Recreation

New Titles Fiction March 2016 (arrived in February 2016)

Adventure

The first order, Jeff Abbott.
Sam Capra has reason to believe that his brother, Danny, may be alive. And if Danny has been living a secret life these past years, where has he been and what has he become? The search leads to the Russian elite inner circle, a group of ruthless ex-KGB billionaires who owe fealty to Russia's corrupt president.
Don't know Jack, Diane Capri.
Jack Reacher: Friend or Enemy? It's been a while since we first met Lee Child's Jack Reacher in Killing Floor. Fifteen years and sixteen novels later, Reacher still lives off the grid.
The art of war, Stephen Coonts.
The Chinese dragon is flexing its muscles. As its military begins to prey on neighbours in the South China Sea, attacking fishing vessels and scheming to seize natural resources, the US goes on high alert.
Memo random, Anders De La Motte
David Sarac is a handler at the Intelligence Unit of the Stockholm Police Force, identifying, recruiting, and wrangling anyone who can support the police in their battle against organized crime.
Hostage, Jamie Doward.
In Algeria a terrorist network that controls the illicit trade in guns, drugs, oil and cigarettes is preparing to murder a hundred US and British energy workers unless a ransom is paid. The British and the American intelligence services are competing to find the kidnappers for very different reasons.
Spy out the land, Jeremy Duns.
A time of turbulence 1975. A summit has been arranged between the Rhodesian government and various nationalist leaders, and is due to take place in railway dining car 49, midway along Victoria Falls Bridge. But Matthew Charamba, a key player in the battle for majority rule in Rhodesia, is hiding a deadly secret.
Kodiak sky, Stephen Frey.
For decades, the top-secret Red Cell Seven unit has operated beyond the reach of the law defending the United States by any means necessary, with absolute impunity. But the tables have turned, and the untouchable anti-terror squad is under attack.
Red Cell Seven, Stephen Frey.
Created more than forty years ago by secret executive order, Red Cell Seven is a highly classified intelligence agency tasked with protecting America from the most catastrophic of terrorist attacks.
Gate of the dead, David Gilman.
Tuscany, 1358: Thomas Blackstone has built a formidable reputation in exile, fighting as a mercenary amid the ceaseless internecine warring of Italy's City States. Success has bred many enemies, who will seize any opportunity to destroy the man they cannot overcome on the field.
A hard, cruel shore, Dewey Lambdin.
Latest in the Alan Lewrie series of adventures at sea.
New York night, Stephen Leather.
Teenagers are being possessed and turning into sadistic murderers. Priests can't help, nor can psychiatrists. So who is behind the demonic possessions? Jack Nightingale is called in to investigate, and finds his own soul is on the line.
Midnight in Berlin, James MacManus.
As the threat of war escalates in Berlin 1938, might clandestine love hold the key to an unlikely peace?
The martyr's curse, Scott Mariani.
Latest in the Ben Hope series.
Detonator, Andy McNab.
Ex-SAS, ex-Black Ops Nick Stone returns and this time he wants vengeance. At any cost.
Deathlist, Chris Ryan.
Second in the Strikeback series.
Kydd : a Kydd sea adventure, Julian Stockwin.
Young wig-maker Thomas Paine Kydd is impressed and forced to join the crew of a British battleship. He comes to admire the skills and courage of his fellow seamen. But can he accept the challenge himself to become a true sailor and defender of Britain?

