April's New Books Have Us Intrigued

Crime writer Val McDermid reimagines Jane Austen's classic story of first love, friendship, and lost innocence in her new novel Northanger Abbey.

J.K. Rowling writes, "Val McDermid's brilliant re-working of Jane Austen's original shows that innocent, bookish girls in thrall to the supernatural have changed surprisingly little in two centuries. Witty and shrewd, full of romance and skulduggery — I loved it."

Out April 15