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New Fiction - January 2022 |
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All Day Is a Long Time
by David Sanchez
A Florida teenager runs away from home chasing a girl and becomes hooked on crack cocaine, spending the next decade fighting his way out of jail and rehab and ultimately finds redemption and solace in a community college literature course.
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The Antarctica of Love
by Sara Stridsberg
This ruminative, heartrending novel presents a story from a woman at the margins—her murder, her short but full life, and the world that moves on after she is gone.
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Antoinette's Sister
by Diana Giovinazzo
Engaged to King Ferdinand IV of Naples after his intended contracts smallpox and dies, Charlotte, the sister of Marie Antoinette, tries to navigate her new country, home and court in the time of political uprisings and royal executions.
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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
by Andre Lewis Carter
In the early 1970s, César Alvarez enlists in the navy to escape a life of crime; while the decision saves him from the streets, it also lands him amid volatile racial tensions at a crucial moment in U.S. history.
A winning combination of military procedural, suspense and Black history.
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Bibliolepsy
by Gina Apostol
A literature fan in 1980s Philippines who tracks down authors and pursues romantic connections with them believes that her country can be saved by love, sex and books as civil unrest grows against the kleptocratic, brutal rule of Ferdinand Marcos.
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Defenestrate
by Renée Branum
An exuberant, wildly inventive debut about a twin brother and sister who must overcome their ancestors' legendary "falling curse" and keep their own family from falling apart.
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The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
by Eva Jurczyk
Working in the rare books department of a large university, Liesl Weiss discovers that a priceless book has gone missing as well as the librarian, and, investigating both disappearances, learns a shocking truth that shakes the very foundation on which she has built her life.
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Fiona and Jane
by Jean Chen Ho
Two best friends since elementary school, both Taiwanese Americans, navigate their grown-up lives and discover their friendship strained by distance and unintended betrayals after Fiona Lin moves to New York and Jane Shen stays in California.
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The Great Mrs. Elias
by Barbara Chase-Riboud
The author of the award-winning Sally Hemings now brings to life Hannah Elias, one of the richest black women in America in the early 1900s, in a novel swirling with atmosphere and steeped in history.
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Honor
by Thrity N. Umrigar
An Indian American journalist returns home to cover the story of a Hindi woman attacked by her own family for marrying a Muslim and deals with a society that places more weight on tradition than one’s heart.
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How High We Go in the Dark
by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Spanning hundreds of years, a cast of intricately linked characters struggle with the Arctic Plague, an ancient illness accidentally unleashed by researchers investigating the melting permafrost in 2030, which forces humanity to continually reinvent itself to survive.
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The Intangible
by C. J. Washington
After a devastating loss, Amanda Jackson develops pseudocyesis, believing she’s still pregnant, and becomes involved with a neuroscientist who, as he spirals deeper in her illness, must confront the fraught intersection of science, death and human emotion.
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Joan Is Okay
by Weike Wang
An ICU physician at a busy NYC hospital, 30-something Joan, a workaholic with little interest in having friends, let alone lovers, is required to take mandatory leave until the day she must return to the city to face a crisis larger than anything she’s encountered before.
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None but the Righteous
by Chantal James
Embarking on a journey back home to a New Orleans devastated by Hurricane Katrina, 19-year-old Ham, wearing a pendant handed down from his foster mother, Miss Pearl, that has gripped his curiosity, seeks to answer to a question he cannot face: Is Miss Pearl still alive?
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Olga Dies Dreaming
by Xochitl Gonzalez
In the wake of Hurricane Maria, Olga, the tony wedding planner for Manhattan’s power brokers, must confront the effects of long-held family secrets when she falls in love with Matteo, while other family members must weather their own storms. Hulu is already casting the TV series.
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Our Kind of People
by Carol Wallace
When their father gambles away the family fortune on an elevated railroad, his daughters Jemima and Alice must navigate polite society during the rise and fall of their family, each forced to reexamine who she is, and even who she is meant to love.
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Out Front the Following Sea
by Leah Angstman
At the onset of the war between French and English settlers in 1689 New England, Ruth Miner is accused of witchcraft and flees the brutality of her town by stowing away on the ship of the only other person who knows her innocence: an audacious sailor named Owen. But soon Owen’s French ancestry puts him in danger as well.
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The Paris Bookseller
by Kerri Maher
Opening her Shakespeare and Company bookstore on a quiet street in 1919 Paris, American Sylvia Beach finds her business becoming a second home for some of the most important writers of the Lost Generation until the Depression causes her to question her promise to honor the life-changing impact of books.
