New Fiction

Loads of New Fiction. I spaced out on how behind we were on getting new adult fiction so I ended up ordering 42 new books. Here are some of them.

Mysteries

Deeper Sleep: A Kate Shugak Novel by Dana Stabenow. The latest in Stabenow's Alaskan P.I. novels.

By the Time You Read This by Giles Blunt. Detectives in the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit try to find a girl whose sex photos are getting posted across the internet by pedophiles.

Stalking Ivory by Suzanne Arruda. Jade de Cameron has to come to Africa to escape the horrid memories of the Great War. Working as a photographer to document an elephant herd, Jade and her two colleagues find the remains of four poached elephants and one man.

Fiction

Canaan by Donald McCaig. A novel set after the Civil War and covering the Reconstruction South and the Indian Wars of the West.

Paula Spencer by Roddy Doyle. A sequel, of sorts, to The Woman Who Walked Into Walls. Dubliner Paula is now 47, her husband dead, and living sober for four months and counting.

Betrayers by James Patrick Hunt. Two deputies in St. Louis are machine gunned to death in their squad car. The investigating officers find that the meth dealer one of the deputies had previously busted held a grudge.

Magic City by James W. Hall. Hall is one of several crime novelists that have made Southern Florida the most popular setting for that genre. Magic is supposed to be Hall's best novel yet. When a photo showing the ringside seats of the 196 Cassius Clay vs. Sonny Liston fight is displayed on the wall of a newly opened restaurant, the place is burned down. A string of murders follows and when Thorn ends up with the last remaining copy of the photo, he also holds the evidence of a long-ago crime that someone is killing to hide.

Dry Ice by Stephen White. Psychotic murderer Michale McClelland has been released from a mental asylum and is after Doctor Alan Gregory.

Perfect Fake by Barbara Parker. Tom Fairchild is out on parole for forgery. Struggling to make a living, Tom gets an offer to travel to Italy to make a reproduction of a 500 year old map. Discovering that his benefactor wants a forgery not a reproduction, Tom finds his own life in danger.

Breakpoint by Richard A. Clarke. A terrorism thriller.

Gods of Newport by John Jakes. "Epic tale of scandalous doings in New England's most famous resort."

Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier. Author of Girl With A Pearl Earring. Poet William Blake's new neighbors inspire his greatest work in 1792 England.

Alibi Man by Tami Hoag. I don't know a thing about Hoag but her thrillers are quite popular. Elena Estes turned her back on Palm Beach society and became a police officer. After resigning her position in disgrace Elena is further ostracized. When one of Elena's friends is murdered, Elena's personal investigation brings her back in contact with the Palm Beach elites she rejected.

Edge of Winter by Luanne Rice. Mother Neve and daughter Mickey have lived along Rhode Island's coast since Mickey was a toddler. As Mickey's teen years distance her from her mother, Neve tries to reconnect with her distant father.