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We live to discover new talent at Kirkus. There?s an unmitigated joy when you?re there watching right at the beginning of a writer?s career. Some of the writers on this week?s list?which features books about a surreal kidnapping, a bittersweet love story and a black comedy about zombies, among other inventive topics?have dabbled in other genres, but all of them have written debut novels that sparkle.
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THE NIGHT GWEN STACY DIED by Sarah Bruni
Spider-Man lore is one layer of this superbly suspenseful first novel about two loners, improbable lawbreakers, on a mission to Chicago. <a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/sarah-bruni/night-gwen-stacy-died/" target="_blank">Read full book review ></a>
DON'T EVER GET OLD by Daniel Friedman
A geezer cowboy who's been retired from Memphis Homicide longer than he served there is thrust into the middle of a murderous hunt for Nazi plunder. <a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/daniel-friedman/dont-ever-get-old/" target="_blank">Read full book review ></a>
THE YEAR OF THE GADFLY by Jennifer Miller
Journalist Miller (<em>Inheriting the Holy Land</em>, 2005) makes her fiction debut with a smoldering mystery set in a New England prep school. <a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jennifer-miller/year-gadfly/" target="_blank">Read full book review ></a>
FIEND by Peter Stenson
Tweakers versus zombies. That's about it, really.<a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/peter-stenson/fiend-stenson/" target="_blank"> Read full book review ></a>
THE STARBOARD SEA by Amber Dermont
Troubled teenage boy hopes for a fresh start after transferring to a third-rate New England prep school. <a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/amber-dermont/starboard-sea/" target="_blank">Read full book review > </a>
IN THE HOUSE UPON THE DIRT BETWEEN THE LAKE AND THE WOODS by Matt Bell
A folkloric, allegorical tale of modern marriage, complete with shape-shifting, secret passageways and trials by fire. <a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/matt-bell/in-house-upon-dirt-between-lake-woods/" target="_blank">Read full book review ></a>
PREP by Curtis Sittenfeld
A witty, involving boarding-school drama from Seventeen magazine award-winner Sittenfeld. <a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/curtis-sittenfeld/prep-2/" target="_blank">Read full book review ></a>
THE PANOPTICON by Jenni Fagan
Critically acclaimed in Britain, Scottish writer Fagan's U.S. debut limns life in a last-resort residence for teen outcasts.<a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jenni-fagan/panopticon/" target="_blank"> Read full book review ></a>
THE REST OF US by Jessica Lott
A May-December romance is at the center of this layered, engaging debut fiction. <a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jessica-lott/rest-of-us/" target="_blank">Read full book review ></a>
CLOSE MY EYES by Sophie McKenzie
British children's author McKenzie's first adult novel is a psychological thriller centered around a woman whose life has been on hold ever since her baby died eight year earlier. <a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/sophie-mckenzie/close-my-eyes/" target="_blank">Read full book review ></a>
FOREVER, INTERRUPTED by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A debut love story from Los Angeles?based Reid.<a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/taylor-jenkins-reid/forever-interrupted/" target="_blank"> Read full book review ></a>
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