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Perpetual West
by Mesha Maren
When her husband, who, unbeknownst to her, has fallen in love with a lucha libra fighter, goes missing, Elana can’t determine whether he left of his own accord or was kidnapped, forcing her to face who she really is.
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The Saints of Swallow Hill
by Donna Everhart
In Georgia’s Swallow Hill turpentine camp in 1932, Rae Lynn Cobb, disguised as a man, hides out from those who would wrongly accuse her for murdering her husband and struggles to survive harsh, brutal conditions with the help of two individuals with their own tragic pasts.
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The School for Good Mothers
by Jessamine Chan
Frida Liu is struggling. She doesn't have a career worthy of her Chinese immigrant parents' sacrifices. She can't persuade her husband, Gust, to give up his mistress. Only with Harriet, their cherubic daughter, does Frida finally attain the perfection expected of her, but one lapse in judgement puts keeping her child in jeopardy.
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Seasons of Purgatory
by Shahriar Mandanipour
Mandanipour skillfully fuses the poetic and the brutal in this complex and intense collection of stories that capture the Iranian experience of constant upheaval in a brilliant translation that allows the English-speaking world to experience this gem of Iranian literature.
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Small World
by Jonathan Evison
In this epic historical novel set in multiple time periods, present-day travelers on a train and their ancestors more than a century before are brought together by the history they share against such iconic backdrops as the California gold rush and the development of the Continental Railroad.
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The Stars Are Not Yet Bells
by Hannah Lillith Assadi
Fifty years after Elle Ranier came to Lyra island with her husband to find the source of mysterious lights, she looks back on her life on the mysterious island and at a secret she herself has guarded for decades.
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Thank You, Mr. Nixon: Stories
by Gish Jen
This collection brings to life an 11-story journey through U.S.-Chinese relations, capturing both the excitement of a world on the brink of change and the all-too-human encounters that follow as East meets West.
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Violeta
by Isabel Allende
Living out her days in a remote part of her South American homeland, Violeta finds her life shaped by some of the most important events of history as she tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others.
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Wahala
by Nikki May
When charismatic Isobel explodes into their close-knit group, at first seemingly bringing out the best in each woman, Boo, Simi and Ronke, three Anglo-Nigerian best friends, find their close friendship starting to crack as this lethally glamorous woman wreaks havoc on their lives.
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The Winter Rose
by Melanie Dobson
In this gripping dual-timeline novel, Addie Hoult is searching for a bone marrow donor for her beloved Papa C - leading her down a rabbit hole of dusty genealogy records, decades-old secrets and the story of Grace Tonquin, an American Quaker who worked tirelessly in Vichy France to rescue Jewish children from the Nazis.
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Yonder
by Jabari Asim
Meeting at Placid Hall, a plantation in an unspecified part of the American South, Cato and Willian, subjected to the whims of their tyrannical and eccentric captor, find their friendship fraying when a visiting pastor fills their heads with ideas about independence.
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Anthem
by Noah Hawley
Trying to recover from the tragic loss of his sister, Simon Oliver joins a woman, Louise, and a man called The Prophet on an urgent, but enigmatic quest to find a man called The Wizard.
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Box 88
by Charles Cumming
A secret agent comes of age—and reckons with the legacy of his first mission.
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Death in Cornwall
by G. M. Malliet
DCI Arthur St. Just and Portia De’Ath visit the quiet village of Maidsfell in Cornwall only to find it divided over plans to redevelop the seafront. After a heated meeting, Lord Bodwally, who is fiercely against the plans, is found murdered. St. Just finds himself compelled to investigate, but what secrets are hidden in Maidsfell?
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The Final Case
by David Guterson
Eighty-year-old Seattle criminal attorney Royal, in his last days of his long career, takes on the case of conservative, white fundamentalists Christians Delven and Betsy Harvey, who are accused of murdering their adopted daughter from Ethiopia.
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Find Me
by Alafair Burke
A Manhattan defense lawyer searches for her missing best friend, a person who never recovered from amnesia after an accident, with the help of a homicide detective who thinks the disappearance might be related to a cold case.
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A Flicker in the Dark
by Stacy Willingham
Twenty years after her father was arrested as a serial killer, Louisiana psychologist Chloe Davis becomes alarmed when local teenage girls once again go missing and she begins seeing parallels that may or may not be there.
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Good Rich People
by Eliza Jane Brazier
A wealthy couple who invite successful entrepreneurs to live in their guesthouse and then conspire to ruin their life for sport meet their match when Demi, a woman who took over another person’s identity, moves in.
