M. L. Rio in Conversation With Melissa Maerz

Hot Wax (Simon & Schuster)—the new novel from M. L. Rio, author of If We Were Villains and Graveyard Shift—is a vivid and immersive tale of one woman’s reckless mission to make sense of the events that shattered her childhood, and made her who she is.

Summer, 1989: ten-year-old Suzanne is drawn like a magnet to her father’s forbidden world of electric guitars and tricked-out cars. When her mother remarries, she jumps at the chance to tag along on the concert tour that just might be Gil and the Kills’ wild ride to glory. But fame has sharper [...]