Maren Longbella

FICTION: “You have to promise not to kill me,” writes Tasha Coryell in debut novel “Love Letters to a Serial Killer.”

FICTION: Emerging from trauma, a woman finds a stranger’s celebration is just the ticket in Alison Espach’s novel.

FICTION: C.M. Ewan’s novel capitalizes on the paranoia of having to open our homes to strangers.

A scientist is building an AI robot in his attic in "Frankenstein"-inspired "William," by Mason Coile, a pen name for "The Demonologist" and "Oracle" author Andrew Pyper.

In Melbourne-set "The Burrow," a grieving family hopes a pet rabbit, named for a character in Richard Adams' "Watership Down," can help ease their pain.

Ryan Murphy might want to take a look at Stephanie Gorton's "The Icon and the Idealist," a portrait of birth control activists Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett that has "Feud" written all over it.

Christopher Bollen's 'Havoc' imagines what happens when a young psycho and an elderly psycho meet

Grady Hendrix follows up "How to Sell a Haunted House" with another chiller, this one featuring a young mom-to-be in the '70s: "Witchcraft for Wayward Girls."

Anne Tyler, Pulitzer Prize winner for "Breathing Lessons," looks at the before and after of a wedding in Baltimore-set "Three Days in June."

"The Jackal's Mistress," by "The Flight Attendant" writer Chris Bohjalian, is a romantic thriller about a Confederate woman who takes in a wounded Union soldier.