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New Fiction - January 2018
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The English Wife
by Lauren Willig
A fairytale marriage between two English aristocrats erupts at a Shakespeare-themed ball where the husband dies and the wife is presumed dead, a scandalous event that prompts an unlikely alliance between the husband's sister and a reporter who is determined to uncover the truth.
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Fall from Grace
by Danielle Steel
When her wealthy and devoted husband dies suddenly in an accident, Sydney is devastated to learn that he left his estate to his vindictive daughters, a situation that forces her to take a job where she is wrongly set up to take the fall for a corrupt employer's illegal activities.
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Fools and Mortals
by Bernard Cornwell
Bestselling author Bernard Cornwell makes a dramatic departure with this enthralling, action-packed standalone novel that tells the story of the first production of A Midsummer Night's Dream—as related by William Shakespeare’s estranged younger brother.
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The Girls in the Picture
by Melanie Benjamin
An intimate reimagining of the powerful creative partnership between Hollywood superstars Frances Marion and Mary Pickford traces their friendship and boundary-breaking achievements against a backdrop of pre-World War I Hollywood.
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Heart Spring Mountain
by Robin MacArthur
In this evocative first novel, a young woman returns to her rural Vermont hometown in the wake of a heavy storm to search for her missing mother and unravel a powerful family secret.
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Impossible Saints
by Clarissa Harwood
In 1907 England, village schoolmistress Lilia Brooke joins the militant Women's Social and Political Union to advocate for the vote, free unions, and contraception. Anglican priest Paul aims to become the youngest deal of St. John's Cathedral. These two people on different paths have one thing in common: a tragic affection for each other.
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Isaiah's Daughter: A Novel of Prophets and Kings
by Mesu Andrews
In this epic Biblical narrative, ideal for fans of The Bible miniseries, a young woman taken into the prophet Isaiah's household rises to capture the heart of the future king.
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The Music Shop
by Rachel Joyce
A love story and a journey through music, the exquisite and perfectly pitched new novel from the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.
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The Outcasts of Time
by Ian Mortimer
With 1348 Britain in the grip of the Black Death, brothers John and William fear that they will die and suffer in the afterlife; but as the end draws near, they are given an unexpected choice: either to go home and spend their last six days in their familiar world, or to search for salvation across the forthcoming centuries—living each one of their remaining days 99 years after the last.
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Out of the Ashes
by Tracie Peterson
| A chance at reconciliation for two exes who reunite by chance in a 1920s Alaskan hotel is challenged by painful losses, wartime trauma, a violent first marriage and questions about their faith. |
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Peculiar Ground
by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Years after a grand English country estate is enclosed within a great wall, the daughter of the estate's manager comes of age amid dramatic upheavals shaped by family legends and the historical events of the mid-to-late 20th century.
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Sisters Like Us
by Susan Mallery
Despite dealing with the chaos caused by her live-in mother, her virtual-assistant business, her rebellious teenage daughter, and her pregnant sister, Bunny can’t help entertaining the notion that a handsome client that keeps coming around just may be for her.
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A State of Freedom
by Neel Mukherjee
Five characters in very different circumstances—from a domestic cook in Mumbai to a vagrant and his dancing bear—find the meanings of dislocation and the desire to get more out of life.
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Still Me
by Jojo Moyes
The irrepressible Louisa Clark from Me Before You and After You arrives in New York to start a new life and a long-distance relationship with Ambulance Sam while working for the super-wealthy Gopniks, a job that introduces her to New York high society and a secretive man who reminds her of her own past.
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This Could Hurt
by Jillian Medoff
| Five human resources colleagues navigate the emotional complexities of their ambitions, hopes and fears as their small company is buffeted by economic forces that threaten to upend its employees. |
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Until We Find Home
by Cathy Gohlke
As Hitler marches across Europe, citizens in the bucolic Lake District of England fight a quieter war of their own, taking in child refugees while preparing for the ever-looming threat of Nazi invasion of their peaceful haven.
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White Chrysanthemum
by Mary Lynn Bracht
Having spent her entire youth under Japanese occupation, a young woman in World War II-era Korea follows in her mother's footsteps as an elite female diver only to be forced into prostitution in order to save her beloved younger sister, who decades later resolves to find healing and closure from the ghosts of the past.
