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April 2013

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General Fiction

12th of Never (Women’s Murder Club)
By James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
A week after giving birth, Lindsay Boxer is investigating two cases: a grisly murder where the main suspect is an NFL player and an eccentric professor who thinks his dreams of a murder are real.

The Abundance
By Amit Majmudar
Pulled back into the Midwestern world of their Indian immigrant parents when their mother is taken ill, Mala sets about learning everything she can about her mother’s art of Indian cooking, while her brother Ronak tries to sell their experience as a book and a TV documentary, furthering the cultural divide.

The Afterlife of Emerson Tang
By Paula Champa
When his 1954 Beacon, a beloved car and piece of history, is compromised, New England scion Emerson Tang finds his life interconnected with several strangers through their mutual quest to reunite the Beacon’s body with its engine.

All That Is
By James Salter
Returning to America after World War II, former naval officer Philip Bowman finds a position as a book editor and loses himself in a world of intimate connections and surprising triumphs until he is betrayed by the woman he loves, which sets him on a course he could never have imagined for himself.

All the Light There Was
By Nancy Kricorian
After surviving the genocide in their homeland with many other Armenians, 14-year-old Maral Pegorian and her family arrive in Paris to start a new life, but she, her brother and her lover soon realize that the Nazi Occupation is not simply a temporary outrage to be endured.

All You Could Ask For
By Mike Greenberg
After being betrayed by the men they love, three women find their lives intertwining in unexpected ways, resulting in powerful friendships that can conquer anything.

And Then I Found You
By Patti Callahan Henry
Enjoying her loving family life and career successes, Kate Vaughn anticipates a marriage proposal from her boyfriend and realizes she cannot move forward until she reconnects with a past love and the daughter they gave up for adoption years earlier.

The Ashford Affair
By Lauren Willig
Feeling unfulfilled in the face of an imminent legal partnership and a broken engagement, Manhattan lawyer Clementine Evans learns of a long-buried family secret that leads her to the inner circles of World War I-era British society and the red hills of Kenya.

The Blue Book
By A. L. Kennedy
Boarding an ocean liner with Derek, her almost-fiancé, Beth comes face-to-face with her past in the form of Arthur, a not-quite-ex-lover, which conjures up the memories of the shady life they used to lead, when they acted as spiritual mediums to fleece the innocent out of their hard-earned money.

Candlemoth: A Thriller
By R. J. Ellory
Sitting on death row in 1960s America after exhausting his appeals, Daniel Ford tells a priest the story of his relationship with the best friend he was convicted of killing. He chronicles their story from their first encounter as young boys in South Carolina to their efforts to avoid the Vietnam draft that ended in violence.

The Chance
By Karen Kingsbury
After living separate lives, Ellie and Nolan move toward the possibility of a reunion at the oak tree where they buried letters to each other eleven years earlier, in a tale of heart-wrenching loss, the power of faith, and the wounds that only love can heal.

Code White
By Scott Britz-Cunningham
Preparing to implant a revolutionary mini-computer into the brain of a blind boy that will enable him to see, brilliant young neurosurgeon Ali O’Day finds her efforts sabotaged by a bomber who is demanding Ali herself as ransom.

Constance
By Patrick McGrath
Surrendering to the relentless wooing of an older man in spite of his poor marital record, a beautiful woman moves into his dark, book-filled apartment in 1960s Manhattan and is tortured by painful childhood memories before learning devastating new information about her past.

Criminal Enterprise (Stevens and Windermere)
By Owen Laukkanen
When a secretly unemployed man begins robbing banks in a desperate struggle to hold onto his once-successful life, FBI Special Agent Carla Windermere and Minnesota state investigator Kirk Stevens approach the case from respective angles and reconnect when the robber develops a taste for violence.

Daddy’s Gone a Hunting
By Mary Higgins Clark
When her sister is wrongly implicated in an explosion that has destroyed her family’s priceless antiques business and killed an employee, Hannah struggles to find clues in the ashes and discovers a life-threatening secret from the past.

