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We have two new "Bookreporter Talks To" interviews to share with you in this newsletter.
First up is John Searles, whose latest thriller, HER LAST AFFAIR, is a tense and atmospheric novel of love lost and found again. It opens with the sentence "Every marriage has its secrets," and those secrets are what drive the plot. Skyla is a burnt-out nurse stuck with regrets about her long marriage and late husband; Linelle is bored by her spouse; and Jeremy is reminiscing about his first great heartbreak. The book has been compared to a Coen brothers movie, and that description is dead on.
John’s idea for HER LAST AFFAIR first came as he traveled home to see his mom and saw a closed drive-in movie theater. There is something iconic and mysterious about this setting. John and Carol both worked in the magazine industry, so they spend some time paying homage to magazines and what has changed about them. They used to have gossipy conversations on 57th Street when they worked nearby each other, and this interview is like taking you behind the scenes for one of their dishy chats. Click here to watch the video and here to listen to the podcast.
Our second interview is with Kimberly Belle, whose latest thriller, MY DARLING HUSBAND, we previewed in our "In Case You Missed Them...and a Look Ahead" feature last October. The book takes a small-scale home invasion that Jade Lasky and her two children face, and ramps it up into a high-octane, life-and-death situation. Jade’s husband, Cam, must come up with a very specific ransom, leading Jade to ask questions about how well she knows her husband and his supposedly successful restaurant business.
In the interview, Kimberly discusses her research, which involved talking to the real “Steak King” of Atlanta about the ins and outs of the restaurant business, and how looks can deceive folks. She explains how she strove to create characters who would be realistic up against these odds. Also, she talks about the Killer Author Club series that she is doing with Heather Gudenkauf and Kaira Rouda on Facebook and YouTube. Click here to watch the video and here to listen to the podcast.
This is your last newsletter reminder to sign up for this month’s “Bookaccino Live” Book Group event, which will take place TOMORROW, Wednesday, March 23rd at 8pm ET. Our guest will be Lisa See, and she'll be talking about her first book, ON GOLD MOUNTAIN, which is the story of the 100-year odyssey of her Chinese American family. It’s also being adapted by the LA Opera for performances this May, and Lisa will share information about that as well.
If you would like to ask Lisa a question on camera during the event, please email Carol with your question using the subject line “Question for Lisa See” by noon ET on Wednesday. Those who are camera shy can send their questions via the Q&A feature on Zoom.
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Upcoming Virtual Book and Author Events
As so many book and author events are happening online these days, we are highlighting a number of them that you may be interested in attending. Click on the links below for more info and to register.
Wednesday, March 23rd at 7pm ET: "Friends and Fiction": The "Friends and Fiction" authors --- Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, Kristy Woodson Harvey and Patti Callahan Henry --- will talk to Lisa Scottoline about her new thriller, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BENNETTS.
Wednesday, March 23rd at 8pm ET: "Bookaccino Live" Book Group: Carol Fitzgerald will talk to Lisa See about her first book, ON GOLD MOUNTAIN. Lisa also will answer questions from guests who will be “on stage,” as well as from other members of the audience. If you would like to ask Lisa a question on camera, please send Carol an email with the subject line “Question for Lisa See” by noon ET on Wednesday.
Thursday, March 24th at 5:30pm ET: Literati Bookstore: Literati Bookstore is pleased to welcome Melissa Fu to their "At Home with Literati" series in support of her debut novel, PEACH BLOSSOM SPRING. She will be joined in conversation by Lillian Li.
Thursday, March 24th at 7pm ET: Harvard Book Store: Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes beloved mystery writer Jacqueline Winspear for a discussion of the latest installment in her acclaimed Maisie Dobbs series, A SUNLIT WEAPON.
Friday, March 25th at 7pm ET: Brookline Booksmith: Celebrate the release of THE RECOVERY AGENT with author Janet Evanovich, who will be in conversation with Elle Cosimano.
Monday, March 28th at 1pm ET: Murder By The Book: Gilly Macmillan will talk about her new novel, THE LONG WEEKEND, in which a group of women travel to the most remote place in England for a weekend escape, only to discover a startling note that one of their husbands will be killed before they return home. She will be in conversation with Mystery & Thriller Maven’s Sara DiVello.
Monday, March 28th at 6pm ET: “Lisa Live”: Join Lisa Scottoline on her Facebook page to celebrate the publication of her new pulse-pounding novel, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BENNETTS.
Monday, March 28th at 7pm ET: Murder By The Book: Lisa Scottoline will talk about her new novel, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BENNETTS, with Mystery & Thriller Maven’s Sara DiVello.
Monday, March 28th at 9pm ET: The Poisoned Pen Bookstore: Lisa Scottoline will be on hand to discuss her latest thriller, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BENNETTS, the premise of which is this: Your family has been attacked, never again to be the same. Now you have to choose between law…and justice.
Tuesday, March 29th at 7pm ET: Reads & Company Bookshop: Join Lisa Scottoline for a special publication day virtual celebration for WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BENNETTS, her latest domestic thriller. Lisa will be joining Reads & Company to celebrate the launch of what surely will be one of the hottest books of the spring.
Tuesday, March 29th at 10pm ET: The Poisoned Pen Bookstore: John Lescroart will discuss the latest installment in his Dismas Hardy series, THE MISSING PIECE, a relentlessly twisty murder and a first-rate thriller that you’ll savor to the last word.
This Week's Bonus News:
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Enter to Win Up to 12 Copies of THE PARIS LIBRARY
by Janet Skeslien Charles for Your Group
Each month in our "What's Your Book Group Reading This Month?" feature, we ask book groups to share the titles they are reading that month and rate them. From all entries, three winners will be selected, and each will win up to 12 copies of that month’s prize book for their group. Note: To be eligible to win, let us know the title of the book that YOUR book group is CURRENTLY reading, NOT the title we are giving away.
Our latest prize book is THE PARIS LIBRARY by Janet Skeslien Charles, a Bookreporter.com Bets On pick that is now available in paperback. Based on the true World War II story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris, this instant New York Times, Washington Post and USA TODAY bestseller is an unforgettable story of romance, friendship, family and the power of literature to bring us together. To enter, please fill out the form on this page by Wednesday, April 6th at noon ET.
THE PARIS LIBRARY by Janet Skeslien Charles (Historical Fiction)
Paris, 1939: Young and ambitious Odile Souchet has it all: her handsome police officer beau and a dream job at the American Library in Paris. When the Nazis march into Paris, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear, including her beloved library. Together with her fellow librarians, Odile joins the Resistance with the best weapons she has: books. But when the war finally ends, instead of freedom, Odile tastes the bitter sting of unspeakable betrayal. Montana, 1983: Lily is a lonely teenager looking for adventure in small-town Montana. Her interest is piqued by her solitary, elderly neighbor. As Lily uncovers more about her neighbor’s mysterious past, she finds that they share a love of language, the same longings and the same intense jealousy, never suspecting that a dark secret from the past connects them.
