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September 2023 New Fiction Releases |
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12 Months To Live
by James Patterson
An ex-NYPD beat cop, unrelenting PI and undefeated defense attorney, terminally ill Jane Smith, while knee-deep in the murder of trial of the century, is targeted by a killer who's determined to end her life before her expiration date.
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23 1/2 Lies
by James Patterson
The world's best-selling author presents three thrilling novellas including one about an ex-Texas-Ranger and a starving artist who agree to expose a client's cheating wife in the latest addition to the long-running series following 23rd Midnight.
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All You Have To Do Is Call
by Kerri Maher
A novel based on the true story of the Jane Collective and the brave women who fought for our right to choose, from the USA Today best-selling author of The Paris Bookseller.
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Amazing Grace Adams
by Fran Littlewood
Grace Adams, a once-amazing woman who is now 45, stalled, perimenopausal and losing it, leaves her car in the middle of traffic and sets out to win back her estranged teen daughter on her 16th birthday.
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The Armor Of Light
by Ken Follett
In a new era of manufacturing and industry, and as war in Europe engulfs the entire continent and beyond in 1770, a cast of unforgettable characters in Kingsbridge, England, are left to reckon with the future and a world they must rebuild from the ashes.
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The Art Of Desire
by Selena Montgomery
One doomed love affair after another has made Alex Walton swear off men, and now she's determined to try something that maybe she can succeed at: a writing career; but will she be able to stick to her guns when love knocks on her door?
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Bright Lights, Big Christmas
by Mary Kay Andrews
Freshly single and unemployed, Kerry agrees to help her brother sell Christmas trees in New York and make a new start in the new novel by the New York Times best-selling author of The Santa Suit.
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Bright Young Women
by Jessica Knoll
From the best-selling author of Luckiest Girl Alive comes another shocking thriller inspired by the real-life sorority and target of America's first celebrity serial killer.
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Code Red
by Vince Flynn
Mitch Rapp crosses into war-torn Syria at the behest of a powerful crime lord to determine who is manufacturing a highly addictive new narcotic in the latest addition to the long-running series following Oath of Loyalty.
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Condor's Fury
by Graham Brown
Kurt and Joe respond to a nearby distress call while on a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean to discover a terrified and disoriented crew potentially suffering from Havana Syndrome, in the 20th addition to the series following Dark Vector.
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Devil Makes Three
by Ben Fountain
Forced to abandon his beachfront scuba business after the 1991 Haitian coup d'état, an American expat teams up with his best friend to uncover legendary shipwrecks off the southern coast, running afoul of arms-traffickers and the CIA.
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The Enchanters
by James Ellroy
In the summer of 1962, Freddy O, a corrupt ex-cop, dope fiend and freelance extortionist, believes Marilyn Monroe's death and the kidnapping of a B-movie starlet are riddles only he can solve as he tears through all those who block his path to the truth.
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Evil Eye
by Etaf Rum
The acclaimed New York Times best-selling author of A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking exploration of the expectations of Palestinian-American women, the meaning of a fulfilling life and the ways our unresolved pasts affect our presents.
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Fair Rosaline
by Natasha Solomons
Romeo Montague falls instantly in love with Rosaline Capulet and the pair begin a clandestine relationship until a destitute young woman appears claiming to be carrying his child in a feminist retelling of Romeo and Juliet.
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Flipping Boxcars
by Cedric
The first novel from one of the original Kings of Comedy is a crime caper that is a valentine to close-knit black families and tightly woven communities struggling to get by during the Depression and World War II.
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The Fraud
by Zadie Smith
In 1873 Victorian London, with the city mesmerized by the“Tichborne Trial,” wherein a lower-class butcher from Australia claims he is the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title, Mrs. Eliza Touchet becomes determined to find out if he's really who he says he is or if he's a fraud.
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The Heirloom
by Beverly Lewis
"Clara Bender believes a visit to Hickory Hollow may help her find direction after her father remarries. While restoring an heirloom quilt with her great-aunt Ella Mae Zook, the two form a warm bond. When Clara's life is again upended by an unexpected incident and a young Amish man, will she find where her heart belongs?"
