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The 24th Hour

James Patterson - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book

 Trouble always finds the Women's Murder Club. Sergeant Lindsay Boxer, Medical Examiner Claire Washburn, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano, and crime writer Cindy Thomas are celebrating at San Francisco's finest restaurant. But before they can raise their glasses...

 
 
Butcher

Joyce Carol Oates - Knopf
Format: Book

In this harrowing story based on authentic historical documents, we follow the career of Dr. Silas Weir, "Father of Gyno-Psychiatry," as he ascends from professional anonymity to national renown. Humiliated by a disastrous procedure, Weir is forced to take a position at the New Jersey...

 
 
Camino Ghosts

John Grisham - Doubleday
Format: Book

In this new thriller on Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresistible tale that might be her next novel. A giant resort developer is using its political muscle and deep pockets to claim ownership of a deserted island between Florida and Georgia. Only...

 
 
Clive Cussler The Heist

Jack Du Brul - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Book

1914: As America’s century of dominance dawns, the country’s greatest detective, Van Dorn agent Isaac Bell, is pitted against a master thief and his assassin accomplice. They’re plotting to pull off the greatest heist in America’s history: the theft of a billion...

 
 
Death Behind Every Door

Heather Graham - ‎MIRA
Format: Book

In the shadows of a Scottish castle, something deadly is lurking in every corner…

When FBI special agent Luke Kendrick discovers chilling evidence of dozens of victims at a crime scene in London, he recognizes the calling card of the notorious H. H. Holmes Society....

 
 
The Devil's Fortress

Dale Brown - Blackstone Publishing
Format: Book

Former US Air Force officer Nick Flynn joined the clandestine Quartet Directorate to continue its long-standing mission: to act decisively against serious threats to the free world. And with the backing of Russia's authoritarian president, no threat is more deadly than that of Pavel...

 
 
Disturbing the Dead

Kelley Armstrong - Minotaur Books
Format: Book

Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson. Though inhabiting someone else's body will always be unsettling, even if her employers know that she's not actually housemaid Catriona Mitchell, ever since the night both of them were...

 
 
First Frost

Craig Johnson - Viking
Format: Book

Set in the unpsoiled countryside of Wyoming, Sheriff Walt Longmire has to navigate his own increasingly complicated personal life with the ever-changing and often violent underworld that encroaches on what was once referred to as the Old West. This time, he is up against a sinister plot...

 
 
The Guncle Abroad

Steven Rowley - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Book

Patrick O'Hara is back. 

It's been five years since his summer as his niece Maisie and nephew Grant's caretaker after their mother's passing. The kids are back in Connecticut with their dad, and Patrick has relocated to New York to remain close by, and relaunch...

 
 
The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club

Helen Simonson - The Dial Press
Format: Book

It is the summer of 1919 and Constance Haverhill is without prospects. Now that all the men have returned from the front, she has been asked to give up her cottage and her job at the estate she helped to run during the war. While she looks for a position as a bookkeeper or (horror) a governess,...

 
 
The Hunter's Daughter

Nicola Solvinic - Berkley
Format: Book

Anna Koray escaped her father's darkness long ago. When she was a girl, her childhood memories were sealed away from her conscious mind by a controversial hypnosis treatment. She's now a decorated sheriff's lieutenant serving a rural county, conducting an ordinary life far from...

 
 
I Will Ruin You

Linwood Barclay - William Morrow
Format: Book

How would you react in a life-or-death situation?

It's a question everyone asks themselves, but few have to face in real life. English teacher Richard Boyle certainly never thought he would find himself talking down a former student intent on harming others, but when Mark...

 
 
The Instruments of Darkness

John Connolly - Emily Bestler Books
Format: Book

In Maine, Colleen Clark stands accused of the worst crime a mother can commit: the abduction and possible murder of her child. Everyone - ambitious politicians in an election season, hardened police, ordinary folk - has an opinion on the case, and most believe she is guilty.

But...

 
 
The Lady Waiting

Magdalena Zyzak - Riverhead Books
Format: Book

One bright Los Angeles day, a young Polish émigré named Viva is driving along the freeway when she's flagged down by a dazzling, disheveled woman in green chiffon. The woman is Bobby Sleeper, a fellow Eastern European and an erstwhile art gallerist with a mysterious...

 
 
The Last Murder at the End of the World

Stuart Turton - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Book

Solve the murder to save what's left of the world.

Outside the island there is nothing: the world was destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched.

On the island: it is idyllic. One hundred and twenty-two villagers and three scientists, living...

 
 
The Last Time She Saw Him

Kate White - HarperCollins
Format: Book

It's summer in New York City, but Kiki Reed isn't feeling very sunny. She recently broke off her engagement to Jamie Larsson, a great guy, but just not "the one." And although she knows it was for the best, she feels guilty for hurting him. When Kiki accepts an invitation...

 
 
Lies and Weddings

Kevin Kwan - Doubleday
Format: Book

Rufus Leung Gresham, future Earl of Greshambury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel has a problem: the legendary Gresham Trust has been depleted by decades of profligate spending, and behind all the magazine covers and Instagram stories manors and yachts lies nothing more than a gargantuan...

 
 
Liquid, Fragile, Perishable

Carolyn Kuebler - Melville House
Format: Book

It is May in the tiny hamlet of Glenville, Vermont, bringing with it currents of rejuvenation and rebirth. For 3 families, though, the year ahead will prove to be a roller coaster of life-changing events, promises, and tragedies.

Liquid, Fragile, Perishable unspools...

 
 
Long Island

Colm Toibin - Scribner
Format: Book

Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents, a huge extended family that lives and works,...

