February 2026 list by Bonnie Bradford |
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59 Minutes
by Holly Seddon
Nuclear missile threat to South England. 59 minutes until impact. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a test.
With only 59 minutes before mass destruction, will three women make it to their loved ones in time?
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The Award
by Matthew Pearl
David Trent is an aspiring novelist in Cambridge, MA, trying to navigate his ambitions in a place that has writers around every corner. But after winning a major award, the administrator comes to David with alarming news, forcing the writer into a desperate set of choices, with shocking consequences.
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The Bridesmaid
by Cate Quinn
The Kensingtons invite you to the society wedding of the decade. There's just one hitch. You might not make it out alive.
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Deadly Trade
by Sara Driscoll
Meg Jennings can never walk away from her job, even amid her Hawaiian honeymoon, where she and her search-and-rescue black Lab encounter a double threat from wildlife poachers and Mother Nature.
FBI K-9 series.
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The Doctor's Wife
by Daniel Hurst
My husband is a doctor. He’s smart and charming and everybody trusts him. Except me...
On the surface, it looks like I have it all – the perfect marriage, the perfect husband, the perfect life. But it’s far from the truth.
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Haven't Killed in Years
by Amy K. Green
No one is supposed to know harmless office worker Gwen Tanner is the vanished daughter of notorious serial killer Abel Haggerty. But a low profile and a new name aren’t going to cut it when an obsessive new killer starts targeting her.
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Hollywood Hit Men
by Michele Domínguez Greene
When Cassidy Clarke joins the LAPD, she doesn’t plan on following in her father’s footsteps. Veteran detective Bill Clarke has big shoes to fill, but Cassidy has her own path to forge. But when a serial killer case goes awry, they both have work to do. Cassidy Clarke series.
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House of Two Pharaohs
by Wilbur Smith
Piay has thrown himself into pulling the city of Memphis back from the brink. But when the heavily-guarded vault is found locked with the body of a murdered scribe inside--the mark of Anubis scrawled in his own blood--panic sweeps the city. Only the wisest man in all Egypt can solve this mystery: Piay's mentor, the great Mage Taita. The Egyptian series.
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The Lie She Wears
by Elle Marr
Pearl Davis always had a strained relationship with her mother. Growing up, she rarely felt her mother’s love and many things about her mother’s behavior never added up. But when Sally dies unexpectedly, she leaves Pearl a letter from the grave…confessing to murder. Suddenly, Pearl has even more questions than she has answers.
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Made You Look
by Tanya Grant
A Catskills retreat turns deadly for a group of influencers when a snowstorm cuts them off from their greatest resource—their followers—just as a killer strikes.
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Only Way Out
by Tod Goldberg
Failed lawyer Robert Green has such a good plan: Crack three hundred safe-deposit boxes and sail off to South America. If it weren’t for the damned freezing rain. Now his wrong turn has become a crooked cop’s fortune. There’s only one way out, and they’re crashing headlong toward it.
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Ravishing
by Eshani Surya
When a friend introduces her to Evolvoir, a beauty product that changes users' features, Kashmira is quickly hooked. While her estranged brother, Nikhil, at Evolvoir's corporate office is blamed for a cover up. Chaos ensues: Kashmira is hospitalized, while Nikhil uncovers a vicious truth that will force him to decide where his loyalties lie.
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Spasm
by Robin Cook
Serving as the Hamilton County coroner, Dr. Neilson is in over his head trying to explain the sudden death of a young, healthy pest control worker on top of an outbreak of rapidly progressive Alzheimer's-like cases, and he pleads with Jack and Laurie to come lend a professional hand. Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery series.
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The Sunshine Man
by Emma Stonex
“The week I shot a man clean through the head began like any other ..." A taut, electrifying thriller about a woman determined to avenge her sister’s murder—and the killer who must confront his own ghosts.
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Who Knows You by Heart
by C. J. Farley
Coders Octavia and Walcott have been recruited to collaborate on a secret project code-named Zion. Zion is a new kind of AI-powered storytelling, one that’s programmed to be free from the racist and sexist biases. But then they discover a toxic secret about their employer—something that they can’t unlearn, or overlook.
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Wild Animal
by Joël Dicker
On July 2, 2022, two criminals set out to rob a jewelry shop in Geneva. But even with a foolproof plan, their perfect heist will prove far from uneventful...
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The Writing in the Water
by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Julia Malmros, an ex-cop turned crime writer, teams up with a mysterious hacker to solve a murder. The victim: a billionaire, her childhood friend. Julia knows there's no such thing as coincidence. And as she and Kim follow the trail of cash, corruption follows dangerously close behind. Bloodstorm series.
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