All skill levels and ages welcome: This year’s Private Eye July honors the amateur sleuth, and welcomes charming new gumshoes like Laura Lippman’s Mrs. Blossom to the ranks. Elsewhere in the issue, megapopular fanfiction writer Brigitte Knightley makes her trade debut with a Harry Potter-inspired romance and we pick our favorite picture books of the summer. Read now
Plus, coming in August: The seasons are a-changin’: Our Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2025 are here! We’re also rounding up a crop of dazzling debut novelists and interviewing If We Were Villains author M.L. Rio about her long-awaited sophomore novel.