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Abi-Ezzi, Nathalie, A girl made of dust.
“As Israeli troops invade Beirut and danger moves ever closer, Ruba realizes that she alone may not be able to keep her loved ones safe, and it is up to her father to shed the shackles of his past and lead his family to a better future. This coming-of-age story is sparked, but not consumed, by violence and loss. This strikingly assured and poetic debut captures both a country and a childhood plagued by a conflict that even at its darkest and most threatening, carries the promise of healing and retribution” — from publisher’s web site.

Adiga, Aravind. Between the assassinations.
Originally published in India in 2008.

Adler, Elizabeth. There’s something about St. Tropez.
Romantic Suspense

Adrian, Chris. A better angel: stories.
Nominee for Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction for 2008

Ali, Monica, In the kitchen.
London life

Anderson, Kevin J. Enemies & allies. [Fantasy]
Superman and Batman save the world.

Angley, Mike. Child finder.
Pyschic ability

Ansay, A. Manette. Good things I wish you. [Historical]

Arnold, Gaynor. Girl in a blue dress: a novel inspired by the life and marriage of Charles Dickens. [Historical]
“In creating my [the author's] own story of Alfred and Dorothea Gibson, I have taken a novelist’s liberties as I explored an imaginative path through their relationship. . . . Inspired by “threads of Dickens’s own preoccupations with things strange, romantic, and melodramatic rather than realistic . Above all, in Dorothea Gibson I have tried to give voice to the largely voiceless Catherine Dickens, who once requested that her letters from her husband be preserved so that ‘the world may know he loved me once.’ ” — Author’s note.

Asher, Bridget. The pretend wife.
Love triangle

Atkins, Ace. Devil’s garden. [Mystery]
In 1921, silent-film star Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle is at the height of his career when an actress dies, apparently from injuries sustained during one of his wild, booze-fueled parties. An enormous scandal erupts, and Arbuckle is accused of murder.

Baden, Michael M. & Linda Kenney Baden. Skeleton justice. [Mystery]
NY Forensic pathology

Bagshawe, Tilly. Sidney Sheldon’s Mistress of the game. [SUSPENSE]
Sequel to Sidney Sheldon’s Master of the game.

Barbieri, Heather Doran, The lace makers of Glenmara.
Fleeing for Ireland in the wake of a failed relationship, fashion designer Kate Robinson finds herself in a coastal Gaelic village and bonds with the members of a lace-making society, through whom she finds healing by
listening to their stories of loss and suffering.

Barnes, Eric. Shimmer. [SUSPENSE]
The story of a high stakes, hi-tech gamble that could have a devastating effect on Robbie Case’s family and friends, as well as on the world economy.

Bass, Hyatt. The Embers.
NY psychology

Battles, Brett. Shadow of betrayal. [SUSPENSE]
Operative Jonathan Quinn has agreed to do three jobs but the assignment starts out badly–with four dead bodies in Ireland. Things don’t seem to be getting any better as Quinn and his girlfriend Orlando hunt for a UN aide worker who has disappeared in Africa, then uncover a terrifying plot against world leaders in California.

Beckett, Simon. Whispers of the dead. [Mystery]
Forensic Anthropologist David Hunter; bk. 3

Berwin, Margot. Hothouse flower and the nine plants of desire.
Sizzling debut

Bolton, S. J. Awakening. [SUSPENSE]
Clara Benning, a veterinary surgeon in charge of a wildlife hospital in a small English village, is young and intelligent, but nearly a recluse. Disfigured by a childhood accident, she generally prefers the company of animals to people. But when a local man dies following a supposed snakebite, Claras expertise is needed. She’s chilled to learn that the victims postmortem shows a higher concentration of venom than could ever be found in a single snakeand that therefore the killer must be human. Assisted by a soft-spoken neighbor and an
eccentric reptile expert, Clara unravels sinister links to an abandoned house, an ancient ritual, and a fifty-year-old tragedy that has left the survivors secretive. But for someone the truth must remain buried in the pasteven if they have to kill to keep it there.

Bottke, Allison. You make me feel like dancing. [Smart Funny Women]
VaVaVa boom Inspirational series

Brice, Carleen, Children of the waters.
Sisters

Brockmann, Suzanne. Hot pursuit. [SUSPENSE]
After a political controversy generates a blizzard of hate mail and death threats, Alyssa Locke mobilizes her squad of moonlighting Navy SEALs (a.k.a. Troubleshooters, Inc.) in New York City. Then the dead bodies are discovered and, while investigating a suspect, Alyssa is ambushed and suddenly finds herself imprisoned by The Dentist, a serial killer she’s been after for years. Will her Troubleshooter teammates, led by her beloved Sam, reach her before it’s too late?

