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I Know a Secret: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel

TESS GERRITSEN · Ballantine Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles - the crime-solving duo who inspired the smash hit TNT series - return to investigate the gruesome staged murder of a horror film producer in this edge-of-your-seat thriller.Advance praise for I Know a Secret"Tess Gerritsen's clever plotting and medical...
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Midwinter Break: A Novel

BERNARD MACLAVERTY · HighBridge Audio
Format: Audiobook

Gerry, once an architect, is forgetful and set in his ways. Stella is tired of his lifestyle and angry at his constant undermining of her religious faith. Things are not helped by memories that resurface of a troubled time in their native Ireland. As their vacation comes to an end, we understand...
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Y is for...

Sue Grafton · Marian Wood Books/Putnam
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover

Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
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Charlatans

ROBIN COOK · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 435
Format: Hardcover

The explosive new thriller from New York Times-bestselling author and master of the medical thriller Robin Cook. Newly minted chief resident at Boston Memorial Hospital Noah Rothauser is swamped in his new position, from managing the surgical schedules to dealing with the fallouts from...
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Impossible Views of the World

Lucy Ives · Penguin Press
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover

A witty, urbane, and sometimes shocking debut novel, set in a hallowed New York museum, in which a co-worker's disappearance and a mysterious map change a life foreverStella Krakus, a curator at Manhattan's renowned Central Museum of Art, is having the roughest week in approximately ever....
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Fast Falls the Night

Julia Keller · Minotaur Books
Pages: 286
Format: Hardcover

Based on a real-life event, Pulitzer Prize-winner Julia Keller's latest Bell Elkins novel Fast Falls the Night takes place in a single 24-hour period, unfurling against the backdrop of a shattering personal revelation that will change Bell's life forever.The first drug overdose comes just...
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If the Creek Don't Rise: A Novel

LEAH WEISS · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

He's gonna be sorry he ever messed with me and Loretta LynnSadie Blue has been a wife for fifteen days. That's long enough to know she should have never hitched herself to Roy Tupkin, even with the baby. Sadie is desperate to make her own mark on the world, but in remote Appalachia, a ticket...
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What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories

Lesley Nneka Arimah · Riverhead Books
Pages: 230
Format: Hardcover

Named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by Buzzfeed, Time Magazine, Elle, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, the Millions, Nylon, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and Electric LiteratureA dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children,...
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Perish the Day: A Storm Murders Mystery

John Farrow · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

A co-ed is found murdered on campus, her body scarcely touched. The killer paid meticulous attention to the aesthetics of his crime. Coincidentally (or not) , a college custodian is also found dead. While an epic rainstorm assails the Holyoake, New Hampshire campus, overflowing rivers...
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Forest Dark: A Novel

NICOLE KRAUSS · Harper
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

"A brilliant novel. I am full of admiration." - Philip Roth"One of America's most important novelists" (New York Times) , the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The History of Love, conjures an achingly beautiful and breathtakingly original novel...
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The Shadow Sister: Star's Story

Lucinda Riley · Thorndike Press Large Print
Pages: 760
Format: Hardcover

In this "engaging and mesmerizing story of self-discovery and love" (Library Journal, starred review) , two independent women--separated by a hundred years but linked by forces larger than themselves--discover the secrets of their birth in the spellbinding third book of an epic...
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Time's a Thief: A Novel

John Cornwell · Doubleday
Pages: 321
Format: Book

Eighties New York springs to gritty, vibrant life in this piercingly romantic and compulsively readable coming-of-age novel. A beautiful, sad, funny, altogether bewitching debut Francesca "Chess" Varani is an ultra-bright, sassy, but vulnerable Barnard freshwoman from a blue-collar...
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Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel

JESMYN WARD · Scribner
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward.In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison...
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The Witchfinder's Sister

Beth Underdown · Ballantine
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A thrilling debut novel, a literary historical thriller based on the devastating witch hunts in 1640s England conducted by "Witchfinder General" Matthew Hopkins - for readers of Sarah Waters and Katherine Howe. Before Salem, there was Manningtree. . . . "This summer,...
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Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country: and Other Stories

Chavisa Woods · Seven Stories Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

"Chavisa Woods' Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country is part Flannery O'Connor, part Kelly Link: darkly funny and brilliantly human, urgently fantastical and implacably realistic. This is one of the best short story collections I've read in years, and it should...
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Young Jane Young: A Novel

Gabrielle Zevin · Algonquin Books
Pages: 294
Format: Hardcover

From the author of the international bestseller The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry comes another novel that will have everyone talking. Aviva Grossman, an ambitious congressional intern in Florida, makes the mistake of having an affair with her boss--and blogging about it. When the affair...
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