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July 2023 New Fiction Releases |
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The Librarianist
by Patrick Dewitt
Tells the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and affecting novel in itself.
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King of the Armadillos
by Wendy Chin-Tanner
After a leprosy diagnosis, the son of Chinese immigrants must leave 1950s Bronx to quarantine at a federal institution in Carville, where he experiences a new sense of freedom and takes refuge in music, experiences, love and new friends.
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The Madwomen of Paris
by Jennifer Cody Epstein
A ward attendant at Paris's Salpêtrière asylum assigned to care for Josephine, Doctor Jean-Martin Charcot's famous patient, Laure, to save her from spiraling into seeming insanity, plots their escape, but must first confirm whether she is truly a madwoman or a murderer—or something even darker.
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High Time
by Hannah Rothschild
During the Brexit referendum, the wife of a thuggish banker begins restoring the ancestral home of her father's family, Trelawney Castle in Cornwall, while dealing with the elderly Countess Clarissa, who still resides there while hosting a camp television show.
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Small Worlds
by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Set over the course of three summers, a new novel follows Stephen, a first-generation Londoner born to Ghanian immigrant parents, as he chooses a different path than what's expected of him—one of music, peace, beauty and freedom.
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The Bones of the Story
by Carol Goodman
A group of former classmates is trapped on their college campus—with a murderer among them.
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The Possibilities
by Yael Goldstein
When her worst nightmare comes true and her 8-month-old son Jack disappears, Hannah, plagued by terrifying visions of the different paths her life could have taken, must tap into an extraordinary ability she never knew she had to bring him back home.
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Trinity
by Zelda Lockhart
Explores three generations of a family trying to overcome trials and trauma and free themselves from the darkness of the past.
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The Door-to-Door Bookstore
by Carsten Henn
An elderly bookseller who delivers his recommendations door-to-door forms an unlikely friendship with a 9-year-old girl who changes his life.
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Chameleon
by Remi Adeleke
From an actor, memoirist and former Navy SEAL comes the first installment in the Black Box Ops Thriller series, featuring Nigerian-born Kali Kent and the top-secret Black Box program.
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Alchemy of a Blackbird
by Claire McMillan
Felling the Nazis, painter Remedios Varo and her poet lover await exit papers from a safe house on the Riviera and take refuge in a mysterious bookshop that opens up a world of occult learning that sparks creative genius.
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Kala
by Colin Walsh
Three friends reunite in their Irish seaside hometown 20 years after their friend Kala disappeared and are forced to confront their own complicity in her fate and the town's secrets as new disappearances are reported and human remains are discovered.
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Vanishing Maps
by Cristina Garcia
Tracking four generations of the del Pinos, a far-flung Cuban family, this follow-up novel to Dreaming in Cuban finds matriarch Celia del Pino struggling to make sense of her descendants, transnational identities and strained relationships with one another until they are all pulled to Berlin for a final, explosive reunion.
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The Sunset Crowd
by Karin Tanabe
Three glamourous friends in 1977 Los Angeles—Evra, the daughter of an Oscar-winning director; Theodora, a Paramount assistant fighting to become a producer; and Bea, a Rolling Stone and Vogue photographer—find their lives upended by Theodora's dramatic quest for power.
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Good Fortune
by C. K. Chau
Reimagines Pride and Prejudice, setting it in contemporary Chinatown, exploring contemporary issues of class divides, family ties, cultural identity and the pleasures and frustrations that come with falling in love.
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Hope
by Andrew Ridker
This follow up to the wildly successful debut novel The Altruists follows a seemingly perfect family struggling with the aftermath of a series of scandals that threatens to tear them apart.
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The Guest Room
by Tasha Sylva
Unable to resist the urge to rummage through her guests' belongings, Tess gets more than she bargains for when she reads her newest lodger's diary chronicling his obsession with a beautiful stranger and her compulsion to find the truth leaves her wondering who has truly been watching whom?
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Somebody's Fool
by Richard Russo
When a decomposing body is found in an abandoned hotel between North Bath and Schuyler Springs, police officers Charice Bond and her ex-lover Doug Raymer are drawn together again, while the town's residents speculate on the identity of the victim and wonder who among their number could've disappeared unnoticed.
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The Spider
by Lars Kepler
When a serial killer sends them riddles, offering them the chance to stop the murders before they happen, Detective Saga Bauer and her partner, Detective Joona Linna discover someone is spinning a fiendishly intricate web, pulling Joona into a trap he may be able to escape.
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Promise
by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
In 1957 Salt Point, Maine, the Kindred sisters—as parts of the country call for freedom, equality and justice for black Americas—are seen as threats along with the town's only other black family, and amid violence, prejudice and fear, they commit great acts of heroism and grace to survive.
