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Curious about what books will be released in the months ahead so you can pre-order or reserve them? Then click on the months below.

Please note we have not included every book that is coming out, but rather some that caught our eye --- and that we thought should catch yours as well.

December 2024

Hardcover

Private Rites by Julia Armfield - Fiction

Flatiron Books | 9781250344311 | Published December 3, 2024

Sisters Isla, Irene, and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their father dies. An architect as cruel as he was revered, his death offers an opportunity for the sisters to come together in a new way. In the glass house they grew up in, their father’s most famous creation, the sisters sort through the secrets and memories he left behind, until their fragile bond is shattered by a revelation in his will. More estranged than ever, the sisters’ relationships spin out of control. But something even more sinister might be unfolding, something related to their mother’s long-ago disappearance and the strangers who have always seemed unusually interested in the sisters’ lives. It becomes clear that the sisters have been chosen for a particular purpose, one with shattering implications for their family and their imperiled world.

Against the Grain by Peter Lovesey - Fiction, Mystery

Soho Crime | 9781641296151 | Published December 3, 2024

Detective Peter Diamond is taking a holiday in the country. His former colleague Julie Hargreaves has invited Diamond and his partner, Paloma, to visit the idyllic village of Baskerville, but they find the woman who owns the village’s largest dairy farm has been convicted of manslaughter following a terrible accident in her grain silo. The case is a fascinating one, and Diamond is enjoying his incognito information-gathering, getting to know the villagers as they prepare for their annual Harvest Festival. The deeper into the cow dung Diamond mucks, the more convinced he becomes there was foul play. Maintaining his innocent tourist facade becomes harder as he closes in on his suspects.

Alter Ego by Alex Segura - Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literary Mystery, Mystery

Flatiron Books | 9781250801777 | Published December 3, 2024

Annie Bustamante is an acclaimed filmmaker, author and comic book artist known for one of the all time best superhero comics. But she’s never been able to tackle her longtime favorite superhero, the Lethal Lynx. The rights were never available --- until now. But Annie is skeptical of who is making the offer: Bert Carlyle's father started Triumph Comics, and has long claimed ownership of the Lynx. When she starts getting anonymous messages urging her not to trust anyone, Annie’s inner alarms go off. Even worse? Carlyle wants to pair her with a disgraced filmmaker for a desperate media play. For the first time since she started reading a tattered copy of The Legendary Lynx #1 as a kid, she feels a pure, creative spark. The chance to tell a story her way. She's not about to let that go. Even if it means uncovering the dark truth about the character she loves.

Apartment Women by Gu Byeong-mo - Fiction, Women's Fiction

Hanover Square Press | 9781335050076 | Published December 3, 2024

When Yojin moves with her husband and daughter into the Dream Future Pilot Communal Apartments, she’s ready for a fresh start. Located on the outskirts of Seoul, the experimental community is a government initiative designed to boost the national birth rate. Like her neighbors, Yojin has agreed to have at least two more children over the next 10 years. Yet, from the day she arrives, Yojin feels uneasy about the community spirit thrust upon her. Her concerns grow as communal child care begins and the other parents show their true colors. APARTMENT WOMEN traces the lives of four women in the apartments, all with different aspirations and beliefs. Will they find a way to live peacefully? Or are the cultural expectations around parenthood stacked against them from the start?

Bellevue by Robin Cook - Fiction, Horror, Suspense, Thriller

G.P. Putnam's Sons | 9780593718834 | Published December 3, 2024

Twenty-three-year-old Michael “Mitt” Fuller starts his surgical residency with great anticipation at the nearly 300-year-old, iconic Bellevue Hospital, following in the footsteps of four previous, celebrated Fuller generations. But quickly one patient after another assigned to his care begin to die from mysterious causes. As he tries to juggle these inexplicable deaths with the demands of being a first-year resident, things rapidly spiral out of control. As bodies mount and Mitt’s stress level rises, he finds himself drawn to the monumental, abandoned Bellevue Psychopathic Hospital building. Forcing an unauthorized entry into this storied but foreboding structure, Mitt discovers he’s more closely tied to the sins of the past than he ever thought possible.

