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New Titles Fiction February 2015 (arrived in January 2015)

Adventure

The devil to pay, David Donachie.
Begins the series featuring John Pearce who’s sailing into danger.
The assassination option, W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV.
Second in the Clandestine Operations series about the Cold War and the CIA.
Retribution, David Hagberg.
US SEAL team Six and the mission to kill Bin Laden find that a team of German assassins are out for revenge.
Fifty mice, Daniel Pyne.
Gripping paranoia thriller about an unwilling participant in the Witness Protection programme.
Near enemy : a Spademan novel, Adam Sternbergh.
His first novel, "Shovel ready" introduced Spademan, a hit man in a futuristic post-apocalyptic New York.
No fortunate son, Brad Taylor.
In the latest military thriller from the retired Delta Force Operator , a hostage situation places America's most powerful political elite at the mercy of its worst enemies.

American Fiction

Uncle Janice, Matt Burgess.
Tale of a young female narcotics officer. Roddy Doyle called it "a terrific novel, because Janice is terrific, a brilliantlyAdventure The devil to pay, David Donachie. Begins the series featuring John Pearce who’s sailing into danger. The assassination option, W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV. Second in the Clandestine Operations series about the Cold War and the CIA. Retribution, David Hagberg. US SEAL team Six and the mission to kill Bin Laden find that a team of German assassins are out for revenge. Fifty mice, Daniel Pyne. Gripping paranoia thriller about an unwilling participant in the Witness Protection programme. Near enemy : a Spademan novel, Adam Sternbergh. His first novel, "Shovel ready" introduced Spademan, a hit man in a futuristic post-apocalyptic New York. No fortunate son, Brad Taylor. In the latest military thriller from the retired Delta Force Operator , a hostage situation places America's most powerful political elite at the mercy of its worst enemies. American Fiction Uncle Janice, Matt Burgess. Tale of a young female narcotics officer. Roddy Doyle called it "a terrific novel, because Janice is terrific, a brilliantly realised character." From the author of the first rate debut, "Dogfight, a love story." Driving the king, Ravi Howard. Imagines an event in Nat King Cole's life in post-war Alabama where a man jailed for defending Cole from a racist attack becomes Cole's L.A. driver. The global war on Morris, Steve Israel. Political satire about a pharmaceutical salesman who charges a mon-business expense to his company credit card and what happens when a government surveillance programme tracks him down. The first bad man, Miranda July. Film director/short story writer's first novel, about a woman who works at a self defence business and her daughter. Summertime, Vanessa LaFaye. Florida 1935 and tensions simmer as a small town, already divided by race issues, is torn apart by a deadly hurricane. Mr. Miracle : a Christmas novel, Debbie Macomber. Heart-warming Christmas novel of romance, hope, and the comforts of home. Before I go, Colleen Oakley. Touching novel bout a young woman with breast cancer who undertakes a mission to find a new wife for her husband before she dies. West of Sunset, Stewart O'Nan. Late 1930s Hollywood and F. Scott Fitzgerald is trying to reinvent himself as a scriptwriter. Honeydew : stories, Edith Pearlman. A new story collection from the author of Binocular Vision, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the National Book Award. Australian fiction Springtime : a ghost story, Michelle de Kretser. A couple met at a party. He's married with a young son. Now they live together in Sydney and feel that their world is spinning out of control. A strange ghost story. The refuge : a confession, Kenneth Mackenzie. Late at night Lloyd Fitzherbert, police reporter with the Sydney Gazette, is picked up by his man in CIB for a 'last-minute job that won't take a minute' at the morgue. A body has been found in the harbour. Irma, a beautiful young woman who fled persecution in Nazi Europe, is dead. She was Fitzherbert's lover. And, though the police don't know it yet, he killed her. The social diary, Ros Reines. When the young journalist Savannah Stephens returns to her hometown Sydney after a stint as a music journalist in London, she is thrown into the burgeoning world of societies parties and the excess of the 80s social scene. Savannah's first job back on home soil is as the editor of the newly created social pages. British Fiction Ridley Road, Jo Bloom. Summer of 1962 and a young hairdresser from Manchester comes to London and works in Soho and becomes involved in the fight against Mosleyite Cupcakes at Carringtons, Alexandra Brown. Georgie Hart had it all as a top personal shopper in London, the heady world of Mulberry launch parties and Louis Vuitton goody bags meant she was living the dream. But all that extravagance took its toll on her bank balance and it was time to stop drinking champagne on beer money. The summer guest, Emma Hannigan. Lexie and her husband Sam have spent years lovingly restoring No. 3 Cashel Square to its former glory. So imagine Lexie's delight when a stranger knocks on the door, asking to see the house she was born in over sixty years ago. From one of Ireland's bestselling authors. Vigilante, Shelley Harris. Woman who does a rescue one night becomes a hero and it leads her to walk the streets of her small town by night to right wrongs. Unfortunately things gets out of control. The dandelion years, Erica James. Book restorer Saskia discovers a notebook carefully concealed in an old Bible, and finds herself drawn into a heart-rending tale of wartime What a girl wants, Lindsey Kelk. Tess Brookes was the girl with a plan. Now she's the girl with a choice. Should she stay in London and start her own advertising agency with her best friend and potential boyfriend Charlie? Or should she head to exciting Milan to pursue both a new career? Three amazing things about you, Jill Mansell. Hallie has a secret. She's in love. He's perfect for her in every way, but he's seriously out of bounds. And her friends aren't going to help her because what they do know is that Hallie doesn't