Recreation

New Titles Fiction October 2019 (arrived in September)

ADVENTURE

Kill zone, Kevin J. Anderson.
Deep within a mountain in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a Cold War-era nuclear weapons storage facility is being used to covertly receive more than 100,000 tons of nuclear waste stored across the US. But Hydra Mountain was never meant to securely hold this much hazardous waste, and it has the potential to explode, taking with it all of Albuquerque and spreading radioactivity across the nation.
True believer: a thriller, Jack Carr.
Former Navy SEAL James Reece's skill, cunning, and heroism put the US government back in his debt and [has] set him on another path of revenge. When a string of horrific terrorist attacks plagues the Western world during the holiday season, the broader markets fall into a tailspin.
The Titanic secret: an Isaac Bell adventure, Clive Cussler.
A century apart, Dirk Pitt and Isaac Bell team up to unlock the truth about the most famous maritime disaster of all time.
The warehouse, Rob Hart.
In a world ravaged by bankruptcy and unemployment, Cloud is the only company left worth working for. But what will it cost you? Amidst the wreckage, an online retail giant named Cloud reigns supreme. Cloud brands itself not just as an online storefront, but as a global saviour. Yet, beneath the sunny exterior, lurks something far more sinister.
Cold storage, David Koepp.
When Pentagon bioterror operative Roberto Diaz was sent to investigate a suspected biochemical attack, he found something far worse: a highly mutative organism capable of extinction-level destruction.
Assassin's revenge, Ward Larsen.
On a sunny dock in Gibraltar, Slaton returns to the sailboat he shares with his wife and young son to find them missing. The only clue to their whereabouts is a cryptic message: If he wants to see them again, he must eliminate an obscure scientist working for the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Old bones, Douglas J Preston.
Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator at the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute, is approached by a historian, Clive Benton, with the opportunity to lead an expedition unlike any other.
Fragment, Craig Russell.
When avalanching glaciers thrust a massive Antarctic ice sheet into the open ocean, the captain of an atomic submarine must risk his vessel to rescue the survivors of a smashed polar research station. In Washington, the President's top advisor scrambles to spin the disaster to suit his master's political aims; and meanwhile two intrepid newsmen sail south into the storm-lashed Drake Passage to discover the truth.
Black ops, Chris Ryan.
A series of gruesome killings take place in Dubai, Ghana and America. The victims are all connected with the SAS.
Ghost fire, Wilbur Smith.
1754. Inseparable since birth and growing up in India, Theo and Connie Courtney are torn apart by the tragic death of their parents.Theo seeks salvation in combat and conflict, joining the British in the war against the French and Indian army. Connie, believing herself abandoned by her brother, makes her way to France, where she is welcomed into high society. Here, she finds herself at the frontlines of the French battlefield in North America. The siblings find their destinies converging once more.
The emerald tablet, Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios.
The Suez Canal, 1956. The world teeters on the brink of nuclear war and the Middle East is a tinderbox. When a ghost from his past reappears, he puts everything on the line to find answers from the woman who betrayed him and have revenge on the man who tried to destroy him. Forced to face his personal demons, Ben enters the race to unearth a secret that will, in the wrong hands, mean the annihilation of humankind.
The black jersey: a novel, Jorge Zepeda Patterson.
Marc, a French-Colombian professional cyclist with a military past, is on an elite Tour de France team led by his best friend, Steve. But the competition takes a dark turn when someone begins eliminating racers in a series of violent "accidents," and all the remaining athletes become suspects.

FANTASY

The Dragon Republic, R.F. Kuang.
In the aftermath of the Third Poppy War, shaman and warrior Rin is on the run. Her only reason for living is to get revenge on the traitorous Empress who sold out Nikan to their enemies. With no other options, Rin joins forces with the powerful Dragon Warlord, who has a plan to conquer Nikan, unseat the Empress, and create a new Republic.
Eye spy, Mercedes Lackey.
Mags, Herald Spy of Valdemar, and his wife, Amily's daughter, Abidela, dreams of building on her parents' legacy by joining her father's network of spies, hoping to offset her seeming lack of a Gift. But when Abi senses the imminent collapse of a bridge only moments before it happens, she saves countless lives, including that of her best friend, Princess Katiana. The experience, though harrowing, uncovers her unique Gift; an ability to sense the physical strains in objects.
The unkindest tide: an October Daye novel, Seanan McGuire.
Hundreds of years ago, the Selkies made a deal with the sea witch: they would have the sea for as long as she allowed it, and when the time came, she would call in all their debts at once. Many assumed that day would never come. Those people were wrong.
The mage-fire war, L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Once again, prejudices against the use of chaos magic force Beltur and his companions to flee their refuge in Axalt. The rulers of nearby Montgren have offered them sanctuary and the opportunity to become the Councilors of the run-down and disintegrating town of Haven. However, Beltur and the others must reinstitute law and order, rebuild parts of the town, deal with brigands and thwart an invading army.
Gods of jade and shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
The Mayan God of Death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore.
Bloodchild, Anna Stephens.
Rilporin has fallen and Corvus, King of the Mireces, reigns over an occupied land. The raiders and their dark religion have conquered, but victory came at a terrible price the death of a god and sparks of resistance glimmer on all sides. A child will soon be born with the power to return the Dark Lady from death, and the long-prophesied final battle for the future of Rilpor and Mireces, of humans and gods, is near.
The last tsar's dragons, Jane Yolen.
It is the waning days of the Russian monarchy. A reckless man rules the land and his dragons rule the sky. Though the Tsar aims his dragons at his enemies; Jews and Bolsheviks, his entire country is catching fire. Conspiracies suffuse the royal court: bureaucrats jostle one another for power, the mad monk Rasputin schemes for the Tsar's ear, and the desperate queen takes drastic measures to protect her family.

