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New Fiction July 2024

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Fantasy & Science

The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville

The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville

A warrior who cannot be killed, known simply as “B,” wants to die and a U.S. black-ops group has promised they can help with that if he helps them in return, but when an all-too-mortal soldier comes back to life, the impossible event points to a force even more mysterious than B himself.


The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman

The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman

Arriving at Camelot to compete for a spot on the Round Table, a gifted young knight Collum instead finds only a handful of knights left after the Battle of Camlann, and together, joined by Merlin’s apprentice Nimue, set out to rebuild Camelot in a world that has lost its balance.


The Dissonance by Shaun Hamill

The Dissonance by Shaun Hamill

Summoned back to Clegg, Texas, Hal, Athena and Eric, trained in a magic known as the Dissonance, must save a teenaged boy, who has been taken by a murderous entity, reckoning with how the choices they made as teens might connect to — and stop — this apocalyptic event.


The Gilded Crown by Marianne Gordon

The Gilded Crown by Marianne Gordon

Gifted with the ability to raise the dead, Hellevir, after bringing the Queen’s granddaughter, Princess Sullivain, back to life, must remain by the princess’s side, but with the threat of war looming, she must trade more and more of herself to keep Sullivain alive, but Death will always take what he’s owed.


The Icarus Changeling by Timothy Zahn

The Icarus Changeling by Timothy Zahn

An agent for the ultra-secret Icarus Group, Gregory Roarke, tasked with locating a teleportation portal on the backwater colony world of Alainn, finds this seemingly simple assignment leading to a race against an alien enemy and a string of murders linked to a dangerous changeling boy. The Icarus Saga no. 4



The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer

The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer

Forced to return to the enchanted world they called home for six months 15 years ago to confront their shared past no matter how traumatic the memories, reclusive artist Rafe and famed missing persons’ investigator Jeremy search for their friend Emilie’s sister — and for everything they’ve lost.


The Moonlight Market by Joanne Harris

The Moonlight Market by Joanne Harris

Walking the streets of London, capturing whatever catches his eye, Tom — after a negative develops, revealing something unseen by the eye — is drawn further into a hidden war, forcing him to piece fragments of the truth to fight his own battle: both for the woman he loves, and for himself.


Navola by Paolo Bacigalupi

Navola by Paolo Bacigalupi

In Navola, a city-state dominated by a handful of influential families, Davico di Regulai must demonstrate his mastery of Navolese diplomacy as he prepares to take the reins of power from his father, which reveals his fate depends on what lies buried in the heart of his adopted sister.


The Sky on Fire by Jenn Lyons

The Sky on Fire by Jenn Lyons

When she’s spirited away to the dragon-ruled sky cities by a group of cunning misfits who need her help to steal from a dragon’s hoard, Anahrod, who lives only for survival, discovers there’s one problem: the hoard in question belongs to a woman who wants her dead.


The Spice Gate by Prashanth Srivatsa

The Spice Gate by Prashanth Srivatsa

A spice carrier at the mercy of a harsh master, Amir, dreaming of escaping a life of servitude, discovers fate has a plan for him, sending him on a grand Spice Gate-hopping adventure where he must decide — for the first time in his life — what kind of world he wants to live in.


The West Passage by Jared Pechacek

The West Passage by Jared Pechacek

With the West Passage left unguarded after the Guardian’s death, her unnamed apprentice, as the Beast stirs beneath the poisoned soil, sets out to warn the other Towers, encountering schoolteachers and beekeepers, miracles and monsters and very big Ladies along the way, knowing the world might change before she reaches her destination.


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General Fiction

The Art of Pretend by Lauren Kuhl

The Art of Pretend by Lauren Kuhl

After her best friend Etta moves to Barcelona with no warning, Ren, orbiting Etta’s wealthy artist family, is left to face who she is without her until a secret relationship with Etta’s older brother, whom she’s always been infatuated with, opens new possibilities but could also have devastating consequences.


Beep by Bill Roorbach

Beep by Bill Roorbach

Beep, a Costa Rican squirrel monkey, meets Inga, a kind American tween tourist and makes an unexpected journey to Manhattan with her, sparking a movement that challenges humanity to see the world through new eyes.


Between Friends & Lovers by Shirlene Obuobi

Between Friends & Lovers by Shirlene Obuobi

A social media influencer and medical doctor with strong opinions about health, growth and self-love realizes she needs to take her own advice when her love life takes one disastrous turn after another.


Big in Sweden by Sally Franson

Big in Sweden by Sally Franson

Paulie Johansson auditions for a reality tv show where Swedish-American compete to win a reunion with their relatives and discovers through increasingly absurd challenges how to embrace her heritage, find love and a newfound sense of self.


The Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness

The Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness

When the Congregation demands she and Matthew test the magic of their 7-year-old twins, Oxford scholar and witch Diana Bishop, forging a different path, confronts her family’s dark past and reckons with her desire for even greater power — if she can let go of her fear of wielding it.