Brody, David S. Cabal of the Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower. [Suspense]
Local historical

Browne, Hester. The finishing touches.
A fading English finishing school is about to get a twenty-first-century makeover thanks to business-savvy Betsy Phillimore. But Betsy may have bitten off more than she can chew for she must first win over the school’s snobby headmistress and its handsome but risk-averse treasurer. Returning to London also means facing her own unfinished business, as she crosses paths with her sexy girlhood crush … and blowing the dust off clues to a lifelong mystery: who were her parents, and why did they abandon her?

Burke, James Lee, Rain gods. [Mystery]
Texas sheriff Hackberry Holland

Cameron, DeAnna. The belly dancer. [HISTORICAL]

Cameron, Kenneth M. The frightened man. [MYSTERY]
Victorian serial killer in Great Britain

Carey, Mike. Dead men’s boots. [Fantasy]
Felix Castor series

Carobini, Julie. Sweet waters: an Otter Bay novel.
Spurned by an ex-fiance, Tara Sweet moves back to her childhood home of Otter Bay California, finding friends and a new flame in firefighter Josh, but also dredging up shocking family secrets that test her unwavering faith.

Carroll, Susan, Twilight of a queen. [HISTORICAL]
Catherine de Médicis, 16th C.

Carter, Stephen L. Jericho’s fall. [SUSPENSE]
In an imposing house in the Colorado Rockies, Jericho Ainsley, former head of the Central Intelligence Agency and a Wall Street titan, lies dying. He summons to his beside Beck DeForde, the younger woman for whom he threw away his career years ago, miring them both in scandal. Beck believes she is visiting to say farewell. Instead, she is drawn into a battle over an explosive secret that foreign governments and powerful corporations alike want to wrest from Jericho before he dies.

Cash, Dixie. Curing the blues with a new pair of shoes. [MYSTERY]
No holiday in tiny Salt Lick, Texas, is more revered than January 8th– Elvis’s birthday! To commemorate the grand occasion, Hogg’s Drive-In, where the King enjoyed many a burger on the road to fame and fortune, is displaying an “actual” pair of Elvis’s blue suede shoes. That is, until some heel without a soul swipes them right out of their display case. Debbie Sue Overstreet and Edwina Perkins-Martin, the shoe-loving Domestic Equalizers, are shocked that someone would perpetrate such a dastardly crime. The plucky detecting duo agree to help the town’s inept sheriff track down the royal blue loafers. And, being majestic multitaskers, the ladies might even be able to squeeze in some matchmaking as well.

Castillo, Linda. Sworn to silence. [Mystery]
In the sleepy rural town of Painters Mill, Ohio, the Amish and English residents have lived side by side for two centuries. But sixteen years ago, a series of brutal murders shattered the peaceful farming community. In the aftermath of the violence, the town was left with a sense of fragility, a loss of innocence. Kate Burkholder, a young Amish girl, survived the terror of the Slaughterhouse Killer but came away from its brutality with the realization that she no longer belonged with the Amish. Now, a wealth of experience later, Kate has been asked to return to Painters Mill as Chief of Police. Her Amish roots and big city law enforcement background make her the perfect candidate. Shes certain shes come to terms with her past until the first body is discovered in a snowy field. Kate vows to stop the killer before he strikes again. But to do so, she must betray both her family and her Amish past and expose a dark secret that could destroy her.–Publisher description.

Christie, Judy Pace, Gone to green.
Woman Journalist/Christian Fiction

Claudel, Philippe, Brodeck. [HISTORICAL]
WWII

Coburn, Randy Sue.A better view of paradise.
“Thirty-six-year-old Stevie Pollack has earned fame and praise for her landscape architecture projects, though critics complain she’s too formal, too rigid. When her lover abruptly drops her, and her Chicago lakefront development project is panned, Stevie seeks solace in her roots, among the calming waters, the vibrant flowers, and the comforting traditions of the islands. Still, in the back of her mind, Hawaii holds troubling memories of a childhood with an emotionally distant father, Hank, and a reserved British mother. The trip home promises Stevie a welcome departure from mainland trials, despite her irascible father’s presence. But the shocking news that Hank is dying forces the pair’s reunion into high gear.” — from author’s web site.

Cole, Martina. Faces. [Mystery]
“Just before Danny Cadogan’s fourteenth birthday, his father leaves. Having drunkenly run up a gambling debt he cannot pay, Big Dan Cadogan takes the easy way out and abandons his wife and children to face the wrath of the men sent to settle the score. Determined to protect his mother, brother, and sister, Danny turns into a young man set on making his way in a violent and dangerous world. He becomes a Face. And not just a Face, but the most feared criminal in England. Out for all he can get.”–p. [4] of cover.

Coyne, Teri. The last bridge.
Dysfunctional family

Curran, Sheila. Everyone she loved.

