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New Fiction September 2024

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Fantasy & Science Fiction

An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson

An Academy for Liars by Alexis Henderson

A young woman with a gift for persuasion, Lennon Carter, is invited to take an entrance exam for Drayton College, a school of magic hidden in a secret part of Savannah, where she learns how to master her strange power.


The Archimedes Engine by Peter F. Hamilton

The Archimedes Engine by Peter F. Hamilton

Longing for a better life, Finn, knowing only the repressive rule of the Celestials, when an ark ship, previously thought lost, arrives unexpectedly, he uses this opportunity to fulfill his destiny as a Traveler—brave heroes dedicated to ensuring humanity’s future by journey into the vast unknown of distant space.


Bringer of Dust by J. M. Miro

Bringer of Dust by J. M. Miro

In 1883 Agrigento, Sicily, with the orsine destroyed, Cairndale lies in ruins, and Marlowe has vanished; his only hope of rescue lies in a fabled second orsine—long-hidden, thought lost—which might not even exist. Talents Trilogy no. 2


Carl's Doomsday Scenario By Matt Dinniman

Carl's Doomsday Scenario By Matt Dinniman

Join Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princess Donut, as they fight fantastical creatures and deadly mobs to make it to the next level and build the kind of fan following the Dungeon Masters can’t ignore. Dungeon Crawler Carl no. 2


The Fallen Fruit by Shawntelle Madison

The Fallen Fruit by Shawntelle Madison

Combining history and fantasy, a sweeping multi-generational epic follows a woman who travels through time to end a family curse that has plagued her ancestors for generations.


A Fire in the Sky by Sophie Jordan

A Fire in the Sky by Sophie Jordan

A servant in the court of Penterra, Tamsyn’s job is to be punished for the misdeeds of the princesses and is commanded to marry Fell, the Beast of the Borderlands, leaving behind everything she’s ever known.


The Games Gods Play by Abigail Owen

The Games Gods Play by Abigail Owen

Once every century, the gods select a new ruler in a cutthroat competition, pushing mortal players to the limit; but this year, Hades is done sitting on the sidelines, and he’s picking a champion no one expects, who’ll fight for her life … for the god of Death.


In the Garden of Monsters by Crystal King

In the Garden of Monsters by Crystal King

In 1948 Italy, Julia, accompanying eccentric artist Salvador Dali to Sacro Bosco, the Garden of Monsters, as his muse, is drawn to their darkly enigmatic, yet terrifying, host and as Dali descends into madness, insisting she is Persephone, Julia begins to wonder if she’s truly the mythical queen of the Underworld reincarnated.


The Lantern of Lost Memories by Sanaka Hiiragi

The Lantern of Lost Memories by Sanaka Hiiragi

A magical photo studio is the place where people go after they die to view key moments from their life—and relive one precious memory before they pass into the afterlife.


The Naming Song by Jedediah Berry

The Naming Song by Jedediah Berry

Takes readers on an adventure through a world where words create reality and danger lurks in the nameless wilds.


Rebel by David Weber and Richard Fox

Rebel by David Weber and Richard Fox

The Fringe Worlds have paid enough of their children’s lives fighting the elite Five Hundred's war against the Terran League, and they no longer care what may happen if they dare to defy the Five Hundred. 


Six Scorched Roses: A Crowns of Nyaxia Short Novel by Carissa Broadbent

Six Scorched Roses: A Crowns of Nyaxia Short Novel by Carissa Broadbent

Lilith must deal with six roses, six vials of blood and six visits to a vampire who could be her salvation … or her damnation. Crowns of Nyaxia no. 1.5


Somewhere Beyond the Sea by T. J. Klune 

Somewhere Beyond the Sea by T. J. Klune 

But when Arthur Parnassus, the headmaster of a strange orphanage catering to magical children, is summoned to make a public statement about his dark past, he finds himself at the helm of a fight for the future that his family, and all magical people, deserve. Cerulean Chronicles no. 2


A Song of Ash and Moonlight by Claire Legrand 

A Song of Ash and Moonlight by Claire Legrand 

After the curse destroying their families finally breaks, Farrin and Ryder must put aside their hate and work together as the old gods of Middlemist awaken, in the second book of the trilogy following A Crown of Ivy and Glass. Middlemist Trilogy no. 2


