Kinsella’s Flapper Ghost Stirs Up the 21st Century in “Twenties Girl”

Sophie Kinsella.
Twenties girl
Entreated by the bossy ghost of her great aunt to track down a missing necklace, Lara Lington finds her search challenged by her floundering start-up business, her best friend's defection, and her unfaithful boyfriend.

Jennifer Weiner.
Best friends forever
Addie Downs and Valerie Adler were close until a betrayal during their teen years drove them apart; but twenty years later, a terrified Val shows up on Addie's doorstep wearing a bloody coat, pushing them both into a wild adventure where they must rely on one another again.

Tanya Huff.
The Enchantment Emporium
Moving to Calgary to take over her late grandmother's junk shop, charm-caster Alysha Gale learns that she will be serving the fey community, which proves to be deeply troubled with problems that may be more than Alysha's family can solve.

Rob Stennett.
The end is now
Long-time family residents of a small midwest town, the Hendersons struggle with such difficulties as father Jeff's fears for his family's safety, mother Amy's stir-crazy certainty that God meant more for her life, son Will's perplexity over fifth grade, and daughter Emily's determination to be homecoming queen. By the author of The Almost True Story of Ryan Fisher.

J. A. Jance.
Fire and ice : a Beaumont and Brady novel
Struggling to solve a series of murders in which young women were wrapped in tarps and set on fire, a breakthrough in the case sends Seattle investigator J.P. Beaumont to Sheriff Joanna Brady's jurisdiction in Arizona as the sheriff works on her own puzzling case.

Steve Martini.
Guardian of lies : a Paul Madriani novel
Paul Madriani investigates the case of a woman accused of murder and a million-dollar heist, a trial that will unravel a conspiracy involving rare coins, an ex-CIA agent, a former Soviet scientist, and a missing nuclear device being prepared for a trip to the U.S.

Katherine Howe.
The physick book of Deliverance Dane
Forced to set aside her Ph.D. research in order to help the settling of her late grandmother's abandoned home, Connie Goodwin discovers a hidden key among her grandmother's possessions that is linked to a darker chapter in Salem witch trial history.

James Lee Burke.
Rain gods
Starting a new life as the sheriff of a dried-out, broken-down border town in south Texas, Hackberry Holland is drawn into a murder investigation when nine dead prostitutes are dug up in the desert, forcing him to focus on something other than his own demons.

Elizabeth Adler.
There's something about St. Tropez
Brought together by a rental scam for which they arrive at the same small seaside hotel, five international vacationers including television detective Mac Reilly, his girlfriend Sunny, and their intrepid canines find themselves sorting out the lives of the victims, a situation that is further complicated by an international art heist, a murder, and a haunting.

Joe R. Lansdale.
Vanilla ride
Best friends and freelance troublemakers Hap Collins and Leonard Pine assist an old friend in rescuing his daughter from an abusive drug dealer, and wind up enraging the Dixie Mafia.