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New Fiction April 2024

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Fantasy & Science Fiction

The Book That Broke the World by Mark Lawrence

The Book That Broke the World by Mark Lawrence

Forced to flee the Library by a ruthless enemy, Evar is thrust into the vastness of a world he’s never seen, while Livira, trapped in a ghost world, must recover the book she wrote—one which is the only true threat to the library’s existence.


The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark

Eveen the Eviscerator is skilled, discreet, professional, and here for your most pressing needs in the ancient city of Tal Abisi.


Dragon Rider by Taran Matharu

Dragon Rider by Taran Matharu

A royal hostage, gifted with a stolen dragon hatchling, flees to forge his own destiny and seek revenge and reclaim his rightful land, in the new series from the best-selling author of the Summoner series.  Soulbound Saga No. 1


The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

During the Spanish Golden Age, Luzia Cotado, gifted with magic, garners the attention of the disgraced secretary to Spain’s king, plunging her into a world where the lines between magic, science and fraud blur—and where she must enlist the help of an embittered immortal familiar whose deadly secrets could destroy them both.


Mal Goes to War by Edward Ashton

The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

When the Humanists abruptly cut off access to infospace, free A.I. Mal finds himself trapped in the body of a cyborg mercenary, and responsible for the safety of the modded girl she died protecting.


Ocean's Godori by Elaine U. Cho

Ocean's Godori by Elaine U. Cho

A big-hearted Korean space opera follows a disgraced space pilot struggling to find her place while fighting to protect the people she loves. A first novel.


Pinquickle's Folly by R. A. Salvatore

Pinquickle's Folly by R. A. Salvatore

The first adventure in a fantasy trilogy from the legendary best-selling author and creator of fan-favorite Dungeons & Dragons character Drizzt Do’Urden. Demonwars: the Buccaneers No. 1


Star Wars the Living Force by John Jackson Miller

Star Wars the Living Force by John Jackson Miller

Sent on a goodwill mission to help the planet Kwenn, twelve Jedi Masters are met with an infestation of warring pirate factions who are intent on assassinating the Jedi Council members and willing to destroy countless innocent lives to do so.


To Gaze upon Wicked Gods by Molly X. Chang

To Gaze upon Wicked Gods by Molly X. Chang

Cursed with the power of Death, Ruying, when her Gift is discovered by an enemy prince, is offered an impossible deal: be his private assassin and her family will never suffer harm again, forcing her to decide if saving her family is worth betraying her country.


Toll of Honor by David Weber

Toll of Honor by David Weber

Lieutenant Brandy Bolgeo, returning home from the Battle of Hancock to heal from her wounds, is faced with the deaths of so many friends at the hands of an arrogant, aristocratic coward, while Lord Pavel Young, seeking vengeance on the people he believes ‘wronged’ him, threatens the Star Kingdom with his actions. 

General Fiction

The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes

The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes

The four Flattery sisters—all single, all with PhDs—lead disparate, distanced lives until their oldest sister, a geologist, disappears, and together for the first time in years, they search the Irish countryside for a sister who doesn’t want to be found, while confronting old wounds and a desperately uncertain future.


Bad Habit by Alana S. Portero

Bad Habit by Alana S. Portero

Trapped in a working-class Madrid slum in the 1980s, a woman navigates the local party scene involving heroin and disco while searching for belonging in a potentially violent world where every choice can be fatal.


The Band by Christine Ma-Kellams

The Band by Christine Ma-Kellams

A psychologist with a savior complex offers shelter to a recently cancelled K-pop idol on the run.


Begin Again by Helly Acton

Begin Again by Helly Acton

A new novel looks at what starting over one's life may bring.


The Book of Thorns by Hester Fox

The Book of Thorns by Hester Fox

In a sweeping work of historical fiction set against the rich backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, two sisters who never knew the other existed meet on opposite sides of the battlefield and must use the magic of flowers to solve the mystery of their mother’s death—while surviving the war raging around them.


Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder by Asako Yuzuki

Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder by Asako Yuzuki

After asking for a beef stew recipe, a solitary Tokyo journalist begins a correspondence with a gourmet cook convicted of killing multiple lonely businessmen and notices herself slowly beginning to change after each meal she eats.


The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez

The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez

Inheriting a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, celebrated writer Alma Cruz creates a graveyard for the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life, but they have other ideas as they rewrite and revise themselves, revealing their true narratives to those who will listen.


Choice by Neel Mukherjee

Choice by Neel Mukherjee

A London publisher, Ayush, grapples with how to live and pushes himself and those around him, including his family and colleagues, into radical experiments that expose the tangled web of choice, consumption and the ethics of our interconnected world.


