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Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted here to spotlight the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally, they're books that have yet to be released.
Despite my desire to do WWW Wednesdays, I didn’t read any books last week or this week. The reading slump I’m experiencing right now has me in a funk. I find myself lacking the energy to pick up a book, even though I know it would probably lift my spirits. It feels as though my motivation has disappeared, leaving me stuck in this rut. Looking forward to getting out of my book rut as soon as possible.
Expected publication: June 30, 2026
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Summary: Just outside Washington D.C. sits Eastbrook, Bethesda — a leafy suburb with top schools, manicured lawns, and friendly neighbors. It’s not the kind of place where nannies are shot during robberies gone wrong. But like any picture-perfect neighborhood, it’s been easy to cover up the shadows and move on.
A year after the unsolved neighborhood murder, Caren, nearing fifty and staring down an empty nest, has one too many drinks at a graduation party and blacks out on her way home. At least, that’s what everyone says happened. Caren suspects she was drugged by someone. But who?
When Caren teams up with a new neighbor who is desperate to figure out who murdered his best friend last year, they start to uncover what Eastbrook has tried to forget. But in a place where appearances are everything, their search for the truth means not only shattering carefully built façades — but putting themselves squarely in the crosshairs of a killer.
