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Allen, Sarah Addison. The girl who chased the moon.
Emily Benedict came to Mullaby, North Carolina, hoping to solve at least some of the riddles surrounding her mother’s life. But the moment Emily enters the house where her mother grew up and meets the grandfather she never knew–a reclusive, real-life gentle giant–she realizes that mysteries aren’t solved in Mullaby, they’re a way of life. Here are rooms where the wallpaper changes to suit your mood. Unexplained lights skip across the yard at midnight. And a neighbor bakes hope in the form of cakes.

Barclay, Linwood. Never look away. [MYSTERY]
Journalist David Harwood is left only with questions after a family outing becomes a terrifying nightmare in the mere blink of an eye. Someone, it would seem, is out to get him, and when suspicious evidence labels him a “person of interest” in a mysterious disappearance, the unassuming Harwood is forced to bare his teeth in pursuit of the truth.

Bass, Jefferson. The bone thief. [MYSTERY]
Body Farm novel; bk. 5

Bennett, Vanora, The queen’s lover. [HISTORICAL]
Catherine de Valois, widow of Henry V, finds both strength and kinship with her childhood friend, Owain Tudor. When their friendship turns to love she risks her life, her son’s life, and the uneasy balance of power in England and France.

Bernhardt, William, Capitol betrayal. [SUSPENSE]
When a malevolent foreign dictator hacks into the U.S. nuclear defense system, the president comes under fire. With the clock winding down, lawyer Ben Kincaid has precious little time to defend the president. While Kincaid faces the trial of his life, legendary CIA agent Seamus McKay races through the clogged streets of Washington, searching for a hidden command center–guarded by murderous fanatics–that now controls U.S. ballistic missiles.

Borodale, Jane. The book of fires. [HISTORICAL]
18th c. London

Box, C. J. Nowhere to run. [MYSTERY]
Joe Pickett is in his last week as the temporary game warden in the town of Baggs, Wyoming, but there have been strange things going on in the mountains, and his conscience won’t let him leave without checking them out: reports of camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered. And then there’s the runner who simply vanished one day.

Boyd, William, Ordinary thunderstorms. [SUSPENSE]
Literary thriller in London

Buckley, Carla S. The things that keep us here. [SUSPENSE]
When a deadly bird flu pandemic strikes, Ann Brooks’s town is locked down and, as time passes, she is forced to confront her failing marriage and fight for survival as resources dwindle and neighbor turns against neighbor.

Burke, Alafair. 212. [SUSPENSE]
College students/serial killer NYC

Cannell, Stephen J. The pallbearers. [SUSPENSE]
Shane Scully

Carlson, Melody. As young as we feel.
“Once upon a time in a little town on the Oregon coast lived four Lindas–all in the same first-grade classroom. So they decided to go by their middle names. And form a club. And be friends forever. But that was forty-seven years and four very different lives ago. Now a class reunion has brought them all together in their old hometown–at a crossroads in their lives. Janie is a high-powered lawyer with a load of grief. Abby is a lonely housewife in a beautiful oceanfront empty nest. Marley is trying to recapture the artistic free spirit she lost in an unhappy marriage. And the beautiful Caroline is scrambling to cope with her mother’s dementia and a Hollywood career that never really happened. Together, they’re about to explore the invigorating reality that even the most eventful lives have second acts…and friendship doesn’t come with a statute of limitations.”–P. [4] of cover.

Charyn, Jerome. The secret life of Emily Dickinson. [HISTORICAL]
What if the old maid of Amherst wasn’t an old maid at all? The poet dons a hundred veils, alternately playing wounded lover, penitent, and female devil in this extraordinary adventure that will disturb and delight.

Cleave, Chris. Little Bee.
A haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers–one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London.