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Cutting Teeth
by Chandler Baker
Ten preschoolers develop an unsettling medical condition that leaves them craving blood and are implicated, along with their mothers, in the murder of their young teacher, in the new novel from the author of Whisper Network.
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Secrets in the Dark
by Heather Graham
After bringing peace back to Lillehammer, Norway, FBI agents Della Hamilton and Mason Carter arrive in London where another killer stalks the streets and must shine a light on the shadowy corners in a city almost 2,000 years old to draw out evil.
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The Weaver and the Witch Queen
by Genevieve Gornichec
Bound by a blood oath to help one another always, Oddny, her sister, Signy, and their friend Gunnhild find their way back to each other and are tested in ways they could never have foreseen, in a novel of Viking Age history and myth.
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Everyone Here is Lying
by Shari Lapena
A father who had been having an affair that just ended badly discovers his difficult daughter unexpectedly home from school and loses his temper, ultimately discovering he's not the only one harboring secrets when she goes missing several hours later.
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Dead Fall
by Brad Thor
America's top spy is sent to war-torn Ukraine after a Russian military unit comprised of violent, insane criminals conscripted from their worst prisons and mental asylums goes rogue, in the latest addition to the series following Rising Tiger.
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Crook Manifesto
by Colson Whitehead
A furniture store owner and ex-grifter leaves the straight and narrow path when he needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter in 1971 Manhattan, in the new novel by the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Nickel Boys. Simultaneous.
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Silver Nitrate
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Helping a cult horror director shoot the missing scene from his magic film that was never finished to lift a curse, sound editor Montserrat and her best friend Tristán start seeing strange things and must unravel the mystery of this film and the obscure occultist who once roamed their city.
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The Little Village of Book Lovers
by Nina George
Traveling the region of Nyons with her foster father's mobile library in 1960s France, Marie-Jeanne, who has a special gift for matchmaking, brings soulmates together each place they go, but is unable to find one for herself, wondering when love will finally come to her.
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The Summer Skies
by Jenny Colgan
Running an island plane service with her grandfather on the remote islands of northern Scotland, Morag McGinty, on the verge of making a huge life change, is marooned on an off-grid island with a visiting ornithologist who has just the right perspective to help her pilot her course. 30,000 first printing.
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Zero-sum
by Joyce Carol Oates
Creating a world of erotic obsession, thwarted idealism and ever-shifting identities, one of America's most acclaimed writers presents this provocative and stunning collection of stories centering around deadly zero-sum games.
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Every Rising Sun
by Jamila Ahmed
Furious at his first wife's infidelity, Malik begins to marry and behead a new girl every night until Shaherazade saves her own life with an unfinished, ongoing story each night, in a new take on One Thousand and One Nights.
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Onlookers
by Ann Beattie
The award-winning and beloved short story writer presents this new collection about people living in Charlottesville, Virginia, whose lives intersect in surprising ways, involving the reader in complicated questions about community, inheritance and how the present interacts with the past in a time of COVID-19 and national unrest.
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Sunshine Nails
by Mai Nguyãäen
When an ultra-glam chain salon opens across the street from their family nail salon, Vietnamese refugees Debbie and Phil Tran devise some good old-fashioned sabotage, but when the line between right and wrong gets blurred, they must choose between keeping their family together or fighting for their salon.
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The Summer of Songbirds
by Kristy Woodson Harvey
Four women come together to save the summer camp that changed their lives and rediscover themselves in the process.
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Do Tell
by Lindsay Lynch
A contract actress moonlighting as Hollywood's reigning gossip columnist publishes an accusation from a rising starlet that an A-list actor assaulted her, changing the trajectories of all involved and forcing her to make an impossible choice about her lucrative career.
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The Air Raid Book Club
by Annie Lyons
From the USA Today best-selling author of The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett comes a heartwarming story of found family, love, and making connections through books set against the bombing of London during WWII.
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Circle of Death
by James Patterson
In 2088, the world is in chaos as a powerful weapon, Command, is unleashed and Lamont Cranston, also known as The Shadow, and his small group of allies must race to stop the end of the world. Simultaneous.
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The Carnivale of Curiosities
by Amiee Gibbs
Forced to sign an insidious contract with one of the most notorious men in Victorian London, Aurelius Ashe, the proprietor of Ashe and Pretorius's Carnivale of Curiosities, the most coveted ticket in town, sets in motion a perilous chain of events with the lives of all involved suspended in the balance.
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Obsessed
by James Patterson
When a killer becomes obsessed with his oldest daughter, Detective Michael Bennett will do anything to keep his family safe as he races against time to crack this superstitious killer's code. Simultaneous.
