Chloé Esposito's debut novel, Mad ($5), is the perfect combination of bloody murder and steamy hookup scenes. After taking up her sister's offer for an all-expenses-paid trip to her estate in Italy, Alvina is forced into covering for Beth so she can have a day off from being the perfect, put-together Italian housewife her husband expects her to be. It's a good thing Alvina doesn't mind the idea of dressing up in her sister's designer clothes and pearls or doing dirty things to her husband, because Beth isn't coming back — she's dead.