Readings from New Novels of Suspense

In Rochelle Weinstein’s novel, Somebody’s Daughter, a private and humiliating indiscretion goes viral and thrusts a seemingly perfect family into the center of a shocking public scandal. Laura Lippman meets Megan Abbott in Lauren Doyle Owens’ The Other Side of Everything: A Novel, a suspenseful literary debut about three generations of neighbors whose lives intersect in the aftermath of a crime.  Tiffany Quay Tyson’s The Past Is Never: A Novel is a compelling addition to contemporary Southern Gothic fiction, deftly weaving together local legends, family secrets, and the search for a missing child.