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February 2023 New Fiction Releases
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The Applicant
by Nazli Koca
In 2017 Berlin, after losing her student visa, Turkish 20-something Leyla, waiting for the German court's verdict on her future, begins to parse her unresolved past and untenable present as she decides whether to relinquish her creative dreams by marrying a conservative man or return to Turkey to her mother and sister.
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An Autobiography of Skin
by Lakiesha Carr
Interconnected generations of Southern black women demonstrate how their experiences are carried inside the body when a new mother experiences a devastating postpartum depression and a daughter returns home to fight the ghosts of her past.
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Big Swiss
by Jen Beagin
A woman in upstate New York who works transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach becomes infatuated with one of his clients, a repressed married woman from Switzerland who has a refreshing attitude towards trauma.
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Black Candle Women
by Diane Marie Brown
Follows four generations of the Montrose family, who have been living with a curse that leaves any person they fall in love with dead, stemming back to a Voodoo sorceress in 1950s New Orleans' French Quarter.
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Brutes
by Dizz Tate
A group of young teenage girls discover a dark secret about their fame-hungry Florida town that will haunt them for the rest of their lives when their friend, the local preacher's daughter, Sammy, goes missing.
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The City Between the Bridges
by Niklas Nattoch Dag
In 1794 Stockholm, Jean Mickel Cardell, the one-armed watchman, investigates the death of Eric Three Roses' beautiful wife on their wedding night at the behest of the girl's mother, who is desperate for justice.
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Code Name Sapphire
by Pam Jenoff
Inspired by true events, follows the story of a female World War II resistance fighter who risks her life and secret organization to save her family in the new novel from the best-selling author of The Lost Girls of Paris.
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A Country you Can Leave
by Asale Angel-Ajani
A young woman navigates what it means to be the Black, biracial daughter of a fiery, Russian mother when the pair find themselves homeless again and at a mobile home park in the California desert.
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The Crane Husband
by Kelly Regan Barnhill
A best-selling author offers a raw, powerful story of love, sacrifice, and family.
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Empty Theatre
by Jac Jemc
A wildly over-the-top social satire reimagines the lives of royal cousins King Ludwig II and Empress Sisi.
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Endpapers
by Jennifer Savran
Dawn Levit, a bookbinder conservationist working at the Met in 2003 and dealing with her gender identity discovers a love letter hidden in the endpapers of a 1950's lesbian pulp novel and tries to track down the author.
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Essex Dogs
by Dan Jones
A group of unruly archers and men-at-arms land on the beaches of Normandy in 1346 to fight for the throne in the fiction debut of the best-selling New York Times historian behind Powers and Thrones.
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Gone Like Yesterday
by Janelle M. Williams
Zahra, a young black woman who can hear the voices of her ancestors singing to her through moths, teams up with Sammie, an outspoken Trini-American teenager who can also hear them, as the pair search for Zahra's missing brother.
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Homestead
by Melinda Moustakis
From National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and Flannery O'Connor Award comes a debut novel set in 1950s Alaska about the turbulent marriage of two unlikely homesteaders.
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The House of Eve
by Sadeqa Johnson
From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelphia and Washington, DC, that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother, and how much one is willing to sacrifice to achieve her greatest goal.
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If a Poem Could Live and Breathe
by Mary Calvi
The author of Dear George, Dear Mary provides a fact-based romantic speculative novel about Teddy Roosevelt's first love.
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I Have Some Questions For You
by Rebecca Makkai
A successful film professor returns to teach at her alma mater and becomes determined to investigate a closed murder case in the new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers.
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The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3
by Kira I͡Armysh
Arrested at a Moscow anti-corruption rally and sentenced to a 10-day stretch at a special detention center, Anya shares a cell with five other women from all walks of life, and, plagued by strange nightmarish visions, discovers her cellmates may not be as ordinary as they seem.
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The Librarian of Burned Books
by Brianna Labuskes
Set against the backdrop of World War II, this unforgettable novel, inspired by the true story of the Council of Books in Wartime, follows three women whose fates become intertwined by their belief in the power and goodness in the written word to triumph over the very darkest moments of war.
