Soho Press

26/02/2025

One Italian American neighborhood in 1980s south Brooklyn. One idyllic Turkish island in the middle of the Sea of Marmara. Two stories fraught with tensions, family secrets, and immersive description.

Join William Boyle (SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET) and translator Nicholas Glastonbury (SUMMERHOUSE) for an in-depth conversation about thrillers in close quarters.

RSVP and attend the event live for a chance to win a Mystery To Me gift card!

https://crowdcast.io/c/soho-thrillers-close-quarters

16/02/2025

Looking for your next book club read? 📚

We recommend THE DARKEST CHILD by Delores Phillips, the captivating and award-winning modern classic, available in paperback with an illuminating introduction by Tayari Jones (An American Marriage), an excerpt from the never before seen follow-up novel, and a discussion guide perfect for your book club conversations.

Pakersfield, Georgia, 1958: Thirteen-year-old Tangy Mae Quinn is the sixth of ten fatherless siblings. She is the darkest-skinned among them and therefore the ugliest in her mother, Rozelle’s, estimation, but she’s also the brightest. Rozelle—beautiful, charismatic, and light-skinned—exercises a violent hold over her children. Fearing abandonment, she pulls them from school at the age of twelve and sends them to earn their keep for the household, whether in domestic service, in the fields, or at “the farmhouse” on the edge of town, where Rozelle beds local men for money.

But Tangy Mae has been selected to be part of the first integrated class at a nearby white high school. She has a chance to change her life, but can she break from Rozelle’s grasp without ruinous—even fatal—consequences?

16/02/2025

Read it before you watch it: Enter the Goodreads giveaway for a chance to win a copy of THE AMATEUR by Robert Littell. 📽🕵️‍♂️📙

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Rami Malek in April 2025, this gripping spy classic is about an ordinary man who embarks on a dangerous mission to avenge the woman he loved.

Open now through March 15.

15 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Feb 15-Mar 15, 2025. A spy thriller classic, soon to be a major motion picture starring Rami Malek, Rachel ...

13/02/2025

Lovers and Monsters: We have a special Valentines Day treat for you 💘

Enter to win a hardcover of OUR WINTER MONSTER by Dennis Mahoney, the novel that Clay McLeod Chapman calls "a couples therapy session straight out of our nightmares" + a romantic candy heart sticker sheet here: https://bit.ly/monsterprizepack

Giveaway ends 11:59 PM on February 15. US ONLY.

12/02/2025

Enter the Goodreads giveaway for a chance to win a copy of HISTORY LESSONS by Zoe B. Wallbrook! 🍎🔎📚

A college history professor must solve her superstar colleague’s murder before she becomes the next target in this funny, romantic mystery series opener perfect for crime fiction fans looking for a mix of humor, romance, and suspense, or for readers of Ali Hazelwood, Janet Evanovich, and Kellye Garrett.

Open now through March 11.

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11/02/2025

Enter the Goodreads giveaway for a chance to win a copy of DOWN CEMETERY ROAD by Mick Herron! 📚🕵

From the author of SLOW HORSES and soon to be an Original Series from Apple TV+ starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson, Mick Herron’s DOWN CEMETERY ROAD introduces Sarah Tucker—a young housewife turned amateur sleuth—whose search for a missing child unravels a murderous conspiracy.

Open now through March 3.

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10/02/2025

"This isn’t a crime novel that relies merely on suspense. Rather, we eagerly read SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET because of its beautifully rendered characters and haunting sense of place . . . Boyle is able to do what today’s best crime fiction writers do so well—tell a captivating, page-turning thriller, but one defined by its characters and the choices they make, rather than the circumstances into which they have been thrust. This subtle difference blurs any imaginary line between genre and great literature, and results in quiet moments of grace, of pain and love."—The Washington Post

Boyle’s novel “Saint of the Narrows Street” captures the feel of a Brooklyn neighborhood and the characters whose lives are shaped by violence.

09/02/2025

Enter the Goodreads giveaway for a chance to win THE RAILWAY CONSPIRACY by SJ Rozan and John Shen Yen Nee! 🚂🐉📕

In the rollocking follow-up to THE MURDER OF MR. MA, Judge Dee and Lao She must use all their powers of deduction—and kung fu skills—to take down a sinister conspiracy between Imperial Russia, Japan, and China in 1920s London.

This historical adventure-mystery is perfect for fans of Laurie R. King and the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes films.

Open now through February 25.

Enter to win one of 25 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Feb 02-Feb 25, 2025. Judge Dee and Lao She must use all their powers of deduction—and k...

