The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak (Flatiron) is the top holds title of the week. LibraryReads and Library Journal offer read-alikes for patrons waiting to read this buzziest book.

Rekulak (bestselling author of Hidden Pictures, a Goodreads Horror Book of the Year, and The Impossible Fortress, an Edgar finalist) offers a domestic thriller about a widowed father and his daughter over the course of one wedding weekend. With a 500K-copy first printing.—LJ Reviews

The Guest List by Lucy Foley (Morrow; LJ starred review)

Appeared on the June 2020 LibraryReads list

“A wedding celebration on a remote island off the coast of Ireland turns eerie and nightmarish in this gothic atmospheric mystery. A good choice for fans of Ruth Ware.”—Bill Anderson, Scott County Public Library, Scottsburg, IN

The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine (Harper; LJ starred review)

Appeared on the October 2017 LibraryReads List

“Daphne seems to have hit the jackpot by marrying Jackson Parrish. They live in a lovely Connecticut mansion and travel around the world, all the while raising two beautiful daughters. When Mrs. Parrish meets Amber, a kindred spirit, Daphne instantly feels a connection, perhaps someone to fill the endless void of sorrow that has plagued her since her sister’s death. We learn that nothing is what it appears to be. The author sets an atmospheric pace for this story, leading up to its dramatic conclusion.”—KC Davis, Fairfield Woods Branch Library, Fairfield, CT

The Nigerwife by Vanessa Walters (Atria)

The dichotomy between the beauty and rot of modern Lagos is exposed from page one of Walters’s first novel, the delicious tension building throughout this penetrating novel of family secrets and cultural dissonance. Nicole, of Jamaican descent, meets her Nigerian husband Tonye while at university in the UK. The birth of two sons in quick succession dampen her career ambitions, and Tonye’s proposal to relocate to his family’s Italianate compound in Lagos offers a respite from the exhaustion of motherhood. But the attentive Tonye whom Nicole married in London morphs into a withholding man who simmers under the thumb of his domineering father. By the time Nicole physically disappears, she had been psychologically absent from her British family for years, but that does not prevent her aunt Claudine, who raised Nicole after her mother’s death, from getting on the next plane. Claudine’s fearless questioning of Tonye’s family, the bought-and-paid-for police, and the women who form the support group Nigerwives reveals that the idyllic life Nicole shared on social media had little basis in reality. VERDICT British poet and playwright Walters, once a Nigerwife herself, paints a vivid picture of the financial and social constraints that European women face assimilating into Nigerian familial structure. Already optioned for HBO, this cultural critique couched in a mystery is a sure winner.—Sally Bissell