February 2017 list by Nanette Alderman
|
|
|
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
by Bryn Greenwood
Growing up wary of others, the daughter of a drug dealer cares for her younger brother and finds peace in the starry night sky before forging an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs that leads to a tragedy and perspective changes.
|
|
|
Any Time, Any Place
by Jennifer Probst
After his advances towards a sexy bartender are repeatedly rejected, Dalton Pierce of Pierce Construction offers to restore the bar back to its original glory.
|
|
|
Battle Hill Bolero
by Daniel Jose Older
Trapped somewhere between life and death, double agent Carlos Delacruz discovers that not only the people he cares about but every single soul in Brooklyn are in danger as his friends prepare for an unnatural war against the ghouls in charge.
|
|
|
Burning Bright
by Nicholas Petrie
When his restful vacation among the northern California redwoods is hampered by claustrophobia and a grizzly that forces him to retreat up a tree, war veteran Peter Ash discovers a hanging platform where a journalist who has escaped a kidnapping is hiding from gun-toting captors.
|
|
|
Death's Mistress
by Terry Goodkind
A debut entry in a new series set in the world of The Sword of Truth finds fan-favorite warrior woman Nicci leaving the stabilized kingdom of Richard and Kahlan to embark on new adventures, including a job keeping an unworldly prophet out of trouble.
|
|
|
Different Class
by Joanne Harris
The technological ambitions of a new headmaster at an insolvent prep school reignite old demons for a curmudgeonly Latin teacher who remembers a sociopathic young outcast from decades earlier who knows the teacher's dangerous secret.
|
|
|
Fatal
by John T Lescroart
A fleeting crush becomes a dangerous obsession for a family woman who shares an intense encounter with a man she meets at a dinner party before a chilling act of violence marks the first of a series of horrifying events.
|
|
|
The Fifth Petal
by Brunonia Barry
The best-selling author of The Lace Reader returns to otherworldly Salem as chief of police John Rafferty, now married to lace reader Towner Whitney, investigates a 25-year-old triple homicide involving three descendants of Salem Witch Trial victims.
|
|
|
The German Girl
by Armando Lucas Correa
Stripped of her family's privileges by the Nazi party in 1939 Berlin, Hannah Rosenthal forges a pact that she will remain true to her best friend, Leo, before embarking on a refugee ship bound for Havana, where rumors of a deadly plot force her to make an impossible choice.
|
|
|
The Guests on South Battery
by Karen White
Reluctant to return to work after the birth of her twins, Melanie takes on a client eager to sell a historic Charleston home only to find herself approached by ghost informants who have been long silent.
|
|
|
News of the World
by Paulette Jiles
A live news reader traveling the antebellum south is offered $50 to bring an orphan girl, who was kidnapped and raised by Kiowa raiders, back to her family in San Antonio.
|
|
|
The Nowhere Man
by Gregg Hurwitz
A sequel to Orphan X finds Evan Smoak murderously pursued by the new head of the Orphan program and turning the tables on captors who find themselves trapped with Smoak in a virtual cage.
|
|
|
The Old Man
by Thomas Perry
The toppling of a Middle Eastern government renders a decades-old case urgent for covert army intelligence retiree Dan Chase, who must fight for his life to escape a past he had hoped to leave behind.
|
|
|
On Second Thought
by Kristan Higgins
Two sisters must learn to put their differences aside and open their hearts to the inevitable imperfection of family—and the possibility of one day finding love again.
|
|
|
The Patriots
by Sana Krasikov
Three generations of a Jewish-American family endure the difficult challenges of the Depression and the Cold War while pursuing dreams of better lives and reflecting on painful experiences from their earlier lives in Moscow.
|
|
|
A Perilous Undertaking
by Deanna Raybourn
Visiting a ladies-only club for intrepid women, Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell is challenged to save a society art patron from execution.
|
|
|
The Perils of Paulie
by Katie MacAlister
A reality show contestant reenacting a historic 1908 car race across the US, Asia, Russia and Europe, Paulina Rostakova is coerced into a scripted romance with a fellow contestant that takes a detour into reality as they begin to fall in love.
|
|
|
Ring of Fire
by Brad Taylor
Learning of an imminent terrorist attack on the U.S., Pike Logan, Jennifer Cahill and the Taskforce race against time to stop catastrophic events in multiple locations.
|
|
|
The Sleepwalker
by Christopher A. Bohjalian
When a sleepwalker who has experienced episodes of near violence while unconscious goes missing, her eldest daughter, Lianna, finds herself drawn to a lead detective who seems to know more than he is revealing.
|
|
|
The Wicked City
by Beatriz Williams
A follow-up to A Certain Age traces a scandalous Jazz Age love triangle involving a rugged Prohibition agent, a saucy redheaded flapper and a debonair Princetonian from a wealthy family.
|
|
|
|
|