Category Archives: New Adult Books

Aura of Night

by Heather Graham

All book editor Megan Law wants to bury is the memory of her brutal kidnapping and move on with her life.  So when her publisher asks her to spin her experience into the next bestseller, Megan agrees only because it might help keep other women safe.  Then a mysterious, gruesome package arrives in the mail–a reminder that the nightmare isn’t over just yet. 

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The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Carlota Moreau: The only daughter of a researcher who is either a genius or a madman.  Montgomery Laughton: An outcast who assists Dr. Moreau with his experiments.  The Lizaldes, owners of magnificent haciendas and plentiful coffers.  The hybrids, the fruits of the doctor’s labor.  All of them live in a perfectly balanced and static world, which is jolted by the abrupt arrival of Eduardo Lizalde, the charming and careless son of Dr. Moreau’s patron, who will unwittingly begin a dangerous chain reaction.  For Moreau keeps secrets, Carlota has questions, and, in the sweltering heat of the jungle, passions may ignite. 

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Shattered

by James Patterson

NYPD master homicide investigator Michael Bennett and top FBI abduction specialist Emily Parker have a history.  Working case after case, each can predict the other’s next move.  So when she fails to show at FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, Bennett risks venturing far outside his jurisdiction.  The investigation he undertakes is the most brillant detective work of his career…and the most intensely personal.  

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Grace Under Fire

by Julie Garwood

Michael Buchanan will need every bit of his extensive skill set when he appoints himself as bodyguard to a woman determined not to need one. 

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The Children On The Hill

by Jennifer McMahon

Fron the NY Times bestselling author of The Drowning Kind comes a genre-defying new novel, inspired by Mary Shelley’s masterpiece Frankenstein, that brilliantly explores the eerie mysteries of childhood and the evils perpetrated by the monsters among us. 

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Chrysalis

by Lincoln Child

Jeremy Logan has grown to rely on his incredible new tech device  made by Chrysalis.  When Logan is summoned by Chrysalis to investigate a disturbing anomaly in the massive new product rollout, Logan is shocked to see the true scope of the massive company.  He also quickly realizes that something in Chrysalis’s technology is very wrong, and could be potentially devastating.  the question is what, and where, is the danger coming from?

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The Darling Dahlias and the Red Hot Poker

by Susan Wittig Albert

It’s Labor Day weekend, 1935, and members of the Darling Dahlias–the garden club in little Darling, Alabama–are trying to keep their cool at the end of a sizzling summer.  This isn’t easy, though, since there’s a firebug on the loose in Darling.  He–or she!–strikkes without apparent rhyme or reason, and things have gotten to the point where nobody feels safe. 

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The Locked Room

by Elly Griffiths

Pandemic lockdowns have Ruth Galloway feeling isolated from everyone but a new neighbor–until Nelson comes calling, investigating a decades-long string of murder-suicides that’s looming ever closer. 

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Cold Cold Bones

by Kathy Reichs

Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan who, after receiving a box containing a human eyeball, uncovers a series of gruesome killings eerily reenacting the most shocking of her prior cases. 

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Listen to Me

by Tess Gerritsen

Rizzoli & Isles are back!  From NY Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen, this harrowing thriller has Jane and Maura investigating a brutal murder with dire implications, and this time, with Jane’s intrepid mother, Angela, looking into a mystery of her own. 

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