The Book of Bill by Alex Hirsch

The Book of Bill by Alex Hirsch

Written by Bill Cipher himself, the demon who terrorized Gravity Falls is back from the great beyond to finally tell his side of the story, shedding light on his strange origins, his sinister effects on human history, the Pines family’s most embarrassing secrets and the key to overthrowing the world.


The Bookshop Sisterhood by Michelle Lindo-Rice

The Bookshop Sisterhood by Michelle Lindo-Rice

While working toward the grand opening of their Black-owned bookstore, four best friends are each told four little words that upend their lives, forcing them to lean on each other — and the books they love — to navigate the changes or risking losing the business and their friendships.


Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Harvard student Catalina Ituralde, who escaped death in Latin America, confronts her mysterious past and uncertain future as she approaches graduation, all while navigating the complexities of love and freedom.


The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan

The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan

A Harvard archivist, returning to Maine after a terrible mistake, Jane is hired to research the history of a Victorian house and the women who lived there, uncovering a story of lost lovers, romantic longing, shattering loss and the long shadow of colonialism that is even older than Maine itself.


The Days I Loved You Most by Amy Neff

The Days I Loved You Most by Amy Neff

Spending a lifetime together, Joseph and Evelyn, when Evelyn receives a tragic diagnosis and he cannot live without her, decide, in one year’s time, to end their lives on their own terms, and decide to create new memories to cherish and make peace with the legacy they will leave behind for their family.


The Faculty Lounge by Jennifer Mathieu

The Faculty Lounge by Jennifer Mathieu

When an elderly substitute teacher at Baldwin High School is found dead in the faculty lounge, the teachers spontaneously scatter his ashes on the school grounds, setting in motion a year that can only be described as wild, bizarre, tragic, mundane, beautiful and humorous all at once.


The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

In 1975, when a camp counselor discovers the 13-year-old daughter of the summer camp’s owners has disappeared just like her brother 14 years earlier, a panicked search begins as the secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow are revealed.


The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry

The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry

In 1891 Montana, Tom Rourke, a young poet and ballad-maker, and Polly Gillspie, the new bride of an extremely devout mine captain, falling madly in love, strike out west on a stolen horse, but with a posse of deranged gunmen in hot pursuit, the choices they make will haunt them forever.


The Horse by Willy Vlautin

The Horse by Willy Vlautin

Al Ward, a grizzled former journeyman musician in his 60s who lives in isolation, finds himself running out of reasons to go on until a nameless, blind and utterly helpless horse arrives on his doorstep, and as he contemplates the animal’s existence, his thoughts become interspersed with memories of his past.


Humor Me by Cat Shook

Humor Me by Cat Shook

Reeling after her mother’s death, Presley, a cynical late-night comedy writer, finds solace in stand-up and unexpected friendships when her late mother’s best friend takes her under her wing and introduces her to her son.


Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder by Kerryn Mayne

Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder by Kerryn Mayne

Unable to remember a tragic childhood event, introvert Lenny Marks, who is excellent at not having a life, finds everything unraveling when she receives a letter that forces her to connect with the community around her where, unexpectedly, she may finally get a life — if her past doesn’t catch up to her first.


Linh Ly Is Doing Just Fine by Thao Votang

Linh Ly Is Doing Just Fine by Thao Votang

When her recently divorced mother starts dating, 27-year-old Linh Ly, following and spying on her mother’s dates, finds her worry turning to obsession as she is forced to reconcile the image of her mother from her childhood with the woman she’s getting to know as an adult.


The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali

The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali

When Homa, a girl from her childhood, reappears in her privileged world, Ellie, amidst Iran’s political turmoil, joins her in pursuing their goals for meaningful futures until one earth-shattering betrayal has far-reaching consequences, altering the course of both their lives.


Lo Fi by Liz Riggs

Lo Fi by Liz Riggs

Working the door at The Venue, a Nashville club, aspiring songwriter Alison Hunter, after a shattering open mic fiasco, tries to power through her hungover mornings and is torn between dreams and despair until one reckless night threatens to derail her altogether.


Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

In denial that they’re all still affected by their wealthy businessman father’s kidnapping back in 1980, the Fletcher siblings, as they hover at the delicate precipice of another kind of survival, must face desperate questions about how much their family’s wealth has played a part in both their successes and failures.


Masquerade by O. O. Sangoyomi

Masquerade by O. O. Sangoyomi

Chosen to be the wife of a great warrior king, Òdòdó’, a young Yorùbá woman, after a lifetime of subjugation, soars to the very heights of society where power and political savvy is too enticing to resist, but as tensions grow and betrayal runs rampar, she must defy her cruel husband even though she risks losing everything, including her life.


The Melancholy of Untold History by Minsoo Kang

The Melancholy of Untold History by Minsoo Kang

Inspired by East Asian mythology, a novel spanning 3,000 years and multiple voices interweaves four complex yet entertaining stories as they shape and create a nation’s literary narrative through the themes of love and grief.


Midnight Rooms by Donyae Coles

Midnight Rooms by Donyae Coles

In 1840 England, Orabella, the orphaned daughter of a white man and a Black woman with no fortune or connections, is married off to the wealthy Elias Blakersby and, whisked away to his family’s estate, becomes engulfed by the house’s darkness, making her question where her dreams and reality begins.


