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I'm Not the Only Murderer in My Retirement Home
by Fergus Craig
Former serial killer Carol wants to relax in her new retirement home...until a fellow resident drops dead.
Carol is delighted to be leaving her tiny prison cell behind to take her place in a luxury retirement home. She's hoping her past as a serial killer won't come to light so she can make a few friends and find some murder-free hobbies. But it's not long before a fellow resident—who happens to be a former police commissioner—drops dead, and Carol's true identity is leaked—making catching up over daily activities of bingo and baking rather awkward. Everyone thinks Carol's guilt is a no-brainer, but she is ready to prove them dead wrong...without killing anyone, for once.
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Strangers in the Villa
by Robyn Harding
A couple rocked by infidelity moves to a villa in Spain’s Costa Brava, only to welcome a pair of visitors who have no intention of leaving.
Sydney Lowe’s life in New York is shattered when her husband, Curtis, admits to a meaningless affair with a client. Begging for forgiveness and vowing to prove his devotion, Curtis suggests the couple retreat to a remote hilltop house in Spain to repair their marriage. High above the Mediterranean, Sydney and her husband are working on the isolated property when a pair of Australian travelers turns up in dire need of help. Lonely for companionship and desperate for free labor, Sydney and Curtis invite the attractive young couple to stay. But as the days pass, dark secrets come to light, the Lowes’ bond is tested, and not everyone will leave the villa alive.
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Marion
by Leah Rowan
A twist on Hitchcock’s iconic classic Psycho—where the leading lady doesn't die, but instead turns the knife on Norm.
Marion is in deep. She's stolen money from the Manhattan ad agency where she works in a desperate bid to help her sister escape an abusive marriage. But when the bus breaks down on the way to Saratoga Springs, the only place with vacancies is an old set of cabins on the outskirts of town. She pays for a room in cash, and ends up chatting with Norm, the young, handsome innkeeper who's a little hung-up on his elderly mother. Back in her room, she steps into the shower, when the curtain is pulled back...Norm Billings is there with a knife. Before he strikes, Marion grabs the knife and stabs the life out of him. Now, she's covered in blood, and she's a woman on the run—not just a thief, but a killer, too. Where will she go? How will she save both herself and her sister? And what mysteries will she uncover as she does?
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How to Get Away with Murder
by Rebecca Philipson
A Scotland Yard detective sets out to find the author of a self-help book that promises to teach readers how to get away with murder.
Detective Inspector Samantha Hansen has been on leave for six months, recovering from a breakdown she suffered at work. But when a fourteen-year-old girl is murdered in a local park, Sam jumps at the chance to prove that she's still got what it takes to be the Yard's most successful homicide detective. One of the case’s only leads is a copy of a self-help book found in the victim's backpack called How To Get Away With Murder by a man named Denver Brady. Brady claims to be the most successful serial killer of our time, which is why no one's ever heard of him. Chapter by chapter, he details his methodology and his past victims. As Sam's investigation progresses and the details of the book go viral, Sam begins to suspect that there’s more to the author than what he’s revealed.
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Ode to the Bones: A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery
by Carolyn Haines
The next novel in the series Kirkus Reviews characterizes as “Stephanie Plum meets the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” featuring sassy Southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney.
Private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney returns to her Mississippi Delta roots, hoping that long drives through cotton fields and the companionship of her dogs will ease her restless spirit. Instead, she’s confronted by a ghostly vision of a woman in white on the Tallahatchie Bridge, who disappears before Sarah Booth can investigate further. Then, the local bank president hires her to find a missing farmer, Danny Anderson. Danny is about to lose his family’s generational farm to foreclosure and is rumored to be entangled in a secret affair with a preacher’s wife. As Sarah Booth and her feisty partner Tinkie dig deeper, they uncover a web of gossip, ghost sightings, and a shadowy land buyer snapping up vulnerable farms.
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The Society
by Karen Winn
While some believe the secret society called the Knox is merely an elite social club, others are convinced it hides something more sinister...
Vivian Lawrence was born into old-money Boston, but when her family fortune vanishes, so does her carefully curated life. Desperate, she turns to the Knox and its inheritance, seeking a way into the exclusive secret society.
Far from Boston’s glittering elite is newcomer Taylor Adams, a young nurse eager to leave her humble past behind. When the effortlessly glamorous Vivian arrives in Taylor’s ER after a suspicious fall, Taylor is instantly captivated. But then Vivian abruptly disappears without a trace, sending Taylor on a search for answers that pulls her into the Knox itself—as their new employee.
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The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss
by Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris
A dazzling celebration of birdlife in Britain, re-imagining the classic field guide for a new generation of nature lovers.
