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New Fiction Titles

Coming in May!

The stunning conclusion to the Seven Sisters saga co-authored by Lucinda’s son Harry Whittaker.

Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt by Lucinda Riley.

The Boy and the Dog by Seishu Hase

Following a devastating earthquake and tsunami, a young man in Japan finds a stray dog outside a convenience store. The man decides to keep Tamon, becoming the first in a series of owners as the dog journeys south to find the boy whom disaster tore him from. 

Jackal by Erin E. Adams

Liz Rocher is coming home-- reluctantly. As a Black woman, Liz doesn't exactly have fond memories of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a predominantly white town. But her best friend is getting married, so she braces herself for a weekend of awkward, passive-aggressive reunions. 

Ship Wrecked by Olivia Dade

The final book in Olivia Dade's fandom trilogy, when two co-stars finally yield to temptation after filming on the same remote island for years.

Jeannie's War by Carol MacLean

Glasgow, 1939. Despite being shy and reserved, Jeannie Dougal finds herself newly engaged to handsome soldier, Arthur Dunn, the day war is announced.

Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail by Ashley Herring Blake

An interior designer learns to rebuild her love life from the ground up with zero blueprints. 

Jacqueline in Paris by Ann Mah

Mah brilliantly imagines the intellectual and aesthetic awakening of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, and illuminates how France would prove to be her one true love, and one of the greatest influences on her life.

A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley

Monterey, 1851. Ever since her husband was killed in a bar fight, Eliza Ripple has been working in a brothel. It seems like a better life, at least at first. But when the dead bodies of young women start appearing outside of town, a darkness descends that she can't resist confronting. 

Lost and Found in Paris by Lian Dolan

One fateful afternoon Joan’s husband drops a bombshell: he's fathered twins with another woman. Furious but secretly pleased to have a reason to blow up her life, Joan impulsively decides to get out of town, booking a last-minute trip to Paris as an art courier

The Hemsworth Effect by James Weir

Cashed-up celebs, desperate wannabes, cranky Karens and cringe-worthy hashtags - it's all here in this hilarious novel about the celebrification of Byron Bay and the power of letting go. 

Hello, Stranger by Rachel Marks

They’re as different as night and day. Yet, somehow, they make each other happier than they ever thought possible.

The Bookseller of Inverness by S. G. MacLean

After the battle of Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie moor. He survived only by pretending to be dead as the Redcoats patrolled the corpses of his Jacobite comrades. Seven years later Iain lives a quiet life as a bookseller in Inverness.

Distant Thunder by Stuart Woods

During an intense storm in Dark Harbor, Maine, a perplexing murder lands a dead man on Stone Barrington's doorstep. As secrets swirl around this mystery man's identity, Stone quickly sets out to unravel a web of cunning misdirections and lies.

The Night Man by Jørn Lier Horst

Inspector William Wisting is investigating the most grotesque case of his career. A severed head, impaled on a stake, placed in the middle of the town square. No clues. No leads. And just hours later, another body. 

The Lindbergh Nanny by Mariah Fredericks

In 1932, all eyes are on Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the most glamorous and intriguing couple in America. But who was paying attention when, one evening in early March, their baby son was stolen from the family home? 

Hidden in Snow by Viveca Sten

On the day Stockholm police officer Hanna Ahlander's personal and professional lives crash, she takes refuge at her sister's lodge in the Swedish ski resort paradise of Are. But the entire village is shaken by the sudden vanishing of a local teenage girl. 

The Key to My Heart by Lia Louis

Some people spend their whole lives trying to find the one. But Natalie had found him - and married him. And then Russ died. Two years ago, her whole world was shattered. Still now, she feels like she's trying to piece her broken heart back together, one day at a time. 

The Belle of Belgrave Square by Mimi Matthews

A London heiress rides out to the wilds of the English countryside to honor a marriage of convenience with a mysterious and reclusive stranger. Captain Jasper Blunt was once hailed a military hero, but tales abound of his bastard children and his haunted estate in Yorkshire. 

The Bodyguard by Katherine Center

Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. But the truth is, she's an Executive Protection Agent and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton from his middle-aged, corgi-breeding stalker. 

The Forgotten Cottage by Courtney Ellis

Connected through time to her great-grandmother by a shared English countryside home, an American nurse tries to piece together her family's tangled history. 