Cobb, Thomas, Crazy heart.
Movie tie-in edition for Academy Award winning 2009 movie

Coben, Harlan, Caught. [SUSPENSE]
Dan Mercer stands accused of being a sexual predator thanks to the ambush journalism of Wendy Tynes, a tabloid TV reporter, who must cope with her husband’s death caused by a drunken driver as well as reckon with the possibility of Mercer’s innocence. When Tynes finds a link between a father of one of Mercer’s alleged victims and others felled by scandal, she could become a killer’s next victim.

Corbett, David, Do they know I’m running? [SUSPENSE]
Human trafficking

Coughlin, Jack, Clean kill: a sniper novel. [SUSPENSE]
Sniper series; bk.3/International Espionage

Crusie, Jennifer & Bob Mayer. Wild ride. [SUSPENSE]
When Mary Alice Brannigan comes home to Ohio to restore the Dreamland amusement park, she doesn’t expect to fall in love with a clown. Nor does she expect to find that she’s the newest recruit in the Guardia, an elite team of demon fighters formed centuries before to guard the five Untouchables, the most powerful demons in the history of the world, now imprisoned right there in Dreamland.

Cussler, Clive with Jack Du Brul. The silent sea. [SUSPENSE]
Cabrillo, chasing the remnants of a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle, stumbles upon a shocking revelation that leads him in search of an ancient Chinese expedition–and a curse that seems to have survived for more than five hundred years.

Dixon, Dianne. The language of secrets.
Family secrets

Estleman, Loren D. The book of Murdock.
Posing as Brother Bernard Sebastian of the Church of Evangelical Truth, Murdock dons a clerical collar to worm his way into the good graces and
confidences of the wary residents of Owen, Texas, in order to stop a gang of ruthless bandits who have been terrorizing the Texas panhandle.

Fairstein, Linda A. Hell gate. [MYSTERY]
Sex-crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper has seen the worst New York City has to offer, and yet each case still casts a sickening new light on the darker side of humanity. Juggling two investigations–one involving the wreck of a ship transporting human cargo and one involving a congressman caught up in a sex scandal–Alex finds an irrefutable link between the cases. Uncovering the truth, however, puts her against powerful factions that won’t think twice about putting her investigation–and Alex herself–on ice.

Fforde, Katie. Wedding season. [ROMANCE]
Sarah Stratford is a wedding planner hiding a rather inconvenient truth– she doesn’t believe in love. Or not for herself, anyway. But she somehow finds herself agreeing to organize two more, on the same day and only two months away. Luckily Sarah has two tried and true friends on hand to help her. As the big day draws near, all three women find that patience is definitely a virtue in the marriage game. And as all their working hours are spent preparing for the weddings of the year, they certainly haven’t got any time to even think about love. Or have they?

Fishman, Zoe. Balancing acts.
Smart Funny Women & yoga

Goodman, Carol. Arcadia Falls.
Meg Rosenthal is driving toward the next chapter in her life. Winding along a wooded roadway, her car moves through a dense forest setting not unlike one in the bedtime stories Meg used to read to her daughter, Sally. But the girl riding beside Meg is a teenager now, and has exchanged the land of make-believe for an iPod and some personal space. Too much space, it seems, as the chasm between them has grown since the sudden, unexpected death of Meg’s husband.

Gowda, Shilpi Somaya. Secret daughter.
Interweaves the stories of a baby girl in India, the American doctor who adopted her, and the Indian mother who gave her up in favor of a son, as two families–one in India, the other in the United States–are changed by the child that connects them.

Grahame-Smith, Seth. Abraham Lincoln: vampire hunter. [FANTASY]
While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years.

Grimes, Martha. The black cat: a Richard Jury mystery.
Jury investigates the death of a young escort who has been murdered behind a local pub. The only witness is the establishment’s black cat, who gives neither crook nor clue as to the girl’s identity or her killer’s.