The Night Ends with Fire by K. X. Song

The Night Ends with Fire by K. X. Song

When her opium-addicted father plans to sell her to a violent, ill-tempered man, Mellin, with the Three Kingdoms at war, disguises herself as a boy and enlists in the army where she has visions of a sea dragon spirit that offers her true power and freedom, but with a deadly price.


A Novel Summer by Jamie Brenner

A Novel Summer by Jamie Brenner

In her return to Provincetown after a best-selling novel exposes local secrets, an author returns to her idyllic Cape Cod hometown to face her betrayal but rediscovers her passion and community through a summer managing a friend’s bookstore.


Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow by Damilare Kuku

Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow by Damilare Kuku

When she informs her mother, older sister and aunties that she’s going to surgically enlarge her backside like all the other Nigerian women, 20-year-old Temi, with each of the woman trying to cure her of what seems like temporary insanity, soon realizes she might be the sanest of them all.


Pink Glass Houses by Asha Elias

Pink Glass Houses by Asha Elias

Told in rotating first-person voices, this irresistibly voyeuristic peek into the lives of the rich, wealthy and ultra-wealthy follows Charlotte, Sunset Academy’s alpha mom, who’s up for PTA president until Melody, a wide-eyed transplant from Kansas, emerges as her rival while a white-collar crime investigation threatens to take down the whole institution.


The Road to the Salt Sea by Samuel Kolawole

The Road to the Salt Sea by Samuel Kolawole

When a room service order at his hotel leads him to interfere with a sex worker involved with a powerful guest, Able is trapped in a web of violence, guilt and fear, sending him straight into a fight for his life and freedom, which forever alters his ideas about betterment and salvation.


The Same Bright Stars by Ethan Joella

The Same Bright Stars by Ethan Joella

In a Delaware beach town, local restaurant owner Jack Schmidt reaches a turning point in his life.


The Summer Pact by Emily Giffin

The Summer Pact by Emily Giffin

Ten years after they made a pact, promising to always be there for each other in their times of need, Hannah, when one of the happiest moments of her life is suddenly turned upside down, calls on her closest friends, and together, they embark on a shared journey of self-discovery, forgiveness and acceptance.


Tell It to Me Singing by Tita Ramirez

Tell It to Me Singing by Tita Ramirez

A Cuban American family is sent into a tailspin when the ailing matriarch confesses the first of several shocking secrets to her daughter before undergoing heart surgery. A first novel.


This Great Hemisphere by Mateo Askaripour

This Great Hemisphere by Mateo Askaripour

When authorities claim her brother, who was presumed dead, is alive — and the main suspect in the murder of the Chief Executive of Northwestern Hemisphere — Candace, a young invisible woman, must find him before it’s too late in a world where no one and nothing is ever as it seems.


A Thousand Times Before by Asha Thanki

A Thousand Times Before by Asha Thanki

This gripping family narrative spanning from the era of partition in India to contemporary Brooklyn follows the lives of three generations of women united by the echoes of their predecessors’ experiences. their predecessors’ experiences.


The Townsend Family Recipe for Disaster by Shauna Robinson

The Townsend Family Recipe for Disaster by Shauna Robinson

When her grandmother passes away, Mae Townsend decides to explore her Black roots, and with three weeks left until her wedding, arrives in the South to find a lost mac & cheese recipe causing grief and a barbecue on the brink of disaster and steps up to save the day — and her newfound family.


We Carry the Sea in Our Hands by Janie Kim

We Carry the Sea in Our Hands by Janie Kim

Leading a solitary, guarded life after her experience in the American foster care system, scientist and Korean orphan Abby Rodier makes a biological discovery that changes the course of her life, but when a tragic event sends her spiraling out of control, she must discover her true roots to make peace with the present.


The Wedding People by Alison Espach

The Wedding People by Alison Espach

Mistaken for a wedding guest while staying at the grand Cornwall Inn, Phoebe Stone, at rock bottom, is determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself, and unexpectedly becomes bride’s confidant and through her, meets a cast of surprising characters who help her start anew.


Welcome to Glorious Tuga by Francesca Segal

Welcome to Glorious Tuga by Francesca Segal

Newly qualified London vet Charlotte Walker takes up a fellowship on the tiny South Atlantic island of Tuga de Oro to study the endangered gold coin tortoises and to solve a mystery that has dominated her life, but instead is won over by the islanders, becoming a vet to all their animals.


Where Are You, Echo Blue? by Hayley Krischer

Where Are You, Echo Blue? by Hayley Krischer

When Echo Blue, the most famous child star of the 90s, goes missing on the eve of the millennium, ambitious young journalist Goldie Klein, who’s Echo’s biggest fan, heads to LA where she, the further she into Echo’s world she goes, the more she becomes consumed by her entirely.


