Never Tell Collection Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Other Side of the Road | 2024 | Buy |
| Everywhere You Look | 2024 | Buy |
| The Ghost Writer | 2024 | Buy |
| Scorpions | 2024 | Buy |
| Jackrabbit Skin | 2024 | Buy |
| The Bad Friend | 2024 | Buy |
Short Stories/Novellas
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Eerie Basin | 2025 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Art of Disappearing | 2009 | Buy |
| Visitation Street | 2013 | Buy |
| Wonder Valley | 2017 | Buy |
| These Women | 2020 | Buy |
| Sing Her Down | 2023 | Buy |
| Ecstasy | 2025 | Buy |
Ivy Pochoda is a Los Angeles-based novelist whose work sits at the intersection of literary fiction and crime writing. She grew up in Brooklyn and spent time as a professional squash player in Europe before turning to fiction. Her debut, The Art of Disappearing, came out in 2009, and she has since published a steady run of novels that zero in on communities and places most crime fiction overlooks.
Her LA novels have earned particular attention. Visitation Street (2013) is set in Red Hook, Brooklyn, but Wonder Valley (2017), These Women (2020), and Sing Her Down (2023) all take place in and around Los Angeles, drawing on neighborhoods like Skid Row, the Mojave Desert, and South LA. Each book uses multiple narrators to piece together how violence ripples through a community. These Women was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence.
Pochoda’s most recent work includes the Never Tell Collection, a set of six linked stories released in 2024, and her novel Ecstasy, published in 2025. Across her career, she has built a reputation for fiction that treats crime not as a puzzle to solve but as a way to examine how people survive difficult circumstances.