"The Four Spent the Day Together" takes Chris Kraus from Marfa to Minnesota's Iron Range, where meth and murder blur into something haunting. Like Capote, but messier. No clean resolution, just fragments. Brilliant chaos. #NetGalley #Scribner #TheFourSpenttheDayTogether bit.ly/4gYN3CP

📚Truth in a sworn affidavit? No. Evidence is now found in passive-aggressive WhatsApp messages. "The Killer Question" is Digital Footprint Noir at its best. And Janice Hallett proves to be the genre's Queen. #NetGalley #BookSky @atriabooks.bsky.social @janicehallett.bsky.social bit.ly/3KtayI4

The best legal thriller of the year isn’t by Grisham or Connelly. It’s Culpability—a literary novel where a self-driving crash turns a family vacation into a criminal investigation. AI may be the star witness. @bruceholsinger.bsky.social @spiegelandgrau.bsky.social #BookSky bit.ly/3W3zSql

📚 More than a whodunit, “A Case of Mice and Murder” explores what it means to be a bookworm. Gabriel, a barrister who’d rather read, is drawn into a London murder. Beautifully written, it asks: does reading bring us closer or keep us distant? @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social #BookSky bit.ly/3KpnE8T

A gonzo legal thriller that sticks the landing: Cranor’s "Mississippi Blue 42" tackles race, corruption & unpaid labor in college football—with laughs, blood & duffle bags of cash. Friday Night Lights, but NCAA—meets the DOJ. #Booksky @sohopress.bsky.social @mysteriousbookshop.com bit.ly/3VKkVt2

✨No new post this week (Labor Day pause!) but thrilled to share this: one of my early reviews was just selected for “The Stories That Shaped BAOS in 2025”—a living archive of work that resonated across the "Books Are Our Superpower" community. @lailalalami.com #BookSky bit.ly/47jSUjf

📖What if Donna Leon threw a cocktail party and talked about opera, her favorite mysteries, what makes stories work and why Tom Ripley is the kind of sociopath you’d want a drink with? That’s the vibe of her excellent new book of essays. #NetGalley @groveatlantic.bsky.social bit.ly/3JxRxU7

Fired from retail. $200K in student debt. Hunted by the Debt Police. Kashana Cauley’s "The Payback" is a darkly funny heist novel about fighting back when the system’s already stacked against you. @kashana.bsky.social @atriabooks.bsky.social #ThePayback #KashanaCauley #Booksky bit.ly/45HCMWr

📚What happens when the courts walk away? In her author's note (yes, read it first!), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie states her t aim is to "write a wrong in the balance of stories." And she does: "Dream Count" is a reckoning. Not a verdict, but a greater truth.⚖️ #Booksky #DreamCounts bit.ly/45LRexA

📚This is the Way! Disney & Gina Carano have settled The Mandalorian lawsuit — no terms disclosed. ⚖️If you missed my dive into the original complaint (yes, I read the brief!) along with a Mando-inspired book list, now's a great time to catch up. #BookSky #Mandalorian bit.ly/46i7VS5

📚Have you ever felt gaslit by a rental listing? Evie's tragic (yet comedic) odyssey in "Dwelling" will make you feel seen. It’s a surreal, darkly funny, and painfully real fable about housing and a broken system. #Booksky #NetGalley #Dwelling #EmilyHuntKivel @fsgbooks.bsky.social bit.ly/3Hny5J5

When your browser history becomes Exhibit A... If you loved “Gone Girl’’” or “The Silent Patient," check out Nicci Cloke's “Her Many Faces.” A twisty satisfying, psychological thriller exploring online radicalization. @wmmorrowbooks.bsky.social #Booksky #HerManyFaces #NetGalley bit.ly/40F8P7A

📚Fixing veteran care & bigotry with AI sounds noble—until Abrams's gripping "Coded Justice" shows Milo hallucinating patients & faking alignment. "Have I built loveable Data, or evil HAL?” @doubledaybooks.bsky.social @staceyabrams.com #BookSky #NetGalley #CodedJustice #MustRead bit.ly/40rUfAj

📖 My patience for a new #Mandalorian installment is running thin, so I'm hitting the books! From a wild #StarWars lawsuit ⚖️ to "The Rescue" graphic novel 🚀& @penguinrandom's reading list, I'm staying busy in the galaxy. #Booksky @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social bit.ly/46i7VS5

📚From navigating the complexities of the foster care system to finding moments of joy hitting a tennis ball—Charell Star's memoir is a deeply honest personal narrative, showcasing the powerful impact of advocacy. 💪 #BookSky #CharellStar #TrashBagTales @fostercarefilm.bsky.social bit.ly/3UhAFTI

📚Gary Shteyngart's "Vera, or Faith" brilliantly envisions a near future, satirizing politics via a chilling "Five-Three” Amendment. A prescient, must-read novel! Still dreaming of his ultimate full on legal thriller. 🙏🏻 @shteyngart.bsky.social. #VeraOrFaith #BookSky #NetGalley bit.ly/3ImQplF