American Fiction

100 years of the best American short stories, Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor.
Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time.
The incarnations, Susan Barker.
Beijing, 2008, the Olympics are coming, but as taxi driver Wang circles the city's congested streets, he feels barely alive. His daily grind is suddenly interrupted when he finds a letter in the sunshade of his cab. Someone is watching him. Someone who claims to be his soulmate and to have known him for over a thousand years.
The Swans of Fifth Avenue, Melanie Benjamin.
Fictional tale about Truman Capote's relationship with Babe Paley and other high society "swans" in 1950s New York.
Beneath the bonfire, Nickolas Butler.
Short stories from the author of the highly readable novel "Shotgun love songs."
This living and immortal thing, Austin Duffy.
Imprssive first novel set in a New York hospital where a disillusioned Irish doctor struggles with the big questions of life. The author is Irish but lives in America.
Bream gives me hiccups : & other stories, Jesse Eisenberg.
Series of stories written from the point of view of a nine-year-old boy whose mother brings him to expensive Los Angeles restaurants so that she can bill her ex-husband for the meals. If you like David Sedaris, try this one.
I'll see you in Paris, Michelle Gable.
Winds together the lives of three women born generations apart, but who face similar struggles of love and heartbreak.
The Yid, Paul Goldberg.
Debut novel that promises you'll never think of Stalinist Russia, Shakespeare and the theatre in the same way again.
Scary old sex, Arlene Heyman.
A woman goes about certain rituals of sex with her second husband, sharing the bed with the ghosts of her sexual past. A beautiful young art student embarks on an affair with a much older, married, famous artist. And more. A practisiing psychiatrist's look at relationships.
Mr Splitfoot, Samantha Hunt.
Two young orphans living in a crowded foster home run by religious fanatics. When a con man arrives they join him on the road. Described as a mix of ghost story and realism.
The expatriates, Janice Y. K. Lee.
Set in present-day Hong Kong, The Expatriates follows the lives of three women.
Sea lovers, Valerie Martin.
An anthology of twelve stories inspired by the author's fictional explorations of the natural world, the artistic sphere, and the potential of
The secret to hummingbird cake, Celeste Fletcher McHale.
Feelgood tale about a recipe for a cake and the lives of some good friends.
The portable Veblen, Elizabeth McKenzie.
Often very funny and quite sharp satirical comedy about capitalism, the medical industry, family, romance and wedding planning.
My name is Lucy Barton, Elizabeth Strout.
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize winner, "Olive Kitteredge." The story of a simple hospital visit which becomes the key to the relationship between mother and daughter.
The arrangement, Ashley Warlick.
Likeable novel about food, desire, and the real-life love triangle between M.F.K Fisher, her husband, and the man she left him for the true love of her life Los Angeles, 1934.
Your heart is a muscle the size of a fist, Sunil Yapa.
Impressive first novel set around the real-life protests that disrupted the 1999 World Trade Organisation in Seattle.
The wallcreeper, Nell Zink
Debut novel follows a downwardly mobile secretary from Philadelphia who marries an ambitious soon-to-be-expat pharmaceutical researcher in hopes that she will never work again. They end up in Germany, where it turns out that her new husband is tougher, sneakier, more sincere, more contradictory, and smarter than she is; she'd naturally thought it was impossible.

Australian fiction

The women's pages, Debra Adelaide.
The lives of women and the compromises they make is explored in this unusual novel that focuses on women in fiction.
Blackwattle Lake, Pamela Cook.
For smart talking, newly claimed city girl Eve Nicholls, walking up the driveway of her childhood home a property she recently inherited from her mother is an eerie feeling. The horses that she loved still freckle the paddocks but the house is empty, and she's glad to have her best friend Banjo the Kelpie with her and a bottle of bourbon.
In the mouth of the tiger, Derek Emerson-Elliott and Lynette Silver.
Set in the turbulent years just before and after World War Two, and based on a true story, In the Mouth of the Tiger has it all: adventure, romance, suspense, and action that jumps from Malaya and Singapore to Australia and England.
The things we keep, Sally Hepworth.
Rosalind House might not be the first place you'd expect to find new love and renewal, but within the walls of this assisted living facility two women have their lives changed forever.
A guide to Berlin, Gail Jones.
Five visitors to Berlin find their frienship shattered by a sudden act of violence.
Comfort zone, Lindsay Tanner.
Racism in Australia as a middle aged cabbie falls for a young Somali woman which leads him into a criminal world.
Hotel du Barry, Lesley Truffle.
London-born Aussie writer's likeable tale about a baby found in a top hotel on the laundry line, tucked up in a pair of bloomers.
I for isobel, Amy Witting.
Born into a world without welcome, Isobel observes it as warily as an alien trying to pass for a native. Her collection of imaginary friends includes the Virgin Mary and Sherlock Holmes. Later she meets Byron, W.H. Auden and T.S. Eliot. Isobel is not so much at ease with the flesh-and-blood people she meets, and least of all with herself, until a lucky encounter and a little detective work reveal her identity and her true situation in life. Reprint of a highly original novel.