Dahlie, Michael. A gentleman’s guide to graceful living.
Humorous

Darwin, Emma. A secret alchemy . [HISTORICAL]
15th C. England

Davys, Tim. Amberville. [FANTASY/MYSTERY]

Dean, Zoey. Hollywood is like high school with money.
“Young professional Taylor Henning must attempt the impossible: staying in touch with her inner mean girl while staying true to herself”–Provided by publisher.

Dickson, Nicole R. Casting off. [ROMANCE]
Irish love story

Dietrich, William, The Dakota cipher: an Ethan Gage adventure. [Historical Suspense]
It’s 1801 and adventurer Ethan Gage is back in the United States after undertaking daring exploits in Egypt and the Holy Land. With his friend Magnus Bloodhammer, Ethan–at the request of newly-elected president Thomas Jefferson–embarks on an expedition to the Pacific Northwest to investigate reports of blue-eyed Native Americans.

Downie, Ruth, Persona non grata: a novel of the Roman empire. [Historical Mystery]
Gaius Petreius Ruso and his companion, Tilla, become embroiled in a family scandal when Severus, the family’s chief creditor, winds up dead.

Dunant, Sarah. Sacred hearts. [Historical]
The year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina, in the Italian city of Ferrara, noblewomen find space to pursue their lives under God’s protection. But any community, however smoothly run, suffers tremors when it
takes in someone by force. And the arrival of Santa Caterina’s new novice sets in motion a chain of events that will shake the convent to its core.

Duns, Jeremy, Free agent.
Espionage

Fahy, Warren. Fragment. [SUSPENSE]
Scientists have made a startling discovery: a fragment of a lost continent, an island with an ecosystem unlike any they’ve seen before… an ecosystem that could topple ours like a house of cards.

Flynn, Gillian, Dark places. [SUSPENSE]
When Libby Day was seven years old, her mother and sisters were murdered while she hid nearby; after her testimony, her brother was sent to prison. Twenty-five years later she’s still struggling to get through each day when she starts to sell off family artifacts to make some money–the buyers, a group of obsessed true crime fanatics, also push her to look into the murders, which eventually forces her to question her memories.

Ford, Mackenzie. Gifts of war. [SUSPENSE]
Romance in WWI

Frank, Dorothea Benton. Return to Sullivan’s Island.
South Carolina follow-up to Sullivan’s Island

Froelich, Paula. Mercury in retrograde. [Smart Funny Women]

Fuerst, James. Huge. [MYSTERY]
Twelve-year-old Eugene “Huge” Smalls is short, mean, angry, and brilliant –characteristics which win him no friends, but he is also an amateur sleuth with his first real case, which leads him to believe life might be better if he did not imagine himself a character in a Raymond Chandler novel.

Gardiner, Meg. The memory collector.
Jo is called to the scene of an aircraft inbound from London to help deal with a passenger who is behaving erratically. She figures out that he’s got anterograde amnesia, and can’t form new memories. Jo finds herself racing to save a patient who can walk and talk and yet can’t help Jo figure out just what happened to him. For every cryptic clue he is able to drag up from his memory, Jo has to sift through a dozen nonsensical statements. Suddenly a string of clues arises, something to do with a super deadly biological agent code-named “Slick,” a missing wife and son, and a secret partnership gone horribly wrong.

Giardina, Denise, Emily’s ghost. [HISTORICAL]
Emily Bronte

Grazer, Gigi Levangie. Queen takes king. [Smart Funny Women]

Gregory, Philippa. The queen’s fool . [Historical]
Mary & Elizabeth I

Greig, Charlotte. A girl’s guide to modern European philosophy.
British 70s college students

Grove, Bonnie, Talking to the dead.
Bereavement/Christian Fiction

Hagberg, David. Burned. [SUSPENSE]
Patty and David Monroe have flown to Moscow to repair a business deal which has gone bad when it suddenly turns nightmarish. Shooting David and kidnapping Patty, their Russian business partners drive her to a ramshackle dacha twenty miles east of Moscow. There, her captors along with brutal Islamic terrorists will attempt to ransom her. Patty will face the most frightening ordeal imaginable. For the first time in history, FBI agents must work with Russian security forces. In an atmosphere of violent mistrust and political hatred, only their burning desire to rescue Patty Monroe will hold the operation together.

Harbison, Elizabeth M. Hope in a jar.
Twenty years ago, Allie Denty was “the pretty one “and her best friend Olivia Pelham was “the smart one.” Throughout high school, they were inseparable … until a vicious rumor about Olivia– a rumor too close to the truth–ended their friendship. Now, on the eve of their twentieth high school reunion, they’re about to get together again and resume an old friendship.

Healey, Judith Koll. The rebel princess. [HISTORICAL]
Sequel to The Canterbury papers.

Hely, Steve. How I became a famous novelist.