CABIN: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman by Patrick Hutchison - Memoir, Nonfiction

St. Martin's Press | 9781250285706 | Published December 3, 2024

Wit’s End isn’t just a state of mind. It’s the name of a gravel road, the address of a run-down off-the-grid cabin, 120 shabby square feet of fixer-upper Patrick Hutchison purchased on a whim in the mossy woods of the Cascade Mountains in Washington state. To say Hutchison didn’t know what he was getting into is no more an exaggeration than to say he’s a man with nearly zero carpentry skills. Well, used to be. You can learn a lot over six years of renovations. CABIN is the story of those renovations, but it's also a love story; of a place, of possibilities and of the process of construction, of seeing what could be instead of what is. It is a book for those who know what it’s like to bite off more than you can chew, or who desperately wish to.

Deadbeat by Adam Hamdy - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

Atria Books | 9781668031520 | Published December 3, 2024

Peyton Collard was a good man once, but his life changed after a horrific car accident. Divorced, drunk and severely damaged, Peyton is offered a life-changing sum of money to kill an evil man. But as he goes on a vigilante journey that leaves a trail of bodies across California, Peyton wonders about the identity of his anonymous patron. Soon, his questions become an obsession, and he embarks on a tense and potentially deadly investigation to discover the truth about the murders he’s committed.

Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-Selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film by Julie Gilbert - Biography, Nonfiction

Pantheon | 9781524748432 | Published December 3, 2024

The publication of Edna Ferber's GIANT in 1952 set off a storm of protest over the novel's portrayal of Texas manners, money and mores with oil-rich Texans. In GIANT LOVE, Julie Gilbert writes of the internationally bestselling Ferber, one of the most widely read writers in the first half of the 20th century. Here is the making of an American classic novel and the film that followed in its wake. We see how George Stevens wooed the prickly, stubborn Ferber, ultimately getting her to agree to everything. Here is the casting of Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean and their backstory triangle of sex and seduction, the frustrated Stevens trying to direct the instinctive but undisciplined Dean and the months long landmark filming in the sleepy town of Marfa, Texas, suddenly invaded by a battalion of a film crew and some of the biggest stars in the rising celebrity culture.

Havoc by Christopher Bollen - Fiction, Psychological Suspense, Psychological Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

Harper | 9780063378896 | Published December 3, 2024

Eighty-one-year-old widow Maggie Burkhardt came to the Royal Karnak to escape. Maggie, a compulsive fixer of other people’s lives, may have found herself in hot water at her last hotel in Switzerland and just might have needed to get out of there fast...But here at the Royal Karnak, she has a comfortable suite, a loyal confidante in the hotel manager, and a handful of sympathetic friends. Here, she is merely the sweet old lady in Room 309. One morning, however, Maggie notices a new arrival at check-in: a mournful-looking young mother named Tess and her impish eight-year-old, Otto. Eager to help, Maggie invites them into her world. But it isn’t long before Maggie realizes that in her longing to be a part of their family, she has let in an enemy much stronger than she bargained for. In scrawny, homely Otto, Maggie Burkhardt has finally met her match.

I Might Be in Trouble by Daniel Aleman - Fiction, Humor

Grand Central Publishing | 9781538766347 | Published December 3, 2024

A few years ago, David Alvarez had it all. His debut novel was a resounding success, which made the publication of his second book --- a total flop --- all the more devastating. Now, David is single, lonely and desperately trying to come up with the next great idea for his third manuscript. When David connects with a sexy stranger on a dating app, he figures a wild night out may be just what he needs. After one of the best nights of his life, David wakes up hungover but giddy --- only to find prince charming dead next to him in bed. Horrified, David calls the only person he can trust in a moment of crisis: his literary agent, Stacey. Together, David and Stacey must untangle the events of the previous night, cover their tracks and spin the entire misadventure into David’s career-defining novel --- if only they can figure out what to do with the body first.