Damascus Countdown
By Joel C. Rosenberg
After Israel successfully launches a first strike on Iran, CIA operative David Shirazi infiltrates the Iranian regime and intercepts information indicating that two Iranian nuclear warheads survived the attack and have been moved to a secure and undisclosed location.

The Demonologist
By Andrew Pyper
Winning acclaim for his expertise in demonic literature, including Milton’s Paradise Lost, Columbia professor David Ullman travels to Italy and witnesses a startling phenomenon that challenges his skepticism before his 12-year-old daughter is targeted by a demonic enemy that would claim her as a messenger.

The Devil in Her Way
By Bill Loehfelm
Maureen Coughlin starts out her career with the New Orleans police force by being punched in the face by a man rushing out of an apartment building.

Don’t Go
By Lisa Scottoline
Returning home from his military service in Afghanistan when his wife dies in an apparent freak accident, Dr. Mike Scanlon struggles with the tragedy, his inability to bond with his new baby daughter, and a downsizing in his medical practice, only to discover a shocking secret that changes his understanding of everything.

The Edge of the Earth
By Christina Schwarz
In spite of her accomplishments and imminent marriage to a respectable young man, Trudy is ostracized by her late-19th-century Milwaukee community when she falls in love with an enigmatic man and relocates to a California lighthouse where she uncovers a life-changing secret.

Equilateral
By Ken Kalfus
Obsessed by a belief that highly evolved beings exist on Mars, a turn-of-the-century British astronomer gets support for a massive project to build a signal that is undermined by malaria-stricken Egyptian laborers and two women who understand the astronomer more than he realizes.

Fly Away
By Kristin Hannah
A follow-up to the best-selling Firefly Lanereturns readers to the world of Tully, Kate and Tully’s mother, who explore their understanding of love, family, loss and redemption while turning to each other in the hope of salvaging their lives.

Heart of Palm
By Laura Lee Smith
When a business opportunity comes to the small town of Utina, Florida, it causes strife within the Bravo family.

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
By Mohsin Hamid
A poor rural boy becomes a wealthy business tycoon and becomes embroiled in an on-again/off-again romance with an equally successful girl.

The Interestings
By Meg Wolitzer
Forging a powerful bond in the mid-1970s that lasts throughout subsequent decades, six individuals pursue respective challenges into their midlife years, including an aspiring actress who harbors jealousy toward friends who achieve successful creative careers.

Lessons in French
By Hilary Reyl
Graduating from Yale during the political heyday of the late 1980s, Kate accepts a seemingly unbelievable job offer to work as an assistant to a famous American photographer in Paris, where she spent her early childhood and where she becomes surrounded by the artist’s pretentious family, her flamboyant cousin, and a band of wealthy men with royal ties.

Let the Dead Sleep
By Heather Graham
When a centuries-old bust, stolen from a New Orleans grave, turns up in her late father’s antiques shop, only to disappear again, Danni Cafferty discovers that she has inherited much more than she realized and must team up with a former cop with an unusual past to find and destroy the evil object.

Life After Life
By Jill McCorkle
The staff and residents at Fulton, North Carolina’s retirement facility share the realities of their respective lives, from a retired teacher who believes everyone is still a third-grader at heart, to a prominent lawyer who feigns dementia to escape life with his son, to a woman who keeps a scrapbook about every local crime.

Manuscript Found in Accra
By Paulo Coelho
Set in Jerusalem during the time of the Crusades, a community of Christians, Arabs and Jews who have long lived together peacefully assemble to seek the wise counsel of a Greek Copt after they are warned of an imminent attack and certain destruction.

The Mystery of Mercy Close (Walsh Family)
By Marian Keyes
Forced to return to her mother’s home after a career setback, private investigator Helen Walsh frets over her new boyfriend’s ex and reluctantly accepts a missing-persons case from her former flame that prompts her search in the former circles of a boy band member.

