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December 2023 New Fiction Releases |
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All the Little Bird-Hearts
by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
Sunday Forrester lives with her sixteen-year-old daughter, Dolly, in the house she grew up in. She does things more carefully than most people. On quiet days, she must eat only white foods. Her etiquette handbook guides her through confusing social situations, and to escape, she turns to her treasury of Sicilian folklore. The one thing very much out of her control is clever headstrong Dolly, now on the cusp of leaving home.
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The Archive of Feelings
by Peter Stamm
Forty years after confessing his love to his close friend, Franziska, the narrator, when their paths cross again, wonders if he should risk the comfort of his ordered existence for a romance that might never match what he imagined.
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Dead of Night
by Simon Scarrow
After the SS rules a doctor's mysterious death a suicide, the man's widow and Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke investigate while trying not to run afoul of the Gestapo, in the second novel of the series following Blackout.
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A Different Kind of Gone
by Catherine Ryan Hyde
A woman who joined a search party for a missing 19 year-old discovers her hiding in a cave, terrified that her abusive boyfriend will kill her if he sees her again and must make a decision about keeping her secret.
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The end of the world is a cul de sac
by Louise Kennedy
This masterful collection of dark stories from the author of the much-acclaimed Trespasses centers around women whose lives are defined by deprivation—material, emotional and sexual—as they search for the good in the cards they've been dealt.
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The Fairytale Life of Dorothy Gale
by Virginia Kantra
After heartbreak and humiliation, Dorothy“Dee” Gale applies to the writing program at Trinity College Dublin where, during a year of opportunities and changes, love and loss, finds the confidence to confront her biggest fears and see herself and her work with new eyes.
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The Fearless One
by Lori Foster
Demanding a job at the Triple Creek campground in the Colorado Rockies, Jedidiah Stephens is determined to find the truth behind the fire that killed her family but isn't prepared for her attraction to Memphis Osborn, the ruggedly handsome groundskeeper.
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Flores and Miss Paula
by Melissa Rivero
A 30-year-old living with her Peruvian immigrant mother in a Brooklyn apartment after her father's passing discovers a weird note under his urn that forces the pair to confront their complicated past.
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The Frozen River
by Ariel Lawhon
In 1789 Maine, midwife and healer Martha Ballard, who is good at keeping secrets, investigates a shocking murder linked to an alleged rape that has shaken her small town, especially when her diary lands at the center of the scandal, threatening to tear both her family and her community apart.
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The Paris Housekeeper
by Renee Ryan
In 1940, as German tanks rumble through the streets of Paris, Camille Lacroix, a chambermaid at the world-famous Hotel Ritz, finds her courage and strength tested when she turns to a wealthy American widow for helping getting her friend out of the city.
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Prophet Song
by Paul Lynch
With Ireland caught in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack, as the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, must decide how far she'll go to save her family and what—or who—she is willing to leave behind.
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Rebecca, Not Becky
by Christine Platt
Struggling to adjust to the upper-crust white suburb of Rolling Hills, Virginia, De'Andrea Whitman is challenged by her therapist to make a white girlfriend and finds one in Rebecca Myland as they are brought together to fight back against the community's rising racial sentiments.
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The Wages of Sin
by Harry Turtledove
With the“Wasting” (HIV) creating a mid-nineteenth-century England and London almost unrecognizable to us, Viola, extremely intelligent and growing up in a house full of medical books, can only travel to far-off places in her imagination since her actions and movements are severely restricted by both law and custom.
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Welcome Home, Stranger
by Kate Christensen
Summoned home to deal with the aftermath of her mother's death, environmental journalist Rachel, who has shunned her family for years, must come to terms with her past, the sorrow she has long buried and the ghost of the mother who made her the woman she is.
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The Wildest Sun by Asha LemmieForced from her home in postwar Paris, aspiring young writer Delphine Auber embarks on a journey to New York's Harlem, and then to Havana and Key West, in search of her father, whom she believes is famed luminary Ernest Hemingway.
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A Winter by the Sea
by Julie Klassen
When a family of royals rent a neighboring cottage, the Summers sisters agree to host a number of their staff, resulting in romance, intrigue and danger, in the second novel of the series following The Sisters of Sea View.
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The Wonder of it All by Barbara Taylor BradfordReturning from The Great War a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental, James Falconer, determined to make amends to his daughter, Leonie, now a grown woman who wants nothing to do with him, works toward healing his body, soul and family.