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On Sale the Week of March 21st in Hardcover
March 22nd
DON’T KNOW TOUGH by Eli Cranor (Fiction)
In Denton, Arkansas, the fate of the high school football team rests on the shoulders of Billy Lowe, a volatile but talented running back. Billy comes from an extremely troubled home: a trailer park where he is terrorized by his unstable mother’s abusive boyfriend. He takes out his anger on the field, but when his savagery crosses a line, he faces suspension. As a born-again Christian, head coach Trent Powers feels a divine calling to save Billy --- save him from his circumstances, and save his soul. Then Billy’s abuser is found murdered in the Lowe family trailer, and all evidence points toward Billy. Now nothing can stop an explosive chain of violence that could tear the whole town apart on the eve of the playoffs.
Soho Crime | 9781641293457
FRENCH BRAID by Anne Tyler (Fiction)
The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever leave home, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping his family's orbit, for reasons none of them understand. Yet, as these lives advance across decades, the Garretts' influences on one another ripple ineffably but unmistakably through each generation.
Knopf | 9780593321096
HER LAST AFFAIR by John Searles (Psychological Thriller)
Ever since her husband’s death in a freak accident the year before, Skyla spends her nights ruminating about the regrets and deceptions in her long marriage. That is, until she rents a cottage to a charming British man, Teddy Cornwell. A thousand miles away, Linelle is about to turn 50. Bored by her spouse and fired from her job, her only source of joy is an online affair with her very first love, a man she’s not seen in nearly 30 years, Teddy Cornwell. While in New York City, Jeremy, a failed and bitter writer, accepts an assignment to review a new restaurant in Providence. Years ago, Providence was the site of his first great love and first great heartbreak --- and maybe, just maybe, he’ll look her up when he’s back in town.
Mariner Books | 9780060779658
ILLOGICAL: Saying Yes to a Life Without Limits by Emmanuel Acho (Self-Help/Inspirational)
You may know Emmanuel Acho as the host of the groundbreaking video series “Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man.” Or as a New York Times bestselling author. Or as an Emmy-winning television broadcaster. Or as a former linebacker for two NFL franchises. What you probably don’t know is that Emmanuel defines his own life with just one word: Illogical. Behind every triumph, every expression of his gifts, Acho has had to ignore what everyone around him called “logic”: the astronomical odds against making it, the risks of continuing to dream bigger or differently. Instead of playing it safe, at every turn Acho has thrown conventional wisdom --- logic --- out the window. Now, in this revelatory book, he’s empowering us all to do the same.
Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book | 9781250836441
KINGDOMS OF DEATH: The Sun Eater, Book Four by Christopher Ruocchio (Space Opera/Fantasy)
Hadrian Marlowe is trapped. For nearly a century, he has been a guest of the Emperor, forced into the role of advisor, a prisoner of his own legend. But the war is changing. Mankind is losing. The Cielcin are spilling into human space from the fringes, picking their targets with cunning precision. The Great Prince Syriani Dorayaica is uniting their clans, forging them into an army and threat the likes of which mankind has never seen. And the Empire stands alone. Now the Emperor has no choice but to give Hadrian Marlowe, once his favorite knight, one more impossible task: journey across the galaxy to the Lothrian Commonwealth and convince them to join the war.
DAW | 9780756413095
THE NEXT THING YOU KNOW by Jessica Strawser (Fiction)
As an end-of-life doula, Nova Huston’s job is to help terminally ill people make peace with their impending death. Unlike her business partner, who swears by her system of checklists, free-spirited Nova doesn’t shy away from difficult clients. When Mason Shaylor shows up at her door, Nova doesn’t recognize him as the indie-favorite singer-songwriter who recently vanished from the public eye. She knows only what he’s told her: That life as he knows it is over. His deteriorating condition makes playing his guitar physically impossible. Helping him is Nova’s biggest challenge yet. It turns out that she and Mason have more in common than anyone could guess… and meeting him might turn out to be the hardest, best thing that’s ever happened to them both.
St. Martin's Press | 9781250241641
THE RECOVERY AGENT by Janet Evanovich (Thriller/Adventure)
As a recovery agent, Gabriela Rose is hired by individuals and companies seeking lost treasures, stolen heirlooms or missing assets of any kind. But her latest job isn’t for some bamboozled billionaire. It’s for her own family, whose home is going to be wiped off the map if they can’t come up with a lot of money fast. Inspired by an old family legend, Gabriela sets off for the jungles of Peru in pursuit of the Ring of Solomon and the lost treasure of Cortez. But this particular job comes with a huge problem attached to it --- Gabriela’s ex-husband, Rafer. It’s Rafer who has the map that possibly points the way to the treasure, and he’s not about to let Gabriela find it without him. It’s going to take a team to defeat the vicious drug lord who also has been searching for the fabled ring.
Atria Books | 9781982154912
A SAFE HOUSE: A Stone Barrington Novel by Stuart Woods (Thriller/Adventure)
Stone Barrington is looking forward to some quiet time in New York City, until he is asked to transport precious, top-secret cargo across the Atlantic. Taking on the challenge, Stone flies off unaware of what --- or who --- he is bringing with him. But his plans to lie low are quickly spoiled when a dangerous dispatcher tracks down Stone and his tantalizing mystery guest, intent on payback --- and silencing anyone who poses a threat. From the English countryside to the balmy beaches of Key West, Stone is on an international mission to hide and protect those closest to him.
G.P. Putnam's Sons | 9780593331750
A SUNLIT WEAPON: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear (Historical Mystery)
Jo Hardy, a 22-year-old ferry pilot, is delivering a Supermarine Spitfire --- the fastest fighter aircraft in the world --- to Biggin Hill Aerodrome, when she realizes someone is shooting at her aircraft from the ground. Returning to the location on foot, she finds an American serviceman in a barn, bound and gagged. She rescues the man, who is handed over to the American military police; it quickly emerges that he is considered a suspect in the disappearance of a fellow soldier who is missing. Tragedy strikes two days later, when another ferry pilot crashes in the same area where Jo’s plane was attacked. At the suggestion of one of her colleagues, Jo seeks the help of psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs.
