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New Fiction - December 2021 |
PLEASE NOTE! These books were scheduled for release in December at the time this was created, but publication dates may change.
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The Ballerinas
by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
Returning to the Palais Garnier Opera House to choreograph the ballet that will kickstart her career—and finally make things right with her former friends, ballerina Delphine quickly discovers that things have changed—and some secrets can’t stay buried forever.
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Beasts of a Little Land
by Juhea Kim
After her desperate family sells her to a courtesan school, Jade befriends JungHo, an orphan boy begging on the streets of Seoul, and must decide to pursue her dreams or risk everything in the fight for independence.
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Bright Burning Things
by Lisa Harding
Haunted by her failed career and lingering childhood trauma, a former stage performer turns to alcohol but is saved from the brink of the abyss by her son whose love redirects her towards rehabilitation and redemption.
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The Cat Who Saved Books
by Sōsuke Natsukawa
When a talking cat named Tiger demands that he help save books with him, high school student Rintaro Natsuki and Tiger embark on an amazing journey, liberating books from their neglectful owners and meeting a colorful cast of characters along the way.
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Coco at the Ritz
by Gioia Diliberto
Biographer and novelist Diliberto offers a taut and surprising portrayal of French fashion designer Coco Chanel, focusing on her interrogation for suspected treason against France
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The Finder of Forgotten Things
by Sarah Loudin Thomas
This strong historical set against one of the worst industrial disasters in U.S. history, introduces a multifaceted cast desperately trying to survive the Great Depression in 1930s West Virginia, as well as wrestling with justice, mercy, inequality, and the fact that they are all prodigals still searching for the way home.
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The Fortune Men
by Nadifa Mohamed
Mahmood was falsely accused of killing a shopkeeper in Tiger Bay but steadfastly believed that justice would prevail. He didn't count on how racism and a corrupt legal system would combine to defeat him. Based on a true event, this is the story of the last man in Britain to be sentenced to death.
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Hidden Treasures
by Michelle Adams
When Tabitha shows up at her ex's house with a letter from his deceased mother, begging her to search for a priceless jewelry box at her old house, the pair embark on a journey of discovery together.
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The Last Rose of Shanghai
by Weina Dai Randel
In Japanese-occupied Shanghai in 1940, when a young heiress and owner of a nightclub meets a penniless Jewish refugee driven out of Germany, they are drawn together by fate and the freedom of music, but their love and survival grow more desperate as the war escalates.
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Learwife
by J. R. Thorp
Care-bent King Lear is dead, driven mad and betrayed. His three daughters too, broken in battle. But someone has survived: Lear's queen. Exiled to a nunnery years ago, written out of history, her name forgotten. Now she can tell her story.
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Lucky
by Marissa Stapley
Lucky Armstrong is a tough, talented grifter who has just pulled off a million-dollar heist with her boyfriend, Cary. She’s ready to start a brand-new life, with a new identity—when things go sideways.
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Orphans of the Storm
by Celia Imrie
In 1912 Nice, Marcela, after her cruel, controlling husband disappears with their two young sons, does everything in her power to find them until an era-defining disaster strikes, making a reunion seem impossible. A sweeping epic set against the backdrop of the sinking of the Titanic.
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The Ringmaster's Daughter
by Carly Schabowski
1940 Paris. Twenty-year-old Michel Bonnet, to escape the Nazis, joins the circus where he first sees Frieda—dark-haired, mysterious and also fleeing the Germans—who is harboring a secret that places him in more danger than he could ever know.
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A Season on the Wind
by Suzanne Woods Fisher
A successful nature author who writes about rare birds is so desperate to find a White-winged Tern that he returns to his Amish roots in Stoney Ridge with the ultimately dashed hope that no one will recognize him.
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Sharpe's Assassin
by Bernard Cornwell
The first new Richard Sharpe novel in nearly 15 years is set just after the Battle of Waterloo. A new enemy is looming on the horizon—la Fraternite, a group of Bonaparte loyalists apparently poised to carry out a plot to assassinate the “princes of Europe” and catapult Napoleon back to power throughout the continent.
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Silver Grass
by John D. Nesbitt
Seventeen-year-old Wilsey Grant left an orphanage and servitude to stake a claim in the Reconstruction-era West. Making his way north through the Laramie Mountains in Wyoming, he encounters difficulties in Silver Grass, a small town vexed by the arrival of numerous aspiring homesteaders and plagued by Bent Blackburn, the vicious owner of nearby ranch.