Space Oddity by Catherynne M. Valente 

Space Oddity by Catherynne M. Valente 

During the Metagalactic Grand Prix, part gladiatorial contest, part beauty pageant, part concert extravaganza, the wars of the past returns, threatening the fate of the Earth and forcing humanity to rise again. Space Opera no. 2


Vilest Things by Chloe Gong 

Vilest Things by Chloe Gong 

When Anton Makusa's first love, the beautiful, explosive Otta Avia, awakens from a yearslong coma and reveals a secret that threatens the monarchy’s authority over Talin, chaos erupts. Flesh & False Gods no. 2


General Fiction

The Book Swap by Tessa Bickers

The Book Swap by Tessa Bickers

When she accidentally donates her favorite book containing a memento she can’t be without to the community library, Erin, when the book turns up a week later with fresh notes in the margins, starts a life-changing conversation through an anonymous book exchange that leads to something unexpected.


The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston

The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston

Eighty-two-year-old Frederick Fife, kind at heart, is desperately lonely, broke and on the brink of homelessness until a case of mistaken identity lands him in a nursing home where he learns about the man’s past and how he can return to a life in better condition than he found it.


Bright I Burn by Molly Aitken

Bright I Burn by Molly Aitken

Escaping the domestic drudgery of thirteenth-century Ireland, Alice builds her father's inn into an empire, but faces whispers of witchcraft and scandals as both her wealth and number of dead husbands rise in a novel inspired by a true story.


Colored Television by Danzy Senna

Colored Television by Danzy Senna

A dark comedy looks at second acts, creative appropriation and the racial identity–industrial complex.


Entitlement by Rumaan Alam

Entitlement by Rumaan Alam

A woman working as an assistant to an octogenarian billionaire in the process of giving away his huge fortune fights the seduction of money, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Leave the World Behind.


Haunt Sweet Home by Sarah Pinsker

Haunt Sweet Home by Sarah Pinsker

On the set of a kitschy reality TV show, staged scares transform into unnerving reality, in a spooky ghost story from a multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author.


The Holiday Cottage by Sarah Morgan

The Holiday Cottage by Sarah Morgan

The USA Today best-selling author of Beach House Summer returns with a heartfelt story of friendship, finding yourself and the surprising ties that bring us together.


If I Were You by Cesca Major

If I Were You by Cesca Major

When, on the way to her sister’s swanky wedding, she and her boyfriend accidentally swap bodies, Chief Bridesmaid Amy and Flynn find their relationship tested to the breaking point as they discover big secrets in the other’s past amidst spa mornings, exes, flash mob rehearsals, speeches and more.


Passiontide by Monique Roffey

Passiontide by Monique Roffey

When a female musician is murdered on the small island of St. Colibri, after a string of similar deaths, four outraged local women—the victim’s friend, a sex workers’ collective organizer, a local activist and the prime minister’s wife, join forces despite their differences, finding new ways to help one another.


A Place to Hide by Ronald H. Balson

A Place to Hide by Ronald H. Balson

From the winner of the National Jewish Book Award comes a novel of heroism and resistance during World War II.


Quarterlife by Devika Rege

Quarterlife by Devika Rege

When the Bharat Party comes to power after a divisive election, Naren, a jaded Wall Street consultant, is lured home to Mumbai, in a groundbreaking portrait of a nation on the cusp of a new age. A debut novel.


Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell

Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell

Black man Charlie Brunton, and his long-lost daughter, Sidney, must navigate a new world after all the while people die in a mysterious global event.


Waiting for Christmas by Lynn Austin

Waiting for Christmas by Lynn Austin

In a Gilded Age Christmas novella by a best-selling author, the year is 1901 and the hustle and bustle of the holidays is descending on New York’s Fifth Avenue.


Yoruba Boy Running by Bivi Bandele

Yoruba Boy Running by Bivi Bandele

A fictionalized retelling follows African linguist and clergyman Samuel Ajayi Crowther’s miraculous journey from slave to liberator.