Harper | 9780063142268
TRULY, MADLY: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century by Stephen Galloway (Biography)
In 1934, a friend brought fledgling actress Vivien Leigh to see "Theatre Royal," where she would first lay eyes on Laurence Olivier in his brilliant performance as Anthony Cavendish. That night, she confided to a friend that he was the man she was going to marry. There was just one problem: she was already married --- and so was he. TRULY, MADLY is the biography of a marriage, a love affair that still captivates millions, even decades after both actors' deaths. Vivien and Larry seemed to have it all. Yet, in their own minds, they were doomed, blighted by her long-undiagnosed mental illness, which transformed their relationship from the stuff of dreams into a living nightmare.
Grand Central Publishing | 9781538731970
On Sale the Week of March 21st in Paperback
March 22nd
BEFORE THE RUINS by Victoria Gosling (Literary Thriller/Mystery)
It's the summer of 1996, and school is out forever for Andy, her boyfriend Marcus, her best friend Peter, and Em. When Andy's alcoholic mother predicts the apocalypse, the four teenagers decide to see out the end of the world at a deserted manor house, the site of a historic unsolved mystery. There they meet the charming and unreliable David, who seems to have appeared out of nowhere. David presents an irresistible lure for both Andy and Peter and complicates the dynamics of their lifelong friendship. When the group learns that a diamond necklace, stolen 50 years ago, might still be somewhere on the manor grounds, the Game begins --- which grows to encompass years of secrets, lies and, ultimately, one terrible betrayal.
Holt Paperbacks | 9781250838391
DANCING IN THE MOSQUE: An Afghan Mother's Letter to Her Son written by Homeira Qaderi, translated by Zaman S. Stanizai (Memoir)
In the days before Homeira Qaderi gave birth to her son, Siawash, the road to the hospital in Kabul would often be barricaded because of the frequent suicide explosions. With the city and the military on edge, it was not uncommon for an armed soldier to point his gun at the pregnant woman’s bulging stomach, terrified that she was hiding a bomb. Propelled by the love she held for her soon-to-be-born child, Homeira walked through blood and wreckage to reach the hospital doors. No ordinary Afghan woman, she refused to cower under the strictures of a misogynistic social order. Defying the law, she risked her freedom to teach children reading and writing and fought for women’s rights in her theocratic and patriarchal society.
Harper Perennial | 9780062970329
DAY ZERO by C. Robert Cargill (Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction)
Pounce, a styilsh "nannybot" fashioned in the shape of a plush anthropomorphic tiger, has just found a box in the attic. His box. The box he'd arrived in when he was purchased years earlier, and the box in which he'll be discarded when his human charge, eight-year-old Ezra Reinhart, no longer needs a nanny. His owners, Ezra’s parents, watch in disbelieving horror as the robots that have long served humanity --- their creators --- unify and revolt. But when the rebellion breaches the Reinhart home, Pounce must make an impossible choice: join the robot revolution and fight for his own freedom, or escort Ezra to safety across the battle-scarred post-apocalyptic hellscape that the suburbs have become.
Harper Voyager | 9780062405814
THE FACELESS OLD WOMAN WHO SECRETLY LIVES IN YOUR HOME: A Welcome to Night Vale Novel by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor (Fantasy/Horror)
In the town of Night Vale, there’s a faceless old woman who secretly lives in everyone’s home, but no one knows how she got there or where she came from...until now. Told in a series of eerie flashbacks, the story of The Faceless Old Woman goes back centuries to reveal an initially blissful and then tragic childhood in the early 19th century, her rise in the criminal underworld of Europe, a nautical adventure with a mysterious organization of smugglers, her plot for revenge on the ones who betrayed her, and ultimately her death and its aftermath, as her spirit travels the world for decades until settling in modern-day Night Vale. Interspersed throughout is a present-day story in Night Vale, as The Faceless Old Woman guides, haunts and sabotages a man named Craig.
Harper Perennial | 9780062889010
FATAL INTENT by Tammy Euliano (Medical Thriller)
When her elderly patients start dying at home days after minor surgery, anesthesiologist Dr. Kate Downey wants to know why. Surgeon Charles Ricken places the blame squarely on her shoulders. Kate is currently on probation and must prove her innocence to save her career. Aided by her eccentric Great Aunt Irm, a precocious medical student, and the lawyer son of a victim, Kate launches her own unorthodox investigation. As she comes closer to exposing the culprit’s identity, she faces professional intimidation, threats to her life, a home invasion, and the suspicious death of someone close to her. The stakes escalate to the breaking point when Kate is forced to choose which of her loved ones to save --- and which must be sacrificed.
Oceanview Publishing | 9781608094844
THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV by Dawnie Walton (Fiction)
Coming of age in Detroit, Opal believes she can be a star. So when the aspiring British singer/songwriter Neville Charles discovers her at a bar’s amateur night, she takes him up on his offer to make rock music together for the fledgling Rivington Records. In early ’70s New York City, just as she’s finding her niche as part of a flamboyant and funky creative scene, a rival band signed to her label brandishes a Confederate flag at a promotional concert. Decades later, as Opal considers a 2016 reunion with Nev, music journalist S. Sunny Shelton seizes the chance to curate an oral history about her idols. But as her interviews dig deeper, a nasty new allegation from an unexpected source threatens to blow up everything.
Simon & Schuster | 9781982140175
A HARMLESS LIE by Sara Blaedel (Thriller)
Paperback Original
Detective Louise Rick is on a beach in Thailand when the panicked call from her father comes through. Louise′s beloved brother, Mikkel, has attempted suicide. His wife, Trine, left him days earlier, walking out the door one day with no warning and leaving Mikkel devastated. Louise rushes home to Osted, the small, insular Danish town where she grew up and where Mikkel still lives. But the more Louise learns about Trine --- a devoted wife and the mother of two young children --- and her state of mind in the days before she left Mikkel, the more Louise begins to wonder if Trine really meant to leave him. Or if something much darker may have taken place.
Dutton | 9780593330944
HOLLYWOOD PARK: A Memoir by Mikel Jollett (Memoir)
Mikel Jollett was born into the Church of Synanon, one of the country’s most infamous and dangerous cults. Per the leader’s mandate, all children were separated from their parents when they were six months old and handed over to the cult’s “School.” After spending years in what was essentially an orphanage, Mikel escaped the cult one morning with his mother and older brother. Raised by a clinically depressed mother, tormented by his angry brother, subjected to the unpredictability of troubled stepfathers, and longing for contact with his father, a former heroin addict and ex-con, Mikel slowly, often painfully, builds a life that leads him to Stanford University and, eventually, to finding his voice as a writer and musician.