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The Academy
by David Poyer
Appointed Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Dan Lenson finds himself facing legal jeopardy for his actions during the war while fighting to rescue the Academy itself when a Category 5 hurricane threatens to overwhelm the coast.
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City of Betrayal by Victoria ThompsonA grifter skilled at interacting with difficult men teams up with the suffragist movement in an attempt to pass the 19th Amendment in Tennessee, in the seventh novel of the series following City of Fortune.
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The Couple in the Photo
by Helen Cooper
When she sees a photo of her best friend's husband vacationing with another woman, whom she learns has disappeared, Lucy searches for answers and uncovers secrets about her friends and her own husband that could destroy the wonderful lives they've built.
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The Curse of Penryth Hall by Jess ArmstrongAfter the Great War, American heiress Ruby Vaughn, delivering a box of books to Penryth Hall, the home to her once dearest friend, Tamsyn, is drawn into a mystery when Tamsyn's husband is murdered and the crime is blamed on a curse—one that could claim Tamsyn's life as well.
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Cyanide and Sensibility
by Katie Oliver
When one of her sister Hannah's famous dark chocolate cupcakes poisons a local celebrity's assistant, Phaedra Brighton, to save Hannah's reputation and business, sets out to serve justice to a culprit willing to take their target off the menu—permanently.
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Daughter of Ashes
by Ilaria Tuti
Superintendent Teresa Battaglia delays her retirement from the Italian police force to speak with an incarcerated serial killer who claims that they are both in danger, in the fourth novel of the series following The Sleeping Nymph.
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Deadly Game
by Michael Caine
Harry Taylor and his unconventional Met team search for a lead when a metal box of radioactive material is found at a dump in Stepney, East London, in the new novel from the legendary British actor.
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Death by Demo
by Callie Carpenter
After discovering her husband having an affair, Jaime receives only a single thing in the ensuing divorce, a run-down historical house where she discovers a dead body in the wall once starting her renovations.
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Death in the dark woods
by Annelise Ryan
Odds and Ends bookstore owner and amateur cryptozoologist Morgan Carter travels to Bayfield County, Wisconsin, with her dog, Newt, to investigate a series of Bigfoot sightings, in the second novel of the series following A Death in Door County.
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Dissolved
by Sara Blaedel
Chief Superintendent Liam Stark and Superintendent Dea Torp of the Danish police investigate the disappearance of two people in Tommerup, Denmark and discover a strange note linking the second missing person to the first crime scene.
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The Engagement Party
by Darby Kane
Engaged to Murray Sedgemont after a whirlwind romance, Kass Baptiste, unexpectedly entering the world of the rich and powerful, starts receiving anonymous threatening social media messages during their engagement party that result in murder—one she's accused of committing.
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The Final Curtain
by Keigo Higashino
In his latest case, Detective Kaga uncovers a connection between two recent suspicious deaths in Tokyo and the disappearance and death of his own mother 10 years earlier.
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Five Bad Deeds
by Caz Frear
A busy teacher, wife and mother juggles her nonstop commitments and is shocked when she receives an ominous, threatening note in the mail warning her that she's about to be taught a lesson.
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The Fourth Rule by Jeffry P. LindsayWhen the Cobra, a shadowy figure of international crime, plans the biggest heist the world has ever seen, only cunning and clever Riley Wolfe, the ultimate thief, can stop him.
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Here in the Dark
by Alexis Soloski
A former actress and junior theatre critic turns into an amateur detective after granting an interview and becoming the last person to see the reporter alive in the new novel from a prize-winning New York Times journalist.
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Hidden in Shadows
by Viveca Sten
Detective Inspectors Hanna Ahlander and Daniel Lindskog investigate the murder of a former Olympic skier found bound and beaten in the woods at a Swedish ski resort, in the second novel of the series following Hidden in Snow.
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Irish Milkshake Murder
by Carlene O'Connor
Three cozy novellas that take place on St. Patrick's Day include the tale of a killer green milkshake at a New Jersey luncheonette and another murderous milkshake that takes out a wedding guest on a ferry trip to Inis Mór.
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The Lace Widow
by Mollie Ann Cox
In 1804 New York, Eliza Hamilton, the grieving widow of Alexander Hamilton, turns to selling her handmade lace, which draws her into a mysterious network of widow lacemakers who help her piece together the truth about her husband's political affairs as witnesses to his deadly duel are being killed one by one.
