August 2025 list by Nanette Alderman |
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All the Men I've Loved Again
by Christine Pride
A woman who finds herself in a love triangle with two men in her early twenties, and then again in her forties.
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Bad Luck Bride
by Laura Lee Guhrke
Lady Kay Matheson is truly the bad luck bride. With two scandalous attempts at marriage be No one is more surprised than Kay when American millionaire Wilson Rycroft offers her a third chance at matrimony. Just when she's convinced her luck's changed and she finally will make it down the aisle, the scoundrel who took her virtue and broke her heart many years earlier returns.
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The Bourne Escape
by Brian Freeman
Jason Bourne is on a boat in the Mediterranean moonlight with his lover, Johanna. He's happy for the first time in years. Then in the next instant, he finds himself floating on wreckage as fire and smoke choke the sky. Johanna is gone. And Bourne finds the darkness of lost memory closing around his mind again. As he did once before, Bourne must piece together the fragments of who he is, even as assassins hunt him across Europe.
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Culpability
by Bruce W. Holsinger
When the Cassidy-Shaws' autonomous minivan collides with an oncoming car, seventeen-year-old Charlie is in the driver's seat, with his father, Noah, riding shotgun. In the back seat, tweens Alice and Izzy are on their phones, while their mother, Lorelei, a world leader in the field of artificial intelligence, is absorbed in her work. Yet each family member harbors a secret, implicating them all in the tragic accident.
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Dead Line
by Marc Cameron
Deputy U.S. Marshals Arliss Cutter and Lola Teariki are at frozen Cheney Lake, finally nearing their prey. He's Butch Pritchard, a killer-for-hire as ruthless as the Anchorage wind, and wanted for the murder of a 25-year-old pregnant woman in Missouri.
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Dead of Summer
by Jessa Maxwell
When Orla returns to Hadley Island to confront the ghosts of her best friend's long-ago disappearance, she is drawn into another mystery alongside a suspicious girlfriend and a reclusive observer as they work to uncover the island's eerie, long-held mysteries.
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Everybody Has a Gun
by William W. Johnstone
Jon Gage needs to keep moving to stay alive. Too many people know the legend of "Texas Lightning"—and too many people want him dead. Trying to keep a low profile, he stops at a supply post in Utah Territory to stock up before hitting the trail. There, he meets a wagon train of good, decent folks, but they're about to make a very bad decision. The route they've chosen leads straight through the Chosen Valley ruled by a notorious and powerful cult known for their cruel and unusual punishments.
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The Frozen People
by Elly Griffiths
Meet Ali Dawson: a police officer working on crimes so old, the joke goes, that they are not only cold but frozen. The team's office is in a grimy part of the city, yet Ali's work seems like a safe desk job. But what her friends--and even her beloved son--don't know is that the cold case team has a secret: they can travel back in time to look for evidence.
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The Girl I Was
by Jeneva Rose
A woman who wakes up in the year 2002 believes she's been given a second chance to do her life over--until she comes face-to-face with her unruly eighteen-year-old self.
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Gracie Harris Is Under Construction
by Kate Hash
In this resplendent debut novel, a beautiful love story unfolds for tenderhearted Gracie Harris-a mom of two and recent widow-as she navigates the unexpected curveballs that adulthood throws and takes her second chance to find love.
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Isles of the Emberdark
by Brandon Sanderson
All his life, Sixth of the Dusk has been a traditional trapper of Aviar—the supernatural birds his people bond with—on the deadly island of Patji. Then one fateful night he propels his people into a race to modernize before they can be conquered by the Ones Above, invaders from the stars who want to exploit the Aviar.
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It Was Her House First
by Cherie Priest
Venita Rost, a former silent film star, has stayed put for the last century-fuming and raging, luring investors and ambitious DIYers to their doom in her haunted home on the cliff. But her nemesis also remains: a once-famous detective she blames for the death of her daughter. Inspector Bartholomew Sloan blames himself, too. He couldn't save Priscilla any more than he could save his best friend from the noose. Or save himself from Venita's wrath. Now all he can do is watch as Venita lures each new owner to their death, trapped in this house of horror he helped create and unable to do anything to stop it.
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The List
by Steve Berry
Brent Walker is returning home to Concord to take care of his ailing mother. Hired by Southern Republic Pulp and Paper Company as an assistant general counsel. For decades Southern Republic has invested heavily in Concord, building a paper mill and creating a thriving community, one where its employees live, work, and retire. The job puts Brent Walker right in the crosshairs of men who want him dead.
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Matchmaking for Psychopaths
by Tasha Coryell
To escape her relationship troubles, Lexie throws herself into her job where she works as a matchmaker for psychopaths--a label that the clients themselves are unaware of--and finds herself entangled with two of her most recent clients, both of whom have mysterious pasts that inspire Lexie to breech work protocol and spend time with them outside of the office.
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Mean Moms
by Emma Rosenblum
Meet Frost, Morgan, and Nell--a wealthy, gorgeous group of New York City moms, the queen bees of downtown Manhattan. Their children attend Atherton Seminary, the top private school in the city, and their social lives revolve around elaborate themed parties. On the first day of school, the arrival of a new mom and mysterious beauty from Miami named Sofia shakes up their world. When Sofia quickly integrates herself into their clique, inexplicably bad things start to happen to the women.
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The Pretender
by Wanda E. Brunstetter
Two years since Rosa Petersheim mysteriously disappeared from her Amish home, there has been no word from her. Her family and friends have suffered in the silence, though they have tried to move on with life. Then one day Rosa just as suddenly reappears at her parent's home with a husband in tow.
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The Red Letter
by Daniel G. Miller
Hazel has everything she wants. Business is booming at her boutique private investigation firm. She's dating the man of her dreams. Even her perpetually skeptical mother seems impressed. Then the NYPD finds a beloved neighborhood priest dead along with a mysterious red letter. Hazel investigates the murder as a favor to an old friend and discovers that the priest wasn't the only recent murder victim to receive a red letter.
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Scotch on the Rocks
by Elliot Fletcher
When you live on a tiny island, it's easy to stir up a scandal... For Callum Macabe, there's no one better than Juniper Ross. She's razor-tongued, sarcastic, elusive. And not to mention drop-dead gorgeous. There's just one problem: his brother got there first. And even though Juniper and Alistair split up five years ago, Callum knows he could never break the actual bro code. Or could he?
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Seven Secret Spellcasters
by Lynn Cahoon
When an investigator from the National Office of Magical Creatures is found floating dead in the river behind her boyfriend Trent's cabin with his familiar Cerby's paw prints nearby, witch Mia must use her own powers of investigation to save them both.
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Under the Stars
by Beatriz Williams
When a daughter and her famous mother return to Winthrop Island to confront their complicated past, they discover a secret trove of paintings that connect them to a mysterious woman who vanished on a luxury steamship two centuries earlier.
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Volatile Memory
by Seth Haddon
With nothing but a limping ship and an outdated mask to her name, Wylla needs a big pay day. When the alert goes out that a lucrative piece of tech lies hidden on a nearby planet, she calls on all the swiftness of her prey-animal instincts to beat other hunters to it.
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