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Winter
by Ali Smith
A follow-up to Autumn depicts in wry observations a bleak, post-truth era rooted in history, memory, art and laughter at a time of endurance and survival.
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Act of Revenge
by Dale Brown
When Boston is hit by a coordinated string of terrorist attacks, robotics innovator Louis Massina leads a team of tech geniuses to deploy every bot, drone and cyberweapon at their disposal to save the city and bring the plot's mastermind to justice.
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The Bomb Maker
by Thomas Perry
When half of the entire LAPD Bomb Squad is obliterated by an explosion, the unit turns to Dick Stahl to put an end to the bomb-building mastermind who is funded by a shadowy organization intent on destroying the Bomb Squad itself.
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City of Endless Night
by Douglas J Preston
Heading an investigation into the murder of a wealthy tech billionaire's daughter, Lieutenant CDS Vincent D'Agosta teams up with FBI Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast, only to uncover the work of a serial killer whose agenda threatens an entire city.
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Death Below Stairs
by Jennifer Ashley
A cook working in a London mansion has no issue with her employer’s eccentricities until her assistant is murdered, in the first installment of a new mystery series.
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The Grave's a Fine and Private Place
by C. Alan Bradley
Joining her older sisters for a recuperative boating trip in the aftermath of a devastating tragedy, 12-year-old Flavia de Luce discovers a body in the water near the church of a murderous vicar.
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Hellbent
by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
When the man who raised and trained him warns him that secret government forces are trying to eliminate all surviving members of the Orphan Program, Evan Smoak is challenged to track down and protect his teacher's last protégé from a brutal new program leader.
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Hidden Depths
by Ann Cleeves
On the Northumberland coast, Julie Armstrong arrives home to find her son strangled, laid out in a bath of water and covered with wild flowers. This stylized murder scene has Inspector Vera Stanhope and her team intrigued but they must work quickly to find this killer who is making art out of death. As local residents are forced to share their private lives, sinister secrets are slowly unearthed.
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Into the Black Nowhere
by Meg Gardiner
An FBI profiler is forced to navigate the twisted mind of a charismatic, ruthless serial killer responsible for the murders of a series of women in southern Texas, in a thriller inspired by the case of Ted Bundy.
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Killer Choice
by Tom Hunt
When his pregnant wife falls dangerously ill, a financially strapped man is approached by a mysterious benefactor who offers him money for treatment in exchange for committing a murder, a situation that forces the desperate husband to confront the darkest reaches of his soul and betray those closest to him.
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The Liar in the Library
by Simon Brett
Successful author Burton St. Clair invites his old friend Jude to accompany him to a talk he is giving at Fethering Library, but when the evening ends in murder, Jude finds herself under suspicion and enlists Carole's help to solve the crime.
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Light It Up
by Nicholas Petrie
Helping a friend whose daughter's security company has been attacked by hijackers targeting cannabis transports, combat veteran Peter Ash investigates the disparity between the sophisticated heists and the suspiciously lower value of the cargo they are stealing.
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The Mitford Murders
by Jessica Fellowes
In 1920, Louisa Cannon takes a position with the Mitford family at their manor house in the Oxfordshire countryside, but when a nurse is killed on a train, Louisa and the youngest Mitford daughter, Nancy, become entangled in the murderer's crimes.
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A Mortal Likeness
by Laura Joh Rowland
Hired by wealthy banker, Sir Gerald Mariner, to find his missing son, photographer and private eye Sarah Bain must figure out if the kidnapping is a cover-up for murder, especially when the case intertwines with her search for her father who disappeared 20 years earlier.
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Murder Has a Motive
by Francis Duncan
Amateur sleuth Mordecai Tremaine must solve a small-town mystery before the next victim takes their final bow. A classic Golden Age mystery perfect for fans of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot.
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New York Station
by Lawrence Dudley
A novel based on the true story of an attempt by Nazis to intervene in the 1940 U.S. presidential election, follows an Anglo-American MI6 agent who travels to New York to pursue a Nazi commercial envoy who is stealing submarine warfare secrets.
