glamour and freedom threatens to consume them. Survival means navigating men who offer love, power, and escape—always at a cost.
LOVERS XXX is a cool-eyed re-creation of the world of ’80s adult filmmaking, and a hypnotic novel of friendship, self-invention, and sexual identity beyond binaries. Above all, it is a singular love story between two vulnerable, defiant women.
Available 6.2.2026. Pre-order now wherever you buy your books.
Ewe could win this baaa-utiful gift set! Enter the Three Bags Full Sweepstakes now for a chance to win a copy of THREE BAGS FULL by Leonie Swann (the inspiration behind the major motion picture @thesheepdetectives ), a copy of the witty and whimsical follow-up BIG BAD WOOL, and other cozy items that will pair perfectly with your reading and viewing experience, including a stuffed animal, wool throw blanket, ceramic mug, woven bookmark, grass-scented candle, artisanal popcorn kernels and more.
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No purchase necessary. US only, 18+. Ends 5/28/2026. Full rules available on the sweepstakes page.
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To celebrate the premiere of THE SHEEP DETECTIVES, the major motion picture based on Leonie Swann’s beloved and bestselling mystery, THREE BAGS FULL has gotten a special make(c)over! Which edition will ewe choose?
Now in theaters starring Hugh Jackman, Nicholas Galitzine, and Emma Thompson, this funny and surprising mystery stars a new breed of detectives you’ve got to read to baaaaa-lieve. Read THREE BAGS FULL before you watch and discover why the smartest sheep in Glennkill (and possibly the world) have captured the hearts of readers.
@thesheepdetectives@AmazonMGMStudios
#TheSheepDetectives #ThreeBagsFull #LeonieSwann #BigBadWool #SohoCrime
THE LONGEST DEATH by Kevin Jagernauth, on sale December 1, 2026 ✨
In this brilliant crime debut—a daring heist thriller and homage to ’50s pulp noir—two men fall in love and vow to escape to the Big City together . . . no matter the cost.
OUR ADVANTAGES AWAIT! So says the sign leading to the heart of Riverton, USA. But to the mild-mannered, terminally bored Richard Cobson, small-town life offers nothing but the desperate desire to escape it. Richard’s humdrum existence is made marginally better when he realizes he can get away with skimming money from the Eddy & Dowd Safe Deposit Company, where he works. Then the handsome, smooth-talking Marlon Montgomery comes to town, and the two fall madly in love. One is a lonely number for a getaway heist; two betters the odds. Together, they concoct a plan to rob Eddy & Dowd’s vault and escape to the Big City.
But Richard and Marlon’s foolhardy scheme is complicated threefold: by Gloria, a recent divorcée who wants in on the plan; by Frank Todd, a disgraced cop desperate to restore his reputation; and by Mr. Dowd, the paranoid owner of Eddy & Dowd. As these characters’ lives collide in explosive and ultimately fatal ways, the prospect of freedom for Richard and Marlon becomes a matter of what they’re willing to pay for it.
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Cover Reveal: BACKWATER by James Sallis, on sale September 1 ✨
When an old friend from his days on the police force makes a plea for him to come and help with what seems to be a murder case, jazz guitarist Bishop steps back into a former life. Two major problems, though. The job’s in the town where he grew up, to which he vowed never to return. And his friend disappears, leaving Bishop with responsibilities he never anticipated or wanted. Not to mention a couple more murders.
Bishop slips into his old role as easily as into well-worn, comfortable old clothes. Getting his bearings in the town’s close society and among his own memories is a different matter. This breathtaking novel from grandmaster of noir James Sallis, author of the cult classic DRIVE is both a resonant detective procedural and a poignant examination of human nature.
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“Landis is a sublime observer. Her characters feel several things at once and even the most deluded and destructive have their own motives and intricacies . . . The drama of it — convincing, startling, wrenching — brings revelations at every turn.”
Read @nytbooks ’s review of LIST OF ALL POSSIBLE DESIRES by Dylan Landis, now available wherever you find your books. This dazzling novel in stories follows Rainey Royal—a young artist coming of age through the tumult of New York City in the ’70s and ’80s—and her family across generations of obsession, betrayal, and reinvention.
By turns shocking, sensual, and deeply humane, LIST OF ALL POSSIBLE DESIRES is a haunting portrait of family and history. It is joined by the expanded re-issues of the novel RAINEY ROYAL and the novel in stories NORMAL PEOPLE DON’T LIVE LIKE THIS to create the Rainey Royal Cycle. Each book stands on its own, but together they echo and amplify each other, creating a rich and intense world that can be accessed from any point in the cycle.
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Soho Press chats with @andrewdanahudson , author of ABSENCE 🫧🌩️
“A wild, inventive, and extraordinarily prescient novel, Andrew Dana Hudson’s ABSENCE unspools a moody detective yarn that quickly vaults sky-high, weighing humankind’s slow numbing against daily horrors and faith’s struggle against the impossible. And yet most impressively, within its nightmare of spontaneous gradual depopulation, much is made clear of our species’ capacity for hope. There simply aren’t enough books like it.” —Jinwoo Chong, author of I LEAVE IT UP TO YOU and FLUX
Happy #BookBirthday to THE GREAT HOUSES OF PILL HILL by Diane Josefowicz 🏡🔪
A scintillating, wickedly intricate locked-room mystery following an unconventional woman who makes miniatures of murder scenes and finds herself entangled in a real one when the client of her dream job turns up dead.
Hannah “Cookie” Cooke, an interior decorator with a sideline making miniature reproductions of crime scenes for the local police department, lands her dream job when New Preston’s wealthiest couple hires her to renovate their historic New England home. But things go spectacularly wrong when her client Chuck—with whom she is having an affair—is murdered at the housewarming party.
The detective on the case commissions one of Cookie’s miniatures to help solve the baffling murder. While grappling with her own complicated role in Chuck’s life—and the thorny layers of her own envies, resentments, and ambitions—Cookie delves into the strange details of his death, including his overly involved therapist, his wife’s nebulous textile empire, and a room decorated in nineteenth-century Egyptian kitsch hidden on the premises. In untangling the mystery, Cookie reveals an ugly truth about New Preston’s elite that might prove deadly.
At once an irreverent interpretation of the hard-boiled genre and a skewering of traditional domesticity, this show-stopping work of crime fiction is crackling with narrative voice, resulting in a read that is equally engrossing and electrifying.
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