Grippando, James, Money to burn: a novel of suspense.
Michael Centella is a rising star at Wall Street investment bank Saxton Silvers. Everything is going according to plan until the love of his life, Ivy Layton, vanishes on their honeymoon in the Bahamas. Seven years later, Michael’s got undercover FBI agents afoot, spyware on his computer, and mysterious e-mails from a “JBU.” Embroiled in corporate espionage, he’s desperate to clear his name. He doesn’t want to believe it, but the signs point to his first wife, Ivy. Could she be back from the dead to destroy him?

Grunwald, Lisa. The irresistible Henry House.
In the mid-twentieth century in a home economics program at a prominent university, real babies are being used to teach mothering skills to young women. For a young man raised in these unlikely circumstances, finding real love and learning to trust will prove to be the work of a lifetime. From his earliest days as a “practice baby” through his adult adventures in 1960s New York City, Disney’s Burbank studios, and the delirious world of the Beatles’ London, Henry House remains handsome, charming, universally adored–and never entirely accessible to the many women he conquers but can never entirely trust.

Hedges, Peter. The heights.
Adultery in Brooklyn Heights

Herman, Kathy. The right call. [SUSPENSE]
Ethan Langley is home for the summer, eager to renew his friendship with Vanessa Jessup and her infant son, Carter. Before Ethan is even settled, a series of random shootings leaves someone he loves dead. While police are scrambling for suspects, Ethan learns shocking details that could break the case. But it imperils the lives of those he’s come to love. Will he make the right call?

Higgins, Jack, The wolf at the door. [SUSPENSE]
Who’s knocking off members of a special intelligence unit known as the prime minister’s private army? Only Sean Dillon has a clue. On Long Island, a trusted operative for the President nudges his boat up to a pier, when a man materializes out of the rain and shoots him. In London, General Charles Ferguson, adviser to the Prime Minister, approaches his car on a side street, when there is a flash, and the car explodes. In New York, a former British soldier, who is also a bit more than that, takes a short walk in Central Park to stretch his legs, when a man comes up fast behind him, a pistol in his hand. And that is only the beginning. Someone is targeting the members of the elite intelligence unit known as “the Prime Minister’s private army” and all those who work with them, and whoever is doing it has a lot of resources at his command. Sean Dillon has an idea of who it may be, an old nemesis who has clearly gotten tired of their interference in his schemes. But proving it is going to be a difficult task. And surviving it the hardest task of all.

Higgs, Liz Curtis. Here burns my candle. [HISTORICAL]
A mother who cannot face her future. A daughter who cannot escape her past. A timeless story of love and betrayal, loss and redemption, flickering against the vivid backdrop of eighteenth-century Scotland, as hope, the brightest of tapers, lights the way home.

Hockensmith, Steve. Pride and prejudice and zombies: dawn of the dreadfuls. [FANTASY]
When a funeral at the local parish goes strangely and horribly awry and corpses suddenly spring from the soft earth, only one person can stop them. As the bodies pile up, Elizabeth Bennet evolves from a naive young teenager into a savage slayer of the undead in this prequel to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Hornung, Eva. Dog boy.
A four-year-old boy named Romochka is abandoned by his mother and uncle and left to fend for himself on the streets of Moscow, with uncounted millions of homeless children and adults. He follows a stray dog to its home in a deserted church celler. There he joins Mamochka, the mother of the pack, and six other dogs and slowly he forgets his human attributes to survive two fiercely cold winters. Romochka attracts the attention of local police, street urchins, and finally, scientists.

Kane, Ben. The silver eagle. [HISTORICAL]
In the first century B.C., trapped in Parthia by Crassus’s failed invasion, the legionaries that survived are captured and marched to the edge of the known world. Abandoned by Rome, these men are the Forgotten Legion.