Clear by Carys Davies

Clear by Carys Davies

An impoverished 1840s Scottish minister tasked with evicting a hermit from his island home ends up forming an unlikely connection with the man as the pair navigate language, loss and the legacy of forced displacement.


Colton Gentry's Third Act by Jeff Zentner

Colton Gentry's Third Act by Jeff Zentner

A grieving country star, haunted by tragedy and bad bourbon-based decisions, finds redemption and rediscovers himself in his Kentucky hometown while working alongside his high school sweetheart amidst flashbacks to their musical past.


Crow Talk by Eileen Garvin

Crow Talk by Eileen Garvin

The best-selling author of The Music of Bees returns with the story of the unlikely friendship between a lonely ornithologist and an Irish musician working to save an injured crow in the wild beauty of the Pacific Northwest.


Days of Wonder by Caroline Leavitt

Days of Wonder by Caroline Leavitt

This latest novel from the award-winning author follows the story of a young mother trying to find the daughter she was forced to give up after being imprisoned for the attempted murder of her lover’s father.


The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr

The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr

Raised by a group of eccentric enigmatologists, 20-something Clayton Summer, when the esteemed crossword compiler and main maternal presence in his life passes away, bestowing her final puzzle on him, embarks on a quest to uncover the secrets surrounding his birth, which will change him, and the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers, forever.


The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu

The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu

A woman has a mid-life reawakening in contemporary rural China. A first novel.


The Garden by Clare Beams

The Garden by Clare Beams

In 1948, pregnant Irene Willard, who’s had five previous miscarriages, stays with a husband-and-wife team of doctors who are pioneering a cure for her condition, where she discovers a long-forgotten garden?—. place imbued with its own powers and pulls, making a desperate bid to harness the garden’s power despite the consequences.


A Good Happy Girl by Marissa Higgins

A Good Happy Girl by Marissa Higgins

In this debut novel, a young professional woman with a self-destructive streak pursues an emotionally intense relationship with a married lesbian couple who intrigue her with their ever-increasing sexual and emotional intensity.


Habitations by Sheila Sundar

Habitations by Sheila Sundar

Still reeling from her sister's death, Vega Gopalan flees South India to attend graduate school in New York and must navigate academia, first love, a green card marriage, the isolation of immigrant suburbs and single motherhood.


Honey by Victor Lodato

Honey by Victor Lodato

A rebellious youth turned LA art queen confronts her twilight years, family secrets and a fiery late-life romance as past demons and the thirst for revenge resurface in the form of her drug-addled grandnephew Michael.


The House of Broken Bricks by Fiona Williams

The House of Broken Bricks by Fiona Williams

It’s autumn when we meet Tess, but her relationship with Richard is in a deep, cold winter, a winter so harsh, their union may never see the bright light of spring.


The House on Biscayne Bay by Chanel Cleeton

The House on Biscayne Bay by Chanel Cleeton

After the tragic death of her parents, Carmen Acosta arrives at Maribrisa, the grand home of her estranged older sister and her husband on Biscayne Bay, and soon discovers beneath its glittering façade lies a treacherous legacy and must unravel Maribrisa’s secrets to stop history from repeating itself.


The Husbands by Holly Gramazio

The Husbands by Holly Gramazio

When she discovers the attic in her London flat is creating an infinite supply of husbands, waking up to a slightly altered life each day, Lauren confronts the question: if swapping lives is as easy as changing a lightbulb, how do you know you’ve taken the right path?


I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger

I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger

In a climate-ravaged America, a grieving musician sails a sentient Lake Superior, seeking his lost love amidst rising corpses, crumbling empires, and an unexpected rebellion sparked by his own gentle spirit.


I'm F-cking Amazing by Anoushka Warden

I'm F-cking Amazing by Anoushka Warden

A woman in her thirties is looking forward to settling down with her serious boyfriend until she discovers she cannot have sex with him anymore and embarks on a journey of desperation and self-discovery to solve her problem.


The Limits by Nell Freudenberger

The Limits by Nell Freudenberger

Sent to New York to stay with her father, an overworked surgeon, and his new wife, 15-year-old Pia, rebelling against her stepmother when COVID sends them into near total isolation, finds her life colliding with 16-year-old Athyna, who’s caring for a toddler full time, as they spiral toward parallel but inescapably different tragedies.


Lucky by Jane Smiley

Lucky by Jane Smiley

Coming of age in recording studios, backstage and on tour, rising folk musician Jodie Rattler, trying to hold her own in the wake of Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Judy Collins and Joni Mitchell, feels like something is missing and sets out on a journey in search of herself.


