August 30, 2024
New Fiction
The Lost Coast by Jonathan Kellerman – Cut loose from his former life at the coroner’s office, Clay Edison has set up shop as a private investigator. It’s steady, safe work. Until it isn’t. The trouble begins when a young man, tasked with managing his grandmother’s estate, hires Clay to examine some minor financial discrepancies. What starts off as a case of simple fraud rapidly explodes into a web of deception, an elaborate con game stretching back decades and involving countless victims. All the evidence points to a tiny town on California’s rugged, remote Lost Coast. Good luck getting there, though. And Clay’s reward for surviving the journey is a trigger-happy welcoming committee, ready to guard their secrets with lethal force. Navigating this landscape of savage waves and savage lies brings Clay into collision with a host of other players: a grieving mother, an enigmatic teenager, a reclusive military veteran, a foul-mouthed PI pursuing her own agenda. And the price of the truth will turn out to be higher-and deadlier-than Clay could have imagined.
The Outlier by Elisabeth Eaves – She’s a wildly successful neuroscientist who has invented a cure for Alzheimer’s. On the verge of selling her biotech company for an obscene sum, she is about to become very rich. But Cate Winter is also carrying a secret that might derail the deal if it becomes public: she grew up at the Cleckley Institute, a treatment facility for psychopathic children. As far as she knows, she is the institute’s only success. Just as the deal is closing, Cate discovers the existence of another outlier from the institute who might prove that her success isn’t a fluke. Though his identity is confidential, she drops everything to track him down. And when she finds him, living under an assumed name in Baja California, she discovers a kindred spirit – a driven and brilliant innovator willing to do what it takes to perfect a new energy technology. Here at last, is her mirror, her ultimate collaborator, the possible answer to the enigma of her nature. But in the wake of a mysterious death, Cate can’t avoid suspecting him. Ruthless herself, she’s about to find out whether there are any moral lines she won’t cross.
Echo Road by Kendra Elliot – During a vicious heat wave, a county maintenance worker stumbles upon two suspicious suitcases abandoned by the side of the road. Sheriff Bree Taggert responds to find two bodies stuffed inside the luggage. The press demands action. The community is on edge. Suddenly, Bre is at the center of a media firestorm. In Oregon, a senator’s daughter goes missing. FBI Special Agen Mercy Kilpatrick agrees to keep the politically sensitive case on the down-low. When she finds a link between the disappearance and a double homicide three thousand miles away, Mercy takes the next plane out – and lands right in the middle of Bree’s double homicide investigation. To save the missing girl, Bree and Mercy must work together to stop a killer who’s playing deadly games with the press and stirring up public rage. Hungry for notoriety, he dares Bree and Mercy to catch him before he kills again.
Buried Too Deep by Karen Rose -Employed as the nighttime security guard of Broussard Investigations, Phineas Bishop has been working through overwhelming PTSD episodes from his army service while still utilizing his military skills. But when a violent break-in occurs at the office, the accusatory eyes of the NOPD are on Phin, and he resolves to track down the intruder and clear his name. Phin’s only lead is Cora Winslow, a spirited librarian who also needs answers. The body of her father, murdered twenty-three years ago, has just been discovered under a recently demolished building. So who has been sending her handwritten letters – written and signed by her father – every year since she was five? Someone wants to keep Cora in the dark. And now, they’re coming for her. As Cora’s self-appointed bodyguard, Phin is surprised by his growing fondness for the woman and her fierce determination and research prowess. But New Orlean’s Garden District holds secrets as old as the streets themselves. With help from the entire Broussard P.I. team, Phin and Cora enter a labyrinth of fraud and homicide that threatens to bury them all.