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Snake Oil. By Kelsey Rae Dimberg. Sept. 2024. 352p. Mariner, $30 (9780062867957); e-book (9780062867971). Dimberg's second psychological thriller revisits the realm of toxic charisma that fueled Girl in the Rearview [...]

* Guide Me Home. By Attica Locke. Sept. 2024. 320p. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $29 (9780316494618); e-book (9780316494601). In this series' third outing (after Heaven My Home, 2019), Darren Mathews resigns from [...]

The Alaska Sanders Affair. By Joel Dicker. Tr. by Robert Bononno. Sept. 2024. 560p. HarperVia, $30 (9780063324800); e-book (9780063324824). This series' popular, labyrinthian investigations are narrated by fictional best-selling author [...]

* This Is Why We Lied. By Karin Slaughter. Aug. 2024. 400p. Morrow, $32 (9780063336728); e-book (9780063336742). Will Trent and Sara Linton have barely arrived for their honeymoon at McAlpine [...]

Under the Storm. By Christoffer Carlsson. Tr. by Rachel Willson-Broyles. Feb. 2024. 416p. Hogarth, paper, $19 (9780593449387); e-book (9780593449394). All is well in the Swedish village of Tolarp until Lovisa [...]

* The Night of Baba Yaga. By Akira Otani. Tr. by Sam Bett. July 2024. 216p. Soho, $27.95 (9781641294911); e-book (9781641294928). During her childhood in northern Japan, Shindo's grandmother entertained […]

Shanghai. * Shanghai. By Joseph Kanon. June 2024. 304p. Scribner, $28.99 (9781668006429); e-book (9781668006443). It's 1939, and Daniel Lohr escapes Trieste by the skin of his teeth; the SS has [...]

What Fire Brings. By Rachel Howzell Hall. June 2024. 382p. Amazon/Thomas & Mercer, $28.99 (9781662504174); e-book (9781662504181). Fledgling private investigator Bailey Meadows is undercover at a Topanga Canyon writer's residency [...]

Lake County. By Lori Roy. June 2024. 316p. Amazon/Thomas & Mercer, $28.99 (9781662519932); e-book (9781662519925). Roy's latest is a sensual speculative thriller that places Marilyn Monroe at her sister's home [...]

* Edge of the Grave. By Robbie Morrison. Oct. 2023. 432p. Bantam, paper, $18 (9780593723319); e-book (9780593723326). In 1932, violent territorial clashes among razor-wielding gangs have spawned the Glasgow police's [...]

* A Step Past Darkness. By Vera Kurian. Feb. 2024. 400p. Park Row, $30 (9780778310761); e-book (9780369747587). In 1995, Wesley Falls, Pennsylvania, is controlled by the megachurch Golden Praise, led [...]

Deliver Me. By Malin Persson Giolito. Tr. by Rachel Willson-Broyles. Mar. 2024. 544p. Other, paper, $18.99 (9781635423686); e-book (9781635423693). As small children, Billy and Dogge bridged the vast gap between [...]

Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? By Nicci French. Mar. 2024. 544p. Morrow, paper, $19.99 (9780063298354); e-book (9780063298316). The 1990 disappearance of Charlotte Salter, a well-liked mother of four, remained unsolved [...]

Only If You're Lucky. By Stacy Willingham. Jan. 2024. 384p. Minotaur, $29 (9781250887931); e-book (9781250887948). After her best friend Eliza's sudden death, Margot goes alone to the college where they [...]

Original Sins. By Erin Young. Feb. 2024. 352p. Flatiron, $28.99 (9781250799425); e-book (9781250799449). After tackling a serial killer, political corruption, and rogue agribusiness in The Fields (2022), Riley Fisher leaves [...]

The Guest. By B. A. Paris. Feb. 2024. 320p. St. Martin's, $29 (9781250289421); e-book (9781250289438). Iris and Gabriel Pelley are sympathetic when their close friend Laure unexpectedly appears on their [...]

The Mountain King. By Anders de la Motte. Tr. by Alex Fleming. Jan. 2024. 464P. Atria/Emily Bestler, $28.99 (9781668030813); e-book (9781668030837). Sharp-witted Leo Asker, section chief in Malmo's serious crimes [...]

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) includes varied medical and healthcare systems, healing practices, and products that are outside of allopathy/biomedicine. The aim of this study was to examine US South Asian youths’ beliefs, practices, decision-making, and experiences of using CAM. Ten focus group discussions with 36 participants were conducted. Data were coded deductively and inductively by four coders, working in pairs. Thematic analysis was performed. Disagreements were resolved through consensus. The results showed that CAM was appealing because of its often low cost, ease of access, family traditions to use CAM, and the perception that it was safe to use. Participants exercised pluralistic health choices. Some responses suggested a hierarchy wherein allopathy was used for serious, acute issues, and CAM for much of the remaining issues. The high use of and trust in CAM among young US South Asians raises important issues (e.g., provider support and integration to prevent potential interactions and avoid delaying allopathic treatment). More exploration is needed about the decision-making processes of US South Asian youth, including the perceived benefits/limitations of allopathy and CAM. US healthcare practitioners should familiarize themselves with South Asian social and cultural beliefs about healing to provide culturally-appropriate services and enhance patient care.