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Looking For Jane
by Heather Marshall
A woman discovers a mysterious letter with a life-shattering confession, and her search for the recipient leads her back to the 1970s when a group of brave women operated an illegal, underground abortion network in Toronto simply called Jane.
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The Love Scribe
by Amy Meyerson
While trying to harness her extraordinary gift, the ability to make others fall in love, Alice is summoned to the estate of the reclusive Madeline Alger and her mysterious library where she is faced with her most challenging assignment yet—one that forces her to confront her own guarded heart.
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The Maltese Iguana
by Tim Dorsey
When the only witness to a CIA revenge mission gone wrong is forced to flee his home country, he arrives in the Florida Keys where he runs into the Sunshine State's most lovable serial killer, Serge A. Storms, and his convoy of hardcore partiers.
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Marvelous
by Molly Greeley
Set in the French royal court of Catherine de Medici during the Renaissance, this novel follows Pedro Gonsalvus, an unusual man who, delivered by a slave broker into France's royal court, becomes the favorite of the queen who is determined to find him a bride.
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My Last Innocent Year
by Daisy Alpert Florin
A debut novel about a nonconsensual sexual encounter that propels one woman's final semester at an elite New England college into controversy and chaos—and into an ill-advised affair with a married professor.
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My Nemesis
by Charmaine Craig
This tense and thought-provoking exploration of an intellectual affair and its impact on two couples follows successful writer Tessa, who forms a connection with Charlie a philosopher and scholar, as she deals with the consequences of her actions against Charlie's traditional and subservient wife.
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On the Savage Side
by Tiffany Mcdaniel
When the bodies of six women are found in their rural Ohio town, twins sisters Arcade and Daffodil are forced to reckon with the past while the killer circles closer, and Arcade finds her promise to keep herself and her sister safe becoming increasingly desperate.
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Playhouse
by Richard Bausch
As renovations begin at the Shakespeare Theater of Memphis, a colorful cast of characters gather together for the fall production of King Lear, but soon tensions mount onstage and off, building toward breaking point that places the very fate of the theater itself on the line.
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The Porcelain Moon
by Janie Chang
In 1918 France, in the final days of the First World War, Pauline Deng, a young Chinese woman escaping an arranged marriage, is taken in by secretive Camille Roussel and becomes bound to this woman forever when they are forced to make a terrible decision.
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The Red Balcony
by Jonathan Wilson
In 1933 Palestine, Ivor Castle, while preparing for the trial of two men accused of murdering a leader of the Jewish community, falls deeply in love with an artist who may be a key witness and learns the hard way about the violence simmering just beneath the surface of British colonial rule.
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The Shadow of Perseus
by Claire Heywood
This clever and female-centered reimagining of the myth of the great hero Perseus is told through the voices of three women—his mother, Danae; his trophy, Medusa; and his wife, Andromeda—whose viewpoints reveal a man who is not, in fact, a hero at all.
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The Shamshine Blind
by Paz Pardo
In an alternate 2009 where psychopigments colorful chemicals that produce almost any human emotion upon contact are both pharmaceutical cure-alls and popular recreational drugs, Psychopigment Enforcement Agent Kay Curtida, while working on a career-making case, is led to an overdue reckoning with the truth of her own emotions.
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Skull Water
by Heinz Insu Fenkl
An intergenerational coming-of-age novel set in South Korea about friendship, belonging, and displacement.
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A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness
by Jai Chakrabarti
A closeted gay man seeks to have a child with his lover's wife and a mystical agent is sent by a mother to help her son's domestic troubles in collection of short stories.
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Someone Else's Shoes
by Jojo Moyes
When she accidentally takes the wrong gym bag, Sam Kemp tries on a pair of six-inch high Christian Louboutin red crocodile shoes that give her the confidence to change her life, while the shoes' owner tries to cling to her glamorous life after her husband cuts her off.
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A Spell of Good Things
by Ayobami Adebayo
The lives of two Nigerians, Eniola, who spends his days running small errands and begging and Wuraola, an exhausted young doctor from a wealthy family, are intertwined when sudden violence shatters them both.