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Manner of Death by Robin CookWhen a pathology resident ends up on her table days after helping with a suicide autopsy, NYC chief medical examiner Laurie Montgomery discovers his death is a staged homicide and launches her own investigation which leads her to a fraudulent but highly lucrative cancer diagnostics company—and possibly her own death.
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The Mayors of New York
by S. J. Rozan
When the son of NYC's first female mayor disappears, PI Bill Smith and his partner, Lydia Chin, are called in the find the missing 15-year-old but are faced with more questions than answers, they turn to the only contacts who could help: the neighborhood leaders who are the real “mayors” of NY.
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Murder Crossed Her Mind
by Stephen Spotswood
In 1947 NYC, famed detective Lillian Pentecost and her assistant Will Parker are hired to find Vera Bodine, an elderly shut-in with an exceptional memory, and must go nose-to-nose with murderous gangsters, corrupt federal agents and Nazi spies to find Vera before it's too late.
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Murder of an Amish Bridegroom
by Patricia Johns
To keep her best friend, Eden Beiler, who is accused of murder, out of prison, Petunia Yoder teams up with homicide detective Asher Nate and together they follow a trail of damning clues to find the truth before they're next on the killer's list.
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Never Lie by Freida McFaddenSearching for their dream home, newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are trapped in a remote manor that once belonged to a renowned psychiatrist, Dr. Adrienne Hale, who vanished without a trace, and when they happen upon a secret room, the terrifying truth of Dr. Hale's disappearance is revealed.
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No Way Out
by Cara Hunter
When two children are pulled from the smoking ruin of their home on Christmas and their parents are nowhere to be found, DI Adam Fawley is faced with one of his most disturbing cases yet as he and his team sift through the smoldering evidence to reveal a terrible truth.
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The Other Mothers
by Katherine Faulkner
Searching for a story to launch her career and new friends to help her navigate motherhood, Tash, welcomed into a circle of sleek, sophisticated mothers, discovers the kind of life she's always dreamed of until two recent murders make her wonder why she's been so quickly accepted into their exclusive world.
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Sniffing out murder
by Kallie E. Benjamin
When the newly elected school board trustee—and former high school mean girl—cuts funding to her beloved pet-assisted reading program and then winds up dead, children's book author Pris and her trusty bloodhound, Baily, must prove the authorities are barking up the wrong tree.
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Two Dead Wives
by Adele Parks
Living in a small village while she recovers from illness, Stacie Jones, shielded from the outside world by her father, finds her reclusive life shattered when she is linked to a scandalous and sad case of a missing woman with a shocking secret.
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The Weekend Retreat
by Tara Laskowski
Gathering at their lush winery estate for a joint birthday celebration, the Van Ness siblings, heirs to a copper fortune, find old tensions ignited as they are pushed to the edge during this tradition that turns into a weekend to die for.
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Calling On the Matchmaker
by Jody Hedlund
When a St. Louis Irish matchmaker pairs a shy young woman who spends her time caring for immigrants with a wealthy, flirtatious man whose father wants him to settle down, they can't imagine a more opposite pairing. But as they work together to protect the neighborhood from an epidemic, all they know about love and sacrifice is tested.
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The Fake Mate
by Lana Ferguson
Wolf shifters and doctors, Mackenzie Carter and Noah Taylor, agree to be a fake couple, but soon find their mutually beneficial business transaction turning into a friends-with-benefits arrangement that leads to love, which is a whole different kind of animal.
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Game On
by Seressia Glass
A female gamer fighting for equal representation in video games accidentally starts an online movement and is offered a job by the handsome CEO of Artemis Games, in the new novel by the author of The Love Con.
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The Gentleman's Gambit by Evie DunmoreLiving for her work at Oxford and her fight for women's suffrage, deeply introverted Catriona finds herself distracted by her father's handsome young colleague, who, unbeknownst to her, is on a mission to take Oxford's ancient artifacts back to his homeland in the Middle East.
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The Mistress of Ashmore Castle
by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
When her husband, the Earl of Stainton, flees to Egypt to continue his research, new mother Kitty, reeling from his sudden departure, struggles to establish herself as the true mistress of Ashmore Castle despite the many secrets the inhabitants are hiding from her.
