|
This and That January 2019 New Year, New Series! These books are all the first in a popular series
|
|
|
|
|
A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth GeorgeThree hundred years ago, as legend goes, a frightened Yorkshire villager smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey while hiding from Cromwell's raiders. Now Lynley and Havers are sent to Keldale to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside.
|
|
|
Still Life by Louise PennyChief Inspector Armand Gamache of Canada's Sûreté du Quebec is called to Three Pines, a tiny hamlet south of Montreal, to investigate the suspicious hunting "accident" that claimed the life of Jane Neal, a local fixture in the village.
|
|
|
A Matthew Scudder novel by Lawrence BlockMatthew Scudder is hired by the father of murder victim Wendy Hanniford--supposedly slashed to death by a minister's son who commits suicide in jail--to investigate after police close the case.
|
|
|
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. MartinThe kingdom of the royal Stark family faces its ultimate challenge in the onset of a generation-long winter, the poisonous plots of the rival Lannisters, the emergence of the Neverborn demons, and the arrival of barbarian hordes.
|
|
|
16 Lighthouse Road by Debbie MacomberFamily court judge Olivia Lockhart becomes front page news when she refuses to grant a divorce to a naval officer and his wife after the the death of their baby, and discovers the lives of her family and friends to be increasingly complex.
|
|
|
Outlander by Diana GabaldonHurtled back through time more than two hundred years to Scotland in 1743, Claire Randall finds herself caught in the midst of an unfamiliar world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution and haunted by her growing feelings for James Fraser, a young soldier.
|
|
|
City of Bones by Cassandra ClareIn her first meeting with the Shadowhunters, a secret tribe of warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons, Clary must come to terms with her recently revealed gift of the Sight while dealing with her brother's near-death encounter with a demon and the sudden disappearance of her mother.
|
|
|
Weekend Warriors by Fern MichaelsAngry and depressed that justice was not served for her daughter's death, Myra recruits a group of female vigilantes to help women who have been victimized by the legal system, beginning with a woman who was raped.
|
|
|
|
|
|