have long to live. Time is running out. The whispering swarm, Michael Moorcock First in a trilogy that will follow a young man named Michael as he simultaneously discovers himself and a secret realm hidden deep in the heart of London. Vanessa and her sister, Priya Parmar. London in the early part of the 20th century is the setting for a story about the lives of Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey and the Bloomsbury group. Fingal O'Reilly, Irish doctor, Patrick Taylor. Newly married to his once long-lost sweetheart, he's ready to settle into domestic bliss, but there's always something requiring his attention, be it a riding accident, a difficult patient with a worrisome heart condition, a spot of grouse-hunting, or even some tricky shenanigans at the local dog races. The Wily O'Reilly : Irish country stories, Patrick Taylor. Long before Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly made most readers' acquaintance in Patrick Taylor's An Irish Country Doctor, he appeared in a series of humorous columns originally published in Stitches: The Journal of Medical Humour. A war of flowers, Jane Thynne. August, 1938. Paris is a city living on its nerves. British actress, Clara Vine, is here to film her latest movie, having left Berlin under a cloud. Joseph Goebbels has become increasingly suspicious that Clara has been mingling in Berlin society and passing snippets of information to her contacts in the British embassy. Author is married to the thriller writer Philip Kerr. The woman who fell in love for a week, Fiona Walker. Jenny loves to house-sit, looking after a stranger's enviably perfect home and pretending to be someone else just for a bit. Her latest booking is a beautiful, disheveled old rectory in the Home Counties owned by the uber-successful Lewis family. Fantasy Spell blind, David B. Coe. First in "The case fiies of Justis Fearsson," a contemporary fantasy series about a hardboiled magic-using private eye. Gallow : the Fateguard trilogy, Nathan Hawke. I have been Truesword to my friends, Griefbringer to my enemies. To most of you I am just another Northlander bastard here to take your women and drink your mead, but to those who know me, my name is Gallow. Reign of ash, Gail Z. Martin. Blaine McFadden survived six years in the brutal Velant prison colony, exiled for murder. When war devastates his homeland of Donderath, it also destroys the intentional magic on which Donderath and its fellow kingdoms rely. Second in the Ascendant Kingdoms Saga. Revenant : a Greywalker novel, Kat Richardson. Turmoil, sickness, and destruction are sweeping through Europe and its effects are being felt all the way across the world in Seattle. Harper Blaine and her lover, Quinton, suspect that Quinton's father, James Purlis and his terrifying Ghost Division are involved. The providence of fire, Brian Staveley. Second in the Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne trilogy. Fiction from the rest of the World The Brewer of Preston, Andrea Camilleri The bestselling author of the Inspector Montalbano series brings us back to Vigata in the nineteenth century for a rip-roaring comic novel just as readable as his mysteries. The little old lady who struck lucky again!, Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg Martha Andersson and the League of Pensioners have left behind their dreary care home in Stockholm and headed for the bright lights of Las Vegas. But before long they are up to their old tricks and with ingenious tactics, a pair of false teeth and a wheelchair each, they plot to outwit the security system at one of the biggest casinos. Suspended sentences : three novellas, Patrick Modiano Three intriguing novellas by the author of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature. The winter war, Philip Teir Swedish author's first novel, a warm and funny tale of a sociologist with a distant wife and two adult daughters. Wolf, wolf, Eben Venter South African man who is trying to live up to his dying father's wishes struggles with an addiction to porn that threatens his relationship with his male partner. Graphic Novel Loverboys, Story and art by Gilbert Hernandez. Avengers. [6. Infinite Avengers], Jonathan Hickman, writer The Manhattan Projects. 5, Jonathan Hickman Dexter, Jeff Lindsay Dexter down under, Jeff Lindsay The killer. [4], Unfair competition, Jacamon & Matz Here, Richard McGuire. Meteor Men, Jeff Parker Thanos : a god up there listening, Rob Williams, Historical The season of migration, Nellie Hermann. Though Vincent van Gogh is one of the most popular painters of all time, we know very little about a ten-month period in the painter's youth when he and his brother, Theo, broke off all contact. In" The Season of Migration," Nellie Hermann conjures this period. The ice king, M.K. Hume. It is several years now since Arthur, the Last Dragon of Britain, has set foot on home soil. Roaming the Land of the Denes, he has not only engaged in brutal and bloody conflict with the barbaric Geats but he has also unearthed the most evil force within the royal court of Heorot. Call of the Kiwi, Sarah Lark The great-granddaughter of Gwyneira McKenzie - who arrived in New Zealand as a naive young bride in In the Land of the Long White Cloud - Gloria Martyn has enjoyed an idyllic childhood at Kiward Station, her family's sprawling sheep farm in the Canterbury Plains. In the land of the long white cloud, Sarah Lark Helen Davenport, governess for a wealthy London household, longs for a family of her own, but nearing her late twenties, she knows her prospects are dim. Then she spots an advertisement seeking young women to marry New Zealand's honourable bachelors and begins an affectionate correspondence with a gentleman farmer. Song of the spirits, Sarah Lark New Zealand, 1893: William Martyn is better educated and more sophisticated than the usual clientele who have come in search of gold to Queenstown. No wonder, because Will is the son of Irish land-owner. The magician's lie, Greer Macallister. First novel about the most notorious female illusionist in America who is accused of the murder of her husband. Described as "Water for elephants" meets "Night circus." Galapagos regained, James Morrow. An unemployed actress tends the exotic menagerie on Darwin's