Six Pack

Inspired detective stories, family drama, and more new novels

A CASE OF MATRICIDE

Blasé chief inspector Gorski, of Saint-Louis, France, embarks on a bungled relationship and tangles with a novelist whose mother is afraid he's going to kill her in this marvelously meta mystery from Booker-nominated Graeme Macrae Burnet. (Biblioasis)

LOVE CAN'T FEED YOU

In Cherry Lou Sy's debut, a man and his children leave the Philippines to join his wife in Sunset Park, Brooklyn; there, teenage Queenie finds herself caught between her feuding parents and begins to explore her own desire. (Dutton)

EUROTRASH

Christian Kracht released Faserland in 1995; nearly 30 years later this sequel finds its narrator on a road trip with his infirm and barbiturate-popping mother while attempting to right the sins of his forefathers. (Liveright)

EVERY ARC BENDS ITS RADIAN

A "poet/philosopher/ private eye" searches Colombia for a missing woman, encountering police corruption and crime syndicates in Sergio De La Pava's roiling, noirish, existential explosion of a novel. (Simon & Schuster)

WOMEN'S HOTEL

From Daniel M. Lavery, a finely wrought and funny group portrait of the inhabitants of a waning Barbizonesque hotel in 1960s New York: A bartender, a biographer, a party girl, and others juggle jobs and relationships. (HarperVia)

DON'T BE A STRANGER

A divorced mother, nearly 53, falls under the erotic thrall of a charismatic roving musician—a "comet" about which she begins to orbit. With deft, sleek prose, Susan Minot captures the all-consuming nature of obsession. (Knopf)

Keziah Weir