We Kept Her in the Cellar by W. R. Gorman 

We Kept Her in the Cellar by W. R. Gorman 

A dark and twisted reimagining of Cinderella, told from her stepsister's point of view.


Historical Fiction

The Booklover's Library by Madeline Martin

The Booklover's Library by Madeline Martin

In wartime England, widow Emma, when she’s separated from her daughter, seeks solace in the friendships she forms at Boots’ Booklover’s Library, but when the Blitz intensifies, she fights to reunite with her daughter, learning to depend on her community and the power of literature to find hope in the darkest of times.


The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk

The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk

A historical-fiction novel set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas. By a Nobel Prize-winning author.


Katharine, the Wright Sister by Tracey Enerson Wood

Katharine, the Wright Sister by Tracey Enerson Wood

This sweeping historical novel finally tells the often-overlooked story of the Wright brothers’ younger sister, Katharine, who kept their business afloat, secured financial backers, marketing their invention worldwide and held the family together.


The Mesmerist by Caroline Woods

The Mesmerist by Caroline Woods

In a book ripped from the headlines of history, three very different women must work together to stop a killer and save the truest home they’ve ever known.


The Shadow Key by Susan Stokes-Chapman

The Shadow Key by Susan Stokes-Chapman

On an isolated estate in late-18th-century rural Wales, a young English doctor uncovers dangerous secrets that may threaten his own life, in a Gothic tale by the best-selling author of Pandora.


The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts by Louis Bayard

The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts by Louis Bayard

A historical novel explores the life of Oscar Wilde's wife, Constance, and their two sons in the aftermath of the famous playwright's imprisonment for homosexuality, told against the backdrop of Victorian England and World War I.


Horror

Dearest by Jacquie Walters

Dearest by Jacquie Walters

A new mom in need of help opens her door to her long-estranged mother—only to invite something much darker inside.


The Devil by Name by Keith Rosson

The Devil by Name by Keith Rosson

In a chilling sequel to Fever House, anyone who managed to survive that doomsday call has a harrowing answer to the question, “Where were you when the Message came through?”


Devils Kill Devils by Johnny Compton

Devils Kill Devils by Johnny Compton

When her guardian angel, Angelo, murders someone she loves, Sarita begins to see what's really been lurking in the shadows surrounding her, and she will have to embrace the evil within if she hopes to make it out alive.


The Haunting of Moscow House by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore

The Haunting of Moscow House by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore

In a gothic horror tale set in post-revolutionary Russia, two once-aristocratic sisters race to uncover their family’s long-buried secrets, in a house haunted by a past that is dangerous—and deadly—to remember. By the author of The Witch and the Tsar.


The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir 

The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir 

In contemporary Reykjavík, Iðunn must deal with mysterious propensity to sleepwalk, a condition that is causing her constant fatigue.


So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison

So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison

While on a birthday-weekend getaway with her best friend, Sloane Parker, after a wild night out with a group of mysterious strangers takes a horrifying turn, changing both their lives, must come to terms with some eternal consequences as she discovers it’s never too late to find satisfaction.


We Came to Welcome You by Vincent Tirado

We Came to Welcome You by Vincent Tirado

A married couple moves into a gated “community” that slowly creeps into a pervasive dread and shines a light on systemic racism.


W1ll1am by Mason Coile

W1ll1am by Mason Coile

Psychological horror meets cyber noir in a haunted house story in which the haunting is by AI.


Where I End by Sophie White

Where I End by Sophie White

A young woman falls into a dark obsession after a new artist and her baby arrive on her small Irish island.


Literary

Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

From a Booker Prize finalist and two-time National Book Award finalist comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France.


Exposure by Ava Dellaira

Exposure by Ava Dellaira

In multi-perspective storytelling filled with humanity and empathy, a novel forces readers to reckon with conflicting truths that are not easily reduced to right or wrong.


Intermezzo by Sally Rooney 

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney 

In the wake of their father's death, two brothers—successful Dublin lawyer Peter and his younger brother Ivan, a competitive chess player—find different ways to deal with their grief, which affects not only their lives, but the lives of those they hold dear.