FICTION

The society of reluctant dreamers, José Eduardo Agualusa.
This novel is a surreal, vivid novel about the slipperiness of truth and reality, art versus dictatorship, courage versus fear, change and the old order, amidst the politics of Angola's tumultuous past, present and future.
Postscript, Cecelia Ahern.
It's been seven years since Holly Kennedy's husband died, six since she read his final letter, urging Holly to find the courage to forge a new life. She's proud of all the ways in which she has grown and evolved. But when a group inspired by Gerry's letters, calling themselves the PS, I Love You Club, approaches Holly asking for help, she finds herself drawn back into a world that she worked so hard to leave behind.
Yellow dog, Martin Amis.
When Xan Meo is assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers a head injury and personality change.
The collaborator, Diane Armstrong.
It is 1944 in Budapest and the Germans have invaded. Jewish journalist Miklos Nagy risks his life and confronts the dreaded Adolf Eichmann in an attempt save thousands of Hungarian Jews from the death camps. But no one could have foreseen the consequences. It is 2005 in Sydney, and Annika Barnett sets out on a journey that takes her to Budapest and Tel Aviv to discover the truth about the mysterious man who rescued her grandmother in 1944.
The testaments, Margaret Atwood.
When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead. With The Testaments, the wait is over. Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than 15 years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.
Exposed, Jean-Philippe Blondel.
"A French teacher on the verge of retirement is invited to a glittering opening that showcases the artwork of his former student, who has since become a celebrated painter. This unexpected encounter leads to the older man posing for his portrait. Possibly in the nude. Such personal exposure at close range entails a strange and troubling pact between artist and sitter that prompts both to reevaluate their lives.
Last evenings on Earth, Roberto Bolaño.
Imbued with 'the melancholy folklore of exile' and set largely in the world of the Chilean diaspora in Central America and Europe, the narrators of these stories are usually writers grappling with private quests, who typically speak in the first person, as if giving a deposition, like witnesses to a crime. They are characters living in the margins, on the edge, in constant flight from nightmarish threats.
Ironopolis, Glen James Brown.
The Burn Estate is doomed. Bulldozers are ready to obliterate its 60 years of life. Sixty years of stories. Vincent Barr is part of every story. Legendary, terrifying, he stands at the intersection of three generations of the sprawling council estate marooned on the outskirts of Ironopolis, Middlesbrough's nickname during its long-gone industrial heyday.
Skin, Liam Brown.
A strange virus is sweeping the globe. Humans have become allergic to one another. Simply standing next to somebody could be a death sentence. A kiss could be fatal. Angela is a woman trying to get by in this bewildering new world. That is, until she spots a mysterious stranger walking through town without even a face mask for protection. A man, it seems, immune to this disease. A man unlike anyone else she knows. A man it might just be safe to touch.
The oracle, Jonathan Cahn.
The Oracle will reveal the secret that lies behind end-time prophecy and the mystery of the end of the age. Behind each door lies one of the seven streams of the jubilean mysteries. The reader will be taken on a journey, led by angelic guides, through each door and vision to uncover the ancient secrets that lie behind the world-changing events of modern times.
Things you save in a fire, Katherine Center.
Cassie Hanwell was born for emergencies. As one of the only female firefighters in her Texas firehouse, she's seen her fair share of them, and she's a total pro at other people's tragedies. But when her estranged and ailing mother asks her to give up her whole life and move to Boston, Cassie suddenly has an emergency of her own.
The undoing of Arlo Knott, Heather Child.
Arlo Knott develops the mysterious ability to reverse his last action. It makes him able to experience anything, to charm any woman and impress any friend. His is a life free of mistakes, a life without regret. But second chances aren't all they're cracked up to be. As wonderful as his new life is, a mistake in Arlo's traumatic childhood still haunts him and the temptation to undo, undo and keep undoing could be too much to resist.
Revelations of the Aquarian age, Barbara Hand Clow.
Shortly after his wedding at his family's ancient castle in Tuscany, sophisticated and mysterious Armando Pierleoni reveals his richly symbolic painting of the love between Jesus and Mary Magdalene to his bride Jennifer. Deeply affecting all who view it, the alchemical portrayal leads Armando, Jennifer, and their friends on a contemporary journey into the esoteric mysteries of divine marriage, sacred sexuality, the Black Madonna, and the transformative power of holy relics.
The old lie, Claire G. Coleman.
Shane Daniels and Romany Zetz have been drawn into a war that is not their own. Lives will be destroyed, families will be torn apart. Trust will be broken. When the war is over, some will return to a changed world. Will they discover that glory is a lie?
Dolores, Lauren Aimee Curtis.
On a hot day in late June, a young girl kneels outside a convent, then falls on her face. When the nuns take her in, they name her Dolores. Dolores adjusts to the rhythm of her new life but in the dark, private theatre of her mind are memories; of love motels lit by neon red hearts, discos in abandoned hospitals and a boy called Angelo. And inside her, a baby is growing.
The falconer: a novel, Dana Czapnik.
New York, 1993. Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler, a street-smart, trash-talking baller, is often the only girl on the public courts. At turns quixotic and cynical, insecure and self-possessed, Lucy is in unrequited love with her best friend and pick-up teammate Percy. As she navigates this complex relationship with all its youthful heartache, Lucy is seduced by a different kind of life, one less consumed by conventional success and the approval of men.
Patsy, Nicole Dennis-Benn.
For Patsy, a visa to America is her ticket to freedom, a passport to the 'land of opportunity'. She yearns to be reunited with Cicely, her oldest friend and secret lover, but her plans do not include her religious mother or even her young daughter, Tru. As Patsy struggles to survive as an undocumented migrant, Tru grapples with her own questions of identity and sexuality.
Very nice, Marcy Dermansky.
From the acclaimed author of The Red Car, a comic novel of race, money, sex, liberalism, and bad behaviour in our post-Obama era featuring a wealthy Connecticut divorcee, her college-age daughter, and the famous Pakistani-American novelist who seduces them both.
The heart of the Ritz, Luke Devenish.
France, April 1940. Polly Hartford has been sent across oceans to her Aunt Marjorie, known only from letters. When Marjorie dies in suspicious circumstances, Polly is left with her aunt's loaded pistol in a beautiful Hermes handbag and to the care of Marjorie's three friends: an elegant Comtesse, a gutter-born film star, and a big-hearted American heiress. Polly is taken to live at the Hotel Ritz, where those who live there think money protects them from war.
Little Bird, Larita Dixon.
For twelve years Amal has happily lived with her parents and sister, when war suddenly changes her life forever. Within just a few days she loses her entire family and endures other horrendous experiences while fleeing for her life.
Do not feed the bear, Rachel Elliott.
On her forty-seventh birthday, Sydney Smith stands on a rooftop and prepares to jump. She's never come to terms with the event that ripped her family apart when she was ten years old. And so, on a birthday that she doesn't want to celebrate, she returns alone to St Ives to face up to her guilt and grief. It's a trip that turns out to be life-changing, and not only for herself.
How it was, Janet Ellis.
Marion Deacon is a wife and mother, and not particularly good at being either. It's the 1970s and in her small village the Swinging 60s, the wave of feminism, the prospect of an exciting life, have all swerved past her. Reading her teenage daughter's diary, it seems that Sarah is on the threshold of getting everything her mother Marion was denied, and Marion cannot bear it; what she does next has terrible and heart-breaking consequences for the whole family.
Ducks, Newburyport, Lucy Ellmann.
Peeling apples for tartes tatin, an Ohio mother wonders how to exist in a world of distraction and fake facts, besieged by a tweet-happy president and trigger-happy neighbours, all of them oblivious to what Dupont has dumped into the rivers and what's happening at the factory farm down the interstate, not to mention what was done to the land's first inhabitants.
Night for day, Patrick Flanery.
Los Angeles, 1950. Over the course of a single day, two friends grapple with the moral and professional uncertainties of the escalating Communist witch-hunt in Hollywood.
Shelf life, Livia Franchini.
Ruth is thirty years old. She works as a nurse in a care home and her fiance has just broken up with her. The only thing she has left of him is their shopping list for the upcoming week. And so she uses that list to tell her story. Without him, she needs to find out with conditioner and single cream and a lot of sugar who she is when she stands alone.
The floating Feldmans, Elyssa Friedland.
Sink or swim. Or at least that's what Annette Feldman tells herself when she books a cruise for her entire family. It's been over a decade since the Feldman clan has spent more than twenty-four hours under the same roof, but Annette is determined to celebrate her seventieth birthday the right way.
Meet me in Monaco: a novel of Grace Kelly's royal wedding, Hazel Gaynor.
Keynote Set in the 1950s against the backdrop of Grace Kelly's whirlwind romance and glamourous wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco, New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb take the reader on an evocative sun-drenched journey along the Côte d'Azur in this page-turning novel of passion, fate, and second-chances.
Nightingale Point, Luan Goldie.
On an ordinary Saturday morning in 1996, the residents of Nightingale Point wake up to their normal lives and worries. It's a day like any other, until something extraordinary happens. When the sun sets, Nightingale Point is irrevocably changed and somehow, through the darkness, the residents must find a way back to lightness, and back to each other.
The reckless oath we made, Bryn Greenwood.
Zee has a long list of worries: never-ending bills, her beautiful, gullible sister, her five-year-old nephew, her housebound mother, and her drug-dealing boss. When an abduction tears Zee's family apart, she turns to the last person she ever imagined, Gentry and sets in motion a chain of events that will not only change both of their lives, but bind them to one another forever.
Keeping Lucy, T. Greenwood.
Dover, Massachusetts, 1969. Ginny Richardson's heart was torn open when her baby girl, Lucy, born with Down Syndrome, was taken from her. Under pressure from his powerful family, her husband, Ab, sent Lucy away to Willowridge, a special school for the "feeble-minded." But two years later, when Ginny's best friend, Marsha, shows her a series of articles exposing Willowridge as a hell-on-earth, she knows she can't leave her daughter there.
Broken ghost, Niall Griffiths.
A Welsh community is drawn together and blown apart by a strange vision in the mountains the huge spectre of a woman floating over a ridge. The people who live here in these mountains already have their own demons drink, drugs, domestic violence, psychoses but each character has a different experience of this strange apparition, a different reaction, and for some it will change everything.
UFO in her eyes, Xiaolu Guo.
Silver Hill Village, 2012. On the twentieth day of the seventh moon Kwok Yun is making her way across the rice fields on her Flying Pigeon bicycle. Her world is turned upside down when she sights a UFThing; a spinning plate in the sky, and helps the Westerner in distress whom she discovers in the shadow of the alien craft. It's not long before the village is crawling with men from the National Security and Intelligence Agency armed with pointed questions.
The accidentals: a novel, Minrose Gwin.
In the fall of 1957, Olivia McAlister is living in Opelika, Mississippi, caring for her two girls, June and Grace, and her husband, Holly. She dreams of living a much larger life; seeing the world and returning to her wartime job at a landing boat factory in New Orleans.
Battle Grove: a novel, Daniel Handler.
This is a story about two marriages. Or is it? Here is a cross section of lives, a stretch of urban green where ritzy guests, lustful teenagers, drunken revelers, and forest creatures all wait for the sun to go down.
The winemaker's wife, Kristin Harmel.
Champagne, 1940: Inès has just married Michel, the owner of storied champagne house Maison Chauveau, when the Germans invade. As the danger mounts, Michel turns his back on his marriage to begin hiding munitions for the Résistance. Inès fears they'll be exposed, but for Céline, half-Jewish wife of Chauveau's chef de cave, the risk is even greater-rumors abound of Jews being shipped east to an unspeakable fate.
Her last promise, Kathryn Hughes.
Tara Richards was just a girl when she lost her mother. Years later when Tara receives a letter from a London solicitor its contents shake her to the core.
Fabulous, Lucy Hughes-Hallett.
Each of these startlingly original stories is set in modern Britain. Their characters include a people-trafficking gang-master and a prostitute, a migrant worker and a cocksure estate agent, an elderly musician doubly befuddled by dementia and the death of his wife, a pest-controller suspected of paedophilia and a librarian so well-behaved that her parents wonder anxiously whether she'll ever find love.
Snowgirls, Clark James
After destructive tsunamis and volcanic eruptions play havoc with the world's environment, several women emerge as leaders. A novel of ill-suited love, shattered families and political corruption. A novel of courage and determination overcoming catastrophe.
All the flowers in Paris: a novel, Sarah Jio.
2009: Caroline wakes up in a Paris hospital with no memory of her past. Slowly regaining recollections of a man and a young child, she vows to piece her life back together.
The wild wind, Sheena Kalayil.
In 1978, aged twelve, Sissy Olikara was living with her parents and baby brother on a school campus, on the outskirts of Lusaka. But much has changed since her childhood in Zambia: she is now a translator, based in the United States. Trying to negotiate her way through adolescence, Sissy finds herself at the centre of a complex web of emotions and events that have a long-lasting effect on her.
The man who saw everything, Deborah Levy.
This is an ambitious, playful and totally electrifying novel about what we see and what we fail to see, about carelessness and the harm we do to others, about the weight of history and our ruinous attempts to shrug it off.
The timepiece, Beverly Lewis.
When her world is upended by the arrival of Englisher Adeline Pelham-her existence the reminder of a painful family secret-young Amishwoman Sylvia Miller must learn to come to terms with the past while grappling with issues of her own and trusting God to redeem mistakes.
Home truths, Susan Lewis.
Angie Watts used to have everything. A new home. A beloved husband. Three adored children. But Angie's happy life is shattered when her son Liam falls in with the wrong crowd.
If you want to make god laugh, Bianca Marais.
On the outskirts of Johannesburg, seventeen-year-old Zodwa Bambisa lives in desperate poverty in tiny metal shack in a squatter camp, under the shadowy threat of a civil war and a growing AIDS epidemic
Costalegre, Courtney Maum.
An American heiress and modern art collector offers safe passage to a resort in Mexico to European artists under threat from the Nazis, while her emotionally unstable daughter chronicles their wartime experiences.
The contest, Carne Maxwell.
Martin Fallaway is dying. With no family to whom he can leave his surplus fortune, he holds a contest on his tropical island, where ten families compete to be the last team left in order to claim the prize of thirty million dollars.
The father of octopus wrestling, and other small fictions, Frankie McMillan.
Darkly comic, surreal and full of perceptiveness about human vulnerability and eccentricity. Frankie McMillan's small fictions often duck and dive away from the readers expectations.
Life for sale, Yukio Mishima.
Life for sale. Use me as you wish. I am a twenty-seven-year-old male. Discretion guaranteed. Will cause no bother at all.' When Hanio Yamada realises the future holds little of worth to him, he puts his life for sale in a Tokyo newspaper, thus unleashing a series of unimaginable exploits.
The biographer's lover, Ruby J. Murray.
When a young writer is hired to put together the life of an unknown artist from Geelong, she thinks it will be just another quick commission paid for by a rich, grieving family obsessed with their own past. But Edna Cranmer was not a privileged housewife with a paintbrush. Did she choose to hide herself away? Or were there people who didn't want her to be famous?
Inland: a novel, Téa Obreht.
In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide.
The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa.
When a young novelist discovers that her editor is in danger of being taken away by the Memory Police, she desperately wants to save him. For some reason, he doesn't forget, and it's becoming increasingly difficult for him to hide his memories. Who knows what will vanish next?
The secrets we kept, Lara Prescott.
1956. A celebrated Russian author is writing a book, Doctor Zhivago, which could spark dissent in the Soviet Union. The Soviets, afraid of its subversive power, ban it. But in the rest of the world it's fast becoming a sensation. There are people prepared to die for this book and agents willing to kill for it. But they cannot fail as this book has the power to change history.
The ventriloquists: a novel, E.R. Ramzipoor.
Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of the country's most popular newspaper, Le Soir, now turned into Nazi propaganda. Helene's world changes when she befriends a rogue journalist, Marc Aubrion, who draws her into a secret network that publishes dissident underground newspapers.
Life assured, Nicholas Rhea.
Following Matthew's motorcycle accident in which he broke his leg, he is unable to tour his widespread moorland agency, and so Evelyn, his wife, now completes the rounds on his behalf.
Cantoras, Carolina De Robertis.
In 1977 Uruguay, a military government has crushed political dissent with ruthless force. In an environment where citizens are kidnapped, raped, and tortured, homosexuality is a dangerous transgression. And yet, despite such societal realities, Romina, Flaca, Anita "La Venus," Paz, and Malena; five cantoras, women who "sing", somehow, miraculously, find each other and discover an isolated cape, Cabo Polonio, inhabited by just a lonely lighthouse keeper and a few rugged seal hunters.
Here until August: stories, Josephine Rowe.
The stories in this book follow the fates of characters who, by choice or by force, are traveling beyond the boundaries of their known worlds.
Quichotte: a novel, Salman Rushdie.
Quichotte, an aging traveling salesman obsessed with the "unreal real" of TV, falls in impossible love with a queen of the screen; while obsessively writing her love letters, he wishes an imaginary son, Sancho, into existence. Together they set off across America in Quichotte's trusty Chevy Cruze to find her and convince her of his love.
The red daughter, John Burnham Schwartz.
Running from her father's brutal legacy, Joseph Stalin's daughter defects to the United States against the turbulence of the 1960s.
The summer cottage, Viola Shipman.
Adie Lou Kruger's ex never understood her affection for what her parents called their Cozy Cottage, the charming, ramshackle summer home; complete with its own set of rules for relaxing, that she's inherited on Lake Michigan. But despite the fact she's facing a broken marriage and empty nest, and middle age is looming in the distance, memories of happy childhoods on the beach give her reason for hope.
Taking Tom Murray home, Tim Slee.
Bankrupt dairy farmer Tom Murray decides he'd rather sell off his herd and burn down his own house than hand them over to the bank. But something goes tragically wrong, and Tom dies in the blaze. His wife, Dawn, doesn't want him to have died for nothing and decides to hold a funeral procession for Tom as a protest, driving 350km from Yardley in country Victoria to bury him in Melbourne where he was born.
The peppermint tea chronicles: a 44 Scotland Street novel, Alexander McCall Smith.
For the impossibly vain Bruce Anderson; he of the clove-scented hair gel, it may finally be time to settle down, and surely it can only be a question of picking the lucky winner from the hordes of his admirers.
The lager queen of Minnesota, J. Ryan Stradal.
Two sisters, one farm. A family is split when their father leaves their shared inheritance entirely to Helen, his younger daughter.
Lapse, Sarah Thornton.
Clementine Jones is living in self-imposed exile coaching a country-league footy club and trying to forget the past. When her star player, Clancy Kennedy, quits on the eve of the finals, she sets out to win Clancy back and uncovers a deadly conspiracy that puts them both in danger.
Summer of my amazing luck, Miriam Toews.
Lucy and her eight-month-old son live in a Winnipeg housing project filled with single mothers on the dole. Still dealing with her own mother's sudden death, and new to the ever-multiplying complications of life on welfare, Lucy strikes up a friendship with her neighbour, Lish.
Wolfe Island, Lucy Treloar.
For years Kitty Hawke has lived alone on Wolfe Island, witness to the island's erosion and clinging to the ghosts of her past. Her work as a sculptor and her wolfdog Girl are enough. News of mainland turmoil is as distant as myth until refugees from that world arrive.
A door in the earth, Amy Waldman.
Parveen Shams, a college senior in search of a calling, feels pulled between her charismatic and mercurial anthropology professor and the comfortable but predictable Afghan-American community in her Northern California hometown.
The polyglot lovers, Lina Wolff.
Ellinor is thirty-six. She wears soft black sweatpants and a Michelin Man jacket. She fights. Smart and unsentimental, she tries her hand at online dating, only to find herself stranded by a snowstorm with a literary critic.
The hiding game, Naomi Wood.
In 1922, Paul Beckermann arrives at the Bauhaus art school and is immediately seduced by both the charismatic teaching and his fellow students. Eccentric and alluring, the more time Paul spends with his new friends the closer they become, and the deeper he falls in love with the mesmerising Charlotte.
Doxology: a novel, Nell Zink.
Pam, Daniel, and Joe might be the worst punk band on the Lower East Side. Struggling to scrape together enough cash and musical talent to make it, they are waylaid by surprising arrivals, a daughter for Pam and Daniel; a solo hit single for Joe. As the '90s wane, the three friends share in one another's successes. On September 11, 2001, the city's unfathomable devastation coincided with a shattering personal loss for the trio.