📚Santi Elcano is a public defender answering endless voice mails, representing clients who probably aren't innocent, and procrastinating on visiting a client on death row. Highly recommend. Just don't expect closure. 🙏ARC from @algonquinbooks.bsky.social #Booksky #TheSilverState bit.ly/3IgtOqT

📚 If your July 4 weekend involves the Hamptons, bad choices, or a bingeable legal drama, these page turners are for you! ⚖️ Both with lawyers you definitely want on speed dial. (A repost of an earlier blog.) #Booksky #GreatBlackHope #TheNote bit.ly/4nyljaQ

Kevin Nguyen’s "My Documents" reimagines Japanese American internment for the tech age. A wickedly smart, darkly funny, devastating look at a future following one family when mass incarceration meets Amazon Prime. bit.ly/4et8J8V @knguyen.bsky.social @oneworldbooks.bsky.social #Booksky #MustRead

Because nothing says “hot girl summer” like 18th-century court transcripts, dueling lawyers and and questionable verdicts. 3 fantastic page-turners based on real-life historical trials. #Booksky @laurenwillig.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social @henryholtbooks.bsky.social bit.ly/4432QLY

Get in, losers—we’re building a pyramid scheme. 💸 Megan Abbott’s "El Dorado Drive" is a razor-sharp, page-turning suburban noir à la "Big Little Lies," but with fewer yoga moms and much more financial fraud. 👉 bit.ly/44jvsPS #Booksky #LawFi @meganabbott.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

📚 Legal Briefs: On My Radar! I just finished the Kindle preview of Renée Ahdieh's "Park Avenue" and I'm hooked. Jia Song, a newly minted junior partner, gets a huge, hush-hush case involving a famous Korean family. High stakes from the start! On the #NYPL waitlist! #Booksky #LawFi #BookRec

📚Move Over, Atticus Finch. This Book Gave Me a New Favorite Lawyer. Karim Dimechkie's "The Uproar" introduces Aberto Barbosa: a strategic, disruptive, and fierce legal hero fighting for the marginalized—while nudging the ethical redline. 🔗Link to review in bio #Booksky #NetGalley #LittleBrown

📚Two standout novels —Laila Lalami's near-future dystopia in “The Dream Hotel” and Adam Haslett's real-world immigration purgatory in “Mothers and Sons”—explore how lives are forever altered in five-minute hearings. @pantheonbooks.sky.social @lailalalami.com @littlebrown.bsky.social #Booksky

This Friday’s Legal Briefs: 3 Page-Turning Mystery & Crime Reads 🔍 "Marble Hall Murders": A mystery within a mystery. 🍵 "Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping": A tea-sipping sleuth. 🚬 "Sins of the Survivors": 1930s underworld noir, packed with injustice. 🔗 Review in bio #Booksky #NetGalley #LawFi

Going to the Hamptons this summer? Bring sunscreen, a great book—and your lawyer’s number on speed dial. Check out my review of two twisty high-stakes reads: 📖Great Black Hope” by Rob Franklin 📖”The Note” by Alafair Burke 🔗Link in bio @alafairburke.sky.social #BookRecommendations #BlueskyBooks

Legal Briefs: This week’s roundup of LawFi literary landscape just posted ⚖️Scribbling Justices publishing conflicts, verified buyer gatekeeping, and the fall crime list gets a Tartan Noir icon 📚Plus, a noteworthy memoir is on the horizon 🔗Link medium.com/judicial-junkie #BookSky #Books

Abigail Dean's "The Death of Us" is a deeply affecting novel that left me thinking long after the final page. It's a story about trauma, yes, but also about law, testimony and the uneasy relationship between grief and justice. 🔗 Review on Medium.com/judicial-junkie #Booksky #BookReview

LawFi (noun): A genre that digs deep into justice, power, and human nature. Literary fiction with a law twist. These 5 sizzling legal reads bring the courtroom chaos to the beach. Think LawFi on the Rocks. 🔗Full list —link in bio. #LawFi #SummerReads #BookBlogger #ScandalsandSubpeonas

What happens when the fixer needs fixing? Jon Hickey’s “Big Chief” is a master class in when your fancy law degree meets an election, a casino, tribal politics and the FBI. A must read! (Full review on Medium. Link in bio.) @simonandschuster.bsky.social @jonvhickey.bsky.social #Booksky #BigChief

Just finished rereading “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood before the Hulu finale. Revisiting this classic now lands hard. (“There are no lawyers anymore, and the university is closed.”) Full Book Review ➡️ Link in bio. #TheHandmaidsTale #MargaretAtwood #BookReview #Hulu #HarperCollins

New Detective. New Setting. ⚖️”Nighshade” asks the question at the heart of every Connelly Novel. Can justice survive the system? A sharp, morallly complex Sunshine Noir Procedural. Thanks @littlebrown.bsky.social #netgalley #Booksky #Bookreview 📚 Full (and 1st!) review at Medium. Link in bio.