The Last Dream by Pedro Almodóvar

The Last Dream by Pedro Almodóvar

A two-time Academy Award-winning writer and director offers a collection of 12 stories spanning memoir, comedy, autofiction, parody, pastiche and gothic fiction.


Madwoman by Chelsea Bieker

Madwoman by Chelsea Bieker

Looks at motherhood and motherloss and the brutal, mighty things women do to keep themselves and each other alive.


Next Stop by Benjamin Resnick

Next Stop by Benjamin Resnick

After a black hole consumes the State of Israel and similar strange events occur in major cities around the world, Jewish Americans find themselves rethinking their vulnerability and connection to world.


Once More from the Top by Emily Layden

Once More from the Top by Emily Layden

At the height of her career, legendary pop star Dylan Read, when her childhood best friend’s body is found, is forced to reckon with the secret she’s kept hidden for 15 years, in this gripping and keenly observant novel about friendship, ambition and the cost of fame.


Playground by Richard Powers

Playground by Richard Powers

The tiny atoll of French Polynesia has been chosen for humanity’s next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea, but first, the island’s residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory.


A Reason to See You Again by Jami Attenberg

A Reason to See You Again by Jami Attenberg

A mother and her two daughters find out the hard way over forty years that running from the past can’t save you, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins.


Small Rain by Garth Greenwell

Small Rain by Garth Greenwell

A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art and beauty—in a novel by an award-winning author.


Snake Oil by Kelsey Rae Dimberg

Snake Oil by Kelsey Rae Dimberg

The founder of a billion-dollar wellness company, Rhoda, paranoid of the people surrounding her, questions the lengths she’ll go to protect what she’s built, while two employees, uncovering a story that could expose Rhoda as the hypocrite they believe her to be, must decide how much they’re willing to sacrifice to bring her down.


Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

While defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother, town lawyer Bob Burgess falls into a deep and abiding friendship with acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, and together they meet the iconic Olive Kitteridge and spend afternoons in Olive’s apartment, telling each other stories, which imbues their lives with meaning.


Two-step Devil by Jamie Quatro

Two-step Devil by Jamie Quatro

Two societal outsiders find their lives converging in the contemporary American South, in a novel by the author of Fire Sermon.


Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte

Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte

Sharply observant and outrageously funny, this novel-in-stories delves into the touchiest problems of modern life, seamlessly transitioning between the personal crises of an unforgettable cast of characters and the comic tragedies of sex, relationships, identity and the internet, redefining what it means to be rejected by lovers, friends, society and oneself.


Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin

Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin

Two couples in two separate but similar times—set against a backdrop of political disappointment and intellectual controversy—face the challenges of marriage, fidelity and pregnancy. By the author of Art Monsters.


Mystery & Detective

The Accomplice by Curtis Jackson

The Accomplice by Curtis Jackson

The first Black female Texas Ranger, Nia Adams goes up against a Vietnam vet turned thief who steals secrets of the rich and powerful and blackmails them for millions, working to expose him and the criminal enterprise he works for, putting her life and career on the line as the body count rises.


Agnes Sharp and the Trip of a Lifetime by Leonie Swann

Agnes Sharp and the Trip of a Lifetime by Leonie Swann

The elderly residents of Sunset Hall investigate after another series of murders shock the sleepy town of Duck End, in the second novel of the series following The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp. Miss Sharp Investigates no. 2


Death at the Sanatorium by Ragnar Jónasson

Death at the Sanatorium by Ragnar Jónasson

As young Icelandic police officer Helgi Reykdal delves deeper into decades-old murders at a sanatorium, he decides to try to meet with the original suspects, but soon he finds silence and suspicion at every turn, as he tries to finally solve the mystery.


Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson

Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson

Ex-detective Jackson Brodie investigates a string of unsolved art thefts that point to a former estate that was converted into a hotel and now hosts Murder Mystery themed weekends, in the sixth novel of the series following Big Sky. Jackson Brodie no. 6


Death by Misadventure by Tasha Alexander

Death by Misadventure by Tasha Alexander

Lady Emily must solve a string of high stakes “accidents” while trapped in a lavish villa in the Bavarian Alps. Lady Emily Mysteries no. 18


Fatal Gambit by David Lagercrantz

Fatal Gambit by David Lagercrantz

Hans Rekke and Micaela Vargas investigate when a man brings them a recent photo of his wife who has supposedly been dead fourteen years in the second novel of the series following Dark Music.