GRAPHIC NOVEL

Dead man Logan. [1], Sins of the father, Ed Brisson.
When I arrived at the castle, Emily Carroll.
Like many before her that have never come back, she's made it to the Countess' castle determined to snuff out the horror, but she could never be prepared for what hides within its turrets; what unfurls under its fluttering flags
The Boys omnibus. Volume one, Garth Ennis.
Snow, glass, apples, Neil Gaiman.
A not-so-evil queen is terrified of her monstrous stepdaughter and determined to repel this creature and save her kingdom from a world where happy endings aren't so happily ever after.
I am a hero. Omnibus 10, Kengo Hanazawa.
Cells at work!: code black. 01, Shigemitsu Harada.
Newbie Red Blood Cell is one of 37 trillion working to keep this body running. But something's wrong! Stress hormones keep yelling at him to go faster. The blood vessels are crusted over with cholesterol. Ulcers, fatty liver, trouble (ahem) downstairs. It's hard for a cell to keep working when every day is a code black!
House of whispers. Volume 1, The power divided, Nalo Hopkinson.
Welcome to the House of Dahomey, the houseboat of Erzulie Fréda, where the souls of Voodoo followers go when they sleep but even the fearsome Erzulie is powerless when her dream river turns sour, tossing her house from one realm and into another.
Attack on Titan. 28, Hajime Isayama.
Tokyo ghoul: re. 11, Sui Ishida.
Tokyo ghoul: re. 12, Sui Ishida.
Eclipse. 4, Zack Kaplan.
The weatherman. Vol. 1, Jody LeHeup.
Nathan Bright had it all: an awesome girlfriend, a kick-ass dog, and a job as the #1 weatherman on terraformed Mars. But when he's accused of carrying out the worst terrorist attack in human history an event that killed nearly everyone on Earth Nathan becomes the target of a manhunt that spans the galaxy.
A bride's story. 11, Kaoru Mori.
Devilman: the classic collection. 1, Go Nagai.
Hordes of demons, once thought entombed forever in the underworld, have now returned to Earth. Evil and corruption begin to seep into our world, as demons seize human hosts.
Golden kamuy. 11, Satoru Noda.
Deadly class. Volume 8, Never go back, Rick Remender.
H.P. Lovecraft's At the mountains of madness. The first volume, Gou Tanabe.
January 25, 1931: an expedition team arrives at a campsite in Antarctica to find its crew of men and sled dogs strewn and dead. But a still more horrific sight is the star-shaped mound of snow nearby; for under its five points is a grave, and what lies beneath is not human!
Judge Dredd: the complete case files. 33, John Wagner.
Coyote. 2, Ranmaru Zariya.

