What We’re Reading This Winter
Winter is upon us, and it’s our favorite season for cozying up to a great book. If you’re ready to get swept up in some suspense, then go ahead and brew up your favorite warm drink, grab your coziest socks, and settle into your reading nook. The mystery suspense novels hitting shelves this winter are packed with adventures waiting to be unfolded. You won’t want to miss any of them.
Three people find their lives converging in shocking ways after someone is murdered. Hailey is caught counting cards at a casino to make ends meet, and while she's escaping she runs right into a room with a dead body. Nick is an ex-con who wants to start over, but first he's got some business he has to settle in order to get the windfall he needs…but he doesn't expect to find into Hailey cowering in the room of the man he's supposed to meet. And when Adrian learns his professional rival is dead, he almost shakes it off…until one detail about the rival's new research has him questioning everything.
In this literary thriller, strange occurrences are sweeping the U.S. via memes, which only the country's teens are able to interpret. Meanwhile, Simon is in a treatment facility after the death of his sister when he decides to break out and join two strangers on an enigmatic mission to discover the Wizard, someone who's done a lot of bad. But along their way, their journey becomes a rescue mission for the Wizard's latest captive…and then it becomes a rescue mission for the entire world.
For fans of classic mysteries, don't miss The Goodbye Coast, Joe Ide's contemporary reimagining of one of the most famous literary detectives, Philip Marlowe. In modern day Los Angeles, Marlowe is a PI who is quiet, capable, and reserved. He takes on two recent missing person cases despite his misgivings, and his investigation forces him to confront the issues with his own father, a decorated LAPD officer who turned to alcohol following his mother's death.
Jessie Mercado is a PI who is tough as nails, but she's in over her head when she's hired to find the partner of a consultant firm that specializes in helping wealthy people prepare for prison sentences. One thing's for sure, in this line of business her missing person is bound to have run into foul play. Jessie joins forces with Kendra, a Sherlock Holmes–esque figure, and together the two of them uncover a dark conspiracy that will put them directly in harm's way.
Archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson join forces once again to uncover the truth about murder on a government site. When a wealthy billionaire offers Nora's archaeological institute a hefty sum to run a dig on a site famed for its supposed alien sighting, Nora is assigned to the project. She's not expecting much, so she's shocked when they uncover two bodies and the FBI is called in. Working closely with Corrie Swanson, the two must discover who the victims are, what happened to them, and is this billionaire is somehow involved.
Desiree Pierce is a reality TV star who is found dead the morning after her 25th birthday. Because she's not exactly a media darling, the press (and the police) quickly declare her death an overdose. But Desiree's half sister Lena is instantly suspicious. Although the sisters have been estranged and Lena no longer talks to their father, a hip-hop mogul, Lena knows that the details about her sister aren't adding up. She is determined to get justice for Desiree, but doing so takes her down a perilous path that will force her to confront her family's darkest secrets.
In this sequel to The Boy from the Woods, Wilde is a man who doesn't know who he is or where he comes from, just that he appeared one day in the Ramapo Mountains without any memory of before. But his last case brought a major break in the mystery of his origins, and now he's on a mission to dive into his own past…but first, he has to unravel the clues found in a disappearance and a recent apparent suicide.
In James Patterson's latest celebrity collaboration, he teams up with singer-songwriter legend Dolly Parton to tell the story of Rose, an aspiring songwriter and singer who arrives in Nashville hoping to make her fortune. But before she finds success, the dark past she's been running from might catch up with her first.
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