estate and seizes on Darwin's theory for her own purposes. Steadfast heart, Tracie Peterson. In 1880s Seattle, Washington, Lenore Fulcher desires true love, while her father is intent on marrying her off to one of his business partners. When lawyer Kolbein Booth arrives searching for his sister at a finishing school for mail-order brides, he and Lenore face danger and uncertainty amidst their growing attraction. Revenant : a novel of revenge, Michael Punke. Tale of revenge in 1823 among the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. Soon to be filmed with Leonardo DiCaprio. The hummingbird's daughter, Luis Alberto Urrea. Based on Urrea's real great-aunt Teresita, who had healing powers and was acclaimed as a saint. Urrea has researched historical accounts and family records for years to get an accurate story. Mystery Death sentences : stories of deathly books, murderous booksellers & lethal literature from the world's best crime writers, Edited by Otto Penzler. Sigmund Freud deals with an unwelcome visitor; Columbo confronts a murderous bookseller; a Mexican cartel kingpin with a fatal weakness for rare books; deadly secrets deep in the London Library: who knew literature could be so lethal? Here are 15 short stories to die for from the world's best crime writers. Death of a dishonourable gentleman, Tessa Arlen. Mystery debut about murder at an annual summer costume ball investigated by Countess Lady Montfort, leading figure in Edwardian As chimney sweepers come to dust, Alan Bradley. Latest Flavia de Luce story is set in a boarding school in Canada. The series novels are set for a television movie series. The tomb in Turkey, Simon Brett. The latest Fethering mystery has Carole and Jude on holiday in Turkey where murder interrupts their holiday. Five minutes alone, Paul Cleave. Back in the police force and with his wife Bridget out of hospital, Tate looks to be getting his life on track. Meanwhile, his former detective partner Carl Schroder is finding life a little more challenging. The bullet he took in the head six months ago hasn't killed him ...yet, but it's left him with time on his hands. Jigsaw man, Elena Forbes. DI Mark Tartaglia is investigating two deaths and finds things more macabre than he could have imagined. For those who like their mysteries The female detective : [the original lady detective, 1864], Andrew Forrester Seven cases narrated by "G" (a.k.a. Mrs. Gladden), the first professional female detective in British fiction. Reprint of a minor classic. Killjoy, Julie Garwood. FBI profiler Avery Delaney becomes involved in a case that hits all too close to home when her workaholic aunt Carolyn accepts the offer from her soon-to-be-ex- husband of a vacation sojourn at the posh Utopia Spa in the Colorado mountains, only to vanish mysteriously before reaching the spa. The arc of the swallow, Sissel-Jo Gazan Research scientist is found hanged in his office and his assistant believes it wasn't suicide. Danish crime tale with a background of biological Crooked River, Valerie Geary. Two sisters growing up in rural Oregon find their world shaken when they stumble across a dead woman in the river that runs through their father's Die again, Tess Gerritsen. In Boston, Detective Jane Rizzoli and Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles investigate a bizarre murder. A man has been found gutted and hanging in his The tipping point, J.G. Jurado Dr David Evans, a top neurosurgeon at a hospital in Washington, faces the ultimate dilemma: if his next patient leaves the operating theatre alive, his daughter will die at the hands of a psychopath. Star fall, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles. Bill Slider and team on the case of the daytime TV antiques expert found dead. Sins of the father, Graham Hurley. DS Jimmy Suttle and the case of the rich old man murdered in his West Country home where his family all live. Hell is empty, Craig Johnson. Transporting a confessed murderer only to learn that the man's crime falls under his jurisdiction and that the killer has escaped, Sheriff Walt Longmire taps insights from Indian mysticism and Dante's "Inferno" in a manhunt through the icy Cloud Peak Wilderness Area. Junkyard dogs, Craig Johnson. An effort to remove a junkyard adjacent to a lucrative Wyoming land-development project is thrown into conflict when human remains are discovered at the site, a situation that pits Sheriff Walt Longmire and his companions against increasingly volatile locals. Kindness goes unpunished, Craig Johnson. In the aftermath of a brutal attack on his Philadelphia lawyer daughter, Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire and his best friend team up with the Philadelphia police in a determined search for answers. The three day affair, Michael Kardos. Man throws a huge block party in 1991 then is reputed to have murdered his wife and daughter. The daughter, however, gets away. The missing and the dead, Stuart MacBride. The 9th in the Logan McRae series that mixes black humour, gruesome murder and highly idiosyncractic characters. Guilty waters, Priscilla Masters. The disappearance of two French girls in a Staffordshire beauty spot opens a tough new case for Detective Joanna Piercy. Cry uncle, Russel D. McLean. Dundee private eye J. McNee works undercover for the police to uncover the secrets of an aging gangster. Land of the blind, Barbara Nadel. Inspector Cetin Ikmen and the case of the body discovered in the ruined Constantinople hippodrome. The ice queen, Nele Neuhaus The body of 92-year-old Jossi Goldberg, Holocaust survivor and American citizen, is found shot to death execution-style in his house near Frankfurt. A five- digit number is scrawled in blood at the murder scene. Storm clouds, Bronwyn Parry. Life is falling into place for National Parks ranger Erin Taylor. She has a job she loves, she's falling for her colleague, Simon and she is finally leaving the past behind. Until a woman is murdered. But the victim is not just any woman she's Simon's wife. Return to Moondilla, Tony Parsons. Story of former journalist, Greg Baxter, who's recently returned to the Moondilla area he grew up in to finish writing what he hopes will be a bestselling novel. Far from being able to concentrate on his novel, though, Baxter