British Fiction

Our song, Dani Atkins.
The story of Ally and Charlotte, whose paths have intersected over the years though they've never really been close friends.
Darkness falls from the air, Nigel Balchin.
Classic novel of the London Blitz, Darkness falls from the air captures the chaos, absurdity and ultimately the tragedy of life during the bombardment. A welcome reprint of a fascinating novel.
The noise of time, Julian Barnes.
In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return.
Wickham Hall, Cathy Bramley
Wickham Hall was originally published as a four-part serial. This is the complete story in one package. Holly Swift has just landed the job of her dreams: events co-ordinator at Wickham Hall, the beautiful manor home that sits proudly at the heart of the village where she grew up.
The child's secret, Amanda Brooke.
When eight-year-old Jasmine Peterson goes missing, the police want to know everything. What is local park ranger, Sam McIntyre, running away from and why did he go out of his way to befriend a young girl? Why can't Jasmine's mother and father stand to be in the same room as each other?
The trouble with goats and sheep, Joanna Cannon.
Unusual mix of mystery and coming of age fiction debut about two young girls who become amateur sleuths in their cul de sac. Set in the 1970s.
The little shop of happy ever after, Jenny Colgan.
Given a back-room computer job when the beloved Birmingham library she works in turns into a downsized retail complex, Nina misses her old role terribly dealing with people, greeting her regulars, making sure everyone gets the right books for their needs. Then a new business nobody else wants catches her eye: owning a tiny little bookshop bus up in the Scottish highlands.
Gilbert : the last years of W.G. Grace, Charlie Connelly.
There are few more instantly recognisable figures, from any era, from any walk of life, than W.G. Grace. With his enormous height, beer-barrel girth and immense beard he was - and remains - a caricaturist's dream. A good choice for cricket fans.
The secrets of happiness, Lucy Diamond.
Rachel and Becca aren't real sisters, or so they say. They are stepsisters, living far apart, with little in common. Rachel is the successful one: happily married with three children and a big house, plus an impressive career. Artistic Becca, meanwhile, lurches from one dead-end job to another, shares a titchy flat, and has given up on love.
This is the ritual, Rob Doyle.
Bold and entertaining collection of stories from a prizewinning Irish author.
Exposure, Helen Dunmore.
Imaginative take on the Cold War thriller genre. Penelope Lively and Mavis Cheek have been very enthusiastic about this one.
The butterfly summer, Harriet Evans.
What magic is this? You follow the hidden creek towards a long-forgotten house. They call it Keepsake, a place full of wonder and danger. Locked inside the crumbling elegance of its walls lies the story of the Butterfly Summer, a story you've been waiting all your life to hear. This house is Nina Parr's birthright. It holds the truth about her family and a chance to put everything right at last.
I am no one, Patrick Flanery.
Third novel from a major British author is about the use of surveillance leading to a world where privacy disappears.
What became of you, my love?, Maeve Haran.
Stella Ainsworth has settled for suburban peace with a pedantic husband, a dissatisfied daughter and a clutch of beloved grandchildren who all take her presence in their lives for granted. Then Cameron Keene, her boyfriend from her teenage years who'd left for America to become a rock icon of the Sixties, returns to England.
Shylock is my name, Howard Jacobson.
The latest from the Booker winner. A contemporary retelling of "The merchant of Venice" from the leading Jewish author. The story revolves around an art dealer angry with his daughters for rejecting their Jewish roots.
The long room, Francesca Kay.
1981 and a man who works for a spying institute is given a new case where he fixates on a woman who may be a mole in their organisation.
The day I lost you, Fionnuala Kearney.
When Jess's daughter, Anna, is reported lost in an avalanche, everything changes. Left to explain her mother's absence to Anna's five-year-old daughter, Rose, Jess isn't yet ready to admit to herself that her daughter might not be coming back.
The blue hour, Douglas Kennedy.
Reluctantly agreeing to accompany her artsy intellectual husband during a month-long trip to Morocco, meticulous accountant Robin delights in regional culture and hopes to become pregnant only to be wrongly implicated in her husband's disappearance.
The astonishing return of Norah Wells, Virginia Macgregor.
A woman walks out of the house one morning and never looks back. Six years later, she returns and another woman is in her
Any other mouth, Anneliese Mackintosh.
How do you react when you discover your boyfriend is cheating on you with his dead grandma? Which lullaby helps you date two guys at once? What's the best way to deface a doctor's leaflet on bereavement? And what is this Borderline Personality Disorder people keep telling you about? Frank and funny tales.
You and me, always, Jill Mansell.
On the morning of Lily's twenty-fifth birthday, it's time to open the very last letter written to her by her beloved mother, who died when she was eight. Learning more about the first and only real love of her mum's life is a revelation.
When the floods came, Clare Morrall.
Dystopian fiction set in a future Britain ravaged by floods and cut off from the rest of the world. The main characters are a family surviving in a tower
My own dear brother, Holly Muller.
Welsh author's impressive coming of age story about a teenage girl in Nazi-controlled Austria during the last years of World War II.
The stopped heart, Julie Myerson.
What happens when a parent's worst nightmare comes to life for a couple escaping London for an idyllic home in rural Suffolk.
Highbridge, Phil Redmond.
First novel by the author of the U.K. TV series "Grange Hill" and "Brookside." The story of a girl murdered in the centre of a town and her brothers who are desperate to avenge her death.
Jonathan unleashed, Meg Rosoff.
First adult novel by the YA author is a likeable tale of an advertising man who'd like to meet the girl of his dreams.
If they could see me now, Denise Welch.
Debut by actress (from "Coronation Street" and other shows) and TV panelist. The tale of a woman whose family leave the nest, leading her to take stock of her life.
If I could tell you, Elizabeth Wilhide.
First novel by the author of books on interior design, architecture and decoation. Set in 1939 Suffolk where a woman with a comfortable life falls in love and loses everything.