HISTORICAL

Nobber, Oisín Fagan.
An ambitious noble and his three serving men travel through the Irish countryside in the stifling summer of 1348, using the advantage of the plague which has collapsed society to buy up large swathes of property and land.
Star path, W. Michael Gear.
Cahokia recovers from a year of chaos following a near civil war and the god incarnate, Morning Star, has declared that his human sister Night Shadow Star and her slave Fire Cat must make a dangerous journey to far off Cofitachequi. For an old threat has arisen on the other side of the great eastern mountains; their brother, Walking Smoke, a madman who is convinced that he is the true deity destined to rule Cahokia.
Tidelands, Philippa Gregory.
Alinor, a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Instead she meets James, a young man on the run, and shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marsh, not knowing that she is leading disaster into the heart of her life.
The golden wolf, Linnea Hartsuyker.
Ragnvald has long held to his vision of King Harald as a golden wolf who will bring peace to Norway as its conqueror even though he knows that Harald's success will eventually mean his own doom.
The apothecary's daughter, Julie Klassen.
Lillian Haswell, brilliant daughter of the local apothecary, yearns for more adventure and experience than life in her father's shop and their small village provides. She also longs to know the truth behind her mother's disappearance, which villagers whisper about but her father refuses to discuss. Opportunity comes when a distant aunt offers to educate her as a lady in London.
Honour, Matthew Lewis.
When Hans Holbein returns to London in search of royal patronage a secret from his past will define his future in a new, terrifying way.
Texas, James A. Michener.
Spanning four and a half centuries, this monumental saga charts the epic history of Texas, from its Spanish roots in the age of the conquistadors, to its modern-day American character, shaped by oil and industry.
My name is Red, Orhan Pamuk.
In the late 1590s, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and his empire, to be illuminated by the best artists of the day in the European manner. At a time of violent fundamentalism, however, this is a dangerous proposition. Even the illustrious circle of artists are not allowed to know for whom they are working. But when one of the miniaturists is murdered, their Master has to seek outside help.
Ascendancy, Matteo Strukul.
Florence, 1429: Giovanni de Medici has transformed his family bank into an unprecedented economic force. But when Giovanni is mysteriously murdered, his sons, Cosimo and Lorenzo, are forced to face a range of enemies plotting to oust the Medici from power.
The sweetest fruits, Monique Truong.
Three women tell the story of their time with Lafcadio Hearn, a globetrotting writer best known for his books about Meiji-era Japan. Their accounts witness Hearn's remarkable life but also seek to witness their own existence and luminous will to live unbounded by gender, race, and the mores of their time.
Caligula, Simon Turney.
Rome 37AD. The emperor is dying. No-one knows how long he has left. The power struggle has begun. When the ailing Tiberius thrusts Caligula's family into the imperial succession in a bid to restore order, he will change the fate of the empire and create one of history's most infamous tyrants, Caligula.
Commodus, Simon Turney.
Commodus. 162AD. Rome is enjoying a period of stability and prosperity. The Empire's bounds are increasing, and two sons are born into the imperial succession for the first time in nearly a century. But all is not as it appears - cracks are beginning to show.
Land of the afternoon sun: a novel, Barbara Wood.
This novel follows a disinherited English baron and a young New York heiress who marry and move West to build an agricultural empire in Palm Springs in the 1920s when it was just a budding town on the edge of the Mojave Desert.
The gospel according to Lazarus: a novel, Richard Zimler.
Returned to life, Lazarus's experience of death has left him fragile and disoriented and he has sensed nothing of an afterlife. As he turns to Jesus for guidance, while observing his friend's growing mystical powers and influence, he finds their lives becoming dangerously entwined.

HORROR

Trolls, Stefan Spjut.
What if? A large wolf escapes its captors. A cult leader breaks out of psychiatric care. A disillusioned woman is forced to end her self-imposed exile.