is drawn into an investigation into a local drug dealing ring that puts his life in danger. The martini shot, George Pelecanos. Short stories and a novella from one of America's best tough crime writers. Hush, Karen Robards. When Riley Cowan finds her estranged husband Jeff dead in his palatial home, she's sure it's no coincidence. The police rule it a suicide, but Riley thinks someone's out for blood - specifically someone Jeff's father ripped off in one of the biggest financial fraud cases of all time. The dancer at the Gai-Moulin, Georges Simenon In the darkness, the main room is as vast as a cathedral. Some warmth is still seeps from the radiators. Delfosse strikes a match. They stop a moment to catch their breath, and work out how far they have still to go. And suddenly the match falls to the ground, as Delfosse gives a sharp cry and rushes back towards the washroom door. Bred to kill, Franck Thilliez Sequel to the hit international bestseller is an intriguing tale about murder at a primate research centre outside Paris. A fine summer's day : an Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery, Charles Todd. On a fine summer's day in June, 1914, Ian Rutledge pays little notice to the assassination of an archduke in Sarajevo. An Inspector at Scotland Yard, he is planning to propose to the woman whom he deeply loves, despite intimations from friends and family that she may not be the wisest choice. Insatiable appetites, Stuart Woods. It's a time of unexpected change for Stone Barrington. A recent venture has achieved a great victory, but is immediately faced with a new challenge: an underhanded foe who's determined to wreak havoc at any cost. New Zealand Fiction The Witzke woman, Allan Marriott. Juliana Witzke, the mother of Len Coley who features in Mud Beneath My Boots, is the heroine of this novel which gradually knits together the trauma of her early years with her last ones. Some here among us, Peter Walker. It is 1967, and as America's allies hesitate over whether to send more troops to Vietnam and the strains of 'All You Need is Love' echo from Abbey Road, students take to the streets of Wellington to protest the war. Romance The Maxwell sisters, Loretta Hill. Trust no one, Jayne Ann Krentz. Boomerang bride, Fiona Lowe. Saga Home for Christmas, Lizzie Lane. Lydia, a wealthy daughter of a German doctor, and Agnes, an illegitimate child brought up as a maid, are as different as you can get, yet they strike up an unlikely friendship. When war is declared in 1914 the girls find themselves volunteering in the war effort working for the Red Cross. Maia's story, Lucinda Riley. Maia D'Apliese and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, "Atlantis" a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva having been told that their beloved father, who adopted them all as babies, has died. Science Fiction Undercity, Catherine Asaro. The latest in the Skolian Empire series. Unbreakable, W.C. Bauers. The colonists of the planet Montana are accustomed to being ignored. Situated in the buffer zone between two rival human empires, their world is a backwater: remote, provincial, independently-minded. Even as a provisional member of the Republic of Aligned Worlds, Montana merits little consideration until it becomes the flashpoint in an impending interstellar war. Golden son, Pierce Brown. Second in trilogy - follows "Red rising" - about a hierarchical society on Mars. 1636 : Commander Cantrell in the West Indies, Eric Flint and Charles E. Gannon. Eddie Cantrell, now married to the king of Denmark's daughter, is sent by Admiral Simpson to the Caribbean to secure access to the most valuable commodity on that continent not the gold and silver which the Spanish treasure, but the oil which up-time machines and industry need. A dream of Wessex, Christopher Priest. The trials and tribulations of a group of people who have escaped into a utopian shared virtual reality known as Wessex. It is a world engineered to give them their every desire. But when one woman becomes subject to the violent attentions of a man who feels that she is everything he desires she must decide to fight back. Strands of sorrow, John Ringo. Concluding volume in the "Black tide rising" series. We’ve included tick boxes next to each title so that you can mark your choices. Three ways to place a hold on these items: Phone (03) 941 7923. Monday to Friday 8am - 8pm and Saturday and Sunday 9am - 5pm. Online at http://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/new-titles/. You will need a password / PIN to do this: phone us (above) to receive a password / PIN. Hand in your list at your local library, with your name and card number written in the box below. Please Note: Our hold service costs $2.00 per item. Name: Library Card No: Holds pickup library: Christchurch City Libraries PO Box 73045 Christchurch 8154 Phone: (03) 941 7923 Email: library@ccc.govt.nz realised character." From the author of the first rate debut, "Dogfight, a love story."
Driving the king, Ravi Howard.
Imagines an event in Nat King Cole's life in post-war Alabama where a man jailed for defending Cole from a racist attack becomes Cole's L.A. driver.
The global war on Morris, Steve Israel.
Political satire about a pharmaceutical salesman who charges a non-business expense to his company credit card and what happens when a government surveillance programme tracks him down.
The first bad man, Miranda July.
Film director/short story writer's first novel, about a woman who works at a self defense business and her daughter.
Summertime, Vanessa LaFaye.
Florida 1935 and tensions simmer as a small town, already divided by race issues, is torn apart by a deadly hurricane.
Mr. Miracle : a Christmas novel, Debbie Macomber.
Heart-warming Christmas novel of romance, hope, and the comforts of home.
Before I go, Colleen Oakley.
Touching novel bout a young woman with breast cancer who undertakes a mission to find a new wife for her husband before she dies.
West of Sunset, Stewart O'Nan.
Late 1930s Hollywood and F. Scott Fitzgerald is trying to reinvent himself as a scriptwriter.
Honeydew : stories, Edith Pearlman.
A new story collection from the author of Binocular Vision, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the National Book Award.