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A House For Alice
by Diana Evans
The matriarch of the Pitt family yearns to return to Nigeria to live out her final years but her trip is made more complicated by her arguing daughters and a fire that kills her estranged husband.
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Land Of Milk And Honey
by C Pam Zhang
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world.
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Mr. Texas
by Lawrence Wright
In a funny send-up of Texas politics, from a Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author, a dark-horse candidate risks his personal happiness for a career in the Texas House of Representatives.
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The Museum Of Failures
by Thrity N. Umrigar
Returning to Bombay to adopt a baby and see his elderly mother, Remy Wadia, stumbling upon a photograph that reveals shocking family secrets, reevaluates his entire childhood, his relationship to his parents and his harsh judgment on the decisions and events long hidden from him.
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Night Watch
by Jayne Anne Phillips
In 1874, in the wake of the Civil War, 12-year-old ConaLee and her mother, Eliza, who hasn't spoken in more than a year, seek refuge in a West Virginia mental asylum where they get swept up in the life of the facility—and the mystery behind the man they call the Night Watch.
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Nineteen Steps
by Millie Bobby Brown
Millie Bobby Brown's debut novel is a tale of love, longing and loss, inspired by the true events of her family's experience during World War II.
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No Reserve
by Felix Francis
While investigating the death of a yearling colt worth millions of dollars, auctioneer Theo Jennings, when a dead body is discovered in the same stable a few days later, becomes the prime suspect in the case—and the target of a killer.
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Normal Rules Don't Apply
by Kate Atkinson
Startling, funny and imaginative, eleven interconnected stories, in which nothing is what it seems, are sharp observations on human nature and pack an emotional—and satisfying—punch.
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North Woods
by Daniel Mason
Exploring the many ways we're connected to our environment and to one another across time, language and space, this sweeping collection of stories about a single house in the woods of New England is told through the lives of an extraordinary succession of inhabitants.
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Not Forever, But For Now
by Chuck Palahniuk
Two brothers in a family of professional killers, Otto and Cecil find it hard to continue the family legacy due to a series of escaped convicts showing up at their door, a lecherous new tutor with disturbing hobbies, their mother's burgeoning opioid addiction and the disappearance of their father.
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The River We Remember
by William Kent Krueger
When the body of a wealthy landowner is found floating in the Alabaster River on Memorial Day in 1958, Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero, struggles to solve this murder that has the town of Jewel, Minnesota, up in arms, while putting to rest the demons from his own past.
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Rouge
by Mona Awad
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother's unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty.
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Santa And Company
by Fern Michaels
Reuniting for a holiday adventure at a fabulous ski lodge, longtime friends Amy, Frankie, Rachael and Nina find it's the season for new beginnings when an unexpected turn of events leads them to confront their pasts.
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The Secret Hours
by Mick Herron
When an MI5 case file appears without explanation on the eve of Monochrome's shuttering, civil servants Griselda and Malcolm are drawn into the buried history of a classified operation in Cold War Berlin, which ended in tragedy and scandal—and whose cover-up has rewritten 30 years of Service history.
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Traitors Gate
by Jeffrey Archer
Preparing to execute the most secret operation in their armory—transporting the Crown Jewels across London, the Metropolitan Police have 24 hours to stop a master criminal from pulling off the most outrageous theft in history—and expose a traitor in their midst.
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The Unsettled
by Ayana Mathis
In a multi-generational novel set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama, a mother fights for her sanity and survival.
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The Vaster Wilds
by Lauren Groff
Escaping from a colonial settlement in the wilderness, a servant girl, with nothing but her wits, a few possessions and some faith, is tested beyond the limits of her imagination, forcing her to question her belief of everything her own civilization taught her.
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Wellness
by Nathan Hill
Alongside the challenges of parenting, married couple Jack and Elizabeth encounter cults disguised as mindfulness support groups, polyamorous would-be suitors, Facebook wars and something called Love Potion Number Nine as they undertake separate, personal excavations in their quest to find health and happiness.
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Blessing Of The Lost Girls
by Judith A. Jance
In the first novel of a new series by the New York Times best-selling author of the J.P. Beaumont and the Joanna Brady series.
