Two Feisty, Aging Brothers Settle Their Differences in Casares “Amigoland”

Oscar Casares.
Amigoland
Encouraged in his senior years by a good-natured housekeeper to make amends with the brother with whom he has shared a long estrangement, Don Celestino secretly liberates Don Fidencio from a nursing home and embarks on a journey to Mexico to investigate a family legend at the heart of their dispute.

Sophie Littlefield.
A bad day for sorry
Running a sewing shop in rural Missouri while helping battered women to escape from abusive environments, salty Stella Hardesty assists a woman whose ne'er-do-well husband has run off with their two-year-old, a situation for which Stella must risk her own life to recover the boy.

Amanda C. Gable.
The Confederate general rides north
A 1968 summer road trip between an impulsive mom and her Civil War-buff eleven-year-old daughter poses unexpected challenges to the young girl's faith in her mother and her loyalty to the south when it raises her awareness of her family and the history she reveres.

Kenneth Abel.
Down in the flood
Investigating an embezzlement case when his world is decimated by Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans prosecutor Danny Chaisson struggles to secure his family's safety while endeavoring to keep his suspects from using the disaster to escape. By the author of Cold Steel Rain.

Brigid Pasulka.
A long, long time ago and essentially true
Half a century after the marriage of her Polish grandparents is marred by World War II and a painful tragedy, Beata recreates their journey to KrakGow, where she encounters a youth culture torn between the city's past and future.

David Rosenfelt
.New tricks
Advocating on behalf of an adorable puppy whose owner was brutally murdered during a custody fight, Andy Carpenter realizes that the pup poss
esses a dangerous secret that several people are resorting to violence to obtain.

L. Jagi Lamplighter.
Prospero lost
Surviving with her family members for 400 years after the events of The Tempest, sorcerer's daughter Miranda enlists her siblings in a search for their missing father after receiving a warning about ancient demons who would harness their powers.

Boris Akunin ; translated by Andrew Bromfield.
Sister Pelagia and the red cockerel
In the wake of a messianic Jewish sect leader's murder aboard a steamer bound for Jerusalem, Sister Pelagia discovers that the victim was set up as a decoy while the real target tries to evade enemies, a situation that prompts her investigation throughout the Russian forests and Jerusalem's most holy sites.

Martha Moody.
Sometimes mine
Holding her other loved ones at a distance to safeguard herself from the disappointments that marked her early adulthood, cardiologist Genie Toledo shares a platonic relationship with a man with whom she once had a decade-long affair, a friendship that deepens when she learns he is terminally ill.

Karin Fossum ; translated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund.
The water's edge
When a couple discovers the body of a boy and sees a man limping away from the scene, Inspectors Konrad Sejer and Jakob Skarre make inquiries throughout the community of Solberglia and find the case complicated by another boy's disappearance and the couple's marital tensions.