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New Fiction August 2024

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Fantasy & Science fiction

The Crimson Crown by Heather Walter

The Crimson Crown by Heather Walter

To prove herself to her coven, who are hiding from the White King and his brutal war against witchcraft, Ayleth arrives at the White Palace, a decadent world of drama and deceit, where she must find the strength to transform into someone she never imagined she could be — the wickedest witch of them all. The Crimson Crown Duology no. 1


A Darkness Returns by Raymond E. Feist

A Darkness Returns by Raymond E. Feist

Hatu, the last scion of the Firemane dynasty is sent through time and space to study under the great magician Magnus, in the first book of a new series from the author of the “Riftwar Cycle” series. Dragonwar Saga no. 1


The Doors of Midnight by R. R. Virdi

The Doors of Midnight by R. R. Virdi

Myths begin, and a storyteller’s tale deepens, in the sequel novel to the breakout Silk Road-inspired fantasy hit The First Binding. Tales of Tremaine no. 2


Dragons of Eternity by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman

Dragons of Eternity by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman

Transported to a war-torn past by a magical gem, Destina and her companions must fix the fractured timeline before their present vanishes and evil controls the world, in the third novel of the series following Dragons of Fate. Dragonlance Destinies no. 3


The Enchanted Lies of Céleste Artois by Ryan Graudin

The Enchanted Lies of Céleste Artois by Ryan Graudin

In 1900s Paris, forger and con artist Céleste Artois makes an irresistible deal with a mysterious and beautiful stranger: the gift of time in exchange for her forging talents, but soon discovers there’s more to this devil’s bargain than meets the eye as a powerful and deadly magic blankets the city.


Full Speed to a Crash Landing by Beth Revis

Full Speed to a Crash Landing by Beth Revis

After her scavenging trip goes awry, Ada Lamarr is rescued by a government-funded salvage crew whose leader, Rian White, suspects she knows more than she should about their mysterious cargo, in the first novel of a new space heist trilogy.


The Mercy of Gods by James S. A. Corey

The Mercy of Gods by James S. A. Corey

When the Carryx decimate the human population, taking the best and brightest of Anjiin society to serve on their homeworld, Dafyd Alkhor, swept along with them, is forced to compete against the other captive species with extinction as the price of failure. Captive’s War no.


The Seventh Spell by Davis Bunn

The Seventh Spell by Davis Bunn

Traveling to Mars armed with seven ancient spells, Adrian Capstan, hoping to connect to the red planet’s magical forces to bring the mysterious spells alive, is instead drawn into an epic fight for survival and must unlock the spells’ true power before it’s too late.


She Who Knows: Firespitter by Nnedi Okorafor

She Who Knows: Firespitter by Nnedi Okorafor

When she receives The Call, which has never happened to a female in the history of her village, 13-year-old Najeeba must journey with her father and brothers to mine salt at the Dead Lake where her presence changes everything and her family will never be the same.



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General Fiction

Close Knit by Jenny Colgan

Close Knit by Jenny Colgan

The New York Times best-selling author returns with the story of a woman who leaves her knitting circle for a job to become a flight attendant in this romantic summer novel set in Scotland’s Northern isles.


The Divorce by Moa Herngren, trans. Alice Menzies

The Divorce by Moa Herngren, trans. Alice Menzies

A decades-long, seemingly rock-solid marriage suddenly falls apart during one hot Stockholm summer.


The Family Business 7: New Orleans by Carl Weber & C. N. Phillips

The Family Business 7: New Orleans by Carl Weber & C. N. Phillips

Keep up with the Duncan family down South in New Orleans.


The Fertile Earth by Ruthvika Rao

The Fertile Earth by Ruthvika Rao

A story of love and resistance centers on two young people born across social lines, set against a tumultuous political landscape in India.


Freedom Is a Feast by Alejandro Puyana

Freedom Is a Feast by Alejandro Puyana

In 1964, idealistic Stanislavo joins the leftist movement in Venezuela’s jungles, where he meets Emiliana, sparking a tumultuous romance that resurfaces almost forty years later in Caracas, leading to a fateful reckoning amidst the chaos of political upheaval.


The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki, trans. Jesse Kirkwood

The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki, trans. Jesse Kirkwood

In Japan, in an enchanting coffee shop run by talking cats, every person who visits there, including a down-on-her-luck screenwriter and a technologically challenged website designer, feels lost and these feline guides set them back on their fated paths, for there is a very special reason the shop appeared to each of them.


