About me
Editor and Acquisitions Manager Melissa Rechter joined Crooked Lane Books in 2019. She has had the pleasure of working with ITW nominees, New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors, as well as a myriad of talented writers.
For Crooked Lane, she is looking for cozy mysteries, psychological thrillers, horror –either social or psychological– a la Jordan Peele’s Get Out or When No One is Watching, and historical mysteries with a feminist bent. and historical mysteries with a feminist bent (from the ’20s, Victorian era, and late Regency). She’d love to find the next Cassandra Khaw, Lucy Foley, or Jennifer Hillier. If a book has cults, serial killers, twisted female friendships, poisonous plants, small town secrets, or is a locked room thriller, it’s right up her alley.
For Alcove Press, she is interested in book club fiction that explores social issues in suburbia, in the vein of Such a Fun Age or Big Little Lies, historical fiction- especially if it leans into gothic in the vein of The Death of Jane Lawrence, romantasy, and speculative fiction. Anything witchy in the vein of Practical Magic and The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, is perfect for her. She’s also looking for novels that explore found families, grief, and trauma in those fantasy or speculative spaces.
