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Upcoming Hot Releases January 2025 |
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Strangers in Time
by David Baldacci
Historical Fiction. After barely surviving the Blitz, fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters knows there's no telling when a falling bomb might end his life. Fifteen-year-old Molly Wakefield has just returned to a nearly unrecognizable London. One of millions of people to have been evacuated to the countryside via "Operation Pied Piper," Molly has been away from her parents for nearly five years. Her return, however, is not the homecoming she'd hoped for as she's confronted by a devastating reality: neither of her parents are there, only her old nanny, Mrs. Pride. Without guardians and stability, Charlie and Molly find an unexpected ally and protector in Ignatius Oliver, and solace at his book shop, The Book Keep, where a book a day keeps the bombs away. Mourning the recent loss of his wife, Ignatius forms a kinship with both children, and in each other--over the course of the greatest armed conflict the world had ever seen--they rediscover the spirit of family each has lost. But Charlie's escapades in the city have not gone unnoticed, and someone's been following Molly since she returned to London. (April)
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The Queens of Crime
by Marie Benedict
Historical Mystery. In 1930 London, the Queens of Crime, a secret society of renowned women writers led by Dorothy L. Sayers investigates the murder of nurse May Daniels, found strangled in a park, and must navigate a web of intrigue and danger as they challenge societal norms. (February)
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The Medici Return
by Steve Berry
Adventure. The search for a 16th-century Vatican debt known as the Pledge of Christ leads Cotton Malone into a high-stakes quest involving the lost Medici lineage, while the future of Italy's prime minister and the papacy hang in the balance, all depending on the Medici's possible return. (February)
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Blood Moon
by Sandra Brown
Romantic Suspense. Recently divorced and slightly heavy-handed with his liquor, Detective John Bowie does all that he can to cope with the actions taken (or not taken) during the investigation of Crissy Mellin, a teenage girl who disappeared more than three years prior. But now, Crisis Point, a long-running true crime television series, is soon to air an episode documenting the unsolved Mellin case. Bowie has been instructed by his unscrupulous boss to keep to himself his grievances and criticisms over the mishandling of the investigation. After working on the show for seven years researching, fact checking, and editing dozens of episodes, Crisis Point senior producer Beth Collins is convinced that Crissy Mellin's disappearance was not an isolated incident. A string of disappearances of teenage girls in nearby areas have only one thing in common: They took place on the night of a blood moon. In a last-ditch effort to find out the truth, Beth leaves New York City for Louisiana to enlist Detective Bowie in helping her figure out what happened to Crissy and find the true culprit before he acts on the next blood moon-in four days' time. At the risk of their jobs and lives, Bowie and Collins band together to identify and capture a canny perpetrator, while fighting an irresistible spark between them that threatens to upend everything. (March)
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Nobody's Fool
by Harlan Coben
Suspense. A year after the devastating events that took place in Fool Me Once, a secret from former Detective Sami Kierce's college days comes back to haunt him. Sami Kierce, a young college grad backpacking in Spain with friends, wakes up one morning, covered in blood. There’s a knife in his hand. Beside him, the body of his girlfriend. Anna. Dead. He doesn’t know what happened. His screams drown out his thoughts—and then he runs. Twenty-two years later, Kierce, now a private investigator, is a new father who’s working off his debts by doing low level surveillance jobs and teaching wannabe sleuths at a night school in New York City. One evening, he recognizes a familiar face at the back of the classroom. Anna. It’s unmistakably her. As soon as Kierce makes eye contact with her, she bolts. For Kierce there is no choice. He knows he must find this woman and solve the impossible mystery that has haunted his every waking moment since that terrible day. (March)
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The Summer Guests
by Tess Gerritsen
Thriller/Mystery. A follow-up to The Spy Coast plunges the Martini Club into the search for a missing teen with a startling connection to their own pasts. When former spy Maggie Bird retired to the seaside hamlet of Purity, Maine, she settled in for a quiet life with breathtaking views. But enemies from her past soon threatened to destroy everything. Maggie survived, thanks to her wits and the collective intelligence of the Martini Club, the circle of ex-CIA friends in her cocktail-sipping book club. Their handiwork, however, caught the attention of young police chief Jo Thibodeau. Now Jo and her neighborhood ex-spies have an uneasy alliance. After a teenager vanishes and Maggie’s neighbor becomes the prime suspect, Maggie joins the investigation, determined to prove her friend’s innocence.
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Nemesis
by Gregg Hurwitz
Thriller. Evan Smoak is dedicated to his assassin's 10 Commandments, but when Tommy Stojack, gifted gunsmith and possibly his best friend, crosses a line while helping a dead friend's son, Smoak is ambushed when trying to confront him, and the dispute explodes into open warfare. (February)
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Last Twilight in Paris
by Pam Jenoff
Historical Fiction. In London, 1953, a secondhand shop necklace bears the name Lévitan, a Paris department store-turned-Nazi prison camp, leading Louise and former romantic partner Ian to investigate her friend Franny's war death and the fate of Helaine, a woman imprisoned at Lévitan when the Germans invaded France. (February)
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Open Season
by Jonathan Kellerman
Mystery/Thriller. The body of an aspiring actress is found, another victim is shot by a sniper, and then more bodies pile up, and psychologist Alex Delaware and homicide detective Milo Sturgis must face a highly complex killer that will require all their skills to decipher.(February).
