Zoe Migicovsky

For fans of the Veronica Mars franchise, there’s a new mystery series picking up where the recent film leaves off. Ten years after graduating from Neptune, Veronica is working at Mars Investigations and is called in when a college girl goes missing during spring break; only to find out she has a connection to the […]

Precious Thing is the story of a close friendship gone horribly wrong. As teenagers, Rachel was shy and awkward until she met Clara, the friend everyone wanted but who chose her. As adults their situations reverse, and Rachel has everything she could have wanted, including a television career. Assigned to cover a missing person press […]

In Bark, Lorrie Moore’s first collection in 16 years, everyone is middle-aged and in crisis. There is nothing cheerful about these characters, they are defeated and hopeless, and there’s a dark humour about their experiences. In “Debarking,” Ira, a recently divorced man forms a relationship with an eccentric and erratic woman with an unusually close […]

In Be Safe I Love You, Lauren returns from duty in Iraq in time to spend the holidays with her family. From rural New York and a talented singer, she enlisted to provide for her family, especially her younger brother Danny. Despite calls from an army psychologist and hints from Lauren’s behaviour, nobody wants to […]

In Maria Mutch’s debut, Know the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small Hours, she details her life between the hours of midnight and 6am during the two years her son, Gabriel, rarely slept. Gabriel, who has autism and Down syndrome, loves jazz music and stopped speaking around five years old. As Mutch cares […]

This is the kind of book that makes me wonder if March is too soon to start a Best of 2014 list—it’s that good. Taking place around the early 1970s, the novel alternates between an African man and an American woman, both changed by meeting a man called Isaac. The man travels from his home […]

The Girl with a Clock for a Heart is an intense debut thriller from Peter Swanson, in which George’s comfortable, ordinary life is upheaved by the return of Liana, his college girlfriend and first love, 20 years later. Liana needs George’s help and in spite of all the reasons he has not to trust her, […]

After I’m Gone is a story of secrets that don’t stay buried. Felix Brewer jumped bail before his trial in 1976 and 10 years later his mistress Julie disappears and is assumed to have joined him–until her dead body is found. The book alternates between Sandy, a widower and retired detective working the cold case, […]

The Empty Room covers a day in the life of alcoholic Colleen Kerrigan— and it’s not a good day. The haunting novel begins with a promise not to drink, but of course it doesn’t last long, especially after a confrontation at work. Filled with vivid description, Davis’ writing is honest, desperate and raw, resulting in […]

Adding to the generation of books based on blogs is Alice in Tumblr-land by Tim Manley, based on his Tumblr Fairy Tales for Twenty-Somethings. Filled with illustrations and matching blurbs a few sentences long, the book reimagines familiar fairytales like Peter Pan, who becomes internet-famous, and Rapunzel, who chops off her hair. Despite their new […]