Fatal Intrusion by Jeffery Deaver and Isabella Maldonado

Fatal Intrusion by Jeffery Deaver and Isabella Maldonado

To stop a ruthless serial killer who is threatening his sister, a by-the-books Homeland Security agent, Carmen Sanchez, grudgingly teams up with a brilliant but unorthodox private security expert to unravel a sinister web of secrets. Sanchez & Heron no. 1


A Grave in the Woods by Martin Walker

A Grave in the Woods by Martin Walker

Bruno helps an American archaeologist working as a special tourist guide to determine what happened to those buried in an unmarked grave from World War II in the latest addition to the long-running series following A Chateau Under Siege. Bruno, Chief of Police no. 17


The Grim Steeper by Gretchen Rue

The Grim Steeper by Gretchen Rue

Bookstore owner Phoebe Winchester is putting on her first major author event when a body is discovered and the plot goes off the rails, in a cozy mystery by the author of Death by a Thousand Sips. Witches' Brew Mystery no. 3


Guide Me Home by Attica Locke

Guide Me Home by Attica Locke

Detective Darren Mathews is pulled out of an early retirement to investigate the case of a missing black college student from an all-white sorority and soon finds a town that will stop at nothing to keep its secrets hidden? Highway 59 no. 3


A Killer Clue by Victoria Gilbert

A Killer Clue by Victoria Gilbert

The owner of an antiquarian bookshop visits retired librarian Jane Hunter and eccentric collector Cameron Clewe to help clear her mother’s name of a murder she didn’t commit, in the second book of the series following A Cryptic Clue. Hunter and Clewe no. 2


A Messy Murder by Simon Brett

A Messy Murder by Simon Brett

A professional declutterer must unravel the mystery of her curmudgeonly client's death, suspected to be murder rather than suicide, while managing her own family's chaos in the fourth novel of the series following Waste of a Life. Decluttering Mysteries no. 4


Murder in Berkeley Square by Vanessa Riley

Murder in Berkeley Square by Vanessa Riley

After Lady Abigail Worthing and her neighbor, Stapleton Henderson, get snowed in at a dinner party held at the home of Lord Charles Duncan, one of London's most powerful magistrates, an evening of dinner and debates turns deadly. Lady Worthing Mysteries no. 3


Passions in Death by J. D. Robb

Passions in Death by J. D. Robb

Homicide Detective Eve Dallas hunts a killer who turns a wedding party into a murder scene, in the latest novel by the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Random in Death. In Death no. 59


The Phantom Patrol by James R. Benn

The Phantom Patrol by James R. Benn

An investigation into a gang of Nazi-affiliated art thieves leads Billy Boyle and his comrades directly into the line of fire at the Battle of the Bulge. Billy Boyle WWII Mystery no. 19


The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco by Michelle Chouinard

The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco by Michelle Chouinard

The granddaughter of a serial killer is on the case when a new killer is copying her grandfather's crimes.


A Slay Ride Together With You by Vicki Delany

A Slay Ride Together With You by Vicki Delany

Rudolph, New York shop owner Merry Wilkinson’s best friend Vicky Casey is newly engaged to Chef Mark Grosse and is moving into the historic Cole House, but soon a murder complicates things, in a mystery by a national best-selling author. A Year-Round Christmas Mystery no. 7


We Solve Murders by Richard Osman

We Solve Murders by Richard Osman

Investigator Steve Wheeler comes out of retirement when his daughter-in-law, Amy, needs help finding out who left a dead body on a remote island with a huge bag of money.


What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust by Alan Bradley

What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust by Alan Bradley

Amateur sleuth Flavia de Luce, along with her pestilent younger cousin, investigates the murder of a former public hangman and uncovers secrets that bring the greatest shock of her life. By a New York Times best-selling author. Flavia de Luce no. 11


Where They Last Saw Her by Marcie R. Rendon

Where They Last Saw Her by Marcie R. Rendon

From the award-winning author of the Cash Blackbear series, comes a novel of a Native American woman who learns of the disappearance of one of her own and decides enough is enough.


