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Publication Date:  March 14, 2023 Format:  E-book Genre:   Thriller/Mystery  Publisher:  Minotaur Books Length:   376 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Antonia Scott—the daughter of a British diplomat and a Spanish mother—has a gifted forensic mind, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary. But after a personal trauma, she's refused to continue her work or even leave her apartment. Jon Gutierrez, a police officer in Bilbao—disgraced, suspended, and about to face criminal charges—is offered a chance to salvage his career by a secretive organization that works in the shadows to direct criminal investigations of a highly sensitive nature. All he has to do is succeed where many others...

Publication Date:  June 6, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Horror  Narrators:  Andre Santana Publisher:  Dreamscape Media Length:   5 hours 28 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis An insidious darkness threatens to devastate a rural New England village when occult forces are conjured and when bigotry is left unrestrained. After a recent string of disappearances in a small Connecticut town, a grieving widower with a grim secret is drawn into a dangerous ritual of dark magic by a powerful and mysterious older gentleman named Heart Crowley. Meanwhile, a member of local law enforcement tasked with uncovering the culprit responsible for the bizarre disappearances soon begins to learn of a current of unbri...

Publication Date:  May 9, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Suspense Thriller  Narrators:  JayAaseng Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:   11 hours 50 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis A pair of desperate parents. A man on the run. A rookie cop. Four people with everything on the line. What will be left in the ashes of the next 24 hours? Following their daughter's mysterious disappearance, Ryan and Elsie Delaney have taken the LAPD forensic lab hostage, and have given law enforcement an ultimatum: Find their daughter, Tilly, or they will destroy all the evidence they can find to other cold cases. Detective Charlie Hoskins has been undercover in a deadly motorcycle gang for five years. With his co...

Publication Date:  July 5, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   Cozy Mystery Narrators:  Ian Moore Publisher:  Farrago Length:   7 hours 43 min Buy:  Paperback  |  Audio Synopsis Richard is a middle-aged Englishman who runs a B&B in the Vallée de Follet. Nothing ever happens to Richard, and really, that’s the way he likes it. Until scandal erupts in the nearby town of Saint-Sauver when its famous restaurant is downgraded from three Michelin stars to two. The restaurant is shamed, the town is in shock, and the leading goat cheese supplier drowns himself in one of his own pasteurization tanks. Or does he? Valérie d’Orçay, who staying at the B&B while house-hunting in the area, isn’t convinced that it’s a suicide. Despite his misgivings, Richard is drawn into Valérie’s investigation, and finds...

Publication Date:  May 9, 2023 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Dystopian/YA Publisher:  Wednesday Books  Length:   269 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis As an autistic scholarship student at the prestigious Webber Academy in New York City, Waverly is used to masking to fit in—in more ways than one. While her classmates are the children of the one percent, Waverly is getting by on tutoring gigs and the generosity of the school’s charming and enigmatic dean. So when her tutoring student and resident “it girl” asks Waverly to attend the school’s annual fundraising Masquerade disguised as her, Waverly jumps at the chance—especially once she finds out that Ash, the dean’s ...

Publication Date:  March 13, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Romantic Suspense Narrators:  Ada Sinclair, James Cassidy Publisher:  Audion Media Length:   8 hours 54 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis One look.  One moment.  One girl.  She was all it took for me to lose my focus.  My whole life changed in the blink of an eye.  The power addicting.  The control I craved.  The authority lethal.  It was mine.  She. Was. Mine.  Sienna Contessa Luciano, soon to be...  Mrs. Martinez.  My wife.  Whether she wanted to be or not....   Review: Apparently there is another book called El Diablo which is the story of Cruz's father, but now the son is taking up the mantel of The Dev...