The Ghost Cat by Alex Howard

The Ghost Cat by Alex Howard

Follows a cat through his nine lives in Edinburgh, moving through the ever-changing city and its inhabitants over centuries


Hera by Jennifer Saint

Hera by Jennifer Saint

Betrayed by Zeus’s ruthlessness after overthrowing her father, Hera questions her place as his wife and as a mother and seeks a path beyond endless violence in a retelling of the classic Greek myth.


How to Leave the House by Nathan Newman

How to Leave the House by Nathan Newman

During his last day before leaving for university, Natwest, desperately waiting for a deeply embarrassing package he ordered, embarks on a small-town odyssey to find it, encountering an unforgettable cast of characters along the way, in this humorous story of being always connected to everyone and everything.


Medusa by Nataly Gruender

Medusa by Nataly Gruender

Medusa, transformed by Athena into a snake-haired monster whose gaze turns those who look upon her into stone, searches for a safe haven as Perseus, tasked to bring the king her head, closes in, forcing her to choose between becoming the monster everyone expects her to be or clinging to the last shred of her humanity.


Mina's Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa, trans. Stephen Snyder

Mina's Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa, trans. Stephen Snyder

In 1972, 12-year-old Tomoko is sent to stay with her affluent aunt’s family in a coastal town in Japan where she, beguiled by her devoted aunt, her German great-aunt, her charming uncle and her cousin, Mina, who draws her into an intoxicating world of secrets and storytelling, soon discovers the truth behind their glittering façade.


Plays Well With Others by Sophie Brickman

Plays Well With Others by Sophie Brickman

Finding herself going to impossible lengths to secure the best spot for her gifted and precocious son in NYC’s kindergartens, New York Times journalist, when her intensifying rivalry with a hotshot divorce lawyer pushes her to the brink, realizes she’s no better than the cutthroat preschool parents she’s always judged.


The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins

The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins

From the author of the #1 international best-seller The Binding comes a story of gothic suspense about a powerful family, the magical and dangerous silk their fortune is built upon and the exploitative history they are desperately trying to hide.


Silken Gazelles by Jokha Alharthi, trans. Marilyn Booth

Silken Gazelles by Jokha Alharthi, trans. Marilyn Booth

Years after her friend Asiya is forced to their small mountainside village, Ghazaala, never giving up on finding a love that might replace the bond they shared, recounts the story of her deepening, transformative friendship with Harir, a fellow college student, at different stages of life.


A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

Raised by an evil sorceress, Cordelia must choose between her controlling mother and the kindness of a stranger to save innocent lives, in a dark retelling of The Goose Girl by the Brothers Grimm.


Strange Folk by Alli Dyer

Strange Folk by Alli Dyer

Returning to Appalachia to live with her grandmother, Belva, Lee vows to stay far away from Belva’s world of magic until the target of one of Belva’s spells is discovered dead and she fears she may have conjured something far more sinister, forcing Lee to rediscover her power to protect them all.


There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak

There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak

Sweeping across centuries, and stretching from Mesopotamia to London, this stunning novel follows a trio of characters living in the shadows of one of the greatest epic poems of all time — Nineveh and its Remains — as they become entwined by a single drop of water.


The Unicorn Woman by Gayl Jones

The Unicorn Woman by Gayl Jones

A tale set in the post-World War II South is narrated by a Black soldier who returns to Jim Crow and searches for a mythical ideal.


The Volcano Daughters by Gina María Balibrera

The Volcano Daughters by Gina María Balibrera

Spending years under the cruel dictator El Gran Pendejo’s regime in El Salvador, sisters Graciela and Consuelo, when genocide strikes the community from which they hail, and each believing the other to be dead, flee across the globe, reinventing themselves until fate brings them back together in the most unlikely of ways.


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Historical Fiction

Follow the Stars Home by Diane C. McPhail

Follow the Stars Home by Diane C. McPhail

Lydia Latrobe Roosevelt travels from Pittsburgh to New Orleans on the maiden voyage of a steamship designed by her much-older husband in 1811 to revolutionize travel by making it down the turbulent Falls of the Ohio.