Kingdom of No Tomorrow by Fabienne Josaphat - Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction

Algonquin Books | 9781643755885 | Published December 3, 2024

Raised in Haiti by a father deeply embedded in activism, Nettie Boileau joins the Black Panthers’ Free Health Clinics in Oakland in 1968. She quickly becomes devoted to the cause and its dedication to helping people in a racially divided America --- and gets swept up in an all-consuming love affair with Melvin Mosley, a defense captain of the Black Panther Party. But when Nettie and Melvin head to Chicago to help launch the Illinois chapter of the Panthers, they find themselves targets of J. Edgar Hoover’s famous covert campaigns against civil rights leaders. As she learns more about the inner workings of the Panthers --- and her relationship with Melvin reveals its own fault lines --- Nettie must figure out what is left for her within the movement, what she stands for and whom she can count on.

Locked In: A Department Q Novel written by Jussi Adler-Olsen, translated by Caroline Waight - Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller

Dutton | 9780593475690 | Published December 3, 2024

On the day after Christmas, head of Department Q, Detective Carl Mørck, finds himself handcuffed in a police car headed for Copenhagen's Vestre prison. After 15 years, a violent case from his past has caught up with him. But he is being framed. Someone has a million-dollar bounty on his head to make sure he doesn't talk, putting him in grave danger among the prison's incarcerated criminals and corrupt officers. The question that remains is, Why? Carl's colleagues at the Copenhagen Police Department instantly turn their backs on him, leaving the ever-loyal Department Q team as his only hope. With only one another to trust and Carl's battle against the unknown mastermind's henchmen worsening by the day, they must work faster than ever before if they are to clear his name --- and save his life.

Love the Stranger: A Queens Mystery by Michael Sears - Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller

Soho Crime | 9781641295451 | Published December 3, 2024

Ted Molloy has hit his stride with a foreclosure investment scheme that brings him into contact with a cast of shady characters across Queens. On the side, he helps his activist girlfriend, Kenzie, with her work to halt construction on “the Spike," a corporate-backed development project in Corona that would displace the surrounding immigrant communities. Kenzie spends most of her waking hours working on the campaign w thanks to Mohammed, a close Yemeni immigrant friend. But when Kenzie learns that Mohammed’s immigration lawyer may be taking advantage of him, she decides to snoop around at the law offices --- and comes face to face with a dead body and a shadowy figure fleeing the scene. Now Kenzie is the sole witness to a potential murder. Can Ted and his team get to the bottom of the murder so they can stop the Spike once and for all?

Only Stars Know the Meaning of Space: A Literary Mixtape by Rémy Ngamije - Fiction, Short Stories

Gallery/Scout Press | 9781668012468 | Published December 3, 2024

Presented as a literary mixtape, ONLY STARS KNOW THE MEANING OF SPACE is a work of literature that provides you with a modern reading experience. The A-Side, read as one narrative, tells the story of a soon-to-be 30-year-old aspiring writer navigating a complicated world. The B-Side, taken as a separate experience, features (seemingly) independent and unrelated short stories. When read together, however, a third world emerges --- a complex, intergenerational and interconnected world exploring the universal gaping void of grief. Rather than attempting to cross this black hole directly, the collection carefully traces around its edges, revealing the enormity of this cosmic force from the “electrifying voice you have been waiting for” (Maaza Mengiste, author of THE SHADOW KING).

Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father by April Balascio - Memoir, Nonfiction

Gallery Books | 9781982177034 | Published December 3, 2024

One evening in 2009, April Balascio was searching online for unsolved murders in the towns her family had lived growing up, when she stumbled across the latest investigations into the “Sweetheart Murders” cold case. All at once, the buried memories of her father’s dark history were awakened, and she knew she had to take action. She picked up the phone to call a detective and the rest is infamous true crime history. In her unflinching memoir, Balascio bravely reveals an astonishing tale of a lifetime of manipulation, unexplained upheavals and silent fear. Some part of her had always known what her father was capable of, but the full truth of how she came to these revelations is as riveting as it is quietly terrifying.

