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2) Gaslight
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Philip Taiwo returns to solve a missing-persons case, and in so doing, uncovers dark secrets the church has worked tirelessly to hide"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In the vibrant city-state of Castellane, the richest of nobles and the most debauched of criminals have one thing in common: the constant search for wealth, power, and the next hedonistic thrill. Kel is an orphan, stolen from the life he knew to become the Sword Catcher--the body double of a royal heir, Prince Conor Aurelian. He has been raised alongside the prince, trained in every aspect of combat and statecraft. He and Conor are as close as brothers,...
Author
Series
Jess Lambert thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Moving to Black Lake, her childhood summer home, after a violent home invasion, Neve Maguire, when a body is found behind her house, realizes she's made a horrible mistake and must help Detective Jess Lambert catch a killer in a place where deadly secrets are only just beginning to surface.
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 364 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The latest action-packed installment in the Nero Award-winning Pentecost & Parker Mystery series follows Lillian and Will tracking the suspicious disappearance of a woman who might have known too much"--
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Growing up in the small town of Winston, Pennsylvania feels like drowning. Leah goes to church every Sunday, works when she isn't at school, and takes care of her baby brother, Owen. Like every girl in Winston, she tries to be right and good and holy. If she isn't the Lord of the Wood will take her, and she'll disappear like so many other girls before her. But living up to the rigorous standards of the town takes its toll.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
""An uplifting, bittersweet story with a page-turning mystery at its heart. Emily Critchley writes about aging and memory with huge warmth and compassion. A beautifully atmospheric and endearing book.'' --Freya Sampson, author of The Last Chance Library For readers of Elizabeth is Missing with notes of The Maid comes a dual-timeline novel that balances heartfelt tenderness with a suspenseful mystery as elderly Edie Green uncovers the clues behind...
Author
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Oxford 1360. When his sister's betrothed vanishes the night before her politically-arranged marriage, Raff Barden must track and return the elusive groom to restore his family's honor. William de Foucart - known to his friends as Penn - had no choice but to abandon his fiancée, and with it his own earldom, when he fled the night before his enforced marrige. But ill-equipped to survive on the run he must trust the kindness of a stranger, Raff, to...
Author
Series
Broken tower volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rat Evans, nonbinary heir to one of the oldest magical bloodlines in New York, doesn't cast spells anymore. For as long as Rat can remember, they've been surrounded by doorways no one else sees and corridors that aren't on any map. Then one day, they opened a passage and found a broken tower in a field of weeds--and something followed them back. When Rat is accepted into Bellamy Arts, all they want is a place to hide and to make sure they never open...
10) The teacher
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Lesson #1: trust no one
Eve has a good life. She gets up each day, gets a kiss from her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high school. All is as it should be. Except…
Last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal involving a student-teacher affair, with one student, Addie, at its center. But Eve knows there is far more to these ugly rumors than meets the eye.
Addie can't be trusted. She lies. She hurts people. She destroys...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Crescent Cove, a small hamlet on Vancouver Island, is the last place out-of-work investigative journalist Luke Tremblay ever wanted to see again. He used to spend summers here, until his family learned that he was gay and rejected him. Now, following his aunt's sudden death, he's inherited her entire estate, including her seaside cottage and the antiques shop she ran for forty years in Crescent Cove. Luke plans to sell everything and head back to...
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kabuto is a highly skilled assassin eager to escape his dangerous profession and the hold his handler, the sinister Doctor, has over him. The Doctor, a real physician who hands over Kabuto's targets as "prescriptions" in his regular appointments with him, doesn't want to lose Kabuto as a profitable asset, but he agrees to let him pay his way out of his employment with a few last jobs. But the most lucrative jobs involve taking out other professional...
13) The hexologists
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 316 pages : maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Hexologists, Iz and Warren Wilby, are quite accustomed to helping desperate clients with the bugbears of city life. Aided by hexes and a bag of charmed relics, the Wilbies have recovered children abducted by chimney-wraiths, removed infestations of barb-nosed incubi, and ventured into the Gray Plains of the Unmade to soothe a troubled ghost. Well-acquainted with the weird, they never shy away from a challenging case. But when they are approached...
14) First lie wins
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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NYT - Audio Fiction
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
NYT - Hardcover Fiction
NYT - Audio Fiction
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
NYT - Hardcover Fiction
Description
"Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn't exist. The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she's given a name and location by her mysterious boss Mr. Smith, she learns everything there is to know about the town and the people in it. Then the mark: Ryan Sumner. The last piece of the puzzle...
15) Iron flame
Author
Series
Empyrean volume 2
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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B77_New_Adult_Fiction
NYT - Audio Fiction
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
NYT - Hardcover Fiction
NYT - Audio Fiction
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
NYT - Hardcover Fiction
Description
"Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College--Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. It's not just that it's grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it's designed to stretch the riders' capacity for pain beyond endurance....
16) The guest
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times bestselling author B. A. Paris captivated psychological thriller readers everywhere with Behind Closed Doors. Now she invites you into another heart-pounding home full of secrets, in The Guest. Some secrets never leave. Iris and Gabriel have just arrived home from a make-or-break holiday. But a shock awaits them. One of their closest friends, Laure, is in their house. The atmosphere quickly becomes tense as she oversteps again and...
17) Death of a spy
Author
Series
Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 36
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 224 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sergeant Hamish Macbeth has some major problems to deal with--crimes and criminals, even law enforcement agents, that he doesn't want anywhere near his beloved Highland village in Lochdubh. Hamish is worried about how the locals...will react to his new assistant officer..Having recently become involved in identifying a Russian spy ring to solve a murder, he is aware that Bland's mission is to track down the members of the spy network still at large"--...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"One weekend, while Andrew Mason was on a fishing trip, his wife, Brie, vanished without a trace. Most everyone assumed Andy had got away with murder--it's always the husband, isn't it?--but the police could never build a strong case against him. For a while, Andy hit rock bottom--he drank too much to numb the pain, was abandoned by all his friends save one, nearly lost his business, and became a pariah in the place he once called home. Now, six years...
Author
Series
Housemaid novels volume 2
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's hard to find an employer who doesn't ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. I can work here for a while, stay quiet until I get what I want. It's almost perfect. But I still haven't met Mrs Garrick, or seen inside the guest bedroom. I'm sure I hear her crying. I...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A neurodivergent, hyperlexic book editor, Jo Jones, taking possession of a possibly haunted family estate in North Yorkshire, finds herself at the center of a murder investigation when the groundskeeper is found dead and a family portrait goes missing, and to clear her name, she must unearth the town's secrets-and her own.
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