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Harlem Sunset by Nekesa Afia (A Harlem Renaissance
Mystery Book 2)
304 pages. June 2022.
A riveting Harlem Renaissance Mystery featuring Louise Lloyd, a young Black woman
working in a hot new speakeasy when she gets caught up in a murder that hits too
close to home...
Harlem, 1927. Twenty-seven-year-old Louise Lloyd has found the perfect job! She is the new manager of
the Dove, a club owned by her close friend Rafael Moreno. There Louise meets Nora Davies, one of the
girls she was kidnapped with a decade ago. The two women—along with Rafael and his sister, Louise’s
girlfriend, Rosa Maria—spend the night at the Dove, drinking and talking. The next morning, Rosa Maria
wakes up covered in blood, with no memory of the previous night. Nora is lying dead in the middle of
the dance floor.
Louise knows Rosa Maria couldn’t have killed Nora, but the police have a hard time believing that no
one can remember anything at all about what happened. When Louise and Rosa Maria return to their
apartment after being questioned by the police, they find the word GUILTY written across the living
room wall in paint that looks a lot like blood. Someone has gone to great lengths to frame and terrify
Rosa Maria, and Louise will stop at nothing to clear the woman she loves.
Privacy by Nina Sadowsky
320 pages. June 2022.
Dr. Laina Landers is good at her job. She’s an accomplished therapist, dedicated and
compassionate. When she is summoned by a panicked patient who is being held
hostage by her husband, she intervenes and dissuades him. Laina becomes a media
sensation. But as her star rises, a target is placed on her back.
Not everyone is impressed by Laina’s achievements. Someone has it in for her and is targeting what
matters to her most: her patients. One by one, Laina’s patients spiral after they receive unsettling gifts
that mock their deepest fears and hidden traumas. Liana’s own home is targeted, in a mysterious break-
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in where nothing is taken, but left behind is the same message sent to her patients: Watching you.
Enlisting Cal Murray, an ambitious and charismatic investigative journalist to whom she has an explosive
attraction, Laina must examine her patients’ lives and her own to identify the culprit. All she knows for
sure? It’s someone with access to her records. Someone who wants to destroy her stellar reputation,
shatter her newfound success, and even, perhaps, end her life.
Local Gone Missing by Fiona Barton
384 pages. June 2022.
Detective Elise King investigates a man’s disappearance in a seaside town where the
locals and weekenders are at odds in this rich and captivating new novel from the New
York Times bestselling author of The Widow.
Elise King is a successful and ambitious detective—or she was before a medical leave
left her unsure if she’d ever return to work. She now spends most days watching the growing tensions in
her small seaside town of Ebbing—the weekenders renovating old bungalows into luxury homes, and
the locals resentful of the changes.
Elise can only guess what really happens behind closed doors. But Dee Eastwood, her house cleaner,
often knows. She’s an invisible presence in many of the houses in town, but she sees and hears
everything.
The conflicts boil over when a newcomer wants to put the town on the map with a weekend music
festival, and two teenagers overdose on drugs. When a man disappears the first night of the festival,
Elise starts digging for answers. Ebbing is a small town, but it’s full of secrets and hidden connections
that run deeper and darker than Elise could have ever imagined.
The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
368 pages. June 2022.
Be careful what you watch for . . .
Casey Fletcher, a recently widowed actress trying to escape a streak of bad press, has
retreated to the peace and quiet of her family’s lake house in Vermont. Armed with a
pair of binoculars and several bottles of bourbon, she passes the time watching Tom
and Katherine Royce, the glamorous couple living in the house across the lake. They
make for good viewing—a tech innovator, Tom is powerful; and a former model, Katherine is gorgeous.
One day on the lake, Casey saves Katherine from drowning, and the two strike up a budding friendship.
But the more they get to know each other—and the longer Casey watches—it becomes clear that
Katherine and Tom’s marriage isn’t as perfect as it appears. When Katherine suddenly vanishes, Casey
immediately suspects Tom of foul play. What she doesn’t realize is that there’s more to the story than
meets the eye—and that shocking secrets can lurk beneath the most placid of surfaces.
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Packed with sharp characters, psychological suspense, and gasp-worthy plot twists, Riley Sager’s The
House Across the Lake is the ultimate escapist read . . . no lake house required.
Miss Aldridge Regrets by Louise Hare
368 pages. July 2022.