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Stars in an Italian Sky
by Jill Santopolo
In 2017 New York, Luca and Cassandra, the perfect match for each other, find their blossoming relationship changed forever when a chance meeting between their grandparents reveals a long-buried family secret linked back to two star-crossed lovers in post-World War II Italy.
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Stealing
by Margaret Verble
In the 1950s, strong-willed and shrewd Kit Crockett, ripped from her home and Cherokee family and sent to a religious boarding school, she, along with the other Native students, is stripped of her heritage, force-fed Christian indoctrination and is sexually abused until she decides to fight back.
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Stone Blind
by Natalie Haynes
Attacked by Poseidon in Athene's temple, Medusa, the most beautiful of the Gorgon sisters, is punished and transformed into a monster whose gaze will turn any living creature to stone, forcing her into a life of solitude until Perseus embarks upon a fateful quest.
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The Sun Walks Down
by Fiona McFarlane
A new novel tells the many-voiced, many-sided story of a boy lost in colonial Australia.
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Time's Undoing
by Cheryl A. Head
Searching for answers in the unsolved murder of her great-grandfather decades ago, Meghan Mackenzie, the youngest reporter at the Detroit Free Press, spurred by the urgency of the Black Lives Matter movement, travels to Birmingham where she uncovers secrets that put her own life in danger.
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Up With the Sun
by Thomas Mallon
The longtime acquaintance of a handsome could-have-been star in the 50s and 60s who faded from the spotlight until his sensational murder in 1980, pores over his life, in this part crime story, part showbiz history, part love story about personal demons and dangerously suppressed passions that span 30 years of gay life.
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Varina Palladino's Jersey Italian Love Story
by Terri-Lynne DeFino
When her 92-year-old mother and daughter set in motion an ill-conceived plan to find her a man, widow Varina Paladino, running Paladino's Italian Specialties grocery and keeping her large, loud Jersey Italian family from killing one another, doesn't have time for love, but fate has other plans.
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Victory City
by Salman Rushdie
Giving rise to the great city Bisnaga, a wonder of the world, Pampa Kampana, the vessel for her namesake, the goddess Pampa, who has given her powers beyond her comprehension, attempts, over the centuries, to make good on the task the goddess set for her: women equal agency in a patriarchal world.
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Welcome Me to the Kingdom
by Mai Nardone
Set across the temples, slums and gated estates of late 20th-century Bangkok, three families—a Thai Elvis impersonator and his only daughter, a family abandoned by their white American patriarch and an adopted brotherhood of orphaned boys—search for reinvention in a city unmade by a financial crisis.
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What Napoleon Could Not Do
by DK Nnuro
Envious of his sister, who achieved, as their father put it, what Napoleon could not do, by graduating law school in the U.S. and marrying a wealthy black businessman from Texas, Jacob, fighting for a visa to join his wife in Virginia, must learn from his dashed hopes to fulfill his own dreams.
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When the Moon Turns Blue
by Pamela Terry
When an act of vandalism divides her small-town Georgia community, Marietta, recently widowed, is left to question many of her preconceived notions about her friends and family as she tries to salvage these connections in a world where these divides can no longer be ignored.
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Wilderness Tales
by Diana Fuss
Featuring the works of Wallace Stegner, Annie Proulx, Ernest Hemingway, Margaret Atwood, L Frank Baum, William Faulkner and Ray Bradbury, this masterful collection of short stories about North American outdoor life—both classic and contemporary—summons our close and imagined encounters with all things wild.
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The Woman Who Climbed Trees
by Smriti Ravindra
Weaving together ghost stories, myths and song, this haunting novel follows a young bride as she leaves her life in India behind to move to Nepal with her new husband and his family, examining the loss she experiences as she gives up one home to become part of another.
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Your Driver is Waiting
by Priya Guns
For the first time ever, Damani, who drives for an app, starts dating a white girl with money, but when their romance intensifies and she finally lets her guard down, her girlfriend does something unforgivable, setting off an explosive chain of events.