Rental House by Weike Wang - Fiction

Riverhead Books | 9780593545546 | Published December 3, 2024

Keru and Nate are college sweethearts who marry despite their family differences: Keru’s strict, Chinese, immigrant parents demand perfection (“To use a dishwasher is to admit defeat,” says her father), while Nate’s rural, white, working-class family distrusts his intellectual ambitions and his “foreign” wife. Some years into their marriage, the couple invites their families on vacation. At a Cape Cod beach house, and later at a luxury Catskills bungalow, Keru, Nate and their giant sheepdog navigate visits from in-laws and unexpected guests, all while wondering if they have what it takes to answer the big questions: How do you cope when your spouse and your family of origin clash? How many people (and dogs) make a family? And when the pack starts to disintegrate, what can you do to shepherd everyone back together?

Sister Snake by Amanda Lee Koe - Fiction

Ecco | 9780063355064 | Published December 3, 2024

Sisterhood is difficult for Su and Emerald. Su leads a sheltered, moneyed life as the picture-perfect wife of a conservative politician in Singapore. Emerald is a nihilistic sugar baby in New York, living from whim to whim and using her charms to make ends meet. But they share a secret: once, they were snakes, basking under a full moon in Tang dynasty China. When Emerald experiences a violent encounter in Central Park and Su boards the next flight to New York, the two reach a tenuous reconciliation for the first time in decades. Su convinces Emerald to move to Singapore so she can keep an eye on her --- but she soon begins to worry that Emerald’s irrepressible behavior will out them both, in a sparkling, affluent city where everything runs like clockwork and any deviation from the norm is automatically suspect.

Stuart Woods' Golden Hour: A Teddy Fay Novel Featuring Stone Barrington by Brett Battles - Adventure, Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

G.P. Putnam's Sons | 9780593331606 | Published December 3, 2024

Teddy Fay is ready to embark on the European press tour of Peter Barrington’s latest film Storm’s Eye, when he receives an unexpected visit from Lance Cabot, director of the CIA. Several CIA agents have been turning up dead. The commonality? They were all part of a mission Teddy was involved in: Golden Hour. Lance wants Teddy to use his trip as a cover to investigate who is behind these killings. From Venice and Budapest to their last stop at a film festival in Berlin, Teddy must dodge excited fans, enamored women and a few too many assassins who seem dead set on tracking down Golden Hour agents. And if Teddy doesn’t work fast enough, his identity --- and life --- might just be the next target in the killer’s ruthless plot for revenge.

The Close-Up by Pip Drysdale - Fiction, Psychological Suspense, Psychological Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

Gallery Books | 9781668037928 | Published December 3, 2024

When Zoe Ann Weiss moves to Los Angeles to pursue her dream of becoming a writer, her whole future is wide open. But then Zach, the bartender and aspiring actor she’s falling for, ghosts her. Her debut novel fails. Now, three years later, Zach is famous and Zoe is...not. But when she goes to make a flower delivery and Zach is at the address, it’s like no time has passed at all. They start dating in secret, and Zoe begins to wonder: Zach inspired her first novel, so why can’t he inspire her second? But then photos are leaked, landing Zoe in the press. Her first novel goes viral, and now everyone seems to know her name. Except the problem with everyone knowing your name is that everyone knows your name --- including the mysterious stalker obsessed with Zach. A stalker who begins reenacting violent events from Zoe’s book, step by step, against her.

The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever by Lydia Reeder - History, Nonfiction

St. Martin's Press | 9781250284457 | Published December 3, 2024

After Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from medical school, more women demanded a chance to study medicine. Barred entrance to universities like Harvard, women built their own first-rate medical schools and hospitals. Their success spurred backlash from elite, white male physicians who proclaimed that women should never be allowed to attend college or enter a profession because their menstrual cycles made them perpetually sick. Into the midst of this turmoil marched tiny, dynamic Mary Putnam Jacobi, the first woman to be accepted into the world-renowned Sorbonne medical school in Paris. Aided by other prominent women physicians and suffragists when she returned to New York, Jacobi conducted the first-ever data-backed, scientific research on women's reproductive biology. The results of her studies shook the foundations of medical science and higher education.