The Whitewashed Tombs by Kwei Quartey

The Whitewashed Tombs by Kwei Quartey

Vicious hate crimes are rocking the LGBTQ+ community in Accra, and prejudice and politics threaten to stymie PI Emma Djan’s investigation. Emma Djan Investigations no. 4


Romance

The Christmas Inn by Pamela M. Kelley

The Christmas Inn by Pamela M. Kelley

What begins as a quick stay over the holidays for Riley Sanders to help her mom at her inn turns into something that means much more: a second chance at romance, a deeper sense of found family and all the joy and wonder that comes with Christmastime on Cape Cod.


Counting Miracles by Nicholas Sparks

Counting Miracles by Nicholas Sparks

Returning to 1903 Iowa, a reclusive musician, Otis Taylor, returns to settle family affairs and find his missing niece, while Sadie West, seeking to help her family, creates a transformative bond with him, potentially unlocking the mystery of his niece.


The Cursed by Harper L. Woods

The Cursed by Harper L. Woods

After her aunt’s death and the demise of the Covenant, the narrator, realizing she had been naïve to a lifetime of manipulation, must protect the Coven from her husband’s hatred—no matter what the cost.


Fear the Flames by Olivia Rose Darling

Fear the Flames by Olivia Rose Darling

An exiled princess stripped of her dragons, Elwoen Atarah, establishes a secret kingdom of her own and plans vengeance against her father, King Garrick of Imirath, with the help of the most feared, dangerous man in Ravaryn.


The Highlander's Return by Lynsay Sands

The Highlander's Return by Lynsay Sands

A bold warrior who never expected to marry meets his match in a fiery young widow, in the latest installment of a New York Times best-selling author’s Highland Brides series. Highland Brides no. 12


A Jingle Bell Mingle by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone

A Jingle Bell Mingle by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone

An adult film worker visits Christmas Notch, Vermont to find the inspiration to complete a screenplay she sold to a much more wholesome network, in the third novel of the series following A Holly Jolly Ever After. A Christmas Notch no. 3


Lucy Undying: A Dracula Novel by Kiersten White

Lucy Undying: A Dracula Novel by Kiersten White

Escaping from Dracula’s clutches and trying to discover who she really is and what she genuinely wants, Lucy Westenra finds her undead life taking an unexpected turn in 21st-century London where she falls in love with Iris, who is also yearning to break free from her past.


The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter

The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter

The bridge is out, the phones are down and the most famous mystery writer in the world just disappeared out of a locked room two days before Christmas, in a novel by the best-selling author of The Blonde Identity.


Story Collections

Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik

Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik

A collection of 13 short stories from the New York Times best-selling author of the Scholomance Trilogy includes tales of a mushroom witch, an Ancient Roman Dragon Crops led by Mark Antony and a young bride who gambles with Death.


Safe Enough: And Other Stories by Lee Child

Safe Enough: And Other Stories by Lee Child

Meticulously plotted and packed with Child's trademark action and suspense, a collection of 20 short stories shows the author's mastery of the short form, and they've never been gathered before now.


A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez

A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez

Offers twelve unsettling stories where ordinary people living in Argentina, particularly women, must confront terrifying and surreal encounters with the supernatural, in the new collection from the author of Our Share of the Night.


Suspense & Thrillers

Ashes Never Lie by Lee Goldberg

Ashes Never Lie by Lee Goldberg

Arson investigator Walter Sharpe and his new partner Andrew Walker, a former US marshal, team up with two homicide detectives after a string of fires form a bizarre pattern, in the second novel of the series following Malibu Burning. Sharpe & Walker no. 2


Bad Liar by Tami Hoag

Bad Liar by Tami Hoag

Sheriff’s detective Nick Fourcade is thrust into a murder investigation while his colleague Annie Broussard delves into a missing person case, unraveling a web of deception and danger that leads deep into the Louisiana swamp, where nothing is as it seems. Broussard and Fourcade no. 3


Break Every Rule by Brian Freeman

Break Every Rule by Brian Freeman

Hiding under a false identity, Tommy Miller must confront his deadly past and follow clues left by his abducted wife to rescue both her and their daughter, all while evading police and ruthless enemies from Florida to the Bahamas.


