December 2025
Scroll down to see the books that arrived at the Grimsby Public Library this summer, and titles still to come! Looking for new books from your favourite authors and series? You can find the latest books from Eric Van Lustbader, Robin Cook, James Patterson, Danielle Steel, Robert Ludlum, Jayne Ann Krentz, Robert B. Parker, Stuart Woods and more in our online catalogue. View more new books by genre using ShelfBrowser (new titles added almost every week!).
 
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It Should Have Been You by Andrea Mara
It Should Have Been You
by Andrea Mara

A suburban neighborhood starts to spiral when one text message causes a nasty chain reaction with horrifying consequences. You press send and your message disappears. Full of secrets about your neighbors, it's meant for your sister. But it doesn't reach her - it goes to the entire local community WhatsApp group instead. As rumor spreads like wildfire through the picture-perfect neighborhood, you convince yourself that people will move on, that this will quickly be forgotten. But then you receive the first death threat. 
Watch Us Fall by Christina Kovac
Watch Us Fall
by Christina Kovac

By the author of The Cutaway, a work of psychological suspense set in the days leading up to and following the mysterious death of one of Washington, DC's hottest investigative reporters--
A Box Full of Darkness by Simone St James
A Box Full of Darkness
by Simone St James

 Strange things happen in Fell, New York. A mysterious drowning at the town's roadside motel. The unexplained death of a young girl whose body is left by the railroad tracks. For the Esmie siblings--Violet, Vail, and Dodie--the final straw was the shocking disappearance of their little brother. A Box Full of Darkness is another propulsive thriller from the author of The Broken Girls and The Book of Cold Cases, a surprising horror story from a writer who is particularly gifted at doling out twists (The New York Times).
Needle Lake by Justine Champine
Needle Lake
by Justine Champine

Two cousins on very different sides of teen girlhood spend a winter together that changes both of their lives forever. A searing, unforgettable novel that captures the intense and dangerous alchemy of girlhood.--Chelsea Bieker, author of Madwoman Brimming with lush prose and careful observation, Needle Lake is an arresting portrait of girlhood and the overwhelming, sometimes dangerous intensity of adolescence.
Good Guys by Sharon Bala
Good Guys
by Sharon Bala

From the bestselling author of The Boat People comes a page-turning moral drama about money, the dark side of philanthropy, and what happens when you try to change the world for all the wrong reasons. Emotionally engrossing, tightly paced, and sharply observed, it ultimately asks: Is it possible to do good in an imperfect world?
The Italian Secret by Tara Moss
The Italian Secret
by Tara Moss

#1 international bestselling author Tara Moss returns with an immersive post-war mystery as glamorous investigator Billie Walker follows a trail of secrets to Italy's sun-drenched Neapolitan coast-- Provided by publisher.
The Day I Lost You by Ruth Mancini
The Day I Lost You
by Ruth Mancini

The internationally bestselling author of The Woman on the Ledge returns with a twisty thriller about a missing child and three adults whose shared secrets and hidden history could prove deadly. Everyone deserves a new start, and Lauren needs to put her past firmly behind her.Hope has everything: an interesting career as a therapist, an attractive husband, a dream home in the countryside - and, finally, the baby she always longed for. Sam. Her beautiful boy.But Sam has gone missing. When the police tell her that a woman has been found in Spain with a child matching Sam's description, Hope thinks that her nightmare might be coming to an end. But Lauren is insisting Sam is her baby. She even has his passport and birth certificate to prove it.
The Living and the Dead: A Novel about a Crime by Christoffer Carlsson
The Living and the Dead: A Novel about a Crime
by Christoffer Carlsson

Two decades after an unsolved murder in a working-class town, another body turns up, ripping apart friendships and community-a captivating mystery and graceful investigation of brotherhood and family by a renowned criminologist-- Provided by publisher.
Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Ace Atkins
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
by Ace Atkins

It's 1985, what will soon become known as 'The Year of the Spy,' and fourteen-year-old Peter Bennett is convinced his mom's new boyfriend is a Russian agent. 'Gary' isn't in the phone book, has an unidentifiable European accent, and keeps a gun in the glove box of his convertible Porsche. Peter thinks Gary only wants to get close to his mom because she works at Scientific Atlanta, a lab with big government contracts. But who is going to believe him?
Hope and Destiny by Niklas Natt Och Dag
Hope and Destiny
by Niklas Natt Och Dag

