February 9, 2024
New Fiction
The Clinic by Cate Quinn – Meg works for a casino in LA, catching cheaters and popping a few too many pills to cope, following a far different path than her sister, Haley, a famous actress. But suddenly, reports surface of Haley dying at the remote rehab facility where she had been forced to go to get her addictions under control. There are whispers of suicide, but Meg can’t believe it. She decides that the best way to find out what happened to her sister is to check in herself – to investigate what really happened from the inside. Battling her own addictions and figuring out the truth will be much more difficult than she imagined, far away from friends, family - and anyone who could help her.
Everyone on this train is a suspect by Benjamin Stevenson – I’m Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. When the Australian Mystery Writer’s Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train through the vast Australian desert, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time. The program is a who’s who of crime-writing royalty: the debut writer(me!), the forensic science writer, the blockbuster writer, the legal thriller writer, the literary writer, and the psychological writer. But when one of us is murdered, the remaining authors quickly turn into five detectives. Together, we should know how to solve a crime. Or commit one.
Where you end by Abbott Kahler- When twenty-two-year-old Kat Bird wakes up from a coma, she sees her mirror image: Jude, her twin sister. Kat remembers nothing except Jude’s face and name. As Kat tries to relearn her history, she trusts Jude will provide the answers. But as the months progress, Kat begins to fear that Jude has been lying to her. Growing up in an isolated community, the girls studied poetry and literature-but also played games of cunning and savagery, games with dark lessons that followed them into adulthood. Now, with Kat’s mind a blank slate, Jude invents an idyllic childhood in the hope of erasing this history and all the threats it still holds. As Kat pulls at the threads of Jude’s elaborate tapestry, those threats draw closer. When the past and present finally converge, the twins must risk everything to save their unique bond – and ultimately each other’s lives.
The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins – When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest woman, she’s also it’s most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family’s estate high in the Blue Ridge Mountains. But in the aftermath of her death, her adopted son, Camden, wants little to do with the house or the money – and even less to do with the surviving McTavishes. Instead, he rejects his inheritance, settling into a normal life as an English teacher in Colorado and marrying Jules, a woman just as eager to escape her own messy past. Ten years later, his uncle’s death pulls Cam and Jules back into the family fold at Ashby House. Its views are just as stunning as ever, its rooms just as elegant, but the legacy of Ruby is inescapable. And as Ashby House tightens its grip on Jules and Camden, questions about the infamous heiress come to light. Was there any truth to the persistent rumors following Ruby’s disappearance as a girl? What really happened to those four husbands, who all died under mysterious circumstances? And why did she adopt Cam in the first place? Soon, Jules and Cam realize that an inheritance can entail far more than what’s written in a will – and that the bonds of family stretch far beyond the grave.