The glittering RMS Queen Mary. A nightclub singer on the run. An aristocratic family
with secrets worth killing for.
London, 1936. Lena Aldridge wonders if life has passed her by. The dazzling theatre
career she hoped for hasn’t worked out. Instead, she’s stuck singing in a sticky-floored
basement club in Soho, and her married lover has just left her. But Lena has always had a complicated
life, one shrouded in mystery as a mixed-race girl passing for white in a city unforgiving of her true racial
heritage.
She’s feeling utterly hopeless until a stranger offers her the chance of a lifetime: a starring role on
Broadway and a first-class ticket on the Queen Mary bound for New York. After a murder at the club,
the timing couldn’t be better, and Lena jumps at the chance to escape England. But death follows her
onboard when an obscenely wealthy family draws her into their fold just as one among them is killed in
a chillingly familiar way. As Lena navigates the Abernathy’s increasingly bizarre family dynamic, she
realizes that her greatest performance won't be for an audience, but for her life.
With seductive glamor, simmering family drama, and dizzying twists, Louise Hare makes her beguiling US
debut.
An Honest Living by Dwyer Murphy
288 pages. July 2022.
A sharp and stylish debut from the editor-in-chief of CrimeReads in which an unwitting
private eye gets caught up in a crime of obsession between a reclusive literary
superstar and her bookseller husband, paying homage to the noir genre just as smartly
as it reinvents it
After leaving behind the comforts and the shackles of a prestigious law firm, a restless attorney makes
ends meet in mid-2000s Brooklyn by picking up odd jobs from a colorful assortment of clients. When a
mysterious woman named Anna Reddick turns up at his apartment with ten thousand dollars in cash
and asks him to track down her missing husband Newton, an antiquarian bookseller who she believes
has been pilfering rare true crime volumes from her collection, he trusts it will be a quick and easy case.
But when the real Anna Reddick—a magnetic but unpredictable literary prodigy—lands on his doorstep
with a few bones to pick, he finds himself out of his depth, drawn into a series of deceptions involving
Joseph Conrad novels, unscrupulous booksellers, aspiring flâneurs, and seedy real estate developers.
Set against the backdrop of New York at the tail end of the analog era and immersed in the worlds of
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literature and bookselling, An Honest Living is a gripping story of artistic ambition, obsession, and the
small crimes we commit against one another every day.
The Other Guest by Helen Cooper
384 pages. July 2022.
After a shocking death at a luxurious Italian resort, two very different women must
question everything—and everyone—they love in order to untangle truth from lies in
this twisty, captivating read.
One year ago, Leah’s feisty 21-year-old niece, Amy, mysteriously drowned in the
beautiful lake near her family-owned resort in Northern Italy. Now, Leah’s grief has caught up with her,
and she decides to return to Lake Garda for the first time since Amy’s death. What she finds upon her
arrival shocks her—her sister, brother-in-law, and surviving niece, Olivia, seem to have erased all
memories of Amy, and fought to have her death declared an accidental drowning, despite murky
circumstances. Leah knows she must look beyond the resort’s beautiful façade and uncover what truly
happened to Amy, even if her digging places both her family ties and her very life in danger.
Meanwhile, in Central England, thirtysomething Joanna is recovering from a surprising break-up when
she is swept off her feet by a handsome bartender. But when she learns that he is on the run from
something in his past, and that their meeting may not have been a coincidence, Joanna realized that he
may just a bit too good to be true.
What follows is a propulsive cat-and mouse game set against the Italian lakeside as the two seemingly-
unconnected women are caught up in a dangerous conspiracy.
The Old Woman with the Knife by Gu Byeong-mo
288 pages. March 2022.
The kinetic story of a sixty-five-year-old female assassin who faces an unexpected
threat in the twilight of her career—this is an international bestseller and the English
language debut from an award-winning South Korean author.
At sixty-five, Hornclaw is beginning to slow down. She lives modestly in a small
apartment, with only her aging dog, a rescue named Deadweight, to keep her company. There are
expectations for people her age—that she'll retire and live out the rest of her days quietly. But Hornclaw
is not like other people. She is an assassin.
Double-crossers, corporate enemies, cheating spouses—for the past four decades, Hornclaw has killed
them all with ruthless efficiency, and the less she's known about her targets, the better. But now,
nearing the end of her career, she has just slipped up. An injury leads her to an unexpected connection
with a doctor and his family. But emotions, for an assassin, are a dangerous proposition. As Hornclaw's
world closes in, this final chapter in her career may also mark her own bloody end.