Kellerman, Jonathan. Deception: an Alex Delaware novel.
Homicide detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware probe the hallowed halls of Windsor Prep Academy, one of L.A.’s most prestigious prep schools, searching for the killers of a murdered woman. When a DVD discovered near Elise Freeman’s decomposing corpse sheds insight on her yearlong torture and eventual murder, detective Milo Sturgis calls on the help of his longtime friend Dr. Alex Delaware. As they examine the evidence, Alex and Milo home in on the prime suspects: three teachers from the prestigious Windsor Academy. However,as the investigation continues, Alex discovers that solving Elise’s murder will barely crack the surface in the scandalous world of the Los Angeles elite.

Lee, Chang-rae. The surrendered.
Epic fiction about Korean War

Lelic, Simon. A thousand cuts. [MYSTERY]
School suicides in London

Liggett, Cathy. Beaded hope.
Women missionaries in South Africa

Lipsyte, Sam, The ask.
College satire

Lutz, Lisa. The Spellmans strike again. [MYSTERY]
Former wild child Izzy Spellman has finally agreed to take over the family business, and the transition won’t be a smooth one. Final book in the series.

Mah, Ann. Kitchen Chinese.
Chinese American sisters

McCleary, Carol. The alchemy of murder. [MYSTERY]
Nellie Bly, Jules Verne, Oscar Wilde, and Louis Pasteur team up during the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris to find a killer connected to a virulent plague infecting thousands of Parisians.

McGilvary, Marion. A lost wife’s tale.
Contemporary London

Mengiste, Maaza. Beneath the lion’s gaze.
Ethiopian father & son

Mercer, Ken, Slow fire. [MYSTERY]
Police chief

Michaels, Fern. Exclusive.
Godmothers
Game over. [SUSPENSE]
Sisterhood series

Mina, Denise. Still midnight. [MYSTERY]
Scottish policewoman

Moore, Christopher, Bite me: a love story. [FANTASY]
San Franciscan goth girl Abby Normal and her brainiac boyfriend, Stephen “Foo Dog” Wong, pursue a vampire cat and his minions, but things become even more complicated with the arrival of three ancient vampires intent on getting some payback.

Moran, Johanna. The wives of Henry Oades.
New Zealand immigrants

Morin, Donna Russo. The secret of the glass. [HISTORICAL]
17th c. Venice

Nesbo, Jo, The devil’s star. [MYSTERY]
Murder in Oslo, Norway

O’Dell, Tawni. Fragile beasts.
PA coal mining town

Palmer, Michael, The last surgeon. [SUSPENSE]
Dr. Nick Garrity and psych nurse Gillian Coates determine that one-by-one, each of those in the operating room for a fatally botched case is dying. Their discoveries pit them against genius Franz Koller–the highly-paid master of the “non-kill.” As doctor and nurse move closer to finding the terrifying secret behind these killings, Koller has been given a new directive: his mission will not be complete until Gillian and Garrity, the last surgeon, are dead.

Parker, Robert B., Split image. [MYSTERY]
What initially appears to be a low-level mob hit takes on new meaning when a high-ranking crime figure is found dead on Paradise Beach. Jesse Stone and private investigator Sunny Randall team up to solve two cases involving the gunshot murder of Petrov Ognowski and a religious cult holding an 18-year-old girl against her will.

Patterson, James & Michael Ledwidge. Worst case. [SUSPENSE]
Detective Michael Bennett and FBI Abduction Specialist Emily Parker reluctantly team up to stop a killer targeting not only the children of New York’s wealthiest families–but the entire city of New York. #2 series.

Perry, Anne. The sheen on the silk. [HISTORICAL]
Arriving in the ancient Byzantine city in the year 1273, Anna Zarides has only one mission: to prove the innocence of her twin brother, Justinian, who has been exiled to the desert for conspiring to kill Bessarion, a nobleman. Disguising herself as a eunuch named Anastasius, Anna moves freely about in society, using her skills as a physician to manoeuver close to the key players involved in her brother’s fate.