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3 Days to Live
by James Patterson
Three new thriller-novellas from the world's best-selling author include the tales of a honeymooning CIA agent who is poisoned and a pair of grifters who attempt to take control of the home of a murdered L.A. doctor.
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Alligator Alley
by Michael Lawson
Joe DeMarco, a fixer for the Speaker of the House, investigates the murder of a DOJ employee in the Florida Everglades with the help of a retired ex-spy in the sixteenth novel of the series following House Standoff.
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The Angel Maker
by Alex North
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Whisper Man and The Shadows comes a dark, suspenseful new thriller about the mysteries of fate, the unbreakable bond of siblings and a notorious serial killer who was said to know the future.
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Before I Sleep
by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
DCI Bill Slider tries to determine what happened to a mature, sensible woman who left her West London house for her weekly pottery class and never returned in the latest novel of the long-running series following Dying Fall.
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Black Wolf
by Kathleen Kent
A female CIA agent whose extraordinary facial recognition powers lead her into the dangerous heart of the Soviet Union—and the path of a killer who shouldn't exist.
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Bright and Deadly Things
by Lexie Elliott
On a rustic mountaintop retreat in the French Alps, a recently-widowed Oxford fellow deals with her grief and tries to uncover why someone has been going through her things and is trying to hack into her computer.
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Burner
by Mark Greaney
Court Gentry and his lover, Zoya Zakharova, discover they both want to capture Alex Velesky, who stole records from his Swiss bank employer, but for very different reasons, in the 12th novel of the series following Sierra Six.
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The Cliff's Edge
by Charles Todd
In the wake of World War I, former battlefield nurse Bess Crawford is drawn into a deadly feud between two families that sets in motion a revelation with the potential to change the loves of those she loves most.
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Cold People
by Tom Rob Smith
A mysterious force captures Earth and gives humanity 30 days to move to Antarctica, where they will be allowed to exist and survive in the planet's most extreme environment in the new novel by the best-selling author of Child 44.
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Death of a Traitor
by M. C. Beaton
When the nosiest neighbor in Lochdubh is seen lugging a heavy suitcase to the bus stop, town residents are pleased, until they discover she's gone missing, in the latest addition to the long-running series following Death of a Green-Eyed Monster.
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Device Free Weekend
by Sean Doolittle
Six college friends invited to a retreat on a private island awaken to discover their host has disappeared along with all connection to the mainland except for a single touchscreen tablet inviting them to "Unlock me!"
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Encore in Death
by J. D. Robb
Eve Dallas investigates after one half of a celebrity couple falls to the floor dead after making a toast at an event attended by A-listers in the latest addition to the long-running series following Secrets in Death.
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Every Man a King
by Walter Mosley
NYPD investigator Joe King Oliver is tested when asked by his billionaire friend to defend a White nationalist who has been accused of murder, in the sequel to the Edgar Award-winning Down the River Unto the Sea.
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The House Guest
by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Making a new friend, one who's running from a dangerous relationship of her own, Alyssa Macallan, at the mercy of her wealthy and powerful husband, offers Bree Lorrance the safety of her guest house who in turn makes a tempting offer on how they can solve each others' problems.
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It Ends at Midnight
by Harriet Tyce
Murder stalks a group of people as a terminally ill woman aims to renew her vows with her partner and settles other affairs.
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It's One of Us
by J. T. Ellison
A successful interior designer who keeps failing in her quest to conceive is shocked when she learns that a suspect in a recent murder investigation is her husband's son from a long-ago donation to a sperm bank.
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A Killing of Innocents
by Deborah Crombie
Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his sergeant, Doug Cullen, investigate the stabbing murder of a trainee doctor at a local hospital, in the nineteenth novel of the series following A Bitter Feast.
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The Last Kingdom
by Steve Berry
When his protǧ ̌infiltrates a renegade group intent on winning Bavarian independence from Germany, with everything hinging on a lost 19th-century deed that is the legal title to lands that Germany, China and US want, Cotton Malone battles an ever-growing list of deadly adversaries, all intent on finding the last kingdom.
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The Last Orphan
by Gregg Hurwitz
When one little mistake lands him under the control of the President, who makes him a deal—eliminate a man she considers too dangerous to live and she'll guarantee his survival—Evan Smoak, a former Orphan assassin, must choose between his principles and his life.
