New Books 9/4/17
There’s no shortage of thrillers this week including the next-to-the-last letter mystery by Sue Grafton, the latest medical mystery by Robin Cook, and a British mystery that is one of Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Mysteries of the Year.
The Accomplished Guest by Ann Beattie
A collection of stories set along America’s East Coast and featuring themes related to guests and visitors explores unconventional friendships, frustrated loves, mortality, and aging.
Charlatans by Robin Cook
New chief resident Dr. Noah Rothauser investigates a series of deadly anesthesia errors during routine procedures and begins to have suspicions about a resident who has created multiple Internet personas for herself.
The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter
Decades after an attack on her family that left her mother dead and her sister traumatized, a New York-based lawyer returns to her hometown to help her father save the life of a young woman accused of a school shooting.
Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton
Kinsey Millhone monitors the release from prison of a sociopath who is determined to exact revenge on a fellow perpetrator who went missing after they sexually assaulted a fourteen-year-old classmate.
Map of the Heart by Susan Wiggs
Accompanying her aging father on a trip to his native France, a widowed photographer is led by his memories of World War II to revelations about their family’s history at the same time she bonds with an American historian.
Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner
After yet another disastrous Internet date, Manon Bradshaw, a devoted and respected member of the Cambridgeshire police force, receives a late night alert on her police radio that sends her to a puzzling crime scene.
Putin’s Gambit by Lou Dobbs
Navigating a brutal Wall Street job, former Marine Derek Walsh discovers an inexplicable $200 million money transfer on his computer before he is plunged into a KGB plot to use terrorist attacks as cover for a Russian military incursion into Estonia.
Ready or Not! By Michelle Tam
The creators of the popular blog and New York Times best-selling cookbook return with another collection of delicious, nourishing paleo recipes, as well as kitchen hacks, ingredient guides and meal plans.
The Red-Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk
Hired to find water on a barren plain during the hot summer, a master well digger and his young apprentice develop a filial bond neither has known until the boy becomes fatefully attracted to a red-haired actress from a traveling theatre company.
Room of White Fire by T. Jefferson Parker
A marine-turned-private investigator struggling from the recent death of his wife races against time to track down a shattered young soldier who has escaped from a mental institution and who possesses a dangerous secret.
The Saboteur by Andrew Gross
Putting his personal life on hold to join the Norwegian resistance during World War II, engineer Kurt Nordstrum makes a daring escape to London to transmit secret evidence of the Nazis’ progress towards building an atomic bomb.
Sulfur Springs by William Kent Krueger
While searching for a missing rehab counselor in the Arizona desert, Cork O’Connor and his new bride, Rainy Bisonette, land themselves in the middle of a violent power struggle along the Mexican border.
Tornado Weather by Deborah Kennedy
When a disabled 5-year-old goes missing while wheeling herself the short distance between her school bus and home, small-town secrets and suspicions collide as the pieces of what is known are put together.