The World After Alice by Lauren Aliza Green

The World After Alice by Lauren Aliza Green

Surprising their families with a wedding invitation to Maine, Morgan and Benji,12 years after a devastating tragedy, as guests descend on the tranquil coastal town, bringing with them deep-seated secrets and agendas of their own, are forced to question just how well they know ones they hold dear.


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Historical

Beyond Summerland by Jenny Lecoat

Beyond Summerland by Jenny Lecoat

After World War II liberation of Jersey in the Channel Islands, 19-year-old Jean Parris discovers that a teacher who lives above her father’s shop might be responsible for his wartime arrest and sets out to uncover the truth.


The Haunting of Hecate Cavendish by Paula Brackston

The Haunting of Hecate Cavendish by Paula Brackston

In 1881 England, assistant librarian for the Hereford cathedral, Hecate Cavendish, who can see ghosts, guards an ancient chained library where some lost souls become her dearest friends, others seek her helping in finding peace and others threaten the lives of everyone she loves. Hecate Cavendish no. 1


House of Shades by Lianne Dillsworth

House of Shades by Lianne Dillsworth

In 1833 London, doctress Hester Reeves leaves her husband and son behind in Kings Cross to accept a life-changing commission to cure the ailing owner of a large estate in Fitzrovia, where uncovers long-hidden and life-changing secrets.


A Jewel in the Crown by David Lewis

A Jewel in the Crown by David Lewis

A gifted young socialist becomes a World War II counterespionage spy on a mission orchestrated by Winston Churchill himself to keep the crown jewels from falling into German hands.


My Mother Cursed My Name by Anamely Salgado Reyes

My Mother Cursed My Name by Anamely Salgado Reyes

Three generations of fiercely strong and stubborn Mexican American women face grief head-on as they attempt to shed generational trauma and discover the true meaning of home.


Teddy by Emily Dunlay

Teddy by Emily Dunlay

In 1969 Rome, Teddy Huntley Carlyle, eager for a fresh start with her new husband, a diplomat assigned to the American embassy, is determined to be conservative, proper, polite and good until she finds herself in the middle of a mess that even her powerful connections and impeccable manners can’t contain.


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horror

Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

An Oscar-nominated showrunner of a streaming series fights studio pressure to kill off the gay characters in the season finale while fighting real-life monsters from his horror movie days who are stalking him and his friends through the Hollywood Hills.


Confessions of the Dead: From the Authors of Death of the Black Widow by James Patterson and J. D. Barker

Confessions of the Dead: From the Authors of Death of the Black Widow by James Patterson and J. D. Barker

The arrival of a mysterious teen girl disrupts the idyllic peace of Hollows Bend, leading Sheriff Pritchett to investigate a wave of shocking crimes that lead him closer and closer to a lake that doesn’t appear on any map.


Heads Will Roll by Josh Winning

Heads Will Roll by Josh Winning

A disgraced sitcom star is sent by her agent to a secluded adult summer camp in upstate New York with other celebrity misfits desperate to leave their mistakes behind, but instead finds terror, hidden pasts and possible murder.


I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones

I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones

A good kid in a small Texas town in 1989 finds himself cursed to kill for revenge in true slasher film-style, in the new novel by the New York Times best-selling author of The Only Good Indians.


Wilderness Reform by Matt Query and Harrison Query

Wilderness Reform by Matt Query and Harrison Query

A wilderness camp for troubled teens is plagued by mysterious events and disappearances, taking survival and discipline to a frightening extreme.


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literary

All This & More by Peng Shepherd

All This & More by Peng Shepherd

A divorced, middle-aged woman full of regrets is selected for a reality show that uses quantum technology to allow contestants to relive and revise their pasts but she discovers that changing everything doesn't necessarily bring her happiness.


Anyone's Ghost by August Thompson

Anyone's Ghost by August Thompson

This remarkable first novel delves into the enduring impact of love and friendship between two young men throughout a memorable teenage summer in rural New England and how it continued to haunt them into adulthood.


Banal Nightmare by Halle Butler

Banal Nightmare by Halle Butler

The author of The New Me returns with the story of a young woman who ends her long-term relationship and moves back to her Midwestern hometown where he is forced to confront the demons of her past. the demons of her past.


Bright Objects by Ruby Todd

Bright Objects by Ruby Todd

A young widow grapples with the arrival of a once-in-a-lifetime comet and its tumultuous consequences. A first novel.


Evenings and Weekends by Oisín McKenna

Evenings and Weekends by Oisín McKenna

Pregnant and broke, Maggie struggles with a looming move home while her boyfriend, Ed tries to run from his past with her best friend Phil, who already has another, very serious boyfriend during a sweltering London summer.


Grown Women by Sarai Johnson

Grown Women by Sarai Johnson

Three generations of strong-willed Black women in rural Tennessee, bound by love and burdened by resentment and clashing personalities, find an unexpected chance for reconciliation when they reunite to raise a child.


Liars: A Novel by Sarah Manguso

Liars: A Novel by Sarah Manguso

After marrying filmmaker John Bridges, who wants the same things she does — to be in love and live a successful, creative life, writer Jane becomes subsumed by his ambitions, whims and ego until her career flourishes, causing him to leave her, giving her a much-needed opportunity to live life her way.