A new historical series that takes us to medieval Sweden to unravel one of the country's most infamous murder mysteries. 1434: The unified kingdoms of northern Europe are cracking at their seams as a peasant rebellion, led by the charismatic figure Engelbrekt Engelbrekts, erupts in the north. Sent by his family to find a foothold in this rising revolutionary movement is young Magnus Bengtsson, who must win Engelbrekt's trust and favor no matter the cost.
The Time Hop Coffee Shop by Phaedra Patrick
The Time Hop Coffee Shop
by Phaedra Patrick

Welcome to the Time Hop Coffee Shop, where wishes can come true...Greta Perks was once the shining star of the iconic Maple Gold coffee commercials. Now fame has faded, her marriage is on the rocks, her teenage daughter has become distant and Greta's once-glittering career feels like a distant memory.Then Greta stumbles upon a mysterious coffee shop...
Silent Bones by Val McDermid
Silent Bones
by Val McDermid

Scotland, 2025. When torrential winter rain causes a landslide on a motorway, it dislodges more than mud and asphalt--it reveals a skeleton, concealed when the road was built eleven years prior.  It's the perfect cold case for DCI Karen Pirie, chief of Police Scotland's Historic Cases Unit. 
Books You May Have Missed
The Memory Gardener: Magic Blooms in This Cozy Novel by Meg Donohue
The Memory Gardener
by Meg Donohue

Lucy Barnes is a gardener with an uncanny ability to know exactly which scent among her flowers will illuminate to a person a key from their past that might change their future. Sadly, after a tragedy ten years ago, she no longer uses her gift and has fled her hometown. But six months after her mother's death, Lucy awakens to find her mother's unmistakable scent drifting over her, and she knows that she is being called home. 
The Dogs of Venice by Steven Rowley
The Dogs of Venice
by Steven Rowley

After months of planning a romantic holiday getaway in Venice, Paul is blindsided when his five-year marriage suddenly unravels. Fueled by heartbreak, Paul endeavors to take the trip alone. Soon after arriving in Italy, he notices a small, scruffy, self-assured dog trotting alongside a canal with the confidence he so desperately wants for himself. Amid the food, sights, and welcoming people of Venice, Paul's journey culminates in a magical encounter that leads him to feel real connection-to a dog, to a foreign city and, most importantly, to himself. 
The Sunshine Man by Emma Stonex
The Sunshine Man
by Emma Stonex

Birdie Keller wakes one freezing January morning to the news she's been waiting eighteen years to hear: Jimmy Maguire, the man who killed her sister, has been freed from jail. She leaves for London with a pistol and a plan: to find this man and make him pay. But every story has two sides. Jimmy can sense he's being hunted. He knew Birdie a long time ago, in a life she'd sooner forget, and he isn't the only one with something to hide. As the two circle each other in a heart-stopping game of cat and mouse, they plunge into a murky world of family secrets, betrayals, and unsolved mysteries--
The Curse of Pietro Houdini by Derek B. Miller
The Curse of Pietro Houdini
by Derek B. Miller

Heartfelt, powerfully engaging, and in the tradition of Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See, this is a work of storytelling bravado: a thrilling action-packed art heist, an imaginative chronicle of forgotten history, and a poignant coming-of-age epic where a child navigates one of the most morally complex fronts of World War II and lives to tell the tale.
The Stars and Their Light by Olivia Hawker
The Stars and Their Light
by Olivia Hawker

It's 1947 when Sister Mary Agnes arrives in New Mexico. Her mission is to establish a monastery in the town of Roswell, where weeks before rumors of the crash landing of an unidentified craft have triggered a crisis of faith. Mary Agnes is unsettlingly drawn to Harvey, an attentive handyman refurbishing the monastery--and a firsthand witness to the crash. But as Mary Agnes tries to guide her wayward friends back to the church, it's the fantastic and the forbidden that begin to loom large in her imagination. 
Dinner at the Night Library by Hika Harada
Dinner at the Night Library
by Hika Harada

All Otaha Higuchi wants to do is work with books. However, the exhausting nature of her work at a chain bookstore, combined with her paltry salary and irritating manager quickly bring reality crashing down around her. She is on the verge of quitting when she receives a message from somebody anonymous, inviting her to apply for a job at 'The Night Library.
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