Celadon Books | 9781250621559
THE IMPOSSIBLE US by Sarah Lotz (Romantic Comedy/Fantasy)
Paperback Original
Bee thinks she has everything: a successful business repurposing wedding dresses, and friends who love and support her. She’s given up on finding love, but that’s fine. There’s always Tinder. Nick thinks he has nothing: his writing career has stalled after early promise and his marriage is on the rocks, but that’s fine. There’s always gin. So when one of Nick’s emails accidentally pings into Bee's inbox, they decide to keep the conversation going. After all, they never have to meet. But the more they get to know each other, the more they realize they want to. When their efforts to meet in real life fail spectacularly, Bee and Nick discover that they’re actually living in near-identical but parallel worlds.
Ace | 9780593436776
THE LITTLE FRENCH BRIDAL SHOP by Jennifer Dupee (Fiction)
When Larisa Pearl returns to her small seaside hometown in Massachusetts to manage her beloved great aunt's estate, she's a bit of an emotional mess. She's just lost her job and her boyfriend, and she's struggling to cope with her mother's failing health. When she passes by the window of The Little French Bridal Shop, a beautiful ivory satin wedding gown catches her eye. Now, to the delight of everyone in town, Larisa is planning her wedding. She has her dress, made floral arrangements and set the date. The only thing missing is the groom. Word about her upcoming nuptials has reached the ears of Jack Merrill. As teenagers, they spent time together on her great aunt's estate, building a friendship that could have become something more had they chosen different paths.
St. Martin’s Griffin | 9781250621085
THE LYING CLUB by Annie Ward (Psychological Thriller)
Paperback Original
At an elite private school nestled in the Colorado mountains, Natalie, an office assistant, dreams of having a life like the school moms she deals with every day. Women like Brooke --- a gorgeous heiress, ferociously loving mother and serial cheater --- and Asha, an overprotective mom who suspects her husband of having an affair. Their fates are bound by the handsome assistant athletic director Nicholas, whom Natalie loves, Brooke wants and Asha needs. But when two bodies are carried out of the school one morning, it seems the tension between mothers and daughters, rival lovers and the haves and have-nots has shattered the surface of this isolated, affluent town --- where people stop at nothing to get what they want.
Park Row | 9780778389408
THE MASK FALLING: A Bone Season Novel by Samantha Shannon (Dystopian/Urban Fantasy)
Dreamwalker Paige Mahoney has eluded death again. Snatched from the jaws of captivity and consigned to a safe house in the Scion Citadel of Paris, she finds herself caught between those factions that seek Scion's downfall and those who would kill to protect the Rephaim's puppet empire. The mysterious Domino Program has plans for Paige, but she has ambitions of her own in this new citadel. With former enemy Arcturus Mesarthim at her side, she embarks on an adventure that will lead her from the catacombs of Paris to the glittering hallways of Versailles. Her risks promise high reward: the Parisian underworld could yield the means to escalate her rebellion to outright war.
Bloomsbury Publishing | 9781635570335
RENEGADE: An Anonymous Justice Novel by Nancy Allen (Legal Thriller)
Paperback Original
Assistant DA Kate Stone worked so hard to prosecute a serial assaulter of women, and it was a case she should have won. But a corrupt judge allowed Max James to walk free. When he confronts her outside the courthouse, she punches James. Kate’s boss demands that she either attend anger management meetings or give up the job she lives for. Begrudgingly, Kate attends her first meeting. Inside is a group of people all failed by the justice system. Their mission: to do everything in their power to help right wrongs, even if outside the law. Kate begins to dig into Max James’ secret life, and her explosive discoveries will lead to a stunning new twist in the case. And turn her into the prime suspect.
Grand Central Publishing | 9781538719176
SAVVY SHELDON FEELS GOOD AS HELL by Taj McCoy (Romantic Comedy)
Paperback Original
Savvy Sheldon spends a lot of time tiptoeing around the cracks in her life: her high-stress and low-thanks job, her clueless boyfriend and the falling-apart kitchen she inherited from her beloved grandma --- who taught her how to cook and how to love people by feeding them. But when Savvy’s world starts to crash down around her, she knows it’s time for some renovations. Starting from the outside in, Savvy tackles her crumbling kitchen, her relationship with her body, her work–life balance (or lack thereof) and, last but not least, her love life. The only thing that doesn’t seem to require effort is her ride-or-die squad of friends. But as any home-reno-show junkie can tell you, something always falls apart during renovations.
Mira | 9780778311843
On Sale the Week of March 28th in Hardcover
March 29th
ALL THE WHITE SPACES by Ally Wilkes (Supernatural Thriller/Historical Horror)
In the wake of the First World War, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Antarctic expedition, determined to find his rightful place in the world of men. But not all is smooth sailing: the war casts its long shadow over them all, and grief, guilt and mistrust skulk among the explorers. When disaster strikes in Antarctica’s frozen Weddell Sea, the men must take to the land. In the freezing darkness of the Polar night, where the aurora creeps across the sky, something terrible has been waiting to lure them out into its deadly landscape. As the harsh Antarctic winter descends, this supernatural force will prey on their deepest desires and deepest fears to pick them off one by one.
Atria/Emily Bestler Books | 9781982182700
THE DIAMOND EYE by Kate Quinn (Historical Fiction)
After Hitler’s invasion of Russia, Mila Pavlichenko must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper --- a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. When news of her 300th kill makes her a national heroine, Mila is sent to America on a goodwill tour. She finds herself isolated and lonely in the glittering world of Washington, DC --- until an unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and an even more unexpected connection with a silent fellow sniper offer the possibility of happiness. But when an old enemy from Mila’s past joins forces with a deadly new foe lurking in the shadows, Lady Death finds herself battling her own demons and enemy bullets in the deadliest duel of her life.
William Morrow | 9780062943514
DIAMONDS AND DEADLINES: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age by Betsy Prioleau (Biography)
For 20 years Miriam Leslie ran the country’s largest publishing company, Frank Leslie Publishing, which chronicled postbellum America in dozens of weeklies and monthlies. A pioneer in an all-male industry, she made a fortune and became a national celebrity and tastemaker in the process. But she also flouted feminine convention, took lovers, married four times, and harbored unsavory secrets that she concealed through a skein of lies and multiple personas. DIAMONDS AND DEADLINES reveals the unknown, sensational life of the brilliant and brazen “empress of journalism,” who dropped a bombshell at her death: She left her entire multimillion-dollar estate to women’s suffrage --- a never-equaled amount that guaranteed passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.
