New Fiction at HPL

Breakfast in Bed By Alers, Rochelle 2017-08 - Dafina Books 9781496707321 Check Our Catalog Bestselling author Rochelle Alers welcomes readers back to romantic New Orleans in her warm and sexy series about four very different women embarking on a new adventure . . . Sometimes you go in search of a new beginning. Other times, it finds you. Tonya Martin enjoys her job as a professional chef for a Wall Street bank, her East Harlem walk-up, and the freedom to live and love …More

In the Midst of Winter By Allende, Isabel 2017-10 - Atria Books 9781501178139 Check Our Catalog New York Times and worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil. In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which …More

How the Finch Stole Christmas!: A Meg Langslow Mystery By Andrews, Donna 2017-10 - Minotaur Books 9781250115454 Check Our Catalog As in her previous Christmas mysteries, Six Geese a-Slaying, Duck the Halls, and The Nightingale Before Christmas, Andrews continues to write "firmly in the grand tradition of Agatha Christie's Christmas books" (Toronto Globe and Mail). New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews takes us home to Caerphilly for the holidays in her new hilarious …More

No Time to Explain By Angell, Kate 2017-09 - Kensington Publishing Corporation 9781496703682 Check Our Catalog Who says romance has gone to the dogs? Richmond Rogues' left-fielder Joe "Zoo" Zooker has his own ritual for the start of spring training--a weekend of pure pleasure, including as many pretty faces and curvaceous bodies as he can charm into his bed. After that, he's all about baseball, especially with hungry minor leaguers eager for their own …More

The Floating World By Babst, C. Morgan 2017-10 - Algonquin Books 9781616205287 Check Our Catalog A dazzling debut about family, home, and grief, The Floating World takes readers into the heart of Hurricane Katrina with the story of the Boisdores, whose roots stretch back nearly to the foundation of New Orleans. Though the storm is fast approaching the Louisiana coast, Cora, the family's fragile elder daughter, refuses to leave the city, forcing her parents, Joe Boisdore, an artist …More

The Witches' Tree: An Agatha Raisin Mystery By Beaton, M. C. 2017-10 - Minotaur Books 9781250057464 Check Our Catalog The Witches' Tree continues the tradition in M. C. Beaton's beloved Agatha Raisin mystery series--now a hit show on Acorn TV and public television. Cotswolds inhabitants are used to inclement weather, but the night sky is especially foggy as Rory and Molly Devere, the new vicar and his wife, drive slowly home from a dinner party in their village of Sumpton Harcourt. They strain to …More

The Trick By Bergmann, Emanuel 2017-09 - Atria Books 9781501155826 Check Our Catalog A deeply moving, humorous story of a boy who believes in everything and an old man who believes in nothing. In 1934, a rabbi's son in Prague joins a traveling circus, becomes a magician, and rises to fame under the stage name the Great Zabbatini just as Europe descends into World War II. When Zabbatini is discovered to be a Jew, his battered trunk full of magic tricks becomes his only hope of …More

The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 By Sandford, John 2017-10 - Mariner Books 9780544949089 Check Our Catalog "Fans of such notables as C.J. Box, Peter Straub, and Joyce Carol Oates chiefly known for their novels will be pleased to see how well they write at shorter length."--Publishers Weekly "Some people might tell you that crime short stories, unlike the more precious kind, are a kind of fictional ghetto, full of cardboard characters and cliched situations. Not true. These stories are …More

Misadventures of a Backup Bride By Black, Shayla 2017-10 - Waterhouse Press 9781943893423 Check Our Catalog An Overnight Billionaire... When Carson Frost inherits a confectionary that rakes in billions but is too cash-strapped to last another sixty days, he agrees to take a loan from his late father's rival. There are two catches: Carson has to sign over a permanent stake in the company, and marry the man's daughter. Concocts a Fake Bride... Two weeks before the wedding, he gets cold feet and …More

The Relive Box and Other Stories By Boyle, T. C. 2017-10 - Ecco Press 9780062673398 Check Our Catalog While T.C. Boyle is known as one of our greatest American novelists, he is also an acknowledged master of the short story and is perhaps at his funniest, his most moving, and his most surprising in the short form. In The Relive Box, Boyle's sharp wit and rich imagination combine with a penetrating social consciousness to produce raucous, poignant, and expansive short stories defined by an …More

A Whispered Name: A Father Anselm Thriller By Brodrick, William 2017-09 - Overlook Press 9781468311150 Check Our Catalog The Golden Dagger Award-winning installment of the Father Anselm thrillers, praised by Jeffery Deaver as "reminiscent of the early works of John le Carre," A Whispered Name reaches into the mysteries of one man's past and casts light on the long shadows war leaves behind. In the Larkwood Priory, secrets are rare. So Father Anselm is deeply dismayed by an allegation against …More

