No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Sharon Bala & Karma Brown

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Some traps are built from the best intentions. In Good Guys, Sharon Bala‘s razor-sharp moral thriller, a publicist’s desperate bid to save a beloved charity unravels into scandal, exposing a crime hiding in plain sight and forcing her to reckon with everything she chose not to see. In Mother Is Watching, bestselling author Karma Brown offers us a nerve-shredding horror debut, an art conservator takes on a mysterious painting and finds herself caught in something ancient and malevolent, a force that knows exactly how to use a mother’s love against her.

Good Guys

From the bestselling author of The Boat People comes a page-turning moral drama about money, the dark side of philanthropy, and what happens when you try to change the world for all the wrong reasons. They have the best of intentions. What could go wrong?

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Mother Is Watching

The chilling horror debut from #1 international bestselling author Karma Brown, about sacrificing everything to one’s art. Mathilde “Tilly” Crewson, a thirty-nine-year-old mother and art conservator, is tasked with restoring The Mother. The painting, believed to be the work of a female surgeon-turned-artist after a personal tragedy, is the rumored fourth piece in a collection of only three known works.

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Sharon Bala

Sharon Bala’s second novel, Good Guys, was published in January 2026. Publishers Weekly calls it “quietly profound” and a “blackly comic tale.” Her best-selling debut novel, The Boat People, won a Newfoundland & Labrador Book Award and the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction. It was short listed for several awards and is in translation in four languages.

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Karma Brown

Karma Brown is the author of ten novels, including Mother is Watching, the #1 international bestseller Recipe for a Perfect Wife, What Wild Women Do, Come Away with Me (a Globe & Mail Best Book of 2015), Globe and Mail and Toronto Star bestsellers The Choices We Make and In This Moment, and The Life Lucy Knew. She is also the author of the bestseller The 4% Fix: How One Hour Can Change Your Life.

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