Dwyer Murphy

3 weeks ago | lithub.com | Dwyer Murphy

In Megan Abbott’s suburbia, there are always darker forces at play. In her new novel, El Dorado Drive (G.P. Putnam, June 24, 2025), a feeling of loss and decline permeates the once prosperous community of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, the author’s own hometown. The auto industry has lost its sheen. The country clubs are hotbeds of anxiety, stirring up questions about who lost a job this month, whose bills are past due. A group of women in the community have turned to one another for support.

3 weeks ago | crimereads.com | Dwyer Murphy

In Megan Abbott’s suburbia, there are always darker forces at play. In her new novel, El Dorado Drive (G.P. Putnam, June 24, 2025), a feeling of loss and decline permeates the once prosperous community of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, the author’s own hometown. The auto industry has lost its sheen. The country clubs are hotbeds of anxiety, stirring up questions about who lost a job this month, whose bills are past due. A group of women in the community have turned to one another for support.

1 month ago | lithub.com | Dwyer Murphy

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Article continues after advertisementI don’t know much about houses—building or maintaining them. This reality dawned on me a couple years ago when I set out to write a particular kind of book, a modern gothic novel about a group of friends convening at a coastal house after a long separation: The Big Chill, with more bodies. A story like that needs a distinctive setting.

2 months ago | publishersweekly.com | Stephen King |Anthony Horowitz |Dwyer Murphy |Isabella Valeri

Stephen King. Scribner, $32 (448p) ISBN 978-1-6680-8933-0King cements PI Holly Gibney’s status as one of the great contemporary detectives in this thrilling sequel to Holly. When a letter arrives at the Buckeye City Police Department proclaiming that “the INNOCENT should be punished for the needless DEATH of an innocent,” detective Izzy Jaynes is rattled.

Mar 18, 2025 | publishersweekly.com | Dwyer Murphy |James Burke |Yiğit Karaahmet |James B. Comey

Dwyer Murphy. Viking, $30 (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-83317-9CrimeReads editor-in-chief Murphy (The Stolen Coast) charts the complex relationships between a group of longtime friends in this masterful psychological thriller. After attorney Jim inherited his family’s beach house in southeastern Massachusetts, he made it a summer retreat for his four closest college friends and nicknamed it the Nanumett Sand and Swim Club.