THOUGHTS ON THIS 'n THAT

  From debut author Elaine Roth comes a hopeful and heartfelt story about a young widow who uncovers the magic of everyday life - THEMIDNIGHT GARDEN (LakeUnionPublishing) is the power of second chances.  After the sudden death of her husband, Hope finds herself reeling from the loss in more ways than one. First a young wife and now a grieving widow, she feels like fodder for never-ending town gossip. But when Hope meets Will, a screenwriter back in town to run his family’s inn, she sees in him another resident oddball. And like her, Will has been navigating a loss of his own. As Hope falls for Will, she seeks out another enigma in Maeve, an eccentric woman who makes healing teas and communes with the dead. Some of the townspeople think she’s a grifter, a fake. Will, too, is skeptical. Hope yearns for closure and forgiveness, seeing in Maeve the chance to trust herself again―and in Will, a chance to rediscover the enchantment in the world around her… And the courage to build a ...

  A complex and timely mystery,  Blood Betrayal  proves once again that Ausma Zehanat Khan is a writer at the peak of her powers. In Blackwater Falls, Colorado, veteran police officer Harry Cooper is hot on the heels of some local vandals when the situation turns deadly: believing one of them has a gun, Harry opens fire and Duante Reed, a young Black man, is killed. The "gun" in his hands was a bottle of spray paint. Meanwhile, in nearby Denver, a drug raid goes south and a Latino teen, Mateo Ruiz, is also killed. Detective Inaya Rahman is all too familiar with the name of the young cop who has seemingly killed Mateo: Kelly Broda. Kelly is the son of the police officer John Broda, who led a violent attack on her when they were both in Denver. No one is more surprised than Inaya when John turns up on her doorstep, pleading for her help in proving the innocence of his son. With the Denver Police force spread thin between the two cases, protests on both sides of the cases be...

  From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas comes a new dark romance. series, The Devil's Night. Book number one: Corrupt. Erika I was told that dreams were our heart’s desires. My nightmares, however, became my obsession. His name is Michael Crist. My boyfriend’s older brother is like that scary movie that you peek through your hand to watch. He's handsome, strong, and completely terrifying. The star of his college’s basketball team and now gone pro, he’s more concerned with the dirt on his shoe than me.  But I noticed him. I saw him. I heard him. The things that he did, and the deeds that he hid…For years, I bit my nails, unable to look away. Now, I’ve graduated high school and moved on to college, but I haven’t stopped watching Michael. He’s bad, and the dirt I’ve seen isn’t content to stay in my head anymore. Because he’s finally noticed me. Michael Her name is Erika Fane, but everyone calls her Rika. My brother’s girlfriend grew up hanging around my house an...

  In bestselling author, Tess Gerritsen's new novel, THE SPY COAST  (Thomas&Mercer), Maggie Bird has left her spying days behind and is enjoying a quiet retirement as a chicken farmer in a small town on the coast of Maine. But when an agent turns up at her door with a warning that there’s been an agency breach regarding her mission from sixteen years ago, Maggie realizes she and her former colleagues may be in danger, and their grey hair and advanced ages are no longer a protective disguise. When the agent turns up murdered in her driveway, she gets the message, and turns to her local circle of old friends—all retirees from the CIA—to help uncover the truth about who is trying to kill her, and why. Complicating their efforts is Purity’s novice police chief, Jo Thibodeau, who’s perplexed by this eccentric group of senior citizens who seem to know much more than they’re sharing with the authorities.  Maggie’s hunt for answers will force her to revisit a clandestine care...

  One girl murdered...another one missing...and a medical examiner desperate to uncover the truth in  When I'm Dead (Minotaur) , the latest Black Harbor mystery by acclaimed author Hannah Morrissey. On a bone-chilling October night, Medical Examiner Rowan Winthorp investigates the death of her daughter’s best friend. Hours later, the tragedy hits even closer to home when she makes a devastating discovery—her daughter, Chloe, is gone. But, not without a trace. A morbid mosaic of clues forces Rowan and her husband to question how deeply they really knew their daughter. As they work closely to peel back the layers of this case, they begin to unearth disturbing details about Chloe and her secret transgressions…details that threaten to tear them apart. Amidst the noise of navigating her newfound grief and reconciling the sins of her past, an undeniable fact rings true for Rowan: karma has finally come to collect. Hannah Morrissey is the author of the BlHello, Transcriber, The Widow...

  Just in time for Halloween, THE SPIDER (Knopf), A Killer Instinct Novel by the duo, Lars Kepler. THE SPIDER is the ninth book in the series, but you can read these novels out of order. But it'd be great if you could make time to read them sequentially. Reading one of these Scandinavian serial killer novels puts fear into the person reading. But I love reading this genre. THE SPIDER kept me up reading knowing it was going to scare the heck out of me, but I was hooked and wanted to find out what happened next. Three years ago, Detective Saga Bauer received a postcard saying her partner, Joona Linna is going to be killed. It describes the gun and nine white bullets, one for Joona. Time passes and the threat is forgotten until dead bodies begin showing up hanging and dissolving in bags. The killer begins leaving clues for the next murder, but the police are always a step behind. THE SPIDER is a terrifying non-stop roller coaster. The twists and turns create an intricate web into the ...

  Angela Terry's new novel THE PALACE AT DUSK (MinotaurBooks) explores the complexity of love in an illicit office romance Harvard-educated corporate attorney Jasmine “Jae” Phillips promised herself that she wouldn’t date anyone at the office. She’s too focused on the job, and her meh dating history can be summed up with a shrug. Then came Brad Summers.  When Jae’s colleague Brad enters her office—boyish and handsome with his tousled hair and sparkling green-gold eyes—and asks if she’d like to grab a drink, she’s flattered. Their conversation makes her feel alive, fascinating, and fun, and the lonely Jae can’t help but bask in Brad’s attention. Soon Jae is breaking her never-date-at-the-office rule. And when she later discovers that Brad has a wife and child, she finds herself breaking a much more serious rule.  After Jae spends years in love with a man who isn’t hers and jeopardizes her career in the process, a series of unexpected developments shake her awake and force ...