No Way Back
By Andrew Gross
When a chance encounter with a stranger in a hotel results in murder, Wendy Gould, framed for the crime and desperate to clear her name, forms an unlikely alliance with the only witness – a woman who knows a shocking secret that could get them both killed.

Palisades Park
By Alan Brennert
Sharing a family life in the 1930s near the legendary Palisades Amusement Park, a family of dreamers explores ambitions and cultural boundaries that are challenged by the realities of the Great Depression, multiple wars, and the park’s eventual closing in 1971.

Prophet of Bones
By Ted Kosmatka
A dazzling young scientist runs for his life and searches for answers after being chased by paramilitaries away from an archaeological dig where bones belonging to a puzzling new species were discovered.

Reconstructing Amelia
By Kimberly McCreight
When her high-achieving 15-year-old daughter Amelia supposedly commits suicide after she is caught cheating, litigation lawyer and single mother Kate Baron, leveled by grief, must reconstruct the pieces of Amelia’s life to find the truth and vindicate the memory of the daughter whose life she could not save.

The Romanov Cross
By Robert Masello
Dishonorably discharged for countermanding orders to save the life of an Afghan, Dr. Frank Slater attempts to redeem his government status by heading a science team in Alaska, where permafrost melting is exposing the graves of Spanish flu victims and triggering the virus’s reintroduction to the world.

Sidney Sheldon’s The Tides of Memory
By Sidney Sheldon and Tilly Bagshawe
When old secrets surface, threatening to unravel everything they have worked so hard for, the enormously wealthy and enviable De Vere family of London must face the deadly consequences, in this explosive novel of revenge, passion and betrayal.

Sleight of Hand
By Phillip Margolin
While on the trail of a stolen relic, P. I. Dana Cutler is called back to Virginia where she must stop Charles Benedict, a criminal defense lawyer, amateur illusionist and professional hit man, from framing a millionaire for the murder of his much younger wife.

The Smart One
By Jennifer Close
Raising her three children to be kind, smart and independent, Weezy and her husband become increasingly perplexed by life challenges that compel their first daughter to move back into her childhood room, their second daughter to cancel her wedding and their son to become enmeshed in a relationship disaster.

Something to Remember You By: A Perilous Romance
By Gene Wilder
A latest tale by the Academy Award-nominated actor and author of My French Whorefollows the experiences of a wounded World War II soldier who falls in love with a mysterious Danish woman during his convalescence in London before realizing that she may not be who she claims to be.

Starting Now (Blossom Street)
By Debbie Macomber
After she is laid off, high-powered lawyer Libby Morgan, with no job prospects in sight, volunteers at a hospital where she meets a handsome doctor, but when she is offered her job back, she must decide what matters most.

Taking Eve (Eve Duncan)
By Iris Johansen
Hoping for a more peaceful time after learning the tragic truth about her child’s disappearance some years earlier, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is entreated by desperate father Jim Doane to learn the truth about his missing son, a case that is complicated by Jim’s sinister agenda.

Tapestry of Fortunes
By Elizabeth Berg
Selling her home and taking time off from her career as a successful motivational speaker, Cecelia Ross moves into a beautiful old house in St. Paul and bonds with three roommates, including one who would reconnect with a daughter she gave up for adoption, one who would visit her long-absent ex, and a professional chef who would find inspiration from other restaurants.

Terror Red
By David Hunt and Christine Hunsinger
When a heavily financed terrorist organization begins a campaign of hijackings, bombings and other brutal attacks on U.S. soil, recently retired Special Operations Officer Colonel David Gibson and political consultant Christina Marchetti are catapulted into a whirlwind race against time to prevent World War III.

A Time of Change (Navajo Rez)
By Aimee Thurlo and David Thurlo
When his initial steps toward reconciling with his estranged father are permanently halted by his father’s sudden death, military serviceman Ben Stuart struggles to reclaim the family ranch from a young Navajo woman who resolves to heal his wounded spirit.

