Adult & Contemporary Fiction

From internationally bestselling author Val McDermid comes a propulsive new Karen Pirie thriller that delves into a historic missing persons case, fake identities, and art forgery   DCI Karen Pirie, who finds herself investigating the shadowy world of...

When a young woman vanishes from an exclusive oceanfront community in the middle of the night, Detective Casey Wray’s takes on a case that leads her in chilling, unexpected directions … A twisty, breath-taking police procedural. First in a heart-pounding...

Ballard and Bosch return in another compelling police procedural, as New Year's revelry turns fatal when an auto shop owner is murdered during a chaotic street party.   Has a killer lain dormant for years only to strike again on New Year's Eve? LAPD...

Urban fantasy meets high fantasy, with all the witty dialogue and slow-burn romance we've come to expect from Sarah J. Maas. Bryce and Hunt are back! They may have saved the city, but they are once again pulled into the fight. And, in a world on the...

Sarah J. Maas is the queen of writing faerie fantasy, and House of Earth and Blood is no exception. When half-Fae Bryce Quinlan’s best friend is brutally murdered by an unknown demon, she will stop at nothing until she gets revenge. Add a...

The first of the Grantchester Mysteries, and inspiration for the PBS/Masterpiece television series, finds Vicar Sidney Chambers beginning his career, as both a spiritual leader and a detective.It is 1953, the coronation year of Queen Elizabeth II ...

Captain Sam Wyndham and his sidekick Surrender-Not Banerjee return in this prize-winning historical crime series set in 1920s Calcutta.India, 1921. Haunted by his memories of World War I, Captain Sam Wyndham is battling a serious addiction to opium that...

Riches to rags ... Chaos might be slowing ... Only a new murder occurs ... Sending her off the trail again ...   It's been a tough few weeks since Robin and Mathew, Doreen's ex-lawyer and her ex-husband, slid back into her life.   Okay, so maybe Robin...

(Available after 3-20 days)BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR...A Westwick Witches Cozy Paranormal MysteryDead billionaires are not good for business! That's what Aunt Pearl complains to Cen when a dead body is found in the cozy family inn at Westwick Corners...

Reacher never backs down from a problem. And he's about to find a big one, on a deserted Arizona road, where a Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. Under the merciless desert sun, nothing is as it seems. Minutes later Reacher is heading...

(Available after 3-20 days)From the bestselling author of The Things We Cannot Say comes a poignant novel about the fault in memories and the lies that can bond a family together—or tear it apart.With her father recently moved to a care facility for his...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love Your Life comes a humorous and heartwarming novel about family and finding a second chance at love, set against the backdrop of the most fabulous party you’ve ever snuck into...

A stunning standalone thriller from the Queen of Iceland Noir.***Shortlisted for the Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel***‘Tough, uncompromising and unsettling’ -- Val McDermidWhen aid worker Úrsula returns to Iceland for a new job, she’s drawn...

Morgan shudders as she leans out of the window and takes in the familiar blonde curls and clear blue eyes of the fallen girl below. She knows this woman, and she realises with sickening certainty that her friend is now gone forever... When Detective...

A novel of the emotional intricacies of trauma and exile, from the author of international bestselling RuFinalist of the New Academy Prize in LiteratureFinalist Scotiabank Giller PrizeWinner du Prix du Gran Public au salon du livre de MontrealWinner of...

“Masterfully written and pitch perfect, Black Girls Must Be Magic is, simply, magic.”—Good Morning America   In this highly anticipated second installment in the Black Girls Must Die Exhausted series, Tabitha Walker copes with more of life’s challenges...

The heartwarming and hilarious new novel by the author of cherished bestsellers, The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village and The Great Escape from Woodlands Nursing HomeThe Marjorie Marshall Memorial Cafeteria has been serving refreshments and...

What is lost when knowledge is withheld?In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who work in the bindery at Oxford...

(Available after July 30th, 2023)From international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Holly Ringland, comes a haunting and magical novel about joy, grief, courage, and transformation.'On the afternoon that Esther Wilding drove...

A girl. An iguana. An island. And e-mail. Meet Nim–a modern-day Robinson Crusoe! She can chop down bananas with a machete, climb tall palm trees, and start a fire with a piece of glass. So she’s not afraid when her scientist dad sails off to study...