New Adult Fiction

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June 2013

A conspiracy of faith : a department Q novel
Adler-Olsen, Jussi.
New York : Dutton, c2013.
FIC ADLER-OLSEN
Receiving a sealed bottle with a years-old plea for help by two young victims imprisoned in a boathouse by the sea, Detective Carl Morck follows leads to a desperate woman trapped in a brutal marriage to a man who keeps her in isolation and hides deadly secrets.

The caretaker
Ahmad, A. X.
New York : Minotaur Books, c2013.
FIC AHMAD
Ranjit Singh, a former Indian Army Captain trying to escape a shameful past, lives with his family among the migrant workers of Martha’s Vineyard, working as a caretaker of the vacation homes of the rich and powerful. Needing a place to stay, Ranjit moves his family into an empty Senator’s home. Happily but illegally ensconced in the house, he tries to forget his brief affair with Anna, the wife of an African-American senator and focus on providing for his family. But one night, their idyll is shattered when mysterious armed men break into the house, looking for an antique porcelain doll. Forced to flee, Ranjit is pursued and hunted by unknown forces and becomes drawn into the Senator’s shadowy world. To save his family and solve the mystery of the doll, he must join forces with Anna, who has her own dark secrets. As the past and present collide, Ranjit must finally confront the hidden event that destroyed his Army career and forced him to leave India.

Best kept secret : the Clifton chronicles,
Archer, Jeffrey, 1940-
New York : St. Martin’s Press, c2013.
FIC ARCHER
Best Kept Secret opens a moment after the end of The Sins of the Father, with the resolution of the trial and the triumphant marriage of Harry Clifton and Elizabeth Barrington, finally uniting their family. Harry, now a bestselling novelist, Emma, their son Sebastian, and orphaned Jessica make a new life for themselves, but all is not as happy and secure as it could be. Emma’s brother, Giles, is engaged to a woman who may be more interested in Barrington’s fortune and title than in a long and happy marriage. And Sebastian, though he is bright, isn’t quite the hard worker that his father was at school, and finds a hard time resisting the temptations that his somewhat unsavory friends provide. It all comes to a head when a new villain is uncovered, a face from the past with grudges against both Harry and Giles – Fisher, who tortured Harry at school and later took credit for Giles’ heroics during the war. Fisher teams up with Giles’ now ex-wife to wreak havoc on Giles’ latest election as well as meddle with affairs inside Barringtons, while Harry and Emma must deal with a new scheme that Sebastian has unwittingly fallen into with a supposed friend. The drama continues for Harry Clifton and his family, bringing this mesmerizing saga into the 1960s.

Robert B. Parker’s Wonderland
Atkins, Ace.
New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2013.
FIC ATKINS
Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked the private eye for a favor. Until now. A heavy- handed developer is trying to buy up Henry’s condo on Revere Beach and sends thugs to move the process along. Soon Spenser and his apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, find a trail leading to a mysterious and beautiful woman, a megalomaniacal Las Vegas kingpin, and plans to turn to a chunk of land north of Boston into a sprawling casino. Bitter rivals emerge, alliances turn, and the uglier pieces of the Boston political machine look to put an end to Spenser’s investigation. Aspiration, greed, and twisted dreams all focus on the old Wonderland dog track where the famous amusement park once fronted the ocean. For Spenser and Z, this simple favor to Henry will become the fight of their lives.

Fever
Banks, Maya.
New York : Berkley Books, c2013.
FIC BANKS
Although Jace Crestwell and Ash McIntyre share everything, including their women, Jace feels differently when he meets Bethany. He isn’t sharing her, even if it means turning his back on his best friend.

Oscar Wilde and the murders at reading Gaol
Brandreth, Gyles Daubeney, 1948-
New York : Touchstone, 2013.
FIC BRANDRETH
When first a brutal warder and then the prison chaplain are found murdered, who else should the Governor turn to for help other than Reading Gaol’s most celebrated inmate?

Inferno : a novel
Brown, Dan, 1964-
New York : Doubleday, c2013.
FIC BROWN
Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in a hospital in the middle of the night. Disoriented and suffering from a head wound, he recalls nothing of the last thirty-six hours, including how he got there … or the origin of the macabre object that his doctors discover hidden in his belongings. Langdon’s world soon erupts into chaos, and he finds himself on the run in Florence with a stoic young woman, Sienna Brooks, whose clever manuevering saves his life.

