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Norah Piehl

Cordelia Black is nothing if not under control. She has a successful career as a pharmaceutical sales rep, a killer designer wardrobe (including a variety of designer stilettos), and flawless hair and makeup. She’s also an exemplary friend to her long-time bestie, Diane, and a great godmother to Diane’s daughter, Samantha (known to Cordelia as Sugar). Read More

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Cordelia Black loves exactly three things: her chosen family, her hairdresser (worth every penny plus tip) and killing bad men. By day, she's an ambitious pharma rep with a flawless reputation and designer wardrobe. By night, she culls South Louisiana of unscrupulous men --- monsters who think they've evaded justice, until they meet her. But when the evening news starts throwing around the term "serial killer" and her best friend starts dating a man who just might unravel everything Cordelia has worked for, she must come face to face with the choices she's made. The good, the bad and the murderous. Her family and her freedom depend on it.

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Cordelia Black loves exactly three things: her chosen family, her hairdresser (worth every penny plus tip) and killing bad men. By day, she's an ambitious pharma rep with a flawless reputation and designer wardrobe. By night, she culls South Louisiana of unscrupulous men --- monsters who think they've evaded justice, until they meet her. But when the evening news starts throwing around the term "serial killer" and her best friend starts dating a man who just might unravel everything Cordelia has worked for, she must come face to face with the choices she's made. The good, the bad and the murderous. Her family and her freedom depend on it.

About the Book

For readers of FINLAY DONOVAN IS KILLING IT and THE BANDIT QUEENS comes a bright and biting thriller following Cordelia Black, a best friend, a businesswoman and, in her spare time, a killer of bad men.

Ask Cordelia Black why she did it. The answer will always be: He had it coming.

Cordelia Black loves exactly three things: her chosen family, her hairdresser (worth every penny plus tip) and killing bad men.

By day, she's an ambitious pharma rep with a flawless reputation and designer wardrobe. By night, she culls South Louisiana of unscrupulous men --- monsters who think they've evaded justice, until they meet her. Sure, the evening news may have started throwing around phrases like "serial killer," but Cordelia knows that's absurd. She's not a killer, she's simply karma. And being karma requires complete and utter control.

But when Cordelia discovers a flaw in her perfectly designed system for eliminating monsters, pressure heightens. And it only intensifies when her best friend starts dating a man Cordelia isn't sure is a good person. Someone who just might unravel everything she has worked for.

Soon enough, Cordelia has to come face to face with the choices she's made. The good, the bad and the murderous. Her family and her freedom depend on it.

Audiobook available, read by Stefanie Kay

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Sam Johnson

You may have trouble deciding which genre you would assign to Mike Fu’s MASQUERADE, which is what makes “mystery” perhaps too good of a fit. But it does not deserve to fade away with the hordes of mystery novels and series of unorthodox detectives, the recently heartbroken or people in grief, whose cracks at forgotten murders or disappearances finally unearth some secrets. Read More

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Newly single Meadow Liu is house-sitting for his friend, artist Selma Shimizu, when he stumbles upon The Masquerade, a translated novel about a masked ball in 1930s Shanghai. The author’s name is the same as Meadow’s own in Chinese, Liu Tian --- a coincidence that proves to be the first of many strange happenings. Over the course of a single summer, Meadow must contend with a possibly haunted apartment, a mirror that plays tricks and a stranger speaking in riddles at the bar where he works, as well as a startling revelation about a former lover. And when Selma vanishes from her artist residency, Meadow is forced to question everything he knows as the boundaries between real and imagined begin to blur.

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Newly single Meadow Liu is house-sitting for his friend, artist Selma Shimizu, when he stumbles upon The Masquerade, a translated novel about a masked ball in 1930s Shanghai. The author’s name is the same as Meadow’s own in Chinese, Liu Tian --- a coincidence that proves to be the first of many strange happenings. Over the course of a single summer, Meadow must contend with a possibly haunted apartment, a mirror that plays tricks and a stranger speaking in riddles at the bar where he works, as well as a startling revelation about a former lover. And when Selma vanishes from her artist residency, Meadow is forced to question everything he knows as the boundaries between real and imagined begin to blur.

