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New Fiction - January 2020
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All the Ways We Said Goodbye
by Beatriz Williams
An heiress, a Resistance fighter and a widow find their lives intertwined by their wartime experiences and the turbulent 1960s when they seek refuge at Paris’ legendary Ritz Hotel.
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Almost Just Friends
by Jill Shalvis
Anticipating well-earned freedom after raising her siblings, a tough woman forges an unexpected bond with an enigmatic stranger before a massive storm and demons from the past throw everything she believes into question.
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American Dirt
by Jeanine Cummins
Selling two favorite books to an unexpectedly erudite drug-cartel boss, a bookstore manager is forced to flee Mexico in the wake of her journalist husband’s tell-all profile and finds her family among thousands of migrants seeking hope in America.
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Big Lies in a Small Town
by Diane Chamberlain
Imprisoned for a crime she did not commit, an artist is offered a chance to complete her remaining time by restoring a post office mural in a sleepy Southern town where another artist confronted violent prejudice decades earlier.
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Cartier's Hope
by M. J. Rose
Determined to make her mark in Gilded Age New York, a woman journalist investigates rumors and curses swirling around Pierre Cartier’s recently acquired Hope Diamond, before attracting the attention of the blackmailer behind her father’s death.
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Check in at the Pine Away Motel
by Katarina Bivald
The best-selling author of The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend presents the story of a ghost who would help her friends heal and move on by reconnecting them with memories from their senior year of high school.
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The Country Guesthouse
by Robyn Carr
A woman unexpectedly raising her sister’s son and a man mourning his own child discover healing and community support through their mutual love of the orphaned boy.
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Dear Edward
by Ann Napolitano
A 12-year-old lone survivor of a plane crash investigates the stories of his less-fortunate fellow passengers before making a profound discovery about his life purpose in the face of transcendent losses.
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Followers
by Megan Angelo
Decades after an ambitious writer and her A-list wannabe roommate abandon their ethics for social-media stardom, a government-appointed celebrity discovers a shattering secret from her past that her corporate sponsors would gladly exploit.
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The Girls With No Names
by Serena Burdick
In 1910s New York City, a girl goes missing and her younger sister hatches an audacious plan to be admitted to the House of Mercy, a home for wayward girls, risking everything to bring her older sister home.
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Heart of Junk
by Luke Geddes
Eccentric merchants at a Kansas antique mall fervently prepare for a visit by their favorite television reality stars, only to become implicated in the kidnapping of a toddler beauty-pageant princess.
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Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick
by Zora Neale Hurston
Featuring eight lesser-known stories, a collection of Harlem Renaissance tales by the revered folklorist and author of Their Eyes Were Watching God explores subjects ranging from class and migration to racism and sexism.
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House on Endless Waters
by Emunah Elon
Returning to his birthplace in Amsterdam, a successful writer uncovers heartbreaking secrets about his Dutch-Jewish family’s wartime experiences.
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Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu
A stereotyped character actor stumbles into the spotlight before uncovering surprising links between his family and the secret history of Chinatown.
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Kingdomtide
by Rye Curtis
Cloris Waldrip, a 72-year-old sole survivor of a plane crash, is lost and alone in the unforgiving wilderness of Montana’s rugged Bitterroot Range, exposed to the elements with no tools beyond her wits and ingenuity, as Debra Lewis, a park ranger struggling with addiction and a recent divorce, is galvanized by her mission to find and rescue Cloris.
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Lady Clementine
by Marie Benedict
The best-selling author of The Only Woman in the Room presents a historical tale inspired by the life of Clementine Churchill that traces her unflinching role in protecting the life and wartime agendas of her husband, Winston Churchill.
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Light Changes Everything
by Nancy E. Turner
The best-selling author of These Is My Words returns to the world of Sarah Agnes Prine through the wide-eyes of her irrepressible young niece, Mary Pearl.
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Little Gods
by Meng Jin
A new novel explores the complex web of grief, memory, time, physics, history and selfhood in the immigrant experience, and the complicated bond between daughters and mothers.