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Last Seen in Lapaz
by Kwei Quartey
When a whirlwind romance leads to a brutal murder and the disappearance of a young Nigerian woman, PI Emma Djan resorts to dangerous undercover work to track her down in Accra.
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Little Paula
by V. C. Andrews
A dark secret comes to light when Faith Eden and her brother Trevor are anxious to get back Little Paula, the baby that was ripped away from her and adopted by a wealthy family in the sequel to Eden's Children.
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Lying Beside You
by Michael Robotham
Successful psychologist and massacre survivor Cyrus Haven must cope with his brother's release from prison while investigating the murder of a man and the kidnapping of his daughter, in the third novel of the series following When She Was Good.
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More Than Meets the Eye
by Iris Johansen
When brutal murders with the same signature as serial killer James Michael Barrett mysteriously continue after his death, FBI consultant Kendra Michaels teams up with the only survivor of Barrett's attacks and soon discovers the killer has a terrifying plan that they are only beginning to understand.
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Murder at an Irish bakery
by Carlene O'Connor
When a reality baking show results in the death of a contestant who is found facedown in her signature pie, Garda Siobhan O'Sullivan, to catch a killer with a sweet tooth, must sift through the clues to discover if this was a deadly rivalry or if other motives were mixed in.
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Murder at Haven's Rock
by Kelley Armstrong
Deep in the Yukon wilderness, in a place built for people to disappear where there is only one rule—stay out of the forest—Detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, are called in to investigate the murder of the town's construction crew members who broke it.
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Murder Your Employer
by Rupert Holmes
Preparing you for an education you'll never forget, this introduction to The McMasters Conservatory, dedicated to the consummate execution of homicidal arts, follows students as they prepare for graduation by getting away with the perfect murder of someone whose death will make the world a much better place to live.
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Of Manners and Murder
by Anastasia Hastings
The first in the new Dear Miss Hermione mystery series shows that when one represents the best-loved Agony Aunt in Britain, both marauding husbands and murder are par for the course.
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Playing Dead
by Peggy Rothschild
Former PI Molly Madison must put her ex-police skills to good use when a dog trainer's body is found onsite at the Playtime Academy facility and must collar the real killer when her friend is arrested for the crime.
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The Sanctuary
by Katrine Engberg
While staying in Bornholm for the winter, Jeppe Kr̜ner is drawn into a sinister mystery rooted in the past when an investigation into a severed corpse in Copenhagen leads Anette Werner to this seemingly peaceful refuge, and together they must unravel the island's secrets to stop a brutal killer.
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The Secrets of Hartwood Hall
by Katie Lumsden
In 1852, young widow Margaret Lennox, taking a position as governess to an only child at an isolated country house in the West of England, starts to feel that something isn't quite right and, as her past threatens to catch up with her, she learns the truth behind the secrets of Hartwood Hall.
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Scorched Grace
by Margot Douaihy
A chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, Sister Holiday, when Saint Sebastian's School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, launches her own investigation, which turns her against colleagues, students and fellow Sisters as she pieces together the clues to solve this explosive mystery.
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Stone Cold Fox
by Rachel Koller Croft
After years of perfecting the art of the con, Bea sets her sights on Collin Case, the heir to one of the country's wealthiest families, but Collin's childhood best friend stands in her way, forcing her to cat-and-mouse game that becomes a matter of life and death.
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Storm Watch
by C. J. Box
After finding the frozen and mutilated body of a man killed near the location of a mysterious high-tech structure, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett finds his investigation obstructed by federal agents, extremists and the governor and must find away around them to stop the oncoming storm of peril.
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Three Can Keep a Secret
by M. E. Hilliard
When the widely disliked chair of the library board of trustees and a local professor turn up dead, Greer Hogan, a librarian-turned-sleuth who has an uncanny knack for deduction, starts digging and stumbles upon a cache of decades-old secrets that could rock the town to its core.