The Hidden Book by Kirsty Manning

The Hidden Book by Kirsty Manning

In a novel based on a true story of clandestine courage in World War II, prisoners of war risk their lives to secure evidence of Nazi atrocities. By the author of The French Gift.


The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable

The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable

A novel of music, intoxication and betrayal is inspired by the true story of Anna Maria della Pietà, a Venetian orphan and violin prodigy who studied under Antonio Vivaldi and became his star musician—and biggest muse. A first novel.


Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid

Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid

Marrying a Scottish warrior, Lady Macbeth must use all her wiles and hidden witchcraft to survive his hostile, suspicious court but unbeknownst to her, he has occult secrets of his own and a prophecy that girds him like armor, making her magic even more dangerous as it threatens the order of the world.


Our Narrow Hiding Places by Kristopher Jansma

Our Narrow Hiding Places by Kristopher Jansma

When her grandson, Will, and his wife come for a visit, questioning family secrets, 80-year-old Mieke Geborn, to tell the truth, returns to the past and the final years of Nazi occupation during World War II, and to the story of Will’s father, absent since Will’s childhood.


A Pair of Wings by Carole Hopson

A Pair of Wings by Carole Hopson

Bessie, the daughter of a former slave, defies societal barriers and navigates love, mentorship, and challenges in pursuit of her passion for flying amidst the backdrop of racial discrimination and personal struggles during the 1920s.


The Palace of Eros by Caro De Robertis

The Palace of Eros by Caro De Robertis

A feminist retelling of the Greek myth of Psyche and Eros explores the power of queer joy and freedom.


The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia  

The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia  

In 1950s Hollywood, when an unknown Mexican ingenue is cast as Salome, a star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary heroine, she becomes the object of envy of Nancy Hartley, a bit player who will do anything to win the fame she believes she richly deserves.


The Thirteenth Husband by Greer Macallister

The Thirteenth Husband by Greer Macallister

Multimillionaire Aimee Crocker, after her and her husband divorce in the scandal of the century, travels the world but remains uneasy, restless and plagued by tragedy, and as the 20th century begins, she must find the strength to build yet another life for herself and achieve the happiness she’s longed for all these years.

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Horror

Blood Like Mine by Stuart Neville

Blood Like Mine by Stuart Neville

On the run from a grisly secret, a desperate mother and her teenage daughter hide out in the foothills of Colorado unaware that they have entered the orbit of a gruesome serial killer who drains victims of blood.


House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias

House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias

In Puerto Rico, five teenagers vow vengeance for their friend’s mother who was murdered by a drug kingpin, while a hurricane unleashes vengeful spirits on the island, in the new novel from the author of The Devil Takes You Home.


A Mask of Flies by Matthew Lyons

A Mask of Flies by Matthew Lyons

Hiding in her family’s secluded shack in the Colorado wilderness after a botched bank heist, Anne, her wounded partner and a police officer hostage discover strange relics from the past and must fight a supernatural entity.


Sacrificial Animals by Kailee Pedersen

Sacrificial Animals by Kailee Pedersen

Exploring the violent legacy of inherited trauma and the total collapse of a family in its wake, this supernatural horror debut follows Nick Morrow who is summoned home by his ailing father where he has an affair with his brother’s wife Emilia, who has sinister, and even ancient, motivations.

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Literary

Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris

Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris

Zora, an artist and teacher, sends her husband and elderly mother safely to England but stays in Sarajevo to fight and rebuild as the city fractures along ethnic lines during the Balkan conflict in 1992.


Five-Star Stranger by Kat Tang

Five-Star Stranger by Kat Tang

A New York gig economy worker who makes a living renting himself out as a pretend fiancé, wingman or extra funeral mourner confronts his own longing for connection when a client blurs the line between what’s real and what’s fake.


Hum by Helen Phillips

Hum by Helen Phillips

After losing her job to artificial intelligence, May, in a city populated by intelligent robots called “hums,” takes her family on a three-night respite to the Botanical Garden, a rare green refuge, where her children come under threat and she is forced to trust a hum to save them.


The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya

The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya

Set through one staging of a play, a new novel seamlessly shifts time and perspective as a young playwright awaits her father’s verdict on her new show while her father, realizing she’s laid him bare to create a skewering critique of the sexual mores of the men of his generation, fears her voice.