Benjamin Franklin’s bastard
Cabot, Sally.
New York : William Morrow, c2013.
FIC CABOT
The bastard son of Benjamin Franklin, William Franklin, is named the new Royal Governor of New Jersey, but all he has achieved is threatened when the colonies, led by influential figures including his own father, begin the fight for independence–a cause he refuses to support.

The last girl : [a crime novel]
Casey, Jane (Jane E.).
New York : Minotaur Books, 2012.
FIC CASEY
Vast wealth offers London defense attorney Philip Kennford a lot of things but it doesn’t provide a happy marriage or good relationships with his twin daughters. And it does nothing to protect his family when someone brutally murders his wife and daughter in their own home.

Storm front : a Derrick Storm thriller
Castle, Richard.
New York : Hyperion, c2013.
FIC CASTLE
Four years after he was presumed dead, Derrick Storm is back in this rip-roaring, full-length thriller. Throughout the world, high-level bankers are being tortured and murdered by his old nemesis Gregor Volkov, so Derrick Storm is called in by the CIA to figure out who Volkov is working for and why. With the help of a beautiful and mysterious foreign agent, Storm uncovers a plot that could destroy the global economy.

Southern cross the dog
Cheng, Bill.
New York : Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers, c2013.
FIC CHENG
Convinced that he is cursed after the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, 20-year-old Robert Chatham, who, constantly followed by trouble, has lost his will to live, finally shakes his demons until he is forced to make an impossible choice.

Silent voices : a Vera Stanhope mystery
Cleeves, Ann.
New York : Minotaur Books, c2013, c2011.
FIC CLEEVES
Discovering the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym, Inspector Vera Stanhope, hoping that she has uncovered a simple natural-causes death, subsequently finds strangle bruises that reveal that the victim was murdered.

Screwed : a novel
Colfer, Eoin.
New York : Overlook Press, c2013.
FIC COLFER
When Irish bouncer Dan McEvoy’s step-gran shows up on the hunt for his dishevelled aunt Evelyn, it quickly becomes clear that — despite the New Jersey mob — family can provide the deadliest threat of all. In a city of gun- happy criminals, bent cops and a tough-talking woman detective whose inspires terror and lust in equal measure, Dan may just have reached the point where sharp wit won’t cut the mustard. But can he play the heavies at their own game?

Pirate Alley
Coonts, Stephen, 1946-
New York : St. Martin’s Press, c2013.
FIC COONTS
A luxurious vacation cruise to the exotic locales of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden turns into a nightmare for passengers and crew when their ship is suddenly attacked and captured by a band of bloodthirsty Somali pirates. An initial rescue mission ends in failure; the decks are covered in blood. Unless they are paid a ransom of $200 million dollars within seven days, the pirates threaten to execute all their hostages. But information gleaned from a captured Al Qaeda operative indicates that there is a far more dangerous conspiracy afoot. Once the ransom is paid, Islamic militants intend to swoop in and slaughter the passengers in an orgy of terror, hoping to provoke a massive American military response that will set the Muslim world aflame. Jake Grafton is assigned to negotiate with the brutal pirate chief while his right hand man, Tommy Carmellini, and a team of CIA and Navy SEAL operatives mount an undercover operation to save the hostages and keep the U.S. from being maneuvered into a murderous war.

Lucky bastard
Coonts, Deborah.
New York : Forge, c2013.
FIC COONTS
“Lucky O’Toole–head of customer relations at The Babylon, premier mega-resort on the Vegas Strip–thinks it’s just another night in Las Vegas. Her employer is hosting a big car show, supposed to be a fun event with her honey. But Lucky’s day takes a turn for the worse when a beautiful woman with a stiletto heel embedded in her carotid artery is found on the hood of the featured red Ferrari going around on the display. On the personal front, Lucky and the French chef have finally succumbed to their strong attraction. But then Teddie, the love of her life, walks back through the door. Now Lucky must find the murderer while balancing her love life and her wardrobe! ”

This is the way
Corbett, Gavin, 1976-
New York : Faber and Faber/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2013.
FIC CORBETT
Fearing that he has reignited an ancient feud between the two halves of his family, Anthony Sonaghan hides out in an old tenement house in Dublin until his roguish uncle Arthur, who is on the run, arrives on his doorstep, bringing with him a world of trouble.

