Fruit Fly

Fruit Fly is Josh Silver's satirical thriller about Mallory, a novelist seven years on from the success of her debut and struggling to write anything that works. When she meets Leo, a young addict sleeping under bridges and trading sex to survive, she sees not a person in trouble but the material for her comeback.

Silver turns that premise into a pointed look at a publishing world hungry for stories that are gay, sad and dark, while building real tension as Mallory's secrets threaten to unravel more than her career. Readers who like their literary fiction knowing, uncomfortable and laced with menace will find a narrator they cannot quite trust.