Interpretations of Love by Jane Campbell

Interpretations of Love by Jane Campbell

Tensions abound at a small family wedding in an English seaside town that brings together 11 guests each burdened by hidden desires, long-held secrets, quiet obsessions and emotional isolation, in the new novel by the author of Cat Brushing.


Medusa of the Roses by Navid Sinaki

Medusa of the Roses by Navid Sinaki

After his boyfriend disappears, Anjir, a hopeless romantic and petty thief living in Iran where being openly gay is criminalized, embarks on a quest to find him, discovering violence may be the fastest route to freedom, which calls into question his morals and gender identity as he pursues love, peace and self-determination.


Peggy by Rebecca Godfrey & Leslie Jamison

Peggy by Rebecca Godfrey & Leslie Jamison

In 1958 Venice, Peggy Guggenheim, heiress and art collector, reflects on her nearly impossible journey from her old-fashioned Jewish family in New York to Italy, during which she navigated glamorous but sexist and anti-Semitic art worlds and met numerous men who loved her (and her money) while underestimating her intellect, talent and vision.


The Rich People Have Gone Away by Regina Porter

The Rich People Have Gone Away by Regina Porter

Waiting out the 2020 lockdown in their summer cottage, Theo Harper, when his pregnant wife Darla goes missing after a heated argument, becomes the prime suspect and as their families and friends come together to search for her, the past and present collide with startling consequences.


There's Nothing Wrong With Her by Kate Weinberg

There's Nothing Wrong With Her by Kate Weinberg

A woman with a mysterious illness occasionally finds herself in “The Pit”—a delirious state of semi-consciousness—where she meets improbable, sometimes-imagined people.


Unspeakable Home by Ismet Prcic

Unspeakable Home by Ismet Prcic

An award-winning Bosnian refugee and writer, decades after escaping his war-torn home country, uses a work of fiction to look back on his childhood, imploded relationships and battles with addiction—offering insight into the human cost of conflict.


Villa E by Jane Alison

Villa E by Jane Alison

From the author of Meander, Spiral, Explode comes a novel inspired by the collision of Irish designer Eileen Gray and famed Swiss architect Le Corbusier.

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Mystery & Detective

After Oz by Gordon McAlpine

After Oz by Gordon McAlpine

Accused of murder after going missing for four days and returning with tales of a fantastical land, a young Dorothy must convince a psychologist of her innocence in 1896 Kansas, in a retelling of The Wizard of Oz.


Agony Hill: A Mystery by Sarah Stewart Taylor

Agony Hill: A Mystery by Sarah Stewart Taylor

Boston detective Franklin Warren navigates his new home and job in1965 Bethany, Vermont, where he uncovers the mysteries behind a suspicious death on a remote farm and grapples with his own personal tragedy. Franklin Warren no. 1


All the Way Gone by Joanna Schaffhausen

All the Way Gone by Joanna Schaffhausen

Private investigator Annalisa Vega probes the death of a young woman who fell to her death off a balcony, after being a patient of a famous Chicago neurosurgeon, in the fourth novel of the series following Dead and Gone. Annalisa Vega no. 4


Angel of Vengeance by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

Angel of Vengeance by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

An FBI Special Agent poses as a cleric in New York’s notorious Five Points slum to help catch a dangerous serial killer, in the latest addition to the long-running series following The Cabinet of Dr. Leng. Aloysius Pendergast no. 22


Between a Flock and a Hard Place by Donna Andrews

Between a Flock and a Hard Place by Donna Andrews

Meg grapples with belligerent turkeys, building code violations and a murder during a reality show makeover, in the latest addition to the long-running series following Let It Crow! Let It Crow! Let It Crow! Meg Langslow no. 35


A Blood Red Morning by Mark Pryor

A Blood Red Morning by Mark Pryor

Detective Henri Lefort discovers a murder in the front of his apartment and investigates while confronting his bosses and the Germans in 1941 Paris, in the third novel of the series following The Dark Edge of Night. Henri Lefort Mysteries no. 3


Booked on Murder by Allison Brook

Booked on Murder by Allison Brook

Carrie Singleton investigates when a body is discovered on the lawn of her wedding venue who turns out to be a bank robber recently released from prison, in the eighth novel of the series following Overdue or Die. Haunted Library Mysteries no. 8