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Unnatural History
by Jonathan Kellerman
When a wealthy photographer, who had recently received rave media attention for his images of homeless people in their personal dream situations, is shot to death, Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis, when new murders arise, are confronted by one of the deadliest threats they've ever faced.
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The Writing Retreat
by Julia Bartz
While attending a month-long writing retreat at the estate of a feminist horror writer who issues a life-changing challenge, Alex, determined to win this seemingly impossible contest, ignores the strange happenings around her until the disappearance of a fellow writer leads her on a desperate search for the truth.
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Ana Takes Manhattan
by Lissette Decos
A reality TV producer who orchestrates extravagant marriage proposals decides to start directing her own life and living with no regrets and discovers that just makes things messier until she just listens to her heart.
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Artfully Yours
by Joanna Lowell
Raised by her art-forger brother, Nina Finch would rather be baking instead of painting and accepts a job in the household of London's most discerning art critic, who knows the paintings are fakes, but not that she painted them.
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Best Served Hot
by Amanda Elliot
A social media restaurant reviewer with a large following butts heads with a smarmy, social-media-averse society boy who snagged her dream job when video of her confronting him for his outdated opinions goes viral.
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A Calder at Heart
by Janet Dailey
After losing his whole family to Spanish Flu, a former US Army Major heads to Blue Moon where the Calders welcome him and offer him a piece of ranching property in the third novel of the series following Calder Grit.
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The Chemistry of Love
by Sariah Wilson
A geeky, brilliant, cosmetic chemist, Anna Ellis, to win over Craig Kimball, the man of her dreams—and her boss—starts fake dating Craig's half-brother Marco, with whom Craig is super competitive, as an experiment in attraction until her feelings for Marco become all-too real.
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The Dangerous One
by Lori Foster
Living alone and keeping his interactions with people to a minimum, Hunter Osborn, when Jodi Bentley moves into the run-down cabin next door, struggling with her own traumatic past, is drawn into her dark world when her life is threatened.
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End of Story
by Kylie Scott
Susie isn't thrilled to discover her ex's best friend is her home renovation contractor, but worse still is the discovery of a divorce certificate dated 10 years in the future with both their names on it.
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For Her Consideration
by Amy Spalding
Nina, an aspiring Hollywood scriptwriter takes a chance on romance with gorgeous movie star Ari after a devastating public breakup, in the new novel by the best-selling author of We Used to Be Friends.
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For Twice In My Life
by Annette Christie
A second try at love becomes more than one woman bargained for in a romantic new novel from the author of The Rehearsals.
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Full Exposure
by Thien-kim Lam
Despite a cancellation, boudoir photographer Josie Parks decides to visit New Orleans anyway and meets Spencer Pham by whacking him in the head attempting to catch Mardi Gras beads, in the new rom-com from the author of Happy Endings.
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Just My Type
by Falon Ballard
A serial dater and relationship columnist for a trendy L.A. website decides to learn how to stay single, but has her resolve tested by her high school ex, who has accepted an assignment for the website.
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Miss Newbury's List
by Megan Walker
Creating a list of ten things to do before her marriage to the Duke of Marlow, Rosalind Newbury enlists the help of her best friend, Liza, and prodigal son-turned-boxer, Charlie, with whom she falls in love, forcing her to choose between following her heart and family duty.
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The Neighbor Favor
by Kristina Forest
Enlisting the help of her new neighbor to find a date for her sister's wedding, not realizing he is her favorite fantasy author—the very same one who ghosted her months ago—aspiring children's book author Lily Greene finds this simple favor between them becoming anything but.
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Not the Plan
by Gia De Cadenet
When she falls for Karim Sarda, who works for her boss's fierce political rival, ambitious chief-of-staff Isadora Maris, striving to make a name for herself in Washington, D.C., risks her heart and her career for a chance at forever.
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Radiant Sin
by Katee Robert
As a disgraced member of a fallen house, Cassandra Gataki has seen firsthand what comes from trusting the venomous Thirteen. But when the maddeningly gorgeous and kind Apollo asks her to go undercover as his plus-one at a week-long party hosted by a dangerous new power player, Cassandra reluctantly agrees to have his back.
