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February 15, 2022

In this newsletter, you will find books releasing the weeks of February 14th and February 21st that we think will be of interest to Bookreporter.com readers, along with Bonus News, where we call out a contest, feature or review that we want to let you know about so you have it on your radar.

This week, we are calling attention to our special contest for THE BOOK WOMAN'S DAUGHTER. In this long-awaited follow-up to THE BOOK WOMAN OF TROUBLESOME CREEK, bestselling historical fiction author Kim Michele Richardson introduces readers to Honey Lovett, the daughter of the beloved Troublesome book woman. We are awarding 25 lucky readers an advance copy of the book, which will be in stores on May 3rd. The deadline for your entries is Friday, February 25th at noon ET.

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Charles Buxton

To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.

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Charles Buxton

Reese Witherspoon

There's no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.

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Reese Witherspoon

Thich Nhat Hanh

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

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Thich Nhat Hanh

Abraham Lincoln

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

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Abraham Lincoln

February 11, 2022

I did it! Last Sunday, I finally spent a full weekend day sitting on the couch reading with a fire in the fireplace. I grabbed an advance copy of WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BENNETTS by Lisa Scottoline, which releases on March 29th. I am going on the record here: This is Lisa’s best thriller. It is fast-paced with so many twists and turns, and I felt like something happened on every page.

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Sarah Manguso, author of Very Cold People

For Ruthie, the frozen town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, is all she has ever known. Once home to the country’s oldest and most illustrious families by the tail end of the 20th century, it is an unforgiving place awash with secrets. Forged in this frigid landscape, Ruthie has been dogged by feelings of inadequacy her whole life. As she grows older, she slowly learns how the town’s prim facade conceals a deeper, darker history, and how silence often masks a legacy of harm --- from the violence that runs down the family line to the horrors endured by her high school friends, each suffering a fate worse than the last. For Ruthie, Waitsfield is a place to be survived, and a girl like her would be lucky to get out alive.

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Wendy Corsi Staub, author of The Other Family

As California transplants making a fresh start in Brooklyn, the Howells are expected to live in a shoebox, but the brownstone has a huge kitchen, lots of light and a backyard. The catch: its previous residents were victims of a grisly triple homicide that remains unsolved. Soon, peculiar things begin happening. Nora unearths a long-hidden rusty box in the flowerbed. Oldest daughter Stacey, obsessed with the family murdered in their house, pokes into the bloody past and becomes convinced that a stranger is watching the house. She’s right. But one of the Howells will recognize his face. Because one of them has a secret that will blindside the others with a truth that lies shockingly close to home --- and to this one’s terrifying history.

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Gregg Hurwitz, author of Dark Horse: An Orphan X Novel

Aragon Urrea is a kingpin of a major drug-dealing operation in South Texas. He's also the patron of the local area --- supplying employment in legitimate operations, providing help to the helpless, rough justice to the downtrodden and a future to a people normally with little hope. However, he is helpless when one of the most vicious cartels kidnaps his innocent 18-year-old daughter, spiriting her away into the armored complex that is their headquarters in Mexico. So he turns to Evan Smoak, the Nowhere Man. Not only must Evan figure out how to get into the impregnable fortress of a heavily armed, deeply paranoid cartel leader, he must decide if he should help a very bad man --- no matter how just the cause.

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J. D. Robb, author of Abandoned in Death

The woman’s body was found in the early morning, on a bench in a New York City playground. The fatal wound was hidden beneath a ribbon around her neck. And the note: Bad Mommy, written in crayon as if by a child. Eve Dallas turns to the department’s top profiler, who confirms what seems obvious to Eve: They’re dealing with a killer whose childhood involved some sort of trauma --- a situation Eve is all too familiar with herself. Yet the clues suggest a perpetrator who’d be roughly 60 years old, and there are no records of old crimes with a similar MO. When Eve discovers that other young women --- who physically resemble the first victim --- have vanished, the clock starts ticking louder.

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