Tuesday’s Gone (Frieda Klein)
By Nicci French
When a London social worker discovers the dead body of a stranger in a client’s home, Frieda Klein identifies the victim as a notorious con man whom she fears has been murdered by enemies determined to embroil Frieda in the investigation.

The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards
By Kristopher Jansma
Haunted by the successes of a long-time rival and unable to let go of his love for a woman who got away, an aspiring writer, determined to discover and tell the truth about the trio’s falling out, travels the world and struggles to untangle a complicated web of lies.

Unintended Consequences (Stone Barrington)
By Stuart Woods
Traveling to Europe under strange circumstances, attorney Stone Barrington finds himself at the center of an unusually complex mystery involving two unexpected invitations and an intricate puzzle that leads him into the rarified world of European billionaires.

The View from Penthouse B
By Elinor Lipman
Two newly-single, middle-aged sisters reenter the precarious dating world in New York City amid strained financial resources and the scandal surrounding one sister’s divorce.

The Whispering Muse
By Sjon and Victoria Cribb
Invited to sail on a Danish merchant ship in 1949, eccentric Icelander Valdimar Haraldsson discovers the second mate on the ship is none other than Caeneus, the hero of Greek mythology, who regales his fellow shipmates with tales of the Golden Fleece.

The Whiteness of the Whale
By David Poyer
Joining six other activists to sail a racing yacht into Antarctic waters to expose a Japanese whaling fleet, disgraced primate behaviorist Sara Pollard finds her courage tested by brutal storms, hostile adversaries and romantic conflicts before encountering a sperm whale with a murderous agenda of its own.

The Woman Upstairs
By Claire Messud
Relegated to the status of schoolteacher and friendly neighbor after abandoning her dreams of becoming an artist, Nora advocates on behalf of a charismatic Lebanese student and is drawn into the child’s family until his artist mother’s careless ambition leads to a shattering betrayal.

Fantasy & Science Fiction

Appalachian Overthrow (Vampire Earth)
By E. E. Knight
Forced to work as a slave in the Appalachian coal mines, Ahn-Kha rebels against the brutality and working conditions and becomes the leader of the people of Coal Country in an uprising against the Maynes family and their Kurian masters.

Blood of Dragons (Rain Wilds Chronicles)
By Robin Hobb
Coming into their own in the lost city of Kelsingra, Thymara, Tats, Rapskal and Cedric, dragon keepers who have transformed into beautiful Elderlings, must find the mythical silver wells to keep their dragons alive while protecting them from encroaching enemies.

Deep Down
By Deborah Coates
A sequel to Wide Openfinds Hallie Michaels confronting visions of harbingers from the underworld that reveal harrowing dangers from deputy Boyd Davies’s past and threats to Hallie’s own safety, a situation that compels her entry into the realm of Death.

Deeply Odd (Odd Thomas)
By Dean R. Koontz
A follow-up to the best-selling Odd Apocalypsefinds Odd journeying through California and Nevada after a vision about the murders of three children, an effort throughout which he befriends a series of eccentric helpers who become allies in a battle against a sociopath and a network of killers.

Promise of Blood (The Powder Mage Trilogy)
By Brian McClellan
Successfully staging a coup to expose corruption and bring relief to the poor, Field Marshal Tamas inadvertently provokes a war with the Nine Nations and is betrayed by greedy former allies, a situation that forces him to rely on his estranged son and a retired police inspector who is being blackmailed.

Protector
By C. J. Cherryh
Bren and Illisidi must protect young prince Cajeiri and the human children who have come to visit for his birthday from the dangerous split compromising the Assassin’s Guild.

Stepping Stone/The Love Machine (Crosstown to Oblivion)
By Walter Mosley
The best-selling author of the “Easy Rawlins” mysteries presents a two-in-one omnibus of stories that explores life’s cosmic questions, from the meaning of life to the nature of good and evil, told from the perspectives of individuals who are given unique insights that are largely inaccessible to the rest of the world.