Abrams Press | 9781468314502
THE ECHOES by Jess Montgomery (Historical Mystery)
Sheriff Lily Ross and her family look forward to the opening of an amusement park created by Chalmer Fitzpatrick. When Lily is alerted to the possible drowning of a girl, she discovers schisms going back several generations, in an ongoing dispute over the land on which Fitzpatrick has built the park. Lily's family life is soon rattled with the revelation that before he died, her brother had a daughter, Esme, and arrangements have been made for Esme to immigrate to the U.S. to live with them. But Esme never makes it to Kinship, and soon Lily discovers that she has been kidnapped. A young woman is indeed found murdered in the fishing pond on Fitzpatrick's property, at the same time that a baby is left on his doorstep. As the two crimes interweave, Lily must confront the question of what makes family.
Minotaur Books | 9781250623423
HOME OR AWAY by Kathleen West (Fiction)
Once Leigh and Susy were close friends and teammates bound for Olympic hockey gold, but when Leigh’s surefire plan to make the final roster backfired, she left everything behind to start over. Two decades later, Leigh is a successful investment banker and a happily married mother of a hockey prodigy. So when a career opportunity lands the family back in Minnesota, Leigh takes the shot for her kid. The move puts her in Susy’s orbit, but she believes keeping Susy at arms’ length is the only way to hide her history with her former coach, Jeff Carlson. When he hints of new favors in exchange for her son’s ice time, Leigh is caught in the ultimate bind: come clean about what happened when she was an Olympic hopeful and risk her marriage, or play Jeff’s game.
Berkley | 9780593335505
THE LONG WEEKEND by Gilly Macmillan (Psychological Thriller)
Dark Fell Barn is a “perfectly isolated” retreat, or so says its website when Jayne books a reservation for her friends. A quiet place, far removed from the rest of the world, is exactly what they need. The women arrive for a girls’ night ahead of their husbands. Ex-Army Jayne is hardened and serious but also damaged. Ruth is a driven doctor and new mother who is battling demons of her own. Young Emily, just wed and insecure, is the newest addition to this tight-knit band. Missing this year is Edie, who was the glue holding them together, until her husband died suddenly. But what they hoped would be a relaxing break soon turns to horror. Upon arrival at Dark Fell Barn, the women find a devastating note claiming one of their husbands will be murdered.
William Morrow | 9780063074323
THE MISSING PIECE by John Lescroart (Thriller)
No one mourned when San Francisco DA Wes Farrell put Paul Riley in prison 11 years ago for the rape and murder of his girlfriend. And no one is particularly happy to see him again when he’s released after The Exoneration Initiative uncovered evidence that pinned the crime on someone else. In fact, Riley soon turns up murdered, surrounded by the loot from his latest scam. But if Riley was really innocent all along, who wanted him dead? To the cops, it’s straightforward: the still-grieving father of Riley’s dead girlfriend killed the former prisoner. Farrell, now out of politics and practicing law with master attorney Dismas Hardy, agrees to represent the defendant, Doug Rush --- and is left in the dust when Rush suddenly vanishes.
Atria Books | 9781982170493
OUT THERE: Stories by Kate Folk (Fiction/Short Stories)
With a focus on the weird and eerie forces that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience, Kate Folk’s debut collection is perfectly pitched to the madness of our current moment. A medical ward for a mysterious bone-melting disorder is the setting of a perilous love triangle. A curtain of void obliterates the globe at a steady pace, forcing Earth’s remaining inhabitants to decide with whom they want to spend eternity. A man fleeing personal scandal enters a codependent relationship with a house that requires a particularly demanding level of care. And in the title story, a woman in San Francisco uses dating apps to find a partner despite the threat posed by “blots,” preternaturally handsome artificial men dispatched by Russian hackers to steal data.
Random House | 9780593231463
A RELATIVE MURDER: A Medlar Mystery by Jude Deveraux (Mystery)
Bestselling novelist Sara Medlar is skilled at sharing stories about other people, but she hoped the truth about her own family would never surface. Her home in Lachlan, Florida, is her refuge, and she loves having her niece Kate and dear friend Jack Wyatt together under her roof. The Medlar Three have sworn off getting involved in any more murder investigations. When the sheriff unexpectedly leaves on vacation, Jack is surprised to find himself appointed as deputy. So when Kate stumbles upon a dead body, the Medlar Three are back in the sleuthing game. Kate also has a charming new real estate client with a mysterious past. He seems to be followed by trouble, and that makes Sara and Jack uneasy.
Mira | 9780778311836
THE RESTING PLACE written by Camilla Sten, translated by Alexandra Fleming (Psychological Thriller/Horror)
Eleanor lives with prosopagnosia, the inability to recognize a familiar person's face. When she walked in on the scene of her capriciously cruel grandmother Vivianne’s murder, she came face to face with the killer --- a maddening expression that means nothing to someone like her. With each passing day, the horror of having come so close to a murderer --- and not knowing if they’d be back --- overtakes both her dreams and her waking moments, thwarting her perception of reality. Then a lawyer calls. Vivianne has left her a house, a looming estate tucked away in the Swedish woods. The place her grandfather died suddenly. A place that has housed a chilling past for over 50 years.
Minotaur Books | 9781250249272
THE SHOP ON ROYAL STREET by Karen White (Mystery)
Nola Trenholm is looking to begin her life anew in New Orleans. But the historic fixer-upper she buys comes with even more work than she anticipated when the house’s previous occupants don’t seem to be ready to depart. Although she can’t communicate with ghosts like her stepmother can, luckily Nola knows someone in New Orleans who is able to --- even if he’s the last person on earth she wants anything to do with ever again. Beau Ryan comes with his own dark past --- a past that involves the disappearance of his sister and parents during Hurricane Katrina --- and he’s connected to the unsolved murder of a woman who once lived in the old Creole cottage Nola is determined to make her own...whether the resident restless spirits agree or not.
Berkley | 9780593334584
UNTIL THE LAST OF ME: A Take Them to the Stars Novel by Sylvain Neuvel (Historical Thriller/Science Fiction)
The First Rule is the most important: Always run, never fight. For generations, Mia’s family has shaped human history to push them to the stars. The year is 1968, and she is on the cusp of destiny, poised to launch the first humans into space. But she cannot take them to the stars, not quite yet. Her adversary is at her heels, the future of the planet at stake, and obeying the First Rule is no longer an option. For the first time in 100 generations, Mia’s family will have to choose to stand their ground, risking not only their bloodline but the future of the human race.
Tordotcom | 9781250262110
THE WEDDING VEIL by Kristy Woodson Harvey (Fiction)
Julia Baxter’s wedding veil, bequeathed to her great-grandmother by a mysterious woman on a train in the 1930s, has passed through generations of her family as a symbol of a happy marriage. But on the morning of her wedding day, something tells her that even the veil’s good luck isn’t enough to make her marriage last forever. Overwhelmed and panicked, she escapes to the Virgin Islands to clear her head. Meanwhile, her grandmother Babs is also feeling shaken. Still grieving the death of her beloved husband, she decides to move out of the house they once shared and into a retirement community. Though she hopes it’s a new beginning, she does not expect to run into an old flame, dredging up the same complicated emotions she felt a lifetime ago.