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All the Demons Are Here
by Jake Tapper
A new thriller takes readers back to the 1970s, with two unforgettable characters encountering many of the real-life figures and events that defined one of the wildest and most dangerous decades in American history. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Hellfire Club.
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How Can I Help You
by Laura Sims
Accepting a position at a small-town public library, a recent graduate student and failed novelist discovers a patron dead in the library bathroom and begins to dig up her co-worker's past as a nurse with a trail of premature deaths.
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The Paris Agent
by Kelly Rimmer
Follows three female SOE operatives as their lives intersect in occupied France, and the double agent who controls their fate.
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The Housekeepers
by Alex Hay
The night of London's grandest ball, a bold group of women downstairs launch a daring revenge heist against the house that employs them.
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The St. Ambrose School for Girls
by Jessica Ward
Relentlessly bullied by St. Ambrose's queen bee, Greta Stanhope, Sarah Taylor finds an ally in her roommate Ellen, a cigarette-huffing, devil-may-care athlete, and determined not to let Greta break her, finds her world unraveling in ways she could never have imagined when a scandal unfolds, resulting in murder.
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A Twisted Love Story
by Samantha Downing
A couple with a turbulent history and series of separations and reconciliations find themselves investigated by a detective after someone was killed the night of their worst breakup in the new novel from the best-selling author of My Lovely Wife.
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The Collector
by Daniel Silva
The #1 New York Times best-selling author returns with a tale of high stakes international intrigue—starring Gabriel Allon. Simultaneous.
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Peg and Rose Stir Up Trouble
by Laurien Berenson
When Peg attempts online dating at Rose's strong urging, she matches with Nolan Abercrombie, with whom she has an instant connection, but when a terrible accident claims his life, Peg and Rose team up to solve the dangerous mystery unfolding before their eyes.
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An Honest Man
by Michael Koryta
A man who gained infamy after murdering his own father ten years prior discovers seven murdered men on his yacht, in the new thriller from the New York Times best-selling author of Those Who Wish Me Dead. 50,000 first printing.
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With a Kiss We Die
by L. R. Dorn
Two college lovers suspected of a brutal double homicide enlist a podcasting crime journalist to proclaim their innocence.
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The Long Ago
by Michael McGarrity
Returning home from Vietnam when his sister goes missing, soldier Ray Landsdale embarks on a relentless search that takes him from Montana to Hollywood to L.A. and beyond, forcing him to confront his worst nightmare, in this gripping novel of grit, determination and the enduring, restorative strength of love.
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I Did It for You
by Amy Engel
Fourteen years after her older sister's murder, Greer Dunning becomes convinced that the convicted and executed killer must have had help after a copycat murder is discovered, in the new thriller from the author of The Familiar Dark.
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Mrs. Plansky's Revenge
by Spencer Quinn
When she is scammed out of her life savings, Mrs. Loretta Plansky, a recent widow in her 70s, refuses to be just another victim, and following her only clue, embarks on a whirlwind adventure to a small village in Romania to get both her money and dignity back.
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Flop Dead Gorgeous
by David Rosenfelt
A lawyer who runs a dog rescue in Paterson, New Jersey, helps out his ex and current famous actress when she is accused of murder, in the latest addition to the long-running series following Santa's Little Yelpers. Simultaneous.
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To Have and To Heist
by Sara Desai
When her best friend is accused of stealing a multimillion-dollar diamond necklace, Simi Chopra, to clear her friend's name and collect the substantial reward, transforms a ragtag group of strangers into an elite heist crew with the help of a mysterious man.
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An Evil Heart
by Linda Castillo
Painters Mill Police Chief Kate Burkholder investigates the violent, cross-bow shooting death of a hardworking, engaged young Amish man as her own wedding date draws near, in the fifteenth novel of the series following The Hidden One.
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Pink Lemonade Cake Murder
by Joanne Fluke
Serving super sweet pink lemonade desserts at the Tri-County Summer Solstice Celebration, Hannah finds the mood souring when a retired professional MLB player meets his demise and takes a swing at finding the killer in a league of their own.
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What Harms You
by Lisa Black
Starting a new job at the Locard Institute, a state-of-the-art forensic research center, Dr. Ellie Carr is immediately drawn into a murder investigation with her supervisor, Dr. Rachael Davies, when a colleague is found dead and a young woman attending a professional training program disappears.
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Prom Mom
by Laura Lippman
Drawn back to Baltimore where she's known as“Prom Mom”—the girl who allegedly killed her baby on the night of the prom after her date—Joe Simpson, abandoned her, Amber Glass is unable to stay away from Joe and vice versa until he asks her to help him do the unthinkable.
