Searching for something to read? Check out some of the new titles releasing the week of October 18 – 24. I hope a few of these books take you on a reading adventure!
OCTOBER 19
The Family Cross by James Patterson (Thriller)
Alex Cross is a brilliant psychologist—and a relentless hunter of killers for the FBI and DC Metro Police. To his beloved Nana Mama, he’s still the boy she raised—and every morning, as he straps on his service weapon, she’s reminded just how dangerous his world has become. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
OCTOBER 20
One Missing Girl by Kristi Belcamino (Psychological Thriller)
My husband and I are hosting a party this evening — just for the adults. Our daughters are all leaving for college. We’ve raised them together, watched them grow up together, and now we’re drinking champagne beneath the fairy lights, pretending we’re ready to let them go. Kate is mine. Lily has been her best friend since kindergarten. And finally there’s Julia. By morning one of the girls is missing. Mine. Format: Digital
The Key to a Killer by Olivia Blacke (Cozy Mystery)
When Ruby Young discovered that her Boston apartment was haunted, she did what any reasonable person would do: befriend the ghost. Their relationship overcame a shaky start—Cordelia Graves never wanted a roommate in life, she certainly didn’t want one in death. After working together to solve a few murders, the two are close friends, but there’s a lingering question neither of them have been able to answer: what led to Cordelia’s death? Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Chain Reaction by Lee Child and Andrew Child (Thriller)
Jack Reacher is hard to find. It’s not easy to track him down. And he likes it that way. But General Susan Turner, based deep inside the Pentagon, has the means and the motive. She needs his help. A member of her team has been brutally murdered on covert duty. She can’t trust anyone she works with, not even her deputy. She needs someone from the outside. Someone who solves problems and disappears without a trace. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
1955 by Matt Cost (Historical Mystery 1950s)
“Welcome to Antebellum,” the ghoul said. “You are the guest of honor.” Things are not right in 1955, Raleigh, North Carolina, and it will be up to Jazz Jones to get to the bottom of the murk and clear things up. “You heard about the dead boy?” She had said that her name was January Queen and that she was with the NAACP. Her eyes were a pair of sins, or maybe they just mirrored my own. Format: Digital, Print
Split Screen by Lee Goldberg (Police Procedural)
When Erin Casey, the actress who plays LASD detective Eve Ronin on TV, is gunned down after a ride-along, the intended target is obvious: the real Eve. What isn’t obvious is why. As Eve hunts the shooter, her world fractures into more deadly reflections. The new sheriff forces Eve to exploit her fame to burnish his image—or he’ll destroy her partner, Duncan. And a reckless half sister Eve never knew she had pulls her toward a criminal conspiracy that’s already dumped a corpse in a Topanga Canyon ravine.
Format: Digital, Print, Audio
The Throwaways by Greta Kelly (Thriller)
The Calloway women are notorious for three things: Olympic-level banter, an inexplicable fear of dolls, and secrets. And one of these things is going to get them killed. Aster Calloway only sold her grandmother’s Fabergé music box on eBay to finance her mom’s mayoral campaign. It’s not like Poppy Calloway has any real business running for office, but the only other candidate is her book-banning high school nemesis—and she’s in the lead. But what Aster doesn’t realize is that selling the heirloom has toppled the house of lies her grandmother, Iris, has been living in for the past forty years. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
The Retired Assassin’s Guide to Amateur Theatrics by Naomi Kuttner (Cozy Mystery)
It’s theatre season in Te Kohe, and the director has decided to liven things up with a production of Macbeth. Except… something sinister happened when this play was performed twenty years ago, and the ghosts of past murders are set to make a reappearance. As Dante and his friends are about to find out, there’s no business like show business… Format: Digital, Print, Audio
A Tail of Two Murders by T.C. LoTempio (Cozy Mystery)
When local police suspect that a dead body found in the woods is tied to an unsolved heist of rare gold coins, Nora Charles and her sidekick cat Nick are dying to get involved. But she’s got a catering gig to plan for at her friend Lance’s bar, and it looks like that might present a world of trouble all its own. The sleazy former owner of the bar has blown back into town and is aggressively harassing Lance to sell the bar back to him. Nora’s worried her friend is in real danger—until the former owner is found dead and Lance is pegged for the murder. Format: Digital, Print
She Dies In The End by Elle Marr (Psychological Suspense)
Body broker Penny Lin keeps her distance from the past as she transports donated cadavers in Portland, Oregon, to laboratories, universities—anyone who can justly benefit from the dead. Then, among the deceased, Penny finds murder victim Cesar Velasquez, her ex-lover and a major figure in medical research, whose body comes with an anonymous warning: Don’t tell a soul. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Hanging and Burning by Walter Mosley (Thriller)
