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New Fiction Arrivals at MPL
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Here are our new arrivals, click the title to view in our catalog:
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One Perfect Couple
by Ruth Ware
Landing on a tropical paradise where they'll compete against four other couples to win a cash prize, Lyla and Nico, starring on the new reality TV show, One Perfect Couple, find themselves trapped on a storm-swept island where they all must band together for survival as a killer walks among them.
also available in audio
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The Last Murder at the End of the World
by Stuart Turton
From the bestselling author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Devil and the Dark Water comes an inventive, high-concept murder mystery: an ingenious puzzle, an extraordinary backdrop, and an audacious solution.
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Long Island: A Novel
by Colm Toibin
From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving and intense novel of secrecy, misunderstanding, and love, the story of Eilis Lacey, the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn, Toibin's most popular work twenty years later.
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The Guncle Abroad
by Steven Rowley
With his brother getting remarried in Italy, Patrick takes his niece and nephew back under his wing, and as they travel through Europe, he tries his best to help them understand love, while dealing with a groom with cold feet, his over-flirtatious sister and other disasters.
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Mind Games: A Novel
by Nora Roberts
With the ability to see into minds and souls, Thea, who brought her parents' killer to justice years ago, discovers the inmate who shattered her childhood has the same ability when she can hear his twisted thoughts and witness his evil acts from miles away as he plots his revenge.
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Some Murders in Berlin
by Karen Robards
A serial killer on the loose. A profiler with a hidden past. A world at war. Trust is a luxury no one can afford.
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With Each Tomorrow
by Tracie Peterson
Eleanor Briggs travels to Kalispell, Montana, with her conservationist father to discuss the formation of Glacier National Park, and sparks fly when she meets Carter Brunswick, despite their differences. As the town fights to keep the railroad, the dangers Eleanor and Carter face will change the course of their lives.
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The 24th Hour
by James Patterson
While celebrating Cindy's engagement at one of San Francisco's finest restaurants, a woman is assaulted and Lindsay, Claire and Yuki spring into action, but when the victim's story keeps changing, Lindsay must expose a high-society killer before the Women's Murder Club is short a bridesmaid…or two.
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The Paradise Problem
by Christina Lauren
When his 100-million-dollar inheritance comes with a catch—he must be happily married for five years, Liam Weston, the uptight heir of a grocery chain, turns to his secret not-so-ex-wife Anna Green, a feisty, foul-mouthed artist, to fake their relationship and convince his one-percenter parents they're in love.
also available in audio
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Lies and Weddings
by Kevin Kwan
Forced by to attend his sister's wedding to seduce a woman with money and get his family out of debt, Rufus, the future Earl of Greshambury, finds their plans—and their reputation—going up in flames when a secret tryst and tragedy become known, revealing a shocking twist.
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You Like It Darker
by Stephen King
Delving into the darker part of life—both metaphorical and literal, the legendary storyteller and expert in short fiction presents this exhilarating collection of 12 tales, many never-before-published, about fate, mortality, luck and the folds in reality where anything can happen.
also available in audio
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First Frost
by Craig Johnson
Sheriff Walt Longmire tries to manage his increasingly complicated personal life while staving off the violent underworld that is encroaching on the Old West in the twentieth novel of the series following The Longmire Defense.
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Southern Man
by Greg Iles
A man—and a town—are rocked by anarchy and tragedy, but he's unbowed in the fight to save those he loves.
also available in audio
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Lights, Camera, Bones
by Carolyn Haines
When the heir to a wealthy and influential political family in Greenville, MS, goes missing while filming his family's heroic efforts during the 1927 flood, Sarah Booth and Tinkie, when a severed foot is found, must discover if this is a freak bull shark attack or a killer with a bite.
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Camino Ghosts
by John Grisham
Bay Books shop owner Bruce Cable is reunited again with best-selling author Mercer Mann to solve another murder on Camino Island, Florida in the third novel of the series following Camino Winds.
also available in audio
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Death Behind Every Door
by Heather Graham
Posing as a tourist, an FBI special agent visits a Scottish castle that's been turned into a bed and breakfast to infiltrate a society of twisted killers named after the man believed to be America's first serial killer.
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This Summer Will Be Different
by Carley Fortune
When her best friend flees Toronto a week before her wedding, Lucy follows her Prince Edward Island to help her through her crisis and resist the one man she's never been able to, but his flirty quips have been replaced with something new, making her wonder if her heart is still safe.
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The Heist
by Jack B. Du Brul
Detective Isaac Bell investigates an attack on the Federal Reserve being led by a master thief and his assassin accomplice in 1914 Washington, D.C. in the fourteenth novel of the series following The Sea Wolves.
also available in audio
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The Instruments of Darkness
by John Connolly
In Maine, Colleen Clark stands accused of the worst crime a mother can commit: the abduction and possible murder of her child; and soon enough, Charlie Parker is on the case.
also available in audio
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Think Twice
by Harlan Coben
When his former client, renowned basketball coach Greg Downing, who is deceased, has been placed at the scene of a double homicide, sports agent Myron Bolitar and Win, his longtime friend and colleague, search for answers, but the more they discover about Greg, the more dangerous their world becomes.
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I Will Ruin You: A Novel
by Linwood Barclay
"In the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay, a teacher's act of heroism inadvertently makes him the target of a dangerous blackmailer who will stop at nothing to get what he wants."
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Disturbing the Dead: A Rip Through Time Novel
by Kelley Armstrong
A modern-day homicide detective trapped in the body of an 1860s housemaid investigates when the body discovered in an unwrapped mummy is not very old, in the third novel of the series following The Poisoner's Ring.
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Summers at the Saint
by Mary Kay Andrews
The widowed owner of the St. Cecelia, a landmark hotel, Traci Eddings has one summer season to restore it to its former glory, but when a tragic death changes everything, she must put wrongs to right, put guilty parties in their place and maybe even find a new romance along the way.
also available in audio
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Tom Clancy Act of Defiance
by Brian Andrews
When a Russian superweapon is let loose under the waves, it's up to President Jack Ryan to find a countermove in the latest entry in this #1 New York Times bestselling series.
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