Fiction from the rest of the World

The blue line, Ingrid Betancourt.
Drawing on her own experiences of being kidnapped by guerillas in Colombia, a strong novel about a woman dealing with love and betrayal during Algeria's "dirty war."
The 6:41 to Paris, Jean-Philippe Blondel
Gripping and very original novel, translated from the French and a bestseller there, about a man and a woman who meet after many years on a train and how their bitter parting years back dredges up memories.
Fever at dawn, Peter Gardos
This novel, originally published in Hungary, has had a lot of buzz in the book trade. It is inspired by a post-Holocaust love story of the author's parents. It is being filmed.
That other me, Maha Gargash.
Majed, the head of the eminent Naseemy family, is proud to have risen into the upper echelons of Emirati society. As one of the richest businessmen in Dubai, he's used to being catered to and respected-never mind that he acquired his wealth by cheating his brother out of his own company and depriving his niece, Mariam, of her rights.
The vegetarian :, Han Kang
A trangressive, unsettling novel in three acts, about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul. A tale of modern South Korea that has had rave reviews.
The invoice, Jonas Karlsson
Charming and quirky tale about happiness, a kind of love story whose man character works part-time in a Stockholm video store.
Mend the living, Maylis de Kerangal
French prizewinner. A teenager is in a coma and almost dead. His beating heart if given to a man just clinging to life.
Am I cold, Martin Kongstad
Copenhagen, 2008 where excess is in and austerity out and the international crash is just about to happen.
In a land of paper gods, Rebecca Mackenzie.
Jiangxi Province, China, 1941. Atop the fabled mountain of Lushan, celebrated for its temples, capricious mists and plunging ravines, perches a boarding school for the children of British missionaries.
The high mountains of Portugal, Yann Martel.
From the Booker Prize winning author of "Life of Pi" comes a tale of love, loss and faith, combining contemporary realism, ghost tory and a quest which begins in the 1900s in Portugal.
Maman, what are we called now?, Jacqueline Mesnil-Amar
The title of this novel is the question nine year-old Sylvie asked her mother in a crowded French railway station one day during the war. But why was this such an important if not disastrous thing to ask? It was because she and her mother were Jewish, living under assumed names and with forged papers, and therefore if anyone had overheard her hesitation about her real name they would have been immediately suspicious.
In the cafe of lost youth, Patrick Modiano
Four narrators tell the story about a young woman growing up in Montmartre. From the Nobel Prize winning novelist.
The sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen.
It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whisky and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong.

Graphic novel

100 bullets. Book four, Brian Azzarello
Astro City. Lover's quarrel, Kurt Busiek
The new deal, Jonathan Case.
Nextwave, agents of H.A.T.E. : complete collection, Warren Ellis
War stories. Vol. 2, Garth Ennis
One must break, William Geradts
Prepocalypse. Volume 2, William Geradts & Richard Fairgray
Howard the Duck omnibus, Steve Gerber
Attack on Titan. 17, Hajime Isayama
Batman : the Jiro Kuwata Batmanga. Volume 3, Jiro Kuwata
Red Hood and the Outlaws. Volume 7, Last call, Scott Lobdell
Baltimore. Volume six, The cult of the Red King, Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden
FBP. Volume 4, The end times, Simon Olive
Swamp Thing. Volume 5, The killing field, Charles Soule
Judge Dredd : the mega collection. Day of chaos, The fourth faction, John Wagner
Irredeemable : premier edition. Volume one, Mark Waid

