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Abbott, Jeff. Trust me. [Suspense]
Terrorism

Addonia, Sulaiman S. M. Y. The consequences of love.
A Romeo and Juliet story set against the strict Muslim laws of Saudi Arabia, a sensuous and intensely wrought story of a young immigrant and a girl behind the veil who defy law and risk their lives to be together.

Akpan, Uwem. Say you’re one of them: stories.
This singular collection of five stories takes the reader inside Nigeria, Benin, and Ethiopia, revealing in beautiful prose the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa.

Barclay, Linwood. Fear the worst. [Suspense]
Fear the Worst starts with one of the better opening lines I’ve read in a while: “The morning of the day I lost her, my daughter asked me to scramble her some eggs.” It’s such a simple sentence, speaking of everyday domesticity. You can picture a father. You can picture a daughter. Yet you’re already filled with dread. A bad thing has happened. And yeah, for the next four hundred pages, the bad thing gets a lot worse.

Bilston, Sarah. Sleepless nights.
Modern Motherhood

Boudinot, Ryan, Misconception: a memoir novel.
Cedar Rivers has come to upstate New York, to help Kat Daniels, by vetting her memoir, an account of the summer they were sweethearts.

Brown, Sandra, Smash cut. [Suspense]
The murder of Paul Wheeler has all the elements of a blockbuster: family rivalries, incalculable wealth, and a prominent man dying in the arms of his beautiful mistress. It’s a case that could earn Derek Mitchell even greater star power. When the Wheeler family approaches him about defending Creighton for his uncle’s murder — even before he’s charged — he jumps at the chance. But the more Derek learns about Creighton and his darker side, the more he doubts the young man’s innocence.

Buxbaum, Julie. After you.
Grief in London

Cain, Chelsea. Evil at heart. [Suspense]
Portland detective Archie Sheridan hunted Gretchen Lowell for a decade, and after his last ploy to catch her went spectacularly wrong, remains
hospitalized months later. When they last spoke, they entered a detente of sorts —Archie agreed not to kill himself if she agreed not to kill anyone else. But when a new body is found accompanied by Gretchen’s trademark heart, all bets are off and Archie is forced back into action. Has the Beauty Killer returned to her gruesome ways, or has the cult surrounding her created a whole new evil? #3 in the series.

Carter, Betsy, The puzzle king. [Historical]
German Jews in America

Casares, Oscar, Amigoland.
Mexican family

Chaon, Dan. Await your reply.
Identity theft

Conroy, Pat. South of Broad.
Leopold Bloom King, the narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo’s older brother commits suicide at the age of thirteen, the family struggles with the shattering effects of his death. Eventually Leo becomes part of a tightly knit group of high school seniors in an ever-widening circle whose liaisons will ripple across two decades-from 1960s counterculture through the dawn of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.

Cook, Robin, Intervention. [Suspense]
When his newborn son by his second wife is diagnosed with high-risk neuroblastoma, New York City forensic pathologist Jack Stapleton seeks to find a cure for his son while at the same time being drawn into a battle between the archbishop of New York and an archeologist–a battle involving what some people believe to be the skeletal remains the Virgin Mary.

Copeland, Lori. Three times blessed. [Romance]
Inspirational/Belles of Timber Creek

Cottam, Francis, The house of lost souls.
Haunted houses

Cussler, Clive with Grant Blackwood. Spartan gold. [Suspense]
Treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo are shocked to discover a bottle of a rare wine taken from Napoleon’s lost cellar. However, someone else is also searching for this treasure.

Dai, Sijie, Once on a moonless night.
Chinese manuscripts

DeLeeuw, Brian. In this way I was saved.
Imaginary companions

Doctorow, E. L., Homer & Langley. [Historical]
A free imaginative rendering of the lives of New York’s fabled Collyer brothers depicts Homer and Langley as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, facing odyssean perils as they struggle to survive the wars, political movements, and technological advances of the last century.