Sacred games
Corby, Gary.
New York : Soho Crime, c2013.
FIC CORBY
It is the Olympics of 460 B.C. Nico’s best friend, Timodemus, is a competitor in the pankration, the deadly martial art of ancient Greece. Timo is the hot favorite to win. His only serious rival is Arakos from Sparta. When Arakos is found beaten to death, it is obvious Timodemus must be the killer. Who else could have killed the second-best fighter in all Hellas but the very best? The Judges of the Games sentence Timodemus to be executed in four days’ time, as soon as the Sacred Games have finished. Complicating everything is the fact that Athens and Sparta are already at each other’s throats, in the opening stages of a power struggle for control of Hellas. If an Athenian is found to have cheated at the Games by murdering a Spartan, it will be everything the hawks in Sparta need to declare open war the moment the Sacred Truce is over. And that’s a war Athens cannot hope to win. Nico and his partner in sleuthing, the annoyingly clever priestess Diotima, have four days to save their friend and avert a war that would tear their world apart.

Time to kill : a sniper novel
Coughlin, Jack, 1966-
New York : St. Martin’s Press, c2013.
FIC COUGHLIN
When the Sphinx is blown up by terrorists who also launch attacks on an Iranian soccer team and a vessel in the Red Sea, Kyle Swanson and his Trident team uncover an extremist plot to provoke war between Egypt and Iran to upset the balance of international power.

Yesterday’s echo : a novel
Coyle, Matt.
Longboat Key, FL : Oceanview Publishing, c2013.
FIC COYLE
Rick Cahill was never convicted of his wife’s murder, but he was never exonerated either. Not by the police. Not by the media. Not even by himself. Eight years later, police suspicion and his own guilt remain over his responsibility in his wife’s death. When he meets Melody Malana, a beautiful yet secretive TV reporter, he sees a chance to love again. When she is arrested for murder and asks Rick for help, the former cop says no, but the rest of him says yes and he grasps at a chance for redemption. But Rick’s attempt to help turns terribly wrong, and he becomes a suspect in the murder and the target of a police manhunt. On the run, Rick encounters desperate people who’ll kill to keep their pasts buried. Before Rick can save himself and bring down a murderer, he must confront the truth about his own past and untangle his feeling for a woman he can never fully trust.

Hour of the red god
Crompton, Richard, 1973-
New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2013.
FIC CROMPTON
Detective Mollel, a former Maasai warrior in Nairobi, investigates the brutal murder of a prostitute and suspects the killing is part of a far more extensive plot associated with the turbulent elections of 2007.

Zero hour
Cussler, Clive.
New York : Putnam, c2013.
FIC CUSSLER
It is called zero point energy, and it really exists – a state of energy contained in all matter everywhere, and thus all but unlimited. Nobody has ever found a way to tap into it, however – until one scientist discovers a way. Or at least he thinks he has. The problem is, his machines also cause great earthquakes, even fissures in tectonic plates. One machine is buried deep underground; the other is submerged in a vast ocean trench. If Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala and the rest of the NUMA team aren’t able to find and destroy them, and soon, the world will be on the threshold of a new era of earth tremors and unchecked volcanism.

The barbed crown : an Ethan Gage adventure
Dietrich, William, 1951-
New York : Harper, c2013.
FIC DIETRICH
To make Napoleon pay for kidnapping his son and nearly killing his wife, spy, adventurer and treasure hunter Ethan Gage, after his plot to sabotage Napoleon’s coronation is foiled, flees to England where he and a group of brilliant renegades devise a daring plan as the French set sail for invasion.

A step of faith
Evans, Richard Paul.
New York : Simon & Schuster, c2013.
FIC EVANS
In St. Louis, Alan Christoffersen faces another life-changing crisis, putting his journey to grace in jeopardy.

Magician’s end
Feist, Raymond E.
New York : Harper Voyager, 2013.
FIC FEIST
Pug, now the greatest magician of all time, must risk everything he has fought for and everything he cherishes in the hope of destroying an evil enemy once and for all. But to achieve peace and save untold millions of lives, he will have to pay the ultimate price.

King of Cuba
Garcia, Cristina, 1958-
New York : Scribner, c2013.
FIC GARCIA
A tale told from the alternating viewpoints of an aging Castro-like dictator and a Miami exile obsessed with avenging himself against the dictator for personal betrayals traces the impact of a six-decade revolution on their lives and a homeland that has paid the price of constant violence.

Flora : a novel
Godwin, Gail.
New York : Bloomsbury, c2013.
FIC GODWIN
Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen’s decaying family house while her father is doing secret war work in Oak Ridge during the final months of World War II. Their relationship and its fallout, played against a backdrop of a lost America will haunt Helen for the rest of her life.