The Dark Wives by Ann Cleeves

The Dark Wives by Ann Cleeves

When a man’s body is found by a care home for troubled teens — a murder linked to the disappearance of a 14-year-old resident — DI Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate and when second connected body is found near the Three Dark Wives monument in the Northumberland countryside, superstition and folklore collide with fact. Vera Stanhope no, 11


A Farewell to Arfs: A Chet & Bernie Mystery by Spencer Quinn

A Farewell to Arfs: A Chet & Bernie Mystery by Spencer Quinn

Canine Chet and his human partner Bernie help a woman whose entire life savings goes missing days after loaning her slacker son some money, in the 15th novel of the series following Up on the Woof Top. Chet & Bernie Mysteries no. 15


The In Crowd by Charlotte Vassell

The In Crowd by Charlotte Vassell

When two bodies, linked to two different cold cases, are found, Detective Inspector Caius Beauchamp, along with his associates, investigates these parallel missing persons cases, finding himself ensnared in the unexpected political machinations of a duke-in-waiting. Detective Inspector Caius Beauchamp no.


The Jig is Up by Lisa Q. Mathews

The Jig is Up by Lisa Q. Mathews

Rushing to her Irish-themed hometown of Shamrock, Massachusetts, with her daughters in tow, to help her sister, Colleen, when she becomes a person of interest in her best friend’s murder, Kate Buckley launches her own investigation to clear Colleen’s name before her luck runs out. Irish Bed & Breakfast Mysteries no. 1


Murder at Vinland by Alyssa Maxwell

Murder at Vinland by Alyssa Maxwell

In 1901 Newport, Rhode Island, reporter and sleuth Emma Cross Andrews, arriving for a luncheon for bird protection at Vinland, the Viking-themed seaside home of her relative, where the guest of honor is Edith Roosevelt, must clip the feathers of a bold poisoner targeting the society wives of the Four Hundred. Gilded Newport Mysteries no. 12


Peach Tea Smash by Laura Childs

Peach Tea Smash by Laura Childs

When Cricket Sadler asks her to find out who killed her beloved husband Harlan during the Mad Hatter Masquerade, tea shop owner Theodosia realizes the killer might have mistaken Harlan for his crazy son — a slum landlord who recently injure a woman in a boating accident. Tea Shop Mysteries no. 28


Pumpkin Spice Puppy by Laurien Berenson

Pumpkin Spice Puppy by Laurien Berenson

When a pet supply shop owner is murdered during Howard Academy’s town-wide treasure hunt fundraiser, Melanie Travis, despite the headmaster’s objections, gathers a list of suspects and follows a trail of clues before the biggest prize is staying alive. Melanie Travis Canine Mysteries no. 30


The Queen City Detective Agency by Snowden Wright

The Queen City Detective Agency by Snowden Wright

Following an unforgettable cast of characters and a jaded female P.I. enmeshed in a criminal conspiracy in 1980s Mississippi, a Southern noir unravels the greed, corruption and racism at the heart of the American Dream.


The River View by Jamie Harrison

The River View by Jamie Harrison

In Blue Deer, Montana, PI and new father Jules Clement discovers everything that can go wrong will, in terms of money, love, and murder, while dealing with horrible neighbors, misplaced bodies, a dead priest, a crew of Russians and an old enemy who forces him to finally confront the death of his father. Jules Clement no. 5


The Rose Arbor by Rhys Bowen

The Rose Arbor by Rhys Bowen

In 1968 London, obituary writer Liz Houghton, to break into the newsroom at a London newspaper, helps her best friend, a police officer, investigate a high-profile case and uncovers a mystery dating back to World War II that is linked to the recent disappearance of a young girl and a murder.


A Scandal in Mayfair by Katharine Schellman

A Scandal in Mayfair by Katharine Schellman

Widowed Lily Adler, known for solving puzzles for London’s elite, must untangle a web of family secrets, a missing will and blackmail before a hidden killer strikes again, in the fifth novel of the series following Murder at Midnight. A Lily Adler Mystery no. 5


Spirit Crossing by William Kent Krueger

Spirit Crossing by William Kent Krueger

As a huge manhunt is launched to find a local politician’s daughter, Cork O’Connor. and the newly formed Iron Lake Ojibwe Tribal Police, when the body of a young Ojibwe woman is found, uncover a connection to the missing teenager — one that places his own grandson in the crosshairs of a killer. Cork O’Connor Mysteries no.