The Wartime Bookshop by Lesley Eames

With war raging overseas and challenges on the home front, friendship is needed now more than ever. Can a shared love of books bring three women - and the community of Churchwood - together?

Bournville by Jonathan Coe

In Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it's the centre of the world. 

The Enigma of Garlic by Alexander McCall Smith

Once more, we catch up with the delightful goings-on with Edinburgh's favourite family, the inhabitants of the fictitious 44 Scotland Street. 

The Hidden Truth by Hilary Boyd

Sara Tempest has been alone since her husband died and daughters left home. But over the course of one summer she falls in love with the charming Bernard and moves into his beautiful home on the wind-battered cliffs of Hastings. 

The Midwife of Auschwitz by Anna Stuart

Ana Kaminski is pushed through the iron gates of Auschwitz beside her frightened young friend Ester Pasternak. As they reach the front of the line, Ana steps forward and quietly declares herself a midwife--and Ester her assistant. 

Tuesday Evenings with the Copeton Craft Resistance by Kate Solly

Meredith established the Copeton Crochet Collective (no knitters please) because it would be like having friends -- only with her in charge -- and because there would be no men. It comes as a nasty shock, then, when Luke, the handsome grandson of no-nonsense Edith, decides to stay and learn to crochet. 

There's Been a Little Incident by Alice Ryan

Molly Black has disappeared. She's been flighty since her parents died, but this time - or so says her hastily written note - she's gone for good. That's why the whole Black clan - from Granny perched on the printer to Killian on Zoom from Sydney - is huddled together in the Dublin suburbs, arguing over what to do. 

The Next Girl by Pip Drysdale

A bad day at work. A drunken night. A rogue Instagram follow. That's all it takes to ruin a life... The question is, whose life will be ruined? 

Devouring Darkness by Chloe Neill

Book 4 in the Heirs of Chicagoland series 

Only Bad Options by Jennifer Estep

Few people know the name Vesper Quill. To most folks, I'm just a lowly lab rat. But when I point out a design flaw and a safety hazard in the new line of Kent Corp spaceships, everyone knows who I am-- and wants to eliminate me. 

Loathe to Love You by Ali Hazelwood

A collection of three novellas by Tiktok sensation Hazelwood

Just Another Love Song by Kerry Winfrey

There aren't enough clichè love songs in the world to convince Sandy to give Hank another chance, but when they're thrown together to help organize the town's street fair, she wonders if there could be a new beginning for them or if what they had is just a tired old song of the past.

Without a Trace by Danielle Steel

Charles Vincent is trapped in a loveless marriage, and his job is simply a paycheck. One night on the Normandy coast he falls asleep at the wheel and veers off the road and down the cliff. 

The Sea Wolves by Jack B. du Brul (Clive Cussler)

As New England swelters in the summer of 1914, Detective Isaac Bell is asked to investigate a cache of missing rifles - only to discover something much more sinister

The Whisper House by C. S. Green

A house with a history. A boy with a grudge. And a detective who will stop at nothing to get to the truth. 

Larch Tree Lane by Anna Jacobs

The first in a brand new series

Based in a village in Wiltshire,  Larch Tree Lane winds slowly up a low hill. From the cottages and farms, to the local shop, pub and old manor house, the residents' lives intertwine, relationships bloom and both romance and heartache lie ahead

Sleep No More by Jayne Ann Krentz

The first book in a new romantic suspense series, Lost Night Files

Still Standing by Stephen Leather

Book 3 in the Matt Standing series

Private Beijing by James Patterson

Book 17 in the Private series

Murder on Milverton Square by G. B. Ralph

The first in a new cosy mystery series set in an enchanting small town nestled amongst stunning New Zealand scenery, featuring a chaotic cast of local busybodies, delicious baked treats, a demanding and disdainful ginger cat, a very slow-burn romance with a rather appealing policeman, and of course, murder...

Blind Date by Joy Cowley

 

Rose Gillander has had two marriages to good men who were ambitious and somewhat self-absorbed. There has not been much room for the sort of love she craves. Now aged eighty-five, sensible, reserved Rose has lost most of her sight and is living in Ferndale Rest Home, where she misses her books more than her departed husbands. 

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