Dryden, Alex. Red to black. [Suspense]
Great Britain/Russian expionage

Eisdorfer, Erica. The wet nurse’s tale. [Historical]
Victorian England

Elias, Gerald. Devil’s trill. [Mystery]
Violin teachers

Elmore, Joel Saunders. The amateur American.
Arab/American espionage

Feehan, Christine. Dark slayer: a Carpathian novel. [Fantasy/Romance]
Ivory, a rare Carpathian female, has been protected by her brothers for most of her life. But once she frees the mage Razvan from his prison cave, they must flee together, enemies of Carpathian hunters as well as vampires. Ivory senses that Razvan is more than he appears to be, and she vows to go against the entire Carpathian race to help him, risking both their lives in order to save their love.

Ferrigno, Robert. Heart of the assassin. [Suspense]
Nuclear terrorism

Fesperman, Dan, The arms maker of Berlin. [Suspense]
WWII Espionage

Finder, Joseph. Vanished. [Suspense]
Lauren Heller and her husband Roger, a brilliant executive at a major corporation, are attacked in a Georgetown parking lot after an evening out. Knocked unconscious by the assailants, Lauren lies in a coma in the hospital while her husband has vanished without a trace. With nowhere else to turn, Lauren’s teenage son Gabe reaches out to his uncle, Nick Heller, a high-powered investigator with a corporate intelligence firm in Washington, D.C.

Foster, Kennedy. All roads lead me back to you. [Romance]
Woman rancher

Francis, Dick. Even money. [Mystery]
Ned Talbot, a bookmaker working the Royal Ascot, finds himself in a race to solve his father’s stabbing–a race where coming in second could cost him more than even money–it could cost him his life.

Frey, Stephen W. Hell’s gate. [Suspense]
Public prosecutor

Gable, Amanda C. The Confederate general rides north. [Historical]
1960s & Civil War/Debut

Goodkind, Terry. The law of nines. [Suspense]
Turning twenty-seven may be terrifying for some, but for Alex, a struggling artist living in the midwestern United States, it is cataclysmic. Inheriting a huge expanse of land should have made him a rich and happy man; but something about this birthday, his name, and the beautiful woman whose life he just saved, has suddenly made him–and everyone he loves–into a target. A target for extreme and uncompromising violence ….

Grace, Nancy, The eleventh victim. [Suspense]
Psychology student Hailey Dean’s fiance was murdered. Hailey becomes a lawyer in Atlanta and fights back by prosecuting violent crime. However, years of courtroom battles and an endless tide of victims have taken their toll, and the trial of a serial killer who targeted young prostitutes will be her last. After starting over in Manhattan as a therapist, she is forced to match wits with someone who is brutally murdering her clients one by one, using a copycat M.O. as the Atlanta killer she had hunted down years before. Can she get to the killer before more innocent people die? — from publisher description.

Gregory, Philippa. The white queen. [Historical]
In this dazzling account of the wars of the Plantagenets, a woman of extraordinary beauty and ambition, Elizabeth Woodville, catches the eye of the newly crowned boy king, marries him in secret and ascends to royalty. While Elizabeth rises to the demands of her exalted position and fights for the success of her family, her two sons become central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the missing princes in the Tower of London whose fate is still unknown.

Grenville, Kate, The lieutenant. [Historical]
Australian settlement

Griffin, W. E. B. & William E. Butterworth IV. The traffickers. [Suspense]
Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne is used to murder, but lately there’s been an awful lot of it in Philadelphia. A gangland shooting in a popular tourist location has left six dead, most of them innocent bystanders, and days later the body of a headless Latina turns up in the Schuykill River. Everybody assumes they’re not related, but Payne can’t shake the hunch that there’s something more to it–and that hunch leads him far from the City of Brotherly Love to the Texas-Mexico border.

Grossman, Lev. The magicians. [Fantasy]
Quentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A senior in high school, he’s still secretly preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. Imagine his surprise when he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in the craft of modern sorcery.

