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Arsenault, Mark. Loot the moon. [MYSTERY]

Baldacci, David. True blue. [SUSPENSE]
A former Washington D.C. police cop out to prove herself and a young lawyer from a prestigious law firm meet after he discovers the dead body of a female partner at the firm. As they investigate the death, they start uncovering surprising secrets from both the private and public world of the nation’s capital–and what began as a fairly routine homicide takes a terrifying and unexpected turn into something complex, diabolical, and possibly lethal.

Bear, Greg, Mariposa.
In this near-future thriller, three FBI agents take on the Talos Corporation and its plan to destroy the government and constitutional law by means of a treatment program code-named Mariposa.

Carver, Raymond. Collected stories.

Chamberlain, Diane, Breaking the silence.
Family Drama

Chen, Patrizia. It takes two. [ROMANCE]
Middle-aged women in Argentina

Clark, Bridie. The overnight socialite.
Smart Funny Women

Deveraux, Jude. Days of gold.
The second book in the multi-generational Edilean series, Days of Gold is a sweeping romance set in 1766 and follows Lavender Morning.

Deverell, William, Snow job. [SUSPENSE]
Arthur Beauchamp has followed his wife, the leader and first elected member of the Green Party, to Ottawa. But he hates it there: the cold, the politics, and his place in his wife’s shadow. So when a delegation of government officials from Bhashyistan is blown sky high on Bronson Avenue and the shares of a Calgary-based oil company promptly drop like a stone, Arthur is only too happy to jump to the defense of the missing suspected assassin.

Dunne, Dominick. Too much money.
Sequel to People Like Us.

Echlin, Kim. The disappeared.
“…Anne Greeves is sixteen years old when she first meets Serey, a Cambodian student and musician forced by his family to leave his country during the rise of the Khmer Rouge regime. Swept up in the fury and infatuation of first love, Anne rebels against her father’s wishes and embraces her relationship with Serey…But then the borders of Cambodia are reopened and Serey must risk his life to return home, alone, in search of his family. A decade later, Anne will travel halfway around the world to find him, and to save their relationship from the same tragic forces that first brought them together…”–Cover.

Estleman, Loren D. Alone: a Valentino mystery.
Hollywood film detective and film archivist Valentino becomes embroiled in the murder of a blackmailer in this wacky comedic murder romp.

Flynn, Vince. Pursuit of honor. [SUSPENSE]
Mitch Rapp comes up against a new and deadly enemy when he is unofficially ordered to find three terrorists by any means necessary. They’ve attacked Washington D.C., killing 185 and wounding hundreds. So far, however, his investigation has been painfully complicated and has yet to yield a single solid lead–and the last thing Rapp expected was to be in New York City to decide the fate of a man that could be his cover.

Gargash, Maha. The sand fish: a novel from Dubai.
Coming of age in the 1950s, seventeen-year-old Noora is unlike other women of the sun-battered mountains at the tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Though she shares their poverty and, like them, bears life’s hardships without complaint, she is also fiery and independent. Following the death of her mother and her father’s descent into dazed madness, Noora flees the threat of an arranged marriage, only to be driven back to her unwanted fate by disappointment and heartbreak. As the third wife to a rich, much older man, Noora struggles to adjust to her new home by the sea, thinking of herself as a sand fish–the
desert lizard she observed in the mountains, which, when stuck in the wrong place and desperate to escape, smashed itself again and again into unyielding rocks. But then a light is shone into her miserable darkness, resulting in an unexpected passion, a shocking indiscretion, and a secret that could jeopardize Noora’s life.

Garwood, Julie. Sizzle.
Romantic Suspense

Griffin, W. E. B. The honor of spies. [SUSPENSE]
August 6, 1943: In his brief career in the Office of Strategic Services, twenty-four-year-old Cletus Frade has already been involved in a lot of unusual situations, but nothing like the one he’s in now, standing with a German lieutenant colonel named Wilhelm Frogger in a Mississippi prisoner-of-war detention facility. Frade’s job? To help Frogger escape so the OSS can use Frogger’s knowledge and connections to kill Adolf Hitler.

Hall, M. R. The coroner. [Mystery]
British Jenny Cooper series
— The disappeared.
Sequel to The Coroner

Hamilton, Laurell K. Divine misdemeanors. [FANTASY]
Someone is killing the fey, which has left the LAPD baffled and Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye and princess of faerie, determined to get to the bottom of the case even if means going up against Gilda, the Fairy Godmother. But even stranger things are happening. Mortals Gentry once healed with magic are suddenly performing miracles, a shocking phenomenon wreaking havoc on human/faerie relations.

Harvard Lampoon. Nightlight: a parody.
A humorous alternative to Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight.