Without a Summer (Shades of Milk and Honey)
By Mary Robinette Kowal
Regency-era glamourists Jane and Vincent Ellsworth hope to bolster Melody’s chances for a good marriage by accepting a commission from a prominent London family, a job that embroils them in an international crisis.

Mystery & Detective

Alive! (Valentino)
By Loren D. Estleman
Learning of the existence of rare footage of Bela Lugosi’s screen test for the part of Frankenstein’s monster, Valentino discovers that a ruthless adversary has been killing people to get his hands on the long-missing film, in a case that is complicated by terrible acting and a ravenous crew of steampunk fans.

Aunt Dimity and the Lost Prince (Aunt Dimity)
By Nancy Atherton
When a silver sleigh recently stolen from a local museum turns up in her thrift shop, paranormal sleuth Lori Shepherd is surprised by the curator’s lack of interest in the theft, a situation that prompts Lori to turn to Aunt Dimity for otherworldly advice on how to track down the sleigh’s true owner.

The Baker Street Translation: A Mystery
By Michael Robertson
When new letters misaddressed to famous former tenant Sherlock Holmes embroil them in a tangle of new cases, brothers Reggie and Nigel Heath are compelled to sort out an American heiress’s unconventional will, translate a nursery rhyme, and find a missing rival while preventing an attack on an upcoming royal event.

A Bat in the Belfry (Home Repair Is Homicide)
By Sarah Graves
When a local teen beauty-pageant winner from a troubled family is found murdered in the beloved 200-year-old Seaman’s Church steeple, Jacobia Tiptree, while preparing for an epic nor’easter, must wade through the rising waters of gossip and suspicion to find the truth.

Blood, Ash, and Bone (Tai Randolph Series)
By Tina Whittle
After her ex-boyfriend shows up while she is trying to take a break from the detective business, Tai Randolph tries to unravel a 150-year-old mystery that has ties to a modern-day killer.

The Dead Caller from Chicago (Dek Elstrom)
By Jack Fredrickson
Dark secrets and the disappearances of nearly everyone he has ever loved converge in a case that leads Dek Elstrom on a trail to northern Michigan and a forgotten ice-swept island where a death raises dangerous questions about Elstrom’s home in Rivertown.

A Dying Fall (Ruth Galloway)
By Elly Griffiths
After an old university friend and fellow archaeologist is murdered, forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway travels to Lancashire to examine the bones he found, which reveal a shocking fact about King Arthur, and discovers a campus living in fear of a sinister right-wing group called the White Hand.

Follow Her Home
By Steph Cha
Possessing investigative instincts and a long-standing love affair for noir novels, Juniper Song is asked to discover the truth about her friend’s father’s alleged affair with a young paralegal only to become embroiled in a crime involving a dead body in her trunk, a dangerous family dynamic and deeply hidden secrets from her own life.

The Golden Egg (Commissario Guido Brunetti)
By Donna Leon
Commissario Guido Brunetti investigates the death of a man who never existed on paper.

Good People
By Ewart Hutton
Exiled from Cardiff to the Welsh countryside, disgraced police officer Glyn Capaldi raises local ire by investigating the disappearance of a group that goes missing after a night of rugby and drinking, a case that reveals a sinister network of betrayals and depravity.

Hour of the Red God
By Richard Crompton
Detective Mollel, a former Maasai warrior in Nairobi, investigates the brutal murder of a prostitute and suspects the killing is part of a far more extensive plot associated with the turbulent elections of 2007.

Leaving Everything Most Loved (Maisie Dobbs)
By Jacqueline Winspear
When the brother of an Indian woman whose body was found in a south London canal asks her to investigate his sister’s death, Maisie Dobbs enters into a dangerously colorful and exotic world, which takes her in an unexpected new direction.

Life after Life
By Kate Atkinson
A woman born on a snowy night in 1910 repeatedly dies and reincarnates into the same life to correct missteps and eventually save the world.

Midnight at Marble Arch (Charlotte and Thomas Pitt)
By Anne Perry
When the bodies of two high-profile women are discovered, bearing signs of rape, and an innocent man is accused of the crime, Thomas Pitt’s quest for the truth forces him to play a dangerous game of international politics and murder.