Angora alibi
Goldenbaum, Sally.
New York : Obsidian, c2013.
FIC GOLDENBAUM
Expecting her first child, Izzy is unsettled when a young acquaintance’s death is connected to an abandoned baby car seat and a hand- knitted blanket and seeks assistance from the Seaside Knitters.

Someday, someday, maybe : a novel
Graham, Lauren, 1967-
New York : Ballantine Books, c2013.
FIC GRAHAM
The hilarious story of a struggling young actress trying to get ahead–and keep it together–in New York City.

A bat in the belfry : a home repair is homicide mystery
Graves, Sarah.
New York : Bantam Books, c2013.
FIC GRAVES
When a local teen beauty-pageant winner from a troubled family is found murdered in the beloved 200-year-old Seaman’s Church steeple, Jacobia Tiptree, while preparing for an epic nor-nor’easter, must wade through the rising waters of gossip and suspicion to find the truth.

The Morels
Hacker, Christopher, 1972-
New York : Soho Press, c2013.
FIC HACKER
The Morels–Arthur, Penny, and Will–are a happy family of three living in New York City. So why would Arthur choose to publish a book that brutally rips his tightly knit family unit apart at the seams? Arthur’s old schoolmate Chris, who narrates the book, is fascinated with this very question as he becomes accidentally reacquainted with Arthur. A single, aspiring filmmaker who works in a movie theater, Chris envies everything Arthur has, from his beautiful wife to his charming son to his seemingly effortless creativity. But things are not always what they seem.

Smarty bones
Haines, Carolyn.
New York, New York : Minotaur Books, c2013.
FIC HAINES
When a contentious professor makes claims about the identity of a woman found in a mysterious Mississippi grave and implicates wealthy Zinnia families of having ties to a related scandal, Sarah Booth Delaney is hired by a group of society ladies to clear their names only to discover another body in the professor’s hotel room.

Dead ever after
Harris, Charlaine.
New York, : Ace Books, c2013.
FIC HARRIS
When Sookie learns the reason why Eric’s vampires are keeping their distance from her, she is devastated. Then a shocking murder rocks Bon Temps, and Sookie is arrested for the crime in this final Sookie Stackhouse novel.

Dead, white, and blue
Hart, Carolyn G.
New York : Berkley Prime Crime, c2013.
FIC HART
“Summer is a hectic time of the year for Annie Darling. Sun and scorching temperatures never fail to bring swarms of tourists to her mystery bookstore, Death on Demand, for the latest beach reads. But Annie still finds time to enjoy herself. The Broward’s Rock Fourth of July dance is just around the corner, and the island is buzzing with excitement–Shell Hurst included… Shell is the kind of woman wives hate–for good reason–and most of them wish she would just disappear. But when she does, and a teenage girl is the only one who seems to notice, Annie can’t help but feel like someone should be looking for her. Last seen walking into the pine trees at the Fourth of July fireworks display, Shell has seemingly vanished without a trace. The residents of Broward’s Rock grow uneasy when a second islander mysteriously disappears. Annie and her husband, Max, know something dangerous is brewing. They soon find themselves following a twisted trail marked by blackmail, betrayal, and adultery, winding from the corridors of the island’s lovely inn to a pier lashed by pelting rain, to a gathering on the terrace of a country club where a trap is set for a calculating killer..”

The innocence game
Harvey, Michael T.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2013.
FIC HARVEY
Invited to participate in an elite seminar with two classmates, Ian Joyce, a top journalism student, investigates wrongful convictions and cold cases including one involving the murder of a young boy whose killer may still be at large.

Once upon a prince : a royal wedding novel
Hauck, Rachel, 1960-
Grand Rapids, Michigan : Zondervan, c2013.
FIC HAUCK
When a jilted girlfriend meets a reluctant crown prince, they discover the power of God’s love to heal hearts and change a nation.

Poppet
Hayder, Mo.
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2013.
FIC HAYDER
“The Maude is outside. It wants to come in. It wants to sit on your chest. The mentally ill patients in Beechway High Secure Unit are highly suggestible. A hallucination can spread like a virus. When unexplained power cuts lead to a series of horrifying incidents, fear spreads from the inmates to the staff. Amidst the growing hysteria, AJ, a senior psychiatric nurse, is desperate to protect his charges. Detective Inspector Jack Caffery is looking for the corpse of a missing woman. He knows all too well how it feels to fail to find a loved one’s body. When AJ seeks Caffery’s help in investigating the trouble at Beechway, each man must face a bitter truth in his own life, before staring pure evil in the eye.”