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Romance

Buried Too Deep by Karen Rose

Buried Too Deep by Karen Rose

Accused of a break-in he did not commit, Phineas Bishop, a nighttime security guard at a private investigator’s office resolves to track down the intruder and earn back everyone’s trust. By the author of Cheater.


The Coven by Harper L. Woods

The Coven by Harper L. Woods

Focuses on the prestigious Hollow’s Grove University—where the best and brightest witches learn to practice their magic free from human judgment.


Golden Lord by Mary Jo Putney

Golden Lord by Mary Jo Putney

The oldest foster child of the Earl and Countess Tremayne, Caden, possessing a gift for preventing violence, is given a dangerous mission in an escalating conflict with France in 1803, in the second novel of the series following Silver Lady. Dangerous Gifts no. 2


The Housekeeper's Secret by Iona Grey

The Housekeeper's Secret by Iona Grey

In a sweeping romance set in a crumbling mansion at the turn of the 20th century, as the days darken, the secrets within grow harder to keep.



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Story Collections

There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven: Stories by Ruben Reyes, Jr.

There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven: Stories by Ruben Reyes, Jr.

A debut story collection about Central American identity spans past, present and future worlds to reveal what happens when your life is no longer your own.



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Suspense & Thrillers

Arkangel by James Rollins

Arkangel by James Rollins

Sigma Force is summoned to help search for a missing trove of ancient books after a Vatican archivist is murdered near the Kremlin, in the latest addition to the long-running series following Tides of Fire. Sigma Force no. 18


Backwater Justice by Fern Michaels

Backwater Justice by Fern Michaels

Bound by friendship and a quest for justice, the members of the Sisterhood investigate when two young women go missing in Mountain Valley, Oregon, in the latest addition to the long-running series following Rock Bottom. Sisterhood no. 36


The Body Next Door by Maia Chance

The Body Next Door by Maia Chance

When the body of a young girl is unearthed near their vacation home on Orcas Island, Hannah wonders how much her self-made millionaire husband knows about the victim and the apocalyptic cult she was connected to, while Allan cannot understand why she’s digging too deep in places she knows she shouldn’t.


Burn by Peter Heller

Burn by Peter Heller

Longtime hunting buddies Jess and Storey stumble out of the woods and into a post-apocalyptic Maine after their two-week, off-the-grid moose hunt, forcing them to fight their way home amidst bewildering secessionist violence and a shocking discovery.


City of Secrets by P. J. Tracy

City of Secrets by P. J. Tracy

LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan investigates what appears to be a fatal car-jacking, but uncovers details about the victim that suggests there’s more going on, in the fourth novel of the series following The Devil You Know. Detective Margaret Nolan no. 4


Dear Hanna by Zoje Stage

Dear Hanna by Zoje Stage

Despite extensive therapy and a seemingly normal life as a phlebotomist with a husband and step-daughter, Hanna’s dark past resurfaces when her carefully curated existence is threatened by the teenager’s changes, leading her to revert to old, sociopathic habits.


Eye of the Beholder by Emma Bamford

Eye of the Beholder by Emma Bamford

Hired to ghostwrite the memoir of cosmetic surgeon Dr. Angela Reynolds in the Scottish Highlands, Maddy Wight’s pursuit of the truth about Angela’s elusive nature leads her into a dangerous, mysterious game causing her to question her own sanity.


Fire and Bones by Kathy Reichs

Fire and Bones by Kathy Reichs

Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan investigates a deadly fire in a Washington, DC neighborhood called Foggy Bottom with a colorful past and ties to gangs in the present, in the latest addition to the long-running series following The Bone Hacker.  Temperence Brennan no. 23


Glass Houses by Madeline Ashby

Glass Houses by Madeline Ashby

After crash-landing on a tropical island, a group of employees and their CEO discover a luxurious yet mysterious palace, forcing them to confront both the secrets of the house and their own survival amidst hidden dangers.


The House Hunt by C. M. Ewan

The House Hunt by C. M. Ewan

Forced to show a prospective buyer around her house when the real estate agent doesn’t show up, Lucy, suffering from extreme anxiety and claustrophobia, finds things going well until he starts acting strangely and then refuses to leave.