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The Spanish Daughter
by Lorena Hughes
Inheriting a cocoa plantation in Vinces, Ecuador, that someone will kill for, Puri, after her husband is murdered, assumes his identity to search for the truth of her father’s legacy and learn the identity of the enemy who stands in her way of claiming her birthright.
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Tell Me How to Be
by Neel Patel
While packing up the family home, widow Renu embarks on an emotional affair with the man she almost married while her son slips back into old habits, forcing both of them to choose between the lives they left behind and the ones they’ve since created.
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Three More Months
by Sarah Echavarre
Chloe Howard’s devotion to her job has come at a cost: spending time with her mother. Vowing to change, she plans a trip home but hours before she arrives, her mom passes away. Then, days before the funeral, Chloe finds her mother unaccountably alive again and realizes she’s been transported back in time three months, giving her another chance to make things right.
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White on White
by Aysegül Savas
A student moves to the city to research Gothic nudes and rents an apartment from a painter, Agnes, who lives in another town with her husband, but one day Agnes arrives in the city and settles into the upstairs studio.
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The Winter Guest
by Pam Jenoff
Raising their younger siblings in rural Poland under the shadow of Nazi occupation, 18-year-old Nowak twins Helena and Ruth find their lives endangered when Helena falls in love with a stranded American paratrooper that culminates into a singular act of betrayal.
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Criminal Mischief
by Stuart Woods
Former New York City cop turned rainmaker for a white-shoe Manhattan law firm Stuart Woods tackles his latest case in the world of upper-crust intrigue and government intelligence
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Cry Wolf
by Hans Rosenfeldt
A dead wolf. A drug deal gone wrong. A lethal female assassin. Rosenfeldt debuts with a fast-moving procedural set in Sweden’s remote north.
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The Danger Within
by Hilary Bonner
A man lies dead, his body punctured by multiple stab wounds. Beside him sits his silent wife. DCI David Vogel reckons he’s seen it all before – an abused wife snaps after years of suffering – but he comes to realize that nothing about this case is straightforward.
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Darkness Falls
by Robert Bryndza
Taking on a cold case involving a journalist who disappeared after exposing a political scandal, Kate and Tristan become certain the reporter actually uncovered the identity of a serial killer, in the third novel of the series.
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A Dire Isle
by R. V. Raman
Detective Harith Athreya investigates the murder of an archeologist who has run afoul of a cursed island near the banks of the Betwa River near Jahnsi in India, in the second novel of the series following A Will to Kill.
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Family Business
by S. J. Rozan
Private eye Lydia Chin investigates the murder of a Chinatown crime boss’s second lieutenant at his headquarters after the building becomes the target of preservationists and developers.
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The Hanged Man of Conakry
by Jean-Christophe Rufin
Set in Conakry, the capital of Guinea, this gem of a diplomatic thriller from Prix Goncourt winner Rufin features an unsolved and apparently unsolvable crime involving a vacationer who has been found hanged.
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A History of Wild Places
by Shea Ernshaw
An expert at locating missing people is asked to find the vanished, well-known author of dark, macabre children’s books and is led to Pastoral, a reclusive community found in the 1970s that many believed to only be a legend.
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Jane Austen's Lost Letters
by Jane K. Cleland
When she comes into the possession of two previously unknown letters by Jane Austen, antiques appraiser Josie Prescott, as she sets out to authenticate these letters, learns that someone is willing to kill to keep her from finding out the truth.
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From Ladle to Grave
by Amy Patricia Meade
As literary caterer Tish Tarragon goes lock up at St. Jude’s Episcopal Church hall after a fundraising dinner, she takes a tumble in the graveyard . . . over a dead body. Retired Sheriff Gadsden Carney has been murdered – and his murder looks suspiciously similar to a case that rocked Hobson Glen twenty-five years ago.
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Murder Under Her Skin
by Stephen Spotswood
When her friend is murdered, and her former mentor stands accused of the crime, Will Parker, a knife-thrower in Hart and Halloway’s Traveling Circus and Sideshow, searches for answers in a world of illusion where she puts everything on the line in search of the truth.
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The Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden
by Kate Saunders
In the spring of 1853, PI Laetitia Rodd takes a case that plunges her into the scandalous world of the theater where she, after discovering a dead body, becomes embroiled in family politics and rivalries that put the Capulets and Montagues to shame.
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One Night, New York
by Lara Thompson
Set over the course of a single evening, this literary thriller is at once a detective story, a romance, and a coming-of-age tale. It is also a story of old New York, of Greenwich Village between the wars, of artists and bohemians lighting up Manhattan as the Great Depression descends upon the city.