Heyns, Michiel. The children’s day.
South Africa

Hilderbrand, Elin. The castaways.
Known as “The Castaways,” the MacAvoys, the Drakes, the Kapenashes, and the Wheelers are a group of prominent, well-to-do Nantucket couples who appear to live charmed lives. But when Greg and Tess MacAvoy drown in a sailing accident on their 12th anniversary, their deaths unleash shocking secrets that affect the lives of their families and friends.

Hilton, Matt. Dead men’s dust. [SUSPENSE]
Joe Hunter; bk. 1/vigilantes

Hitchcock, Jane Stanton. Mortal friends. [MYSTERY]
Socialites Washington, DC

Hockensmith, Steve. The crack in the lens. [Mystery]
Holmes on the Range series

Holloway, Monica. Driving with dead people.
Undertakers

Howard, Jonathan L. Johannes Cabal the necromancer. [Fantasy]
Devil & magic

Howard, Linda, Burn. [SUSPENSE]
When Jenner Redwine wins the lottery, she never imagined how much it would cost her. Luckily she finds an ally-and a guide to the rarefied realm of privilege in a shy, kind-hearted heiress who invites Jenner on a charity cruise. But what should have been a “Love Boat” cruise suddenly turns into a game of dizzying intrigue and harrowing danger, and Jenner finds herself taken hostage by a menacing stranger–a stranger that helps her rediscover feelings she hasn’t had in years. Now if she can only survive to live a life worth living.

Hughes, Declan, All the dead voices. [Mystery]
Ed Loy series; Ireland

Hunt, James Patrick, The assailant. [SUSPENSE]
CO-ED SLAIN. That’s the call that brings St. Louis Police Lieutenant George Hastings to the downtown banks of the Mississippi River, where Reesa Woods has been strangled and dumped. The hard-charging Hastings is no stranger to murder, but he’s stuck without any leads until a second body also strangled turns up across town and he knows he’s chasing a monster.–Publisher description.

Hyde, Elisabeth. In the heart of the canyon.
Peter, twenty-seven and unemployed, embarks on this journey to avoid his family, while Evelyn, a fifty-year-old biology professor, comes in search of a more visceral life. Ruth and Lloyd, veteran white-water rafters in their seventies, know they will never make this trip again. Jill, a stay-at-home mother with her husband and two boys in tow, craves the luxury of relinquishing control and following someone else’s rules. Mitchell and his wife, Lena, are re-creating a historic river journey undertaken years before. Seventeen-year-old Amy Van Doren and her mother set off on this journey expecting little, especially from each other; together they will face the most daunting journey of all, one that has nothing to do with whitewater rapids.

Hyland, M. J. This is how.

Ignatius, David, The increment. [SUSPENSE]
When the CIA receives an encrypted message from a Tehran scientist suggesting that Iran’s nuclear bomb-development program is moving forward, veteran agent Harry Pappas is told to figure out the validity of the messages. With a presidential administration bent on moving towards war on Iran, Pappas must find the scientist, get him out of Iran, and learn the truth before innocent lives are lost.

Iles, Greg. The devil’s punchbowl. [SUSPENSE]
Lawyer Penn Cage goes up against a mix of murder, racial tension, double- crosses, illicit sex…and all of the ensuing violent consequences in the kudzu-
strangled, snake- rat- and armadillo-infested hole of the Devil’s Punchbowl.
This deep river pit in Natchez, Mississippi, reputed to be the hiding spot for
Jean Lafitte’s hidden treasure and a dumping ground for numerous murder victims, becomes the site of a dangerous showdown for Penn.

Jance, Judith A. Fire and ice. [Mystery]
Big-city homicide detective J. P. Beaumont and small-town sheriff/mom Joanna Brady join forces once again to solve a case involving a series of murders–six young women wrapped in tarps, doused with gasoline, and set on fire; and one elderly caretaker run over and left to die.

Jenkins, Emyl. The big steal. [Mystery]
Antiques in Virginia

Johansen, Iris. Storm cycle. [SUSPENSE]
Rachel Kirby, a computer genius whose beloved twin sister is dying from a chronic illness, receives a mysterious email from archeologist John Tanek who
sits trapped inside a collapsed Egyptian tomb with a functioning laptop
thousands of miles away. It turns out the collapse was no accident. John has
discovered something very valuable in that tomb, something that humankind has been searching for throughout history, something that Rachel could use as it may hold the key to her sister’s cure–if they both can stay alive long enough to unravel the ancient mystery.

Just, Ward S. Exiles in the garden.
Political intrique in Washington, DC

Kadrey, Richard. Sandman Slim. [Fantasy]
Working as a sideshow gladiator in Hell after being snatched by demons at the age of nineteen, James Stark escapes and returns to Los Angeles, where he
plots to destroy the magic circle that stole his life.