The Last Kilo: Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire That Seduced America by T. J. English - Nonfiction, True Crime

William Morrow | 9780063265530 | Published December 3, 2024

Violence was not the dominant characteristic of the cocaine business. It was corruption: the dirty cops, agents, lawyers, judges and politicians who made the drug world go round. And no one managed that carousel of dangerous players better than Willy Falcon. Los Muchachos, the syndicate founded by Falcon, thrived as a major cocaine distribution network in the U.S. from the late 1970’s into the early 1990’s. Willy Falcon and those like him became stars in their own right. They were the deliverers of good times, at least until the downside of persistent cocaine use became apparent. Thus, the War on Drugs was born, and federal authorities came after Falcon and his crew with a vengeance. A classic of true-crime writing from a master of the genre, THE LAST KILO traces the rise and fall of a true cocaine empire --- and the lives left in its wake.

The Secret of the Three Fates: A Ruby Vaughn Mystery by Jess Armstrong - Fiction, Gothic, Historical Fiction, Historical Mystery, Mystery

Minotaur Books | 9781250909886 | Published December 3, 2024

American heiress Ruby Vaughn still hasn't entirely forgiven her octogenarian employer and housemate Mr. Owen for bringing the occult into their lives during her recent trip to Cornwall. He claims their journey to Manhurst Castle in the Scottish Borders is to acquire manuscripts for their rare books shop, but when Ruby receives news of a séance to be held that very night, she grows suspicious. Mr. Owen is desperate to speak to his late son. When the séance --- hosted by a trio of mediums billing themselves as The Three Fates --- goes awry, Mr. Owen’s secrets begin to unravel, revealing a history that he has been running from for half his life. When Ruby finds one of the Three Fates murdered, she and Mr. Owen quickly become the prime suspects. To clear their names, Ruby enlists Ruan Kivell, the folk healer Pellar who helped her in Cornwall.

The Shadowed Land by Signe Pike - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Atria Books | 9781501191480 | Published December 3, 2024

Kingdom of Gododdin, AD 580: After defeating the Angles at the Battle of the Caledonian Wood, Languoreth, her daughter Angharad, brother Lailoken and the warrior Artúr mac Aedan are reunited. But all too soon, fate pulls each back to their own path. Artúr receives a mysterious summons from his father. Languoreth and Lailoken return to Strathclyde, determined to maintain the fragile peace between the Christians and the people of the Old Way. Meanwhile, Angharad must travel deep into the shadowed land of the Picts, hoping to become the initiate of Briochan, a druid who practices the secret Celtic art of summoning weather. As they rise to their destinies, they are pushed to impossible new frontiers as each must decide whether they are willing to do what it takes to be the heroes their harrowing days demand.

The Shutouts by Gabrielle Korn - Dystopian, Fiction

St. Martin's Press | 9781250323484 | Published December 3, 2024

The year is 2041, and it's a dangerous time to be a woman driving across the United States alone. But Kelly desperately needs to get back to her daughter, who she left seven years ago for a cause that she's no longer sure she believes in. Almost 40 years later, another mother, Ava, and her daughter Brook are on the run as well, from the climate change relief program known as The Inside Project, where they've spent the past 22 years being treated as lab rats. At the same time, way up North, weather conditions continue to worsen and a settlement departs in search of greener pastures, leaving behind only two members, drawn together by a circumstance and a mystery they are destined to unravel together.

The Voyage Home by Pat Barker - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Doubleday | 9780385549110 | Published December 3, 2024

Pat Barker has crafted the latest in a brilliant reimagining of Greek mythology, and THE VOYAGE HOME is the work of a writer at the height of her powers. In this third outing, she follows the young Ritsa and the unpredictable Cassandra on their perilous return journey to Mycenae. Cassandra has acquired the powers of prophecy from the kiss of Apollo, but the very same god has taken away the people’s belief in her abilities. Though she warns of the carnage that awaits the Greek warrior king Agamemnon --- who numbs himself with alcohol on the storm-plagued trip home --- her shipmates disregard her. Ritsa instead remains focused on surviving once they make land. But it’s the ongoing ire between Queen Clytemnestra and Agamemnon that could prove fatal for everyone.