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The Paris Detective
by James Patterson
Joining the NYPD for a fresh start, French detective Luc Moncrief, as gorgeous women drop dead at upscale department stories and priceless paintings vanish from a Park Avenue murder scene, must become a quick study in the art of the steal before a coldblooded killer strikes again.
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Past Life
by David Mark
The clairvoyant is found with a shard of blue crystal buried deep in her chest. The crime scene plunges DS Aector McAvoy back twelve years, to a case he’s tried desperately to forget. Polished prose, lovable recurring characters, and a stunning revelation make this a mystery to savor.
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The Queen's Men
by Oliver Clements
When Queen Elizabeth, after attempts are made on her life, orders John Dee to rediscover the vital secret of Greek fire, the ultimate weapon to protect her country and throne, his mission may prove impossible unless he deploys the most effective weapon of all: intelligence.
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Silent Parade
by Keigo Higashino
When the suspected killer of two young girls—20 years apart—dies during the annual street festival, Detective Chief Inspector Kusanagi turns to his friend Detective Galileo to help solve the string of impossible to prove murders.
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So Far and Good
by John Straley
Imprisoned defense investigator Cecil Younger helps his teenage daughter, who, after launching her own detective agency, finds her first case—helping her best friend find her biological family—more than she can handle when a dark secret threatens to destroy not only her client’s family but her own.
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The Sorority Murder
by Allison Brennan
Obsessed with the murder of Candace Swain, Lucas Vega, three years after her death, while interning at the Medical Examiner’s, discovers new information and teams up with a former US Marshal who not only exposes Candace’s secret life but also Lucas’s to solve this case.
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They Can't Take Your Name
by Robert Justice
Wrongly convicted of the gruesome Mother’s Day Massacre, Langston Brown prepares to face his death while his daughter, in a desperate bid to find freedom for him, goes up against a crooked detective who will do anything to stop her.
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W.E.B. Griffin Rogue Asset
by Brian Andrews
To save the secretary of state from an army of terrorists in Cairo, the President revives the Presidential Agent program and calls Charley Castillo out of retirement to direct a new agent, Killer McCoy, to get the job done.
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Duke Gone Rogue
by Christy Carlyle
While repairing his ramshackle manor house in time for a royal visit, the Duke of Ashmore is captivated by a local woman Madeline Ravenwood, and as his love for her grows, he must convince her that she is the woman he’s been waiting for.
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Girls Before Earls
by Anna Bennett
Agreeing to take on the troublesome niece of the Earl of Bladenton, Miss Hazel Lively, the headmistress of Bellehaven Academy for girls, finds herself drawn to this man who puts both her reputation and heart on the line.
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The Love Con
by Seressia Glass
Kenya Davenport finally has a chance to make it big when she joins the reality show competition Cosplay or No Way except the challenge for the final require the contestants' significant others to participate. Kenya is single at the moment so her best friend, Cameron, agrees to be her fake boyfriend, but role-playing a couple in love will force them to explore what they're hiding under the mask of friendship.
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Marry Me, Millie
by Amy Lillard
When true affection grows between widowed and pregnant Millie Bauman and handsome newcomer Henry King, who is mourning his own loss, they must rely on faith and fate to decide if they should risk their hearts on love again.
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The Rebel and the Rake
by Emily Sullivan
One of the crown’s most valuable agents, Rafe Davies is distracted from his latest mission by lady’s companion Miss Sylvia Sparrow, a secretive beauty who is resolved to avoid him until a chance encounter reveals an attraction that’s impossible to ignore.
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The Redemption of Philip Thane
by Lisa Berne
Living the same day over and over again, Philip Thane—rogue, rake and scoundrel extraordinaire—repeatedly tries to win the heart of the delightful Miss Margaret Allen who stands firm against his wiles, day after day.
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Cyber Mage
by Saad Z. Hossain
A mercenary, Djibrel, searches for answers about what happened to a magical super-race of genies who seem to have disappeared in 2089 Dhaka, Bangladesh, a city that has survived a global climate apocalypse using biological nanotech.
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Innate Magic
by Shannon Fay
Desperately trying to make a name for himself in postwar London, cloth mage Paul Gallagher confides in the wrong person that he possesses a powerful – and illegal – innate magic, putting not only his friends and family in danger, but also the whole world.
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Of Kings, Queens and Colonies
by Johnny Worthen
A religious inquisition plays out across a richly imagined system of colonized planets in this outstanding epic that blends space opera and 16th-century historical fiction.
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An Unintended Voyage
by Marshall Ryan Maresca
With this atmospheric fantasy adventure, Maresca returns to the universe of his Maradaine novels and masterfully expands it with the realistic portrayal of the characters’ struggles in a foreign land and high-stakes action.
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