October 25, 2024
New Fiction
The Last One at The Wedding by Jason Rekulak - It’s been three years since Frank Szatowski last heard from his daughter, and he’s devastated by their long, unhappy estrangement. But then an unexpected phone call from Maggie changes everything: she says she’s getting married, and she wants her father to walk her down the aisle. Frank is overjoyed by the news. Here at last is a chance for reconciliation – a perfect opportunity to repair their fractured relationship. But a disturbing discovery about his future son-in-law leads Frank to wonder if Maggie is making a terrible mistake. And once he arrives at the wedding – an extravagant three-day affair set at a luxurious lakefront estate- the warning signs keep piling up. Can Frank unravel the truth about Maggie’s fiancé before it’s too late?
The Incredible Winston Browne by Sean Dietrich – Folks in Moab live for ice cream socials, baseball, and the local paper’s weekly gossip column. Sheriff Winston Browne has watched over Moab with a generous eye for a decade, and by now he’s used to handling the daily dramas that keep life interesting for Moab’s quirky residents. But just after Winston receives some terrible, life-altering news, a seemingly mute runaway with no clear origin arrives in Moab. The residents do what they believe is right and take her in – until two suspicious strangers arrive and begin looking for her. Suddenly Winston has a child in desperate need of protection – as well as a secret of his own to keep. With the help of Moab’s good-hearted townsfolk, the humble and well-meaning Winston Browne still has some heroic things to do. He finds romance, family, and love in unexpected places. He stumbles upon adventure, searches his soul, and grapples with the past. In doing so, he just might discover what a life well-lived truly looks like.
I’ll Be Waiting by Kelley Armstrong – Nicola Laughton never expected to see adulthood after being diagnosed with cystic fibrosis as a child. Then medical advances let her live into her thirties, and she met Anton, who taught her to dream of a future…together. But, mere months after getting married, Anton died in a horrible car crash, uttering to her with his final breath, “I’ll be waiting for you.” After someone from the crash scene begins saying it wasn’t Anton who said the words, but his ghost, hovering over his body, Nicola has been hounded by spiritualists promising closure. In the hope of stopping her downward spiral, friends and family find a reputable medium to perform a séance at the Lake Erie beach house Anton’s family once owned. The medium has barely begun when things start happening. Locked doors mysteriously open. Clouds of insects engulf the house. Nicola hears footsteps and voices and the creak of an old dumbwaiter…in an empty shaft. And, unbeknownst to the others, this isn’t Nicola’s first time contacting the dead, as she’s quickly haunted by nightmares of her past. That’s when she finds the first body…
The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz – Anna Williams-Bonner has taken care of business. That is to say, she’s taken care of her husband, novelist Jacob Finch Bonner, and laid to rest those anonymous accusations of plagiarism that so tormented him. Now she is living the contended life of a literary widow, enjoying her husband’s royalty checks in perpetuity, but once again a work of fiction intercedes, and now it’s her own debut novel. After all, how hard can it be to write a universally lauded bestseller? But when Anna indulges in her own literary acclaim, she begins to receive excerpts of a novel she never expected to see again, a novel that should no longer exist. That it does means someone knows far too much: about her late brother, her late husband, and just possibly…Anna herself. What does this person want, and what are they prepared to do? She has come too far, and worked too hard, to lose what she values most: the sole and uncontested right to her own story. And she is, by any standard, a master storyteller.