Fiction
Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult–If your daughter needs a heart transplant and the only organ available comes from the guy on death row who murdered your husband and other daughter, do you take it?
Obedience by Will Lavender–Three college students are in a class on Logic and Reasoning where they are assigned to find a missing teenage girl in six weeks or she will be murdered.
Cross by Ken Bruen–Jack Taylor is back, this time working with his old friend Ridge to solve the gruesome murder by crucifixion of a boy in Wales.
Last Call by Blair Oliver–A collection of stories, many of them set in the Rocky Mountain West, by a Colorado writer.
Lush Life by Ricahrd Price–Price’s book traces the story of a seemingly random killing on New York’s Lower East Side. Failed actor Eric Cash is walking with two friends when one of them is gunned down. Cash’s strange description of the incident leads the police to consider him a suspect. It’s rare for all the reviews of a book to agree with one another, rarer still for them all to give starred reviews to the same book. This one they did.
Killer Heat by Linda Fairstein–Alex Cooper and Mark Chapman are on the trail of a killer who has committed a string of murders, leaving an army blanket behind at each scene.
Charley’s Web by Joy Fielding–Charley Webb agrees to write a biography of the “true story” of Jill Rohmer, a woman convicted of the murders of three children. As she is drawn into the story, however, she learns that Jill has a partner on the loose, and that he is after her son.
Hell’s Bay by James W. Hall–Beach bum Thorn gets tangled up in the murder of a wealthy Florida mine owner, to whom it turns out he is distantly related.
Kristy’s Vineyard by Anna Jacobs–Kristy is a widow who befriends an old man who leaves her his vineyard in Australia, but only on condition that she go live there for a year.
Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow–I’m not sure how to make a horror thriller about werewolves set in LA and written in verse sound appealing, but the reviews are excellent, and apparently the author made a splash in his reading at Northwest College earlier this month.
Hard Trail to Follow by Elmer Kelton–The latest in Kelton’s Texas Ranger series.
Unknown Means by Elizabeth Becka–A forensic specialist in the Cleveland Medical Examiner’s office deals with twin murders, a teenage daughter, and a shaky romance. Reviewers compare it favorably to Patricia Cornwall’s early Kay Scarpetta novels.
Compulsion: An Alex Delaware Novel by Jonathan Kellerman–The 22nd in the series.
Olive Kittridge: A Novel in Stories by Elizabeth Strout–The life and times of Olive Kittridge, a junior high teacher in a small town on the coast of Maine.
Goodbye Sister Disco by James Patrick Hunt–Debutante Cordelia is kidnapped and her boyfriend is murdered. The FBI and the St. Louis police team up to get her back, but negotiating with her rich, eccentric family is almost as difficult as dealing with the extremist group that has her.
The Dark Tide by Andrew Gross–The second solo outing for one of James Patterson’s collaborators. Karen Friedman’s hedge fund manager husband is killed by a bomb on a train in Grand Central Station. As she’s trying to get her life back together, some strange men appear at her door demanding large sums of her late husband’s money.
The Future of Love by Shirley Abbott–The foibles of two New York City couples, one old and one young, on and around September 11, 2001.
Nonfiction
Hope’s Boy by Andrew Bridge–Bridge goes from being a foster child shunted between families and facilities to being a Fulbright Scholar and a Harvard Law School graduate.
One Helluva Ride: How Nascar Swept the Nation by Liz Clarke–Just what it says, by a reporter who’s covered NASCAR for fifteen years.
Her Last Death by Susanna Sonnenberg–Sonnenberg now lives a quiet life in Montana with her husband and two children. To get there, though, she had first to escape her crazy mother, who gave her a gram of cocaine as a sixteenth birthday present and routinely seduced her daughter’s boyfriends.
Erased: Missing Women, Murdered Wives by Marilee Strong–A gripping examination of women murdered by men in America from the early 20th century through Laci Peterson.
Travels in the Greater Yellowstone by Jack Turner–A account of the author’s adventures and observations in and around Yellowstone, the Tetons, and beyond.
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle–We finally have it! Tolle’s latest is also the latest Oprah pick.
Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land by Amy Irvine–A memoir by a woman trying to balance her Mormon background and her environmental activism.
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