Nicked by M. T. Anderson

Nicked by M. T. Anderson

In 1087, when Tyun, a treasure hunter renowned for “liberating” holy relics from their tombs, is paid to bring the 700-year-old bones of Saint Nicholas to Bari, Italy, to cure the plague, Brother Nicephorus is ordered to be his guide and forced to commit an act of sacrilege on their journey.


The Nude: A Novel by Michelle Lindley

The Nude: A Novel by Michelle Lindley

An art historian who travels to a Greek island in pursuit of a found sculpture and quickly finds herself immersed in a cultural tug-of-war and a complicated love affair. A first novel.


Off the Books by Soma Mei Sheng Frazier

Off the Books by Soma Mei Sheng Frazier

After dropping out of Dartmouth, Mei, with a knack for discretion, becomes a routine chauffeur for sex workers and is led on a life-changing trip from San Francisco to Syracuse with a new client who turns this transactional journey into one of moral stakes and dangerous consequences.


Someone Like Us by Dinaw Mengestu

Someone Like Us by Dinaw Mengestu

With his marriage on the verge of collapse, journalist Mamush returns to his close-knit immigrant Ethiopian community in Washington, D.C., where a death in the family leads him on an unexpected journey across America in search of answers to questions he’d been told never to ask.


State of Paradise by Laura Van Den Berg

State of Paradise by Laura Van Den Berg

A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida’s underbelly, from a reality-warping storyteller.


They Dream in Gold by Mai Sennaar

They Dream in Gold by Mai Sennaar

In 1969, in the Swiss countryside, Mama Eva prepares for the opening of her Senegalese restaurant, while her pregnant daughter-in-law waits for news from Mansour, the father of her unborn child, as the people he left behind reckon with their memories of him, and the truth of his disappearance is revealed.


Toward Eternity by Anton Hur

Toward Eternity by Anton Hur

Creating a living, thinking machine named Panit, meaning Beloved, in honor of his husband, Yonghun, a recipient of nanotherapy — robot or android cells that cure cancer and leave people virtually immortal, begins to thrive, along with other nano humans, which leads them to a crossroads and a choice with existential consequences.


We Burn Daylight by Bret Anthony Johnston

We Burn Daylight by Bret Anthony Johnston

In Waco, Texas, 1993, Roy, the 14-year-old son of the local sheriff, and Jaye, whose mother is part of a doomsday cult led by the Lamb, are immediately drawn to each other, but their love may have dire consequences for their families as the Lamb brings them closer and closer to unthinkable violence.


Whoever You Are, Honey by Olivia Gatwood

Whoever You Are, Honey by Olivia Gatwood

Finding refuge with her elderly roommate, Bethel, after a traumatic adolescence, Mitty, in a town taken over by the tech elite, forms a close friendship with her new neighbor Lena, who has her own secrets, which forces them to face their pasts, which have overpowered their lives for far too long.


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Mystery & Detective

The Burning by Linda Castillo

The Burning by Linda Castillo

Discovering the charred body of an Amish man, chained to a stake and burned alive, in the woods, newlywed Chief of Police Kate Burkholder, at odds with everyone around her, uncovers a secret legacy that shatters everything she thought she knew about the Amish themselves — and her own roots. Kate Burkholder no. 16


The Conditions of Unconditional Love by Alexander McCall Smith

The Conditions of Unconditional Love by Alexander McCall Smith

While tapping into her stores of coolness and reserve to help navigate a decidedly delicate dispute, moral philosopher Isabel Dalhousie and her husband Jamie will together be dealing with tricky personal issues of their own. Isabel Dalhousie no. 15


A Controversial Cover by Lorna Barrett

A Controversial Cover by Lorna Barrett

Tricia Miles investigates when a famous children’s book author and area native is found shot in the head right before an event at the local library, in the latest addition to the long-running series following A Questionable Character. Booktown Mysteries no. 18


Death on the Tiber by Lindsey Davis

Death on the Tiber by Lindsey Davis

Flavia Albia investigates a vicious underworld gang after a British tourist is found strangled and dumped in the Tiber in first century Rome, in the 12th novel of the series following Fatal Legacy.


Dog Day Afternoon by David Rosenfelt

Dog Day Afternoon by David Rosenfelt

A retired lawyer and dog rescue operator investigates after one of his recent adopters is implicated in a mass shooting at his workplace in the latest addition to the series following ‘Twas the Bite Before Christmas. Andy Carpenter no. 29


The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia by Juliet Grames

The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia by Juliet Grames

In 1960 Calabria, 27-year-old American Francesca Loftfield, tasked with opening a nursery school in an isolated mountain village, is drawn into the mystery surrounding the identity of a recently discovered human skeleton, forcing her to choose between her charitable mission and her future happiness, between truth and survival.