Kalogridis, Jeanne. The devil’s queen: a novel of Catherine de Medici. [Historical]
Catherine de Medici is one of the most maligned monarchs in history: blamed for the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in which hundreds of innocents died. What motivated this Renaissance woman who was born of Florence’s most powerful family, and one day came to rule France?

Kargman, Jill, The ex-Mrs. Hedgefund.
Smart Funny Women

Keegan, Nicola. Swimming.
This is the story of a teenage girl’s journey from a small Midwestern swim team to her first state meet, her brutal professional training, and the final, record-breaking swims that lead to her dizzying ascent to the Olympic podium in Barcelona. It’s the story of a girl who discovers, in the loneliness of adolescence, in the family tragedies that threaten to engulf her, the resilience of the human spirit and the spectacular power of her own body.–From publisher description.

Kenyon, Sherrilyn, Bad moon rising: a Dark-Hunter novel. [Fantasy]

Kinsella, Sophie. Twenties girl.
When the spirit of Lara’s great-aunt Sadie-a feisty, demanding girl with firm ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to dance-mysteriously appears,
she has one last request: Lara must find a missing necklace that had been in
Sadie’s possession for more than seventy-five years, and Sadie cannot rest
without it. Never mind that Lara has her own problems–which Sadie could care less about. Will this sparring duo ever find what they’re after?

Klein, Zoe. Drawing in the dust.
Bible archeology

Klosterman, Chuck, Downtown Owl.
N.Dakota

Koslow, Sally. The late, lamented Molly Marx.
Humorous Smart Funny Women

Kramer, Julie. Missing Mark. [Mystery]
TV reporter Riley Spartz pursues a curious story of a bride left at the altar and finds herself caught in a dangerous missing-person case.–From publisher description.

Kuzneski, Chris. The lost throne. [SUSPENSE]
Jonathon Payne and D. J. Jones, former members of a top secret, very special unit of the armed forces, race to recover a lost treasure that could rewrite history, before it is destroyed by a group of men who will stop at nothing to conceal the secret.

Lansdale, Joe R., Vanilla ride. [SUSPENSE]
In this Texas-sized thriller, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine–best friends, freelance troublemakers, and tough guys with good intentions–find themselves in the cross hairs of the Dixie Mafia and the lethal Vanilla Ride after an old friend asks Leonard to rescue his daughter from an abusive, no-good drug dealer.

Larsson, Stieg, The girl who played with fire. [Mystery]
On the eve of publisher Mikael Blomkvist’s story about sex trafficking between Eastern Europe and Sweden, two investigating reporters are murdered. And even more shocking for Mikael Blomkvist: the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to Lisbeth Salander–the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker who came to his aid years before.

Lasser, Scott. The year that follows.
On September 10, 2001, Kyle tells his sister, Cat, that he believes he has fathered a son. The next day both Kyle and the boy’s mother head off to work and are never heard from again. Cat–a single mother of a young son–sets out to find her brother’s orphaned child. Nearly a year later, that search is ongoing when her father, Sam, asks Cat to come to California for the anniversary of her brother’s death. But he has another motive as well: to reveal a secret he’s kept from her all her life.

Lawson, Michael, House secrets. [SUSPENSE]
When Joe DeMarco is asked by the Speaker of the House to probe the apparent accidental death of a reporter who was trailing presidential hopeful Senator Paul Morelli, dirty secrets and divided loyalties threaten his investigation.

Lescroart, John T. A plague of secrets. [Mystery]
Dismas Hardy defends Maya Townshend, the beautiful socialite niece of the San Francisco’s mayor, who is suspected of killing a charming ex-convict. A compelling and timely legal thriller filled with blackmail, political intrigue,
and multiple murder which also features returning characters Abe Glitsky and
Wyatt Hunt.

Liss, David, The Devil’s company. [Historical]
The year is 1722. Ruffian for hire, ex-boxer, and master of disguise, Londoner Benjamin Weaver finds himself caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse, pitted against Jerome Cobb, a wealthy and mysterious schemer who needs Weaver’s strength and guile for his own treacherous plans.

Locke, Attica. Black water rising. [SUSPENSE]
African-American attorney Jay Porter has problems–not only is money tight, but his past as an activist is coming back to haunt him. When he rescues a white woman from drowning after shots are fired nearby, Jay and his wife take her to the police station, but Jay can’t leave it alone, despite the fact that he’s learned–the hard way–that getting involved is a bad idea. When Houston’s
political scene and big business interests are compromised and threats are
directed at Jay, he must fight to save his own life.

Lustbader, Eric. Robert Ludlum’s the Bourne deception: a new Jason Bourne novel. [SUSPENSE]
Jason Bourne’s nemesis Arkadin is still hot on his trail and the two continue their struggle, reversing roles of hunter and hunted. Badly injured in an ambush possibly orchestrated by the mysterious Arkadin, Jason Bourne fakes
his death and assumes a new identity while endeavoring to assist another team’s investigation into a missile attack that resulted in a passenger plane crash.

