Category Archives: New Adult Books

The Golem of Paris

By  Jonathan Kellerman

Jacob Lev is drinking again.  Over a year after the LAPD detective discovered the shocking truth about his family, Jacob is struggling to keep his head above water.  Then he finds the file for an unsolved murder with jarring ramifications.  The gruesome cold case takes Jacob to Paris, where he must face the terrifying past to put a case to rest…and his mind at ease.

 

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Circling The Sun

By  Paula McLain

An author and a safari hunter give a lost woman wings as aviator Beryl Markham finds her true calling after an unusual upbringing.  Abandoned by her mother and raise by both her father and the Kipsigs tribe that occupy her father’s land, Beryl Markham succumbs to an irresistible love triangle involving Karen Blixen, the author of “Out of Africa” and safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton as Beryl finally realizes her fate: She was born to fly.

 

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Dance of the Bones

By  J.A. Jance

An open-and-shut case of death in the desert sends retired sheriff Brandon Walker back into the line of fire when Walker learns that the prospector’s alleged killer, arrested years ago, may be innocent.

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Foreign Affairs

By  Stuart Woods

When Stone Barrington is sent to a meeting in Rome, he expects the usual mix of business and pleasure.  But what he finds is trouble around every corner.

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The Theory of Death

By  Faye Kellerman

Peter Decker’s quiet new job in upstate New York takes a dangerous turn when a man’s naked body is found in the woods, sending the former LAPD lieutenant and his old colleague, Tyler McAdams, into the secret underworld hidden at Kneed Loft College.

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After Alice

By  Gregory Maguire

Do you remember Ada?  When Ada heads down the rabbit hole in search of her missing friend, Alice,  Ada must get a grip on her surreal surroundings if she hopes to bring Alice home alive in a tale inspired by Ada’s brief mention in the original “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” first published 150 years before this book’s release.

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Bittersweet Dreams

By  V.C. Andrews

Mayfair Cummings, long an outcast from her shattered family and her private school, watches a dream turn into a nightmare when a popular senior looks her way and a handsome English teacher develops a crush that soon leads to scandal.

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Corrupted

By  Lisa Scottoline

When a young boy, Jason, is sent to a detention center for taking on a bully, Bennie Rosato, a lawyer, feels nothing but guilt for years to come.  Determined to make things right, she takes on his case now as an adult when that same bully ends up dead and the evidence points to Jason.

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Playing With Fire

By  Tess Gerritsen

In this standalone, new violinist Julia Ansdell finds a mysterious composition in a Rome antique shop, blacks out upon listening to it, and awakens to the knowledge that her little daughter may have committed horrendous violence.  Julia heads to Venice, hoping the music’s previous owner will have answers.  That’s when she learns about the strange music’s ties to the Holocaust…and meets the people willing to kill to keep their secret.

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The Witches

By  Stacy Schiff

Unravel the mystery surrounding the witch trials that sent politicians and even the most well-educated citizens into a state of panic that saw 19 men and women hanged and an old man fatally crushed.

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