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The Hitman's Daughter
by Carolyne Topdjian
Once a grand hotel, the Chateau du Ciel is in shambles and has a haunted reputation. The manager decides to throw a fancy New Year's Eve party to resurrect the Chateau’s luxurious past - but then a blizzard descends and traps the guests in the hotel for the night.
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The Last House on the Street
by Diane Chamberlain
Recently widowed, architect Kayla Carter moves into her new home in Round Hill where she is faced with threatening notes and a neighbor who is harboring long-buried secrets about the dark history of the land on which her house was built.
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Last Seen Alive
by Joanna Schaffhausen
When serial killer Francis Coben offers to give up the location of the remaining bodies, but only to her, Boston detective Ellery Hathaway is forced to face this monster once again especially when a fresh body turns up with his signature all over it.
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Lightning in a Mirror
by Jayne Ann Krentz
When her speed dating experiment leads her to Harlan Rancourt, who—long believed dead—needs her help locating a legendary lab, psychic investigator Olivia LeClair must use her unique gift to get them to the top-secret lab before innocent people die.
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The Maid
by Nita Prose
When she discovers the dead body of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black in his suite, hotel maid Molly Gray finds her orderly life upended as she becomes the prime suspect in the case and is caught in a web of deception that she has no idea how to unravel.
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Mermaid Confidential
by Tim Dorsey
Dropping anchor in the Florida Keys, Serge A. Storms and his permanently baked sidekick, Coleman, become local favorites as they take a stand against investors who are trying to destroy their paradise while dealing with drug smugglers who have arrived in a hail of bullets.
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The Mirror Man
by Lars Kepler
When the body of a girl is found in the park, Detective Joona Linna discovers a connection between this murder and a death declared a suicide years before, and, with a serial killer on the loose, must save another girl who has gone missing.
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Mouth to Mouth
by Antoine Wilson
When the man whose life he saved, a renowned art dealer, takes him under his wing, Jeff Cook is initiated into his world, one where nothing is what it seems, in this dramatic novel that blurs the line between opportunity and exploitation, self-respect and self-delusion, fact and fiction.
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Notes on an Execution
by Danya Kukafka
Told through the women in his life—his mother, his sister-in-law and the detective who brought him to justice, this gripping and atmospheric work of literary suspense deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row as he awaits his execution in 12 hours.
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One Step Too Far
by Lisa Gardner
Searching for a young man who disappeared without a trace, missing persons expert and recovering alcoholic Frankie Elkin, with her very life on the line, goes up against something very dark to find what she is looking for.
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Palms, Paradise, Poison
by John Keyse-Walker
When a hurricane hits the Caribbean with brutal force, Constable Teddy Creque, the sole police officer on tiny, sun-soaked Anegada, is too busy saving his fellow islanders to worry about an escaped prisoner who can allegedly kill with magic. After all, Teddy doesn’t believe in magic. But events soon force him to reconsider …
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Quicksilver
by Dean R. Koontz
When the discovery of a coin worth a lot of money forces him to run for his life, Quinn Quicksilver meets his destined companions as he barrels towards a confrontation with an enemy who is as every bit as scary as the power within himself.
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Real Aasy
by Marie Rutkoski
It's 1999, and the case of one woman murdered and another kidnapped takes on nuance as the story is conveyed from the points of view of at least a dozen different voices. A tenacious and unexpectedly hopeful thriller that shows even in ugliness, loss, and tragedy, there is humanity.
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Reckless Girls
by Rachel Hawkins
When they arrive at Meroe Island, a remote island paradise in the South Pacific despite a mysterious history of shipwrecks, cannibalism and murder, six people find their dream vacation turning into a nightmare when history starts repeating itself.
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The Runaway
by Nick Petrie
When he picks up a pregnant woman whose car has broken down, war veteran and former marine Peter Ash finds his act of kindness turning into a confrontation with a ruthless killer whose instincts and skills match—and perhaps exceed—his own.
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Something to Hide
by Elizabeth George
When a police detective is murdered, Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley becomes embroiled in a case that has far-reaching cultural associations that have nothing to do with life as he knows it as he pursues a killer determined to remain hidden.
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Spirits and Smoke
by Mary Miley
Deadly drinks, vicious gangsters, missing money . . . Reluctant sleuth Maddie Pastore is back with a bang, in the second Mystic’s Accomplice historical mystery set in 1920s Chicago.
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Spirits and Sourdough
by Bailey Cates
While investigating the recent murder of a woman whose ghost has been following her, baker Katie Lightfoot, under pressure from the living and the dead, must employ her magical skills to discover why her new husband’s guardian spirit has gone missing.
