Boston Book Festival

Two sisters. A lost imperial treasure. The world’s greatest puzzle master has 24 hours to unlock an ancient puzzle box with ties to Japan’s Imperial Family in NYT bestselling novelist Danielle Trussoni’s The Puzzle Box which has been praised by Booklist as “a first rate thriller.” Teddy Wayne’s The Winner is an explosive literary thriller, described by Vogue as a “page-turning story of sex, power, and money." A young tennis pro from Yonkers finds himself in uncharted perilous waters at an oceanfront paradise, navigating steamy flings with a client until he makes an irreversible mistake. In highly acclaimed author Vincent Tirado’s propulsive psychological thriller, We Came to Welcome You, a married couple moves to a seemingly idyllic gated community, where strange and inexplicable things start happening in their dream house, and the gated community closes in. These three novels harness the pulse-pounding engine of mystery to wrestle with complex dynamics of class, systemic racism, and the injustices that have kept women from the highest realms of power. This session will be moderated by Deborah Goodrich Royce, whose latest thriller, Reef Road, was a national bestseller and named one of the best books of 2023 by Kirkus. Sponsored by Mystery Writers of America - New England.