May 19, 2023
New Fiction
Fire with Fire by Candice Fox – Following their daughter’s mysterious disappearance, Ryan and Elsie Delaney has taken the LAPD forensic lab hostage. They have given law enforcement an ultimatum: Find their missing daughter, Tilly, or they will destroy all the evidence they can find in other cold cases. Detective Charlie Hoskins has been undercover in a deadly motorcycle gang for five years. With his cover blown, he has no choice but to find Tilly himself or lose everything he’s worked for as the lab burns. Lynette Lamb was a police officer – until she was fired before her first day before her first day on the job. Figuring out what happened to Tilly is her one and only chance at rejoining the career she’s prepared for her whole life. Hoskins and Lamb will have to team up to solve this cold case, and they will have to move fast – before the situation explodes.
Did you Hear About Kitty Karr? by Crystal Smith Paul – When Kitty Karr Tate, a White icon of the silver screen, dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the St. John sisters, three young, wealthy Black women, it prompts questions. Lots of questions. A celebrity in her own right, Elise St. John would rather focus on sorting out Kitty’s affairs than deal with the press. But what she discovers in one of Kitty’s journals rocks her world harder than any other brewing scandal could – and between a cheating fiancé and the fallout from a controversial social media post, there are plenty. The truth behind Kitty’s ascent to stardom from her beginnings in the segregated South threatens to expose a web of unexpected family ties, debts owed, and debatable crimes that could, with one pull, unravel the all-American fabric. As Elise digs deeper into Kitty’s past, she must also turn the lens upon herself, confronting the gifts and burdens of her own choices and the power that the secrets of the dead hold over the living.
Fit To Die by Daniel Kalla – When Owen Galloway, the track-star son of a prominent US senator, is found dead of an overdose in his bedroom, LAPD Detective Cari Garcia suspects that he’s just another teenager who hid a drug addiction. Meanwhile, in Vancouver, Dr. Julie Rees, an experienced toxicologist, notices a growing number of overdoses among body builders and people with eating disorders, including the co-owner of a wildly popular wellness center with locations in both Vancouver and LA. They all showed symptoms of fatally high fever and uncontrollable seizures and she mentions it to her boyfriend, Detective Anson Chen. Then Rain Flynn, a famous pop star and social media influencer, dies in her Vancouver penthouse, showing the same symptoms. After an autopsy confirms that Rain overdosed on illicit diet pills containing a deadly toxin known as DNP – an explosive agent originally used in the trenches of World War I – the media grabs the story and runs with it. But who’s behind the online marketing and distribution of DNP? And how is the wellness center connected? The daunting challenge of putting the pieces together falls to Detective Garcia in LA and Chen in Vancouver. Can they solve these crimes before DNP becomes the next viral TikTok challenge?
The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry – England, 1939. Sisters Hazel and Flora evacuate their London home for a rural village to escape the horrors of the Second World War. Living with the Aberdeen family in a charming stone cottage, Hazel distracts her younger sister with a fairy tale about a magical land, a secret place they can escape to that is all their own: Whisperwood. But the unthinkable happens when Flora suddenly vanishes after playing near the banks of the River Thames. Shattered, Hazel blames herself, carrying her guilt into adulthood. Twenty years later, Hazel is back in London, ready to move on from her job at a cozy rare book store to a career at Sotheby’s. But her tidy life is turned upside down when she unwraps a package containing a picture book called Whisperwood and the River of Stars. Hazel never told a soul about the fairy-tale world she created just for Flora. Could this book hold the secrets to her disappearance? Could it be a sign that Flora is still alive after all these years? Or is something sinister at play?