MYSTERY

Invisible blood: seventeen crime stories from today's finest crime writers, Maxim Jakubowski.
Open the files on seventeen new crime stories to probe the brutal and complex hearts of criminals.
Inheritance tracks, Catherine Aird.
Five strangers arrive at the solicitors' office of Puckle, Puckle, and Nunnery. They have never met, and have no idea why they have been invited. But they along with a missing man are descendants of the late Algernon George Culver Mayton, the inventor of 'Mayton's Marvellous Mixture' and each entitled to a portion of the Mayton Fortune.
Time for the dead: to have their revenge..., Lin Anderson.
When forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod returns to her roots on Scotland's Isle of Skye, a chance encounter in the woods behind a nearby activities centre leads her to what seems to be a crime scene, but without a victim. Could this be linked to a group of army medics, who visited the centre while on leave from Afghanistan and can no longer be located on the island?
Nothing ventured, Jeffrey Archer.
William Warwick decides, much to his father's dismay, he will join London's Metropolitan Police Force. Investigating the theft of a priceless Rembrandt painting from the Fitzmolean Museum, he meets Beth Rainsford, a research assistant at the gallery who he falls hopelessly in love with. While William follows the trail of the missing masterpiece he comes up against the suave art collector Miles Faulkner.
What you pay for, Claire Askew.
DI Birch joined the police to find her little brother, who walked out of his life one day and was never seen again. On the fourteenth anniversary of Charlie's disappearance, Birch takes part in a raid on one of Scotland's most feared criminal organisations. Two days later, Charlie comes back.
I confess, Alex Barclay.
Seven friends. One killer. No escape. A group of childhood friends are reunited at a luxury inn on a remote west coast peninsula in Ireland. But as a storm builds outside, the dark events that marred their childhoods threaten to resurface. And when a body is discovered, the group faces a shocking realisation: a killer is among them, and not everyone will escape with their lives.
In the shadow of the enemy, Tania Bayard.
Paris, 1393. A masquerade ball at the palace ends in tragedy, with four revellers burned to death. Was it an accident, or did someone deliberately hurl a flaming torch at the dancers? Christine de Pizan investigates, and finds the palace to be a hotbed of rumour, suspicion, petty rivalries and dark secrets: a place where no one can be trusted.
Beyond reasonable doubt, Gary Bell.
Elliot Rook is the epitome of a highly successful, old-Etonian QC. Or so everyone believes. In fact, he is an ex-petty criminal with a past that he has spent decades keeping secret. Until now.
Rough music, Robin Blake.
Titus Cragg and his friend Luke Fidelis investigate macabre goings-on in a remote Lancashire village in this intriguing 18th century mystery.
A deadly turn, Claire Booth.
Branson County sheriff Hank Worth struggles to uncover the truth behind a fatal car crash in this absorbing mystery.
The Bitterroots, C.J. Box.
Former sheriff's investigator Cassie Dewell is trying to start over with her own private investigation firm. She's her own boss answering to no one and that's just the way she likes it after the past few tumultuous years. But it's all going to change when an old friend calls in a favour: she wants Cassie to help exonerate a man accused of assaulting a young woman from an influential family.
The long call, Ann Cleeves.
In North Devon, where the rivers Taw and Torridge converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. The day Matthew turned his back on the strict evangelical community in which he grew up, he lost his family too. Now he's back, not just to mourn his father at a distance, but to take charge of his first major case in the Two Rivers region.
Invitation to die, Barbara Cleverly.
Redfyre becomes caught in a dark tale of revenge, betrayal and injustice a lingering mystery from a long-forgotten war.
A dangerous man, Robert Crais.
Joe Pike didn't expect to rescue a woman that day. He went to the bank same as anyone goes to the bank, and returned to his Jeep. So when Isabel Roland, the lonely young teller who helped him, steps out of the bank on her way to lunch, Joe is on hand when two men abduct her. Joe chases them down, and the two men are arrested. But instead of putting the drama to bed, the arrests are only the beginning of the trouble for Joe and Izzy.
The night you left, Emma Curtis.
When Grace's fiancé vanishes without a trace the night after proposing, her life is turned upside down. But has Nick walked out on her, or is he in danger?
Clear my name, Paula Daly.
Innocent? When Carrie was accused of brutally murdering her husband's lover, she denied it. Now she's three years into a fifteen-year sentence, away from the daughter she loves and the life she had built. And she is still denying that she is to blame. Guilty? Tess Gilroy has devoted her life to righting wrongs. Through her job for Innocence UK, a charity which takes on alleged miscarriages of justice, she works tirelessly to uncover the truth.
Dead guilty, Michelle Davies.
Fifteen years ago a young British woman was brutally murdered in Mallorca while holidaying with her parents and fiancé. Her killer was never caught, despite a major joint investigation between the British and Spanish police. Now, as the anniversary of Katy Pope's death approaches, the family return to the Spanish island to launch a fresh appeal for information. For DC Maggie Neville it's her first opportunity to work on an international investigation.
The darker arts, Oscar de Muriel.
Madame Katerina, Detective 'Nine Nails' McGray's most trusted clairvoyant, hosts a séance for three of Edinburgh's wealthiest families.The following morning everyone is found dead, with Madame Katerina being the only survivor. Either something truly supernatural has occurred or a fiendishly clever plot is covering a killer's tracks.
Girl in the rearview mirror, Kelsey Rae Dimberg.
Desperate to leave her past behind, Finn Hunt finishes college, ending up in Phoenix, Arizona, in the rising heat of the summer, a chance meeting with Philip Martin, the son of a prominent local Senator, leads to her being offered a position as nanny to Amabel, his five-year-old daughter. Soon Finn is caught up in the powerful and privileged world she has stumbled into. But as she steers her way through unfamiliar territory, secrets from the past begin to surface.
Then she vanishes, Claire Douglas.
On a summer's night in 1994, sixteen-year-old Flora Powell vanished from her sleepy seaside town. She left no trace; only heartache for her mother and her sister, Heather. And one is a murderer. Twenty-five years later, Heather walks into a stranger's house.
If she returned, S.A. Dunphy.
David Dunnigan comes home from Greenland to discover a young woman who may be his niece, Beth, being cared for by his friend and mentor, Father Bill Creedon. Is this damaged shell of a person the girl he has spent the last eighteen years searching for?
The shadow woman: an Inspector Erik Winter novel, +ke Edwardson.
It's August and the annual Gothenburg Party is in full swing. But this year the bacchanalian blowout is simmering with ethnic discord spurred by nativist gangs. When a woman is found murdered in the park-her identity is as inscrutable as the blood-red symbol on the tree above her body.
Careful what you wish for: a novel of suspense, Hallie Ephron.
Emily Harlow is a professional organizer, but she's married to man who has filled their basement, attic, and garage with yard-sale finds. He says he's a collector; she knows he's a hoarder. As the distance grows between Emily and her husband, she is distracted by two clients: an elderly widow whose husband left behind a storage unit she didn't know existed, and a young wife whose husband won't allow her stuff into their house. When the women fantasize about how pleasant life would be without their collecting spouses, Emily finds herself in a mess that might be too big for her to clean up.
A lady's guide to gossip and murder, Dianne Freeman.
Though American by birth, Frances Wynn, the now-widowed Countess of Harleigh, has adapted admirably to the quirks and traditions of the British aristocracy. On August twelfth most members of the upper class retire to their country estates for grouse-shooting season. Frances is expecting to spend a quiet few months in London with her almost-engaged sister, Lily, until the throng returns. Instead, she's immersed in a shocking mystery when a friend, Mary Archer, is found murdered.
The mountain master of Sha Tin: an Ava Lee novel: the triad years, Ian Hamilton.
Ava is in Shanghai with Pang Fai to visit her ailing friend Xu when a triad war breaks out in Hong Kong. Sammy Wing, an old enemy of Ava's who has twice tried to kill her, has enlisted the aid of his nephew Carter; the new Mountain Master of Sha Tin, to reclaim control of his old territory, Wanchai, from Xu's men.
Small kingdoms & other stories, Charlaine Harris.
Principal Anne DeWitt knew her past could catch up with her, but she didn't expect it would make her late for school. Killing a man does take time though; so does disposing the body if you do it right.
Twisted at the root, Ellen Hart.
Everyone thought Rashad May and Gideon Wise were happily married. That is, until Rashad was convicted of his husband's murder. Four years later, Rashad's brother contacts Ray Lawless; Minnesota private investigator Jane Lawless's father and the original defense attorney on the case, with potential evidence of a wrongful conviction. When the case is reopened, Jane and her father must work together to attain justice for a grieving widower. Who actually killed Gideon and why?
Rewind, Catherine Ryan Howard.
Andrew, the manager of Shanamore Cottages, watches his only guest via a hidden camera in her room. One night a shadowy figure emerges on-screen, kills her, and destroys the camera. But who is the murderer? How did they know about the camera? And how will Andrew live with himself?
Hardcastle's quandary, Graham Ison.
One rainy morning in March 1927, Divisional Detective Inspector Ernest Hardcastle of the Metropolitan Police is summoned to the office of the Chief Constable CID at New Scotland Yard. Frederick Wensley has received a letter from a Reverend Percy Stoner in Norfolk, convinced that his nephew, Captain Guy Stoner, has been murdered. Assigned the case, Hardcastle and Detective Seargeant Charles Marriott travel to Ditton, where they are soon drawn into a shady world of deception, fraud, ex-army officers and West End nightclubs.
Hitmen I have known, Bill James.
Tensions in the community are mounting following the gruesome deaths of two men, both of whom were accused yet acquitted of the murder of an undercover police officer. It looks like vigilante justice, but who is responsible?
The day the lies began, Kylie Kaden.
Two couples, four ironclad friendships, the perfect coastal holiday town. Lago Point is the scene of postcards, not crime scenes. Wife and mother Abbi, town cop Blake, schoolteacher Hannah and local doctor Will are caught in their own tangled webs of deceit. When the truth washes in to their beachside community, so do the judgements: victim, or vigilante, who will forgive, who will betray?
Desperate Creed, Alex Kava.
In Alabama: A deadly outbreak of tornadoes sends K9 handlers, Ryder Creed and Jason Seaver with their scent dogs, Grace and Scout to search for survivors. As storms intensify and Ryder and Jason race against time to save victims, they end up racing to save themselves.
One year later, Sanjida Kay.
Since Amy's daughter, Ruby-May, died in a terrible accident, her family have been beset by grief. One year later, the family decide to go on holiday to mend their wounds. An idyllic island in Italy seems the perfect place for them to heal and repair their relationships with one another. But no sooner have they arrived than they discover nothing on this remote island is quite as it seems.
The cold way home, Julia Keller.
Deep in the woods just outside Acker's Gap, West Virginia, rises a ragged chunk of what was once a high stone wall. This is all that remains of Wellwood, a psychiatric hospital for the poor that burned to the ground decades ago. And it is here that Bell Elkins; prosecutor turned private investigator, makes a grim discovery while searching for a missing teenager: A dead body, marred by a ghastly wound that can only mean murder.
A dangerous crossing, Ausma Zehanat Khan.
The Syrian refugee crisis becomes personal for Inspector Esa Khattak and Sergeant Rachel Getty when they are called in to search for a missing Canadian volunteer. Nathan Clare's sister, Audrey, has vanished from the Greek islands, where she was working to fast-track refugees to Canada. What's more, she's implicated in the double murder of a French Interpol agent and a young man who'd fled to Greece from the devastated city of Aleppo.
Bad day at the vulture club, Vaseem Khan.
The Parsees are among the oldest, most secretive and most influential communities in the city: respected, envied and sometimes feared. When prominent industrialist Cyrus Zorabian is murdered on holy ground, his body dumped inside a Tower of Silence; where the Parsee dead are consumed by vultures, the police dismiss it as a random killing. But his daughter is unconvinced.
The institute, Stephen King.
Deep in the woods of Maine, there is a dark state facility where kids, abducted from across the United States, are incarcerated. In the Institute they are subjected to a series of tests and procedures meant to combine their exceptional gifts; telepathy, telekinesis, for concentrated effect. Luke Ellis is the latest recruit. He's just a regular 12-year-old, except he's not just smart, he's super-smart. And he has another gift which the Institute wants to use.
The truth behind the lie, Sara Lövestam.