Lynch, Jim, Border songs.
Border patrols, Washington state

Margolis, Sue. Forget me knot. [Romance]

Martini, Steve, Guardian of lies. [SUSPENSE]
Paul Madriani legal thriller

Mazetti, Katarina. Benny & Shrimp.
Swedish dairy farmer find love

McCann, Colum, Let the great world spin.
Philippe Petit tightrope walking in 1970s

McFadden, Maryann. So happy together.
Single mother adoption

McInerney, Monica. Greetings from somewhere else. [Romance]
Humorous originally published as Spin the bottle in Australia, 2003.

McMahon, Jennifer. Dismantled. [Suspense]
Vermont College mystery

Meno, Joe. The great perhaps.
Cowardice

Mercurio, Jed. American adulterer.
Imagining JFK

Michaels, Fern. The scoop.
In this first book of a wonderful new series, Michaels introduces The Godmothers, four unforgettable women who are about to get a whole new lease on life.

Monroe, Mary Alice. Last light over Carolina.
S.C. Shrimpers

Morrell, David. The shimmer. [SUSPENSE]
Santa Fe police officer Dan Page tracks down his missing wife only to witness a bloodbath in Rostov, a remote town in Texas famous for a massive astronomical observatory, a long-abandoned military base, and unexplained nighttime phenomena that draw onlookers from every corner of the globe. Determined to solve the mystery of the Rostov Lights in order to save his wife, he discovers that the decaying military base may not be abandoned at all, and that the government may have known about the lights for decades–and the unimaginable danger behind them.

Morsi, Pamela. Red’s Hot Honky-tonk Bar.
Saucy, forty something bar owner, Red Cullens unexpectedly finds herself raising her two grandchildren while trying to maintain her business and her love-life.

Murphy, Peter, John the revelator.
Ireland

Nadelson, Reggie. Londongrad. [Mystery]
Artie Cohen

Neggers, Carla. The mist. [SUSPENSE]
When Lizzie Rush uncovers evidence that thrill-seeking billionaire Norman Estabrook may be at the center of an international criminal network, she finds
herself playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse. When someone sets off a bomb in Boston, Lizzie discovers that Estabrook as well as the FBI director’s
daughter have disappeared. Together with intelligence officer Will Davenport,
Lizzie sets out to track down Estabrook.

Pasulka, Brigid. A long, long time ago and essentially true. [Historical]
Poland

Pearson, Ridley. Killer summer. [SUSPENSE]
Sun Valley, Idaho is home to an annual wine auction that attracts high rollers from across the country, and Blaine County Sheriff Walt Fleming is the one who must ensure it goes off without a hitch. The world’s most elite wine connoisseurs have descended on Sun Valley to taste and bid on the world’s best wines, including three bottles claimed to have been a gift from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams. With sky-high prices all but guaranteed for these historic items, it’s no wonder a group of thieves is out to steal them. Walt is responsible for all aspects of the glitzy event, from security of the dignitaries to the physical safety of the auction site to the transportation and safeguard of the wines themselves. Walt is enjoying a rare afternoon of freedom, fly-fishing with his nephew, Kevin, when a passing truck catches his eye, and his suspicions throwing him headlong into the discovery of a complicated plan to steal the rare wine. When a bomb detonates just as the auction revs up, the investigation explodes as well, pulling Walt in a dozen different directions. It seems Walt is caught in the middle of a heist of epic proportions, and not the heist he had prepared for, all orchestrated by the ingenious mind of Christopher Cantell, a man who appears to have covered everything, including the way Walt’s own sheriff’s office will react. This is the third installment of the author’s Sun Valley series.

Persons, Terri, Blind sight. [SUSPENSE]
FBI Bernadette St. Clare/Minnesota

Phillips, Christi. The Devlin diary. [Mystery]
Murder in Cambridge, England

Plass, Adrian.Silver birches.
Haunted houses & grief/Christian Fiction

Porter, Jane, Easy on the eyes. [Smart Funny Women]

Rakha, Naseem. The crying tree.
Teenage grief in Oregon

Reich, Christopher, Rules of vengeance. [SUSPENSE]
An ambush on a convoy of limousines turns a romantic rendezvous into a terrorist bloodbath and Doctors Without Borders physician Jonathan Ransom, apprehended by the police and threatened with life imprisonment unless he helps secure his wife Emma’s capture, escapes and becomes a spy himself in order to track down Emma and discover the true nature of the conspiracy she appears to be masterminding.

