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New Fiction - December 2020
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The Arctic Fury
by Greer Macallister
Secretly hired by an eccentric Lady Franklin to lead a team of women explorers into the Arctic to recover Captain Sir John Franklin's lost expedition, Virginia Reeve survives a harrowing quest only to find herself on trial for murder.
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The Berlin Girl
by Mandy Robotham
In 1938 Berlin, a fledgling, young reporter and a fellow Londoner put their lives on the line to uncover the unspeakable truth about Germany under Hitler.
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Big Girl, Small Town
by Michelle Gallen
A U.S. debut by an award-winning writer from Ireland follows the experiences of a plucky chip-shop worker whose coming-of-age in the post-Troubles years is upended by abandonment and growing tensions between local Catholics and Protestants.
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A Castaway in Cornwall
by Julie Klassen
Set adrift by the deaths of her parents and left wanting answers, Laura Callaway now lives as an outsider with her uncle and his disapproving wife along a rugged coast known for shipwrecks. Then a man with curious wounds and an odd accent is washed ashore in this intriguing blend of danger and romance.
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The Chicken Sisters
by K. J. Dell'Antonia
A more than three-decade feud between two Kansas families implodes when a daughter who left one of the families to marry into the other brings the story of their fried-chicken competition to the attention of a popular reality show.
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The Dark Sunrise
by Terrence McCauley
As Montana Territory's statehood approaches, U.S. Marshal Aaron Mackey and Deputy Billy Sunday realize crime baron James Grant and his kill-crazy cronies will not stand trial for the suffering they unleashed. But they are not above the law, and Mackey and Sunday will appoint themselves judge, jury and executioners.
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The Fallen Angel
by Tracy Borman
In the gripping conclusion to Tracy Borman’s Stuart-era trilogy, Frances Gorges must face a dangerous new enemy deep within the court of James I.
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The Garden of Promises and Lies
by Paula Brackston
This third installment in the Found Things series finds Xanthe taking responsibility for inadvertently transporting the dangerous Benedict Fairfax to her own time, while learning to use her skills as a spinner to keep her and Flora safe.
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The Mermaid from Jeju
by Sumi Hahn
A talented young deep-sea diver from occupied 1948 Korea’s neighboring Jeju Island visits Mt. Halla for her family’s annual trading trip before her romance with a mountain youth is upended by family tragedy and political turbulence.
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My Name is Anton
by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Realizing that a neighbor is trapped in an abusive marriage, a smitten 18-year-old youth, haunted by his brother’s accidental death, offers the woman shelter and a means to escape.
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The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
by Marie Benedict
Claiming amnesia after going missing for more than a week in late 1926, up-and-coming mystery author Agatha Christie pens a chilling story that brashly implicates her war-hero husband.
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The Opium Prince
by Jasmine Aimaq
Accidentally killing a young Kochi girl while driving through Kabul, an Afghan-American foreign-aid worker is confronted by an opium dealer’s threats, the loss of his marriage and wrenching guilt over the local regime’s indifference.
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Ordesa
by Manuel Vilas
An English-language release of a best-seller from Spain follows a divorced man’s midlife return to the Pyrenees mountain community of his childhood, where he navigates addiction, solitude and the ghosts of his late parents.
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Perestroika in Paris
by Jane Smiley
Coexisting in the lush hidden spaces of Paris until cold weather arrives, an escaped racehorse and her companion, a German shorthaired pointer, forge a bond with a boy living in seclusion with his nonagenarian grandmother in an ivy-covered house.
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A Promise of Ankles
by Alexander McCall Smith
From the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series comes the latest warm and witty adventures of Bertie and his family and friends.
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The River Within
by Karen Powell
An increasingly erratic heir, a smitten young woman and her domineering brother find their lives in 1955 North Yorkshire upended by a friend’s tragic death in this mesmerizing novel of class, obligation and secrecy.
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The Transatlantic Book Club
by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Setting up a transatlantic Skype book club to stay in touch with her recently widowed grandmother on Ireland’s Finfarran Peninsula, Cassie uncovers tragic family secrets that reveal unexpected truths about her grandmother’s marriage.
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The War Widow
by Tara Moss
When her career is sidelined by returning male soldiers, World War II correspondent Billie Walker reopens her late father's private investigation agency, only to be swept up in a dangerous missing-persons case.
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The Art of Violence
by S. J. Rozan
Approached by a paroled amnesiac to determine his guilt or innocence in two new murders, Bill Smith and Lydia Chin investigate the suspect's private and professional art circles to determine why he may have been framed.
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The Blade Between
by Sam J. Miller
Reluctantly visiting his upstate New York hometown when his father falls ill, a restless gay photographer reconnects with two high-school friends who become his allies in a plan to expose the corrupt motives of invasive corporate gentrifiers.
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Blind Vigil
by Matt Coyle
Blinded by a gunshot wound that forces him to reassess his capabilities, Rick Cahill reluctantly agrees to help Moira MacFarlane in a case that unexpectedly spirals into a murder investigation. Latest in the crime series that begins with Yesterday’s Echo.
