New Novels of Suspense

Amy Hempel is an award-winning short story writer, journalist, and is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of Florida. Hempel has been published in Harper's, Vanity Fair, GQ, and Bomb. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as the Ambassador Book Award in 2007, the Rea Award for the Short Story in 2008, and the Pen/Malamud Award for short fiction in 2009. Her story collections include At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom; Tumble Home; and The Dog of the Marriage. Her novel, co-written with Jill Ciment (writing as A.J. Rich), is The Hand That Feeds You (Scribner), a smart, thrilling, sexy, and emotionally riveting novel of psychological suspense about an accomplished woman involved with a man who proves to be an imposter.

Owen Sheers is a poet, author and playwright. His first novel, Resistance, was translated into ten languages and adapted into a film. The Dust Diaries, his Zimbabwean nonfiction narrative, won the Welsh Book of the Year Award. His awards for poetry and drama include the Somerset Maugham Award for Skirrid Hill, the Hay Festival Medal for Poetry, and Welsh Book of the Year Award for Pink Mist, and the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award for his play The Two Worlds of Charlie F. He is Professor in Creativity at Swansea University in Wales. I Saw a Man: A Novel (Nan A. Talese) is his latest book. When journalist Caroline Marshall dies while on assignment in Pakistan, her grief-stricken husband, Michael, leaves their cottage in Wales and returns to London. He quickly develops a friendship with his neighbors, Josh and Samantha Nelson, and their two young daughters. Michael’s becoming close with the family marks the beginning of a long healing process.  But Michael's period of recovery comes to an abrupt end when a terrible accident brings the burden of a shattering secret into his life.