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On the Plus Side
by Jenny L. Howe
When she is secretly nominated for the next season of On the Plus Side, introvert Everly Winters, overwhelmed by how much time she'll have to spend on screen, finds an ally in cameraman Logan until their growing connection is caught on camera.
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Raiders of the Lost Heart
by Jo Segura
Forced to co-lead an expedition deep into the Mexican jungle with her nemesis, archaeologist Dr. Corrie Mejía realizes they must work together to deal with greedy artifact smugglers, the Mexican authorities and the lies between them before everything they've worked hard for ends in ruin.
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The Second Chance Year
by Melissa Wiesner
When her wish to redo her awful year comes true, Sadie Thatcher, with her life in shambles, navigates her this second chance, seeing the red flags she missed in both her relationship and career while harboring a secret crush on her brother's best friend.
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Second Chances in New Port Stephen
by T. J. Alexander
Returning home to New Port Stephen, Florida, for Christmas after his career goes south, trans TV writer and comedian Eli Ward reconnects with his high school ex and they must decide whether to leave the past in the past or move on together.
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Second Duke's the Charm
by Kate Bateman
Meet Her Majesty's Rebels: three brilliant women who run King & Co., London's most exclusive investigative agency.
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The Stage Kiss
by Amelia Jones
During the nationwide tour of the hit Pride & Prejudice musical, actress Eden Blake takes to the stage with Broadway royalty Brennon Thorne, a pompous jerk she has to kiss eight shows per week, but when real passion takes a starring role, they wonder if not all showmances are doomed to fail.
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Technically Yours
by Denise Williams
When the man she's been unable to forget comes back into her life, Pearl Harris, the acting director of a nonprofit aimed at inspiring high schoolers to code, is hesitant to trust her feelings and take a risk, especially because a workplace romance could spell disaster for both of them.
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This Spells Love
by Kate Robb
Casting a spell to erase her ex from her past, 28-year-old Gemma Wilde wakes up in an alternate reality where her best friend Dax has no idea who she is, and, seeking to reverse the spell, soon realizes he has been The One all along.
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After World
by Debbie Urbanski
A sentient AI determines that all humans must be eliminated as the root of climate change and leaves a woman named Sen as a“witness” to record her observations on the end of humanity as the world begins to rewild.
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All the Hidden Paths
by Foz Meadows
Newlyweds Velasin and Caethari begin to test the limits of their relationship as the political ramifications of their union play out across two nations in the second novel of the series following A Strange and Stubborn Endurance.
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The Icarus Twin
by Timothy Zahn
As part of the Icarus Group, a top-secret government organization hunting for portals created by a long-vanished alien race, Roarke and Selene discover the alien Patth are also searching for such portals and have resources and ruthlessness far beyond anything they can match.
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Orbital
by Samantha Harvey
In an elegy to our humanity, environment and planet, six astronauts, selected for one of the last space station missions, leave their lives behind to travel at a speed of over 17,000 miles an hour to orbit Earth, witnessing the marks of civilization below.
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A River of Golden Bones
by A. K. Mulford
When her twin sister Briar falls victim to an evil sorceress, Calla must step out of the shadows to save her, her kingdom and her own legacy, embarking on a quest across the realm that opens up a whole world she never knew existed, making her wonder: who could she be if she dared to try?
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The Serpent & the Wings of Night
by Carissa Broadbent
The adopted human daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, Oraya, to become something more than prey, enters a legendary tournament held by the goddess of death herself and, to survive, forms an alliance with a mysterious rival to whom she is oddly drawn.
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Valdemar
by Mercedes Lackey
As magicians descend on the lands surrounding Haven, taking advantage of the abundant magical energy, Kordas finds his prayer to the gods bringing an unexpected form of help that sets the new kingdom of Valdemar on a path like nothing else the world has ever seen.
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Where the Dead Wait
by Ally Wilkes
Victorian explorer William Day, 13 years after a failed expedition resulted in abandonment, betrayal and cannibalism, embarks on an uncanny journey into his past to find his missing second-in-command during which he must face up to the things he's done as the restless dead follow closely behind.
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Yours For the Taking
by Gabrielle Korn
In 2050, behind the exclusive Inside Project—a series of weather-safe, city-sized structures around the world—three women, employees of the billionaire/women's rights advocate responsible for this strange new society, notice cracks in the system, in this thrilling story of queer love, betrayal and chosen family.
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