When a six-year-old girl disappears and calling the police isn't an option, her desperate mother Pernilla turns to an unlikely source for help. That's where Kouplan comes in. He makes a living as a P.I. working under the radar, waiting for the day he can legally apply for asylum. He's the perfect PI to help but something in Pernilla's story doesn't add up. She might need help that he can't offer and a little girl's life hangs in the balance.
The dirty dozen, Lynda La Plante.
April 1980 and Jane is the first female detective to be posted to the Met's renowned Flying Squad, commonly known as the 'Sweeney'. Based at Rigg Approach in East London, they investigate armed robberies on banks, cash in transit and other business premises. Jane thinks her transfer is on merit and is surprised to discover she is actually part of a short term internal experiment, intended to have a calming influence on a team that likes to dub themselves the 'Dirty Dozen'.
The girl who lived twice, David Lagercrantz.
Lisbeth Salander has never been able to uncover the most telling facts of her traumatic childhood that might finally explain her to herself. Now she enlists the help of Mikael Blomkvist. And nothing will stop her; not the anti-Muslim gang she enrages by rescuing a young woman from their brutality; not the deadly reach from inside the Russian mafia of her long-lost twin sister, Camilla; and not the people who will do anything to keep buried knowledge of a sinister pseudo-scientific experiment known only as The Registry.
Song of the dead, Douglas Lindsay.
Detective Ben Westphall has been given his latest case because of his background in MI6. John Baden has come back from the dead. His parents and girlfriend identified his body twelve years ago. Yet he's just walked into a police station, very much alive. Baden's story sounds far-fetched but it's all about to get much, much stranger.
The swallows: a novel, Lisa Lutz.
A new teacher at a New England prep school ignites a gender war with deadly consequences. What do you love? What do you hate? What do you want?
All that's dead, Stuart MacBride.
The high-profile anti-independence campaigner, Professor Wilson, has gone missing, leaving nothing but bloodstains behind. There's a war brewing between the factions for and against Scottish Nationalism. Infighting in the police ranks. And it's all playing out in the merciless glare of the media. Inspector Logan McRae's superiors want results, and they want them now. Someone out there is trying to make a point, and they're making it in blood.
Adam's rib: a Rocco Schiavone mystery, Antonio Manzini.
Six months after being exiled from his beloved Rome, Deputy Police Chief Rocco Schiavone has settled into a routine in the cold, quiet, chronically backward alpine town of Aosta. But he's about to stumble upon a corpse. Rocco's intuition tells him the scene has been staged.
The passengers, John Marrs.
You're riding in your self-driving car when suddenly the doors lock, the route changes and you have lost all control. Then, a mysterious voice tells you, "You are going to die". Eight people find themselves in this terrifying situation. From cameras hidden in their cars, their panic is broadcast to millions of people around the world. But the public will show their true colors when they are asked, "Which of these people should we save? And who should we kill first?"
We were killers once, Becky Masterman.
In 1959, The Walker family murders shook Florida. At one time, 587 people were considered suspects but 60 years later the investigation remains unsolved. Former FBI agent Brigid Quinn is trying to enjoy life after work. But when The Walker case comes up, she's only too happy to postpone retirement a little longer. Quinn is reluctant to draw comparisons with another high-profile case of the time: the Clutter family murders, made infamous by Capote's In cold blood. But the similarities are impossible to ignore, and perhaps Perry Smith and Dick Hickok, executed at the time, weren't acting alone.
How the dead speak, Val McDermid.
When human remains are discovered in the grounds of an old convent, it quickly becomes clear that someone has been using the site as their personal burial ground. But with the convent abandoned long ago and the remains dating back many years, could this be the work of more than one obsessive killer? It's an investigation that throws up more questions as the evidence mounts, and after their last case ended catastrophically, Tony Hill and Carol Jordan can only watch from afar.
Word to the wise, Jenn McKinlay.
Lindsey Norris is finally getting married to the man of her dreams but it's not all roses for Briar Creek's beloved library director, as town newcomer Aaron Grady gives the term "book lover" a whole new meaning. When Grady's dead body is found staged outside the library and all the clues point to Sully, Lindsey knows it's up to her to find the real culprit and clear Sully's name.
Nothing to hide, James Oswald.
Suspended from duty after her last case ended in the high-profile arrest of one of Britain's wealthiest men, DC Constance Fairchild is trying to stay away from the limelight. Fate has other ideas. Coming home to her London flat, Constance stumbles across a young man, bloodied, mutilated and barely alive. She calls it in and is quickly thrown into the middle of a nationwide investigation.
The runaway, Hollie Overton.
When LAPD forensic psychologist Becca Ortiz agrees to foster teenage runaway Ash, she knows she will love and protect her as her own daughter. Ash may have turned her back on her old life on the streets, but there is still one person who she can't bear to lose. Now he is about to drag her back into a dark world where nothing and no one is safe. How far will Becca go to save her daughter? And can she find her before it's too late?
The last good guy, T. Jefferson Parker.
When hired by a beautiful and enigmatic woman to find her missing younger sister, private investigator Roland Ford immediately senses that the case is not what it seems. He is soon swept up in a web of lies and secrets as he searches for the teenager, and even his new client cannot be trusted.
Killer instinct, James Patterson.
When an Ivy League professor is murdered, Reinhart reunites with his old partner Detective Elizabeth Needham. With his unrivalled mind for criminal psychology and Needham's investigative experience, Reinhart is confident that together they can find the killer, and close the case. But a terrifying attack on New York sends the city into chaos. In the aftermath, a name from Reinhart's past emerges on the list of victims – a name he thought he'd left behind.
A better man, Louise Penny.
The air is unbearably tense as Armand Gamache returns to the Surete du Quebec for his first day of work since being demoted from its command to head of homicide. He has been tasked with finding a missing woman, but while he leads the search for Vivienne Godin, Three Pines itself is threatened when the river breaks its banks and a body is discovered.
Come back for me, Heidi Perks.
A tiny island community is stunned by the discovery of a long-buried body. For Stella the news is doubly shocking. The body has been found in the garden of her childhood home; the home her family fled without explanation twenty-five years ago. Now, questioning her past and desperate to unearth the truth, Stella returns to the isolated island. But she quickly finds that the community she left isn't as welcoming as she remembers and that people in it will go to any length to protect their secrets.
A family of strangers, Emilie Richards.
All her life, Ryan Gracey watched her perfect older sister from afar. Knowing she could never top Wendy's achievements, she didn't even try. The sisters' choices have taken them in different directions, which is why Ryan is stunned when Wendy calls, begging for her help. There's been a murder and Wendy believes she'll be wrongfully accused. The sleuthing skills she's refined as a true-crime podcaster quickly rise to the surface as she digs for answers with the help of an unexpected ally.
If we were villains, M.L. Rio.
On the day Oliver Marks is released from jail, the man who put him there is waiting at the door. Detective Colborne wants to know the truth, and after ten years, Oliver is finally ready to tell it.
Vendetta in death, J. D. Robb.
When a family man is tortured, killed and left in front of his family home for all the world to see, Eve Dallas knows she is on the hunt for a particularly dangerous killer. But death uncovers secrets and the killer leaves a note revealing the victim to be far from the family man he appears.
Three hours, Anders Roslund.
Stockholm, Sweden: Seventy-three refugees have been found dead, suffocated in a container at Varta harbor. Niamey, Niger: Ewert Grens arrives in a city he's never heard of, in search of a man he never thought he would see again. Piet Hoffmann has again got himself in too deep, infiltrating a West African trafficking ring. He thinks he has two weeks to extricate himself, but will learn that his life, and that of countless defenseless people, now hangs on his actions during three desperate hours.
The far empty, J. Todd Scott.
Seventeen-year-old Caleb Ross is adrift following the sudden disappearance of his mother over a year ago, and is struggling to find his way out of the small Texas border town of Murfee. Chris Cherry is a newly minted sheriff's deputy, a high school football hero who's reluctantly returned to his hometown. When skeletal remains are discovered in the surrounding badlands, the two are inexorably drawn together as their efforts to uncover Murfee's darkest secrets lead them to the same terrifying suspect: Caleb's father and Chris's boss, the charismatic and feared Sheriff Standford 'Judge' Ross.
This side of night, J. Todd Scott.
In the Mexican borderlands, a busload of student protesters is gunned down in broad daylight, a violent act blamed on the Nemesio cartel. But its aging leader, Fox Uno, sees the attack for what it is: another salvo in the long-running battle for control of Nemesio itself; perhaps by a rival cartel, or maybe someone closer to home.
The Loch Ness papers, Paige Shelton.
Bookseller Delaney Nichols befriends a Loch Ness monster enthusiast; when he stands accused of murder she'll do whatever it takes to learn who the killer is and whether Nessie herself is really lurking in the Scottish waters.
To the land of long lost friends, Alexander McCall Smith.
Mr J. L. B. Matekoni usually steers clear of Mma Ramotswe's cases, but on this occasion he is approached by a client of the garage who tells a tale of woe. This man has entrusted his brother to oversee the building of a house, yet the project is complete and now the brother won't leave. How is he to get him to move on?
Devotion, Madeline Stevens.
Ella Crawford is 26, lonely, and so broke that she seduces strange men when she suspects they'll buy her dinner. Her fate changes the day she begins nannying for a rich and beautiful Upper East Side mother. Ella is mesmerised by Lonnie's girlish affection and disregard for the normal boundaries of friendship and marriage, but resentment grows too, alongside this dizzying attraction.
Ice cold heart, P. J. Tracy.
On a bitterly cold winter night, Kelly Ramage leaves her suburban home, telling her husband she's going to meet a friend. She never comes back. When her body is discovered, murdered in what seems to be a sex game gone horribly wrong, Detectives Gino and Magozzi take the case, expecting to find a flirtatious trail leading straight to the killer.
Cold wrath, Peter Turnbull.
On a hot summer morning, Miles Law cycles into the village of Millington in the Vale of York, on his way to a few hours' work as an under gardener at The Grange. But when he arrives, he finds his employer slumped in an armchair in the drawing room, a bullet wound on his forehead. Who was Anthony Garrett, and who are the three young, identical-looking blonde women who called at the house a few days before?
A cruel necessity, L.C. Tyler.
When the bloody corpse of a Royalist spy is discovered on the dung heap of a small Essex village, why is the local magistrate so reluctant to investigate? John Grey, a young lawyer with no clients, finds himself alone in believing that the murdered man deserves justice. Grey is drawn into a vortex of plot and counter-plot and into the all-encompassing web of intrigue spun by Cromwell's own spy-master, John Thurloe. So when nothing is what is seems, can Grey trust anyone?
A masterpiece of corruption, L.C. Tyler.
It is December 1657. John Grey has returned to the study of law in London. He receives a mysterious invitation which seems to have come from some of his mother's royalist friends; possibly members of the largely ineffectual secret organisation, the Sealed Knot. On arriving at Sir Richard Willys's chambers at Gray's Inn, however, he finds that the invitation was never intended for him; to his horror, Grey is warmly greeted as a royalist conspirator sent over from Brussels to murder Oliver Cromwell.
Man of the year, Caroline Louise Walker.
Offering shelter for the summer to his son's troubled college roommate, Dr. Robert Hart, who has just been named Sag Harbor's Man of the Year, reveals a dark inner nature when he develops paranoid suspicions about his wife's fidelity.
A dangerous engagement, Ashley Weaver.
As they travel by ship to New York for her childhood friend Tabitha's wedding, Amory Ames is excited by the prospect of being a bridesmaid. Her husband, Milo, however, is convinced their trip will be deadly dull, since Prohibition is in full swing. But when a member of the wedding party is found murdered on the front steps of the bride's home, the happy plans take a darker twist.
The dead girl in 2A: a novel, Carter Wilson.
Jake Buchanan is a successful writer with an eight-year-old daughter and an imploding marriage. When he gets on a plane and discovers an instant connection with seatmate Clara Stowe, he's delighted. But when Clara confesses that she's going to Colorado to kill herself, Jake searches frantically for a way to convince her not to go through with her plan.