Mystery

Victim without a face, Stefan Ahnhem
Swedish detective Fabian Risk realises he's a potential victim when two of his former classmates are murdered. Debut novel.
City of the lost, Kelley Armstrong.
Welcome to Rockton: a secret town cut off from the rest of the world. If you need a place to hide, this is the perfect place to start again. There's just one catch. You can't leave. Myster by the sometime fantasy author.
Fever city, Tim Baker.
Debut of Aussie author. Story of a Los Angeles detective hired to locate the kidnapped son of one of America's richest and most hated men.
Jane and the Waterloo map, Stephanie Barron.
Latest in the historical mystery series with Jane Austen as sleuth.
The widow, Fiona Barton.
Another in the domestic disharmony genre with a woman whose hsband is accused of a terrible crime and how she gets ready to tell her story.
Black Widow, Christopher Brookmyre.
A feminist blogger and skilled surgeon is the victim of internet revenge and when her husband dies, she becomes a media name - Black
The promise, Alison Bruce.
DC Gary Goodhew and murder in the back streets of Cambridge which is linked to a man who veers between fear and revenge.
The good goodbye, Carla Buckley.
As two cousins lie unconscious in a hospital unit after a fire in their dormitory killed another student, family secrets are revealed.
A perilous alliance, Fiona Buckley.
January, 1576. Widow Ursula Blanchard is in no position to refuse when Sir Francis Walsingham decides she must wed Count Gilbert Renard in order to build a strategic alliance with the French. Soon after the count arrives at her country home to pay court, one of Ursula's household staff is found dead. An accident or something more sinister?
The ex, Alafair Burke.
After agreeing to defend her ex-fiance when he is arrested for a triple homicide, top criminal lawyer, Olivia Randall begins to have doubts as the evidence mounts against him.
The falling detective, Christoffer Carlsson
Second in series featuring troubled Swedish police officer Leo Junker.
Where it hurts, Reed Farrel Coleman.
Launches a new series featuring retired rural cop now working as a van driver. He is approached by an ex-con to solve a murder.
The Ponson case : a story of crime, Freeman Wills Crofts
A Penguin reprint of a classic British mystery.
Unreasonable doubt, Vicki Delany.
What would it be like to return to your hometown after twenty-five years in prison for a crime you have maintained you did not commit? And, why would you return? The family of the murdered girl, Sophia D'Angelo, is bitterly determined to see Walt returned to prison or dead. So, case reopened.
After you die, Eva Dolan.
Dawn Prentice was already known to the Peterborough Hate Crimes Unit. The previous summer she had logged a number of calls detailing the harassment she and her severely disabled teenage daughter were undergoing. Now she is dead - stabbed to death whilst Holly Prentice has been left to starve upstairs.
The house opposite, J. Jefferson Farjeon
From the Collins Crime Club archive, the first original novel to feature Ben the Cockney tramp, the unorthodox detective character created by J. Jefferson Farjeon.
The night walker, Sebastian Fitzek
Psychological thriller about an insomniac who thinks he's cured and may be descending into madness and what happens when his wife disappears in strange circumstances.
Viral, Helen FitzGerald.
Follows twins Leah and Su, opposite personalities who travel together on a post-exams holiday to Magaluf. When a video of Su in a nightclub appears online and goes viral, she disappears, forcing their mother to intervene.
Give the devil his due, Sulari Gentill.
When Rowland Sinclair is invited to take his yellow Mercedes onto the Maroubra Speedway, renamed the Killer Track for the lives it has claimed, he agrees without caution or reserve. But then people start to die.
A poisonous plot, Susanna Gregory.
More historical mystery: the latest in the Thomas Chaloner series.
The Chelsea Strangler, Susanna Gregory.
Historical mystery, the latest title in the Thomas Chaloner series.
The woman in blue, Elly Griffiths.
The murder of women priests in the shrine town of Walsingham sucks Dr Ruth Galloway into an unholy investigation. Ruth's friend Cathbad is house- sitting in Walsingham, a Norfolk village famous as a centre for pilgrimages to the Virgin Mary.
The man with a load of mischief, Martha Grimes.
Two pubs in Long Piddleton are the sights of two murders. Scotland Yard's Richard Jury gets some help from Long Piddleton's own Melrose Plant to root out evil in the heart of the village.
Orphan X, Gregg Hurwitz.
First in new series featuring Evan Smoak, trained as an assassin and helping those who have nowhere to turn.
Breakdown, Jonathan Kellerman.
Psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware meets beautiful and emotionally fragile TV actress Zelda Chase when called upon to evaluate her five-year-old son, Ovid. Years later, Alex is unexpectedly reunited with Zelda when she is involuntarily committed after a bizarre psychotic episode.
The witness, Simon Kernick.
When Jane Kinnear sees her lover being murdered, she suddenly finds herself in danger. Taken to an anonymous police safe-house, it soon becomes clear that her lover was an MI5 informant with important information about an imminent terrorist attack.
Robert B. Parker's Blackjack, Robert Knott.
Appaloosa, the hometown of Territorial Marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, continues to prosper, but with prosperity comes a slew of new trouble: carpetbaggers, gamblers, migrants, peddlers, drifters, thieves, and whores, all boiling in a cauldron of excess and greed.
Honky tonk samurai, Joe R. Lansdale.
Private eye Harp Collins, sixties activist, and Leonard Pine, black and gay Republican, on the case of a missing girl.
Forget me not, Luana Lewis.
Psychological suspense thriller debut from an English clinical psychologist is a tale of a family with dark secrets.
In the cold dark ground, Stuart MacBride.
Sergeant Logan McRae is in trouble. His missing-persons investigation has just turned up a body in the woods naked, hands tied behind its back, and a bin bag duct-taped over its head. The Major Investigation Team charges up from Aberdeen, under the beady eye of Logan's ex-boss Detective Chief Inspector Steel.
Violent crimes, Phillip Margolin.
Lawyer who's made money representing oil and coal companies, is murdered and ecowarriors confess but they may not be the killer.
Dead pretty, David Mark.
Hannah Kelly has been missing for nine months. Ava Delaney has been dead for five days. One girl to find. One girl to avenge. And DS Aector McAvoy won't let either of them go until justice can be done. But some people have their own ideas of what justice means.
Angel killer : a Jessica Blackwood thriller, Andrew Mayne.
Tale of FBI agent and gifted magician. The author is the star of a magic reality TV show.
On the bone, Barbara Nadel.
Latest case for Inspector Ikmen, described as "The Morse of Istanbul."
Angels burning, Tawni O'Dell.
In small town Pennsylvania, a dedicated police chiefhas to face her dark past when a teenage girl is murdered.
Treachery at Lancaster Gate, Anne Perry.
Thomas Pitt arrives at a devastating bombing in Lancaster Gate to find two policemen dead and three more gravely wounded. London's anarchists are blamed, but as Pitt and Inspector Tellman investigate they find it looks increasingly like a personal vendetta against those particular men.
The Vulture, Frederick Ramsay.
The smoking remains of a car belonging to sheriff Ike Schwartz are found just outside Picketsville, Virginia. Since leaving the CIA, the sheriff has made many enemies at home and abroad. Is this a cop killing, or domestic terrorism?
Rough cut, Anna Smith.
When a young Pakistani bride falls to her death from a window, Rosie has to navigate the story with care, trying not to upset the girl's devastated family or the local Pakistani community.
The final seven, Erica Spindler.
Detective Micki Dare is a seasoned, no-nonsense cop. She doesn't need a partner, especially one like Detective Zach Harris. But the decision's been made and there's nothing she can do about it. Introduces her new Lightkeepers series.

