Blood & Whiskey #21

Rebecca Makkai's murder mystery; Margot Douaihy's bad-a** nun (and an interview); Sterling Watson's country noir; William Landay's missing mom. Plus a neighborhood cocktail and Neal's new paperback.

Hello friends and readers,

This is the newsletter in which multiple project deadlines disrupted my schedule, so here’s a February newsletter coming to you in March…

First up: two excellent books that came out last week (as did, if you must know, the paperback of The First Kennedys — more on that below).

Rebecca Makkai’s brooding, literary boarding schoo…