Capture or Kill by Vince Flynn and Don Bentley

Capture or Kill by Vince Flynn and Don Bentley

Mitch Rapp faces an Iranian foe bent on destabilizing the Middle East in the newest thriller in a best-selling series. Mitch Rapp no. 23


Clive Cussler Ghost Soldier by Mike Maden

Clive Cussler Ghost Soldier by Mike Maden

Juan Cabrilla and the crew of the Oregon track down a mysterious arms dealer chasing him from Afghanistan to Kuala Lumpur known as “the Vendor,” in the latest addition to the long-running series following Hellburner. Oregon Files no. 18


Cold Trail by Taylor Moore

Cold Trail by Taylor Moore

DEA Special Agent Garrett Kohl partners with an old nemesis on a new energy venture to help get his girlfriend and adopted son the life they deserve, in the fourth novel of the series following Ricochet. Garrett Kohl no. 4


Den of Iniquity by J. A. Jance

Den of Iniquity by J. A. Jance

Former Seattle cop J.P. Beaumont investigates a young man who supposedly died of a fentanyl overdose while dealing with turmoil in his own personal life, in the latest addition to the long-running series following Nothing to Lose. J. P. Beaumont no. 26


The Examiner by Janice Hallett

The Examiner by Janice Hallett

Told in emails, text messages and essays, this innovative page-turner follows a group of six Royal Hastings University students in an art master's program that goes dangerously awry.


An Eye for an Eye by Jeffrey Archer

An Eye for an Eye by Jeffrey Archer

To save innocent lives, Scotland Yard’s Chief Superintendent William Warwick must untangle a master criminal’s revenge plot spanning continents after a dying lord’s will triggers explosive consequences, including murder, for a billion-dollar deal in a London. William Warwick no. 7


Fire on the Horizon by Wilbur Smith

Fire on the Horizon by Wilbur Smith

In 1899 South Africa, the Courtneys and the Ballantynes come together once again, in the sequel to the worldwide best-sellers The Triumph of the Sun and King of Kings.


The Forest of Lost Souls by Dean Koontz

The Forest of Lost Souls by Dean Koontz

A fearless woman, raised in the forest, fights against a group of powerful men, in a novel about good versus evil, the enduring nature of myth and the power of love by a #1 New York Times best-selling author.


Graveyard Shift by M. L. Rio

Graveyard Shift by M. L. Rio

Five night-shift cemetery workers discover a mysterious, freshly dug grave, leading them to trail the gravedigger and uncover connections to recent strange events in their town in the new novel by the author of If We Were Villains.


Haunted by Kat Martin

Haunted by Kat Martin

A murder in 1898 and one in 2024 dovetail and connect in unexpected ways in a suspense novel by a New York Times best-selling author.


The Hitchcock Hotel by Stephanie Wrobel

The Hitchcock Hotel by Stephanie Wrobel

A Hitchcock fanatic with an agenda invites old friends for a weekend stay at his secluded themed hotel, in a new novel of suspense by the international best-selling author of Darling Rose Gold.


I Dreamed of Falling by Julie Dahl

I Dreamed of Falling by Julie Dahl

The death of a young mother triggers an avalanche of secrets in a small Hudson Valley town.


Legacy of Blood by Heather Graham

Legacy of Blood by Heather Graham

The Hungarian noblewoman, Elizabeth Báthory’s unspeakable crimes against her people are being reenacted in Paris and across the French countryside, and unless Special Agent Jeannette LaFarge and recent recruit Detective Daniel Murray act quickly, the upcoming grape harvest promises to yield blood instead of wine.


Lies He Told Me: She’s in Love—with a Liar. by James Patterson and David Ellis

Lies He Told Me: She’s in Love—with a Liar. by James Patterson and David Ellis

When Marcie Bowers, an attorney and mother of two in Hemingway Grove, Illinois, discovers her husband David's secret life, it could mean a death sentence for them all.


