It’s a new year and we have some great new books to start 2023 off right! Also our Adult Winter Reading Challenge - Get Lost in a Good Book starts this month on January 7. Register at www.shpl.info/wrc or on your Beanstack app. This year we are playing Bingo for the Challenge and you can earn a completion gift as well as raffle tickets towards our Grand Prizes. Please join us for this Challenge…we can't wait to hear about what you’re reading this winter.
Rachel Hawkins. The Villa
While on a girls trip to Italy with her best friend, Chess, Emily discovers their high-end villa was once the scene of a brutal murder, and, digging into the past, finds the truth seeping into the present as dangerous betrayals emerge.
Grady Hendrix. How to Sell a Haunted House
Forced to return to the small Southern town where she grew up to sell her late parents house, Louise discovers that her and her brother's old grudges pale in comparison to the terror that still lurks within its walls.
Kat Rosenfield. You Must Remember This
When 85-year-old Miriam Caravasios slips through the ice to her death, Delphine, a frightened and insecure young woman who adored her grandmother, falls under scrutiny when it is revealed that Miriams will cut off her children, leaving her almost everything and emboldening her to find the truth.
Marie Benedict. The Mitford Affair
After her sister Diana divorces her wealthy husband to marry a fascist leader and her sister Unity follows Diana to Munich, inciting rumors that she's become Hitlers mistress, novelist Nancy Mitford, after uncovering disquieting documents, must make difficult choices as Great Britain goes to war with Germany.
P.J. Tracy. The Devil You Know
When a beloved actor is found dead the day after a fake video ruins his career, LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan uncovers a scandalous deception of deadly proportions that shakes the very foundation of Hollywood and its untouchables.
Jane Harper. Exiles
Federal Investigator Aaron Falk is on his way to a small town deep in Southern Australian wine country for the christening of an old friend's baby. This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of young mother Kim Gillespie's disappearance. As Falk soaks up life in the lush valley, he is welcomed into the tight-knit circle of Kim's friends and loved ones. But the group may be more fractured than it seems. Between Falk's closest friend, the missing mother, and a woman he's drawn to, dark questions linger as long-ago truths begin to emerge.
Check out the full list here: January New Books