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A sensation in South Korea, and now translated into English for the first time by Chi-Young Kim, The Old
Woman with the Knife is an electrifying, singular, mordantly funny novel about the expectations imposed
on aging bodies and the dramatic ways in which one woman chooses to reclaim her agency.
Dead Wind by Tessa Wegert
240 pages. March 2022.
Senior Investigator Shana Merchant must dredge up dark secrets and old grudges if
she's to solve the murder of a prominent local citizen in the Thousand Islands
community she now calls home.
"Louise Penny meets Ruth Ware in this small town mystery that bubbles with secrets
and intrigue" -Charlie Donlea, internationally bestselling author of Twenty Years Later.
The body is discovered on Wolfe Island, under the shadow of an enormous wind turbine. Senior
Investigator Shana Merchant, arriving on the scene with fellow investigator Tim Wellington, can't shake
the feeling that she knows the victim - and the subsequent identification sends shockwaves through
their community in the Thousand Islands of Upstate New York.
Politics, power, passion . . . there are dark undercurrents in Shana's new home, and finding the killer
means dredging up her new friends and neighbors' old grudges and long-kept secrets.
That is, if the killer is from the community at all. For Shana's keeping a terrible secret of her own:
eighteen months ago she escaped from serial killer Blake Bram's clutches. But has he followed her . . . to
kill again?
The Shana Merchant novels are a brilliant blend of chilling psychological thriller and gripping police
procedural, set in an atmospheric island community with a small-town vibe.
Family Business by S.J. Rozan
352 pages. December 2021.
The death of a powerful Chinatown crime boss thrusts private eye Lydia Chin and her
partner Bill Smith into a world of double-dealing, subterfuge, murder, and—because this
is New York City—real estate in this new mystery by Edgar Award-winning novelist S. J.
Rozan.
Choi has left the Tong headquarters building to his niece, who hires Lydia and her
partner, Bill Smith, to accompany her to inspect it. The building is at the center of a tug-of-war between
Chinatown preservation interests—including Lydia's brother Tim—and a real estate developer who's
desperate to get his hands on it.
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When Lydia, Bill, and Choi's niece go to the building, they discover the Tong members are equally
divided on the question of whether the niece should hold onto the building or sell it—and make them
rich. Entering Choi's private living quarters, they find the murdered body of Choi's chief lieutenant.
The battle for the building has begun. Can Lydia and Bill escape being caught in the crossfire?
The Shanghai Moon by S.J. Rozan
384 pages. 2010.
With The Shanghai Moon, S. J. Rozan returns to her award-winning, critically
acclaimed, and much-loved characters Lydia Chin and Bill Smith in the first new novel
in the series in seven years.
Estranged for months from fellow P.I. Bill Smith, Chinese-American private
investigator Lydia Chin is brought in by colleague and former mentor Joel Pilarsky to
help with a case that crosses continents, cultures, and decades.
In Shanghai, excavation has unearthed a cache of European jewelry dating back to World War II, when
Shanghai was an open city providing safe haven for thousands of Jewish refugees. The jewelry, identified
as having belonged to one such refugee - Rosalie Gilder - was immediately stolen by a Chinese official
who fled to New York City. Hired by a lawyer specializing in the recovery of Holocaust assets, Chin and
Pilarsky are to find any and all leads to the missing jewels.
However, Lydia soon learns that there is much more to the story than they've been told: The Shanghai
Moon, one of the world's most sought after missing jewels, reputed to be worth millions, is believed to
have been part of the same stash. Before Lydia can act on this new information, Joel Pilarsky is
murdered, Lydia is fired from the case, and Bill Smith finally reappears on the scene. Now Lydia and Bill
must unravel the truth about the Shanghai Moon and the events that surrounded its disappearance sixty
years ago during the chaos of war and revolution, if they are to stop more killings and uncover the truth
of what is going on today.
Reptile Memoirs by Silje Ulstein
400 pages. March 2022.
A bestselling Norwegian debut already sold in thirteen territories, Reptile Memoirs is a
brilliantly twisty and unusual literary thriller for fans of Gillian Flynn, Jo Nesbø, Kate Atkinson,
and Tana French, asking the question: Can you ever really shed your skin?