Haig, Brian. The hunted. [Suspense]
Kidnapped, beaten, and forced to relinquish his business and his fortune, Alex Konevitch and his wife escape Russia to the United States, only to be accused by his own government of stealing millions from his business. With a mob contract out on his life and the FBI hot on his trail, Alex is a desperate man without a country-facing the ultimate sacrifice for the chance to build a new life for himself and his family.

Hayman, James. The cutting. [Suspense]
Detective Sergeant Michael McCabe moved from New York City to Portland, Maine, to escape a dark past: both the ex-wife who’d left him for an investment banker, and the tragic death of his brother, a hero cop gone bad. He sought to raise his young daughter away from the violence of the big city . . . so he’s unprepared for the horrific killer he discovers, whose bloody trail may lead to Portland’s social elite.

Jeschke, Melanie M. Jillian Dare. [Romance]

Kellerman, Faye. Blindman’s bluff: a Decker and Lazarus novel. [Mystery]
The stalwart investigative team of Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus tackles a case that has unsettling repercussions for their own lives.

Kelly, Cathy. Someone like you.
British Smart Funny Women

Kim, Eugenia. The calligrapher’s daughter. [Historical]
In early-twentieth-century Korea, Najin Han, the privileged daughter of a calligrapher, longs to choose her own destiny. Smart and headstrong, she is encouraged by her mother–but her stern father is determined to maintain tradition, especially as the Japanese steadily gain control of his beloved country.

Kimmel, Haven, Iodine.
From her earliest years, Trace turned away from her abusive mother toward her loving father. Within the twisty logic of abuse, her desperate love for him took on a romantic cast that persists to this day, though she’s had no contact with her family since she ran away from home years ago. Alone but for her beloved dog, she’s eked out an impoverished but functional existence, living in an abandoned house, putting herself through college, and astonishing her teachers with her genius and erudition. What they don’t know is that she leads a double life: thanks to forged documents, at school she is Ianthe Covington, a
young woman with no past. Trace’s singular life is upended when she and her literature professor fall in love. She tells him nothing about her life, and as it becomes apparent that he has his own dark secrets, she’s forced to face herself and her past. After recovering a horrific, long-suppressed memory, Trace finally copes with the fallout from her brutal, bizarre childhood.–From publisher description.

King, Mia. Table manners.
Smart Funny Women

Kline, Christina Baker, Bird in hand.
NJ friendship

Lamb, Cathy. Henry’s sisters.
“Ever since the Bommarito sisters were little girls, their mother, River, has written them a letter on pink paper when she has something especially important to impart. And this time, the message is urgent and impossible to ignore–River requires open-heart surgery, and Isabelle and her sisters are needed at home to run the family bakery and take care of their brother and ailing grandmother. Isabelle has worked hard to leave Trillium River, Oregon, behind as she travels the globe taking award-winning photographs. It’s not that Isabelle hates her family. On the contrary, she and her sisters Cecilia, an outspoken kindergarten teacher, and Janie, a bestselling author, share a deep, loving bond. And all of them adore their brother, Henry, whose disabilities haven’t stopped him from helping out at the bakery and bringing good cheer to everyone in town. But going home again has a way of forcing open the secrets and hurts that the Bommaritos would rather keep tightly closed.

Levin, Daniel, The last ember. [Mystery]
Rome antiquities

Littlefield, Sophie. A bad day for sorry.
Abused women

Maynard, Joyce, Labor Day.
Coming-of-age/Divorce

McCoy, Sarah, The time it snowed in Puerto Rico.
It is 1961 and Puerto Rico is trapped in a tug-of-war between those who want to stay connected to the United States and those who are fighting for independence. Verdita has always been safe and secure in her sleepy mountain town, but she must find the strength to decide what sort of woman she’ll become.

McMurtry, Larry. Rhino ranch.
Returning home to recover from a near-fatal heart attack, Duane discovers that he has a new neighbor: the statuesque K. K. Slater, a quirky billionairess who’s come to Thalia to open the Rhino Ranch, dedicated to the preservation of the endangered black rhinoceros. Despite their obvious differences, Duane can’t help but find himself charmed by K.K.’s stubborn toughness and lively spirit, and the two embark on a flirtation that rapidly veers toward the sexual — but the return of Honor Carmichael complicates Duane’s romantic intentions considerably.