Mania by Lionel Shriver

Mania by Lionel Shriver

Set in a parallel yet all too familiar near past, a subversive novel by the New York Times best-selling author looks at a lifelong friendship threatened by culture wars.


The Marriage Sabbatical by Lian Dolan

The Marriage Sabbatical by Lian Dolan

A couple decides to take a vacation from their marriage in a fun, adventurous novel by the author of The Sweeney Sisters.


The Mother Act by Heidi Reimer

The Mother Act by Heidi Reimer

A talented actress in her own right, Jude, at the premiere of her mother’s latest play, comes face-to-face with the woman who chose fame over her and as their intertwined stories unfolds, these two women wonder if they can ever really understand each other.


The Museum of Lost Quilts by Jennifer Chiaverini

The Museum of Lost Quilts by Jennifer Chiaverini

While staying at Elm Creek Manor to finish her thesis, Summer, the youngest founding member of Elm Creek Quilts, instead researches the antique quilts on display for a fundraiser to renovate the headquarters of the Waterford Historical Society, discovering its troubled history of racism, economic injustice and political corruption, past and present.


My Heavenly Favorite by Lucas Rijneveld

My Heavenly Favorite by Lucas Rijneveld

In this unflinching depiction of abjection and a pointed excavation of taboos and social norms, a veterinarian, visiting a farm in the Dutch countryside, becomes enraptured by the farmer’s daughter, who, on the verge of adolescence and longing to have a boy’s body, uses him to escape her conservative rural life.


Negative Space by Gillian Linden

Negative Space by Gillian Linden

A young mother navigates the instabilities of teaching, parenting and marriage in the wake of the pandemic.


The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl

The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl

Resigning herself to honor her mother’s last wishes, Stella travels to Paris where she meets an octogenarian art collector who introduces her to the who’s who of the 1980’s Paris literary, art and culinary worlds, helping her understand what it might mean to live a larger life.


Real Americans by Rachel Khong

Real Americans by Rachel Khong

In this intricately woven tapestry of class and striving, race and visibility, and family and inheritance, 15-year-old Nick Chen, who can’t shake the feeling his mother is hiding something, sets out to find his biological father—journey that raises more questions than provides answers.


A Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke

A Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke

Cursed with immortality at nine, but with a requirement that she stays in perpetual motion, Aubry flees Paris and embarks on a century-spanning, globe-trotting odyssey, seeking a cure and discovering a world beyond the boundaries of time and space.


The Sicilian Inheritance by Jo Piazza

The Sicilian Inheritance by Jo Piazza

Inheriting a plot of land in Sicily, along with a bombshell family secret—her great-grandmother Serafina didn’t die of illness but was murdered—Sara Marsala races all over the picturesque Italian countryside to solve a mystery and learn the real story of Serafina, putting her in the crosshairs of a killer.


Someone Birthed Them Broken by Ama Asantewa Diaka

Someone Birthed Them Broken by Ama Asantewa Diaka

In this portrait of today’s Ghanaian youth, a spoken-word artist presents this collection of interconnected stories that explores themes such as corruptions and economic hardship, trauma and infidelity, shame, neglect and the tribulations of the female body, and illuminates hope, freedom and triumph that can be found in the everyday.


The Spoiled Heart by Sunjeev Sahota

The Spoiled Heart by Sunjeev Sahota

Running for the leadership of his labor union, Nayan Olak, pitted against newcomer and formidable challenger, Megha, finds their differences spiraling out of control, complicating the ideals he’s always held dear and discovers a few words or a single action can trigger a cascade of unimaginable consequences.


The Stone Home by Crystal Hana Kim

The Stone Home by Crystal Hana Kim

A haunting family drama and coming-of-age story reveals a dark corner of South Korean history through the eyes of a small community living in a reformatory center.


The Summer We Started Over by Nancy Thayer

The Summer We Started Over by Nancy Thayer

Returning to Nantucket to help her younger sister with the grand opening of her gift shop, Eddie Grant must face all she left behind: her father’s increased eccentricities; her sister’s resentment of her leaving; and a past love connection, discovering a long-buried family secret that will change them all forever.


Sweetness in the Skin by Ishi Robinson

Sweetness in the Skin by Ishi Robinson

A young teenage girl in Jamaica is determined to bake her way out of her dysfunctional family and into the opportunity of a lifetime.


Thorn Tree by Max Ludington

Thorn Tree by Max Ludington

A novel about the aftershocks of the heady but dangerous late 1960s and the relationship between trauma and the creative impulse.


