Category Archives: New Adult Books

Parchment and Old Lace

By  Laura Childs

The scream came from the Lafayette Cemetary.  Isabelle Beth, weeks away from her wedding, has been choked to death with a piece of lace and found inside the famous New Orleans cemetery.  When the victim’s sister, a tarot card reader, asks for help, scrapbbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand and her beau vow to stop the killer.

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A.D. 33

By  Ted Dekker

Maviah’s newfound influence, a gift bestowed after Yeshua freed her from bondage in ‘A.D. 30,’ brings fresh turmoil her way when intimidated rulers make the Queen of the Outcasts a slave once more.  Desperate for help, Maviah searches for Yeshua, only to learn he is about to face his own deadly fate.

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The Secret Chord

By  Geraldine Brooks

King David’s rags-to-riches story is heard through the voices of his wives, his son Solomon and others close to him as they retell his journey from shepherd to king, and murderous to remorseful.

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Purity

By  Jonathan Franzen

Purity, also known as Pip Tyler, is deep in student debt and squatting with anarchists when a brush with a German peace activist lands Purity an internship with a South American organization dedicated to managing the world’s deepest secrets.  Purity seeks the answers to her mysterious past as she falls for the company’s brainchild, who challenges her long-held view of right and wrong.

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Love Everlasting

By  Tracie Peterson

Abrianna Cunningham’s confusion over her newfound romantic feelings for the friend she always saw as a brother only deepens when Wade Ackerman proposes marriage.  As Abrianna weighs her options, Priam Welby vows to win her heart for good.

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The Hidden

By  Heather Graham

Over a century after a man and his wife were mysteriously murdered in the same building that now hosts a Colorado museum and a bed-and-breakfast, historian Scarlett Barlow finds herself taking pictures of dead people.  When the museum  statues start talking to her, she calls on her ex-husband, Diego, who has been picked to join the Krewe of Hunters, for help.

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After You

By  Jojo Moyes

Revisit Louisa Clark and the Traynor family as they face new obstacles in this sequel to Me Before You.

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The Murder House

By  James Patterson and David Ellis

Detective Jenna Murphy must resurrect the ghosts of her painful past if she hopes to solve the case of the Hollywood hotshot and his mistress, who have been found dead in the allegedly cursed Bridgehampton beach house.

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Speaking In Bones

By  Kathy Reichs

An internet sleuth’s claims about a missing person’s report connected to a body in Temperance Brenance’s lab reveal a local cult’s potential role in the mysterious light phenomenon that has long intrigued the area in which the bones were first found.

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In The Dark Places

By  Peter Robinson

When two young men go missing, Inspector Alan Banks must race to determine how the bloodstains in the abandoned airport hanger were found so far away from the scorched van.  The mystery deepens when a subsequent hailstorm sends a truck sliding off an icy road, killing the driver and revealing the body of a victim who was dead long before the fatal accident.

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