House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen

House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen

Best Interest Attorney, Stella Hudson, takes on the case of an 8-year-old girl who witnessed the death of her nanny amid her parents’ ugly divorce and realizes that everyone is a suspect.


I Need You to Read This by Jessica Maxwell

I Need You to Read This by Jessica Maxwell

When her childhood hero, Francis Keen, the woman behind a famous advice column, is brutally murdered, Alex takes over as her replacement and begins receiving threatening letters, drawing into her inter her predecessor’s murder, which takes her all the way up to the power centers of Manhattan where a killer waits.


The Lost Coast by Jonathan Kellerman & Jesse Kellerman

The Lost Coast by Jonathan Kellerman & Jesse Kellerman

PI Clay Edison, when a case of simple fraud explodes into an elaborate con game stretching back decades and involving countless victims, follows the evidence to a tiny town on California’s remote Lost Coast where he discovers the price of truth is higher — and deadlier — than he ever could’ve imagined. Clay Edison no. 5


The Madness by Dawn Kurtagich

The Madness by Dawn Kurtagich

In the Welsh countryside, Mina Murray receives an unexpected email from her estranged best friend, Lucy, and soon Mina’s carefully curated life is turned upside down.


No Safe Place by Michael Ledwidge

No Safe Place by Michael Ledwidge

Living off the grid in rural New England, Mike Gannon, when he bumps into an investigator looking into the mysterious death of a student at a nearby prestigious college, is drawn into this case involving a deadly scandal, a whistleblower and a dangerous that will do anything to keep the truth buried. Michael Gannon no. 4


Only the Guilty Survive by Kate Robards

Only the Guilty Survive by Kate Robards

Burdened by grief and unanswered questions, Claire Kettler, the sole survivor of mass suicide of a cult in Iola, Michigan turns to podcaster Arlo Stone for help as his investigation teeters on the verge of unearthing long-buried secrets.


Red River Road by Anna Downes

Red River Road by Anna Downes

Desperate to discover what happened to her sister who vanished without a trace in Western Australia, Katy, when her path collides with Beth, who’s on the run from her own dark past, forms an uneasy alliance with this woman who might be her best and only chance of finding the truth.


Rip Tide by Colleen McKeegan

Rip Tide by Colleen McKeegan

Returning to their childhood beachfront home, sisters Kimmy and Erin find their homecoming marred by the discovery of a dead body that brings long-buried secrets from their adolescence to the surface, forcing them to confront their traumatic past to catch a killer.


The Rule of Three by Sam Ripley

The Rule of Three by Sam Ripley

When bad things start happening in threes, just like those urban myths you hear about all the time, the narrator realizes the curse is coming for her—and that she’s doomed to die because that’s the Rule of Three.


Someone in the Attic by Andrea Mara

Someone in the Attic by Andrea Mara

After seeing an online video of a masked figure climbing out of her attic, filmed inside her own house in a luxury gated community designed to keep intruders out, Julia finds her worst fears coming true and wonders why a stranger would target her, unless it’s not a stranger at all.


The Stranger at the Wedding by A. E. Gauntlett

The Stranger at the Wedding by A. E. Gauntlett

A storybook wedding soon turns into an ominous mystery when a stranger shows up during the ceremony.


Talking to Strangers by Fiona Barton

Talking to Strangers by Fiona Barton

While investigating the Valentine’s Day murder of Karen Simmons, Detective Elise King is derailed by aggressive reporter Kiki Nunn, who sees this case as her opportunity to boost her career — and is willing not only to go up against Elise, but also the killer himself to do it. Elise King no. 2


This Is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter

This Is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter

While on their honeymoon at McAlpine Lodge, GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton must solve a murder when the Lodge’s manager is found dead, and investigating the McAlpine family and other guests, they realize everyone here is lying — lying about their past, lying to their family, lying to themselves. Will Trent no. 12


Till Death Do Us Part by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

Till Death Do Us Part by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

In the vineyards of Napa Valley, a husband who was thought to have died years ago shows up alive, in a novel by the author of The Girls Are All So Nice Here.


Tom Clancy Shadow State by M. P. Woodward

Tom Clancy Shadow State by M. P. Woodward

Cut off from his comrades at The Campus just when he needs them most, Jack Ryan, Jr. finds himself in the middle of an international conspiracy that may be too much for even him to handle.