Tourist Season by Brenda Novak

Tourist Season by Brenda Novak

Trapped alone in her fiancé’s family ‘cottage’ as a hurricane bears down on Mariners Island, Ismay Chalmers, as she prepares for the storm, discovers some disturbing items hidden in a closet that have her questioning everything she knows about the seemingly perfect Windsor family—especially her fiancé.


The Twilight Garden by Sara Nisha Adams

The Twilight Garden by Sara Nisha Adams

Two warring London neighbors unite to resurrect a neglected city garden.


Village Weavers by Myriam J. A. Chancy

Village Weavers by Myriam J. A. Chancy

Confronts the silences around class, race and nationality, charts the moments when lives are irrevocably forced apart, and envisions two girls—connected their entire lives—who try to break inherited cycles of mistrust and find ways back into each other’s hearts.


Where There's Smoke by Kiki Swinson

Where There's Smoke by Kiki Swinson

Determined to conceal her part in an arson-for-insurance scam gone wrong, volunteer firefighter Alayna Curry sets up her ex-lover, shot dead, to take the fall, but when a determined FBI agent starts pulling apart her story—and her lies, she plays her most dangerous trump card to clear her name for good.


Wild Houses by Colin Barrett

Wild Houses by Colin Barrett

In Ballina, Ireland, introspective loner Dev, when Doll English, the younger brother of a small-time local dealer shows up on his doorstep in the clutches of Dev’s enforcer cousins, finds his quiet homelife upturned as he is quickly and unwittingly drawn into a revenge plot and a kidnapping gone awry.

Historical

All We Were Promised by Ashton Lattimore

All We Were Promised by Ashton Lattimore

A former enslaved housekeeper escapes to 1837 Philadelphia where she plays servant to her white-passing father and befriends a young abolitionist and risks everything to help another former slave, brought to the city by her plantation mistress.


The Beautiful People by Michelle Gable

The Beautiful People by Michelle Gable

In a novel set against the glamorous 1960s Jet Set, a failed west coast debutante gets a new job as assistant to society photographer Slim Aarons, which takes her into the complicated inner circle of Palm Beach socialites, and into a beguiling friendship with the star at its center, heiress and rising fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer.


The Evolution of Annabel Craig by Lisa Grunwald

The Evolution of Annabel Craig by Lisa Grunwald

When John T. Scopes is arrested for teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution at the local high school in 1925, Annabel Hayes, with her marriage already strained, questions both her beliefs and her vows to her attorney husband when he joins the team defending Scopes.


Miss Morgan's Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles

Miss Morgan's Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles

The New York Times and internationally best-selling author of The Paris Library returns with a novel based on the true story of Jessie Carson—the American librarian who changed the literary landscape of France.


Only the Brave by Danielle Steel

Only the Brave by Danielle Steel

During World War II, Sophia Alexander, after her mother dies and her father is sent to a concentration camp, becomes increasingly involved in the resistance and while working with the convent nuns, the Sisters of Mercy where she risks everything to help those in need—no matter what the cost.


Sharpe's Command by Bernard Cornwell

Sharpe's Command by Bernard Cornwell

Sent on an undercover mission to a small village in the Spanish countryside in the early 19th century, far behind enemy lines, the formidable Captain Sharpe and his group of men—with their cunning and courage to rely on—must stop two French armies from meeting on the Almaraz bridge. Sharpe No. 23


The Titanic Survivors Book Club by Timothy Schaffert

The Titanic Survivors Book Club by Timothy Schaffert

Paris bookshop owner Yorick, joining a secret society of other Titanic ticket holders who didn’t board the ship, forms a book club where they can grapple with their good fortune and anxieties through heated discussions of literature, but when one of them unexpectedly dies, he wonders what fate has in store.


The Widow Spy by Megan Campisi

The Widow Spy by Megan Campisi

Based on the true story of the first female Pinkerton detective whose next assignment could end the Civil War.


Your Presence Is Mandatory by Sasha Vasilyuk

Your Presence Is Mandatory by Sasha Vasilyuk

A novel based on real events follows a World War II veteran with a secret that could land him in the Gulag, and his family who are forced to live in the shadow of all he has not told them.

Horror

Bless Your Heart by Lindy Ryan

Bless Your Heart by Lindy Ryan

The Evans women, owners of the only funeral parlor in their Southeast Texas town, discover generations of calm ending as the dead begin to rise again forcing them to once again fight the Strigoi, the original vampires.


