Happy New Year! Kick off 2024 with some of these great new releases! Whether you’re going to stick to the genres you typically read or try different ones as part of your new year’s resolutions, we’ve got you covered! Did you know our Adult Winter Reading Challenge starts on January 6? Register online here: Winter Reading Challenge, in person at the Adult Services desk, or on the Beanstack app.
Alex Michaelides. The Fury.
Lana Farrar, reclusive ex-movie star, invites her closest friends to her private Greek island every year. They found themselves trapped there overnight with a murderer amongst them. Old friendships concealed hatred and hidden truths rose to the surface. The night ended in violence and death, as one of the guests was murdered. Narrator Elliot Chase, one of the guests, promises to tell a tale of murder and a love story unlike any you’ve heard before.
Kiley Reid. Come and Get It.
It’s 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie’s starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardized by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue.
Benjamin Stevenson. Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect.
Invited to the Australian Mystery Writers’ Society crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, Ernest Cunningham is looking for inspiration for his next book. Fiction, this time. The program is a who’s who of crime writing royalty. When one is murdered, the remaining authors quickly turn into detectives. Together, they should know how to solve a crime. Of course, they should also know how to commit one. How can you find a killer when all the suspects know how to get away with murder?
Rachel Hawkins. The Heiress.
Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore, the victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House. When she dies, her adopted son, Camden, wants nothing to do with her house, money, or his family. He rejects his inheritance and settles into a normal life in Colorado. Ten years later, his uncle’s death brings him and his wife, Jules, back to Ashby House. As the house tightens its grip on them, questions about Ruby come to light. Soon, they realize that inheritance can entail far more than what’s written in a will–and that family bonds stretch far beyond the grave.
Daisy Goodwin. Diva.
In the glittering and ruthlessly competitive world of opera, Maria Callas was known simply as la divina: the divine one. But her fame was hard won: raised in Nazi-occupied Greece by a mother who mercilessly exploited her golden voice, she learned early in life to protect herself from those who would use her for their own ends. When she met the fabulously rich Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, for the first time in her life, she believed she’d found someone who saw the woman within the legendary soprano. She fell desperately in love. He introduced her to a life of unbelievable luxury. And then suddenly, it was over. The international press announced that Aristotle Onassis would marry the most famous woman in the world, former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, leaving Maria to pick up the pieces.
Check out the full list here: January Coming Soon