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Bone Chase
by Weston Ochse
After receiving a mysterious box, an unemployed math teacher is chased by the Six-Fingered Man and the Council of David as he and his girlfriend try to get to the bottom of a 10,000-year-old mystery.
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Death at a Country Mansion
by Louise R. Innes
When overly dramatic opera star Dame Serena Lavante – and her best friend’s mother – is murdered, Daisy Thorne, a hairdresser in Surrey, England, must get to the root of the case with the help of a handsome Detective Inspector.
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Death Comes Hot
by Michael Jecks
In 1556 London, Jack Blackjack has been ordered by one of the city’s most feared executioners to find his long-lost son, which draws him into a face-paced Tudor mystery in which he is an unwitting pawn in a mesh of schemes dreamed up by the most powerful people in England.
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Eddie's Boy
by Thomas Perry
Surviving an attempt on his life, retired mob hit man Michael Shaeffer reflects on his apprenticeship under an elite killer while pursuing his would-be assassins from Australia to the United States to identify who is trying to eliminate him.
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Every Last Secret
by A. R. Torre
When her new friend and neighbor Neena Ryder, a woman anxious to move up in the world, becomes obsessed with her husband, Cat Winthorpe is plunged into a world of temptation, secrets and toxic jealousy that makes her question her desire for a perfect life.
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Fool Me Twice
by Jeffry P. Lindsay
A sequel to Just Watch Me finds thief and disguise artist Riley Wolfe continuing his Robin Hood-inspired crusade against the wealthy elite by orchestrating the theft of a highly-prized Faberge egg.
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Hidden Treasure
by Jane K. Cleland
Beginning renovations on their New Hampshire dream home, Josie and her new husband, Ty, become embroiled in a murder investigation involving a mysterious relic and the disappearance of the property’s previous owner.
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Heather and Homicide
by Molly MacRae
The new novel in the acclaimed Highland Bookshop mystery series finds a true-crime author murdered in the charming seacoast town of Inversgail; can the women of Yon Bonnie Books discover the killer's identity before he or she strikes again?
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Hush-Hush
by Stuart Woods
New York City cop turned Manhattan law firm rainmaker, Stone Barrington, lands in hot water in a highly anticipated latest installment in the best-selling series.
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Lazarus
by Lars Kepler
Investigating the murder spree of a killer who is targeting Europe’s most infamous criminals, Detective Joona Linna connects two of the victims before discovering she is following a ghost from her own past.
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Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder
by T. A. Willberg
After a filing assistant at Miss Brickett’s Investigations & Inquiries is murdered, her colleague and inquirer-in-training is framed for the crime and must sort through hidden alliances and WWII secrets to clear her name. Equal parts mystery and whimsical fantasy.
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Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem
by Gary Phillips
Adventurer Matthew Henson uses all the survival skills he learned while being the first black man to reach the North Pole in an effort to retrieve the daughter of a controversial spiritual leader whose adult daughter has been kidnapped.
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Murder at Veronica’s Diner
by J. D. Griffo
The Ferrara Family find murder on the menu at Victoria’s Diner when their waitress is murdered and everyone is a suspect.
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Murder is a Must
by Marty Wingate
Busily preparing for an exhibit at Middlebank House, curator Hayley Burke hires her difficult former boss, Oona Atherton, to help before discovering a one-page letter alluding to a priceless book lost somewhere in the First Edition Library.
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NYPD Red 6
by James Patterson
Detective Kylie MacDonald of NYPD Red is submerged in a PR nightmare when reality star Erin Easton is kidnapped from her wedding reception and every A-lister on the guest list becomes a target of suspicion – or just a target.
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Olive Bright, Pigeoneer
by Stephanie Graves
Tending her veterinarian father’s Hertfordshire racing pigeons while waiting for her best friend to return from World War II, Olive is recruited into the Baker Street covert branch of British Intelligence before investigating the murder of a local busybody.
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Open House
by Katie Sise
An art student’s unsolved disappearance from a bucolic university river town becomes violently connected to an assault crime 10 years later in ways that expose the obsessions of an unhinged sibling, a trio of friends and a beloved teacher.
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The Outcast Girls
by Alys Clare
Lily Raynor goes undercover in a girls’ boarding school in 1881 London to investigate runaway pupils and their connection to a shadowy group of powerful men, in the second novel of the series following The Woman Who Spoke to Spirits.
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Poppy Redfern and the Fatal Flyers
by Tessa Arlen
A sequel to Poppy Redfern and the Midnight Murders finds Poppy’s first solo script project, a 10-minute short film about the Attagirls pilots of World War II, upended by the suspicious deaths of two women fighters.
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Pretty Little Wife
by Darby Kane
Lila Ridgefield lives in an idyllic college town, but not everything is what it seems. A student vanished months ago and now Lila's husband, Aaron, is also missing. The police are desperate, while Lila is puzzled -- why isn't Aaron's body where she left it?