Murder at the White Palace by Allison Montclair

Murder at the White Palace by Allison Montclair

When they discover a body while scouting a place to throw a New Year’s Eve soiree for their clients, Miss Iris Sparks and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge, in post-World War II London, are drawn into a murder investigation that complicates both their love lives and must do what they can to protect their business and themselves. Sparks & Bainbridge no. 6


A Refiner’s Fire by Donna Leon

A Refiner’s Fire by Donna Leon

Commissario Guideo Brunetti investigates after one of his colleagues is attacked by a possible gang member while walking through Venice in the latest addition to the long-running Italian sleuthing series following So Shall You Reap. Commissario Brunetti no. 33


Shades of Mercy by Bruce Borgos

Shades of Mercy by Bruce Borgos

When a series of increasingly deadly events of unknown origins plague drought-stricken Lincoln County, former Army intelligence officer Porter Beck is led to a currently incarcerated 16-year-old tech-whiz who is more than she claims to be, especially she becomes the target of a vicious Mexican drug cartel and a brutal foreign agent. Porter Beck no. 2


Sugar on the Bones by Joe R. Lansdale

Sugar on the Bones by Joe R. Lansdale

When Minnie Polson is found burned to a crisp, PI partners Hap and Leonard dig into this case involving a huge insurance payout to her daughter and her estranged husband, but wonder if Minnie’s foolish family had it them to commit this grisly crime — or if there’s something far more sinister at work. Hap and Leonard no. 13


Trouble in Queenstown by Delia Pitts

Trouble in Queenstown by Delia Pitts

Back in Queenstown, New Jersey, PI Vandy Myrick is hired to tail the wife of the mayor’s nephew, Leo Hannah, for a divorce suit, but when her routine surveillance leads to a racially charged murder with connections to the Hannah family, Vandy refuses to back off until she finds the truth.


Trouble Is Brewing by Vicki Delany

Trouble Is Brewing by Vicki Delany

When bride-to-be Hannah unwraps a gift containing a beheaded Raggedy Ann doll at her shower, which is already tense, Cape Cod tearoom owner Lily Roberts finds things going from bad to worse when the groom’s father is found dead and must discover if all the family drama led to a fatality. Tea by the Sea no. 5


The Wrong Hands by Mark Billingham

The Wrong Hands by Mark Billingham

While dealing with his dead wife’s yet-to-be-solved murder and a briefcase containing a pair of severed hands, unconventional Detective Declan Miller finally has leverage against Wayne Cutler, whom he suspects killed his wife, which lands him in a mess he might not be able to dance his way out of. Detective Miller no. 2


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Romance

The Au Pair Affair by Tessa Bailey

The Au Pair Affair by Tessa Bailey

Jumping at the opportunity to be a live-in nanny for hockey veteran and newly single dad, Burgess, 26-year-old aspiring marine biologist Tallulah, while helping her tween charge fit in, helps Burgess get back on the dating scene, but when boundaries are crossed, they find their hearts on thin ice. Original.


Brothersong by T. J. Klune

Brothersong by T. J. Klune

Carter Bennett leaves the secret werewolves and shapeshifters of Caswell, Maine, risking the endless void of Omega insanity, to hunt down the half-brother of Fordo Livingstone, in the fourth novel of the series following Heartsong.


Calder Country by Janet Dailey

Calder Country by Janet Dailey

Making a deal to keep her smuggler father out of prison, Ruby Weaver agrees to help the Feds break up a bootlegging ring in 1920s Blue Moon, Montana, in the third novel of the series following A Calder at Heart. Calder series no. 2


A Choice Considered by Tracie Peterson

A Choice Considered by Tracie Peterson

Determined to stay in Cheyenne after following her father across the country as the transcontinental railroad is built, Melody Doyle must find a husband to stay, in the second novel of the series following A Love Discovered. Heart of Cheyenne no. 3


Meet Me at the Starlight by Rachel Hauck

Meet Me at the Starlight by Rachel Hauck

In 1987, supermodel Harlow Hayes arrives in a small Florida beach town to heal from heartbreak where she encounters Hollywood A-lister Matt Knight who is helping his plucky grandmother save her century-old skating rink, the Starlight — a magical place that gives everyone the second chance they need.


Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell

Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell

Fourteen years after they went their separate ways, 33-year-old Shiloh, a divorced, single mom living back in the same house she grew up in, attends a high school friend’s wedding in hopes of seeing Cary, the boy she never realized she loved until he was lost.


The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst

The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst

When the Great Library of Alyssium goes up in flames, introverted librarian Kiela and her sentient spider plant flee to the faraway island of her childhood where she opens a spell shop to restore the island’s power, coming out of her shell to make a new life for herself.


The Villain Edit by Laurie Devore

The Villain Edit by Laurie Devore

A contestant on the 1, the most obsessively watched reality dating show in the world, failed romance novelist Jac Matthis, while vying for the bachelor’s heart, realizes she may have met the love of her life in the show’s producer until she discovers she’s been turned into the show’s villain.


What We Hide by Colleen Coble and Rick Acker

What We Hide by Colleen Coble and Rick Acker

Returning to Tupelo Grove University to teach history, Savannah Webster finds herself under suspicion for murder and turns to her estranged husband, Hez, the best attorney she knows, for help staying alive long enough to find out who’s selling the university’s pre-Columbia artifacts and clear her name.


