What is the title of your latest release?
TOO CLOSE TO HOME
What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?
When Regan Hoffman’s car explodes at the annual Labor Day party, the wrong person is killed. It was meant for her. As the carefully crafted walls of her community begin to crumble, Regan tries to keep it together - something made infinitely harder when she sees her dead husband…alive.
When a Cloverhill Lakes resident suddenly goes missing, dark secrets begin to surface from underneath the idyllic veneer of their beautiful community - and the truth threatens to destroy them all as Regan finds herself in a fight for her life.
How did you decide where your book was going to take place?
I like to choose locations I can explore and research and don’t know well. I always fictionalize the town but keep it in or about a real city or town. It’s really just a mood that strikes and a place that makes sense for the story.
Would you hang out with your heroine in real life?
Sure. They are all badass in their own way, so all three protagonists in this story would be a hoot to have a drink with.
What are three words that describe your hero?
Flawed, complex, strong
What’s something you learned while writing this book?
That an author’s writing process and style can change. I have always been a big outliner. I’d be terrified to being a book without mapping the whole thing out, and now I’m starting to go rogue and let the story lead me more. Which is anxiety inducing, but a bit more fun when I am just as curious to know what happens next as the reader would be.
Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done?
I never read it back while writing it. I always plow ahead until I’m finished.
What’s your favorite foodie indulgence?
Chocolate.
Describe your writing space/office!
I have a lovely little home office overlooking the back garden with lots of candles, usually a mug of coffee nearby, and always with my dog in his bed next to my desk.
Who is an author you admire?
Chris Whitaker
Is there a book that changed your life?
THE AWAKENING by Kate Chopin. Only because I remember reading it in a college literature class and having one of the first inklings that I would love to do that - write a book that’s emotional and layered with strong, female leads.
Tell us about when you got “the call.” (when you found out your book was going to be published). Or, for indie authors, when you decided to self-publish.
I had been waiting, knowing my agent sent it out and where there was some interest, so I was expecting news soon. When she called, I think I was doing laundry and was shocked to hear that not only was my book being published with a big five, but there was a three-book offer. I cried.
What’s your favorite genre to read?
Thriller, of course!
What’s your favorite movie?
This is an unanswerable question, but I still always have the same answer when I’m cornered. Shawshank Redemption or Stand By me.
What is your favorite season?
Spring
How do you like to celebrate your birthday?
On a beach in Mexico
What’s a recent tv show/movie/book/podcast you highly recommend?
Rich Roll Podcast/YouTube
What’s your favorite type of cuisine?
Mediterranean/vegan
What do you do when you have free time?
I do a lot of long dog walks with audiobooks, love the gym, and cooking, and putzing around the house and yard. I’m quite boring and domestic.
What can readers expect from you next?
I am just about finished with my 10th book which will come out 2027. It takes place at an upscale lodge in wine country where a missing person turns the town upside down. As one woman starts to take the investigation into her own hands, she unearths secrets that should have been left buried, and puts her own life in danger for what she exposes.
Narrator: Rebecca Lowman, Karissa Vacker, Brittany Pressley
The two-time Edgar Award–nominated author of ON A QUIET STREET and THE VACANCY IN ROOM 10, Seraphina Nova Glass, is back with TOO CLOSE TO HOME
Nothing in this idyllic community is quite what it seems…
Those lucky enough to live in the elite lakefront community of Cloverhill Lakes are drawn to it for its safety and top-notch school district. The moms meet for coffee at the park while their kids play, they’re heavily involved in the PTA, and the summers are filled with chardonnay, brunch, sundresses, and backyard bonfires.
But everything changes when Regan Hoffman’s car explodes at the annual Labor Day party. The wrong person is killed, but it was meant for her. As the carefully crafted walls of her community begin to crumble, Regan tries to keep it together—something made infinitely harder when she sees her dead husband…alive.
When a Cloverhill Lakes resident suddenly goes missing, dark secrets begin to surface from underneath the idyllic veneer of their beautiful community—and the truth threatens to destroy them all as Regan finds herself in a fight for her life.
Other thrillers from Seraphina to keep you up all night:
- Nothing Ever Happens Here
- The Vacancy in Room 10
- The Vanishing Hour
- On a Quiet Street
- Such a Good Wife
- Someone’s Listening
Thriller Psychological | Thriller Domestic [ Park Row, On Sale: April 14, 2026, Trade Paperback / e-Book / audiobook, ISBN: 9781525800078 / eISBN: 9780369774330 ]
Seraphina Nova Glass is an Edgar Award-nominated author published by HarperCollins and is represented by Folio Literary Management in New York. Her fifth book is The Vacancy in Room 10, out April 2024. Her book On A Quiet Street was named a New York Times Book Review Summer Read and an Amazon Editor’s Pick in Mystery & Thrillers, among other praise. She recently sold the film rights to Marvista Entertainment for a limited series. Seraphina is currently working on her sixth novel, The Oleanders, and is also an Assistant professor and Playwright-In-Residence at the University of Texas, Arlington. Publisher’s Weekly has named her “a writer to watch”.
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