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Fiction Staff Picks January 2017 |
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The Bookshop on the Corner : a Novel
by Jenny Colgan
A "literary matchmaker" who takes joy in pairing readers with perfect books moves from the city to a sleepy village where she becomes a bookmobile driver and rediscovers her senses of adventure and home while searching for a happy ending of her own. By the best-selling author of Little Beach Street Baker.
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Liar's Key
by Carla Neggers
An FBI legend, a mysterious antiquities specialist and a brazen art thief draw top FBI agents Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan into a complex web of blackmail, greed and murder. By the New York Times best-selling author of Saint's Gate. 100,000 first printing.
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The Twelve Dogs of Christmas
by David Rosenfelt
Defending a friend who has been reported by a cranky neighbor for fostering homeless puppies during the holiday season, Andy Carpenter encounters more trouble than anticipated when the neighbor is found murdered. By the Shamus Award-winning, national best-selling author of Outfoxed.
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Crosstalk
by Connie Willis
When a technological breakthrough enables romantic partners to achieve empathy via a simple outpatient procedure, Briddley Flannigan delightedly undergoes the treatment in the hopes of becoming closer to her fiancT, only to find herself hearing the thoughts of one of the tech nerds in her office. By the Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author of Blackout.
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The Forgetting Time
by Sharon Guskin
While a mother's life abruptly stops after receiving an emergency phone call from her son's preschool, a driven former Ivy League professor confronts the realities of his terminal diagnosis and helps a woman whose child has been missing for years. A first novel.
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The Summer Before the War : a Novel
by Helen Simonson
Arriving in the 1914 village of Rye, England, Beatrice Nash, a young woman of good family, becomes a first female teacher of Latin at the local school and falls in love with her sponsor's nephew. By the best-selling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand.
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Ready Player One
by Ernest Cline
Immersing himself in a mid-21st-century technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's super-wealthy creator, who has promised that the winner will be his heir.
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Cover of snow
by Jenny Milchman
In the wake of her stalwart police officer husband's shattering suicide in their otherwise peaceful Adirondack village, house restorer Nora Hamilton notices strange inconsistencies in her husband's past and in the behaviors of his police force coworkers before stumbling on deadly local secrets. A first novel. (suspense).
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My Sister's Keeper : a Novel
by Jodi Picoult
Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Kate begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and ultimately decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body.
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