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FEBRUARY 2021 NEW FICTION AT LOUTTIT
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Looking for something interesting to read? We have plenty of choices for you. The Louttit Library's shelves are filling up with brand new adult fiction titles. Browse the options below, and stop by the library to take one out. (All summaries are taken from Baker and Taylor.)
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ADULT FICTION
- Neighbors: a reclusive woman opens up her home to her neighbors in the wake of a devastating earthquake, setting off events that reveal secrets, break relationships apart, and bring strangers together to forge powerful new bonds.
- Nick: An epic portrait of a truly singular era and a sweeping, romantic story of self-discovery, this rich and imaginative novel breathes new life into a character that many know but few have pondered deeply.
- Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder: Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder plunges readers into the heart of London, to the secret tunnels that exist far beneath the city streets. There, a mysterious group of detectives recruited for Miss Brickett’s Investigations & Inquiries use their cunning and gadgets to solve crimes that have stumped Scotland Yard.
- All the Colors of the Night: Two psychics plunge into a dark world of deadly secrets in this second installment of the Fogg Lake trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz.
- Robert B. Parker's Someone to Watch Over Me: In the latest thriller featuring the legendary Boston PI, Spenser and his young protégé Mattie Sullivan take on a billionaire money manager running a network of underaged girls for his rich and powerful clients.
- Our Darkest Night: To survive the Holocaust, a young Jewish woman must pose as a Christian farmer's wife in this unforgettable novel from USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Robson, a story of terror, hope, love, and sacrifice, inspired by true events, that vividly evokes the most perilous days of World War II.
- The Last Garden in England: From the author of the international bestseller The Light Over London and The Whispers of War comes a poignant and unforgettable tale of five women living across three different times whose lives are all connected by one very special place.
- American Traitor: Pike Logan is on the desperate hunt for a man who is about to betray his country, and ignite a horrific new world war, in this pulse-pounding thriller from New York Times bestselling author and former special forces officer Brad Taylor.
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ADULT FICTION
- Pickard County Atlas: Small-town secrets loom large in this spellbinding debut about the aftershocks of crime and trauma that shake a Nebraskan town.
- The Heiress: In this gorgeously written and spellbinding historical novel based on Pride and Prejudice, the author of The Clergyman's Wife combines the knowing eye of Jane Austen with the eroticism and Gothic intrigue of Sarah Waters to reimagine the life of the mysterious Anne de Bourgh.
- Bryant & May: Oranges and Lemons: When a prominent politician is crushed by a fruit van making a delivery, the singular team of Arthur Bryant and John May overcome insurmountable odds to reunite the PCU and solve the case in this brainy new mystery from acclaimed author Christopher Fowler.
- The Liar's Dictionary: An exhilarating and laugh-out-loud debut novel from a prize-winning new talent which chronicles the misadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer and the young woman put on his trail a century later to root out his misdeeds while confronting questions of her own sexuality and place in the world.
- City of Lies: A Poison War Novel Book 1: WINNER of the Ditmar Awards for Best Novel and Best New Talent, the Norma K Hemming Award, and the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel! Poison. Treachery. Ancient spirits. Sieges. The Poison Wars begin now, with City of Lies, a fabulous epic fantasy debut by Sam Hawke
- Hollow Empire: A Poison War Novel Book 2: Moving from poison and treachery to war and witchcraft, Sam Hawke's Poison Wars continue with Hollow Empire, a fabulous epic fantasy adventure perfect for fans of Robin Hobb, Naomi Novik, and Scott Lynch.
- Wrong Alibi: Dodd's twisty suspense will have readers turning the pages and keeping the lights on at night.
- Where the Creek Runs: A captivating story about the complexity of life in the deep south and the journey a young woman faces after choosing to defy her father’s expectations.
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ADULT FICTION
- Black Buck: Black Buck is a hilarious, razor-sharp skewering of America's workforce; it is a propulsive, crackling debut that explores ambition and race, and makes way for a necessary new vision of the American dream.
- Conjurer: Relying on a sisterhood of magic, a mysteriously faithful dog, and a second-rate sorcerer, Sidra defends herself using the village's greatest asset: its perfume. It's as beguiling a lure as it is a formidable shield. But is it enough for Sidra to protect herself and those she loves from powers yet to be released?
- Detransition Baby: A whipsmart debut about three women--transgender and cisgender--whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires around gender, motherhood, and sex.