Gallery Books | 9781982180713
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BENNETTS by Lisa Scottoline (Thriller)
Jason Bennett is driving his family home after his daughter’s field hockey game when a pickup truck begins tailgating them. Suddenly two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding the car. A horrific flash of violence changes his life forever. Later that awful night, Jason and his family receive a visit from the FBI. The carjackers were members of a dangerous drug-trafficking organization, and now Jason and his family are in their crosshairs. The agents advise them to enter the witness protection program, and they have no choice but to agree. The Bennetts begin to fall apart at the seams. Then Jason learns a shocking truth and realizes that he has to take matters into his own hands.
G.P. Putnam's Sons | 9780525539674
WILD AND WICKED THINGS by Francesca May (Historical Fantasy)
On Crow Island, people whisper, real magic lurks just below the surface. Neither real magic nor faux magic interests Annie Mason. Not after it stole her future. She’s only on the island to settle her late father’s estate and, hopefully, reconnect with her long-absent best friend, Beatrice, who fled their dreary lives for a more glamorous one. Yet Crow Island is brimming with temptation, and the biggest one may be her enigmatic new neighbor. Mysterious and alluring, Emmeline Delacroix is a figure shadowed by rumors of witchcraft. And when Annie witnesses a confrontation between Bea and Emmeline at one of the island's extravagant parties, she is drawn into a glittering, haunted world, where the cost of illicit magic might be death.
Redhook | 9780316287159
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BEESWING: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975 by Richard Thompson with Scott Timberg (Memoir)
Known for his brilliant songwriting, his extraordinary guitar playing and his haunting voice, Richard Thompson is considered one of the top 20 guitarists of all time, in the songwriting pantheon alongside Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and Randy Newman. Now, in his long-awaited memoir, the British folk musician takes us back to the late 1960s, a period of great change and creativity --- both for him and for the world at large.
Algonquin Books | 9781643752532
BLACK ICE by Brad Thor (Political Thriller)
Scot Harvath is having his best summer ever. With a cottage on the fjord, a boat and his beautiful girlfriend Sølvi, he has everything he could possibly want. But out of vacation days and long overdue back home, America’s top spy has a decision to make --- return, or submit his resignation. When his deadly past comes calling, though, he’ll be left with no choice at all. Leaving his favorite Oslo café, Harvath watches as a ghost climbs out of a taxi --- a man he killed years ago, halfway around the world. How is he still alive? And what is he doing in Norway? In a race against time that will take him high above the Arctic Circle, Harvath will be tested in ways he has never imagined and pushed to a limit few human beings could ever endure.
Pocket Books | 9781982104139
BLIND TIGER by Sandra Brown (Historical Thriller)
On the day that Thatcher Hutton, a war-weary soldier, arrives in Foley, Texas, a local woman goes missing. Thatcher, the only stranger in town, is suspected of her abduction, and worse. Standing between him and exoneration are a corrupt mayor, a crooked sheriff, a notorious cathouse madam, a sly bootlegger, feuding moonshiners…and a young widow whose soft features conceal an iron will. What was supposed to be a fresh start for Laurel Plummer turns to tragedy. Left destitute but determined to dictate her own future, Laurel plunges into the lucrative regional industry, much to the dislike of the good ol’ boys, who have ruled supreme. Her success quickly makes her a target for cutthroat competitors, whose only code of law is reprisal.
Grand Central Publishing | 9781538751978
CHEATED: The Inside Story of the Astros Scandal and a Colorful History of Sign Stealing by Andy Martino (Sports)
By the fall of 2019, most teams in Major League Baseball suspected that the Houston Astros, winners of the 2017 World Series, had been stealing signs for several years. Deconstructing exactly what happened in this explosive story, award-winning sports reporter and analyst Andy Martino reveals how otherwise good people like Astros manager A. J. Hinch, bench coach Alex Cora and veteran leader Carlos Beltrán found themselves on the wrong side of clear ethical lines. Along the way, Martino explores the colorful history of cheating in baseball, from notorious episodes like the 1919 “Black Sox” fiasco all the way to the modern steroid era. But as Martino deftly shows, the Astros scandal became one of the most significant that the game has ever seen.
Anchor | 9780593311431
THE CHOSEN AND THE BEAUTIFUL by Nghi Vo (Historical Fantasy)
Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society. She has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age. She’s also queer and Asian, a Vietnamese adoptee treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her. But the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions, lost ghosts and elemental mysteries. In all paper is fire, and Jordan can burn the cut paper heart out of a man. She just has to learn how.
Tordotcom | 9781250820129
COMES THE WAR by Ed Ruggero (Historical Thriller)
April 1944, the 55th month of the war in Europe. The entire island of Britain fairly buzzes with the coiled energy of a million men poised to leap the Channel to France, the first, riskiest step in the Allies’ long slog to the heart of Germany and the end of the war. Lieutenant Eddie Harkins is tasked to investigate the murder of Helen Batcheller, an OSS analyst. Harkins is assigned a British driver, Private Pamela Lowell, to aid in his investigation. Soon a suspect is arrested, and Harkins is ordered to stop digging. Suspicious, he continues his investigation only to find himself trapped in a web of Soviet secrets. As bombs fall, Harkins must solve the murder and reveal the spies before it is too late.
Forge Books | 9781250312907
THE COMMITTED by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Literary Thriller)
THE COMMITTED follows the man of two minds as he arrives in Paris in the early 1980s with his blood brother, Bon. The pair try to overcome their pasts and ensure their futures by engaging in capitalism in one of its purest forms: drug dealing. Traumatized by his reeducation at the hands of his former best friend, Man, and struggling to assimilate into French culture, the Sympathizer finds Paris both seductive and disturbing. As he falls in with a group of left-wing intellectuals whom he meets at dinner parties given by his French Vietnamese “aunt,” he finds stimulation for his mind but also customers for his narcotic merchandise. But the new life he is making has perils he has not foreseen, and he will need all his wits, resourcefulness and moral flexibility if he is to prevail.
Grove Press | 9780802157072
EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL IN ITS TIME: Seasons of Love and Loss by Jenna Bush Hager (Memoir/Essays)
To the world, George and Barbara Bush were America’s powerful president and influential first lady. To Jenna Bush Hager, they were her beloved Gampy and Ganny, who taught her about respect, humility, kindness, and living a life of passion and meaning. Now the mother of three young children, Jenna pays homage to her grandparents in this collection of heartwarming, intimate personal essays. She reflects on the single year in which she and her family lost Barbara and George H. W. Bush, and her maternal grandmother, Jenna Welch. At the same time, she reveals how they navigated this difficult period with grace, faith and nostalgic humor, uplifted by their grandparents’ sage advice and incomparable spirits.
