New Fiction Arrivals at MPL
August 2022
 
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Here are our new arrivals, click the title to view in our catalog:
Black Dog
by Stuart Woods

"In this exhilarating new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods, Stone Barrington is back and better than ever"

also available in audio
The Challenge
by Danielle Steel

When their children go missing, a group of parents, desperate to hear word that theyve been found, a media frenzy ensures, heightening tensions and testing some already fragile relationships, forcing them all to reconsider what they once held dear.
Girl, Forgotten
by Karin Slaughter

Forty years after Emily Vaughn was murdered on her prom night, US Marshal Andrea Oliver picks up the cold case to find justice in the follow-up to the New York Times best-selling novel Pieces of Her.

also available in audio 



 
The Hunt : A Decker/Lazarus Novel
by Faye Kellerman

When the biological mother of Peter and his wife Rinas foster son is brutally beaten and her children taken, Peter, Rina and Gabes biological father, a former hitman-turned-millionaire, race against time to rescue them, ending in an explosive confrontation from which no one will emerge unscathed.

also available in audio
The Family Remains
by Lisa Jewell

In this sequel to the best-selling The Family Upstairs, two women are faced with complicated mysteries that are linked to a cold case that left three people dead in a Chelsea mansion 30 years ago.

also available in audio
Haven : a novel
by Emma Donoghue

Two monks leave seventh-century Ireland in a boat searching for an isolated spot to found a new monastery, but instead drift out to sea and wind up on a bare, steep island inhabited by thousands of birds. 100,000 first printing.
Reckoning 
by Catherine Coulter

Agent Savich is called in to help a commonwealth attorney put the big-time criminal responsible for her parents deaths behind bars, while Agent Sherlock is assigned to protect a 12-year-old piano prodigyand granddaughter of a powerful crime boss from would-be kidnappers. 
Overkill
by Sandra Brown

When Eban, the scion of a wealthy North Carolina family who brutally attacked Rebecca Pratt, leaving her on life support, gets an early release from prison, brilliant state prosecutor Kate Lennon asks former Super Bowl MVP quarterbackand Rebeccas ex-husbandto make an impossible decision for justice.

also available in audio
Black Hamptons
by Carl Weber

When a piece of land comes up for sale in this exclusive community, it sparks a war between the Brittons and the Johnsons. Its old money versus new money, and neither family seems willing to compromise. Will the tension between them shatter any hopes of a peaceful summer?
The Apple Creek Announcement
by Wanda E. Brunstetter

Andrea's world implodes when she is told she was adopted. What will an Amish quilt and an advice column do to unlock the secrets of her past?
Carrie Soto Is Back
by Taylor Jenkins Reid

A retired tennis champion comes out of retirement at age 37 after watching a young phenom beat her long-standing record at the 1994 US Open in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Malibu Rising.

also available in audio
The Ninth Month
by James Patterson

Landing in the hospital where it is revealed she is pregnant, successful marketing executive Emily Atkinson, as women in her wealthy social circles go missing, finds her pregnancy becoming decidedly high-risk as a faceless enemy follows her every move.

also available in audio
Tick Tock
by Fern Michaels

In a thrilling new story of female empowerment, adventure and vigilante justice from a best-selling author, The Sisterhood reunites to avenge an attack against one of their own.
Dark Music
by David Lagercrantz

A street-smart Swedish police officer seeks help from a renowned authority on interrogation techniques to help solve the case of a murdered Afghani asylum-seeker in the new thriller from the author of The Girl in the Spider's Web.
Fox Creek
by William Kent Krueger

Cork O'Conner tries to find his wife who had accompanied a mysterious stranger on a visit the ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux before a group of mercenaries can in the latest novel of the series following Desolation Mountain.
The Blame Game
by Sandie Jones

A psychologist specializing in domestic abuse, Naomi, after her clients file goes missing, wonders if her own dark past is coming back to haunt her and if her clients arent the only ones in danger.
The Ink Black Heart
by Robert Galbraith

This sixth novel in the highly acclaimed, internationally best-selling series finds Cormoran and Robin ensnared in yet another case filled with twists and turns. 

also available in audio
The Housekeeper
by Joy Fielding

Hiring a housekeeper named Elyse to help care for her father and his wife Audrey, who has Parkinsons, successful real estate agent Jodi Bishop soon discovers that the attractive 60-something widow is attempting to take over their lives when Audreys condition rapidly worsens.
Quicksand
by Janet Dailey

Forced to trust Brock Tolman, the rancher who once swindled her father in a land deal, Tess Champion, working to save her familys ranch from foreclosure, tries to deny the attraction between them, especially when they are stranded together and the truth of their relationship comes out.
A Dark and Stormy Tea
by Laura Childs

After witnessing the murder of her friend Lois' daughter, tea shop owner and amateur sleuth Theodosia Browning investigates and is surprised when so many suspects turn up in the latest addition to the long-running series, following Twisted Tea Christmas.
Round Up the Usual Peacocks
by Donna Andrews

While dealing with wedding plans and demanding out-of-town guests, Meg Langslow must help her nephew when a member of his true-crime podcast has a brush with death by tracking down three relatively local cold cases so she can figure who wants them silenced - forever. 
Traitor's Dance : A Sam Capra Novel
by Jeff Abbott

While running his collection of bars and nightclubs around the world and trying to be a good suburban dad, undercover agent Sam Capra must track down the last American traitor, while facing a threat born of long-ago secrets that could change his and his sons lives forever.
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