Hoag, Tami. Deeper than the dead. [SUSPENSE]
California, 1984. Detective Tony Mendez, fresh from a law enforcement course at FBI headquarters, is charged with discovering the identity of a brutal, calculating psychopath. His search pushes him ever deeper into the lives of three children, and closer to the young teacher whose interest in recent events becomes as intense as his own.

Howard, Linda, Ice. [SUSPENSE]
As a brewing ice storm approaches, and despite the icy conditions that have always existed between him and Lolly Helton, combat veteran Gabriel McQueen makes the long haul to the middle of nowhere to find out whether she is safe and sound. Spotting strangers in Lolly’s home–one of them packing a weapon—Gabriel rescues Lolly from her captors … but when the escape is discovered, the heat–and the hunt–are on.

Hunter, Stephen, I, sniper. [SUSPENSE]
Special Agent Nick Memphis enlists the help of retired Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger to unravel a sophisticated conspiracy involving the deaths of four famed ’60s radicals–a conspiracy that would require the highest level of warcraft by the most superb special operations professionals.

Jin, Ha, A good fall: stories.
From the author of Waiting.

Kanon, Joseph. Stardust. [MYSTERY]
Hollywood espionage

Krentz, Jayne Ann. Fired up. [SUSPENSE]
Jack Winters, descendant of genetically altered Nicholas, has been experiencing nightmares and blackouts–just the beginning, he believes–of the manifestation of the Winters family curse. The legend says that he must find the Burning Lamp or risk turning into a monster. But he can’t do it alone; he needs the help of private investigator Chloe Harper who possesses the gift to read the lamp’s dreamlight.

Maxted, Anna. Rich again.
Smart Funny Women

McCall Smith, Alexander, La’s orchestra saves the world.
As the war drags on, La is in need of some diversion and wants to boost the town’s morale, so she organizes an amateur orchestra, drawing musicians from the village and the local RAF base. Among the strays she corrals is Feliks, a shy, proper Polish refugee who becomes her most prized recruit–and the object of feelings she thought she’d put away forever.

McCullough, Colleen, Too many murders: a Carmine Delmonico novel.
On a beautiful spring day in the little city of Holloman, CT, home to prestigious Chubb University and armaments giant Cornucopia, chief of detectives Captain Carmine Delmonico has more pressing concerns than finding a name for his infant son: twelve murders have taken place in one day, and Delmonico is drawn into a gruesome web of secrets and lies. Second in the series.

McLaughlin, Emma & Nicola Kraus.  Nanny returns.
A sequel to the best-selling Nanny Diaries finds Nan returning to New York after 10 years abroad and getting approached by a drunken 16-year-old Grayer X, who describes his parents’ brutal divorce and prompts her re-entry into child care for the elite.

Mitchell, Shandi. Under this unbroken sky. [HISTORICAL]
Spring 1938. After nearly two years in prison for the crime of stealing his own grain, Ukrainian immigrant Teodor Mykolayenko is a free man. While he was gone, his wife, Maria; their five children; and his sister, Anna, struggled to survive on the harsh northern Canadian prairie, but now Teodor–a man who has overcome drought, starvation, and Stalin’s purges–is determined to make a better life for them.

Mockett, Marie Mutsuki. Picking bones from ash.
Japanese Americans

Noble, Elizabeth M. The girl next door.
The bittersweet story of friendship and love in an apartment building on New York’s Upper East Side.

Palmer, Liza. A field guide to burying your parents.
As a child, Grace Hawkes was abandoned by her father; as an adult, she feels abandoned when her mother dies unexpectedly. Not knowing what to do, Grace runs away. Five years later she reunites with her siblings at her father’s deathbed and confronts her past.

Pearlman, Ann, The Christmas cookie club.
Female Friendship

Rollins, James, Altar of Eden. [SUSPENSE]
Pregnant veterinarian Maura Kelly, along with U.S. Marshall Jack Menard, risks everything, including the life of her unborn child, to unravel the mystery of a smuggler’s cache of mutated animals, a puzzle that involves fractal intelligence, stem-cell research, and a secret history of the Book of Genesis.

Roncagliolo, Santiago. Red April.
Peruvian Terrorism

Rue, Nancy N. Healing sands: a Sullivan Crisp novel.
Sullivan Crisp series; no. 3/Christian Fiction

Smyth, Amanda. Lime tree can’t bear orange.
Relationships in Caribbean

Zeltserman, Dave, Pariah. [SUSPENSE]
Once part of the holy triumvirate ruling the South Boston Irish Mob, Kyle Nevin is set up with the Feds by head mobster Red Mahoney, who leads him to a court case and a stretch in the slammer. Now out of prison, Kyle wants revenge on his old boss and mentor and, just as importantly, to reclaim his former glory.

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