Publication Date:  October 15, 2019 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Fantasy/Magical Realism Publisher:  Quick Quill Publishing  Length:   330 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis In a game of hide and seek, the Fae will always win. All the fairy tales told us they were right under our feet. If only we'd believed them... Sarah watched as the Fae lured millions of men and women to their death in one night. Then did what anyone would. She ran. They offer Sarah an impossible choice: become a contender in the strange underground Fae games or die. Can Sarah learn enough fairy magic to make it past the first challenge, or will she become another victim of the Fae games lo...

Publication Date:  January 25, 2022 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Rom/Com Publisher:  Kensington Books  Length:   350 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis Faith I should’ve known it wouldn’t work out. In all my twenty-nine years, life has never been smooth sailing when a man was involved. Astor Hill was everything I’ve ever wanted in a partner—handsome, successful, and interested in me. Until he started cheating. The cherry on the sundae is finding out the truth less than two weeks before we’re supposed to stand up for our best friends at their wedding. When a staggeringly good-looking and kind stranger com...

Publication Date:  May 23, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Time Travel/Mystery Narrators:  Kate Handford Publisher:  MacMillan Audio Length:   14 hours 52 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Edinburgh, 1869:  Modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson is adjusting to her new life in Victorian Scotland. Her employers know she’s not housemaid Catriona Mitchell—even though Mallory is in Catriona’s body—and Mallory is now officially an undertaker’s assistant. Dr. Duncan Gray moonlights as a medical examiner, and their latest case hits close to home. Men are dropping dead from a powerful poison, and all signs point to the grieving widows… the latest of which is Gray’s oldest sister. Poison is said to be a woman’s ...

Publication Date:  November 27, 2018 Format:  Audio Genre:   Cozy Mystery Narrators:  Cris Dukehart Publisher:  Dreamscape Media Length:   8 hours 34 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis The proprietor of Miracle Books in Miracle Springs, North Carolina, Nora Pennington believes that a well-chosen novel can bring healing and hope. But she and the other members of the Secret, Book, and Scone Society know that sometimes practical help is needed too. Such is the case with the reed-thin girl hiding in the fiction section of Nora’s store, wearing a hospital ID and a patchwork of faded bruises. She calls herself Abilene but won’t reveal much else. And when a customer is found dead in an assumed suicide, Nora ...

Publication Date:  May 2, 2023 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Women's Fiction   Publisher:  The Dial Press Length:   324 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Soila is a lucky girl by anyone’s estimation. Raised by her stern, conservative mother and a chorus of aunts, she has lived a protected life in Nairobi. Soila is headstrong and outspoken, and she chafes against her mother’s strict rules. After a harrowing assault by a trusted family friend, she flees to New York for college, vowing never to return home. New York in the 1990s is not what Soila imagined it would be. Instead of finding a golden land of opportunity, Soila is shocked by the entitlement of her wealthy American classmates and the poverty she sees in the streets. She befriends a Black A...

  Publication Date:  October 30, 2018 Format:  Audio Genre:   Cozy Mystery Narrators:  Cris Dukehart Publisher:  Dreamscape Media Length:   8 hours 31 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis A quirky club in small-town North Carolina holds the keys to health, happiness, friendship—and even solving a murder—all to be found within the pages of the right book… Strangers flock to Miracle Springs hoping the natural hot springs, five-star cuisine, and renowned spa can cure their ills. If none of that works, they often find their way to Miracle Books, where, over a fresh-baked “comfort” scone, they exchange their stories with owner Nora Pennington in return for a carefully chosen book. That’s Nora’s special...

  Publication Date:  May 9, 2023 Format:  Audio Genre:   Greek Mythology Narrators:  Beth Eyre Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:   11 hours 9 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis When Princess Atalanta is born, a daughter rather than the son her parents hoped for, she is left on a mountainside to die. But even then, she is a survivor. Raised by a mother bear under the protective eye of the goddess Artemis, Atalanta grows up wild and free, with just one condition: if she marries, Artemis warns, it will be her undoing.  Although she loves her beautiful forest home, Atalanta yearns for adventure. When Artemis offers her the chance to fight in her name alongside the Argonauts, the fiercest band of warriors ...