- The Divines: Suspenseful, provocative, and compulsively readable, The Divines is a scorching examination of the power of adolescent sexuality, female identity, and the destructive class divide. Exposing the tension between the lives we lead as adults and the experiences that form us, Eaton probes us to consider how our memories as adults compel us to reexamine our pasts.
- The Effort: For readers of Station Eleven and Good Morning, Midnight comes an electric, heart-pounding novel of love and sacrifice that follows people around the world as they unite to prevent a global catastrophe.
- Hall of Smoke: Epic fantasy featuring warrior priestesses and fickle gods at war, for readers of Brian Staveley's Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne.
- If I Disappear: When her favorite true crime podcast host goes missing, an adrift young woman sets out to investigate and plunges headfirst into the wild backcountry of Northern California and her own dangerous obsession.
- The Invisible Life of Addie Larue: France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever—and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.
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ADULT FICTION
- Love Songs for Skeptics: This charming and quirky debut has it all: childhood friends, love triangles, enemies-to-lovers, and a My Big Fat Greek Wedding subplot.
- Out of Hounds: Sister Jane Arnold and her hounds must sniff out a thief with expensive taste when a string of missing paintings leads to murder in this exciting foxhunting mystery.
- People Like Her: A razor-sharp, wickedly smart suspense debut about an ambitious influencer mom whose soaring success threatens her marriage, her morals, and her family's safety.
- The Perfect Guests: A delicious, twisty novel about a grand estate with many secrets, an orphan caught in a web of lies, and a young woman playing a sinister game.
- Persephone Station: Hugo award nominated author Stina Leicht has created a take on space opera for fans of The Mandalorian and Cowboy Bebop in this high-stakes adventure.
- The Prophets: A singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence.
- Snowdrift: When a new lead breaks in the cold case that has long haunted Swedish Detective Inspector Embla Nyström, the truth she’s been seeking about her best friend’s disappearance may finally be revealed—if it doesn’t kill her first.
- Waiting For the Night Song: A startling and timely debut, Julie Carrick Dalton's Waiting for the Night Song is a moving, brilliant novel about friendships forged in childhood magic and ruptured by the high price of secrets that leave you forever changed.
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ADULT FICTION
- We Could Be Heroes: An extraordinary and emotional adventure about unlikely friends and the power of choosing who you want to be.
- The Wife Upstairs: A delicious twist on a Gothic classic, The Wife Upstairs pairs Southern charm with atmospheric domestic suspense, perfect for fans of B.A. Paris and Megan Miranda.
- Yellow Wife: This harrowing story follows an enslaved woman forced to barter love and freedom while living in the most infamous slave jail in Virginia.
- Before She Disappeared: a propulsive thriller featuring an ordinary woman who will stop at nothing to find the missing people that the rest of the world has forgotten.
- Egg Shooters: A murder in the local hospital is raising everyone's temperature in the latest book in the New York Times bestselling Cackleberry Club series.
- A house at the Bottom of the Lake: a haunting tale of love and horror, as the date of a lifetime becomes a maddening exploration of the depths of the heart.
- Meet me in Bombay: is a powerful, poignant and deeply emotional tale of love, mystery, loss and joy.
- The Mitford Trial: A timeless murder mystery with the fascinating, glamorous Mitford sisters at its heart, The Mitford Trial is the fourth installment in the Mitford Murders series from Jessica Fellowes, inspired by a real-life murder in a story full of intrigue, affairs and betrayal...
- Pianos and Flowers-Brief Encounters of the Romantic Kind: From the beloved and best-selling author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, a charming collection of stories about life and romance.
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ADULT FICTION
- The Russian: A serial killer crashes Detective Michael Bennett's wedding.
- The Scorpion's Tail: a thrilling novel following archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson as they work together to solve a twisted crime that reaches far beyond any of their worst fears.
- Shiver: In this propulsive locked-room thriller debut, a reunion weekend in the French Alps turns deadly when five friends discover that someone has deliberately stranded them at their remote mountain top resort during a snowstorm.
- The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry: Sparks fly in this enchanting fantasy novel from the author of Unnatural Magic when a down-and-out fire witch and a young gentlewoman join forces against a deadly conspiracy.
- A Thousand Ships: a gorgeous retelling of the Trojan War from the perspectives of the many women involved in its causes and consequences.
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