Picoult, Jodi, House rules.
Smart and quirky teenager Jacob Hunt has Asperger’s syndrome. With Asperger’s syndrome, he is unable to have the same kind of social life other boys his age have. However, like other kids with AS, he has homed in on one particular interest: forensic analysis. A forensic science wizard, he follows his scanner to show up at crime scenes and give law enforcement officials his advice. But when his tutor is found dead, he becomes a suspect. Suddenly, his Asperger’s traits–not looking people in the eye, tics and twitches–look more like guilt in the view of police, and a very public spotlight is cast on Jacob and his family.

Pilcher, Robin. The long way home.
When Claire Barclay receives news that her beloved stepfather has had a stroke, Claire and her husband, Art, leave New York and fly back to Scotland to care for him during the summer. When their visit makes clear that Leo is no longer capable of living on his own but determined to stay in his beloved old house, they offer to purchase the place from Leo and build him a cottage on the property. But Claire’s old flame Jonas Fairwether (who has become Leo’s caretaker and trusted confidant) has other plans.

Raybourn, Deanna. The dead travel fast. [HISTORICAL]
Excitement, danger, and romance await independent, headstrong author Theodora Lestrange when she flees 1858 Scotland and miserable spinsterhood for the wilds of Transylvania, joining a childhood friend who will soon be wed. Ensconced in a crumbling castle steeped in sinister legend, Theodora finds herself drawn equally to its gloomy atmosphere and its rakish master, Count Andrei Dragulescu.

Read, Cornelia. Invisible boy. [MYSTERY]
Madeline Dare series

Rivers, Francine, Her mother’s hope. [HISTORICAL]
Marta’s Legacy; bk.1–family relationships

Robards, Karen. Shattered. [SUSPENSE]
The past is never over. It just gets dusty. Lisa Shewmaker was a rising star in a prestigious law firm in Lexington, Kentucky; that is, until the firm went bankrupt and she lost her job. With an ailing mother to support, Lisa takes a job as a research assistant to District Attorney Scott Buchanan. Scott is as disagreeable as he is sexy, and Lisa suspects the only reason she got the job is because of her privileged upbringing as the daughter of a wealthy federal judge. While reviewing cold cases in the Fayette County courthouse, she comes across photos that may help her uncover details about her mysterious past. But when a series of catastrophes strike close to home, Lisa confides in Scott, and their relationship develops into something completely different. Together Lisa and Scott unravel a terrifying web of criminal connections that could destroy the very fabric of Lisa’s life–if she lives long enough, that is.

Rollins, James, Subterranean. [SUSPENSE]
Archaeology in Antarctica

Rosenfelt, David. Down to the wire. [MYSTERY]
Investigative journalist

Scottoline, Lisa. Think twice. [SUSPENSE]
Bennie Rosato looks exactly like her identical twin, Alice Connolly, but the darkness in Alice’s soul makes them two very different women. Or at least that’s what Bennie believes, until she finds herself buried alive at the hands of her twin and sets herself on a course to stay alive long enough to exact revenge.

Shriver, Lionel. So much for that.
“A novel about a crumbling marriage resurrected in the face of illness, and a family’s struggle to come to terms with disease, dying, and the cost of medical care in modern America”–Provided by publisher.

Simonson, Helen. Major Pettigrew’s last stand. [HISTORICAL]
Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired) leads a quiet life in the village of St. Mary, England, until his brother’s death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. But will their relationship survive in a society that considers Ali a foreigner?

Smith, Lee, Mrs. Darcy and the blue-eyed stranger: new and selected stories. Collects fourteen stories–seven brand-new ones along with seven favorites from Smith’s three earlier collections–about characters such as an eight-year-old boy obsessed with vocabulary words, a young bride who has married “way up,” and Mrs. Darcy herself, an older woman making it through widowhood her own way.

