Chiaverini Is Back With Another Glimpse of Women’s History and Mystery In Her Quilts Series

Jennifer Chiaverini.
The lost quilter : an Elm Creek quilts novel
A continuation of The Runaway Quilt finds master quilter Sylvia Compson investigating her ancestry and discovering unexpected connections to a runaway slave and quilter who traveled the Underground Railroad to Elm Creek Farm before she was captured and returned to Virginia.

A.E. Roman.
Chinatown angel
Private investigator Chico Santana is hired by an eccentric family to find Tiffany, a Chinese American teenager who has disappeared, but when he surmises that a maid's suicide is really a murder and uncovers other suspicious events, his own life suddenlyis in danger.

Joyce Carol Oates.
Dear husband : stories
A volume of short works establishes a redefinition of family as marked by violence, in a collection that includes such titles as "Landfill," "Magda Maria," and "Suicide by Fitness Center."

Alan Brennert.
Honolulu
Journeying to 1914 Hawaii as a mail-order "picture bride," Korean-born Jin finds her hopes for education and a better life devastated by the realities of a rushed marriage to an embittered laborer; a situation throughout which she works to overcome limited opportunities and prejudice in order to improve circumstances for her fellow brides.

Emily Fox Gordon.
It will come to me
Ben, a professor of philosophy in the Humanities department of a large southern university, and his wife Ruth, a writer whose early literary success never quite blossomed into a career as a novelist, have settled into a dull routine of pot-luck dinners and endless committee meetings, until a celebrated young memoirist and her husband arrive on campus bringing with them the promise of rediscovery. A first novel

Harlan Coben.
Long lost
Contacted by a woman with whom he shared an affair years earlier, Myron Bolitar learns how she has been wrongfully accused of murdering her ex-husband, a situation that is further complicated by a long-hidden family secret.

Peter Rock.
My abandonment
Living with her father in an enormous nature preserve in Portland, Oregon, thirteen-year-old Caroline only merges with the civilized world once a week, when they venture into the city to buy groceries and attend church, but an encounter with a backcountry jogger derails their entire existence.

Kris Saknussemm.
Private midnight
Struggling with guilty secrets from his past, detective Birch Ritter is introduced to a mysterious woman who claims to have an almost supernatural capacity for understanding the inner motivations of men and who seductively tempts Ritter beyond his better judgment to uncover concealed evidence.

Michael Robotham.
Shatter
When Joe O'Loughlin fails to save a naked and distraught woman sobbing on a cell phone from jumping off a bridge into a flooded gorge below, he is shattered by the suicide, until her teenage daughter finds him and reveals that she never would have committed such a desperate act and that the answer to the mystery may lie with the voice on the other end of the phone.

Peter V. Brett.
The warded man
As darkness falls each night, the corelings rise, demons who well up from the ground like a hellish steam, and when young Arlen decides to brave the night roads and face the demons, he attempts something not dreamt of since ancient times: a stand against the night.