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New Fiction - December 2019
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The Glittering Hour
by Iona Grey
A tale set in pre-World War II England follows an unlikely romance between a penniless painter and a wealthy socialite who is forced by tragedy to make a safe choice.
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Holly Banks Full of Angst
by Julie Valerie
Instantly slighted by the elitist members of her affluent community, newcomer Holly wrestles with suspicions about her husband’s infidelity and clashes with a vindictive PTA president before landing in the middle of a high-drama neighborhood mystery.
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The Major's Daughter
by Regina Jennings
Caroline Adams returns to Indian Territory craving adventure after living society life. When she comes across outlaw Frisco Smith, his dreams to obtain a piece of property on the Unassigned Lands are persuasive. When the gun sounds, they find themselves battling over a claim-and both dig in their heels.
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Meet Me on Love Lane
by Nina Bocci
A romantic comedy about a woman who grudgingly returns home to small-town Pennsylvania, only to find herself reconnecting with friends and family and falling in love - not only with the town, but with two of its citizens.
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Meg and Jo
by Virginia Kantra
When their mother falls ill, the March sisters—reliable Meg, independent Jo, stylish Amy and shy Beth, return home to North Carolina for the holidays where they’ll rediscover what really matters.
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Nietzsche and the Burbs
by Lars Iyer
Dubbed “Nietzsche” by his classmates at a posh private school, a musical newcomer becomes the frontman of a metal band before a first gig and imminent graduation leads him into philosophical experiments with sex and drugs.
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Once Night Falls
by Roland Merullo
Joining the partisans in their fight against German occupiers on Lake Como, Luca struggles to protect his Jewish lover while their mothers consider what they will sacrifice to protect their people from the Nazis.
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The Peppermint Tea Chronicles
by Alexander McCall Smith
Changes come to 44 Scotland Street as Bertie and his friends and family are drawn into drama that surprisingly brings them closer than ever before.
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Preacher's Frenzy
by William W. Johnstone
When his friend Charlie is swindled out of his money, Preacher, after infiltrating the criminal underworld of the French Quarter, is enslaved on a pirate ship and must start a mutiny to return to New Orleans and reunite Charlie with his money.
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Reputation
by Sara Shepard
Told in multiple points of view, a story of intrigue, sabotage and secrets follows a tight-knit college community as it is rocked to its core when a hacker dumps 40,000 people’s emails onto an easily searchable database, which results in murder.
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The Sacrament
by Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson
Tells the haunting, vivid story of a nun whose past returns to her in unexpected ways, all while investigating a mysterious death and a series of harrowing abuse claims.
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Stay
by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Walking in the woods to escape the pain of his brother’s Vietnam tour and complicated family troubles, 14-year-old Lucas bonds with a tragically haunted woman who he would prevent from leaving.
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Such a Fun Age
by Kiley Reid
A story about race and privilege is centered around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both.
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This Is Happiness
by Niall Williams
A young man’s first experiences of falling in and out of love are shaped by the arrival of electricity in his small western seaboard village, an enigmatic woman and a mysterious drought.
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The Wicked Redhead
by Beatriz Williams
Distancing herself from an unethical employer and unfaithful husband, a woman investigates the story of a previous resident in her Greenwich Village apartment, a Prohibition-era flapper who went missing amid an agonizing moral quandary.
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The Wonderful
by Saskia Sarginson
Losing her military family to a sudden mysterious tragedy on a 1957 airbase, young Hedy tries to piece together what happened by reading stories written by her intellectually gifted late twin.
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All That's Bright and Gone
by Eliza Nellums
Unable to get answers from her traumatized family in the aftermath of her older brother’s murder, a precocious six-year-old teams up with a nosy neighbor to uncover painful secrets on the rooftops of Detroit.
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Beating About the Bush
by M. C. Beaton
Discovering evidence of a gruesome murder in a roadside hedge, private detective Agatha Raisin is embroiled in a case involving industrial espionage, a bad-tempered donkey and her own growing fame.
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Brewed Awakening
by Cleo Coyle
Awakening on a park bench with no memory of the past decade, coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi becomes a suspect in a kidnapping and must solve the mystery of her own disappearance to prove her innocence. The 18th in the "Coffeehouse Mysteries" series.
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The Course of All Treasons
by Suzanne M. Wolfe
Working directly for Sir Francis Walsingham in 1586 England, Nicholas Holt, a spy for Queen Elizabeth I, tries to figure out who is attacking his loved ones, in the second novel of the series.
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Dread Journey
by Dorothy B. Hughes
A young actress fears that her director, who has a reputation for discarding his previous starlets by destroying their careers, may be plotting to kill her during a transcontinental train journey.
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Genesis
by Robin Cook
Investigating the suspicious death of a social worker, Chief New York City Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery makes the controversial decision to use genealogic DNA databases to identify a mysterious killer.
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Good Girls Lie
by J. T. Ellison
In a follow-up to Lie to Me and Tear Me Apart, a popular transfer student at an elite prep school races to protect a dangerous secret when a killer sets her up for a string of murders.
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How the Dead Speak
by Val McDermid
When skeletal remains are found on the site of an orphanage renovation, imprisoned psychological profiler Tony Hill painfully reunites with ex-DCI Carol Jordan to investigate the discovery of a victim who is believed to be behind bars.
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Just Watch Me
by Jeff P. Lindsay
Targeting a crown jewel collection that is protected by airtight security, a Robin Hood-type master thief finds his efforts complicated by an equally skilled nemesis cop and an expert forger with dubious loyalties.
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Laetitia Rodd and the Case of the Wandering Scholar
by Kate Saunders
A sequel to The Secrets of Wishtide finds Victorian detective Laetitia Rodd assisting a terminally ill gentleman in a search for his long-missing Oxford academic brother, before uncovering a formidable adversary lurking in the English countryside.