 
 
Look on the Bright Side

Kristan Higgins - Berkley
Format: Book

Lark Smith has always had a plan for her life: find a fantastic guy, create a marriage as blissful as her parents', pop out a couple of kids and build a rewarding career as an oncologist.

Things aren't going so well.

For one, the guy didn't work out. Theoretically,...

 
 
Mind Games

Nora Roberts - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book

As they do each June, the Foxes have driven the winding roads of Appalachia to drop off their children for a two-week stay at their grandmother's. Here, twelve-year-old Thea can run free and breathe in the smells of pine and fresh bread and Grammie's handmade candles. But as her parents...

 
 
One Perfect Couple

Ruth Ware - Gallery/Scout Press
Format: Book

Lyla is in a bit of a rut. Her post-doctoral research has fizzled out, she's pretty sure they won't extend her contract, and things with her boyfriend, Nico, an aspiring actor, aren't going great. When the opportunity arises for Nico to join the cast of a new reality TV show,...

 
 
The Paradise Problem

Christina Lauren - Gallery Books
Format: Book

Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam "West" Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She also thought she'd signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed, and they both went on their merry ways.

Three years later, Anna is a starving...

 
 
Red Side Story

Jasper Fforde - Soho Press
Format: Book

Welcome to Chromatacia, where the societal hierarchy is strictly regulated by one's limited color perception. Civilization has been rebuilt after an unspoken "Something that Happened" five hundred years ago. Society is now color vision-segregated, professions, marriages,...

 
 
Red Sky Mourning

Jack Carr - Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Format: Book

You think you know James Reece. Think again.

A storm is on the horizon. America's days are numbered. A Chinese submarine has gone rogue and is navigating towards the continental United States, putting its nuclear missiles within striking distance of the West Coast.

A...

 
 
The Shadow of War

Jeff Shaara - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book

In 1961, the new president John F. Kennedy, inherited an ill-conceived, poorly executed invasion of Cuba that failed miserably and set in motion the events that put the U.S. and the Soviet Union on a collision course that nearly started a war that would have enveloped much of the world. 

Extensively...

 
 
Southern Man

Greg Iles - William Morrow
Format: Book

Fifteen years after the events of the Natchez Burning trilogy, Penn Cage is alone. Nearly all his loved ones are dead, his old allies gone. But Penn's self-imposed exile comes to an abrupt end when a brawl at a Bienville music festival triggers a shooting - one that nearly takes...

 
 
The Stolen Child

Ann Hood - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book

For decades, Nick Burns has been haunted by a decision he made as a young soldier in World War I, when a French artist he'd befriended thrust both her paintings and her baby into his hands -- and disappeared. In 1974, with only months left to live, Nick enlists Jenny, a college dropout...

 
 
Summers at the Saint

Mary Kay Andrews - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book

Welcome to the St. Cecelia, a landmark hotel on the coast of Georgia, where traditions run deep and scandals run even deeper. . . .

Everyone refers to the St. Cecelia as “the Saint.” If you grew up coming here, you were “a Saint.” If you came from...

 
 
This Summer Will Be Different

Carley Fortune - Berkley
Format: Book

This summer they'll keep their promise. This summer they won't give into temptation. This summer will be different.

Lucy is the tourist vacationing at a beach house on Prince Edward Island. Felix is the local who shows her a very good time. The only problem: Lucy doesn't...

 
 
Think Twice

Harlan Coben - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Book

How can a man who's already dead be wanted for murder?

Three years ago, sports agent Myron Bolitar gave a eulogy at the funeral of his client, renowned basketball coach Greg Downing. Myron and Greg had history: initially as deeply personal rivals, and later as unexpected...

 
 
This Strange Eventful History

Claire Messud - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book

June 1940. As Paris falls to the Germans, Gaston Cassar - honorable servant of France, devoted husband and father, currently posted as naval attache in Salonica - bids farewell to his beloved wife, aunt and children, placing his faith in God that they will be reunited after the war....

 
 
The Wealth of Shadows: A Novel

Graham Moore - Random House
Format: Book

1939. Ansel Luxford has everything a person could want - a comfortable career, a brilliant spouse, a beautiful new baby. But he is obsessed by a belief that Europe is on the precipice of a war that will grow to consume the world. The United States is officially proclaiming neutrality...

 
 
Tom Clancy Act of Defiance

Brian Andrews - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Book

US intelligence says there's something going on in Russia. While their land forces have been decimated by corruption and incompetence, the Navy seems to be pouring money into some secret project. 

Analysts are stumped, until the knot is untangled by one particularly...

 
 
Westport

James Comey - Mysterious Press
Format: Book

She's the lawyer. But now she's the one on trial.

A red canoe sits abandoned on Seymour Rock, right where the Saugatuck River meets Long Island Sound. The elegantly dressed corpse of a woman lies inside...

Nora Carleton left New York to become lead counsel...

 
 
Whale Fall

Elizabeth O'Connor - Pantheon Books
Format: Book

In 1938, a dead whale washes up on the shores of remote Welsh island. For Manod, who has spent her whole life on the island, it feels like both a portent of doom and a symbol of what may lie beyond the island's shores. A young woman living with her father and her sister (to whom...

 
 
Women and Children First

Alina Grabowski - SJP Lit
Format: Book

Nashquitten, MA, is a decaying coastal enclave that not even tourist season can revive, full of locals who have run the town's industries for generations. When a young woman dies at a house party, the circumstances around her death suspiciously unclear, the tight-knit community is shaken....

 
 
You Like It Darker

Stephen King - Scribner
Format: Book

"You like it darker? Fine, so do I," writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life - both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories,...