A dual inheritance : a novel
Hershon, Joanna.
New York : Ballantine Books, c2013.
FIC HERSHON
Forging an intense friendship in their senior year at Harvard, Ed, a Jewish, girl-crazy scholarship student, and Hugh, a Boston Brahmin who dedicatedly pines for the one who got away, abruptly and mysteriously go their separate ways years later and pursue very different lives that are shaped by their past bond.

NOS4A2 : a novel
Hill, Joe.
New York : William Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers, c2013.
FIC HILL
Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photography, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever she needs to go, whether it’s across Massacusetts or across the country. Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2 vanity plate. With his old car, he can slip right out of the everyday world, and onto the hidden roads that transport them to an astonishing–and terrifying– playground of amusements he calls “Christmasland.” Then, one day, Vic goes looking for trouble–and finds Manx. That was a lifetime ago. Now Vic, the only kid to ever escape Manx’s unmitigated evil, is all grown up and desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx never stopped thinking about Victoria McQueen. He’s on the road again and he’s picked up a new passenger: Vic’s own son.

Looking for me
Hoffman, Beth.
New York : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, c2013.
FIC HOFFMAN
Opening an antiques shop in Charleston after discovering a talent for restoring furniture, Teddi Overman struggles to come to terms with her shattered family and sense of self after receiving news that her long-missing brother might still be alive.

And the mountains echoed
Hosseini, Khaled.
New York : Riverhead Books/Penguin Group (USA), c2013.
FIC HOSSEINI
Khaled Hosseinis And the Mountains Echoed begins simply enough, with a father recounting a folktale to his two young children. The tale is about a young boy who is taken by a div (a sort of ogre), and how that fate might not be as terrible as it first seems a brilliant device that firmly sets the tone for the rest of this sweeping, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting novel. A day after he tells the tale of the div, the father gives away his own daughter to a wealthy man in Kabul. What follows is a series of stories within the story, told through multiple viewpoints, spanning more than half a century, and shifting across continents. The novel moves through war, separation, birth, death, deceit, and love, illustrating again and again how peoples actions, even the seemingly selfless ones, are shrouded in ambiguity.

Mirror Image
Ice-T (Musician).
New York : Forge, 2013.
FIC ICET
Former gang leader Crush Casey returns to New York’s underworld after a twenty-year sentence in Attica and endeavors to use his power to clean up the city’s streets, only to be confronted by a dangerous Armenian gangster.

Five days : a novel
Kennedy, Douglas, 1955-
New York : Atria Books, c2013.
FIC KENNEDY
Laura is in the throes of a midlife crisis. Her twenty year marriage has flatlined and her husband, Dan, has become a stranger to her since losing his job eighteen months ago. So when she is invited to a weekend conference in Boston, she jumps at the opportunity. While checking in she gets talking with a man she immediately characterises as grey and uninspired. His name is Richard Coleman. He’s a fifty something insurance salesman, also from Maine, also in Boston for the weekend. But when a chance meeting later that evening brings them together again, Laura begins to discover another man beneath the salesman facade : smart, animated and surprisingly literate. Two lonely people meet by chance in a city not their own. Two people desperate for a connection, yet terrified of the implications. In his remarkable new novel, Douglas Kennedy takes the premise of a brief encounter and turns it into a hugely compelling exploration of how and why we fall in love, and the way in which the entire trajectory of a life can change thanks to the music of chance. A profoudly moving love story that inspires tears and serious rumination, “Five Days” speaks directly to the manifold contradictions of the human heart.

Deeply Odd : an Odd Thomas novel
Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-
New York : Bantam Books, c2013.
FIC KOONTZ
The truck driver is decked out like a rhinestone cowboy, only instead of a guitar he’s slinging a gun — and Odd Thomas is on the wrong end of the barrel. Though he narrowly dodges a bullet, Odd can’t outrun the shocking vision burned into his mind …. or the destiny that will drive him into a harrowing showdown with absolute evil.