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Lost Tomorrows
by Matt Coyle
For his sixth Rick Cahill novel, Coyle has his ex-cop hero pulled into the heart of a police conspiracy. Worse, the cops he's colliding with are his former colleagues - and they're sure that Cahill murdered his wife years ago. Great for fans of noir and old-school PI style.
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A Madness of Sunshine
by Nalini Singh
Returning to her impoverished New Zealand hometown to reconnect with familiar things after a personal tragedy, Anahera Rawiri bonds with detective Will Gallagher to uncover the community secrets behind a missing-persons case.
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Murder at the Opera
by D. M. Quincy
In 1815 London, amateur sleuth Atlas Catesby investigates the murder of a notorious courtesan and discovers a link between this crime and the death of his own sister years ago, leading him down a dark and dangerous path of violence and revenge.
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Music Macabre
by Sarah Rayne
Music researcher Phineas Fox has been enjoying gathering background material on Franz Liszt. But matters take an unexpected turn when his investigations unearth evidence of a possible murder involving a performer known as Scaramel.
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Now You See Them
by Elly Griffiths
Detective Edgar Stephens is enmeshed in an investigation involving a string of kidnappings that have pitted his wife, Emma, against a police force rival, while an increasingly famous Max Mephisto embarks on a search of his own.
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Poppy Harmon and the Hung Jury
by Lee Hollis
For retiree-turned-PI Poppy Harmon, spending her golden years running the Desert Flowers Detective Agency is far from the glamorous life she once knew, but becoming ensnared in two twisted Palm Springs crimes might be her worst look yet.
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Puddin' on the Blitz
by Tamar Myers
Arrested for murder when a guest at the PennDutch Inn dies after eating a slice of their delicious pie, proprietor Magdalena Yoder is forced to identify a ruthless killer to clear her own name.
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Trace of Evil
by Alice Blanchard
A rookie detective in a small New York community investigates the whereabouts of nine missing transients while navigating painful memories about her sister’s unsolved murder years earlier.
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Treachery
by S. J. Parris
When Sir Francis Drake’s daring 1585 expedition against the Spanish is sabotaged by an on-board murder, Giordano Bruno uncovers multiple deadly plots in Plymouth’s murky underworld.
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Verse and Vengeance
by Amanda Flower
When a pesky private investigator is murdered during a bicycle race fundraiser, Charming Books proprietor Violet Waverly is guided by the works of Walt Whitman to find the killer and clear her own name of suspicion.
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When Old Midnight Comes Along
by Loren D. Estleman
Hired to prove the death of an influential politician’s missing wife, Amos Walker is embroiled in a case involving questions about the woman’s disappearance, the death of an investigating officer and his client’s upcoming nuptials.
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Love Lettering
by Kate Clayborn
When a word of warning she had hidden in a wedding program one year earlier leads Reid Sutherland back into her life, skilled hand letterer Meg Mackworth finds both her heart and business in danger unless she can read the messages he is sending her before it’s too late.
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The One for You
by Roni Loren
Still haunted by a school shooting on prom night years earlier, Kincaid Breslin runs into an old classmate with whom she embarks on a romantic relationship until she discovers the truth about that night—and his involvement in it.
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Regretting You
by Colleen Hoover
From the #1 New York Times best-selling author comes a novel about family, first love, grief and betrayal that will touch the hearts of both mothers and daughters.
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Would Like to Meet
by Rachel Winters
Ordered by her film agency to acquire a romantic-comedy screenplay by a jaded writer, Evie relies on the assistance of her friends during a haphazard summer spent trying to prove that true love is real.
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Anyone
by Charles Soule
When a botched experiment leads to the unexpected development of consciousness-transferring technology, a scientist witnesses the havoc of her innovation throughout two subsequent decades of body-rental violence, entertainment and warfare.
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Blood of Empire
by Brian McClellan
As the final battle approaches, a sellsword, a spy and a general must find unlikely and dangerous allies in order to turn the tides of war.
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Dead Astronauts
by Jeff VanderMeer
In the sequel to Borne, lives, from a demon-haunted homeless woman to a messianic blue fox, converge in terrifying and miraculous ways in a nameless city that is overshadowed by a brutally powerful company.
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Down Among the Dead
by K. B. Wagers
Gunrunner empress Hail Bristol must navigate alien politics and deadly plots to prevent an interspecies war, in this second novel in the Farian War space opera trilogy.
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Down the River Unto the Sea
by Walter Mosley
WINNER: 2019 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel.
Framed by corrupt enemies within the NYPD and forced to serve a decade in prison, private detective Joe King Oliver receives a confession from a woman who helped set him up, a situation that compels him to investigate his own case at the same time he assists a black radical journalist who has been wrongly accused of murdering two corrupt cops.
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Girl, Woman, Other
by Bernardine Evaristo
CO-WINNER: 2019 Booker Prize for fiction
Moving, hopeful, and inventive, this extraordinary novel is a vivid portrait of the state of contemporary Britain and the legacy of Britain's colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean.
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The Testaments
by Margaret Atwood
CO-WINNER: 2019 Booker Prize for fiction
A long-anticipated sequel to the best-selling The Handmaid’s Tale is set 15 years after Offred stepped into an unknown fate and interweaves the experiences of three female narrators from Gilead.
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Trust Exercise
by Susan Choi
Winner: 2019 National Book Award for fiction
Falling in love while attending a competitive 1980s performing arts high school, David and Sarah rise through the ranks before the realities of their family dynamics and economic statuses trigger a spiral that impacts their adult lives.
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