Romance

Pieces of us, Pamela Ann.
Pieces of you & me, Pamela Ann.
A kiss to change her life, Karin Baine.
Sweet deception, Tara Bond.
A baby for the boss, Maureen Child.
The marriage he must keep, Dani Collins.
A love against all odds, Emily Forbes.
This charming angel, Sharon Gartner.
This charming shack, Sharon Gartner.
Twin heirs to his throne, Olivia Gates.
The husband she'd never met, Barbara Hannay.
Her playboy's proposal, Kate Hardy.
Secret sisters, Jayne Ann Krentz.
A daddy for baby Zoe, Fiona Lowe.
The cost of the forbidden, Carol Marinelli.
A mother for his adopted son, Lynne Marshall.
Unlocking her boss's heart, Christy McKellen.
Awakening the Ravensdale heiress, Melanie Milburne.
One night with her boss, Annie O'Neil.
Rose river, Margareta Osborn.
Beyond the silence, Tracie Peterson, Kimberley Woodhouse.
Touching eternity, Airicka Phoenix.
Touching fire, Airicka Phoenix.
Touching smoke, Airicka Phoenix.
Billabong Bend, Jennifer Scoullar.
Mistress of his revenge, Chantelle Shaw.
Theseus discovers his heir, Michelle Smart.
New Year at the boss's bidding, Rachael Thomas.
Wearing the De Angelis ring, Cathy Williams.
Holiday with the millionaire, Scarlet Wilson.
His princess of convenience, Rebecca Winters.
Just haven't met you yet, Cate Woods.
The queen's New Year secret, Maisey Yates.