The conditions of love
Kushner, Dale.
New York : Grand Central Publishing., c2013.
FIC KUSHNER
“A first novel about a young girl who is looking for love and guidance from her Auntie Mame mother and her absent father”

The stranger
Lackberg, Camilla, 1974-
New York : Pegasus Crime, c2013.
FIC LACKBERG
Detective Patrik Hedstrom tackles his toughest investigation yet when a string of suspicious deaths points to a potential serial killer who has turned his eye toward Fjallbacka and her dark forests, where two children vanished decades before.

A delicate truth
Le Carre, John, 1931-
New York : Viking, c2013.
FIC LECARRE
A counter-terrorist operation, code-named Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister’s personal private secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it.

The Ophelia cut
Lescroart, John T.
New York : Atria Books, c2013.
FIC LESCROART
Brittany McGuire is the daughter of Susan Weiss and Moses McGuire and the niece of defense attorney Dismas Hardy. Brittany has always moved easily from one boyfriend to the next, but her most recent ex, a young man named Rick Jessup, can’t seem to get over her. His abuse escalates, culminating in a terrible night when Brittany is raped. Within twenty-four hours, Rick Jessup is dead, Moses is the prime suspect in the investigation, and Dismas Hardy has been hired to defend his old friend.

The devil in her way : [a novel]
Loehfelm, Bill.
New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2013.
FIC LOEHFELM
Kicking off her final week of police field training, Maureen Coughlin takes a punch from a panicked suspect bursting out of an apartment. Her training officer laughs it off, and the incident even yields a small victory: the cops recover a stash of pot and guns. But out on the street, on the fringes of the action, Maureen sees something sinister transpire between two neighborhood boys that leaves her shaken, and she knows there’s more to the story than she’s seen. As we follow Maureen’s dangerous hunt for answers, we are led around New Orleans’ most hidden corners and into its darkest outposts.

Unwritten : a novel
Martin, Charles, 1969-
New York : Center Street, 2013.
FIC MARTIN
“Sunday leads a solitary existence, spending most of his time reading and fishing on his boat, hidden among the Ten Thousand Islands off the Florida coast. It has been years since he has spoken with anyone outside of his priest and confidant, Steady. Because Steady once saved his life, Sunday can’t refuse when he asks him to save another. Katie Quinn, a world-famous actress, has been driven by a secret and the pressures of her fame to end her life. Sunday provides an alternate escape, a way to write herself a new life by helping her to fake her death. But Katie still must confront her past before she can find peace, and she’ll need Sunday to leave his secluded home and travel to the French countryside to help her”

Jane Austen goes to Hollywood
McDonald, Abby.
Somerville, MA : Candlewick Press, c2013.
FIC MCDONALD
Sisters Hallie and Grace relocate to Beverly Hills after the death of their father and struggle with respective challenges, from Grace’s memories of a crush to Hallie’s tempestuous love triangle.

The woman upstairs
Messud, Claire, 1966-
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2013.
FIC MESSUD
Relegated to the status of schoolteacher and friendly neighbor after abandoning her dreams of becoming an artist, Nora advocates on behalf of a charismatic Lebanese student and is drawn into the child’s family until his artist mother’s careless ambition leads to a shattering betrayal.

The son
Meyer, Philipp, 1974-
New York : Ecco, c2013.
FIC MEYER
Spring, 1849. The first male child born in the newly established Republic of Texas, Eli McCullough is thirteen years old when a marauding band of Comanches storms his homestead and brutally murders his mother and sister, taking him captive. Brave and clever, Eli quickly adapts to life among the Comanches, learning their ways and language, answering to a new name, becoming the chief’s adopted son, and waging war against their enemies, including white men — which complicates his sense of loyalty and understanding of who he is. But when disease, starvation, and overwhelming numbers of armed Americans decimate the tribe, Eli finds himself alone. Neither white nor Indian, civilized nor fully wild, he must carve a place for himself in a world in which he does not fully belong …

Murder as a fine art
Morrell, David.
New York : Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, c2013.
FIC MORRELL
After a series of grisly London murders, opium-addict and writer Thomas De Quincey, becomes the main suspect after discovering that the killer is imitating his true-crime essay. De Quincey must enlist the help of his daughter and a pair of Scotland Yard detectives to clear his name.

The body in the piazza : a Faith Fairchild mystery
Page, Katherine Hall.
New York : William Morrow, c2013.
FIC PAGE
While celebrating their anniversary in Italy, amateur sleuth/caterer Faith Fairchild and her husband, the Reverend Tom Fairchild, find murder on the itinerary when a new acquaintance is killed in the Eternal City and someone tries to sabotage her former assistant’s new cooking school in Florence.