Melikan, R. A. The counterfeit guest. [Historical]
“It is 1797, and Mary Finch, heroine of The Blacksone Key, is now a wealthy heiress. Young ladies in her situation ought to marry well–as her friend Susannah Armitage has. But is Susannah’s marriage to Colonel Crosby-Nash all that it seems? Mary thinks not, and when her suspicions lead to a meeting with the elusive spymaster Cuthbert Shy, he reveals the terrible truth: the colonel is a traitor. At Shy’s request, Mary agrees to accompany the Crosby-Nashes to their country estate in order to discover his communicating with Shy is murderously cut off. If only Mary could contact the redoubtable Captain Robert Holland–but as he has inexplicably ended their friendship, his help seems out of reach…”–p.[4] of cover.

Meyer, Deon. Blood safari. [Mystery]
Emma Le Roux hires a personal security expert when her believed-dead brother is named as a suspect in the murders of five people, a situation that exposes her to political tensions, corruption, and life-threatening violence in South Africa.

Michaels, Fern. Vanishing act.
When Yoko’s fiance Harry Wong becomes the victim of a ruthless identity theft ring, the Sisterhood must do what they can from their mountaintop hideaway to restore Harry’s identity and deliver justice to the bad guys. Meanwhile, the Sisterhood must prevent Yoko from making a foolish mistake.

Moody, Martha. Sometimes mine.
Middle-aged romance

Moore, Lorrie. A gate at the stairs.
“…As the United States begins gearing up for war in the Middle East, twenty-year-old Tassie Keltjin, the Midwestern daughter of a gentleman hill farmer–his ‘Keltjin potatoes’ are justifiably famous–has come to a university town as a college student, her brain on fire with Chaucer, Sylvia Plath, Simone de Beauvoir. Between semesters, she takes a job as a part-time nanny. The family she works for seems both mysterious and glamorous to her, and although Tassie had once found children boring, she comes to care for, and to protect, their newly adopted little girl as her own. As the year unfolds and she is drawn deeper into each of these lives, her own life back home becomes ever more alien to her: her parents are frailer; her brother, aimless and lost in high school, contemplates joining the military. Tassie finds herself becoming more and more the stranger she felt herself to be, and as life and love unravel dramatically, even shockingly, she is forever changed…”–dust cover flap.

Moriarty, Laura, While I’m falling.
Coming of age/divorce

Musser, Elizabeth. Words unspoken.
Inspirational coming-of-age

Naqvi, H.M. Home boy.
They are renaissance men. They are bons vivants. They are three young Pakistani men in New York City at the turn of the millenniu. In a city
where origins matter less than the talent for self-invention, the three
Metrostanis have the guts to claim the place as their own. But when they embark on a road trip to the hinterland weeks after 9/11 in search of the Shaman, a Gatsbyesque compatriot who seemingly disappears into thin air, things go horribly wrong. Suddenly, they find themselves in a changed, charged America.

Nguyen, Bich Minh. Short girls.
Vietnamese American Women

Nicholson, Christopher, The elephant keeper.
Human-animal relationships

Parkin, Gaile. Baking cakes in Kigali.
Rwanda relationships

Patterson, James, Alex Cross’s trial. [Mystery]
Detective Alex Cross tells the story of an ancestor, Abraham Cross, and his experiences with lawyer Ben Corbett, recounting one man’s pursuit of justice in the face of the resurgence of Ku Klux Klan racism and violence in 1906 Eudora, Mississippi.

Patterson, Richard North. The spire. [Suspense]
Mark Darrow returns to Caldwell College 16 years after his graduation when his mentor, Lionel Farr, brings him back to become Caldwell’s president. The school is still haunted by the tragic murder of Angela Hall, an African American student who was strangled and left outside the school’s landmark spire. Fresh off a football victory, Mark was the one who found Angela, and it was his best friend, Steve, who was convicted of the murder. Now Caldwell is once again facing a scandal, but Mark can’t forget Angela’s murder, or the nagging feeling that his friend might be innocent. As his suspicions center on a former classmate who testified against Steve, Mark finds himself falling for Farr’s daughter, Taylor, the first woman he’s had serious feelings for since the death of his wife two years ago.