Liv has a lot of secrets. For her, home is the picturesque town of Ålesund, perched on a
fjord in western Norway. One night, in the early-morning embers of a great party in the basement
apartment she shares with two friends, Liv is watching TV, high on weed, and sees a python on an
Australian nature show. She becomes obsessed with the idea of buying a snake as a pet. Soon Nero, the
baby Burmese python, becomes the apartment's fourth roommate. As Liv bonds with Nero, she feels
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extremely protective, like a caring mother, and she is struck by a desire that surprises her with its
intensity. Finally, she is safe.
Thirteen years later, in the nearby town of Kristiansund, Mariam Lind goes on a shopping trip with her
eleven-year-old daughter, Iben, who angers her mother by asking for a magazine one too many times.
Mariam storms off, leaving Iben in the shop and, expecting her young daughter to find her own way
home, heads off on a long calming drive. When she returns home in the evening, her husband is relieved
to see her but terrified that Iben isn't also there. Detective Roe Olsvik is assigned to the case of Iben's
disappearance; he has just turned sixty and is new to the Kristiansund police department. As he
interrogates Mariam, he instantly suspects her—but there is much more to this case and these
characters than their outer appearances would suggest.
A biting and constantly shifting tale of family secrets, rebirth, and the legacy of trauma, Reptile
Memoirs is a brilliant exploration of the cold-bloodedness of humanity, and the struggle to mend broken
lives and families.
The Bucharest Dossier by William Maz
336 pages. March 2022.
Chanticleer International Book Awards 2020 Grand Prize Winner in Global Thrillers
Bill Hefflin is a man apart—apart from life, apart from his homeland, apart from love
At the start of the 1989 uprising in Romania, CIA analyst Bill Hefflin—a disillusioned
Romanian expat—arrives in Bucharest at the insistence of his KGB asset, code-named Boris. As Hefflin
becomes embroiled in an uprising that turns into a brutal revolution, nothing is as it seems, including the
search for his childhood love, which has taken on mythical proportions.
With the bloody events unfolding at blinding speed, Hefflin realizes the revolution is manipulated by
outside forces, including his own CIA and Boris—the puppeteer who seems to be pulling all the strings of
Hefflin’s life.
Think The Bourne Identity Meets John le Carre’s The Spy Who Came In from the Cold.
Secret Identity by Alex Segura
368 pages. March 2022.
From Anthony Award-winning writer Alex Segura comes Secret Identity, a rollicking
literary mystery set in the world of comic books.
It’s 1975 and the comic book industry is struggling, but Carmen Valdez doesn’t care.
She’s an assistant at Triumph Comics, which doesn’t have the creative zeal of Marvel
nor the buttoned-up efficiency of DC, but it doesn’t matter. Carmen is tantalizingly close to fulfilling her
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dream of writing a superhero book.
That dream is nearly a reality when one of the Triumph writers enlists her help to create a new
character, which they call “The Lethal Lynx,” Triumph's first female hero. But her colleague is acting
strangely and asking to keep her involvement a secret. And then he’s found dead, with all of their scripts
turned into the publisher without her name. Carmen is desperate to piece together what happened to
him, to hang on to her piece of the Lynx, which turns out to be a runaway hit. But that’s complicated by
a surprise visitor from her home in Miami, a tenacious cop who is piecing everything together too
quickly for Carmen, and the tangled web of secrets and resentments among the passionate eccentrics
who write comics for a living.
Alex Segura uses his expertise as a comics creator as well as his unabashed love of noir fiction to create a
truly one-of-a-kind novel--hard-edged and bright-eyed, gritty and dangerous, and utterly absorbing.
The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes: A Mystery (The Daughter
of Sherlock Holmes Mysteries, 1)
By Leonard Goldberg
2017 RT Reviewers' Choice―Best Historical Mystery
From USA Today and internationally bestselling author Leonard Goldberg comes The
Daughter of Sherlock Holmes, a new thrilling tale of the great detective’s daughter and her companion
Dr. John Watson, Jr. as they investigate a murder at the highest levels of British society.
1914. Joanna Blalock’s keen mind and incredible insight lead her to become a highly-skilled nurse, one of
the few professions that allow her to use her finely-tuned brain. But when she and her ten-year-old son
witness a man fall to his death, apparently by suicide, they are visited by the elderly Dr. John Watson
and his charming, handsome son, Dr. John Watson Jr. Impressed by her forensic skills, they invite her to
become the third member of their investigative team.