Saga & Historical

Tread softly, Alice, Jessica Blair.
Set in Yorkshire and South Africa at the time of the Boer War.
The stargazer's sister, Carrie Brown.
Story of female empowerment before its time, based on the life of Caroline Herschel, sister of the great astronomer William Herschel.
The restoration, Wanda E. Brunstetter.
When Priscilla Herschberger faces a choice between childhood friend Elam from her Amish community and an outsider, Elam's attempts to persuade her soon run out of control.
Liberty bazaar, David Chadwick.
Liverpool, 1863: Newly arrived in England, Trinity, an escaped slave girl, is swifly enlisted by wealthy liberals in their campaign to abolish slavery and support Abraham Lincoln's Union. Jubal, a high-ranking Confederate officer, has arrived to find supporters and raise funds for the opposing side.
Reflection, Diane Chamberlain.
Intergenerational story of love, secrets and suspense. Rachel Huber returns to her home town of Reflection in Pennsylvania Dutch country to care for her ailing grandmother. Twenty years ago, a terrible tragedy occurred in Reflection and the townspeople hold Rachel responsible.
The queen of the night, Alexander Chee.
Historical saga set in the bold bright world of Second Empire Paris and inspired by the opera singer Jenny Lind.
Emma's duty, Rosie Clarke.
The war is over, but Emma's battles continue at home. Emma Reece is slowly adjusting to her husband's return from the war, even though his appalling injuries mean their marriage is in name only. But then tragedy strikes, and Emma finds she cannot turn to Jack Harvey, her long-standing friend and one-time lover for while he still loves her, he is now a married man.
River of ink, Paul M.M. Cooper.
Historical fantasy set in Ancient Sri Lanka and inspired by the court of Henry VIII!
The buffer girls, Margaret Dickinson.
It's 1919 in Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire. The Ryan family are adjusting to life in the aftermath of the First World War. Walter has returned home a broken man, and so it falls to his son, Josh, and daughter, Emily, to do their best to keep their family business as the village candle makers going.
The furies of Rome, Robert Fabbri.
Latest in the Vespasian series.
Gunner girls and fighter boys, Mary Gibson.
May Lloyd's father calls her his homing pigeon because of her uncanny knack of navigating her way around the streets of South London even in pitch darkness. It is a gift that will save her life when the Blitz destroys nearly everything that she holds dear.
The words in my hand, Guinevere Glasfurd.
Impressive first novel set in 17th century Amsterdam which reimagines the true story of Helena Jans, maid and lover of philosopher Rene
The Vatican princess, C. W. Gortner.
Glamorous and predatory, the Borgias fascinated and terrorized fifteenth-century Renaissance Italy, and Lucrezia Borgia, beloved daughter of the pope, was at the center of the dynasty's ambitions.
The ballroom, Anna Hope.
Authot of the bestseller, "Wake." Set in the aftermath of World War II where a young woman is sent to a Pauper Asylum.
Cinnamon Gardens, Anna Jacobs.
Now that Nell's three sons are qualified and in work, she's ready to build a new life for herself. She's been left a house in England by an elderly aunt and decides to leave Australia for a while.
The north water, Ian McGuire.
A battle between two emn on a Yorkshire whaling ship bound for hunting in the Arctic Circle. Hilary Mantel calls this "a tour de force of narrative
Kal, Judy Nunn.
Kalgoorlie was a magnet to anyone with a sense of adventure, anyone who could dream. People were drawn there from all over the world, settling to start afresh or to seek their fortunes. They called it Kal. I
Moonlight over Paris, Jennifer Robson.
Spring, 1924. Recovering from a broken wartime engagement and a serious illness that left her near death, Lady Helena Montagu-Douglas-Parr vows that for once she will live life on her own terms. Breaking free from the stifling social constraints of the aristocratic society in which she was raised, she travels to France to stay with her free-spirited aunt.
Lemon blossoms, Nina Romano.
Second in her Wayfarer trilogy set in 19th century Italy.