A great thinning of the skies is underway. Around 50% of bird species are in decline worldwide. Our dawns and springs are quieter each year than the last. An almost unimaginable abundance has been lost. The Book of Birds is a compendium of forty-nine bird species, from Avocet to Yellowhammer, all of which are presently declining or endangered in Britain. Inspired by the classic bird-books with which the authors grew up, this is a field guide with a difference: It asks not “What is that bird?”, but “Who is that bird?” It shows its readers how to identify birds, but also how to identify with them. With lyrical precision and playfulness, Robert Macfarlane evokes each bird’s habits and habitats –– their patterns of flight and of song, how they hunt and gather, how they nest and raise their young, the stories and myths which attend them, the threats which shadow them, and how their wild lives intersect with our own.
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London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
by Patrick Radden Keefe
A spellbinding account of a family devastated by the sudden death of their nineteen-year-old son, only to discover that he had a secret life in London’s dangerous criminal underworld.
In the early morning of November 29th, 2019, surveillance cameras at the headquarters of MI6, Britain’s spy agency, captured video of a young man pacing back and forth on a high balcony of Riverwalk, a luxury tower on the bank of the river Thames. At 2:24 a.m., he jumped into the river. In their unbearable grief, Rachelle Brettler and her husband, Matthew, struggled to understand what had happened to their son Zac. As they would soon discover, there was a lot they did not know about their son. Only after his death did they learn that he had adopted a fictitious alter-ego: Zac Ismailov, son of a Russian oligarch and heir to a great fortune. Under this guise, Zac had become entangled with a slippery London businessman named Akbar Shamji, and a murderous gangster known as “Indian Dave.” As the Brettlers set about investigating their son’s death, they are pulled into a different and more dangerous London than the one they’d always known.
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The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel: Romanovs, Revolutionaries, and the Forgotten Titan Who Fueled the World
by Douglas Brunt
The hidden history of Emanuel Nobel, one of the world’s most successful corporate titans, whose legacy was erased in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.
Other than the Tsar, Emanuel Nobel was likely the wealthiest man in early 20th-century Russia. He and his father, Ludwig, rose from bankruptcy to become the owners of an oil company that rivaled John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil. They imported the best practices from America and then used their own innovative ideas to improve on them, transforming everything from refining technology to transportation methods. And all the while, in an industry famous for exploitation of its workers, they built homes, parks, and schools for their employees. However, the man Joseph Stalin most wanted to destroy--besides the Tsar himself--was Emanuel Nobel, who represented everything he loathed about capitalism and its imbalance of power. As the world turned upside down, Emanuel found himself in the Bolsheviks’s crosshairs and began to plan a life-or-death escape from Russia. But would he make it out in time? And what would happen to the empire his family had built over three generations?
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A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War
by W. Fitzhugh Brundage
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, a harrowing new history of the Civil War’s prisoner of war camps, North and South.
It is newly estimated that 750,000 soldiers died in the American Civil War. But less well known than the war’s death toll are the roughly 400,000 who were captured and imprisoned—a milestone in the history of mass dehumanization. Many POWs died from starvation, dysentery, and exposure, and, at the worst of the prison pens, more than 30,000 soldiers were caged in the equivalent of ten city blocks. A Fate Worse Than Hell contemplates the roots and consequences of this mass incarceration from America’s bloodiest conflict. Based on first–person prisoner accounts, photographs, and contemporaneous journalism, historian W. Fitzhugh Brundage shows how POW camps were politicized by stalled negotiations and escalating retaliation between the Union and the Confederacy.
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Discover the Art of Field Sketching: Nature-Inspired Techniques for Pencil, Pen, and Watercolor
by Kristin Link
An empowering guide to the many ways of noticing, connecting with, and documenting the world around you.
For over 15 years, artist and illustrator Kristin Link has taught everyone from children to experts how to draw everything from a single acorn to a breathtaking mountain vista. Now her popular field sketching course is available as a guide that anyone can use. Discover the Art of Field Sketching is a nature illustration book for artists of all skill levels. It starts with the basics of pen, pencil, and watercolor, then introduces more advanced techniques for complex landscapes and animals in motion. The book includes 30 step-by-step lessons, and many more inspiring examples of finished products. It also focuses on the meditative and philosophical aspects of field sketching, like slowing down, presentness, and learning to love nature of all sizes.
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By the River's Edge: A True Story of Identity and Serial Murder
by Gregg Olsen
A decades-long manhunt for a serial killer takes a stunning turn in this haunting and harrowing true crime shocker.
In 1990 in Washington state, the bodies of Yolanda Sapp, Nickie Lowe, and Kathy Brisbois were found on the banks of the Spokane River. They were part of a close-knit alliance of sex workers whose oath to protect each other was, in the end, hopeless. For twenty-two years their brutal murders went unsolved. In 2012, a DNA cold hit pointed to Douglas Perry. A repeat assault offender, Douglas was currently incarcerated in Carswell, Texas. But there was a twist: The facility was for female prisoners. The man authorities hunted for decades was now Donna Perry. Her gender reassignment not only helped to mask the evil deeds of the past, it ended a life of childhood traumas and a pent-up rage unleashed on nearly thirty victims. By the River’s Edge is the astonishing true story of an elusive serial killer, an escape plan like no other, and the women for whom justice was at long last served.
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