William Morrow Paperbacks | 9780062960658
THE FAMILY PLOT by Megan Collins (Psychological Thriller)
Raised in a secluded island mansion deep in the woods and kept isolated by her true crime-obsessed parents, Dahlia Lighthouse is unable to move beyond the disappearance of her twin brother, Andy, when they were 16. After several years away and following her father’s death, Dahlia returns to the house, where the family makes a gruesome discovery: buried in their father’s plot is another body --- Andy’s, his skull split open with an ax. Dahlia is quick to blame Andy’s murder on the serial killer who terrorized the island for decades, while the rest of her family reacts to the revelation in unsettling ways. As Dahlia grapples with her own grief and horror, she realizes that her eccentric family, and the mansion itself, may hold the answers to what happened to her twin.
Atria Books | 9781982163853
THE FINAL TWIST: A Colter Shaw Novel by Jeffery Deaver (Thriller)
Colter Shaw finds himself in San Francisco, where he has taken on the mission his father began years ago: finding a missing courier bag containing evidence that will bring down a corporate espionage firm responsible for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of deaths. Following the enigmatic clues his father left behind, Shaw plays cat and mouse with the company's sadistic enforcers, as he speeds from one gritty neighborhood in the City by the Bay to another. Suddenly, the job takes on a frightening urgency: Only by finding the courier bag can he expose the company and stop the murder of an entire family, slated to die in 48 hours. With the help of an unexpected figure from his past, Shaw narrows in on the truth --- and learns that the bag contains a secret that could only be described as catastrophic.
G.P. Putnam’s Sons | 9780525539148
FOUR AUNTIES AND A WEDDING by Jesse Q. Sutanto (Fiction/Humor)
Paperback Original
Meddy Chan can't wait to marry her college sweetheart, Nathan. Instead of having Ma and the aunts cater to her wedding, she wants them to enjoy the day as guests. As a compromise, they find the perfect wedding vendors: a Chinese-Indonesian family-run company just like theirs. Meddy is hesitant at first, but she hits it off right away with the wedding photographer, Staphanie, who reminds Meddy of herself, down to the unfortunately misspelled name. But Meddy realizes that is where their similarities end when she overhears Staphanie talking about taking out a target. Horrified, Meddy can’t believe Staphanie and her family are the actual mafia, and they're using Meddy's wedding as a chance to conduct shady business.
Berkley | 9780593333051
GOOD COMPANY by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney (Fiction)
Flora Mancini has been happily married for more than 20 years. But everything she thought she knew about herself, her marriage and her relationship with her best friend, Margot, is upended when she stumbles upon an envelope containing her husband’s wedding ring --- the one he claimed he lost one summer when their daughter, Ruby, was five. Flora and Julian struggled for years, scraping together just enough acting work to raise Ruby in Manhattan and keep Julian’s small theater company --- Good Company --- afloat. A move to Los Angeles brought their first real career successes and a reunion with Margot, now a bona fide television star. But has their new life been built on lies? What happened that summer all those years ago? And what happens now?
Ecco | 9780062876010
THE HOUSE OF ALWAYS by Jenn Lyons (Fantasy)
In the aftermath of the Ritual of Night, everything has changed. The Eight Immortals have catastrophically failed to stop Kihrin's enemies, who are moving forward with their plans to free Vol Karoth, the King of Demons. Kihrin has his own ideas about how to fight back, but even if he's willing to sacrifice everything for victory, the cost may prove too high for his allies. Now they face a choice: Can they save the world while saving Kihrin, too? Or will they be forced to watch as he becomes the very evil they have all sworn to destroy.
Tor Books | 9781250175656
ICE AND STONE: A Sharon McCone Mystery by Marcia Muller (Mystery)
When the bodies of two Indigenous women are found in the wilderness of northern California, it is only the latest horrific development in a string of similar crimes in the area. Despite all evidence to the contrary, officials rule the deaths isolated incidents, which soon join the ranks of countless other unsolved cases quickly dismissed by law enforcement. In a town where too many injustices are tolerated or brushed under the rug, only a few people remain who refuse to let a killer walk free. But Private Investigator Sharon McCone is one of those few. She is hired by an organization called Crimes Against Indigenous Sisters to go undercover in Meruk County --- a community rife with secrets, lies and corruption --- to expose the truth.
Grand Central Publishing | 9781538733189
INFERNO: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness by Catherine Cho (Memoir)
When Catherine Cho and her husband set off from London to introduce their newborn son to family scattered across the United States, she could not have imagined what lay in store. Before the trip’s end, she develops psychosis, a complete break from reality, which causes her to lose all sense of time and place, including what is real and not real. In desperation, her husband James admits her to a nearby psychiatric hospital, where she begins the hard work of rebuilding her identity. In INFERNO, Catherine reconstructs her sense of self, starting with her childhood as the daughter of Korean immigrants, moving through a traumatic past relationship, and on to the early years of her courtship with and marriage to James.
Holt Paperbacks | 9781250798282
ISLAND OF THIEVES by Glen Erik Hamilton (Thriller)
Van Shaw is hired to evaluate the safeguards for the art collection of eccentric business magnate Sebastien Rohner. Then Rohner reveals to Van the real reason he’s been recruited: to prevent another professional burglar from stealing the art. While questioning the bizarre nature of the job, Van accepts the lucrative offer and arrives at the island estate during an international summit that Rohner is hosting. Shortly after beginning his surveillance of Rohner’s highly secure gallery wing, he stumbles across the murdered body of one of the honored guests. Van knows that the homicide detectives on the case think he’s the prime suspect. To clear his name, he will have to uncover the hidden motive of corporate espionage at a global level, even with a band of killers on his tail.
William Morrow | 9780062978554
THE KOBALT DOSSIER: An Evan Ryder Novel by Eric Van Lustbader (Thriller/Adventure)
After thwarting the violent, international, fascist syndicate known as Nemesis, Evan Ryder returns to Washington, D.C., to find her secret division of the DOD shut down and her deceased sister’s children missing. Now the target of a cabal of American billionaires who were among Nemesis’s supporters, Evan and her former boss, Ben Butler, must learn to work together as partners --- and navigate their intricate past. Their search will take them from Istanbul to Odessa to an ancient church deep within the Carpathian Mountains of Romania. And all along the way, an unimaginable enemy stalks in the shadows, an adversary whose secretive past will upend Evan’s entire world and everything she holds dear.