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Oath of Honor
by Lynette Eason
Police officer Isabelle St. John works with Detective Ryan Marshall to solve the murder of her partner, but when her investigation uncovers possible corrupt cops, she may have to choose between justice and loyalty to her law-enforcement family.
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Operator Down
by Brad Taylor
Veteran operator Pike Logan and his team embark on a high-risk search for an undercover Mossad agent, only to stumble on a ruthless military coup in Africa, a situation that tests his Taskforce loyalties.
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Robicheaux
by James Lee Burke
While investigating a homicide, Dave Robicheaux, who is struggling with PTSD, alcoholism, and the loss of his wife, suspects he may have been the killer and endeavors to clear his name and make sense of the killing.
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Scones and Scoundrels
by Molly MacRae
When an American visitor staying at the B&B above Yon Bonnie Books is found dead and a recently returned native of Inversgail, Daphne Wood, dies from a poisoned scone shortly afterward, Janet and her partners investigate to save the reputation of their business.
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This Is What Happened
by Mick Herron
Living alone in a month-to-month London sublet, a woman with virtually no friends or family is recruited by MI5 to help thwart an international plot that puts all of Great Britain at risk.
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A Treacherous Curse
by Deanna Raybourn
When the enigmatic Stoker's former expedition partner goes missing from an archaeological dig with a priceless Egyptian diadem, Victorian adventurer Veronica Speedwell investigates mishaps that have plagued the expedition as well as malevolent enemies that threaten Stoker's career.
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Unbound
by Stuart Woods
Stone Barrington is pulled into a lethal game of vengeance when an old buddy, CIA operative-turned film producer Teddy, seeks revenge on a man who recently helped to cover up a crime that was personal to Teddy.
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The Wife
by Alafair Burke
Marrying an economics professor she met while catering an East Hampton dinner party, Angela finds her tragic past coming under scrutiny at the same time she is asked to defend her husband against wrongful accusations.
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The Woman in the Window
by A. J. Finn
Anna Fox, an agoraphobic recluse, languishes in her New York City home drinking wine and spying on her neighbors, before witnessing a terrible crime through her window that exposes her secrets and raises questions about her perceptions of reality.
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About That Kiss
by Jill Shalvis
Forced to contact a seductive fixer who never called her after a passionate first kiss, a woman desperate to recover a precious stolen object makes surprising discoveries that compel both to give their relationship a chance.
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Between Me and You
by Allison Winn Scotch
A screenwriter and an actress in New York City fall in love, but must deal with the fallout of unequal amounts of ambition and fame in their careers.
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A Devil in Scotland
by Suzanne Enoch
Widow Rebecca Sanderson, in order to protect her young daughter, is forced to accept a marriage proposal from a Duke until her late husband’s brother, Callum MacCreath, returns from America and sweeps her off her feet.
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Promise Not to Tell
by Jayne Ann Krentz
Having spent years battling demons stemming from her childhood in a cult and a fire that ended her mother's life, a Seattle gallery owner is devastated when one of her artists commits suicide after sending her a mysterious picture that compels her to team up with a fellow cult survivor, a private investigator who uncovers the work of a determined killer.
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Blood Fury
by J. R. Ward
This sexy paranormal romance novel set in the world of the Black Dagger Brotherhood tells the story of two couples—both fighting to find love in the midst of the war with the Lessening Society.
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Dark in Death
by J. D. Robb
When a young woman is brutally murdered while attending a screening of Psycho at Times Square, Eve Dallas is contacted by a writer of crime fiction who recognizes the case, and other recent killings, from storylines in her books.
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Iron Gold
by Pierce Brown
A first entry in a new trilogy set 10 years after the events of Morning Star finds Darrow and the Rising battling the remaining Gold loyalist forces in order to abolish the color-coded caste system only to be challenged by dangerous new enemies.
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Senlin Ascends
by Josiah Bancroft
The Tower of Babel is the greatest marvel in the world and immense as a mountain. Soon after arriving for his honeymoon at the Tower, mild-mannered headmaster of a small village school, Thomas Senlin, gets separated from his wife, Marya, in the overwhelming swarm of tourists, residents and miscreants. Senlin is determined to find Marya, but to do so this quiet man of letters must become a man of action.
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