Death Overdue: A Haunted Library Mystery By Brook, Allison 2017-10 - Crooked Lane Books 9781683313861 Check Our Catalog Carrie Singleton is just about done with Clover Ridge, Connecticut until she's offered a job as the head of programs and events at the spooky local library, complete with its own librarian ghost. Her first major event is a program presented by a retired homicide detective, Al Buckley, who claims he knows who murdered Laura Foster, a much-loved part-time library aide who was bludgeoned to death …More

Origin By Brown, Dan 2017-10 - Doubleday Books 9780385514231 Check Our Catalog Whoever You Are. Whatever You Believe. Everything Is About To Change. The stunningly inventive new novel from the world's most popular thriller writer Bilbao, Spain Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend a …More

Origin By Brown, Dan 2017-10 - Doubleday Books 9780385514231 Check Our Catalog Whoever You Are. Whatever You Believe. Everything Is About To Change. The stunningly inventive new novel from the world's most popular thriller writer Bilbao, Spain Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend a …More

Crazy Like a Fox By Brown, Rita Mae 2017-10 - Ballantine Books 9780399178344 Check Our Catalog In this thrilling new foxhunting mystery from New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown, an investigation into a missing and valuable object flushes out murder, ghosts, and old family rivalries. Now "Sister" Jane Arnold and a pack of four-legged friends must catch the scent of a killer and unearth a long-buried truth. As the calendar turns, the crisp October winds bode …More

The Brewer of Preston By Camilleri, Andrea 2015-09 - Sterling Mystery Series 9781628996852 Check Our Catalog 1870s Sicily: Much to the displeasure of Vig ta's stubborn populace, the town has just been unified under the Kingdom of Italy. They're now in the hands of a new government they don't understand, and they definitely don't like." …More

The Vorrh By Catling, Brian 2015-04 - Vintage 9781101873786 Check Our Catalog Prepare to lose yourself in the heady, mythical expanse of The Vorrh, a daring debut that Alan Moore has called "a phosphorescent masterpiece" and "the current century's first landmark work of fantasy." Next to the colonial town of Essenwald sits the Vorrh, a vast--perhaps endless--forest. It is a place of demons and angels, of warriors and priests. Sentient and magical, the …More

The Stolen Marriage By Chamberlain, Diane 2017-10 - St. Martin's Press 9781250087270 Check Our Catalog Steeped in history and filled with heart-wrenching twists, The Stolen Marriage is an emotionally captivating novel of secrets, betrayals, prejudice, and forgiveness. It showcases Diane Chamberlain at the top of her talent. One mistake, one fateful night, and Tess DeMello's life is changed forever. It is 1944. Pregnant, alone, and riddled …More

Quarry's Climax By Collins, Max Allan 2017-10 - Hard Case Crime 9781785651809 Check Our Catalog There's Nothing More Dangerous Than a Loaded Magazine Memphis, 1975. "Raunchy" doesn't begin to describe Max Climer's magazine, Climax, or his all-hours strip club, or his planned video empire. And evangelists, feminists, and local watchdog groups all want him out of business. But someone wants more than that, and has hired a killer to end Max's career permanently. Only …More

Two Kinds of Truth By Connelly, Michael 2017-10 - Little Brown and Company 9780316225908 Check Our Catalog Harry Bosch searches for the truth in the new thriller from #1 NYT bestselling author Michael Connelly Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando Police Department and is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist has been murdered. Bosch and the town's 3-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous, big …More

Enigma By Coulter, Catherine 2017-09 - Gallery Books 9781501138065 Check Our Catalog The highly anticipated twenty-first FBI thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter presents Agents Savich and Sherlock with two baffling mysteries. Working with Agent Cam Wittier (Insidious) and New York-based former Special Forces agent Jack Cabot, they must race against the clock to catch an international criminal and solve the enigma of the man called John …More

Enigma By Coulter, Catherine 2017-10 - Thorndike Press Large Print 9781432844110 Check Our Catalog The highly anticipated twenty-first FBI thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter presents Agents Savich and Sherlock with two baffling mysteries. Working with Agent Cam Wittier (Insidious) and New York-based former Special Forces agent Jack Cabot, they must race against the clock to catch an international criminal and solve the enigma of the man called John …More

Dead Ringer By Daniels, B. J. 2017-08 - Harlequin Intrigue 9781335721198 Check Our Catalog Can a stubborn cowboy recapture the one who got away?Ledger McGraw may know all about horses, but he doesn't know anything about the lie that broke up his first romance with waitress Abby Pierce. Abby, tricked into marrying the wrong man, is at the end of her tether in her abusive relationship. When she learns the truth about her terrible marriage, she becomes …More

Phasma: Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi By Dawson, Delilah S. 2017-09 - Del Rey Books 9781524796310 Check Our Catalog NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Discover Captain Phasma's mysterious history in this "Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi" novel. One of the most cunning and merciless officers of the First Order, Captain Phasma commands the favor of her superiors, the respect of her peers, and the terror of her enemies. But for all her renown, Phasma remains as virtually unknown as …More