Joe King Oliver is the big man you call to solve the most delicate and dangerous of problems. Fresh off unraveling the mystery of his own parents’ fates, King finds himself accepting (again at his grandmother’s request) a case from Arman Babylon, a powerful Los Angeles gangster now dying from cancer. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Miss Wolcott’s Ghost by Louise Penny (Traditional Mystery)
“There’s a body in Lost Nation.” “Where?” demands Armand as he scribbles on the pad by his bed. But the line goes dead before Chief Inspector Gamache can question the caller. The head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec has no idea where Lost Nation is, or who woke him in the small hours of the morning at his home in Three Pines. What he does know is that the man was terrified. And so Armand is thrust out of a deep sleep and into the surrounding forests in search of the mythical Lost Nation. And a body. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
One of Us Must Die by Zelly Ruskin (Domestic Suspense)
She married for love. He married for trust. Specifically, her trust fund—the one with the iron-clad “no divorce, no matter the circumstances” clause her mother insisted on. Sterling (not as good as gold) has always come second to her family’s wealth—but unlike her mother, she’ll do anything to protect her three children. For years, she’s kept up the perfect family illusion to shield them from their manipulative, gaslighting father. But now her husband is becoming more reckless, and her children more exposed. And when her daughter’s fiancé says he wants a marriage just like hers, Sterling knows her charade has gone too far. Format: Digital, Print
It’s Not Even Past by Anna Scotti (Short Story Collection)
A brainy young librarian must rely on Witness Protection to keep her alive as she jumps from one alias to another, always just a step ahead of her murderous ex and his cartel henchmen. Forced to keep a low profile by taking menial jobs in random locations, she solves murders from the foothills of Montana to the gritty streets of L.A. as her rational, intellectual persona slips away and a streetwise, world-weary woman takes charge. Format: Digital, Print
The Lockup Period by Vince Thompson (Thriller)
Mario Kennedy yearns to be part of tech’s in-crowd. But with an unfair rap sheet and a job slinging pizzas, he’s stuck on the outside. When MenuAi—a startup in which he holds advisory shares—announces it’s going public, he finally gets his shot. That is, if he can survive the ninety-day lockup period… and the stock lives up to the hype. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
The Pilgrimage of Primrose Honeychurch by Laura Jensen Walker (Women’s Fiction)
Primrose Honeychurch doesn’t really “get” people. Books, though, make perfect sense. At seventy, the sharp-tongued recluse prefers to keep company with her own routines. But when a life-altering diagnosis leaves her worried she’ll never be missed, she decides it’s finally time to do something to leave her mark: something no one will ever forget. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
A Reunion to Die For by KJ Whittle (Psychological Thriller)
In a dingy pub, a high school reunion brings five old friends back together. As they catch up after twenty years, painful memories surface, all centered around the disastrous prom night that broke them all apart and the school bully at the heart of it all. King of the class turned handsome sport superstar, Eric Stewart poses as a charming local celebrity, but his old friends know of his hidden cruel streak that made each of them miserable. The more they drink, the more a morbid plan takes shape, with everyone tossing in ideas for how they could get the ultimate form of revenge. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
OCTOBER 23
Colorado Mystery Merge, Book 2 edited by Peg Brantley, Kerry Hammond, Alison Thayer (Crime Fiction Short Story Anthology)
Welcome to the Keats Beats and Eats Music Festival, where you’ll find great food, live music…and one unsolved murder. What happens next? That’s where things get interesting. Across Colorado, over one chaotic week, twenty-six stories unfold. Each story is a complete mystery. Each story contains a clue. Put them together, and you might crack the case. Format: Digital, Print
The Body at Waterloo Station by Emily Organ (Historical Mystery, 1890s)
In the gloomy Dead Letter Office at St Martin’s Le Grand, young clerk Andrew Peverell spends his days sorting through letters that never found their intended reader. When three anonymous notes cross his desk – each inviting a stranger to a public house near Buckingham Palace – Andrew makes a decision that will cost him his life. Four days later, a foul smell leads to a black leather trunk in Waterloo Station’s left-luggage office. Inside is Andrew’s body. Format: Digital, Print, Audio
Note: in some cases, print releases for digital titles will be forthcoming.
Publication date subject to change