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The Murder Wheel
by Tom Mead
Conjuror-turned-detective Joseph Spector, in 1938 London, uses his uniquely logical perspective to prove the innocence of an idealistic young lawyer who has been framed for two impossible crimes in a world of illusion and misdirection, where seeing is not always believing.
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The Bitter Past
by Bruce Borgos
Sheriff in the high desert of Nevada, Porter Beck must solve the murder of an old, retired FBI agent linked to a mystery dating back to the early days of the nuclear age in a case where an all-but-forgotten person holds the key to what happened then and the deadly events now.
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Steeped in Malice
by Vicki Delany
Tearoom proprietress Lily Roberts, after buying a Peter Rabbit-themed tea set at an antiques fair, finds trouble brewing when two sisters want the set back and one winds up dead, making Lily wonder if this is a simple case of greed boiling over or something else entirely.
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The Stolen Coast
by Dwyer Murphy
A Harvard-educated lawyer on paper, Jack, who, in a sleepy coastal Massachusetts town, moves people on the run from powerful enemies, finds his routine existence thrown off course by the arrival of his former flame—and a dedicated hustler—who draws him into her latest scheme.
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Flags on the Bayou
by James Lee Burke
Accused of murder, an enslaved woman goes on the run with an abolitionist schoolteacher in the fall of 1863, dodging constables and slave catchers, in the new novel by the New York Times best-selling author of If I Disappear.
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The Mistress of Bhatia House
by Sujata Massey
Taking a young ayah, who, suffering from burns, put herself in harm's way only to be accused of a crime she didn't commit, as a client, Bombay solicitor Perveen Mistry finds this complex investigation linked to a new women's hospital specializing in maternal issues, which puts her own family in danger.
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Must Love Flowers
by Debbie Macomber
Nursing student Maggie, to escape her alcoholic father, rents a room in Joan's home and finds a glimmer of hope for a better life, including a new romance, while Joan doesn't know what to make of the mysterious landscaper who's been revitalizing her garden—and who seems as lost as she is. Simultaneous.
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Wolfsong
by TJ Klune
When Joe Bennett, a charming and handsome shapeshifter who is haunted by scars he cannot heal, returns to Green Creek three years after a murder sent his pack scattering, 26-year-old Ox can no longer ignore the attraction between them.
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A Soul of Ash and Blood
by Jennifer L. Armentrout
The Primal of Blood and Bone has risen and the mortal realm hangs in the balance as Poppy and Casteel's love is put to the test, in the fifth novel of the series following The War of Two Queens.
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Business or Pleasure
by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Snubbed at a book signing for the novel she actually wrote, a“ghostwriter” connects with a charming attendee for an awkward hookup that she would prefer to forget, but can't when he turns out to be her next client.
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Finding Us
by Tracie Peterson
A camera girl at a 1909 Seattle exposition, Eleanor Bennett, is haunted by a photo she took of a mourning widow and is shocked when her friend recognizes the woman as his long-lost sister-in-law, in the follow-up to Remember Me.
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The Summer Girl
by Elle Kennedy
Developing a friendship with Tate Bartlett, Avalon Bay's fun-loving golden boy, after he turns her down, college student Cassie Soul, determined to have a summer fling, finds their relationship getting complicated as they walk the line between friends and lovers—and a secret comes to light.
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Hello Stranger
by Katherine Center
After a routine surgery a struggling artist loses the ability to see people's faces but can still see animal faces in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of What You Wish For.
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Immortal Longings
by Chloe Gong
Princess Calla Tuoleimi plans to take down her family's monarchy but must decide between her kingdom or her new lover, in an adult fantasy epic from the New York Times best-selling author of the YA Secret Shanghai novels.
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Light Bringer
by Pierce Brown
The legendary Reaper, Darrow, to defend Mars from a bloodthirsty would-be conqueror, begins his long voyage home, an interplanetary adventure where old friends will reunite, new alliances will be forged and rivals will clash on the battlefield.
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Burn the Negative
by Joshua Winning
A journalist reporting on the remake of a notorious 1990s slasher flick in which eight cast and crew died in ways that eerily mirrored the on-screen deaths begins experiencing strange, disturbing events and attempts to finally end the curse.
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Rise of the Red Blade
by Random House
A new group of former Jedi decide to serve the Empire under Darth Vader, including Iskar, who survived the destruction of her old Order to claim a new destiny in the Force and hopes to uncover her hidden past that the Jedi refused to share with her.
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The Beast You Are
by Paul Tremblay
A haunting collection of short fiction from the best-selling author of The Cabin at the End of the World.
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Camp Damascus
by Chuck Tingle
Situated high up in the mountains, Camp Damascus offers a sin-free and“saved” life to its ultra-conservative Christian patrons as the self-proclaimed“most effective” gay conversion camp in America, while hiding a host of very unholy secrets.
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