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A Three Book Problem
by Vicki Delany
Gemma Doyle investigates after a poison dart is thrown through the window of a lavish gathering hosted by a wealthy philanthropist and prominent Sherlockian in the 7th novel of the series.
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When You Are Mine
by Michael Robotham
A young, ambitious police officer with the elite Metropolitan Police in London, Philomena McCarthy, after a domestic violence call gone wrong, is trapped in a web of secrets, corruption and murder, and finds her impending marriage, career and very survival in jeopardy.
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Where There's a Will
by Sulari Gentill
Gentill’s witty 10th mystery takes Australian portrait painter Rowland Sinclair to Boston. His flamboyant friend, Daniel Cartwright, has been murdered, and Rowland is the sole executor of the man’s considerable estate, but events turn ugly when the will all but disinherits Danny's siblings in favor of one Otis Norcross, whom no one knows or is able to locate.
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Wolf Hollow
by Victoria Houston
When the wealthy McDonough family is murdered just as drilling for nickel and copper on their property is about to start, police chief Lew Ferris discovers that the family was filing a lawsuit to prevent the drilling, setting in motion a deadly chain of events.
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You Can Run
by Rebecca Zanetti
With a serial killer on the loose in Genesis Valley, WA, FBI profiler Laurel Snow must negotiate her conflicting feelings for the fish and wildlife officer she is working with, while dealing with a growing list of suspects and a danger that’s far too close to home.
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Digging Up Love
by Chandra Blumberg
A young woman working in her grandfather’s restaurant in rural Illinois who dreams of opening up a cookie shop in Chicago falls for a big-city academic paleontologist when a rare dinosaur bone turns up in her grandparents’ back yard.
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D'vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding
by Chencia C. Higgins
To elevate her brand, a closeted social media influencer goes on a reality tv show where she must convince her family and friends she’s getting married to the love of her life in six weeks.
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How to Deceive a Duke
by Samara Parish
Fiona is an engineer, a chemist, a rebel—and no one’s idea of a proper lady and her new invention—matches—will surely turn heads. There’s just a little matter of her being arrested for a crime she didn’t commit. And the only person she can turn to for help is the man who broke her heart years ago.
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Love & Other Disasters
by Anita Kelly
While competing on a popular cooking show, Dahlia Woodson stirs up trouble when she gets involved with a nonbinary contestant, and as their relationship heats up both in and out of the kitchen, she wonders if they have the right ingredients for a happily ever after.
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The Paid Bridesmaid
by Sariah Wilson
A bridesmaid for hire, Rachel Vinson, while working the wedding for an Instagram influencer, tries to keep the very handsome best man at bay when he takes too much of an interest in her, believing, unbeknownst to her, she is a corporate spy out to tank his company.
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The Siren of Sussex
by Mimi Matthews
Welcomed into fashionable society wearing the designs of boundary-pushing, half-Indian designer Ahmad Malik, daring equestrienne Evelyn Maltravers must decide what matters most—making her mark or following her heart.
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Daughter of the Moon Goddess
by Sue Lynn Tan
A debut fantasy inspired by the legend of the Chinese moon goddess, Chang’e, in which a young woman’s quest to free her mother pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm and sets her on a dangerous path—where choices come with deadly consequences, and she risks losing more than her heart.
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Engines of Empire
by R. S. Ford
When matriarch Rosomon Hawkspur sends each of her heirs, who are responsible for keeping the gears of the empire turning, to the far reaches of the nation, they each must prove their worth – or their empire will fall apart. An excellent start to a fast-paced new series.
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Goliath
by Tochi Onyebuchi
After those with the means to do so leave Earth in a mass exodus to the space colonies in the 2050s, those left behind salvage what they can from the collapsing infrastructure and try to find purpose.
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Light Years from Home
by Mike Chen
When their brother who has been missing for years, suddenly returns, changed, Evie and Kass Shao must cast aside their differences to hide him from the FBI and an entire alien army who are in fast pursuit.
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Luckenbooth
by Jenni Fagan
The interwoven lives of the tenants of No. 10 Luckenbooth Close, a cursed tenement in the heart of Edinburgh, drive this highly original novel set over the course of the 20th century.
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Road of Bones
by Christopher Golden
While preparing to film a story about the Kolyma Highway, a Siberian road built on top of the bones of prisoners of Stalin’s gulag, a documentary producer and his crew must fight for their survival when they are pursued down this road paved with angry ghosts.
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