Smolens, John. The anarchist. [HISTORICAL]
William McKinley assassination

Spindler, Erica, Blood vines. [SUSPENSE]
California thriller

Spragg, Mark, Bone fire. [MYSTERY]
Griff drops out of college to care for her ailing grandfather, Einar, on his Wyoming ranch. Einar, suffering from a mysterious illness, is unhappy with Griff throwing aside her life for his sake, so he summons home his estranged lesbian sister, Marin, to watch over him. Griff, a gifted sculptor whose works involve clay bones wired into exotic and fantastical skeletons, is also at odds with her alcoholic mother and faces the possibility of a long separation from her boyfriend, a graduate student about to leave to volunteer in Uganda. In a parallel plot, Griff’s stepfather, sheriff Crane Carlson, finds a dead body in a
meth lab and receives a dreaded medical diagnosis that inspires him to reconnect with his first wife.

Stansberry, Domenic. Naked moon. [MYSTERY]
Set in San Francisco in the crumbling vestiges of Italian North Beach. Before becoming a private investigator, Dante Mancuso worked for a secret corporate security firm that prized effectiveness over legality. When he left, it was not on good terms, so he made sure to take enough inside information to keep himself safe from reprisal. When SFPD Detective Leanora Chin starts asking questions about his cousin Gary’s family warehousing business, Gary turns to the security firm for help, which they’re willing to provide, so long as Dante agrees to settle his past debts by doing them one last favor.

Thomson, Keith, Once a spy.
Family spy business

Trussoni, Danielle. Angelology. [FANTASY]
When twenty-three-year-old Sister Evangeline accidentally stumbles upon some mysterious letters exchanged between the late mother superior of her convent and the famous philanthropist Abigail Rockefeller, she is thrust into an ancient conflict between the Society of Angelologists and the monstrously beautiful descendants of angels and humans, the Nephilim.

Wagner, Kathryn, Dancing for Degas. [HISTORICAL]
An ambitious and enterprising farm girl, Alexandrie joins the prestigious Paris Opera ballet with hopes of securing not only her place in society but her family’s financial future. Her plan is soon derailed, however, when she falls in love with the enigmatic impressionist artist Edgar Degas, whose paintings of the offstage lives of the ballerinas scandalized society and revolutionized the art world. As Alexandrie is drawn deeper into Degas’s art and Paris’s secrets, will she risk everything for her dreams of love and of becoming the ballet’s star dancer?

Watrous, Malena. If you follow me.
Hoping to outpace her grief in the wake of her father’s suicide, Marina has come to the small, rural Japanese town of Shika to teach English for a year. But in Japan, as she soon discovers, you can never really throw away your past…or anything else, for that matter.

White, Kate, Hush. [MYSTERY]
“An ordinary woman flees the scene of a murder–and realizes it’s not just the law that may be coming after her”–Provided by publisher.

White, Randy Wayne. Deep shadow. [MYSTERY]
Doc Ford series

Wilson, Susan, One good dog.
Human-animal relationships

Wiseman, Beth, Plain paradise: a Daughters of the promise novel.
Josephine will discover more than she bargained for as her world collides with the Plain people of Lancaster County. Josephine Dronberger was a scared teenager when she left her baby in the care of an Old Order Amish couple. But seventeen years have passed and Josie longs to reconnect with her daughter. Linda — as the couple named the child — is promised to Stephen Ebersol, the bishop’s grandson. They plan to marry in the fall. When her birth mother comes to Paradise, Linda is drawn to a world she’s never known. Will the direction she’s been heading since birth be suddenly derailed, and who will stand by her convictions — mother or daughter?

Wright, Jason F. The cross gardener.
Filled with sorrow over the fatal car accident of his wife and their unborn child, John Bevan erects a small cross near the scene of the accident and then withdraws from life and love. But when he encounters a young man kneeling before the cross, touching it up with white paint. John’s conversations and travels with this mysterious man–known to him only as the Cross Gardener–forever change his world.

Wright, Kim, Love in mid air.
Risking her safe but lackluster marriage in an affluent Southern suburb to embark on an affair that she believes is more fulfilling, Elyse challenges the decisions her book-club friends have made about their own relationships and freedoms.

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