Ghost Station by S. A. Barnes

Ghost Station by S. A. Barnes

While part of a small space exploration crew on an abandoned planet, a psychologist confronts a gruesome murder and twisted secrets as she races to prevent history from repeating itself in the form of a space-borne madness.

Mystery & Detective

Another Day's Pain by K. C. Constantine

Another Day's Pain by K. C. Constantine

A Vietnam vet working on the police force of a small city outside Pittsburgh is looking forward to retirement but must first face a mad shooter, a vengeful city council member and maybe most dangerously, his own mother. Mario Balzac Mysteries 


Ash Dark As Night by Gary Phillips

Ash Dark As Night by Gary Phillips

After being beaten unconscious for taking a photo during the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles, Harry Ingram agrees to help a friend track down a missing business associate in the second novel of the series following One-Shot Harry. Harry Ingram Mysteries No. 2


Circle in the Water by Marcia Muller

Circle in the Water by Marcia Muller

Sharon McCone is hired by a coalition of concerned San Francisco homeowners whose homes have been targeted in a series of “pranks,” in the latest installment of the long-running series following A Midnight Puzzle. Sharon McCone Mysteries No. 35


Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz

Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz

When Charles Kentworthy is found dead on his doorstep after moving his loud, boisterous family into an idyllic gated community, Detective Hawthorne investigates, in the fifth novel of the series following The Twist of a Knife. Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries No. 5


A Deadly Endeavor by Jenny Adams

A Deadly Endeavor by Jenny Adams

In a historical mystery, a serial killer is on the loose in Jazz Age Philadelphia. A first novel. A Deadly Twenties Mystery No. 1


Death and Glory by Will Thomas

Death and Glory by Will Thomas

Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn investigate a conspiracy to revive the American Civil War led by prominent Confederates long believed to be dead, in the 15th novel of the series following Death and Glory. Barker and Llewelyn No. 15


Death by Chocolate Raspberry Scone by Sarah Graves

Death by Chocolate Raspberry Scone by Sarah Graves

Passamaquoddy Bay bakers Jake and Ellie search for the remains of a skilled fisherman who vanished with a valuable gold doubloon inherited from his grandfather, in the seventh novel of the series following Death by Chocolate Marshmallow Pie. Death by Chocolate Mysteries No. 7


Death of a Master Chef by Jean-Luc Bannalec

Death of a Master Chef by Jean-Luc Bannalec

Commissaire Georges Dupin investigates the murder of a grand chef in a local market run by another restaurateur with whom he had a very public feud, in the ninth novel of the series following The Body by the Sea. Brittany Mysteries No. 9


Feline Fatale by Rita Mae Brown

Feline Fatale by Rita Mae Brown

Mary Minor “Harry” Harristeen investigates a murder in Albermarle County, Virginia with assistance from her beloved pets, including cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter and dogs Pirate and Tucker, in the latest novel in the long-running series following Hiss and Tell. Mrs. Murphy Mysteries No. 32


Granite Harbor by Peter Nichols

Granite Harbor by Peter Nichols

From the author of The Rocks comes a crime novel about a small town in Maine under threat from a serial killer.


The Last Word by Elly Griffiths

The Last Word by Elly Griffiths

Words turn deadly with an unlikely detective duo on the case of a murdered obituary writer in this literary mystery from the internationally best-selling author of the Ruth Galloway series.


Lost Birds by Anne Hillerman

Lost Birds by Anne Hillerman

Retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, P.I. Joe Leaphorn is hired to find the birth parents of a woman raised by a bilagaana family, which unexpectedly turns into a complicated case, while Officer Bernadette Manuelito investigates an explosion linked his investigation. Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito No. 27


Murder in Rose Hill by Victoria Thompson

Murder in Rose Hill by Victoria Thompson

In Victorian era New York, when Louisa, a reporter researching the dangers of patent medicines, is found strangled in New Century Magazine’s lobby after interviewing her, midwife Sarah Malloy and her PI husband, with the police hinting Louisa got what she deserved, take it upon themselves to catch a cold-blood killer. Gaslight Mysteries No. 27


Murder Marks the Page by Karen Rose Smith

Murder Marks the Page by Karen Rose Smith

The owner of Tomes & Tea, a book and tea shop, Jazzie, when her friend Brie, who recently made contact with her biological father—and is looking for a husband—is murdered, Jazzie, playing detective, is faced with a list of suspects ranging from jealous half-siblings to unsuitable suitors. Tomes and Tea No. 1


A Murder Most French by Colleen Cambridge

A Murder Most French by Colleen Cambridge

Tabitha Knight investigates the sudden death of a chef at a cooking school who poured himself a glass of wine from a rare vintage bottle, in the second novel of the series following Mastering the Art of French Murder. American in Paris Mysteries No. 2


The Murder of Mr. Ma by S. J. Rozan and John Shen Yen Nee

The Murder of Mr. Ma by S. J. Rozan and John Shen Yen Nee

In 1924 London, when shy academic Lao She meets larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie, these unlikely allies investigate the murders of Chinese immigrants, all stabbed to death with a butterfly sword and must connect the dots to catch a killer before they become victims themselves.