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Dead On Target
by M. C. Beaton
Convinced of foul play, Agatha Raisin disregards the conclusion of her old adversary, Detective Chief Inspector Wilkes and investigates the death of a local landowner struck by an arrow, in the latest addition to the long-running series following Devil's Delight.
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The Ghost Illusion
by Kat Martin
A New York Times best-selling author draws from the real history of England's Victoria Hall Disaster of 1883—when nearly 200 children were crushed to death at a magic show—as an American psychologist tests the line between life and death, reality and perception, after inheriting an old house in Suderland, England.
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The Golden Gate
by Amy Chua
While investigating the murder of a presidential candidate in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan discovers a link to the death of a 7-year-old girl 10 years earlier and is led to one of the wealthiest families in all of San Francisco whose powerful influence hinder his quest for the truth.
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The Land Of Lost Things
by John Connolly
While reading aloud fairy stories in hopes of bringing her comatose eight-year-old daughter back to this world, Ceres is called to a land colored by the memories of childhood and the folklore beloved by her father where old enemies are watching and waiting.
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The Last Devil To Die
by Richard Osman
When a dangerous package goes missing on Boxing Day, the Thursday Murder Club, when one of their own is murdered, take on their most deadly opponents yet.
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The Longmire Defense
by Craig Johnson
Investigating a crime that goes back to his grandfather's time in Wyoming, Walt Longmire, Sheriff of Absaroka County, recalling clues and motives from his past, questions the very nature of justice and mercy in the hard country of the West.
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Mother-Daughter Murder Night
by Nina Simon
When her teenage granddaughter Jack happens upon a dead body while kayaking near their bungalow and becomes a suspect in the investigation, high-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon sets out to find the true murderer, uncovering a dangerous web of lies lurking beneath the surface of their sleepy coastal town.
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Murder At Midnight
by Katharine Schellman
When a body is found shot to death after an unexpected snowstorm, Lily Adler quickly realizes that some people will stop at nothing to bury their secrets.
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Murder Most Royal
by S. J. Bennett
When the severed hand of a scion of the St Cyr family is found, Queen Elizabeth II is dragged into the matter and, with the help of her assistant private secretary, must separate fact from fiction surrounding this high-profile case when all clues point to someone in her close circle.
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Payback In Death
by J. D. Robb
While investigating the apparent suicide of a retired Internal Affairs captain, who made his career tripping up bribe takers, rule breakers and worse, homicide detective Eve Dallas follows a trail of corruption all the way to the top to expose a killer bent on revenge.
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The Raging Storm
by Ann Cleeves
When the body of Jem Rosco—sailor, adventurer and legend—is found in a dinghy, anchored off Scully Cove, DI Matthew Venn returns home to investigate where he is faced with superstition and rumor as another body is found, placing him and his team in danger.
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Reykjavík
by Ragnar Jonasson
On the 30th anniversary of the disappearance of Lara, a 14-year-old girl—one of Iceland's most infamous unsolved cases, tabloid reporter Valur Robertsson decides to write a series of articles about her, hoping to uncover new evidence before violence strikes again.
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The Running Grave
by Robert Galbraith
Business partners Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott are back, in the seventh installment in the highly acclaimed, internationally best-selling series.
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The Spanish Diplomat's Secret
by Nev March
An award-winning author explores the vivid 19th-century world of the transatlantic voyage, one passenger's secret at a time.
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Tom Clancy Weapons Grade
by Don Bentley
After witnessing a professional hit, Jack Ryan Jr., following one lead, is drawn into the seedy underbelly of a small Texas town and the cold case of a college student who vanished from its streets—an investigation that pulls him into an international conspiracy of epic proportions.
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The Traitor Among Us
by Anne Perry
Infiltrating Wyndham Hall, where the body of a longtime MI6 agent was found, Elena Standish, as Hitler's control spreads across Europe, covertly investigates his murder, working to uncover the true loyalties of the people in the house while protecting her sister from her beau's potentially dangerous relatives.
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Darius
by J. R. Ward
Darius isn't expecting to find love when a human woman runs out into the road and he must swerve to avoid her, but he does in this prequel to the first novel in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.
