A woman who works as a local tour guide becomes alarmed by disappearances and unsettling changes in her Brooklyn neighborhood and starts investigating.

A midcareer novelist-turned-MFA-teacher recognizes a student’s apparently brilliant plot idea and later faces a career- and conscience-shaped crisis tied to that idea. The setup focuses on intellectual ownership, ambition, and how one striking idea can change a writer’s fortunes and ethical choices.

A speculative epidemic causes people to lose their shadows and, with them, memories and names; survivors must cope with erasing personal history while some exploit or hunt the newly nameless. The setup focuses on how memory failure reshapes relationships, social order, and survival choices in a collapsing world.

A married couple's crisis becomes the novel's engine when the wife disappears and attention turns to the husband as a suspect.

Set in an imagined Antebellum United States, the novel follows Cora, an enslaved woman who flees a Georgia plantation via an Underground Railroad visualized as an actual subterranean railway.

A methodical police investigation into a series of linked killings anchors the book: detectives follow cryptic clues that connect victims and a recurring symbolic motif as they race to identify a serial perpetrator.

Presented through a collage of documents, memoir excerpts, and alternate accounts, the novel orients on a secretive, immensely wealthy financier and the contested stories about him and his wife.

Set in an imagined America where the state offers convicted people a brutal alternative—participation in televised death matches run by the CAPE program—the novel follows top combatants whose lives and identities are shaped by that system.

A Philadelphia patrol officer working in a struggling neighborhood pursues a string of murders while also searching for her own missing sister.

A mother receives a call telling her child has been kidnapped and that she must both pay and kidnap another child to free her — and the release depends on a continuing chain where each victimizer becomes a victim.

A woman who has left a life tied to intelligence work is living overseas when a chain of events forces secrets from her past back into play, putting family and identity at risk.

In a living biotech port city, reformed thief Yat Jyn-Hok works night patrol while carrying the memories of a vanished lover and punishment for her sexuality. After being murdered by colleagues, she is resurrected by an ancient power that lets her manipulate life force.