Long Bright River by Liz Moore (2020)
After devouring The God of the Woods, I couldn’t resist another book by the same author. Mickey and Kacey are sisters raised by their no-nonsense grandmother after their mother dies of an overdose and their father splits. Their roads diverge early on as Kacey becomes an addict herself and Mickey joins the ranks of the Philadelphia police. The sisters aren’t aren’t speaking these days, but when Kacey goes missing around the same time as a series of connected murders, Mickey puts her job on the line to try to find her sister.
Woo Woo by Ella Baxter (2024)
Sabine is a conceptual artist with a career-defining exhibition coming up. She’s also on the knife’s edge of a mental breakdown and pretty sure she has a stalker she’s taken to calling Rembrandt Man. Every day closer to the exhibition, she receives another letter from this mystery man, another visit from the ghost of artist Carolee Schneeman, and not enough validation from her husband, friends, or fans. While satirizing the world of a working artist, Baxter also explores what it means to capture attention, wanted and otherwise.