The Death and Birth of Iliana Marek

The Death and Birth of Iliana Marek by David Liss is a Science Fiction release out on October 13, 2026.

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The Death and Birth of Iliana Marek Release Date: October 13, 2026

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A young man with a terrible past finds his unlikely protector: the oddly-altered enforcer of a backwater Florida town. Edgar Award-winner David Liss’s latest novel reads like Hiaasen meets Crichton—a razor-sharp allegory pulled straight from today’s headlines.

“At once pulse-pounding and full of heart, this is a shape-shifting thriller that locks into your nerve-center and doesn’t let go.”
—Rhodi Hawk, author of This Town Won’t Tell

Who is Iliana Marek? Is she the bully who alongside her foster father police chief Bryce Hillard, controls and terrorizes Tylor, Florida? Or is she the reborn guardian angel of Dan Gibson, a social pariah responsible for the suicide of Faye Kristic, a death which he cannot remember ten years later.

Dan’s once-promising future is in tatters. He lives in an apartment on his estranged parents’ property, works at a convenience store with a terrible boss, and is addicted to prescription drugs. But ten years after Faye’s death, Iliana suddenly takes Dan’s side, and a lot of bad people start dying fast.

As Dan becomes entangled in the ensuing chaos, he needs to finally discover what part he played in the death of Faye Kristic, and why the changes to Iliana make her no longer entirely human.

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