New Zealand Fiction

The ash, the well & the bluebell, Sandra Arnold.
Losing her daughter to the Christchurch earthquake sends Lily back to her childhood village in Northern England to scatter Charlie's ashes. It's a place of ghosts for Lily after the mysterious drowning of a school friend at the old village well. Now Lily's back, she wants to find out what happened at the well and the truth behind the departure of her friend Israel.
Where we land, Tim Jones.
A New Zealand Navy frigate torpedoes a boat full of refugees fleeing a drowning country and Nasimul Rahman is one of the few survivors. A tale of desperation and betrayal on a shrinking shore in the not too distant future.
Redemption, Carne Maxwell
When they all receive an invitation to return to the island of Samimoto, some say a return would be too painful, while others see going back as a necessary cleansing to help them move on with their lives. When an abduction takes place back in New Zealand, Detective Sergeant Wood and Constable Banks are brought in to solve the case, but as they learn more about the contestants, a tangled web of untruths and deceit hinders their investigation, making them question their every move.
Stop looking, Angelique Praat
Philip Templeton is on the run in New Zealand after releasing a military robotics project to the public. He's left behind his career, his identity and his girlfriend, Mishra McKenzie. Mishra travels to New Zealand to search for Philip. Flight Lieutenant Brett Nielsen is sent to silence Philip using the military's latest technology - a robotic swarm. Brett's unconvinced about the need for such drastic action. Killing for his country is his job. Killing for his psychopathic boss - that's murder.
Days of ascent, Mike Ring
In 1980's New Zealand Rory Beaumont's desire to come to terms with the loss of his brother, Neil, brings him into contact with the Ridge family and their apple orchard; Arcadivale. In the space between the mountains and the ocean Arcadivale becomes Rory's home but it's not long before destructive forces begin to undermine Rory's world.
Bill & Chops: a novel, Noel Shepherd.
Bill Whakahoro and his cobber, Tumblechops, are men of no ambition. But when they are pushed into taking on a little responsibility, they discover that the simple life they once enjoyed has gone, perhaps forever. This is a story of trout fishing, beekeeping, mayhem, and maybe even murder, in small-town New Zealand.
I am Daniel Tahi, Lani Wendt Young.
Get to know Daniel Tahi in a whole new way as he tells HIS side of the Telesa story. This novella is a collection of first person narratives from Daniel Tahi - a key character in The Telesa Series.

ROMANCE

Claiming his one-night child, Jackie Ashenden.
Notorious Italian playboy Dante Cardinali lives life on the edge. So when Stella Montefiore dramatically confronts him, vowing to settle a family vendetta, he's intrigued by her bravery and enticed by their passionate attraction!
Their one-night twin surprise, Karin Baine.
With her dreams of a longed-for family in tatters, air ambulance paramedic Izzy Fitzpatrick shares one night of comfort in the arms of best friend and colleague Dr Cal Armstrong. One night that awakens a fierce undiscovered attraction and leaves Izzy pregnant with twins!
Beyond the sunrise, Mary Balogh.
Even at fifteen, Jeanne, the privileged daughter of a royalist émigré knew what she liked: Englishman Robert Blake, bastard son of a marquess. Yet his questionable birth rendered him forbidden. Eleven years later in Portugal, during the Peninsular Wars, they meet again, both of them spies, and destined to be working on opposing sides. But for Joana and Robert, each entrusted to a dangerous mission that demands deception, falling in love could be the most dangerous risk of all.
A family to heal his heart, Tina Beckett.
Brooding surgeon Zeke Bruen has never got over the death of his daughter, and he has vowed to protect his heart. But when he meets nurse Lindy Franklin and her gorgeous little girl Daisy his resistance begins to crumble. Soon he and Lindy are sharing a passionate kiss, and Zeke begins to believe that they might have a future. But can he let go of the past and find his forever family?
An heir for the world's richest man, Maya Blake.
He might be the richest man on earth, but self-made billionaire Joao Oliviera's latest deal is personal. To ensure victory he needs his right-hand woman, Saffron Everhart. But the undeniable tension between them is higher than ever since they finally surrendered to a one-off emotionally charged night together. And it's about to sky-rocket again because Joao's just found out that Saffron is pregnant!
The maid's Spanish secret, Dani Collins.
For sweet maid Poppy Harris, her one and only passionate experience was scorching and absolutely forbidden. She shouldn't have succumbed to Spanish aristocrat Rico Montero's tantalising seduction, but his touch was all-consuming. And it had nine-month consequences!
Big shot, Katy Evans.
Sexy bachelor and workaholic William Walker, needs help with a baby, and he turns to the one person he knows can help, ex-employee India Crowley. The problem is India hates William, he's the reason she quit her job. But she agrees to help, and soon begins to realise there is a fine line between hate and desire.
Cinderella's secret royal fling, Jessica Gilmore.
Party planner Emilia Clayton believes that meeting handsome strangers in secret palace gardens only happens in fairytales. Until her latest job leads her to embark on a fling with the mysterious Ren. Unbeknown to her, Ren's actually Archduke Laurent, ruler of Armaria! They're from different worlds, but their connection is undeniable.
Awakened by the scarred Italian, Abby Green.
Two years after their last heartbreaking meeting Ciro Sant-Angelo bursts back into Lara Templeton's life with a demand. His former fiancee will fulfil her promise and become his wife! Ciro is not the man Lara remembers; a devastating experience has left him scarred and completely ruthless. Yet their intense fire has never died, and his caress awakens innocent Lara to unimaginable pleasures. Could their convenient marriage be their redemption?
The song of David, Amy Harmon.
I won my first fight when I was eleven years old, and I've been throwing punches ever since. Fighting is the purest, truest, most elemental thing there is. It was heaven until I met Millie, and then heaven became something different. I became something different. She taught me that sometimes the biggest heroes go unsung and the most important battles are the ones we don't think we can win.
The Argentinian's baby of scandal, Sharon Kendrick.
Housekeeper Tara Fitzpatrick is always as efficient and professional as possible. Until her billionaire boss Lucas Conway looks at her with a fiery intensity she just can't resist. Only now Tara has the mortifying task of flying to New York to tell him; a renowned bachelor whose least favourite word is family, that their electrifying night in his bed has had the most scandalous of consequences!
A passionate night with the Greek, Kim Lawrence.
Greek tycoon Zach Gavros has one mission: to track down the long-lost granddaughter of the mentor who helped him rise from the streets of Athens to unrivalled success. But he quickly realises that introducing feisty Katina to Greek society might be more trouble and temptation than he anticipated!
Walking the line, Mandy Magro.
Country loving Dallas Armstrong is a hard-as-nails bull rider, who dreams of becoming Australian champion just like his father, Mick. On the day that his father Mick is killed in a car crash, Dallas learns a shocking secret about him. His determination to keep the secret from everyone, including his family, is challenged when he finds himself drawn to the journalist Charlize Dawson, who might just uncover it all and print it!
Surgeon prince, Cinderella bride, Ann McIntosh.
In this Cinderellas to Royal Brides story, Dr Sara Greer is shocked to find Crown Prince Farhan on her doorstep with life-changing news; she's the long-lost heir to the throne of Kalyana! Farhan needs to preserve his title, and Sara wants to connect with her new-found heritage, so agreeing to his convenient proposal seems like the perfect solution!
Falling for the pregnant heiress, Susan Meier.
In this Manhattan Babies story, Trent Sigmund has discovered Sabrina McCallan's shocking secret: she's pregnant! She's his best friend's sister, so Trent's compelled to help. But offering Sabrina his private jet to track down her errant ex isn't supposed to become a whirlwind trip around Europe. And it certainly isn't supposed to awaken an attraction that makes him long to take this unexpected chance and build it into the perfect family!
Whisked away by her millionaire boss, Nina Milne.
After an unexpected encounter with Ben Gardiner, dashing owner of the fashion company where she cleans offices, single mum Sarah Fletcher takes a gamble and shares her ideas. Amazingly, Ben loves them! Whisked away to work with him in Milan, Sarah finds their attraction increasingly undeniable. This high-class world is like nothing she's ever known but, back home, will Ben let Sarah and her daughter into his life?
Prince's virgin in Venice, Trish Morey.
Prince Vittorio's spontaneous invitation to shy hotel maid Rosa is supposed to end at Venice's most exclusive Carnival ball. But their instant chemistry soon leads to a scorching encounter! It's meant to be Vittorio's last taste of pleasure before duty demands he marry and provide an heir. But will one night with unexpected virgin Rosa be enough to slake his desire for her?
A return, a reunion, a wedding, Annie O'Neil.
Jayne was once so happy! She was engaged to gorgeous Sam Crenshaw and planning their idyllic life together as GPs in Whitticombe's close-knit community. Until the day her twin sister died, compelling Jayne to leave the man she loved and fulfil her sister's dreams. Now a paediatric cardiologist, Jayne has hit crisis point and coming home to heal reminds her that her own dream is still life with Sam!
The things I know, Amanda Prowse.
Thomasina 'Hitch' Waycott loves living and working on the remote family farm and B&B. But she also wants more. To see the world. To own her own home. To fall madly in love. But those are fairy tales, and if her life is a fairy tale, then she's the ugly duckling. Her deformed lip, her crooked limbs and her weak heart have kept her from taking chances. But that's about to change. When Grayson Potts comes to stay.
Contracted as his Cinderella bride, Heidi Rice.
The perfect summer Ally Jones spent with gorgeous French billionaire Dominic LeGrand was unforgettable, despite her unrequited feelings. Now Ally's a struggling courier, and she's stunned when her latest delivery brings her to Dominic's door. Yet what's even more shocking is his proposal! Dominic needs a temporary wife but with the enticing promise of his expert seduction teasing Ally to her limits can she really just play the role?
Dr Right for the single mum, Alison Roberts.
ER and rescue doctor Tom Chapman knows what it's like to lose everything. So when his colleague and friend single mum Laura McKenzie brings her sick son to the ER, Tom leaps into action. Caring for little Harry brings Tom and Laura a lot closer. But they've both been through so much; can they risk their hearts again?
Royal doc's secret heir, Amy Ruttan.
In this Cinderellas to Royal Brides story, Dr Jeena Harrak has returned home. Banished years ago by the King of Kalyana, after falling pregnant with Prince Maazin's baby, Jeena never had a chance to say goodbye to Maazin, or to tell him of his father's cruelty. After revealing his heir, working alongside gorgeous yet closed-off doctor Maazin is harder than she ever imagined but might their overwhelming connection be enough to reunite their family?
Off limits lovers, Reese Ryan.
For attorney and Texas Cattleman's Club member Roarke Perry, Annabel Currin is about as forbidden as it gets. A just-jilted bride, gorgeously sexy, tender-hearted and the daughter of his father's nemesis. The sexual currents crackling between him and his client should have been warning enough. Now they're both playing with fire. And someone's gonna get burned.
One night in Provence, Barbara Wallace.
In this Destination Brides story, while on vacation in Provence homebody Jenna Brown embarks on a no-strings affair with a handsome stranger. But there's more to wealthy playboy Philippe d'Usay than meets the eye. Scarred by loss, Philippe's committed to being alone. But after their Provençal adventure ends, and Jenna discovers she's pregnant, they must decide if their short-term connection can become a life together for ever!
Our stop, Laura Jane Williams.
One morning, Nadia's eye catches sight of a post in the daily paper: To the cute girl with the coffee stains on her dress. I'm the guy who's always standing near the doors. Drink sometime? So begins a not-quite-romance of near-misses, true love, and the power of the written word.

