Books from Soho Press

  • Snake
    By James McClure

    “Ach, sorry, Mr. McKay. I was backing up and I didn't notice them by the door.” “Your boy should have warned you,” McKay said, just to show there were no hard feelings. “Still at it, then? Thought you'd finished before lunch.

  • The Fighter: A Novel
    By Craig Davidson

    Everett's hand flashed and a polar whiteness expanded inside Paul's skull. He gagged on his gumshield but got his gloves up; Everett's punches glanced off his elbows. “Keep your head down. You're holding it out there like a lantern in a ...

  • Invitation to Die
    By Barbara Cleverly

    Two deadly, steel-grey eyes locked on to his with the menace of a Lee Metford or whatever blunderbusses those pre-Great War riflemen had used. Aware that he had said something deeply annoying, Rupert looked away, bit his lip and came to ...

  • The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee
    By Stewart Lee Allen

    Being an alcoholic, the sultan made his first stop at a tavern which, according to eighteenth-century English traveler John Ellis, he found full of “people getting drunk and singing songs of love.” His next stop was one of Istanbul's ...

  • Incensed
    By Ed Lin

    Chong looked at me funny. “Why do you talk like you care about me?” A picture was becoming clearer in my mind. Chong may be a low-level criminal, but he was aware of kindness and how to be kind. I don't think Mei-ling was the same way.

  • Evil for Evil
    By James R. Benn

    Which iswhat I'm doingright ... The appointment the day beforewas listed as Mr. Lawson. He was also on the schedule the afternoon McBurney had ... “I can'tsay for certain itwas himI saw,or some fellow named Lawson wholooks like him.

  • Plender
    By Ted Lewis

    ... one of those porter's handcarts, the kind you see on railway stations, over to the doorway. He lifted the trolley through the doorway then, after he'd checked there was no one about; he manhandled the sack out into the night.

  • Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis
    By Cara Black

    Parisian P.I. Aimée Leduc finds herself caring for an abandoned infant while trying to track down the child’s missing mother Aimée Leduc is on a tight work deadline when an anonymous call leads her to an abandoned infant in her building ...

  • Little White Lies
    By Brianna Baker, F. Bowman Hastie

    Seventeen-year-old honors student Coretta White’s Tumblr, Little White Lies—her witty thoughts on pretty much . . . everything—has gone viral.

  • The Vault
    By Peter Lovesey

    Bath is a town layered in history: Roman, Medieval, Georgian. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond is a bluff, old-fashioned policeman. When he is presented with a skeletal hand, dug up in...

  • The Seep
    By Chana Porter

    Through The Seep, everything is connected. Capitalism falls, hierarchies and barriers are broken down; if something can be imagined, it is possible.

  • The Roving Party
    By Rohan Wilson

    A surprisingly beautiful evocation of horror and brutality, The Roving Party is a meditation on the intricacies of human nature at its most raw.

  • Burning Down George Orwell's House: A Novel
    By Andrew Ervin

    A darkly comic novel about advertising, truth, single malt, Scottish hospitality—or lack thereof—and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.

  • Night Soil
    By Dale Peck

    "You'd think it has been done before but it really hasn't—the perfectly crafted, haunting and heartbreaking, raw, funny, unblinking yet merciful art novel."—Marlon James Family secrets, sexual explorations, art world wealth, and ...

  • One-Shot Harry
    By Gary Phillips

    Master storyteller and crime fiction legend Gary Phillips has filled the pages of One-Shot Harry with fascinating historical cameos, wise-cracks, tenderness, and an edge-of-your-seat thrill ride of a plot with consequences far beyond one ...

  • The Bitter Taste of Murder
    By Camilla Trinchieri

    The follow-up to Murder in Chianti finds ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle recruited by Italian authorities to investigate the murder of a prominent wine critic.

  • Come Closer: A Novel
    By Sara Gran

    Her marriage to Ed is challenged by odd noises, petty squabbles, and the onset of blackouts with no medical source, Amanda accidentally recieves a book on possession, the arrival of which coincides with increasingly bizarre events.

  • Murder on the Red River
    By Marcie R. Rendon

    One Book, One Minnesota Selection for Summer 2021 Introducing Cash Blackbear, a young Ojibwe woman whose visions and grit help solve a brutal murder in this award-winning debut. 1970s, Red River Valley between North Dakota and Minnesota: ...

  • Smaller and Smaller Circles
    By F.H. Batacan

    This harrowing mystery, winner of the Philippine National Book Award, follows two Catholic priests on the hunt through Manila for a brutal serial killer Payatas, a 50-acre dump northeast of Manila’s Quezon City, is home to thousands of ...

  • History Is All You Left Me
    By Adam Silvera

    "This book will make you cry, think, and then cry some more." —Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything From the New York Times bestselling author of More Happy Than Not comes an explosive examination of ...