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Only Daughter

Anna Snoekstra · Mira Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

In this chilling psychological thriller, one woman's dark past becomes another's deadly future In 2003, sixteen-year-old Rebecca Winter disappeared. She'd been enjoying her teenage summer break: working at a fast-food restaurant, crushing on an older boy and shoplifting with her best friend....
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The Amber Shadows: A Novel

Lucy Ribchester · Pegasus Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

During the dangerous days of World War II, Honey Deschamps is spending her days transcribing decrypted messages at Bletchley Park, when she starts to receive bizarrely coded packages. When everyone is keeping secrets, who can you trust? Bletchley Park, 1942: As World War II rages on, Honey...
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Haunted Destiny

Heather Graham · Mira Books
Pages: 317
Format: Print book

The newest story in Heather Graham's popular Krewe of Hunters series, Haunted Destiny is another page-turner - set on a cruise ship. You'll never look at taking a vacation the same way again! Between the Evil and the Deep Blue Sea ... A historic cruise ship, a haunted ship, the Celtic...
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The Last Wolf & Herman

Lszl Krasznahorkai · New Directions
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Two short masterworks by the most recent winner of the Man Booker International Prize: here, in miniature, is every reason why he wonThe Last Wolf, translated by George Szirtes, features a classic, obsessed Krasznahorkai narrator, a man hired to write (by mistake, by a glitch of fate) the true...
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Killing Adonis

J M Donellan · Poisoned Pen Press
Pages: 306
Format: Print book

Freya Miller, funny and tenacious with a taste for vodka, escapes a recent tragedy by answering an advertisement for a nursing job that promises LIGHT DUTIES. LARGE PAY. NO QUESTIONS ASKED OR ANSWERED. Her new employer is the infamous, eccentric, and stupendously rich Vincetti family, heads...
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Improvement: A Novel

Joan Silber · Counterpoint
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"I love all of Joan Silber's work for her mastery of character, her ferocious and searching compassion, and her elegant lines that make the mind hum for hours. Improvement is so crisp and resonant a novel that it made me forget the chaos of life around me; a feat for which I'm truly...
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Pretend I'm Dead: A Novel

JEN BEAGIN · Scribner
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Miranda July meets Mary Karr in this brilliant debut novel from Jen Beagin, Whiting Award winner and "one of the freshest voices I've read in years - funny, wise, whip-smart and compassionate" (Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins) , about a cleaning lady on a quest...
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Water from My Heart: A Novel

Charles Martin · Center Street
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin's breathtaking novel of love and redemption.Charlie Finn had to grow up fast, living alone by age sixteen. Highly intelligent, he earned a life-changing scholarship to Harvard, where he learned how to survive and thrive on the outskirts...
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Deadly Election: A Flavia Albia Mystery

Lindsey Davis · Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

In the first century A.D., during Domitian's reign, Flavia Albia is ready for a short break from her family. So despite the oppressive July heat, she returns to Rome, leaving them at their place on the coast. Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, the famed private informer (now retired),...
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Pretending is Lying

Dominique Goblet · New York Review Comics
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Pretending Is Lying is a memoir unlike any other. The first book to appear in English by the acclaimed Belgian artist Dominique Goblet, it is at once an intimate account of love and familial dysfunction and an audacious experiment in graphic storytelling. In a series of dazzling fragments...
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The Undesired: A Thriller

Yrsa Sigurdardottir · Minotaur Books
Pages: 368
Format: Print book

Aldis hates her job working in a juvenile detention center in rural Iceland. The boys are difficult, the owners are unpleasant, and there are mysterious noises at night. And then two of the boys go astray . . .Decades later, single father Odinn is looking into alleged abuse at the center....
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The Promise of Palm Grove: Amish Brides of Pinecraft, Book One

Shelley Shepard Gray · Avon Inspire
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

A young Amish woman finds herself torn between the man she's pledged to wed and the man her heart desires in this heartwarming story of chance, duty, and choice in the face of love - the first volume in the beloved New York Times bestselling author's new Amish Brides of Pinecraft...
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A Dark and Twisted Tide

S. J. Bolton · Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover

Lacey Flint, Sharon Bolton's enigmatic protagonist, has been living in a houseboat on the River Thames, and she's becoming a part of London's weird and wonderful riverboat community. Against her friends' better judgment, she's taken up swimming in the Thames, and she feels...
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A Dream of Home

Amy Clipston · Zondervan

When she moves to Amish country to find peace and healing, Madeleine finds a special community - and a special man - who pull her out of her solitude and into a new life. Moving to Pennsylvania wasn't in Madeleine's original plans. She should still be in California and should have...
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The Violated: A Novel

Bill Pronzini · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A new stand-alone thriller by an acclaimed master of the genre and author of the Nameless Detective series.Bill Pronzini is crime-writing royalty. His more than eighty published novels have won or been nominated for Edgar, Hammett, Anthony, Shamus, and Macavity awards--a clean sweep of the crime...
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