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A Long Petal of the Sea
by Isabel Allende
Sponsored by the poet Pablo Neruda to flee the violence of the Spanish Civil War, a pregnant widow and an army doctor unite in an arranged marriage only to be swept up by the early days of World War II.
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The Moonshiner's Daughter
by Donna Everhart
1960s North Carolina. Sixteen-year-old Jessie Sasser resents her father's insistence that moonshining runs in her veins but her plan to destroy the stills brings unexpected revelations about old grudges and her own strengths.
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Moral Compass
by Danielle Steel
The students at an elite private school that has admitted females for the first time navigate painful secrets, family dynamics and a prying media in the aftermath of a Halloween event that is upended by a classmate’s alcohol poisoning.
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Remembrance
by Rita Woods
Looks at present-day Ohio, 1791 Haiti, and 1857 New Orleans, in which house girl Margot is sold just before her 18th birthday and her promised freedom, and, desperate, she escapes and tries to find Remembrance, a rumored stop on the Underground Railroad.
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Run Me to Earth
by Paul Yoon
Three children orphaned in 1960s Laos meet a dedicated doctor who enlists them as motorcycle couriers in his effort to rescue civilians and find medical supplies.
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The Secret Guests
by Benjamin Black
The secret World War II relocation of the princesses Elizabeth and Margaret to an old estate in Ireland becomes subject to the devastations of the Blitz, the resentments of grieving townspeople and suspicions about the girls’ true identities.
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St. Francis Society for Wayward Pets
by Annie England Noblin
When down-and-out Maeve Stephens arrives at an inherited house, she is greeted by a cheerful bulldog on her front porch and discovers a set of friends at the St. Francis Society for Wayward Pets, where women knit sweaters for the dogs and cats in their care.
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The Truants
by Kate Weinberg
Jess Walker has come to a concrete campus under the flat grey skies of East Anglia for one reason: To be taught by the mesmerizing and rebellious Dr. Lorna Clay, whose seminars soon transform Jess’ thinking on life, love and Agatha Christie.
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Westering Women
by Sandra Dallas
Joining other mail-order brides on a dangerous wagon journey to the gold mines of 1852 Chicago, a seamstress with painful secrets discovers strengths she did not know she possessed among a growing sisterhood of fellow women pioneers.
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When We Were Vikings
by Andrew MacDonald
Discovering that her brother has rationalized unethical measures to keep them afloat, rule-driven Zelda follows examples from Viking culture to pursue a legendary life that tests the limits of her courage.
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The Whispers of War
by Julia Kelly
Three friends struggle between their loyalties to England and each other when one of them is threatened with internment by the British government for her German heritage during World War II.
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The Wife and the Widow
by Christian White
On an eerie island town in the middle of winter, two women join forces to uncover the secret life of one’s dead husband and the guilt of the other’s.
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You Were There Too
by Colleen Oakley
When she and her husband move to a small town in Pennsylvania, Mia Graydon encounters the stranger she has been dreaming about for years —who, it turns out, has been dreaming of her, too – and together, determined to understand, they search for answers.
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A Beautiful Crime
by Christopher Bollen
This delicious literary thriller is a twisty story of deception, set in contemporary Venice and featuring a young American couple who have set their sights on a high-stakes con. A treat for both crime-fiction fans and armchair travelers.
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The Better Liar
by Tanen Jones
Desperate to safeguard a much-needed inheritance that is dependent on the legacy of a long-estranged runaway sibling, Leslie orchestrates a reckless bargain with an imposter who hides her own dangerous secrets.
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The Blaze
by Chad Dundas
One man knows the connection between two extraordinary acts of arson, 15 years apart, in his Montana hometown—if only he could remember it.
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The Body Outside the Kremlin
by James L. May
Serving time in the mid-1920s in the notorious Solovetsky prison labor camp, located on an island that used to be a monastery, a 20-year-old student is pressed to help investigate the murder of a fellow prisoner with whom he was acquainted
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Cleaning the Gold
by Karin Slaughter
Going undercover for an assignment at Fort Knox to solve a 22-year-old murder, Will Trent investigates chief suspect Jack Reacher, who would bring down a dangerous criminal ring at the heart of America’s military.
