COMING JULY 15, 2025 from Putnam books. 


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The night Alison was murdered, Rachel could have stopped it.


When Rachel Nardelli finds out Alison Petrucci—her childhood rival—is found dead in Pleasant Pond, the same place the two girls had first said goodbye to each other back in eighth grade, the town of Waterbury is outraged by the fear of losing one of their own—the heir to Maine’s largest construction company. But it’s a little more complicated for Rachel. She saw Alison the night she died. Callous, she said something she shouldn’t have. She stirred up the past. The next morning, Alison was gone.

Plagued by the complicated memories around Alison, Rachel joins her journalism crew to investigate the murder. But as she revisits their fraught relationship, she falls into a web of cruelties that threaten to undo everything she understood about her past. An explosive literary thriller from the acclaimed Kate Russo, Until Alison is a brilliantly incisive and resonant novel that is at once about class, gender and the arbitrary nature of violence. 


PRAISE!:


“Until Alison so vibrantly captures a particular time and place in life—with its nostalgia, its tension, its fine-tuned depiction of class. Kate Russo is a deft and compulsively readable storyteller.” —Claire Lombardo, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had and Same As It Ever Was


“Kate Russo reminds us, both perfectly and painfully, of the angst, jealousy, and self-doubt of youth. The strength of Until Alison lies in her ability to bring fury and compassion to both the bullied and the bullies.” —Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Tom Lake


“Is silence violence? That’s the question that propels Kate Russo’s gripping and incisive new novel set on a perfectly rendered college campus. Suffused with sexuality and the potent brew of class and gender, Until Alison expertly explores the moral complexity at the heart of a missing girl case.” —Daisy Alpert Florin, author of My Last Innocent Year


“Instantly earning a place in the canon of dead girl college campus novels, Kate Russo’s Until Alison is a chillingly readable tale about adolescent cruelty, popularity, and class. When the body of her former classmate, Alison, is discovered at a local swimming hole, Rachel Nardelli embarks on a reluctant exhumation of their friendship, capturing in forensic detail the horrors of eighth-grade rivalry, and how far teenagers will go in the name of self-preservation. Exposing the tension between the crimes we commit in our youth and the people we become as adults, Until Alison is a masterclass in middle school angst.” —Ellie Eaton, author of The Divines


“The perfect challenge to the sepia-toned escapism of your standard campus murder-mystery. The cruelties and compromises of youth and the menace of rape culture are under the magnifying glass in this bold, confronting thriller.” —Kate Weinberg, author of The Truants and There’s Nothing Wrong with Her

 Super Host, out 2021 with Putnam


Praise for Super Host:


One of:
The New York Times Book Review‘s 13 New Books to Watch For in February
Entertainment Weekly‘s Best New Books to Read in February
Boston Magazine‘s 42 Books to Help You Get Through the Rest of Quarantine
Lit Hub‘s Most Anticipated Books of 2021
PureWow‘s 9 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in February 


“Get ready to smile….[A] sweet story and the perfect antidote to the chaos that’s been 2021.” –the Skimm


“Russo’s clever debut evokes a time when travel wasn’t so fraught and strangers could get close enough to learn something about themselves.” The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)

“Brimming with…pure affection.” The New York Times Book Review

“Here’s that rare thing: a wise, literary novel that is also funny as hell…the perfect antidote to this time of being shut in at home. Super Host gives me hope for the future, when we can all open our doors, and our hearts, once more.” —Jennifer Finney Boylan, Buzzfeed

“The Airbnb-novel genre grows with this highly-readable story.” Entertainment Weekly

“[A] candid and captivating portrait of middle age…[and] what it truly means to take a new chance at life.” PureWow

“Funny, sharp, and artistic…A wonderful book flanked with irony, perversity, Rear Window voyeurism, and women who understand the task of reinvention, Super Host is a case study of what we talk about when we talk about success.” – Kerri Arsenault, Lit Hub


“[A] witty, enjoyable debut…Russo is a formidable talent, and readers will be eager to see what she does next.” Publishers Weekly

“Kate Russo’s novel hasn’t yet been compared to Eleanor [Oliphant Is Completely Fine], but it should be. The character at its heart…is the perfect blend of impossible and beloved, and the story is handled with a mix of wise humor and compassion.” BookPage

“A painter herself, Russo makes the act of creating art come alive, while effectively limning her characters in this incisive study of contemporary life.” –Library Journal

“In Russo’s charming and poignant debut…the author writes with warm sympathy and humor. A treat for fans of Nick Hornby and Tom Perrotta.” Kirkus Reviews 


"A charming, compulsively readable, romantically suspenseful novel about...the courage it takes to start over." - Tom Perrotta, author of Mrs. Fletcher


"I gobbled up Super Host, Kate Russo's smart, funny, and surprising first novel. She writes with such a generous and insightful eye about love, loneliness, and artistic ambition, and he redrawn the lines that connect people in fiction through the most modern and unlikely of settings: the home share." - Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins


"Super Host is hilarious, and touching too; Kate Russo is a terrific storyteller." - Claire Messud, author of The Woman Upstairs


"Super Host is a pure delight -- smart, fun, poignant and deeply satisfying. I loved it." - Lily King, author of Euphoria


"Kate Russo's delightful novel is deft, fast and startling...I never wanted to leave." - Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The House of Broken Angels