Richards, Emilie, Happiness Key.
“When her husband was sent to prison, pampered Tracy Deloche was left with twenty-five acres of Florida Gulf Coast sand, five tumbledown beach houses and no idea how to start over. An exile in a strange country, Janya Kapur left her wealthy, close-knit Indian family for an arranged marriage to a man she barely knows. Plainspoken Wanda Gray is tired of watching her marriage fail, so she takes a job guaranteed to destroy it–if her husband cares enough to discover what she’s doing. Since her daughter’s death, widow Alice Brooks has grown forgetful and confused. Her son-in-law and granddaughter have come to stay, but Alice isn’t sure she’s grateful. When the only other resident of Happiness Key dies alone in his cottage, the four women warily join forces to find his family. Together, they discover difficult truths about their own lives and the men they love–and uncover the treasure of an unlikely friendship.”–p. [4] of cover.

Rigler, Laurie Viera. Rude awakenings of a Jane Austen addict.
Jane Mansfield, a gentleman’s daughter from Regency England, inexplicably wakens in an overly wired and morally confused L.A. with memories that are not her own and a friend named Wes–who is as attractive and confusing to Jane as the man who broke her heart back home.

Roberts, Nora. Black Hills. [SUSPENSE]
In the rugged Black Hills of South Dakota, a summer at his grandparents’ ranch is not eleven-year-old Cooper Sullivan’s idea of a good time. But things are a bit more bearable now that he’s discovered the neighbor girl, Lil Chance, and her homemade batting cage. Even horseback riding isn’t as awful as Coop thought it would be. Each year, their friendship deepens from innocent games to stolen kisses and matures into an adult passion when something … or someone … threatens Lil Chance and her dream to open a wildlife refuge. The heartless killing of Lil’s beloved cougar and recollections of an unsolved murder catapult New York investigator Coop Sullivan into action to keep Lil safe, but there is one shared experience that will forever haunt them: the terrifying discovery of a hiker’s body.

Ruiz Zafon, Carlos, The angel’s game.
Spanish booksellers

Russo, Richard, That old cape magic.
The lives of Jack and Joy Griffin always seem to come back to Cape Cod, where they honeymooned, as they experience the ups and downs of life, including the deaths of Jack’s parents, the marriage of their daughter, and Jack and Joy’s divorce.

Schell, Adam. Tomato rhapsody: a fable of lust, love and forbidden fruit.

Schwegel, Theresa. Last known address. [Mystery]
Chicago police woman

Shattuck, Jessica. Perfect life.
Fertility

Silva, Daniel, The defector. [SUSPENSE]
Gabriel Allon’s idyllic world is once again thrown into turmoil with shocking news from London. The defector and former Russian intelligence officer Grigori Bulganov, who saved Gabriel’s life in Moscow, has vanished without a trace. British intelligence is sure he was a double agent all along, but Gabriel knows better. He also knows he made a promise–a promise that leads to a deadly duel of nerve and wits with one of the world’s most ruthless men: the murderous Russian oligarch and
arms dealer Ivan Kharkov.

Simms, Chris, Hell’s fire . [Mystery]
“The deliberate torching of a church creates outrage across Manchester. When a charred corpse and strange symbols are found in the smoking ruins, Detective Inspector Jon Spicer and his team of operatives are called in, little suspecting what is unfolding on the city’s darkened streets” –Publisher description.

Slaughter, Karin, Undone. [SUSPENSE]
As Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents Faith Mitchell and Will Trent try to connect two murders to a hit-and-run victim, Atlanta physician Sara Linton becomes more involved in the investigation–an investigation which soon
culminates in the hunt for a sadistic serial killer.

Sokoloff, Alexandra. The unseen.
After experiencing a bad breakup and some disturbing dreams, a young psychology professor from California decides to get a fresh start by taking a job at Duke University. She soon becomes obsessed with the files from the world-famous Rhine parapsychology lab experiments, which attempted to prove if ESP really exists. Along with a handsome professor, she uncovers disturbing cases, including one about a house supposedly haunted by a poltergeist, investigated by another research team in 1965. Unaware that the entire original team ended up insane or dead, the two professors and two exceptionally gifted Duke students move into the grand, abandoned haunted house to replicate the investigation, with horrifying results.

Strohmeyer, Sarah. The penny pinchers club.
When Kat discovers that her husband, Griff, has been hiding a secret bank account, her joyful consumerism suddenly loses its appeal. Are their fights
about money more serious than she understood? Is he, as her friends suggest,
preparing for a divorce? Just in case, Kat decides it’s time to start saving and
she joins an eclectic but lovable group of savers called the Penny Pinchers Club who teach her that saving time with family is as important as saving money. An irresistible and wonderfully warm-hearted novel about the unexpected ways hardship can lead to happiness.