Miss Julia Stirs up Trouble (Miss Julia)
By Ann B. Ross
When domestically challenged Hazel Marie is forced to take over the care of her household in the wake of a housekeeper’s injury, Miss Julia rallies the ladies of Abbotsville to provide cooking lessons only to confront Hazel Marie’s reprobate uncle, who harbors a suspicious agenda.

A Murder at Rosamund’s Gate
By Susanna Calkins
When her humdrum daily routine of chores and servitude is shattered by the ruthless murder of a fellow servant, 17th-century English chambermaid Lucy Campion battles legal obstacles, plague-infected crowds and a brutal killer to prove her wrongly-accused brother’s innocence.

The Perfect Ghost
By Linda Barnes
Forced to complete a biography of alluring celebrity film director Garrett Malcolm after her partner mysteriously dies, agoraphobic ghost writer Em Moore struggles through the job’s required interviews on her own, only to learn that Malcolm has dark family secrets and trouble with a fellow actor.

Prescription for Murder
By Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain
When the best-selling author runs into Dr. Seth Hazlitt, in Tampa, the pair attends a party at the home of a researcher developing a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, but end up investigating his murder after the doctor is seemingly struck by lightning.

Some Like It Hot (Cat Deluca Mysteries)
By K. J. Larsen
When her bumbling detective friend is gunned down in the street, it is up to Cat Deluca to find a killer who has ties to a stolen pair of Marilyn Monroe’s earrings.

The Tooth Tattoo
By Peter Lovesey
Investigating the murder of a young woman whose only identifying mark is a tattoo on one of her teeth, British criminal investigator Peter Diamond teams up with violinist Mel Farran, who is being scouted by a mysterious and elite classical quartet that reveals frightening truths about fandom and the cutthroat world of professional music.

When the Devil Doesn’t Show
By Christine Barber
When an unknown victim is discovered in the remains of a house fire, Detective Gil Montoya follows leads to an infamous nuclear testing facility in Los Alamos in a case that is complicated by a second fire.

Widow’s Tears
By Susan Wittig Albert
Herbalist ex-lawyer China Bales investigates the murder of a teller at the Pecan Springs bank and follows the clues to a haunted bed and breakfast.

Romance

Decadence
By Eric Jerome Dickey
A tale set four years after the events of Pleasure,finds successful writer Nia in Los Angeles, where she continues her struggles with turbulent emotions and contemplates her prospects for marriage and parenthood while immersing herself in a hedonistic role-playing resort that challenges her grasp on reality.

Lover at Last (Black Dagger Brotherhood)
By J. R. Ward
Disavowed from his family and ostracized by the aristocracy, vampire soldier Qhinn must deal with Blay’s love of a Chosen female and the young they are having together.

The Mystery Woman (Ladies of Lantern Street)
By Amanda Quick
Targeted by a disabled former spy for the Crown who wrongly believes she is blackmailing his sister, Beatrice Lockwood offers her assistance in tracking down the real culprit and eventually falls for the spy, only to find herself hunted by a mad scientist who would resurrect a dead lover.

A Perfect Proposal
By Katie Fforde
Eagerly visiting New York to escape her suffocating family in England, Sophie clashes with her hostess’s arrogant grandson, who follows her back across the Atlantic armed with an unconventional proposal.

Secrets from the Past
By Barbara Taylor Bradford
Leaving her successful job after the unexpected death of her famous father, photojournalist Serena Stone risks her life to save a former lover and discovers an archive of her late father’s work in war-torn Libya that reveals shocking truth about her parents’ marriage.

Whiskey Beach
By Nora Roberts
Suffering an intense year of public and police scrutiny after being wrongly implicated in his fiancée’s murder, Boston lawyer Eli Landon takes sanctuary in a centuries-old family home and falls in love with resident housekeeper Abra Walsh, with whom he becomes entangled in an old, life-threatening mystery.

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