HPL Adult Summer Reading

Devil Bones By Reichs, Kathy 2008-08 - Scribner Book Company 9780743294386 Check Our Catalog Reichs--#1 bestselling author, forensic anthropologist, and producer of the television hit "Bones"--returns to Charlotte, North Carolina, in her 11th riveting novel in which Temperance Brennan encounters a deadly mix of voodoo and devil worship. …More

Fatal Voyage By Reichs, Kathy 2001-07 - Scribner Book Company 9780743222815 Check Our Catalog When a commercial airliner crashes in the North Carolina mountains, forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan joins the investigative agency DMORT. As bomb theories abound, Tempe finds disturbing evidence that raises dangerous questions--and gets her thrown off the case. Relentless for the truth, Tempe uncovers a conspiracy that threatens her career--and jeopardizes her life. (July) …More

Flash and Bones By Reichs, Kathy 2011-08 - Scribner Book Company 9781439102411 Check Our Catalog #1 "New York Times" bestseller Reichs is back with her 14th novel featuring America's favorite forensic anthropologist, Tempe Brennan. …More

Grave Secrets By Reichs, Kathy 2003-07 - Pocket Star 9780671028381 Check Our Catalog Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan assists in the excavation of 20-year-old mass grave of massacre victims in a Guatemalan village. Now as she pieces together the past, Tempe becomes entangled in the cases of four privileged young women who suddenly vanish from Guatemala City. …More

Monday Mourning By Reichs, Kathy 2004-06 - Scribner Book Company 9780743262644 Check Our Catalog A New York Times Bestselling Author Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist, has come to Montreal to testify as an expert witness at a murder trial. She should be going over her notes, but instead she's in the basement of a pizza parlor investigating the skeletonized remains of three young women. Thought by homicide detective Luc Claudel to be historic, Tempe's examination proves them to be …More

Spider Bones By Reichs, Kathy 2010-08 - Scribner Book Company 9781439102398 Check Our Catalog "New York Times-"bestselling author Reichs is back with her 13th novel featuring America's favorite forensic anthropologist, Tempe Brennan. …More

Bloody Mary's Martyrs By Ridley, Jasper 2002-06 - Basic Books 9780786709861 Check Our Catalog Award-winning historical biographer Ridley explores the dark years of Mary Tudor's reign using an absorbing narrative and meticulously researched history to relate a tragic, brutal, and often inspiring tale. …More

Golden Prey By Sandford, John 2017-04 - G.P. Putnam's Sons 9780399184574 Check Our Catalog Lucas Davenport's first case as a U.S. Marshal sends him into uncharted territory in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. The man was smart and he didn't mind killing people. Welcome to the big leagues, Davenport. Thanks to some very influential people whose lives he saved, Lucas is no longer working for the Minnesota …More

Party Girls Die in Pearls By Sykes, Plum 2017-05 - Harper 9780062429025 Check Our Catalog "A rollicking murder mystery. . . . a wildly entertaining romp. . . . Laugh? I died."--Vogue The New York Times bestselling author of Bergdorf Blondes takes us back to the decadent 1980s in this comic murder mystery set in the tony world of Oxford University. It's 1985, and at Oxford University, Pimm's, punting, and ball gowns are …More

Murder Between the Lines By Vatsal, Radha 2017-05 - Sourcebooks Landmark 9781492638926 Check Our Catalog "I really and truly could not put it down... Vatsal succeeds once again "--Susan Elia MacNeal, New York Times-bestselling author of the Maggie Hope series For fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Rhys Bowen, Murder Between the Lines combines true historical events with a thrilling mystery. "Vatsal's combination of a feisty protagonist with a tumultuous, fast-changing …More

Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli in His World By Benner, Erica 2017-05 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393609721 Check Our Catalog Since the publication of The Prince five centuries ago, Machiavelli has been associated with political amorality. But that characterization is unfair. In Be Like the Fox, Erica Benner sets the record straight: far from the ruthless "Machiavellian" henchman that people think he was, Machiavelli emerges here as a profound ethical thinker who fought to uphold high moral standards …More

Rush of Blood By Billingham, Mark 2017-02 - Atlantic Monthly Press 9780802125910 Check Our Catalog Perfect strangers. A perfect holiday. The perfect murder. In the standalone novel Rush of Blood, internationally bestselling author Mark Billingham puts a sinister twist on a deceptively innocent topic: the beach vacation. Three British couples meet around the pool on their Florida holiday and become fast friends. But on Easter Sunday, the last day of their vacation, tragedy …More