Sullivan, J. Courtney. Commencement.
Female college friendships

Swarup, Vikas. Six suspects.
“Seven years ago, Vivek “Vicky” Rai, the playboy son of the Home Minister of Uttar Pradesh, murdered bartender Ruby Gill at a trendy restaurant in New Delhi, simply because she refused to serve him a drink. Now Vicky Rai has been killed at the party he was throwing to celebrate his acquittal. The police recover six guests with guns in their possession: a corrupt bureaucrat who claims to have become Mahatma Gandhi; an American tourist infatuated with an Indian actress; a Stone Age tribesman on a quest to recover a sacred stone; a Bollywood sex symbol with a guilty secret; a mobile-phone thief who dreams big; and an ambitious politician prepared to stoop low”–From publisher description.

Thomas, Steven M. Criminal karma. [SUSPENSE]
California criminals

Thor, Brad. The apostle: a thriller.
When American doctor Julia Gallo is kidnapped in Afghanistan, the terms of her ransom leave the president with only one course of action: send covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath to free the man the kidnappers demand as ransom–al-Qaeda mastermind, Mustafa Khan.

Toro, Guillermo del, The strain. [HORROR]
Abraham Setrakian, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust, joins forces with CDC specialist Eph Goodweather to battle a vampiric virus that
has infected NewYork in this first installment in a thrilling trilogy about a
horrifying battle between man and vampire that threatens all humanity.

Unger, Lisa, Die for you. [SUSPENSE]
When successful novelist Isabel Raines learns that everyone that her husband worked with is dead–and that her missing husband has been legally dead for some time–she will not rest until she finds the truth about him. Who he was, where he’s gone, and how he was able to deceive her so completely.

Valdes-Rodriguez, Alisa. The husband habit.
Vanessa is a whiz of a chef, so good she makes her grandstanding boss,Hawk–of Albuquerque’s chic Nuevo American restaurant Hawk–look good. But Vanessa has a problem–she keeps falling for married men. Swearing off men altogether, she begins helping out at her parents’ house until she meets Paul, her parents’ neighbor. Just when Vanessa’s guard goes down, the red flag goes up: Could Paul be yet another married man?

Vincenzi, Penny. The best of times.
On an ordinary Friday afternoon, on a major motorway outside of London, a trailer truck suddenly and violently swerves across fives lanes of traffic–
careening cars into one another like dominoes and leaving a trail of chaos and
confusion. Within the space of a minute, an astounding miles-long pileup has
amassed, and, as the survivors await help, their stories unfold.–From publisher
description.
From National Book Award nominee Kate Walbert, a provocative and beautiful novel about five generations of women.–Publisher description.

Wall, Carolyn D. Sweeping up glass. [Mystery]
Rural Kentucky

Weiner, Jennifer. Best friends forever.
Popular television personality Valerie Adler turns to her long-forgotten, Illinois hometown friend Addie Downs when she runs into a bit of trouble
involving betrayal and loyalty, family history and small-town secrets.

Wells, Rebecca, The crowning glory of Calla Lily Ponder.
In the small river town of La Luna, Louisiana, Calla Lily Ponder enjoys a blissful childhood at her mother’s side, learns the art of healing through the humble womanly art of “fixing hair,” and encounters first love with a boy named Tuck. When Tuck leaves her, Calla transforms her sorrow into inspiration and heads for the wild and colorful city of New Orleans–where she realizes the full power of her “healing hands” and Tuck presents her with an offer that is colored by the memories of lost love.

Wickham, Madeleine, The wedding girl.
To have and to hold takes on a whole new meaning when one bride’s past catches up with her and brings the present crashing down. Milly is engaged to Simon–who is wealthy, serious, and believes her to be perfect. Milly’s secret history behind a previous marriage to an Oxford homosexual is locked away so securely she has almost persuaded herself that it doesn’t exist–until, only four days before her elaborate wedding. AKA Sophie Kinsella.

Wilde, Samantha. This little mommy stayed home.
New mom Joy McGuire hasn’t changed her sweatpants since her baby was born. Of course she’s crazy about her newborn son; it’s her distracted, work-obsessed husband and his impossible mother she can’t stand. With no support from her mom forthcoming, she counts on a little sleep, sanity, and chocolate to fix all her problems–until her old college boyfriend shows up at their ten-year reunion, a sexy yoga instructor turns her insides aflutter, and her husband goes missing! Motherhood’s wonderful, but why does it have to be one hilarious crisis after another?

Williamson, Beth. The redemption of Micah. [Romance]
Western

Wilson, Robert, The ignorance of blood. [Mystery]
Helping to track down the bombers responsible for a terror attack in Seville, Inspector Jefe Javier Falcon finds the case further complicated by the
suspicious death of a gangster and a drug-and-prostitution turf war. Not to
mention what’s going on in his personal life–he’s still trying to figure out
who killed his ex-wife, his lover’s son has been kidnapped, and his best friend
is being blackmailed by Islamist extremists.

Winn, Tracy, Mrs. Somebody Somebody: stories.
Connected mill town short stories

Yunis, Alia. The night counter.
Scheherazade/Arab American family

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