Next of Kin by Samantha Jayne Allen

Next of Kin by Samantha Jayne Allen

From a Tony Hillerman Prize-winning author comes a new novel set in a hardscrabble Texas town, where the past is never far away. Annie McIntyre Mysteries No. 3


Nosy Neighbors by Freya Sampson

Nosy Neighbors by Freya Sampson

When their apartments in Shelley House face demolition, sworn enemies 25-year-old Kat and 77-year-old Dorothy put their differences aside to save their historic building, but when one of its residents is murdered, the duo seek justice to restore peace in their community.


The Order of the Furies: 1795 by Niklas Natt Och Dag

The Order of the Furies: 1795 by Niklas Natt Och Dag

Follows two unlikely allies as they struggle to end the reign of a powerful cabal of depraved hedonists in 18th-century Stockholm. Wolf and the Watchman No. 3


Patchwork Quilt Murder by Leslie Meier

Patchwork Quilt Murder by Leslie Meier

When the director of the new community center and her young employee are found dismembered, part-time reporter Lucy Stone, trying to piece the clues together, discovers the truth rests somewhere between wild rumors, a trusted friend’s emotional new sewing project and the authenticity of a mysterious 300-year-old patchwork quilt. Lucy Stone Mysteries No. 30


Pay Dirt by Sara Paretsky

Pay Dirt by Sara Paretsky

While visiting Angela, one her protégées in Kansas, V.I. Warshawski, when Angela’s roommate goes missing and V.I. finds her near death in a drug house, is pitched headlong into the country’s opioid crisis and a local land-use battle with roots going back to the Civil War. V.I. Warshawski No. 22


The Poison Pen by Paige Shelton

The Poison Pen by Paige Shelton

The ninth installment in the cozy mystery series featuring amateur sleuth Delaney Nichols is set in a specialty bookshop in Edinburgh called The Cracked Spine. Scottish Bookshop Mysteries No. 9


Rough Trade by Katrina Carrasco

Rough Trade by Katrina Carrasco

Alma Rosales is back, and trouble is hot on her heels in a sexy, queer historical thriller from the critically acclaimed author of The Best Bad Things.


Under the Paper Moon by Shaina Steinberg

Under the Paper Moon by Shaina Steinberg

Five years after working for the Office of Strategic Services with Nick, whom she gets close to until the World War II’s end brings with it an act of deep betrayal, former spy Evelyn, now working as a PI, finds herself back in Nick’s orbit when her latest case brings the war to her doorstep.


An Unfinished Murder by Jude Deveraux

An Unfinished Murder by Jude Deveraux

A novelist, Sara Medlar, and her friends use all their amateur sleuthing skills to solve a crime when a literal skeleton is discovered in a closet in the fifth novel of the series following A Relative Murder. Medlar Mysteries No. 5


What Cannot Be Said by C. S. Harris

What Cannot Be Said by C. S. Harris

In 1815, when Lady McInnis and her daughter are found brutally murdered in Richmond Park, their bodies displayed in grotesque poses, Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, explores a host of unsavory suspects and is drawn to a conclusion far more horrific than he ever could’ve imagined. Sebastian St. Cyr Mysteries No. 19

Romance

The Beloved by J. R. Ward

The Beloved by J. R. Ward

When Zsadist’s daughter, Nalla, falls in love, the Black Dagger Brotherhood’s deadliest fighter has to confront the future and the reality that he can’t protect his young forever.


Funny Story by Emily Henry

Funny Story by Emily Henry

After being dumped for her boyfriend’s lifelong best friend, Petra, Daphne agrees to room with Petra’s freshly heartbroken ex until she can figure things out, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Happy Place.


Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez

Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez

With every person they date finding their soulmate the second they break up, Justin and Emma decide to date each other and break up to cancel each other’s curse out, but their quick fling turns into something more when their families get involved and they catch real feelings for each other.


The Sleepwalkers by Scarlett Thomas

The Sleepwalkers by Scarlett Thomas

A couple runs from both secretive pasts and very present dangers while honeymooning on a Greek island.