Invader, Simon Scarrow and T. J. Andrews.
Roman soldier Figulus battles the barbarians in 1st century Britannia.
Blue, Danielle Steel.
Ginny Carter was once a rising star in TV news, married to a top anchorman, with a three-year-old son and a full and happy life in Beverly Hills-until her whole world dissolved in a single instant on the freeway two days before Christmas.
Georgia : a novel of Georgia O'Keefe, Dawn Tripp.
In 1916, Georgia O'Keeffe is a young, unknown art teacher when she travels to New York to meet Stieglitz, the famed photographer and art dealer, who has discovered O'Keeffe's work and exhibits it in his gallery. Their connection is instantaneous.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Carbide tipped pens : seventeen tales of hard science fiction, Ben Bova and Eric Choi.
The pagan night, Tim Akers.
First in the "Hallowed War" series set in a land torn apart by its own gods.
A dream of ice, Gillian Anderson & Jeff Rovin.
After uncovering a mystical link to the ancient civilization of Galderkhaan, child psychologist Caitlin O'Hara is left with strange new powers. Suddenly she can heal her young patients with her mind and see things from other places and other times.
Starbound, Dave Bara.
Second in the Lightship Chronicles sf series.
Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, Lois McMaster Bujold.
Latest in the Vorkosigan series.
Ancestral machines, Michael Cobley.
Fourth in the Humanity's fire SF series.
1635 : a parcel of rogues, Eric Flint, Andrew Dennis.
When the diplomatic embassy from the United States of Europe was freed from the Tower of London during the Baltic War, most of its members returned to the continent. But some remained behind in Britain: Oliver Cromwell and a few companions, including the sharpshooter Julie Sims, her Scot husband Alex Mackay, and Cromwell's Irish-American self-appointed watchdog Darryl McCarthy.
Star Wars, the force awakens, Alan Dean Foster
The official novelization of Star Wars : The Force Awakens, the hit movie.
Last first snow, Max Gladstone.
4th title in the Craft Sequence fantasy series.
Staked, Kevin Hearne.
Latest title in the Iron Druid Chronicles.
The dirt on ninth grave, Darynda Jones.
In the latest in the Charley Davidson series, she is working in a diner, having lost her memory.
Kingfisher, Patricia A McKillip.
Hidden away from the world by his mother, the powerful sorceress Heloise Oliver, Pierce has grown up working in her restaurant in Desolation Point. One day, unexpectedly, strangers pass through town on the way to the legendary capital city. Look for us, they tell Pierce, if you come to Severluna.
Feverborn, Karen Marie Moning.
Sequel to "Burned" where sidh-seer MacKayla Lane and partner Jericho, both immortals, keep fighting.
Kings rising, C.S. Pacat.
Damianos of Akielos has returned. His identity now revealed, Damen must face his master Prince Laurent as Damianos of Akielos, the man Laurent has sworn to kill. On the brink of a momentous battle, the future of both their countries hangs in the balance.
Medusa's web, Tim Powers.
In the wake of their Aunt Amity's suicide, Scott and Madeline Madden are summoned to Caveat, the eerie, decaying mansion in the Hollywood hills in which they were raised.
The thing itself, Adam Roberts.
Two men while away the days in an Antarctic research station. Tensions between them build as they argue over a love letter one of them has received. One is practical and open. The other surly, superior and obsessed with reading one book by the philosopher Kant. As a storm brews and they lose contact with the outside world they debate Kant, reality and the emptiness of the universe. The come to hate each other and they learn that they are not alone.
The bands of mourning, Brandon Sanderson.
Sixth of the Mistborn series.
The beauty of destruction, Gavin G. Smith.
In the far future, after the loss of Earth, war has begun with an alien race.
A deafening silence in heaven, Thomas E. Sniegosk.
He was once known as the angel Remiel. But, generations ago, Boston PI Remy Chandler renounced Heaven and chose to live on Earth, hiding among us humans, fighting to save our souls.