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A December To Remember
by Jenny Bayliss
"Wildly different half-sisters Maggie, Simone, and Star have hardly seen each other since their sprightly summers at Rowan Thorp, their eccentric father Augustus's home. Known for the fruitful ways in which his bustling knick-knack shop kept the tired town afloat, Augustus was loved by all and known by none, not even his daughters. Now, years later, the three estranged women are unexpectedly reunited at the reading of Augustus's will. Maggie, Simone, and Star are shocked to find out that Augustus has engineered a series of hoops through which the three women must jump to unlock their inheritance - the last thing any of them want to do. But Maggie and Star desperately need the money. And who would Simone be to resist?
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Enchanted To Meet You
by Meg Cabot
Chic boutique owner and witch Jess is asked to help mentor a local teen who might be the Chosen One in the first novel of a new series by the best-selling author of The Princess Diaries series.
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Every Duke Has His Day
by Suzanne Enoch
Brain meets Beauty in this sparkling, fresh take on the classic Bringing Up Baby – if Jane Austen had written it! A romantic comedy with a dash of chaos featuring the most ill-behaved poodle in Regency London, by New York Times bestseller Suzanne Enoch.
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The Long Game
by Elena Armas
"A disgraced soccer executive reluctantly enlists the help of a retired soccer star in coaching a children's team"
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A Nobleman's Guide To Seducing A Scoundrel
by KJ Charles
Unexpectedly becoming the Earl of Oxney, Major Rufus d'Aumesty must contend with his odd family in a remote Norman manor while fighting other title claimants, in the second novel of the series following The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen. Original.
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A Shot In The Dark
by Victoria Lee
Back in New York to study photography, an ex-Orthodox woman hooks up with a man who turns out to be her teacher, a legendary artist who was disowned by his family and discharged from the military for being transgender.
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Things We Left Behind
by Lucy Score
When enemies-to-lovers Sloane Walton, a feisty small-town librarian, and Lucian Rollins, a vengeance-seeking mogul hellbent on building an indestructible empire, are stuck at an impasse, both wanting different things, they must decide whether or not to take a chance on forever.
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All The Dead Shall Weep
by Charlaine Harris
Lizbeth Rose waits for her sister Felicia to join her in Texoma while their mother's family of high-powered Mexican wizards tries to kidnap or assassinate her family, in the fifth novel of the series following The Serpent in Heaven.
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Black River Orchard
by Chuck Wendig
Dark magic transforms a small town when strange trees bearing magical apples begin making residents happier, more confident, more powerful and only wanting to eat more apples in the new novel by the best-selling author of The Book of Accidents.
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Black Sheep
by Rachel Harrison
A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family's dark secrets.
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Fall Of Ruin And Wrath
by Jennifer L. Armentrout
In a world nearly destroyed by gods, Calista must choose: follow her intuition to safety or follow her heart to her downfall.
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The Fragile Threads Of Power
by V. E. Schwab
As two royals fight to keep their crowns amidst old friends and new enemies in fantastical realms connected by a single city—London, a girl with an unusual magical ability comes into possession of a device that could bring them together—or unravel it all.
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Hemlock Island
by Kelley Armstrong
After fleeing renters of her Hemlock Island vacation home report broken belongings, out of control campfires, bones, hex circles, and bloody scratches inside the guest room closet, Laney Kilpatrick and her teenage niece show up to investigate.
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Holly
by Stephen King
Formerly shy private detective Holly Gibney reluctantly agrees to search for a client's missing daughter, which may have something to do with an unholy secret being harbored in the basement of a pair of semi-retired octogenarian academics.
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The September house
by Carissa Orlando
A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare. A first novel.
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Starter Villain
by John Scalzi
When his long-lost uncle dies, leaving him his supervillain business, Charlie, as rich, soulless predators backed by multinational corporations and venture capital come after him, finds going bad looking pretty good with unionized dolphins, hyperintelligent talking spy cats and a terrifying henchperson at his side.
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What Kind Of Mother
by Clay McLeod Chapman
"Madi returns to her hometown and reconnects with an ex from high school, now known locally for his refusal to give up looking for his infant son who has been missing for years. As Madi gets drawn into the search, she begins to see visions that lead to disturbing revelations about the real story of the boy's disappearance"
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