Reichs, Kathy. 206 bones. [Mystery]
Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is accused of mishandling the autopsy and case of a missing heiress from Montreal– an investigation that becomes more complicated when two more bodies of elderly women are found in Montreal, and Tempe faces the very real possibility that a colleague has sabotaged her work in the lab.

Rice, Luanne. The deep blue sea for beginners.
Years ago, Lyra Davis left behind a world of wealth and privilege and the people she loved most in the world, unable to reconcile the expectations of her celebrated family with the longings of her own wild heart. Now she lives quietly among a community of expatriates on the isle of Capri–until her daughter Pell travels across an ocean to find the mother she remembers and the deeper truths they all need so desperately.

Robertis, Carolina de. The invisible mountain.
Mothers/Daughters/Uruguay

Rocha, Luis Miguel, The holy bullet.
Pope assassination attempts

Rose, Karen, I can see you.
Romantic Suspense

Rosoff, Meg. The bride’s farewell.
19th C. Great Britain

Sakey, Marcus. The amateurs. [Mystery]
Alex is failing as a father. Ian keeps dangerous secrets. Jenn is pining for adventure; Mitch is pining for Jenn. Four friends just scraping by, finding comfort in each other and the hope that things will get better. But as their twenties fade in the rearview mirror, none of them are turning out to be who or where they hoped. In a time when CEOs steal millions while their employees watch savings dwindle, these four are tired of the honest approach. They’ve decided to stop waiting and start taking. But a supposedly victimless crime has become a bloody nightmare. People have been killed. Ruthless men pursue them. As their world unravels, each will have to choose between their own life and the lives of others.

Setiawan, Erick. Of bees and mist. [Horror]

Sheehan, Jacqueline. Now & then. [Fantasy]
“Anna O’Shea has failed at marriage, shed her job at a law firm, and she’s trying to re-create herself when she and her recalcitrant nephew are summoned to the past in a manner that nearly destroys them. Her twenty-first-century skills pale as she struggles to find her nephew in nineteenth-century Ireland. For one of them, the past is brutally difficult, filled with hunger and struggle. For the other, the past is filled with privilege, status, and a reprieve from the crushing pain of present-day life. For both Anna and her nephew, the past offers them a chance at love. Will every choice they make reverberate down through time? And do Irish Wolfhounds carry the soul of the ancient celts?” — p. [4] of cover.

Shuman, George D., Second sight: a novel of psychic suspense.
Sherry Moore series

Stokes, Penelope J. Heartbreak cafe.
Widows in Mississippi

Vasquez, Juan Gabriel, The informers.
Columbia

Westin, Jeane Eddy. The virgin’s daughters: in the court of Elizabeth I. [Historical]

White, Stephen, The siege. [Suspense]
As a lovely weekend approaches on the Yale campus it appears that a number of students–including the sons of both the Secretary of the Army and newest Supreme Court justice–may have gone missing. Attention quickly focuses on the fortress-like tomb of one of Yale’s secret societies. Suspended Boulder police detective Sam Purdy soon finds himself in New Haven, where he joins FBI agent Christopher Poe and CIA analyst Deirdre Drake to solve the riddle of what is going on inside the windowless stone tomb on the edge of campus as, one by one, students are sent out of the building’s front door to die.

Whyte, Jack. Order in chaos. [Suspense]
After King Philip IV of France declares the Templar knights outlaws and by way of murder and imprisonment seizes their assets, Sir William Sinclair leads the survivors to temporary sanctuary in Scotland, where they team up with Robert Bruce and after a rousing victory at Bannockburn seek out the fabled land of Templar lore–Merica.

Wyld, Evie. After the fire, a still small voice.
Australian tale of a father & a son

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