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Elphie
by Gregory Maguire
Fantasy. This sequel to Wicked describes the coming-of-age story of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, as she is molded by her promiscuous mother and her pious father, becomes jealous of her siblings, and encounters mistreatment of the animal populations of Oz. (March)
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We All Live Here
by Jojo Moyes
Fiction. Lila Kennedy juggles a broken marriage, rebellious daughters, a crumbling house, and an elderly stepfather when her estranged father unexpectedly shows up after thirty-five years, forcing her to confront unresolved feelings and discover unexpected lessons about love and family amidst her chaotic life. (February)
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Blood Ties
by Jo Nesbø
Thriller. Two brothers, Carl and Roy Opgard, face off against a highway bypass threat to their small town, but as they resort to dark measures, a sheriff's reopened investigation and rising body count pushes their loyalty to the edge. (February)
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Robert B. Parker's Buried Secrets
by Christopher Farnsworth
Mystery/Thriller. Police Chief Jesse Stone investigates the mystery behind a dead body found with photos of murder victims strewn around it and placed on top of $2 million in cash, before a mob of hit men converge on Paradise. (February)
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Paranoia
by James Patterson
Mystery/Thriller. NYPD Detective Michael Bennett is on special assignment, chasing a killer who feeds on isolation and paranoia, and he will stop at nothing to protect family: his wife, his kids—and his fellow officers. (February)
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The Writer
by James Patterson
Thriller/Mystery. NYPD Detective Declan Shaw gets a call: How fast can you get to the Beresford building on Central Park West? In the tower apartment, Shaw finds a woman waiting for him. She’s covered in blood. A body is lying dead on the floor of the luxurious living room. Every book in the apartment’s floor-to-ceiling shelves is by the same author: bestselling true-crime writer Denise Morrow. This is you?" Shaw asks the woman. "You're a writer?" Only one person knows the ending to this story. Is it the victim or the killer? (March)
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Bonded in Death
by J. D. Robb
Mystery/Thriller. Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates the mysterious murder of an elderly man linked to the Urban Wars while being targeted by a vengeful killer, in the latest addition to the long-running series following Passions in Death. (February)
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Lethal Prey
by John Sandford
Thriller. Doris Grandfelt, an employee at an accounting firm, was brutally stabbed to death, but nobody knew exactly where the crime took place. Her body was found the next night, dumped among a dense thicket of trees. Despite her twin sister Lara Grandfelt’s persistent calls to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the killer was never found. Twenty years later, Lara has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Confronted with the possibility of her own death, she’s determined to find Doris’s killer once and for all. Finally taking matters into her own hands, she dumps the entire investigative file on every true-crime site in the world and offers a $5 million reward for information leading to the killer’s arrest. Dozens of true-crime bloggers show up looking for both new evidence and “clicks,” and Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are called in to review anything that might be a new lead. (March)
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Show Don't Tell
by Curtis Sittenfeld
Short Stories. Stories of complex, realistic characters confronting transformative moments, including a divorced woman reconnecting with friends, an artist challenging gender norms, and a reunion with a beloved character from the novel Prep, all woven with humor, insight, and an intimate portrayal of personal growth. (February)
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Into the Gray Zone
by Brad Taylor
Military Thriller. While on a routine security assessment in India, Taskforce operator Pike Logan foils an attempted attack on a meeting between the CIA and India’s intelligence service. Both government agencies believe it’s nothing more than a minor terrorist attack, but Pike suspects that something much more sinister is at play. After another terrorist operation at the Taj Mahal, he begins to believe that outside powers are attacking India in the gray zone between peace and war, leveraging terrorist groups for nothing more than economic gain. But the separatists conducting the operations have their own agenda. After a massive slaughter and kidnapping of hostages during an elaborate Indian pre-wedding party, two global powers are destabilized, and only Pike Logan and his team can de-escalate the tension by rescuing the captives. (April)
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Three Days in June
by Anne Tyler
Fiction. As Gail navigates the chaos of her daughter Debbie's wedding preparations—including a job loss, exclusion from family events, and the unexpected arrival of her ex-husband Max—she faces a crisis that threatens the wedding and forces both parents to confront unresolved issues from their past. (February)
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The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits
by Jennifer Weiner
Fiction. Sisters Cassie and Zoe Grossberg were born just a year apart but could not have been more different. Zoe, blessed with charm and beauty, yearned for fame from the moment she could sing into a hairbrush. Cassie was a musical prodigy who never felt at home in her own skin and preferred the safety of the shadows. On the brink of adulthood in the early 2000s, destiny intervened, catapulting the sisters into the spotlight as the pop sensation the Griffin Sisters, hitting all the touchstones of early aughts fame—SNL, MTV, Rolling Stone magazine—along the way. But after a whirlwind year in the public eye, the band abruptly broke up. Two decades later, Zoe’s a housewife; Cassie’s off the grid. The sisters aren’t speaking, and the real reason for the Griffin Sisters’ breakup is still a mystery. Zoe’s teenage daughter, Cherry, who’s determined to be a star in spite of Zoe’s warnings, is on a quest to learn the truth about what happened to the band all those years ago. (April)
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