Caught up in a Holmesian mystery that spans from hidden treasure to the Second Afghan War of 1878-
1880, Joanna and her companions must devise an ingenious plan to catch a murderer in the act while
dodging familiar culprits, Scotland Yard, and members of the British aristocracy. Unbeknownst to her,
Joanna harbors a mystery of her own. The product of a one-time assignation between the now dead
Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler, the only woman to ever outwit the famous detective, Joanna has
unwittingly inherited her parents’ deductive genius.
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The Blue Diamond: A Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mystery
(The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mysteries, #6) by Leonard
Goldberg
336 pages. June 2022.
The fate of the allied forces lies in the hands of Joanna and the Watsons in the next
Daughter of Sherlock Holmes mystery from USA Today bestselling author Leonard
Goldberg.
During a critical stage in World War One, the Governor-General of South Africa journeys to London for a
meeting of The Imperial War Conference. Days prior to the conference, the Governor-General is
scheduled to have an audience at Buckingham Palace at which time a most precious blue diamond will
be presented to King Edward as a symbolic gesture of the colonies’ resolute and never-ending allegiance
to England.
The flawless blue diamond, with its magnificent luster, weighs nearly 3000 carats which renders it one of
the world’s largest and most valuable gems. On the Governor-General’s arrival, he is ensconced at the
fashionable Windsor Hotel under the tightest security, with his entire entourage and formidable security
team occupying the entire penthouse floor. All entrances and exits are locked down and closely
guarded, and no one is allowed entrance after 6 PM.
Despite the extreme precautions, the famous diamond is stolen from the Governor-General’s suite in
the middle of the night, with no clues left behind. With Scotland Yard baffled, Joanna and the Watsons
are called in to investigate the theft and it becomes clear that the crime is not simply the work of a
master thief, but one that could greatly aid the Germans and turn the tide of war in their favor. Time is
of the essence and the blue diamond must be recovered before it begins its travels which could cause
irreparable damage to the allied war plans.
Watch Her by Edwin Hill
368 pages. 2020.
In the third intelligently dark suspense novel by two-time Agatha Award-nominated
author Edwin Hill, Harvard librarian Hester Thursby becomes enmeshed with a powerful
Boston family desperate to keep their deepest secrets from coming to light...
"Complex...a masterly mystery." --Kirkus Reviews
Fans of Ruth Ware and B.A. Paris won't want to miss this complex psychological thriller from an
acclaimed author about a powerful Boston family desperate to keep their darkest secrets from coming to
light.
While attending a gala at Prescott University's lavish new campus, Hester Thursby and fellow guest,
Detective Angela White, are called to the home of the college's owners, Tucker and Jennifer Matson.
Jennifer claims that someone broke into Pinebank, their secluded mansion on the banks of Jamaica
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Pond. The more Hester and Angela investigate, the less they believe Jennifer's story, leaving Hester to
wonder why she would lie.
When Hester is asked by the college's general manager to locate some missing alumni, she employs her
research skills on the family and their for-profit university. Between financial transgressions, a long-ago
tragedy, and rumors of infidelity, it's clear that the Matsons aren't immune to scandal or mishap. But when
one of the missing students turns up dead, the mystery takes on new urgency.
Hester is edging closer to the truth, but as a decades-old secret collides with new lies, a killer grows more
determined to keep the past buried with the dead. . . .
Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara
312 pages. 2021.
A New York Times Best Mystery Novel of 2021
Set in 1944 Chicago, Edgar Award-winner Naomi Hirahara’s eye-opening and poignant
new mystery, the story of a young woman searching for the truth about her revered
older sister's death, brings to focus the struggles of one Japanese American family
released from mass incarceration at Manzanar during World War II.
Chicago, 1944: Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, where
they have been detained by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, together with
thousands of other Japanese Americans. The life in California the Itos were forced to leave behind is
gone; instead, they are being resettled two thousand miles away in Chicago, where Aki’s older sister,
Rose, was sent months earlier and moved to the new Japanese American neighborhood near Clark and
Division streets. But on the eve of the Ito family’s reunion, Rose is killed by a subway train.
Aki, who worshipped her sister, is stunned. Officials are ruling Rose’s death a suicide. Aki cannot believe
her perfect, polished, and optimistic sister would end her life. Her instinct tells her there is much more to
the story, and she knows she is the only person who could ever learn the truth.