Wedding Issues by Elle Evans

Wedding Issues by Elle Evans

Competition for a bridal magazine cover unleashes mayhem, forcing a mastermind maid of honor to stop being a people pleaser and start figuring out what she wants out of life.

Story Collections

Table for Two: Fictions by Amor Towles

Table for Two: Fictions by Amor Towles

The New York Times best-selling author shares six stories based in New York City, which consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters, and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood, told from seven different viewpoints, which stars the indomitable Evelyn Ross.


A View from the Stars: Stories and Essays by Cixin Liu

A View from the Stars: Stories and Essays by Cixin Liu

A new collection of essays and short stories from the New York Times best-selling author of The Three-Body Problem.

THRILLER & Suspense

Better World by Sarah Langan

Better World by Sarah Langan

An outside-the-box satirical thriller follows a family’s odyssey into an exclusive enclave for the wealthy that might not be as ideal as it seems.


A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci

A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci

In a Virginia courtroom in 1968, a reluctant white lawyer and a dedicated black attorney must bridge their differences to fight for a Black man’s life against racial prejudice and powerful forces seeking to undo civil rights progress.


City in Ruins by Don Winslow

City in Ruins by Don Winslow

A Las Vegas casino mogul with a spotty past must fight for the life he created and everything he holds dear after old enemies surface, in the third novel of the series following City of Dreams. Danny Ryan Trilogy No. 3


Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth

Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth

Two women who escaped an overly-strict home with a foster mother on a farm are called back to their childhood home and into the orbit of their former guardian when human bones are discovered beneath the farmhouse.


Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda

Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda

Returning to Mirror Lake after inheriting her childhood home, Hazel discovers long-hidden secrets that may explain the mystery of her mother’s disappearance in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of All the Missing Girls.


Don't Turn Around by Harry Dolan

Don't Turn Around by Harry Dolan

A successful true crime writer finds herself drawn back to her hometown where she accidentally entered the orbit of a still at-large serial killer called Merkury as an 11-year-old sneaking out of her house at night and into the woods.


Extinction by Douglas Preston

Extinction by Douglas Preston

Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Frances Cash investigates after a billionaire’s son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered by a gang of eco-terrorists at a park where extinct animals are brought back through genetic manipulation.


A Game of Lies by Clare Mackintosh

A Game of Lies by Clare Mackintosh

Seven reality show contestants are trapped in the Welsh mountains, facing the shameful worldwide reveal of their deepest secrets, but when the disappearance of a contestant triggers a more deadly game, DC Ffion Morgan is employed in an investigation more complex than she had ever imagined.


The Gathering by C. J. Tudor

The Gathering by C. J. Tudor

When a boy is found with all the blood drained from his body, Detective Barbara Atkins must determine if a member of the Colony, an ostracized community of vampyrs, is responsible, or if she’s dealing with a twisted psychopath as she uncovers secrets darker than she ever could’ve imagined.


Indian Burial Ground by Nick Medina

Indian Burial Ground by Nick Medina

When the facts surrounding her boyfriend Roddy’s apparent suicide don’t add up, Noemi, suspecting something sinister is stalking their tribal lands, relies on help from her uncle, who has returned to the reservation, bringing with him secrets, horror and what might be the key to determining Roddy’s true cause of death.


It Had to Be You by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke

It Had to Be You by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke

Years after their parents’ murder, identical twin brothers, determined to clear one name at the expense of the other, ask Laura Moran and her Under Suspicion crew to solve this brutal crime and as they get close to the truth, they find the danger from the past finding its way into the present. Under Suspicion No. 8


A Killing on the Hill by Robert Dugoni

A Killing on the Hill by Robert Dugoni

In the corrupt Seattle of the Great Depression, a reporter investigates a murder that's about to become the city's hottest mystery.


Matterhorn by Christopher Reich

Matterhorn by Christopher Reich

A sudden family death and an old nemesis bring retired agent Mac Dekker in from the cold, in an alpine thriller from a New York Times best-selling author.


Midnight Harbor by Davis Bunn

Midnight Harbor by Davis Bunn

When his Aunt Amelia, his closest friend and greatest supporter, passes away, leaving him her home in Miramar, classical guitarist Ian Hart uses this opportunity to reflect and move forward after a scandal destroyed his career but instead finds himself drawn to another newcomer, artist Kari Langham, who changes everything. 


The Murder Inn by James Patterson and Candice Fox

The Murder Inn by James Patterson and Candice Fox

The owner of the Inn at Gloucester, a place open to anyone running from trouble or hiding from life, former Boston police detective Bill Robinson must defend his town, his chosen family and his home when a newcomer in town launches a series of attacks.