On the Hunt by Iris Johansen

On the Hunt by Iris Johansen

A #1 New York Times best-selling author introduces a bold new heroine—and her search-and-rescue Golden Retriever, Mack—as Kira Drake begins an international search for an elusive killer who bombed a museum in Paris. Kira Drake no. 1


Queen Macbeth by Val McDermid

Queen Macbeth by Val McDermid

A counternarrative drawing on the historical record delivers an illuminating portrait of Shakespeare’s most famous villain, and the treacherous pursuit of ambition that made her legendary.


Robert B. Parker's Buzz Kill by Alison Gaylin

Robert B. Parker's Buzz Kill by Alison Gaylin

Called upon by a billionaire media mogul to investigate the disappearance of his son, a lazy, unscrupulous and notorious partier, PI Sunny Randall, unable to turn down his life-changing offer, is on the case, but when bodies start piling up, she must quickly find answers before she gets caught in the crossfire. Sunny Randall no. 12


The Swimmer by Loreth Anne White

The Swimmer by Loreth Anne White

On a fog-shrouded beach early one morning, Chloe Cooper witnesses the murder of a swimmer, and she suddenly sees her neighbors in a sinister new light, in a suspense novel by the award-winning author of The Maid's Diary.


Syndicate by Felix Francis

Syndicate by Felix Francis

Building his fortune organizing racehorse syndicates, Chester Newton, while at the Epson Derby, the premier flat race in the UK, discovers someone is trying to take over one of his syndicates by force and for the first time, he’s in a race for his life and the lives of his loved ones.


Tiny Threads by Lilliam Rivera

Tiny Threads by Lilliam Rivera

A young woman gets her dream job working for a famous designer—and discovers the dark side of the glamorous world of fashion.


The Trap by Ava Glass

The Trap by Ava Glass

British spy Emma Makepeace races against the clock to stop the Russians from carrying out a high-profile assassination, in a thriller from the author of Alias Emma.


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The Banned Books Club by Brenda Novak

The Banned Books Club by Brenda Novak

Returning to Wakefield, Iowa, Gia Rossi comes face-to-face with Mr. Hart, the teacher who was fired after she reported him for sexual misconduct, which had divided the town, and with the support of an unlikely ally, sets out to prove Mr. Hart’s guilt.


Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors

Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors

After the unexpected death of their sister Nicky sends them reeling, the remaining three Blue sisters return to New York to stop the sale of the apartment they were raised in, where they must reckon with disappointments, loss and secrets.


The Christmas Cottage by Davis Bunn

The Christmas Cottage by Davis Bunn

Childhood friends cross paths at Christmas in the kindhearted coastal town of Miramar Bay.


Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty

Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty

An ordinary flight becomes extraordinary when passengers learn of their predicted deaths from a mysterious woman known as “The Death Lady,” leading to a race against time for some and a chance to redefine their time left for others.


A Home for the Holidays by Taylor Hahn

A Home for the Holidays by Taylor Hahn

After learning that her mother, Connie, has died two weeks before Christmas, wedding singer Mel Hart meets a woman claiming to be her mom’s estranged best friend who offers an alternate narrative where Connie was almost a famous country singer.


The Life Impossible by Matt Haig

The Life Impossible by Matt Haig

When Grace Winters is left a house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, she arrives in Ibiza with no guidebook and no plan, in a novel by the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Midnight Library.


The Lightning Bottles by Marissa Stapley

The Lightning Bottles by Marissa Stapley

Grunge-era musician Jane Pyre goes on a journey to find out what really happened to her husband and partner in music, who abruptly disappeared years earlier.


The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave

The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave

As Nora and her estranged brother Sam form an uneasy alliance to unravel the mystery of their father's death, they start putting together the pieces of their father’s past and uncover a family secret that changes everything.


Santa's Secret by Fern Michaels

Santa's Secret by Fern Michaels

Friends since high school, four 30-something women reunite for a once-in-a-lifetime Italian adventure during Christmastime, filled with tons of laughter, mischief, great food and even a little romance.


The Women Behind the Door by Roddy Doyle

The Women Behind the Door by Roddy Doyle

The Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha presents a mother-daughter story filled with struggle and redemption.