In picks this week: a new Swedish thriller for your collection, a romance author’s year in Paris, a publisher’s authorial debut, a look into the international marijuana trade, a captivating novel of Harvard grads (see our excerpt), the memoir of Golden Age movie star Piper Laurie, a chilling YA novel about the son of a serial killer, and the newest from Sharon Shinn (see our Q&A), Robert Olmstead, Joseph Wambaugh, Anne Tyler, Alexander McCall Smith, Mo Willems, and Holly Hobbie. Also: a little international bestseller called Fifty Shades of Grey. And more!
Adult
April 3
The Shape of Desire by Sharon Shinn (Ace, $25.95; ISBN 978-1-937007-17-1).
The Coldest Night by Robert Olmstead (Algonquin, $22.95; ISBN 978-1-61620-043-5).
Heart of Dankness: Underground Botanists, Outlaw Farmers, and the Race for the Cannabis Cup by Mark Haskell Smith (Broadway, $14; ISBN 978-0-307-72054-2).
Harbor Nocturne by Joseph Wambaugh (Grove/Atlantic/Mysterious, $27; ISBN 978-0-8021-2610-8).
Heaven is Here: An Incredible Story of Hope, Triumph, and Everyday Joy by Stephanie Nielson (Hyperion/Voice, $23.99; ISBN 978-1401341794).
The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne Tyler (Knopf, $24.95; ISBN 978-0307957276).
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James (Knopf, $15.95; ISBN 978-0345803481). Review forthcoming.
The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection by Alexander McCall Smith (Pantheon, $24.95; ISBN 978-0307378408).
Easy Money by Jens Lapidus, trans. from the Swedish by Astri von Arbin Ahlander (Pantheon, $26.95; ISBN 978-0-307-37748-7).
Paris in Love: A Memoir by Eloisa James (Random, $26; ISBN 978-1-4000-6956-9).
The Red Book by Deborah Copaken Kogan (Voice, $24.95; ISBN 978-1-4013-4082-7).
Cuts Like a Knife by M.K. Gilroy (Worthy, $14.99; ISBN 978-1-936034-69-7).
April 6
Learning to Live Out Loud: A Memoir by Piper Laurie (Archetype, $24.99; ISBN 978-0-8230-2668-5).
Children’s/YA
April 3
The Duckling Gets a Cookie!? by Mo Willems (Hyperion, $15.99; ISBN 978-1-4231-5128-9).
Grave Mercy by Robin LeFevers (Houhgton Mifflin, $16.99; ISBN 978-0-547-62834-9).
I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga (Little Brown, $17.99; ISBN 978-0-316-12584-0).
Gem by Holly Hobbie (Little Brown, $16.99; ISBN 978-0-316-20334-0).