The North Line by Matt Riordan

The North Line by Matt Riordan

Joining an Alaskan fishing crew for some quick money, Adam, on the unforgiving Bering Sea, is invigorated by the labor and comradery, but when violence stalks the waves, he is thrust into a struggle for survival at the edge of the world where evolutionary and social forces collide for outcomes beyond anyone’s control.


Nothing but the Bones by Brian Panowich

Nothing but the Bones by Brian Panowich

With lyrical prose and hard-hitting depictions of the hardscrabble life in the rural south, the author of Bull Mountain delivers a gripping new chapter in his tales of McFalls County.


One of Us Knows by Alyssa Cole

One of Us Knows by Alyssa Cole

From a critically acclaimed and New York Times best-selling author of When No One Is Watching comes a thriller about the new caretaker of a historic estate who finds herself trapped on an island with a murderer—and the ghosts of her past.


The Reaper Follows by Heather Graham      

The Reaper Follows by Heather Graham   

Agents from the FBI and Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigate a series of murders linked to conspiracy theorists and doomsday cults.


Safe and Sound by Laura McHugh

Safe and Sound by Laura McHugh

High school seniors and sisters Amelia and Kylee, when human remains are discovered in town, search for the truth surrounding their cousin Grace’s disappearance, determined to find her dead or alive, but soon find themselves not only fighting to save Grace but also for their own lives.


She's Not Sorry by Mary Kubica

She's Not Sorry by Mary Kubica

Single mother and full-time nurse Meghan Michaels, when it is revealed her patient with a traumatic brain injury didn’t jump from a bridge but was pushed, mistakenly lets herself get too close to the case, realizing she and her daughter could be the next victims.


A Spy Like Me by Kim Sherwood

A Spy Like Me by Kim Sherwood

While grieving the loss of a loved one, MI6 agent 003, Johanna Harwood, sets off on an unsanctioned mission to find James Bond in the second novel of the trilogy following Double or Nothing. Double O No. 2


Stag by Dane Bahr

Stag by Dane Bahr

In 1989 Washington State, former sheriff Amos Fielding is pulled back into the world he so desperately wants to escape when he teams up with a wildlife officer and a young Seattle FBI agent to stop a cold-blooded, amoral psychopath targeting troubled young women, staging elaborate scenes of his grisly grimes.


Toxic Prey by John Sandford

Toxic Prey by John Sandford

When a renowned expert in infectious diseases disappears without a trace, Letty Davenport, with the world on high alert, calls in her father, Lucas, to locate him, and when their worst fears are confirmed, they must race against time to stop the virus he created from becoming the perfect weapon. Prey No.


The Vacancy in Room 10 by Seraphina Nova Glass

The Vacancy in Room 10 by Seraphina Nova Glass

A run-down apartment complex is packed with shady characters willing to go to deadly lengths to keep their darkest secrets from the stranger in their midst.


While We Were Burning by Sara Koffi

While We Were Burning by Sara Koffi

Hiring a personal assistant named Brianna to distract her from her obsession with her best friend’s mysterious death, Elizabeth doesn’t realize Brianna has her own agenda—to find out why the police killed her young Black son—and immerses herself in Elizabeth’s life where the answers to her questions lie.


You Know What You Did by K. T. Nguyen

You Know What You Did by K. T. Nguyen

When her mother, a Vietnam War refugee, dies suddenly, Annie Shaw finds her OCD coming back with a vengeance, and when the investigation zeroes in on her, her mind increasingly fractures and the only thing she knows is this: she will do anything to protect her daughter even if it means losing herself.

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The Angry Land by William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone

The Angry Land by William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone

When a cattle train bound for Texas is ambushed by blood thirsty rustlers, legendary mountain man Smoke Jensen vows to get the cattle back, get the killers who stole them—and get revenge for the blood they spilled.


Kill Me Tomorrow by William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone

Kill Me Tomorrow by William W. Johnstone and J. A. Johnstone

Texas good-old-boys Doolin and Tubbs take on a pair of copy-cat outlaws—and prove they’re not getting older, they’re getting deadlier. Old Cowboys Never Die No. 3


The Sweet Blue Distance by Sara Donati

The Sweet Blue Distance by Sara Donati

In 1857, young midwife Carrie Ballentyne travels west to the New Mexico Territory for a nursing position, but while helping women give birth in Sante Fe, she discovers her employer is keeping secrets and must ferret out the truth to save his young daughter whom she’s come to love.