08/02/2025

Enter the Goodreads giveaway for a chance to win a copy of COUNTING BACKWARDS by Binnie Kirshenbaum! 🦢⏰📕

A middle-aged couple’s life is shattered by the husband’s descent into early onset Lewy body dementia in a novel shot through with lacerating humor and unsparing insights into love, grief, and life with someone who is still there but slipping away.

“Sharp, penetrating, and powerful.”
—Chelsea Bieker, author of MADWOMAN and GODSHOT

“Beautiful … Achingly empathetic.” —Kimberly King Parsons, author of WE WERE THE UNIVERSE

“A tour de force.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Open now through February 20.

Enter to win one of 40 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Jan 31-Feb 20, 2025. A married couple deals with the husband’s decline from Lewy body d...

07/02/2025

Paul McCartney, just wait until you read the Slough House books 🐎

06/02/2025

Join us for our next Lineup event on building a crime fiction series! 🛠📖

Co-authors John Shen Yen Nee and SJ Rozan (THE RAILWAY CONSPIRACY) and author Leonie Swann (BIG BAD WOOL) will discuss their second installments, writing characters across multiple books, and developing their series universe.

RSVP and attend the event live for a chance to win a Mystery To Me gift card!
https://www.crowdcast.io/c/soho-lineup-build-a-series

05/02/2025

Now in Paperback: THE COMFORT OF GHOSTS by Jacqueline Winspear ✨

Marking a milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow, THE COMFORT OF GHOSTS completes Jacqueline Winspear’s ground-breaking and internationally bestselling series.

London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion—the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Psychologist and Investigator Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners and discovers that a demobilized soldier, gravely ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, has taken shelter with the group.

Maisie’s quest to bring comfort to the youngsters and the ailing soldier brings to light a decades-old mystery concerning Maisie’s first husband, James Compton, who was killed while piloting an experimental fighter aircraft. As Maisie unravels the threads of her dead husband’s life, she is forced to examine her own painful past and question beliefs she has always accepted as true.

05/02/2025

Barnes & Noble Pre-Order Sale Alert! Between February 5 and February 7, Rewards Members will get 25% off of preorders and Premium Members will receive an additional 10% off!

Get your copy with the code PREORDER25 now!

03/02/2025

Robert Littell was on NPR's Weekend Edition to talk BRONSHTEIN IN THE BRONX, his wry, thought-provoking fictional portrayal of ten pivotal weeks in the life of Leon Trotsky, inspired by his 1917 exile in New York City 🌆

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/01/nx-s1-5277005/robert-littells-bronshtein-in-the-bronx-imagines-trotskys-time-living-in-the-bronx

29/01/2025

Author Samrat Upadhyay reads from DARKMOTHERLAND, an epic tale of love and political violence set in a dystopian, earthquake-ravaged reimagining of Nepal, written with what National Book Award–winning author Ha Jin describes as "a Dickensian sweep and a vast cast of characters ."

26/01/2025

📚🐑 Win a deluxe paperback of THREE BAGS FULL (soon to be a major motion picture starring Hugh Jackman in 2026) and an advance copy of the highly anticipated follow-up, BIG BAD WOOL!

Leonie Swann’s funny & surprising Sheep Detective mysteries feature a new breed of detectives you've got to read to baaaaa-lieve. This twentieth-anniversary deluxe paperback of THREE BAGS FULL features a foreword by A. J. Finn, discussion questions, and more.

Enter this Goodreads giveaway at the link below. Open to U.S. readers until February 19, 2025.
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/404621-three-bags-full

25/01/2025

Mark your calendars: the SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET tour is here! 📆🌇

Join author William Boyle, master of Brooklyn-set crime fiction, at these bookstores & libraries. 📚

As an Italian American family’s decades-old secret begins to unravel, they will have to bear the consequences—and face each other—in this thrilling south Brooklyn-set tragic opera of the highest caliber. SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET is William Boyle’s magnum opus, perfect for fans of The Sopranos, Jonathan Lethem, and Dennis Lehane.

24/01/2025

It’s official: SLOW HORSES author Mick Herron has been awarded the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime contribution to crime writing. Past recipients include John le Carré, Ruth Rendell, Val McDermid, Ian Rankin and PD James.

“To receive this accolade from these friends and colleagues is a career highlight and a personal joy,” said Herron. “I’m touched and thrilled beyond measure, and will try to live up to the honour.”

The author of books such as Slow Horses and Down Cemetery Road receives the prestigious Diamond Dagger award for his contribution to the genre