Newbourne Park by Jennifer Thorne (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, September 29)
In 2024, Jennifer Thorne released Diavola, a bone-chilling gothic ghost story set in Italy, and I haven’t been able to stop talking about it since. 2026’s Newbourne Park sees Thorne return to a family vacation story, but the locales and the scares are quite different this time. Twenty-six-year-old Martha Shaw has spent the past several years caring for her dying mother. An exhausted shell of who she once was, Martha agrees to join her brother on a vacation to an opulent, 200-acre estate called Newbourne Park. But when the rightful master of the estate returns, they bring with them something dark, horrifying, and hungry.