Australian fiction

Springtime : a ghost story, Michelle de Kretser.
A couple met at a party. He's married with a young son. Now they live together in Sydney and feel that their world is spinning out of control. A strange ghost story.
The refuge : a confession, Kenneth Mackenzie.
Late at night Lloyd Fitzherbert, police reporter with the Sydney Gazette, is picked up by his man in CIB for a 'last-minute job that won't take a minute' at the morgue. A body has been found in the harbour. Irma, a beautiful young woman who fled persecution in Nazi Europe, is dead. She was Fitzherbert's lover. And, though the police don't know it yet, he killed her.
The social diary, Ros Reines.
When the young journalist Savannah Stephens returns to her hometown Sydney after a stint as a music journalist in London, she is thrown into the burgeoning world of societies parties and the excess of the 80s social scene. Savannah's first job back on home soil is as the editor of the newly created social pages.

British Fiction

Ridley Road, Jo Bloom.
Summer of 1962 and a young hairdresser from Manchester comes to London and works in Soho and becomes involved in the fight against Mosleyite
Cupcakes at Carringtons, Alexandra Brown.
Georgie Hart had it all as a top personal shopper in London, the heady world of Mulberry launch parties and Louis Vuitton goody bags meant she was living the dream. But all that extravagance took its toll on her bank balance and it was time to stop drinking champagne on beer money.
The summer guest, Emma Hannigan.
Lexie and her husband Sam have spent years lovingly restoring No. 3 Cashel Square to its former glory. So imagine Lexie's delight when a stranger knocks on the door, asking to see the house she was born in over sixty years ago. From one of Ireland's bestselling authors.
Vigilante, Shelley Harris.
Woman who does a rescue one night becomes a hero and it leads her to walk the streets of her small town by night to right wrongs. Unfortunately things gets out of control.
The dandelion years, Erica James.
Book restorer Saskia discovers a notebook carefully concealed in an old Bible, and finds herself drawn into a heart-rending tale of wartime
What a girl wants, Lindsey Kelk.
Tess Brookes was the girl with a plan. Now she's the girl with a choice. Should she stay in London and start her own advertising agency with her best friend and potential boyfriend Charlie? Or should she head to exciting Milan to pursue both a new career?
Three amazing things about you, Jill Mansell.
Hallie has a secret. She's in love. He's perfect for her in every way, but he's seriously out of bounds. And her friends aren't going to help her because what they do know is that Hallie doesn't have long to live. Time is running out.
The whispering swarm, Michael Moorcock
First in a trilogy that will follow a young man named Michael as he simultaneously discovers himself and a secret realm hidden deep in the heart of London.
Vanessa and her sister, Priya Parmar.
London in the early part of the 20th century is the setting for a story about the lives of Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey and the Bloomsbury group.
Fingal O'Reilly, Irish doctor, Patrick Taylor.
Newly married to his once long-lost sweetheart, he's ready to settle into domestic bliss, but there's always something requiring his attention, be it a riding accident, a difficult patient with a worrisome heart condition, a spot of grouse-hunting, or even some tricky shenanigans at the local dog races.
The Wily O'Reilly : Irish country stories, Patrick Taylor.
Long before Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly made most readers' acquaintance in Patrick Taylor's An Irish Country Doctor, he appeared in a series of humorous columns originally published in Stitches: The Journal of Medical Humour.
A war of flowers, Jane Thynne.
August, 1938. Paris is a city living on its nerves. British actress, Clara Vine, is here to film her latest movie, having left Berlin under a cloud. Joseph Goebbels has become increasingly suspicious that Clara has been mingling in Berlin society and passing snippets of information to her contacts in the British embassy. Author is married to the thriller writer Philip Kerr.
The woman who fell in love for a week, Fiona Walker.
Jenny loves to house-sit, looking after a stranger's enviably perfect home and pretending to be someone else just for a bit. Her latest booking is a beautiful, disheveled old rectory in the Home Counties owned by the uber-successful Lewis family.