Precarious careers in the games industry have long relied on the unpaid and largely feminized support of spouses and family members. This paper addresses the role of spouses and other domestic cohabitants in the production of live game broadcasts on Twitch, Amazon’s world-leading platform in live video entertainment. I introduce the heuristic of the ‘Twitch Spouse’ to underscore the crucial role that domestic partners have played as invisible workers in the wider games industry, whose precarious conditions have been extended by the rise of at-home livestreaming. Drawing from ‘playful’ interviews and ethnographic observation with 12 Twitch creators located across the United States and Canada, I delineate three themes by which the partners of Twitch streamers vitally contribute to livestreaming: collaborative space production, the management of intimacy, and timekeeping. Herein, I show how a theorization of the ‘Twitch Spouse’ will build future pathways for recognizing the intertwined struggles of domestic and digital work within the precarious horizons of the game industry. This paper argues that Twitch streamers’ conceptualizations of intimate partners’ supportive labour reinforce domesticity and visibility as co-extended forces in the evolving relevance of digital labour to contemporary capitalism.

* After That Night. By Karin Slaughter. Aug. 2023.432p. Morrow, $32 (9780063157781); e-book (9780063157811). As their wedding approaches, a series of unsolved rapes forces the GBI's Dr. Sara Linton and [...]

* The Nightingale Affair. By Tim Mason. May 2023.400p. Algonquin, $28 (9781643750392); e-book (9781643755106). Former Metropolitan Police Inspector Field revisits a life-changing case after an MP's wife's murder bears the [...]

* An Honest Man. By Michael Koryta. July 2023.384p. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $29 (9780316535946); e-book (9780316430234). When Israel Pike is paroled from prison, he returns to the place he's least welcome, [...]

The Soulmate. By Sally Hepworth. Apr. 2023.336P. St. Martin's, $28.99 (9781250229700); e-book (9781250229724). Pippa believes that she and her husband, Gabe, left their 'dark period' behind in Melbourne when they [...]

The Engagement Party. By Darby Kane. Dec. 2023. 368p. Morrow, $30 (9780063345072); e-book (9780063225633). Kane (The Last Invitation, 2022) pits a group of college friends against their deadly past, paying [...]

* Daughter of Ashes. By Maria Tuti. Tr. by Ekin Oklap. Dec. 2023. 432p. Soho, $27.95 (9781641294171); e-book (9781641294188). Northern Italian police superintendent Teresa Battaglia's third outing is the best [...]

The Final Curtain. By Keigo Higashino. Tr. by Giles Murray. Dec. 2023. 400p. Minotaur, $29 (9781250767523); e-book (9781250767530). Tokyo's detective cousins Kaga and Matsumiya reunite for a case with life-changing [...]

The Mantis. By Kotaro Isaka. Tr. by Sam Malissa. Nov. 2023. 256p. Overlook, $27 (9781419769474); e-book (9798887070926). Isaka returns to the hidden world of Tokyo's assassins introduced in Bullet Train [...]

The Fury. By Alex Michaelides. Jan. 2024. 320p. Macmillan/Celadon, $28.99 (9781250758989); e-book (9781250759009). Everyone loves movie star Lana Farrar, especially her closest friend, Elliot, who offers charismatic narration twisted with [...]

Call Me Hunter. By Jim Shockey. Oct. 2023. 400p. Atria/Emily Bestler, $27.99 (9781668010358); e-book (9781668010372). Canadian hunting show host Jim Shockey's thriller debut pits a truth-seeking investigative reporter against a [...]

The Professor. By Lauren Nossett. Nov. 2023. 336p. Flatiron, $28.99 (9781250845351); e-book (9781250845375). In The Resemblance (2022), Athens PD detective Marlitt Kaplan flaunted orders while hunting a killer in a [...]

The Death of Us. By Lori Rader-Day. Oct. 2023. 384p. Morrow, $18.99 (9780063293335); e-book (9780063293342). Barely out of her teens, Liss leans into her dreams of a picture-perfect family, forgives [...]

* A Haunting on the Hill. By Elizabeth Hand. Oct. 2023. 336p. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $30 (9780316527323); e-book (9780316527989). In this unsettling tribute to Shirley Jackson, Hill House is hungry again. [...]

