Miciah Bay Gault and Christina Thompson at Brookline Booksmith

Goodnight Stranger

A compulsive debut of literary suspense, Miciah Bay Gault’s Goodnight Stranger follows one young woman caught in the tragedy of her past when she meets a stranger who challenges long-held beliefs about her family.

Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia

A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story by Christina Thompson that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know.