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Red Hands
by Christopher Golden
Ben Walker, an expert in weird phenomena is asked by the Global Science Research Coalition to locate a woman who has been the victim of a devastating bioweapon that causes every person she touches to drop dead.
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Shed No Tears
by Caz Frear
While investigating a case, Detective Constable Cat Kinsella and her partner Luigi Parnell discover a connection to a notorious serial killer who was apprehended years earlier.
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Snowdrift
by Helene Tursten
Swedish Detective Inspector Embla Nyström puts her life on the line when a new lead breaks in the unsolved disappearance of her best friend, a cold case that is further complicated by the murder of a notorious gang member.
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A Spy in the Struggle
by Aya De Leon
The award-winning author follows the FBI recruitment of a savvy young lawyer who uses the wits of her impoverished youth to infiltrate an extremist activist group that is being exploited by a biotech company.
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Take It Back
by Kia Abdullah
Leaving her high-profile law position for a job at a crisis center, Zara Kaleel becomes involved in the case of a deformed teenage girl who accuses four boys in her class of rape, tearing the community apart.
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To Fetch a Felon
by Jennifer Hawkins
Leaving London and her life of high finance behind, Emma and her talking corgi Oliver move to an idyllic village in Cornwall where she hopes to open a tea shop but instead finds herself steeped in a mystery when her disagreeable landlord winds up dead.
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Violent Peace: The War with China
by David Poyer
Dan Lenson motorcycles across a war-torn America in search of his missing daughter, while his wife negotiates the tenuous reunification of Taiwan with China and a young case officer confronts a devastating choice.
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Watch Her
by Edwin Hill
Investigating a suspicious burglary and the disappearances of Prescott University alumni, Harvard librarian Hester Thursby and Detective Angela White uncover financial transgressions, rumors of infidelity and a decades-old tragedy.
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A Wicked Yarn
by Emmie Caldwell
When she gets tangled up in the murder of her best friend Belinda’s ex-husband, knitting enthusiast Lia Geiger must unravel the clues to prove Belinda’s innocence with the help of the Ninth Street Knitters.
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Wrong Alibi
by Christina Dodd
Sentenced to life in prison for a murder she did not commit, 18-year-old Evelyn escapes and works under an alias at a wilderness camp, where her chance at revenge is complicated by a former employer’s mysterious connections.
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How to Catch a Queen
by Alyssa Cole
After marrying the newly-crowned King Sanyu of Njaza, Shanti Mohapi soon discovers that royal life is not what she expected and goes on the run when turmoil erupts in their kingdom and marriage.
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How To Fail at Flirting
by Denise Williams
Challenged by her friends to start enjoying her life when her university department is cut, a Type-A overachiever embarks on a daring to-do list that involves leaving an abusive ex and pursuing a career-risking fling with a charming stranger.
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Layla
by Colleen Hoover
When the personality of the woman he loves is changed by the trauma of a severe accident, Leeds takes her to the bed-and-breakfast where they first met, before her escalating behavior complicates his ability to help another guest.
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Second Chance on Cypress Lane
by Reese Ryan
Heading home after a romance gone wrong shatters her dreams of getting a weekend anchor job, former rising star Dakota Jones plots her comeback while actively avoiding the man who once broke her heart.
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When a Rogue Meets His Match
by Elizabeth Hoyt
When he offers the Duke of Windemere’s niece, Messalina Greycourt, a devil’s bargain to avoid an arranged marriage, Gideon Hawthorne, who has performed the Duke’s dirty work for years, finally has the chance to win her affections.
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D: A Tale of Two Worlds
by Michel Faber
Baffled by the sudden disappearance of the letter D, a young woman is summoned to the home of a former history teacher before arriving in an enslaved, wintry land where free thinking is under threat.
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Hollow Empire
by Sam Hawke
When the deadly siege of Silasta awakens malevolent ancient spirits, Jovan and Kalina find the limits of their skills tested by their efforts to protect the city-state from magical assassins and treacherous politicians.
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We Hear Voices
by Evie Green
A mother who initially disregards her recovering son’s imaginary friend in their pandemic-stricken world becomes concerned when her son’s alter-ego becomes dominant and compels the boy to engage in increasingly violent behavior.
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A Christmas Resolution
by Anne Perry
A new girlfriend’s credibility is brought into question when she raises suspicions about a close friend’s fiancé, compelling a smitten Detective John Hooper to uncover the truth.
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The Christmas Table
by Donna VanLiere
While preparing for her baby’s arrival, Lauren Mabrey, after purchasing an antique table, finds a stack of recipe cards on which personal notes have been written from a mother to her daughter, bringing about a connection that she never expected.
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A MacCallister Christmas
by William W. Johnstone
Christmas is approaching and Duff MacCallister expects visitors on his Sky Meadow Ranch this holiday season. But before any of his relatives arrive, Duff runs afoul of four outlaw brothers who have come to Chugwater to rob the bank.
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One Bright Christmas
by Katherine Spencer
Holiday cheer can’t be stopped this Christmas season in this next novel by the best-selling author of the Angel Island series.
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