Murder in Saint-Germain By Black, Cara 2017-06 - Soho Crime 9781616957704 Check Our Catalog Paris, July 1999: Private investigator Aimee Leduc is walking through Saint-Germain when she is accosted by Suzanne Lesage, a Brigade Criminelle agent on an elite counterterrorism squad. Suzanne has just returned from the former Yugoslavia, where she was hunting down dangerous war criminals for the Hague. Back in Paris, Suzanne is convinced she's being stalked by a ghost--a Serbian warlord her …More

A Most Suitable Duchess By Bray, Patricia Narrated by Cox, Kirsty 2017-05 - Dreamscape Media 9781520072395 Check Our Catalog The new Duke of Torringford must take a wife in three weeks or lose the country estate he's unexpectedly inherited. His brother suggests an advertisement in the papers, but the Duke refuses to consider it-until a wine-fueled evening when he pens one in jest. Now with the ad printed, the Duke is mortified-but that's when the lovely Miss Penelope Hastings enters his life. Her half-brother, without …More

Night School By Child, Lee 2016-11 - Delacorte Press 9780804178808 Check Our Catalog #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The incomparable hero of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back takes readers to school in his most explosive novel yet. After eleven straight global #1 bestsellers, discover the thrillers that The New York Times calls "utterly addictive." It's 1996, and Reacher is still in the army. In the morning they give him a medal, and in the afternoon …More

Sinful Seduction By Christopher, Ann 2012-01 - Kimani Press 9780373862450 Check Our Catalog Skylar Lawrence isn't looking for romance when she arrives at the Davies' sumptuous Hamptons estate. Yet when she meets sinfully handsome Alessandro Davies, an unexpected bequest turns into a night of fiery passion. Original. …More

Sinful Temptation By Christopher, Ann 2012-02 - Kimani Press 9780373862498 Check Our Catalog Antonios Davies has come home to take his place as head of his family's glittering New York auction house. But the returning soldier is haunted by memories of war . . . and by Talia Adams, the woman who once consumed his dreams. Original. …More

The Surgeon's Secret Baby By Christopher, Ann 2011-08 - Kimani Press 9780373862252 Check Our Catalog Aretha Taylor needs Thomas Bradshaw like she's never needed anyone before. The hunky head of surgery at Hopewell General is the only one who can save her young son. Falling for the seductive surgeon is a prescription for trouble. But Thomas can't give Aretha up, either. Original. …More

The Outsider By Delinsky, Barbara 2017-05 - Severn House Publishers 9780727886903 Check Our Catalog Cameron Divine--The roguish research scientist came from light-years away on a mission. A flesh-and-blood woman changed everything. Summer Van Vorn--A simple folk healer. Sexy, vulnerable, she'd been waiting all her life for the right man to come along. Could that man be Cameron? Strangely, he was so much in sync with Summer... almost able to read her mind. And in bed, he …More

Last Bus to Wisdom By Doig, Ivan 2015-08 - Riverhead Books 9781594632020 Check Our Catalog The final novel from a great American storyteller. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Ivan Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an 11-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for "female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal …More

Hornet Flight By Follett, Ken 2007-12 - New American Library 9780451222299 Check Our Catalog Ken Follett and the intrigue of World War II-"a winning formula" ("Entertainment Weekly") if ever there was one. With his riveting prose and unerring instinct for suspense, the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author takes to the skies over Europe, where a young Danish man-equipped with only an old derelict Hornet Moth biplane at his disposal-will change the course of the …More

Camino Island By Grisham, John 2017-06 - Doubleday Books 9780385543026 Check Our Catalog A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University's Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars. Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few …More

On Second Thought By Higgins, Kristan 2017-01 - Harlequin Books 9780373803972 Check Our Catalog HPL patron: Very enjoyable book. Nice conclusion. …More

Come Lie with Me By Howard, Linda 2016-10 - Severn House Publishers 9780727886316 Check Our Catalog Blake Remington lives life to the fullest. So when a terrible accident robs him of his ability to walk, it also takes away all of his desire to live. Dione Kelly, a physical therapist, takes on his case and begins to heal this broken man and help him realize there is so much more to gain from living. While forcing Blake to face his inner demons, Dione begins to face her own fears.