Fantasy

Spell blind, David B. Coe.
First in "The case fiies of Justis Fearsson," a contemporary fantasy series about a hardboiled magic-using private eye.
Gallow : the Fateguard trilogy, Nathan Hawke.
I have been Truesword to my friends, Griefbringer to my enemies. To most of you I am just another Northlander bastard here to take your women and drink your mead, but to those who know me, my name is Gallow.
Reign of ash, Gail Z. Martin.
Blaine McFadden survived six years in the brutal Velant prison colony, exiled for murder. When war devastates his homeland of Donderath, it also destroys the intentional magic on which Donderath and its fellow kingdoms rely. Second in the Ascendant Kingdoms Saga.
Revenant : a Greywalker novel, Kat Richardson.
Turmoil, sickness, and destruction are sweeping through Europe and its effects are being felt all the way across the world in Seattle. Harper Blaine and her lover, Quinton, suspect that Quinton's father, James Purlis and his terrifying Ghost Division are involved.
The providence of fire, Brian Staveley.
Second in the Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne trilogy.

Fiction from the rest of the World

The Brewer of Preston, Andrea Camilleri
The bestselling author of the Inspector Montalbano series brings us back to Vigata in the nineteenth century for a rip-roaring comic novel just as readable as his mysteries.
The little old lady who struck lucky again!, Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
Martha Andersson and the League of Pensioners have left behind their dreary care home in Stockholm and headed for the bright lights of Las Vegas. But before long they are up to their old tricks and with ingenious tactics, a pair of false teeth and a wheelchair each, they plot to outwit the security system at one of the biggest casinos.
Suspended sentences : three novellas, Patrick Modiano
Three intriguing novellas by the author of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature.
The winter war, Philip Teir
Swedish author's first novel, a warm and funny tale of a sociologist with a distant wife and two adult daughters.
Wolf, wolf, Eben Venter
South African man who is trying to live up to his dying father's wishes struggles with an addiction to porn that threatens his relationship with his male partner.

Graphic Novel

Loverboys, Story and art by Gilbert Hernandez.
Avengers. [6. Infinite Avengers], Jonathan Hickman, writer
The Manhattan Projects. 5, Jonathan Hickman
Dexter, Jeff Lindsay
Dexter down under, Jeff Lindsay
The killer. [4], Unfair competition, Jacamon & Matz
Here, Richard McGuire.
Meteor Men, Jeff Parker
Thanos : a god up there listening, Rob Williams,

Historical

The season of migration, Nellie Hermann.
Though Vincent van Gogh is one of the most popular painters of all time, we know very little about a ten-month period in the painter's youth when he and his brother, Theo, broke off all contact. In" The Season of Migration," Nellie Hermann conjures this period.
The ice king, M.K. Hume.
It is several years now since Arthur, the Last Dragon of Britain, has set foot on home soil. Roaming the Land of the Denes, he has not only engaged in brutal and bloody conflict with the barbaric Geats but he has also unearthed the most evil force within the royal court of Heorot.
Call of the Kiwi, Sarah Lark
The great-granddaughter of Gwyneira McKenzie - who arrived in New Zealand as a naive young bride in In the Land of the Long White Cloud - Gloria Martyn has enjoyed an idyllic childhood at Kiward Station, her family's sprawling sheep farm in the Canterbury Plains.
In the land of the long white cloud, Sarah Lark
Helen Davenport, governess for a wealthy London household, longs for a family of her own, but nearing her late twenties, she knows her prospects are dim. Then she spots an advertisement seeking young women to marry New Zealand's honourable bachelors and begins an affectionate correspondence with a gentleman farmer.
Song of the spirits, Sarah Lark
New Zealand, 1893: William Martyn is better educated and more sophisticated than the usual clientele who have come in search of gold to Queenstown. No wonder, because Will is the son of Irish land-owner.
The magician's lie, Greer Macallister.
First novel about the most notorious female illusionist in America who is accused of the murder of her husband. Described as "Water for elephants" meets "Night circus."
Galapagos regained, James Morrow.
An unemployed actress tends the exotic menagerie on Darwin's estate and seizes on Darwin's theory for her own purposes.
Steadfast heart, Tracie Peterson.
In 1880s Seattle, Washington, Lenore Fulcher desires true love, while her father is intent on marrying her off to one of his business partners. When lawyer Kolbein Booth arrives searching for his sister at a finishing school for mail-order brides, he and Lenore face danger and uncertainty amidst their growing attraction.
Revenant : a novel of revenge, Michael Punke.
Tale of revenge in 1823 among the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. Soon to be filmed with Leonardo DiCaprio.
The hummingbird's daughter, Luis Alberto Urrea.
Based on Urrea's real great-aunt Teresita, who had healing powers and was acclaimed as a saint. Urrea has researched historical accounts and family records for years to get an accurate story.