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Story Collections

The History of Sound: Stories by Ben Shattuck

The History of Sound: Stories by Ben Shattuck

A collection of 12 stories set across three centuries, from 1700s Nantucket to the contemporary woods of New Hampshire and beyond, examines the unexpected ways the past returns to us and how love and loss are entwined and transformed for generations.


There Is Happiness: New and Selected Stories by Brad Watson

There Is Happiness: New and Selected Stories by Brad Watson

This posthumous collection of never-before-read stories from a literary genius and master of contemporary Southern fiction rollercoasters from the mournful to the comical and is embedded in a literary heritage tied to place and at home in a universal literature of the absurd.


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Suspense & Thrillers

The Astrology House by Carinn Jade

The Astrology House by Carinn Jade

A group of wealthy Manhattanites escape to an astrology-themed retreat, where simmering resentments and long-held secrets lead to a shocking death. A first novel.


Bad River by Marc Cameron

Bad River by Marc Cameron

While investigating his brother’s mysterious death in South Dakota, Arliss Cutter returns to Alaska after the discovery of a woman’s body in the permafrost indicates the two have things in common in the sixth novel of the series following Breakneck. Arliss Cutler No. 6


Bad Tourists by Caro Carver

Bad Tourists by Caro Carver

Three tight-knit friends embark on an extravagant divorce trip to the Maldives where they can unwind and celebrate a new chapter in midlife—until they realize the resort of their dreams is harboring a killer.


The Bang-Bang Sisters by Rio Youers

The Bang-Bang Sisters by Rio Youers

Kickass bandmates who moonlight as highly skilled vigilantes, exacting justice on criminals who have escaped the system, Brea, Jessie and Flo find themselves at the mercy of a ruthless mobster who forces them to play a sadistic game that pits them against each other — and only one of them can survive.


The Best Lies by David Ellis

The Best Lies by David Ellis

Diagnosed a pathological liar with unimaginable skeletons in his family’s closet, crusading attorney Leo Balanoff, when his fingerprints show up on the murder weapon used to kill a ruthless drug dealer, is forced to go undercover for the FBI, finding himself backed into a corner, but has a few more cards left to play.


Breaking the Dark by Lisa Jewell

Breaking the Dark by Lisa Jewell

Retired superhero Jessica Jones helps a distraught mother search for her missing teenage twins who disappeared while visiting their father in the UK in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of None of This is True. Jessica Jones Marvel Crime no. 1


The Briar Club by Kate Quinn

The Briar Club by Kate Quinn

In 1950 Washington, DC, at an all-female boardinghouse called Briarwood, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, drawing her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship, but when a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the women must expose the true enemy in their midst.


Broiler by Eli Cranor

Broiler by Eli Cranor

The award-winning author of Don’t Know Tough returns with a story of two families — one white, one Mexican American — who come together in the ruthless underworld of an Arkansas chicken processing plant. chicken processing plant.


A Death in Cornwall by Daniel Silva

A Death in Cornwall by Daniel Silva

The #1 New York Times best-selling author returns with the year’s most anticipated new thriller in which a brutal murder, a missing masterpiece and mystery can only be solved by Gabriel Allon.


Desperation Reef by T. Jefferson Parker

Desperation Reef by T. Jefferson Parker

A woman whose husband died tragically twenty-five years prior at a big-wave surfing competition must face the same contest again when her grown twin sons follow in their father’s perilous footsteps.


Flashpoint by Catherine Coulter

Flashpoint by Catherine Coulter

As a deadly conspiracy unfolds, FBI agent Dillon Savich races to protect a witness from an attack and help a psychic child search for his missing father in the latest novel of the series following Reckoning.


Hard to Kill by James Patterson and Mike Lupica

Hard to Kill by James Patterson and Mike Lupica

Attorney Jane Smith takes on the case of an unlucky man accused of killing a family of three in the Hamptons and potentially a second family in the third novel of the series following Jane Effing Smith.


The Haters by Robyn Harding

The Haters by Robyn Harding

After a scathing one-star review of her book causes a flood of bad reviews, Camryn Lane, as the online harassment bleeds into her personal life, is determined to find out who’s behind it, and when the troll’s actions turn deadly, she will stop at nothing to finally learn why she’s being targeted.


The Hollywood Assistant by May Cobb

The Hollywood Assistant by May Cobb

A personal assistant to famous Hollywood couple, Marisol and Nate Sterling, Cassidy Foster, when Nate takes a personal interest in her, soon discovers why she was really hired — to be the perfect suspect when one of them is found dead.


It Had to Be You by Eliza Jane Brazier

It Had to Be You by Eliza Jane Brazier

Eva and Jonathan, two contract killers, each with a hit out on the other, must fight their growing attraction as they embark on a deadly high-stakes adventure across Western Europe, leaving behind a trail of bodies, where they discover they are also being hunted — by something even more dangerous than love.