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Dark Truths
by A. J. Cross
Criminologist Will Traynor is brought in to assist the police on a baffling murder investigation when a shocking discovery reveals links to a past crime. First in a gripping new forensic mystery series.
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The Decent Inn of Death
by Rennie Airth
Snowed in at a country manor, former Scotland Yard inspectors John Madden and Angus Sinclair find themselves trapped in the company of a murderer.
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A Dredging in Swann
by Tim Garvin
Two investigations start at the same time in Swann County, North Carolina, one by the FBI, the other by the sheriff. The feds want to know who stole three Stinger missiles during a helicopter crash. The sheriff wants to know who hanged a black ex-con in a well.
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A Good Man
by Ani Katz
Thomas Martin, a devoted family man who has all the trappings of an enviable life, is driven to unspeakable acts, changing his life forever and causing him to question whether or not he really is a good man.
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Hi Five
by Joe Ide
The latest entry in the best-selling series that includes, Righteous and Wrecked, finds genius private investigator Isaiah Quintabe’s efforts to build a quiet life with Grace challenged by unexpected new threats.
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Hindsight
by Iris Johansen
Investigating the baffling murders of two staff members at a school for the blind, investigator Kendra Michaels draws on her experience with a former sight disability to uncover a terrifying conspiracy.
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The Hollows
by Jess Montgomery
A sequel to The Widows finds newly-elected sheriff Lily Ross investigating ghost sightings in Moonvale Hollow and the death of a mysterious woman who was killed while walking along a railroad shortcut beneath the Appalachians.
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House on Fire
by Joseph Finder
Eagerly accepting a job investigating whistleblower claims about the manufacturer of an opioid that contributed to an army buddy’s death, Nick Heller uncovers dangerous secrets implicating a powerful family.
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Hunter Killer
by Brad Taylor
When a suspicious attack ends a friend’s life in a lawless region of South America, Pike Logan teams up with Jennifer Cahill to investigate a crew of Russian assassins that may be targeting Taskforce members.
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An Incantation of Cats
by Clea Simon
After a man turns up dead, a fledgling witch detective uses her three magical cats to determine who is growing a rare, poisonous root that appears and disappears, in the second novel of the series.
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Into the Fire
by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
Helping a murder victim’s cousin who is being violently pursued for a mysterious key, Nowhere Man Evan Smoak eliminates a series of dangerous threats before discovering that he is personally targeted.
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The Janes
by Louisa Luna
Private investigator Alice Vega and her partner, Cap, search for clues in the murders of two unidentified young women who might be victims of a San Diego sex-trafficking ring.
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Long Bright River
by Liz Moore
A policewoman races to find her missing sister, a homeless addict, amid a vicious killing spree in a Philadelphia neighborhood, in a story that alternates between the investigation and memories of their shared childhood.
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Lost
by James Patterson
Tasked with combating international crime, Detective Tom Moon searches for two Russian nationals who have built a vast, powerful European crime syndicate that reaches into Miami.
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Lost Hills
by Lee Goldberg
Placed in the spotlight for a high-profile arrest, rookie detective Eve Ronin finds she needs to prove herself to resentful colleagues even while facing mounting pressure from the media and her bosses to solve a brutal murder. First in a new series.
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The Missing American
by Kwei Quartey
Turning private detective when her ambition to be a police officer is dashed, Emma Djan teams up with a first client to search for a man whose disappearance is linked to the email scams and fetish priests of Ghana.
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Mr. Nobody
by Catherine Steadman
Treating a man found on the beach with no memory of his identity, a neuropsychologist who would hide her own past is confronted by her patient’s mysterious knowledge of her secrets.
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Murder at the Capitol
by C. M. Gleason
When a man is found dead in the aftermath of the Independence Day festivities in 1861 Washington, D.C., presidential confidante Adam Quinn finds his investigation complicated by a Southern sympathizer’s female spy network.
