Fiction A to Z
October 2025

Recent Releases
Moderation
by Elaine Castillo

Working as a video content moderator for a social media company, Girlie Delmundo has seen horrific things. Burnt out, she takes a promotion working on a new virtual reality product. While she now can better help her mother financially, she also falls for her new boss and questions the suspicious death of the VR company’s founder in this “brilliant novel” (Kirkus Reviews). For fans of: Hanna Bervoets' We Had to Remove This Post.
Kiss her goodbye / :  A Frankie Elkin Novel by Lisa Gardner
Kiss her goodbye / : A Frankie Elkin Novel
by Lisa Gardner

Frankie is called to Tucson, Arizona, to find a missing Afghan refugee, whose friend suspects she is in grave danger—before it is too late.
Clown town by Mick Herron
Clown town
by Mick Herron

While recovering from injury, former MI5 agent River Cartwright investigates a missing book tied to his late grandfather's secrets that draws in the disgraced spies of Slough House, in the ninth novel of the series following Bad Actors.
Other people's houses by Clare Mackintosh
Other people's houses
by Clare Mackintosh

DC Ffion Morgan realizes the death of an estate agent in a kayak on Mirror Lake was no accident, while in Cheshire, DS Leo Brady investigates multiple break-ins, and Ffion and Leo are about to learn that people will pay a high price to hide their secrets.
What We Can Know
by Ian McEwan

In 2119, rising seas have changed the landscape of the United Kingdom, where professor Thomas Metcalfe studies every detail he can find about “A Corona for Vivien,” a lost masterpiece read by an esteemed poet at his wife’s 2014 birthday party. In the second half of this eloquent novel, Vivien herself narrates. Try these next: C. Pam Zhang’s Land of Milk and Honey; Eiren Caffall’s All the Water in the World.
The Hamptons lawyer by James Patterson
The Hamptons lawyer
by James Patterson

Undefeated criminal defense attorney Jane Smith—known as the Hamptons Lawyer—never fails to make her case.
When the Cranes Fly South
by Lisa Ridzén

Bo’s wife, an Alzheimer’s patient, went to a care center three years ago, leaving him alone. Now, he has caregivers who visit daily, an estranged son who thinks he can’t take care of his beloved dog, balance issues, and memories that are sometimes out of reach. Notes from Bo's carers add other viewpoints to this poignant debut novel by a Swedish author, which is already an international bestseller. For fans of: Fredrik Backman; The Correspondent by Virginia Evans.
The unraveling of Julia : a psychological thriller by Lisa Scottoline
The unraveling of Julia : a psychological thriller
by Lisa Scottoline

After the shocking death of her husband, a troubled young widow inherits a Tuscan estate from a mysterious benefactor and finds herself thrust into the crosshairs of a dangerous conspiracy.
The lies they told by Ellen Marie Wiseman
The lies they told
by Ellen Marie Wiseman

In 1930s Virginia, Lena Conti, a young immigrant mother separated from her family at Ellis Island, builds a new life in the Blue Ridge Mountains but must resist a brutal eugenics campaign that targets her community and threatens to take her daughter.
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