Inspired by historical events, Clark and Division infuses an atmospheric and heartbreakingly real crime
with rich period details and delicately wrought personal stories Naomi Hirahara has gleaned from thirty
years of research and archival work in Japanese American history.
Death at Greenway by Lori Rader-Day
448 pages. October 2021.
From the award-winning author of The Day I Died and The Lucky One, a captivating
suspense novel about nurses during World War II who come to Agatha Christie’s holiday
estate to care for evacuated children, but when a body is discovered nearby, the idyllic
setting becomes host to a deadly mystery.
Bridey Kelly has come to Greenway House—the beloved holiday home of Agatha Christie—in disgrace. A
terrible mistake at St. Prisca’s Hospital in London has led to her dismissal as a nurse trainee, and her
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only chance for redemption is a position in the countryside caring for children evacuated to safety from
the Blitz.
Greenway is a beautiful home full of riddles: wondrous curios not to be touched, restrictions on rooms not
to be entered, and a generous library, filled with books about murder. The biggest mystery might be the
other nurse, Gigi, who is like no one Bridey has ever met. Chasing ten young children through the winding
paths of the estate grounds might have soothed Bridey’s anxieties and grief—if Greenway were not
situated so near the English Channel and the rising aggressions of the war.
When a body washes ashore near the estate, Bridey is horrified to realize this is not a victim of war, but of
a brutal killing. As the local villagers look among themselves, Bridey and Gigi discover they each harbor
dangerous secrets about what has led them to Greenway. With a mystery writer’s home as their
unsettling backdrop, the young women must unravel the truth before their safe haven becomes a place of
death….
Who Is Maud Dixon? By Alexandra Andrews
336 pages. March 2021.
“Part Patricia Highsmith, part All About Eve and pure fun.”―Maria Semple
Florence Darrow has always felt she was destined for greatness, but after a disastrous
affair with her married boss, she starts to doubt herself. All that changes when she sets
off for Morocco with her new boss, the celebrated but reclusive author Maud
Dixon. Amidst the colorful streets of Marrakesh and the wind-swept beaches of the
coast, Florence begins to feel she’s leading the sort of interesting, cosmopolitan life she deserves.
But when she wakes up in the hospital after a terrible car accident, with no memory of the previous
night—and no sign of Maud—a dangerous idea begins to take form. . .
A Best Book of the Year: New York Times, NPR, New York Post, Entertainment Weekly, CrimeReads
We Begin at the End by Christ Whitaker
384 pages. March 2021.
Winner of the Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel from the Crime Writers’ Association
(UK)
Winner for Best International Crime Fiction from Australian Crime Writers Association
An Instant New York Times Bestseller
Right. Wrong. Life is lived somewhere in between.
Duchess Day Radley is a thirteen-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Rules are for other people. She is the
fierce protector of her five-year-old brother, Robin, and the parent to her mother, Star, a single mom
incapable of taking care of herself, let alone her two kids.
Walk has never left the coastal California town where he and Star grew up. He may have become the
chief of police, but he’s still trying to heal the old wound of having given the testimony that sent his best
friend, Vincent King, to prison decades before. And he's in overdrive protecting Duchess and her brother.
Now, thirty years later, Vincent is being released. And Duchess and Walk must face the trouble that
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comes with his return. We Begin at the End is an extraordinary novel about two kinds of families―the
ones we are born into and the ones we create.
How Lucky: A Novel by Will Leitch
304 pages. May 2021.
2022 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel
For readers of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Nothing to See
Here, a first novel as suspenseful and funny as it is moving, the unforgettable story of a
fiercely resilient young man living with a physical disability, and his efforts to solve a
mystery unfolding right outside his door.
Daniel leads a rich life in the university town of Athens, Georgia. He’s got a couple close friends, a steady
paycheck working for a regional airline, and of course, for a few glorious days each Fall, college football
tailgates. He considers himself to be a mostly lucky guy—despite the fact that he’s suffered from
a debilitating disease since he was a small child, one that has left him unable to speak or to move without
a wheelchair.
Largely confined to his home, Daniel spends the hours he’s not online communicating with irate air
travelers observing his neighborhood from his front porch. One young woman passes by so frequently
that spotting her out the window has almost become part of his daily routine. Until the day he’s almost
sure he sees her being kidnapped...
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My Choices for L&C Library Mystery Book Group reads for September
2022-May 2023 (we skip November)
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