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The Accidental Hunter

The long-awaited reissue of the book that introduced mystery fans to bodyguard-turned-investigator D Hunter.

Cake

The highly anticipated second title from Akashic’s groundbreaking street-lit imprint, The Armory, curated by author Kenji Jasper.

I Disappeared Them

A serial killer’s desire to protect children fuels a parallel drive to murder other sadistic men in this immersive and literary psychological thriller

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Meryl Branch-McTiernan — Unnameable Books (Brooklyn, NY)

7/8/26, 7:00pm

Meryl Branch-McTiernan presents What You Should Worry About; also reading Maisy Card; moderated by Ledia Xhoga

Meryl Branch-McTiernan — Columbus Book Festival (Columbus, OH)

7/11/26, 11:30am

The Ties that Bind: Literary Fiction, featuring Meryl Branch-McTiernan, author of What You Should Worry About, Marshall Fine, author Hemlock Lane, Virginia Pye, author of Marriage and Other Monuments, and Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay, author of Chitra Demands to Go Home.

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