The Trials of Lila Dalton by L. J. Shepherd

The Trials of Lila Dalton by L. J. Shepherd

Stranded on an island in the Atlantic Ocean where the most serious crimes are tried, Lila Dalton, with no memory of how she got there, must prove her client’s innocence in a mass murder if she wants to go home, but wonders how she can solve this case when she can’t trust anything around her.


We Love the Nightlife by Rachel Koller Croft

We Love the Nightlife by Rachel Koller Croft

Locked in a toxic female friendship, two vampires careen toward catastrophe, in a novel set amidst London’s glittering disco scene by the author of Stone Cold Fox.


A World of Hurt by Mindy Mejia

A World of Hurt by Mindy Mejia

After her girlfriend sacrifices herself to save her life, drug trafficker Kara is given a choice by the DEA to either go to prison or turn informant to lure out the remains of the drug empire that murdered her girlfriend.


Worst Case Scenario by T. J. Newman

Worst Case Scenario by T. J. Newman

When a pilot suffers a heart attack at 35,000 feet, a commercial airliner filled with passengers crashes into a nuclear power plant in the small town of Waketa, Minnesota, which becomes ground zero for a catastrophic national crisis with global implications.


You Will Never Be Me by Jesse Q. Sutanto

You Will Never Be Me by Jesse Q. Sutanto

When cracks start forming in an influencer’s curated life, she finds out that jealousy can be just as viral as a video.



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Western

The Hanging Party by William W. Johnstone & J. A. Johnstone

The Hanging Party by William W. Johnstone & J. A. Johnstone

In a new series from a pair of best-selling authors, a legendary gunslinger tries to outrun his past and start a new life. But after so many years, so many bullets—and so much bloodshed—he finds old habits die hard.

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Womens

And So I Roar by Abi Daré

And So I Roar by Abi Daré

After accidentally hearing a secret conversation between her terminally ill mother and her aunt, Tia must choose between protecting a runaway girl or uncovering a truth that could change the lives of the girls in their Nigerian village. Dove Pond no.


The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams by Karen Hawkins

The Bookshop of Hidden Dreams by Karen Hawkins

When an antique tin of love letters reveals a forbidden affair with a notorious train robber, historian Tay Dove seeks answers in 80-year-old Rose Day’s bookshop, but when Rose won’t give her access to the archives she houses, Tay finds an unlikely ally to help her tell a love story more precious than gold.


By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult

By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult

Across centuries two women, Melina Green and Emilia Bassano, one a modern playwright and the other her Elizabethan ancestor, each fight societal expectations to have their voices heard on the stage in a world that silences female playwrights.


The Divide by Morgan Richter

The Divide by Morgan Richter

Floundering on the fringes of the entertainment industry, failed actress-turn-grifting psychic Jenny St. John, when her friend Serge is killed and she’s mistaken for his ex-wife Gena, leverages her resemblance to Gena to infiltrate their affluent yet unstable inner circle of friends, which plunges her into a world of murder and corruption.


A Great Marriage by Frances Mayes

A Great Marriage by Frances Mayes

Dara and Austin begin a whirlwind romance and engagement after meeting at a New York City gallery, only to have their love shattered by a life-altering family secret that forces the cancellation of their big day.


Joy by Danielle Steel

Joy by Danielle Steel

Abandoned by her free-spirited mother and raised by an emotionally distant father, Allegra finds solace in books and love, only to face the harsh realities of war and its impact on her husband, who returns from Afghanistan nearly unrecognizable.


A Season of Perfect Happiness by Maribeth Fischer

A Season of Perfect Happiness by Maribeth Fischer

A decade after a tragedy in Delaware, Claire, a guarded woman in self-imposed exile in Wisconsin, built her new life on secrets and now must choose between her past and the love of her new community.


The Singer Sisters by Sarah Seltzer

The Singer Sisters by Sarah Seltzer

Two generations of a folk-rock dynasty collide over art, love, longing and family secrets. A first novel.


The Snap by Elizabeth Staple

The Snap by Elizabeth Staple

When a legendary coach is found dead with five threatening notes for each of them, football professional Poppy and the W.A.G.S., high-ranking women in sports who need a release from the indignities and frustrations that come with navigating the ultimate boys’ club, must reckon with the choices they’ve made to get where they are.

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