Ladykiller by Katherine Wood

Ladykiller by Katherine Wood

When her childhood friend, an heiress, mysteriously vanishes, Abby arrives in Greece where the sole clue to her whereabouts is a manuscript she was working on, revealing the dark truth of her marriage and the dirty secrets of her high-profile guests, and Abby must separate fact from fiction to find her.


Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight

Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight

When her seemingly perfect mother, Kat, a successful corporate lawyer, goes missing, Cleo discovers Kat is her firm’s fixer and to find her, must uncover Kat’s secret life by following the shocking clues involving infidelity, blackmail and death threats, not realizing they’re both trying to save each other.


Look in the Mirror by Catherine Steadman

Look in the Mirror by Catherine Steadman

When her late father leaves her property in the British Virgin Islands —. vacation home she never knew existed, Nina wonders what else he was hiding and soon finds out the hard way that what you inherit can end up costing your life.


One Big Happy Family by Jamie Day

One Big Happy Family by Jamie Day

When the Bishop sisters arrive at The Precipice, a legendary, family-owned hotel on the coast of Maine, to claim it, 19-year-old chambermaid Charley Kelly, who pilfers from guests and is hiding a woman on the run, discovers this weekend could be the death of all of them when murder checks in.


Our Kind of Game by Johanna Copeland

Our Kind of Game by Johanna Copeland

Living the life she’s always wanted, Stella Parker finds her peaceful existence shattered when her neighbor claims to know things about her, forcing her to reckon with the dark secret upon which she’s built her life, in this debut thriller that explores the connection between physical and psychological harm.


Perihelion by Claudia Gray

Perihelion by Claudia Gray

After the death of their son, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, seizing a second chance to be a family, agree to help the FBI catch a serial killer targeting pregnant women in Washington, DC, and who possesses a mysterious power enough for the Bureau to re-open the X-Files if they’re willing.


Return to Wyldcliffe Heights by Carol Goodman

Return to Wyldcliffe Heights by Carol Goodman

While transcribing the sequel to Veronica St. Clair’s 1993 hit phenomenon, The Secret of Wyldcliffe Heights, Agnes discovers the true — and terrifying — events that inspired the original novel and must set free the stories of all the women traumatized and victimized by Wyldcliffe Heights, a former psychiatric hospital for “wayward women.”


Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Shadow by Brian Freeman

Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Shadow by Brian Freeman

When he meets a woman who recognizes him as David Webb, Bourne is forced to confront the dangerous ghosts of a past he doesn’t event remember.


Storm Child by Michael Robotham

Storm Child by Michael Robotham

When the bodies of 17 migrants wash up on shore, Evie, who, as a child, was discovered hiding in a secret room where a man had been tortured to death, discovers, with the help of psychologist Cyrus Haven, she is linked to this tragedy that could unlock the secrets of her past.


Things Don't Break on Their Own by Sarah Easter Collins

Things Don't Break on Their Own by Sarah Easter Collins

Her life defined by her sister’s disappearance, Willa, who sees fragments of her sister everywhere, attends a dinner party thrown by her first love, but since nothing about her life has been ordinary, she discovers that’s not about to change tonight.


The Unraveling by Vi Keeland

The Unraveling by Vi Keeland

When she encounters a man with whom she has a tragic connection, New York City psychiatrist Meredith McCall becomes obsessed with Gabriel Wright who becomes her patient, and crossing all ethical and moral bounds to treat him, she finds herself spiraling dangerously out of control.


What Have You Done? by Shari Lapena

What Have You Done? by Shari Lapena

When the body of Diana Brewer is discovered in a hayfield by a local farmer, sleepy little Fairfield, Vermont, a town of friendly, familiar faces becomes a town of suspects and a place of fear and paranoia where everyone wants answers.


What We'll Burn Last by Heather Chavez

What We'll Burn Last by Heather Chavez

Sixteen years after the disappearance of her sister, Grace, and Grace’s boyfriend Adam, Leyna, when something strange happens, returns home to find answers, and as a wildfire sparks, tempers flare and intentions turn deadly because someone knows what really happened that night — and how good the forest is at keeping its secrets.


The Wilds by Sarah Pearse

The Wilds by Sarah Pearse

After a young woman vanishes without a trace while on a trip to a Portuguese national park, leaving behind a disturbing map, Detective Elin Warner, as the park’s wild beauty turns sinister, must untangle the clues, discovering when you follow a trail, you have to be careful to watch your back. Detective Elin Warner no. 3


The Woman Who Lied by Claire Douglas

The Woman Who Lied by Claire Douglas

The best-selling author of detective novels, Emilia Ward is plunged into a nightmare when someone starts mimicking the plot of one of her books in real life, again and again, leading to the murder of someone she knows who dies the same way as a victim in the book she’s currently writing.


Zero Option by Peter Kirsanow and W. E. B. Griffin

Zero Option by Peter Kirsanow and W. E. B. Griffin

In November 1943, when Roosevelt and Churchill meet Stalin in Tehran, OSS leader Wild Bill Donovan has intelligence that someone is planning to assassinate both Western leaders at the conference and sends his best agent to thwart the plan even though they don’t know if the killer is a Nazi or an Ally.


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