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No Fixed Line
by Dana Stabenow
When a New Year’s Eve blizzard blocks access to the site of a plane crash in the Quilak mountains, former trooper Jim Chopin struggles to rescue two child survivors, before Kate Shugak receives an unwelcome accusation from beyond the grave.
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The Poison Garden
by Alex Marwood
A new novel focuses on insidious secrets and chilling revelations surrounding a mysterious cult.
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The River Murders
by James Patterson
A bind-up of three suspenseful tales includes the previously-released Hidden and Malicious as well as the new thriller, Malevolent, in which private investigator Mitchum desperately hunts the perpetrator of attacks against his loved ones.
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Spitfire
by M. Huie
Hired by the notorious Ian Fleming to find the World War II traitor behind the execution of the man she loved, former spy Livy Nash finds the case complicated by shifting alliances and new intelligence strategies.
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There's a Murder Afoot
by Vicki Delany
Traveling to London with her friends to attend a Sherlock Holmes convention, Gemma Doyle is astonished by a surprise encounter with an in-law who disappeared decades earlier after stealing a valuable painting.
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Too Close to Home
by Andrew Grant
A sequel to Invisible finds intelligence agent-turned-courthouse janitor Paul McGrath uncovering a shocking connection between a file of missing evidence and unwelcome truths about the mother he lost as a child.
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Treason
by Stuart Woods
Helping his close friend discretely identify and remove a destructive traitor hiding within a classified agency, Stone Barrington is embroiled in an audacious plot that threatens to reveal confidential intelligence.
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When You See Me
by Lisa Gardner
FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy and Sergeant Detective DD Warren join forces with Flora Dane and true-crime savant Keith Edgar to investigate the secrets of a deceased serial killer.
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The Wild One
by Nicholas Petrie
Traumatized war veteran Peter Ash tracks a murderer from a criminal family through the icy landscapes of Reykjavik, where he is confronted by government officials who would block his investigation.
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Winter of Despair
by Cora Harrison
In November of 1853, when one of his brother Charley’s artist friends is found brutally murdered, Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens set out to uncover the truth—especially when Charley falls under suspicion.
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The Woman in the Veil
by Laura Joh Rowland
Investigating a brutal murder attempt on a woman in 1890 London, crime-scene photographer Sarah Bain and her friends are baffled when three different families claim the victim, who awakens without a memory of her identity.
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The Arrangement
by Sylvia Day
Three powerhouse romance writers offer a trio of steamy historical tales including an aristocratic couple who attempt to prove they are an ill-suited match and the eldest daughter of an impoverished clan who is married off to a rogue.
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Country Strong
by Linda Lael Miller
When Shallie Fletcher, a woman from his past, returns to Painted Pony Creek in need of his help in learning how to train horses, Cord Hollister, agreeing to help her for two weeks, finds himself drawn to her and wanting her to stay—forever.
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Lean on Me
by Pat Simmons
When her well-ordered life is upended by the caregiving needs of her Alzheimer’s patient aunt, Tabitha clashes with a neighbor, Marcus, a man of faith who hires former inmates to staff his family’s cleaning business.
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The Prince of Broadway
by Joanna Shupe
Using each other for their own means, Clayton Madden, the owner of the city’s most exclusive casino, and heiress Florence Greene find their mutually beneficial relationship taking a romantic turn, which forces both their hands.
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A Beginning at the End
by Mike Chen
Four survivors try to rebuild their personal lives six years after a global pandemic brings about a literal apocalypse.
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Come Tumbling Down
by Seanan McGuire
After leaving with the murdered body of her deranged sister, Jack discovers that something has gone very wrong upon her return to Eleanor West’s School for Wayward Children, in the fifth novel of the series.
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The Vanished Birds
by Simon Jimenez
An out-of-time space traveler who only aged months while decades passed back home navigates the loss of everyone she knew before finding new purpose caring for a mysterious broken child who communicates through a wooden flute.
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The Vanishing
by Jayne Ann Krentz
Decades after a mysterious explosion causes the members of their community to develop strange otherworldly symptoms, local investigator Cat teams up with an enigmatic scientist to stop a killer who may be behind a partner’s disappearance.
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