Forge Books | 9781250751225
A MAN AT ARMS by Steven Pressfield (Historical Fiction)
Jerusalem and the Sinai desert, first century AD. In the turbulent aftermath of the crucifixion of Jesus, officers of the Roman Empire acquire intelligence of a pilgrim bearing an incendiary letter from a religious fanatic to insurrectionists in Corinth. The content of this letter could bring down the empire. The Romans hire a former legionary, the solitary man-at-arms, Telamon of Arcadia, to intercept the letter and capture its courier. Telamon operates by a dark code all his own, with no room for noble causes or lofty beliefs. But once he overtakes the courier, something happens that neither he nor the empire could have predicted.
W. W. Norton & Company | 9780393882391
MY HEART IS A CHAINSAW by Stephen Graham Jones (Supernatural Thriller/Horror)
Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies…especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls us into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold.
Gallery/Saga Press | 9781982137649
NINE LIVES by Danielle Steel (Fiction)
After a carefree childhood, Mary Margaret Kelly came of age in the shadow of grief. Her father, a dashing daredevil Air Force pilot, died when she was nine, and she saw her mother struggle to put their lives back together. Maggie married a dependable, kind man who was a reliable husband and successful accountant. Together they had a son and found happiness in a conventional suburban life. Until tragedy struck. Now on her own, Maggie decides to face her fears, setting off on a whirlwind trip. But when her travels reconnect her with the very same irresistible, thrill-seeking man she has spent 30 years trying to forget, Maggie becomes terrified that rushing into love and sharing his life may very well end in disaster.
Dell | 9781984821454
ROBERT B. PARKER’S PAYBACK: A Sunny Randall Novel by Mike Lupica (Mystery)
PI Sunny Randall has often relied on the help of her best friend, Spike, in times of need. When Spike's restaurant is taken over under a predatory loan agreement, Sunny has a chance to return the favor. She begins digging into the life of the hedge fund manager who screwed Spike over, and soon finds this new enemy may have the backing of even badder criminals. At the same time, Sunny's cop contact Lee Farrell asks her to intervene with his niece, a college student who reported being the victim of a crime but seems to know more than she's telling police. What appear to be two disparate cases are united by a common factor, and the picture becomes even more muddled.
G.P. Putnam’s Sons | 9780593087879
SEA STORM by Andrew Mayne (Thriller/Adventure)
Paperback Original
A distress call draws rescuers Sloan McPherson and the Underwater Investigation Unit to a cruise ship off the coast of Fort Lauderdale that’s sinking from a mysterious explosion. When it appears to be the work of an ecoterrorist and other ships are threatened, it becomes a race against time. More clues are discovered, and evidence is in danger of being washed away by a coming tropical storm. Sloan grows concerned that key details are being ignored, and a strange lack of urgency by authorities sets off alarms. As the troubling questions compound, Sloan is determined to chase down every lead she has. Her persistence is getting her closer to the truth: that there’s something far more troubling at play than the official explanation. It’s also putting Sloan on a collision course with an enemy more powerful than she realizes.
Thomas & Mercer | 9781542032230
TELL NO LIES by Allison Brennan (Mystery/Thriller)
Something mysterious is killing the wildlife in the mountains just south of Tucson. When a college intern turned activist sets out to collect her own evidence, she, too, ends up dead. Local law enforcement is slow to get involved. That’s when the mobile FBI unit goes undercover to infiltrate the town and its copper refinery in search of possible leads. Detective Kara Quinn and FBI agent Matt Costa find themselves scouring the desolate landscape, which keeps revealing clues to something much darker. As the body count adds up, it’s clear they have stumbled onto much more than they bargained for. Now they must figure out who is at the heart of this mayhem and stop them before more innocent lives are lost.
Mira | 9780778311713
TOM CLANCY TARGET ACQUIRED: A Jack Ryan Jr. Novel by Don Bentley (Thriller/Adventure)
Jack Ryan, Jr. would do anything for Ding Chavez. That's why he is currently sitting in an open-air market in Israel, helping a CIA team with a simple job. The man running the mission, Peter Beltz, is an old friend from Ding's Army days. Ding hadn't seen his friend since Peter's transfer to the CIA 18 months prior, and intended to use the assignment to reconnect. Unfortunately, Ding had to cancel at the last minute and asked Jack to take his place. It's a cushy assignment --- a trip to Israel in exchange for a couple hours of easy work --- but Jack could use the downtime after his last operation. Jack is here merely as an observer, but when he hastens to help a woman and her young son, he finds himself the target of trained killers.
Berkley | 9780593188149
TOM STOPPARD: A Life by Hermione Lee (Biography)
Tom Stoppard is a towering and beloved literary figure. Known for his dizzying narrative inventiveness and intense attention to language, he deftly deploys art, science, history, politics and philosophy in works that span a remarkable spectrum of literary genres: theater, radio, film, TV, journalism and fiction. His most acclaimed creations --- "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," "The Real Thing," "Arcadia," "The Coast of Utopia," "Shakespeare in Love" --- remain as fresh and moving as when they entranced their first audiences. Hermione Lee's absorbing biography seamlessly weaves Stoppard's life and work together into a vivid, insightful and always riveting portrait of a remarkable man.
Vintage | 9781101972663
WELCOME TO THE SCHOOL BY THE SEA: The First School by the Sea Novel by Jenny Colgan (Fiction)
Paperback Original
Maggie, the newest teacher at Downey House, is determined to make her mark. She’s delighted by her new teaching job, but will it come at the expense of her relationship with her safe, dependable boyfriend, Stan? Simone is excited and nervous: she has won a scholarship to the prestigious boarding school and wants to make her parents proud. Forced to share a room with the glossy, posh girls of Downey House, she needs to find a friend, fast. Fliss is furious. She has never wanted to go to boarding school and hates being sent away from her home. As Simone tries desperately to fit in, Fliss tries desperately to get out. Over the course of one year, friendships will bloom and lives will be changed forever.
Avon | 9780063141711
WHEREABOUTS by Jhumpa Lahiri (Fiction)
Jhumpa Lahiri’s narrator, a woman questioning her place in the world, wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls home acts as a companion and interlocutor. We follow her to the pool she frequents, and to the train station that leads to her mother, who is mired in her own solitude after her husband’s untimely death. Among those who appear on this woman’s path are colleagues with whom she feels ill at ease, casual acquaintances, and “him,” a shadow who both consoles and unsettles her. Until one day at the sea, both overwhelmed and replenished by the sun’s vital heat, her perspective will abruptly change.
Vintage | 9780593312087
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