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Ruby Spencer's Whisky Year
by Rochelle Bilow
Spending one year living in a tiny town in the Scottish Highlands to write a bestselling cookbook and drink a lot of whisky, Ruby Spencer starts to see a future that goes beyond her year of adventure when she is embraced by the tight-knit community, including Brochan, the ruggedly handsome local handyman.
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Save the Best for Last
by Jennifer Probst
The makeover queen of a self-care media empire, Tessa Harper, to satisfy her female readerships growing interest in sports, strikes a deal with a popular sportscaster to help him win over the woman of his dreams in exchange for his expertise, which turns both of their lives upside down.
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Secretly Yours
by Tessa Bailey
Returning home to his family's winery, Professor Julian Vos, on sabbatical from his ivy league job, finds himself distracted from his plans to write a novel by eccentric, chronically late, unbelievably beautiful gardener Hallie Welch, who is a burst of color in his gray-scale life.
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The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi
by Shannon Chakraborty
While trying to settle into a life of piety, motherhood and absolutely nothing that hints of the supernatural, Amina al-Sirafi, one of the Indian Ocean's most notorious pirates, is offered a job she cannot refuse, but soon discovers this final chance at glory comes with a high price—her soul.
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Arch-Conspirator
by Veronica Roth
Feeling uncontrollable rage toward her militant uncle Kreon who is rising to claim her father's vacant throne, Antigone and her siblings, welcomed into his mansion, become captives as well as guests, but her uncle will soon learn that no cage is unbreakable—and neither is he.
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The Cradle of Ice
by James Rollins
Bonded by fate and looming disaster, a soldier, a thief, a lost prince and a young girl, hunted by hostile enemies and surrounded by war, must travel into a vast region of ice and to a sprawling capital of the world they've only known in stories.
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A Day of Fallen Night
by Samantha Shannon
With the younger generation questioning the Priory's purpose since wyrms haven't appeared since the Nameless One, Tunuva Melim, a sister of the Priory, finds her calling when humankind needs protection after a new age of terror and violence is ushered in.
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The Destroyer of Worlds
by Matt Ruff
Set In 1957, this masterful blend of historical fiction and fantastical horror, returning to the world of Lovecraft Country, explores the meaning of death, the hold of the past on the present and the power of hope in the face of uncertainty.
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Don't Fear the Reaper
by Stephen Graham Jones
Returning to rural Proofrock after being released from prison, Jade Daniels runs afoul of a convicted serial killer, who escapes from a prison transfer in a blizzard in the second novel of the series following My Heart is a Chainsaw.
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The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
by Roshani Chokshi
Breaking the promise he made to his beautiful wife, to never pry into her past, when they arrive at her childhood home, a crumbling manor shrouded in mystery, a scholar of myths must choose between reality and fantasy, even if doing so threatens to destroy their marriage—or their lives.
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Nocturne
by Alyssa Wees
With the Great Depression in full swing, prima ballerina Grace Dragotta, paying the high price of achieving her dream, garners the attention of a mysterious patron who, as she begins to unlock his secrets, shows her there may be another way to achieve the transcendence she's always sought.
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Our Share of Night
by Mariana Enriquez
United in grief after the death of the wife and mother they both loved, a young father and son travel to confront the terrifying legacy she bequeathed—a family called the Order that commits unspeakable acts in search of immortality.
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The Spite House
by Johnny Compton
Eric Ross, on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow, takes a job as the caretaker of a house that is reputed to be haunted.
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VenCo
by Cherie Dimaline
After finding a tarnished silver spoon humming with otherworldly energy, Mťis millennial Lucky St. James, familiar with the magic of her Indigenous ancestors, and her cantankerous grandmother Stella are welcomed into the fold of VenCo, a network of witches working to return women to their rightful power.
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What Price Victory?
by David Weber
Starring epic heroine Honor Harrington, this stellar collection of stories from the hottest military science fiction series of all time delivers the action, courage and the pulse-pounding excitement of space naval adventure.
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Wild Massive
by Scotto Moore
A glorious web of lies, secrets and humor in a breakneck, nitrous-boosted saga of the small rejecting the will of the mighty.
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