Forthcoming Books from Atlantic Books

July 2026

We Will See You Bleed by Ron Currie. It's late summer 1984, and Babs Dionne's hometown of Waterville, Maine is on the verge of collapse. A strike at the paper mill has dragged on for a year, pitting neighbour against neighbour, leaving everyone broke and exhausted. As head of the union local, Babs has presided over Little Canada's decline. She's sworn off violence since killing a man when she was a teenager, and has stuck to this vow even as it's become clear that only violence can save their community. When Babs' best friend Rita returns home after five years away, she is shocked by the state of things. And as the strike comes to a head, Rita notices something else: the men may be broken, but the women are furious, ready to do whatever necessary to take back Little Canada. They just need Babs to be the fearless woman who emerged from the woods fifteen years ago, drenched in blood. They need Babs to face what she already knows: that the only way to fix things is to assume control. Completely. Mercilessly.

One calm night in Twickenham, a businessman named Tom Treadnor is shot off his barstool at The Queen. Superintendent Richard Jury is called in to investigate, and quickly realizes that everyone in Treadnor's life - from his widow, Alice, to the staff at his manor, to his business partner - had differing opinions of him. Meanwhile, Wiggins, Jury's partner at New Scotland Yard, becomes sidetracked by an investigation of his own: his sister, missing for years and presumed dead, has just sent a postcard to their mother. When Wiggins takes off in search of his sister, the two investigations begin to converge. The Red Queen is by Martha Grimes.

August 2026

She's lived many lives, but her goal is always the same: survival. ER Doctor Dev Balakrishnan is late for work when he sees her: slumped on the curb like a broken doll, covered in blood. Everyone else walks on by. Not Dev. He saves people's lives every day, but Brooke is different: prey one minute, predator the next. As she spins her web of stories Dev finds himself hopelessly caught up in her world of danger and deceit. Brooke will test Dev in ways he never dreamed of. Whether he passes or fails will become a matter of life and death - for both of them. The Temptation Test is by Rachel North.

September 2026

Turncoat is by Dennis Sewell. George Downing was one of the English Civil War's most cunning spies. As Oliver Cromwell's head of military intelligence, he forged a career as a politician and diplomat, bribing, blackmailing and browbeating his way to success, before spectacularly betraying his friends by defecting to the Royalist camp. Always close to the action, Downing walked with the most illustrious men of his times: Oliver Cromwell and Charles II were his patrons; Samuel Pepys was his clerk; William of Orange godfather to his son. And when he came to build his famous street, Downing Street, which became the home of Britain's prime ministers, his surveyor was Sir Christopher Wren. Downing helped start two major wars and had a hand in founding New York. Yet he has remained an elusive figure in history, as if hiding himself in footnotes. Turncoat tells the full story of Downing's espionage and double-dealing for the first time, following this mystery man from the asceticism of Puritan New England, across battlefields and through courts, chancelleries and parliaments, to the heart of wealth and power in Restoration London.

October 2026

You share a wall. He's keeping a secret... Mia's best friend Beth warns her not to buy the fixer-upper on Taverner Street. After losing her job and her boyfriend, is Mia ready for this? And George, the next-door neighbour, seems like a nightmare. But Mia ignores her. Flipping houses is her dream. Beth should respect that - especially after everything they've been through. Soon, though, George's behaviour strays from the erratic to the downright threatening. And when Beth goes missing on Taverner Street, Mia fears her friend was right. This street holds terrible secrets, and uncovering them might be the only way she can find Beth... The Neighbour is by Emma Curtis.

Dirty Work is by Kate Posey. The past is rarely so easily cleaned up... Max Lee has seen all the ways criminals screw up. As the decade-long owner of an under-staffed crime scene cleaning company, she knows - theoretically - the best way to erase a murder. Nate Wilder has had too many jobs to count in his life, and as Max's newest trainee, he displays an unusual attention to detail and a lack of squeamishness. When Max needs Wilder's help to clean up the biggest mess from her childhood - one she's kept secret her whole life - he brings a surprising set of skills to the task. With a history like Wilder's, what's a little more dirty work?