Mystery

Death sentences : stories of deathly books, murderous booksellers & lethal literature from the world's best crime writers, Edited by Otto Penzler.
Sigmund Freud deals with an unwelcome visitor; Columbo confronts a murderous bookseller; a Mexican cartel kingpin with a fatal weakness for rare books; deadly secrets deep in the London Library: who knew literature could be so lethal? Here are 15 short stories to die for from the world's best crime writers.
Death of a dishonourable gentleman, Tessa Arlen.
Mystery debut about murder at an annual summer costume ball investigated by Countess Lady Montfort, leading figure in Edwardian
As chimney sweepers come to dust, Alan Bradley.
Latest Flavia de Luce story is set in a boarding school in Canada. The series novels are set for a television movie series.
The tomb in Turkey, Simon Brett.
The latest Fethering mystery has Carole and Jude on holiday in Turkey where murder interrupts their holiday.
Five minutes alone, Paul Cleave.
Back in the police force and with his wife Bridget out of hospital, Tate looks to be getting his life on track. Meanwhile, his former detective partner Carl Schroder is finding life a little more challenging. The bullet he took in the head six months ago hasn't killed him ...yet, but it's left him with time on his hands.
Jigsaw man, Elena Forbes.
DI Mark Tartaglia is investigating two deaths and finds things more macabre than he could have imagined. For those who like their mysteries
The female detective : [the original lady detective, 1864], Andrew Forrester
Seven cases narrated by "G" (a.k.a. Mrs. Gladden), the first professional female detective in British fiction. Reprint of a minor classic.
Killjoy, Julie Garwood.
FBI profiler Avery Delaney becomes involved in a case that hits all too close to home when her workaholic aunt Carolyn accepts the offer from her soon-to-be-ex- husband of a vacation sojourn at the posh Utopia Spa in the Colorado mountains, only to vanish mysteriously before reaching the spa.
The arc of the swallow, Sissel-Jo Gazan
Research scientist is found hanged in his office and his assistant believes it wasn't suicide. Danish crime tale with a background of biological
Crooked River, Valerie Geary.
Two sisters growing up in rural Oregon find their world shaken when they stumble across a dead woman in the river that runs through their father's
Die again, Tess Gerritsen.
In Boston, Detective Jane Rizzoli and Forensic Pathologist Maura Isles investigate a bizarre murder. A man has been found gutted and hanging in his
The tipping point, J.G. Jurado
Dr David Evans, a top neurosurgeon at a hospital in Washington, faces the ultimate dilemma: if his next patient leaves the operating theatre alive, his daughter will die at the hands of a psychopath.
Star fall, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles.
Bill Slider and team on the case of the daytime TV antiques expert found dead.
Sins of the father, Graham Hurley.
DS Jimmy Suttle and the case of the rich old man murdered in his West Country home where his family all live.
Hell is empty, Craig Johnson.
Transporting a confessed murderer only to learn that the man's crime falls under his jurisdiction and that the killer has escaped, Sheriff Walt Longmire taps insights from Indian mysticism and Dante's "Inferno" in a manhunt through the icy Cloud Peak Wilderness Area.
Junkyard dogs, Craig Johnson.
An effort to remove a junkyard adjacent to a lucrative Wyoming land-development project is thrown into conflict when human remains are discovered at the site, a situation that pits Sheriff Walt Longmire and his companions against increasingly volatile locals.
Kindness goes unpunished, Craig Johnson.
In the aftermath of a brutal attack on his Philadelphia lawyer daughter, Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire and his best friend team up with the Philadelphia police in a determined search for answers.
The three day affair, Michael Kardos.
Man throws a huge block party in 1991 then is reputed to have murdered his wife and daughter. The daughter, however, gets away.
The missing and the dead, Stuart MacBride.
The 9th in the Logan McRae series that mixes black humour, gruesome murder and highly idiosyncractic characters.
Guilty waters, Priscilla Masters.
The disappearance of two French girls in a Staffordshire beauty spot opens a tough new case for Detective Joanna Piercy.
Cry uncle, Russel D. McLean.
Dundee private eye J. McNee works undercover for the police to uncover the secrets of an aging gangster.
Land of the blind, Barbara Nadel.
Inspector Cetin Ikmen and the case of the body discovered in the ruined Constantinople hippodrome.
The ice queen, Nele Neuhaus
The body of 92-year-old Jossi Goldberg, Holocaust survivor and American citizen, is found shot to death execution-style in his house near Frankfurt. A five- digit number is scrawled in blood at the murder scene.
Storm clouds, Bronwyn Parry.
Life is falling into place for National Parks ranger Erin Taylor. She has a job she loves, she's falling for her colleague, Simon and she is finally leaving the past behind. Until a woman is murdered. But the victim is not just any woman she's Simon's wife.
Return to Moondilla, Tony Parsons.
Story of former journalist, Greg Baxter, who has recently returned to the Moondilla area he grew up in to finish writing what he hopes will be a bestselling novel. Far from being able to concentrate on his novel, though, Baxter is drawn into an investigation into a local drug dealing ring that puts his life in danger.
The martini shot, George Pelecanos.
Short stories and a novella from one of America's best tough crime writers.
Hush, Karen Robards.
When Riley Cowan finds her estranged husband Jeff dead in his palatial home, she's sure it's no coincidence. The police rule it a suicide, but Riley thinks someone's out for blood - specifically someone Jeff's father ripped off in one of the biggest financial fraud cases of all time.
The dancer at the Gai-Moulin, Georges Simenon
In the darkness, the main room is as vast as a cathedral. Some warmth is still seeps from the radiators. Delfosse strikes a match. They stop a moment to catch their breath, and work out how far they have still to go. And suddenly the match falls to the ground, as Delfosse gives a sharp cry and rushes back towards the washroom door.
Bred to kill, Franck Thilliez
Sequel to the hit international bestseller is an intriguing tale about murder at a primate research centre outside Paris.
A fine summer's day : an Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery, Charles Todd.
On a fine summer's day in June, 1914, Ian Rutledge pays little notice to the assassination of an archduke in Sarajevo. An Inspector at Scotland Yard, he is planning to propose to the woman whom he deeply loves, despite intimations from friends and family that she may not be the wisest choice.
Insatiable appetites, Stuart Woods.
It's a time of unexpected change for Stone Barrington. A recent venture has achieved a great victory, but is immediately faced with a new challenge: an underhanded foe who's determined to wreak havoc at any cost.