About the Book

Newly single Meadow Liu is house-sitting for his friend, artist Selma Shimizu, when he stumbles upon The Masquerade, a translated novel about a masked ball in 1930s Shanghai. The author’s name is the same as Meadow’s own in Chinese, Liu Tian --- a coincidence that proves to be the first of many strange happenings.

Over the course of a single summer, Meadow must contend with a possibly haunted apartment, a mirror that plays tricks and a stranger speaking in riddles at the bar where he works, as well as a startling revelation about a former lover. And when Selma vanishes from her artist residency, Meadow is forced to question everything he knows as the boundaries between real and imagined begin to blur.

Exploring social, cultural, and sexual identities in New York, Shanghai and beyond, Mike Fu’s MASQUERADE is a skillfully layered, brilliantly interwoven debut novel of friendship, queer longing and worlds on the brink, asking how we can find ourselves among ghosts of all kinds, and who we can trust when nothing --- and no one --- is as it seems.

November 1, 2024

Long-time readers know that this is my favorite weekend of the year. Why? Because we will get an extra hour to do with it what we want --- the hour that we lost back in March. And I have so many ways to spend this hour. Yes, I know that it will be dark earlier in the evening, and the shorter days of daylight are on the horizon. But for this weekend, there will be 60 minutes that I did not have since this weekend last year.

Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir by Ina Garten

November 2024

I so enjoyed Ina Garten’s memoir, BE READY WHEN THE LUCK HAPPENS. I have been looking forward to this book for a while, and I listened to it on audio. Ina is the narrator, which makes it all the more special.

I have cooked from her cookbooks (and this book inspired me to do that a lot more), I went to the Barefoot Contessa store when it was in East Hampton, and I watched her show on Food Network, always getting ideas from her. But what I took away from this book was advice from a savvy businesswoman far beyond how to make a brilliant dinner party, or how to use a knife or an interesting ingredient. While cooking is at the heart of what she does, there are lessons on when to go big, when to fold and when to say, “This really is not worth the time that I am putting into it.” And there was a dose of saying something to the effect of “If I had just done that sooner, it might have been better for me,” which takes time to admit.

The Mistletoe Mystery: A Maid Novella by Nita Prose

November 2024

I love novellas. There are times when I am busy, and reading a short book from an author I love is just the trick. It gives me the feeling of accomplishment, albeit on a smaller scale than usual. I loved every minute of THE MISTLETOE MYSTERYNita Prose’s latest title featuring Molly the Maid. It has everything that the longer Molly books have had --- great characters in Molly, Juan Manuel and the others at the Regency Grand Hotel, clever writing, and a plot that showcases a mystery to be unraveled but in a shorter time frame.

Barnes & Noble has announced the 13 finalists for their 2024 Book of the Year. Which of these books, if any, would you pick as the B&N Book of the Year? Please check all that apply.

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November 1, 2024 - November 22, 2024

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Interview: Andrew Davis, author of Disturbing the Bones

Oct 31, 2024

DISTURBING THE BONES is a propulsive debut political thriller set in the aftermath of a nuclear weapons crisis. A plot to disrupt a global peace summit in Chicago collides with a civil rights case breakthrough at a mysterious archaeological site. Learn more about the book and how it was written in this interview that Michael Barson, Senior Publicity Executive at Melville House, conducted with the authors: acclaimed filmmaker Andrew Davis and award-winning journalist Jeff Biggers.

Amanda Peters Book Group Event

October 30, 2024

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this fall. Read more about it, and enter our Fall Reading Contest by Thursday, October 31st at noon ET for a chance to win one of five copies of LIKE MOTHER, LIKE MOTHER by Susan Rieger, which is the latest Barnes & Noble Book Club pick and will be a Bookreporter.com Bets On selection. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!