Stolen
Palmer, Daniel, 1969-
New York : Kensington Books, c2013.
FIC PALMER
“The future looks bright for Boston couple John Bodine and Ruby Dawes. John’s online gaming business is growing, and they’re talking about starting a family. But when Ruby receives a life-changing diagnosis, and their cut-rate insurance won’t cover the treatment she desperately needs, John makes a risky move. He steals a customer’s identity and files a false claim for Ruby’s medication.The plan works perfectly–until the customer in question contacts John with a startling proposition. If John and Ruby play a little game he’s devised, he won’t report their fraud. The rules of Criminal’ are simple: commit real crimes. But if they fail, there will be deadly consequences. John assumes it’s a sick joke–until people start dying. With each round, the crimes get more twisted. John and Ruby can’t disappear–and they can’t go to the police. Their only option is to keep playing, while trying to outwit a psychopath who has no intention of letting them leave this game alive…”.

Hell or Richmond : a novel
Peters, Ralph, 1952-
New York : Forge, c2013.
FIC PETERS
“Against the backdrop of the birth of modern warfare and the painful rebirth of the United States, New York Times bestselling novelist Ralph Peters has created a breathtaking narrative that surpasses the drama and intensity of his recent critically acclaimed novel, Cain at Gettysburg. In Hell or Richmond, thirty days of ceaseless carnage are seen through the eyes of a compelling cast, from the Union’s Harvard-valedictorian “boy general,” Francis Channing Barlow, to the brawling “dirty boots” Rebel colonel, William C. Oates. From Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee to a simple laborer destined to win the Medal of Honor, Peters brings to life an enthralling array of leaders and simple soldiers from both North and South, fleshing out history with stunning, knowledgeable realism. Ralph Peters brings to bear the lessons of his own military career, his lifelong study of this war and the men who fought it, and his skills as a bestselling, prizewinning novelist to portray horrific battles and sublime heroism as no other author has done. ”

Montaro Caine : a novel
Poitier, Sidney.
New York : Spiegel & Grau, c2013.
FIC POITIER
Follows the experiences of a corporate CEO who, two decades after discovering a coin made of materials not known on Earth, finds his views on faith, race, and the meaning of life challenged by a wrenching battle for ownership of the coin.

A House divided
Roby, Kimberla Lawson.
New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2013.
FIC ROBY
After an argument sends their son’s girlfriend into early labor, Reverend Curtis Black and his wife experience a rift between them that may send her into the arms of another man.

Seduction : a novel of suspense
Rose, M. J., 1953-
New York : Atria Books, c2013.
FIC ROSE
Arriving on the Isle of Jersey in the aftermath of painful losses, mythologist Jac L’Etoile investigates the region’s Celtic history while participating in her host’s exploration of novelist Victor Hugo’s mid-19th- century experimentations with seances, through which some believed he communicated with a shadowy supernatural figure.

The peripatetic coffin and other stories
Rutherford, Ethan.
New York : ECCO/HarperCollins, c2013.
FIC RUTHERFORD
The stories in The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories, a collection from Ethan Rutherford, map the surprising ways in which the world we think we know can unexpectedly reveal its darker contours. In stories that are alternately funny, persuasive, and compelling, unforgettable characters are confronted with, and battle against, the limitations of their lives.

Silken prey
Sandford, John, 1944 February 23-
New York : G.P. Putnam’s Sons, c2013.
FIC SANDFORD
At 1:15 a.m, a Minnesota political fixer answers his doorbell. The next thing he knows, he’s waking up on the floor of a moving car, lying on a plastic sheet, his body wet with blood. Lucas Davenport is investigating another case when the trail leads to the man’s disappearance, then, very troublingly, to the Minneapolis police department itself, and then, most troublingly of all, to a woman who could give Machiavelli lessons.