New Zealand Fiction

The Witzke woman, Allan Marriott.
Juliana Witzke, the mother of Len Coley who features in Mud Beneath My Boots, is the heroine of this novel which gradually knits together the trauma of her early years with her last ones.
Some here among us, Peter Walker.
It is 1967, and as America's allies hesitate over whether to send more troops to Vietnam and the strains of 'All You Need is Love' echo from Abbey Road, students take to the streets of Wellington to protest the war.

Romance

The Maxwell sisters, Loretta Hill.
Trust no one, Jayne Ann Krentz.
Boomerang bride, Fiona Lowe.

Saga

Home for Christmas, Lizzie Lane.
Lydia, a wealthy daughter of a German doctor, and Agnes, an illegitimate child brought up as a maid, are as different as you can get, yet they strike up an unlikely friendship. When war is declared in 1914 the girls find themselves volunteering in the war effort working for the Red Cross.
Maia's story, Lucinda Riley.
Maia D'Apliese and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, "Atlantis" a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva having been told that their beloved father, who adopted them all as babies, has died.

Science Fiction

Undercity, Catherine Asaro.
The latest in the Skolian Empire series.
Unbreakable, W.C. Bauers.
The colonists of the planet Montana are accustomed to being ignored. Situated in the buffer zone between two rival human empires, their world is a backwater: remote, provincial, independently-minded. Even as a provisional member of the Republic of Aligned Worlds, Montana merits little consideration until it becomes the flashpoint in an impending interstellar war.
Golden son, Pierce Brown.
Second in trilogy - follows "Red rising" - about a hierarchical society on Mars.
1636 : Commander Cantrell in the West Indies, Eric Flint and Charles E. Gannon.
Eddie Cantrell, now married to the king of Denmark's daughter, is sent by Admiral Simpson to the Caribbean to secure access to the most valuable commodity on that continent not the gold and silver which the Spanish treasure, but the oil which up-time machines and industry need.
A dream of Wessex, Christopher Priest.
The trials and tribulations of a group of people who have escaped into a utopian shared virtual reality known as Wessex. It is a world engineered to give them their every desire. But when one woman becomes subject to the violent attentions of a man who feels that she is everything he desires she must decide to fight back.
Strands of sorrow, John Ringo.
Concluding volume in the "Black tide rising" series.