SAGA

The miner's wife, Diane Allen.
Seventeen-year-old Meg Oversby often dreams of a more exciting life than the dull existence she faces at her family's farm deep in the Yorkshire Dales. So when Meg dances all night at the local market hall with Sam Alderson, a lead miner from Swaledale, a new light enters her life.
The stolen child, Jennie Felton.
1911. When Stella Swift is discovered holding a shard of broken glass near her newborn baby boy, fears that she might harm William result in her being taken to Catcombe; the local asylum. At first Catcombe seems to offer the respite Stella needs until one day she becomes convinced that the baby the nurses have given to her is not William. Is Stella losing her mind? Or is it true that a mother will always know her own child?
A Christmas gift, Katie Flynn.
Liverpool, 1939: Sixteen-year-old Lizzy Atherton is forced to flee her violent step-father in the middle of the night, and finds herself stranded on a station platform completely alone. Desperate to know what has become of her beloved mother, who she had no choice but to leave behind, Lizzy returns the next day only to find her home deserted.
A widow's hope, Elizabeth Gill.
Ten years after the death of her husband, Faith Norman is surprised to see her brother-in-law, Rob Berkeley, return to their small Durham town. Rob is determined to bring the family business, the foundering steelworks, back to full strength. But for Faith, the resemblance he bears to his brother is a painful reminder of all she has lost. As they get to know each other once more, the likeness gradually becomes more welcome to her healing heart.
A daughter's journey, Anna Jacobs.
Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia, still grieving her father's recent death. She's not intending to stay long, but after tracking down her distant family, Jo becomes more involved in village life. Jo also finds herself drawn to Nick, a handsome newcomer to the village. Nick had planned to settle in Birch End and start a business, but as he grows closer to Jo, he realises he may have to choose between his dreams and a chance at love.
The secret orphan, Glynis Peters.
As the Nazis' relentless bombs fall during the Blitz of Coventry, six-year-old Rose Sherbourne finds herself orphaned and under the guardianship of a Cornish farmer's daughter, Elenor Cardew. Elenor knows that the only way to protect spirited Rose is to leave the city and make a new life for themselves away from harm.
The dark side, Danielle Steel.
Zoe Morgan's childhood was marked by her younger sister's tragic illness. When Zoe falls in love and has her own child, she is determined to be a perfect mother as well. But before long, old scars long dormant begin to pull Zoe to the edge of an abyss too terrifying to contemplate. As Zoe is haunted by the ghosts of the past, her story will become a race against time.
The Tilbury poppies, Sue Wilsher.
Essex, 1916. Lily is a housemaid up at St Clere's Hall. But times are changing with the outbreak of war. With a husband bent on signing up for the trenches and a lecherous master of the house, Lily is forced to leave. Lily goes to work in a factory making explosives to send to the trenches. And then someone she never wanted to see there arrives. Lady Charlotte, the pampered daughter of the Hall, joins the factory as a supervisor.

SCIENCE FICTION

Exhalation, Ted Chiang.
In Exhalation, Ted Chiang wrestles with the oldest questions on Earth: What is the nature of the universe? What does it mean to be human? And ones that no one else has even imagined. And, each in its own way, the stories prove that complex and thoughtful science fiction can rise to new heights of beauty, meaning, and compassion.
Green Valley, Louis Greenberg.
When Lucie Sterling's daughter is abducted, she knows it'll be no easy feat to find answers. Stanton is no ordinary city: invasive digital technology has been banned, by public vote. Only one place stays firmly anchored in the bad old ways, in a huge bunker across town: Green Valley, where the inhabitants have retreated into the comfort of full-time virtual reality. And it's inside Green Valley, beyond the ideal virtual world it presents, that Lucie will have to go to find her missing daughter.
Dahlia black: a novel, Keith Thomas.
Discovered by Dr. Dahlia Black, the mysterious Pulse was sent by a highly intelligent intergalactic species that called themselves the Ascendants. It soon becomes clear this alien race isn't just interested in communication--they are capable of rewriting human DNA, in an astonishing process they call the Elevation.
The end of the world survivors club, Adrian J. Walker.
Beth Hill has survived the apocalypse with a baby and toddler in tow. And what's more she's done it alone; without her husband's help. He's never been any help. But when disaster strikes and someone steals her kids, she knows what she has to do.
A chain across the dawn, Drew Williams.
It's been three years since Esa joined the ranks of the Justified after her rescue from the fanatical murderers the Pax. Together, Esa and her mentor Kamali travel from planet to planet, searching for children with supernatural abilities. On a visit to a planet so remote that its inhabitants never learned that the Sect Wars ended over a hundred years ago, they learn that there is a creature with unexpected powers who will stop at nothing to get its hands on the children that Esa and Kamali are trying to rescue.
The book of the new sun. Volume 1, Shadow and claw, Gene Wolfe.
Severian, a torturer's apprentice, is exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his prisoners. Ordered to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his ancient executioner's sword, Terminus Est, Severian must make his way across the perilous, ruined landscape of this far-future Urth. But is his finding of the mystical gem, the Claw of the Conciliator, merely an accident, or does Fate have a grander plans for Severian the torturer?
The book of the new sun. Volume 2, Sword and citadel, Gene Wolfe.
The torturer's apprentice, Severian, exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his prisoners, is now the Lictor of Thrax, a city far distant from his home. But it is not long before Severian must flee this city, too, and journey again into the world. Embattled by friends and enemies alike, pursued by monstrous creatures, the one-time torturer's apprentice must overcome hitherto unimagined perils, as he moves closer to fulfilling his ultimate destiny.
Treason, Timothy Zahn.
"If I were to serve the Empire, you would command my allegiance." Such was the promise Grand Admiral Thrawn made to Emperor Palpatine at their first meeting. Since then, Thrawn has been one of the Empire's most effective instruments, pursuing its enemies to the very edges of the known galaxy. But as keen a weapon as Thrawn has become, the Emperor dreams of something far more destructive.

WESTERN

Reign of terror, Paul Bedford.
Buffalo hunter Woodrow Clayton experiences the full horror of the Comanche terror at the Battle of Adobe Walls, and then again in the bloody aftermath that spreads along the frontier. He vows to help the US Army put an end to it, once and for all.
Ambush on the Butterfield Trail, Jay Clanton.
When Abednego Merton's young daughter is seized by Comancheros, he resolves to recover his beloved child, no matter what the cost. He also vows privately that he will, in the process, kill every man who had any part, howsoever small, in taking his daughter from him.
Dark horse, Lee Clinton.
Nettie Youcheck must fight for what is rightfully hers, the large and profitable Double U cattle ranch. If she fails, her future will be a life of servitude under the control of a vicious and vindictive father. By her side are just two allies; Hollis, the old, black house servant, and Rita, who runs the town brothel and knows Nettie's past. If justice prevails then all will go well for Nettie, but since when was life like a fairy tale?
The fury of El Tigre, B.S. Dunn.
El Tigre, the Tiger. That's what the Mexicans called him. His name was Jim Curtis, and he was a product of the Civil War, who went to Mexico to fight in the Revolution. Now, he just roams the West, riding from one town to the next; a drifter with no home. Then fate intervenes, in the form of a woman named Mary-Alice, and Curtis is soon up to his neck again in someone else's war.
The Pinfire Lady strikes back, P.J. Gallagher.
English aristocrat Abbie Penraven has forged a new life for herself in the West. She has had to fight hard to gain respect and has become known as the Pinfire Lady due to her skill with her pinfire revolver. When Abbie's ranch is raided and her friends kidnapped, she once more takes to the trail, to rescue the stolen ones and destroy the nest of bandits.