Red planet blues
Sawyer, Robert J.
New York : Ace Books, 2013.
FIC SAWYER
“Robert J. Sawyer, the author of such “revelatory and thought- provoking”* novels as Triggers and The WWW Trilogy, presents a noir mystery expanded from his Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated novella “Identity Theft” and his Aurora Award-winning short story “Biding Time,” and set on a lawless Mars in a future where everything is cheap, and life is even cheaper… Alex Lomax is the one and only private eye working the mean streets of New Klondike, the Martian frontier town that sprang up forty years ago after Simon Weingarten and Denny O’Reilly discovered fossils on the Red Planet. Back on Earth, where anything can be synthesized, the remains of alien life are the most valuable of all collectibles, so shiploads of desperate treasure hunters stampeded to Mars in the Great Martian Fossil Rush. Trying to make an honest buck in a dishonest world, Lomax tracks down killers and kidnappers among the failed prospectors, corrupt cops, and a growing population of transfers–lucky stiffs who, after striking paleontological gold, upload their minds into immortal android bodies. But when he uncovers clues to solving the decades-old murders of Weingarten and O’Reilly, along with a journal that may lead to their legendary mother lode of Martian fossils, God only knows what he’ll dig up… “The Globe and Mail”

A chain of thunder : a novel of the siege of Vicksburg
Shaara, Jeff, 1952-
New York : Ballantine Books, c2013.
FIC SHAARA
In May, 1863, Union troops under the command of Major General Ulysses S. Grant at long last successfully cross the Mississippi River. They force the remnants of Confederate Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton’s army to retreat to Vicksburg. But after sustaining heavy casualties un two failed assaults against the rebels, Union soldiers are losing confidence and morale is low. Grant reluctantly decides to lay siege to the city, trapping soldiers and civilians alike inside an iron ring of Federal entrenchments. Ten days later, the Southerners finally surrender, yielding command of the Mississippi River to the Union forces and marking a crucial turning point in the Civil War.

Falling to earth
Southwood, Kate.
New York : Europa Editions, c2013.
FIC SOUTHWOOD
A tale inspired by the historic Tri-State tornado of 1925 follows the experiences of businessman Paul Graves and his family, who throughout a year after the storm watch their community struggle to rebuild and who miscalculate growing resentment about the twist of fate that left their home and business untouched.

Deadly harvest : a detective Kubu mystery
Stanley, Michael.
New York : Bourbon Street Books/HarperPaperbacks, c2013.
FIC STANLEY
When young girls start to go missing, Samantha, a new detective on the Botswana police force suspects that muti, a traditional African medicine, is the reason. She and Detective David zKubuy Bengu race to stop a serial killer, all as the father of one of the victims threatens to take matters into his own hands. Weaving together a thrilling mystery with a fascinating look at modern- day Africa, Deadly Harvest is filled with elements suspense and plot twists that will keep you captivated until the very end.

The sins of the mother : a novel
Steel, Danielle.
New York : Delacorte Press, c2012.
FIC STEEL
Having missed much of her children’s lives while she built a home- furnishings empire, Olivia Grayson arranges a family vacation in the Mediterranean in the hopes of rekindling ties only to confront painful interpersonal dynamics and unexpected revelations.

Murder in Chelsea : a gaslight mystery
Thompson, Victoria (Victoria E.).
New York : Berkley Prime Crime, c2013.
FIC THOMPSON
“Sarah Brandt is shattered when she learns that a woman has inquired at Hope’s Daughters Mission for Catherine, the abandoned child she has taken as her daughter. The woman claims she was Catherine’s nursemaid, now acting on behalf of the girl’s mother to reunite them. Unwilling to simply hand Catherine over to a complete stranger, Sarah asks Malloy to investigate. But when he goes to interview the woman at her tenement in Chelsea, he finds she has been murdered. Though her death leaves Sarah’s claim to Catherine unchallenged, her sense of justice compels her to work with Malloy to find the killer. Their search takes them from the marble mansions of the Upper West Side to the dilapidated dwellings of lower Manhattan and into the deepest and darkest secrets of Catherine’s past. And while Malloy helps Sarah determine the fate of the child she loves, he faces a challenge of his own–and his decision could change both their lives forever…”

The kings and queens of Roam
Wallace, Daniel, 1959-
New York : Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, c2013.
FIC WALLACE
Helen and Rachel McCallister, who live in a town called Roam, are as different as sisters can be: Helen, older, bitter, and conniving; Rachel, beautiful, naive and blind. When their parents die suddenly, Rachel has to rely on Helen for everything, but Helen embraces her role in all the wrong ways, convincing Rachel that the world is a dark and dangerous place she couldnt possibly survive on her own . . . or so Helen believes, until Rachel makes a surprising choice that turns both their worlds upside down. In this new novel, Southern literary master Daniel Wallace returns to the tradition of tall tales and folklore made memorable in his bestselling novel Big Fish. Wildly inventive and beautifully written, The Kings and Queens of Roam is a big- hearted tale of family and the ties that bind.