Tenkill. By Shannon Kirk. Jan. 2023.368p. Polis, $27.99 (9781951709914); e-book (9781957957135) Greta Vinet Seville, a partner at the high-powered Boston law firm Coarse & Cotton, protests strenuously when former attorney [...]

The House Guest. By Hank Phillippi Ryan. Feb. 2023.336p. Forge, $27.99 (9781250849564); e-book (9781250849595) Alyssa Macallan's husband, Bill, abruptly abandoned their marriage, instantly dissolving her enviable social standing. She's still [...]

Mother-Daughter Murder Night. By Nina Simon. Sept. 2023.368p. Morrow, $30 (9780063315044); e-book (9780063315068). Glue-gun-wielding nurse Beth Rubicon and her mother, Lana, a renowned L.A. real-estate shark, both see prickly moments [...]

Murder in the Family. By Cara Hunter. Aug. 2023. 384p. Morrow, paper, $18.99 (9780063272071); e-book (9780063272088). Written as a collection of media clippings and television scripts, Hunter's latest immerses readers [...]

* Killing Moon. By Jo Nesbo. Tr. by Sean Kinsella. June 2023.496p. Knopf, $29 (9780593536964); e-book (9780593536971). 'But, does Oslo love you?' Harry Hole is destined to find out after [...]

Dead and Gone. By Joanna Schaffhausen. Aug. 2023.336p. Minotaur, $28 (9781250853370); e-book (9781250853387). In Long Gone (2022), Chicago PD detectives Annalisa Vega and Nick Carelli (also her ex-husband) caught the [...]

The Hunter. By Jennifer Herrera. Jan. 2023.352p. Putnam, $27 (9780593540213); $14.99 (9780593540220). Homicide detective Leigh O'Donnell destroyed her NYPD career by pulling her weapon on her partner for reasons she [...]

A Death in Tokyo. By Keigo Higashino. Tr. by Giles Murray. Dec. 2022.368p. Minotaur, $27.99 (9781250767509); e-book (9781250767516). Star detectives (and cousins) Kyoichiro Kaga and Shuhei Matsumiya (last seen in [...]

The Woman Inside. By M. T. Edvardsson. Tr. by Rachel Willson-Broyles. June 2023.384p. Macmillan/Celadon, $28.99 (9781250204622); e-book (9781250204608). In Stockholm's university district, disastrous choices draw a struggling single father, a [...]

A Line in the Sand. By Kevin Powers. May 2023.368p. Little, Brown, $29 (9780316507127); e-book (9780316507554). In Norfolk, Virginia, a sloppy attempted hit draws hard-shelled police detective Catherine Wheel and [...]

The Rope Artist. By Fuminori Nakamura. Tr. by Sam Bett. May 2023. 288p. Soho, $27.95 (9781641293259); e-book (9781641293266). In a Tokyo apartment, detectives Togashi and Hayama discover a man's bludgeoned [...]

The Girl by the Bridge. By Arnaldur Indridason. Tr. by Philip Roughton. May 2023. 352P. Minotaur, $29 (9781250892607); e-book, $14.99 (9781250892621). Generations of abuse are exposed when fate (or Iceland's [...]

Missing White Woman. By Kellye Garrett. Apr. 2024. 336p. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $29 (9780316256971); e-book (9780316257176). When her boyfriend Ty unexpectedly has to work during their first trip together, Bree occupies [...]

* Cast a Cold Eye. By Robbie Morrison. Apr. 2024. 448p. Bantam, paper, $18 (9780593723333); e-book (9780593723340). Glaswegian coppers Jimmy Dreghorn and Archie McDaid return (after Edge of the Grave, [...]

For You and Only You. By Caroline Kepnes. Apr. 2023.448p. Random, $28 (9780593133811); e-book (9780593133835). Joe Goldberg, the focus of Netflix's binge worthy You, first appeared in print, giving readers [...]

* Tina, Mafia Soldier. By Maria Rosa Cutrufeili. Tr. by Robin Pickering-lazzi. Mar. 2023.336P. Soho, $24.95 (9781641294249); e-book (9781641294256). The story of Tina, the Sicilian Mafia's lone female gang leader, [...]

The Lost Americans. By Christopher Bollen. Mar. 2023.352P. Harper, $30 (9780063224421); e-book (9780063224445). After Cate Castle's brother, Eric, plunges from his hotel balcony, Cairo's police cite the testimony of Eric's [...]

A Death in Denmark. By Amuiya Malladi. Mar. 2023.352p. Morrow, paper, $18.99 (9780063235519); e-book (9780063235526). In Copenhagen, blues-playing private investigator Gabriel Praest plunges headfirst into a Mob-protected conspiracy. Prasst agrees [...]