Sarah Lotz. Little, Brown, $26 (480p) ISBN 978-0-316-24290-5
Lotz has published “urban horror” and young adult zombie novels with collaborators and under pseudonyms, but this disappointing book is the first to appear under her real name. Its premise is promising: four planes crash on the same day in Japan,...
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Sarah Lotz. Little, Brown, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-316-24294-3
Disaster strikes a pleasure boat, The Beautiful Dreamer, on the fourth day of a Caribbean cruise in Lotz’s tedious thriller, her second novel for adults (after 2014’s The Three). A young woman is murdered in her cabin, The Beautiful Dreamer comes to
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Sarah Lotz. Mulholland, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-316-39660-8
The ominous opening sentence, “I met the man who would save my life twice—and ultimately destroy it—on a potholed road in the arse-end of the Welsh countryside,” sets the stage perfectly for South African author Lotz’s outstanding thriller. The...
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Sarah Lotz. Mulholland, $27 (480p) ISBN 978-0-316-39664-6
In 1996, a dead white male with a cranial fracture is found on the outskirts of Millar, Minn., in this disappointing thriller from Lotz (The White Road). The unidentified murder victim, who’s wearing “a pink prom-style dress,” is nicknamed the Boy...
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Sarah Lotz. Ace, $17 trade paper (496p) ISBN 978-0-593-43677-6
Lotz (Missing Person) impresses with this witty and gentle sci-fi tale of love across the multiverse. In 2019, 45-year-old freelance editor Nick Belcher’s nasty email to a nonpaying client accidentally ends up in 39-year-old wedding dress upcycler...
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Sarah Lotz, read by Andrew Wincott and Melanie McHugh. Hachette Audio, , 11 CDs, 14 hrs., unabridged, $30 ISBN 978-1-4789-5226-8
In Lotz’s debut as a solo novelist, four commuter planes crash nearly simultaneously on different continents, with three children as the only survivors. The international consequences of these tragedies are the subject of a book within the book....
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