Split Image by Robert B. Parker — The last novel from the recently-deceased Parker.
Fantasy in Death by J.D. Robb — Eve Dallas’s latest adventures from best-seller Nora Roberts (writing as J.D. Robb).
Able One by Ben Bova — It’s the near future, and the North Koreans have set off a nuclear explosion in space. Able One is a craft specifically designed to guard against such an attack, but much of it is still untested or even under development — but there’s no time for that now, when the future of the world hangs in the balance.
City of Dragons by Kelli Stanley — It’s Chinese New Year in San Francisco in 1940, and Japan has just invaded China, causing much tension in the multi-ethnic city. Call girl turned private eye Miranda Corbie is investigating the murder of a man named Eddie Takahashi — a murder the San Francisco chamber of commerce would much rather cover up.
Last Snow by Eric Lustbader — The next Jack McClure novel, after last year’s First Daughter.
The Bricklayer by Noah Boyd — Steve Vail left the FBI because he was fed up with the bureaucracy and now works as a bricklayer, but he is lured back in to help with the disappearance of an agent seemingly related to a bizarre organization that is demanding money — or lives — from the agency.
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow — Rachel Morse’s mother was Danish and her father was an African American GI. Her father left long ago, and now, after a devastating incident, Rachel’s mother and siblings have died, and half-white, half-black Rachel is sent to live with her father’s mother and to grapple with her identity and the tragedy that has shaped her life.
I, Sniper: A Bob Lee Swagger Novel by Stephen Hunter — Former Vietnam War sniper Bob Lee Swagger is out to solve the case of the murders of four aging anti-war radicals. Everyone assumes that their deaths are the work of another famous sniper of the era, Carl Hitchcock, but Swagger thinks differently — and now he’s in a race against a robotic sniper — the real killer — to prove his case.
Ghosts of Wyoming by Alyson Hagy — Stories about ghosts, both literal and figurative, here in our state.
Kisser by Stuart Woods — The latest Stone Barrington novel.
The Melting Season by Jami Attenberg — Determined to escape her troubled past and the man who betrayed her, Catherine Madison sets out from her Nebraska home one night with a suitcase full of cash. She lands in Las Vegas, where she befriends another woman who hopes to escape. Gradually, Catherine’s story emerges, and she finds her way forward.
Letter to My Daughter by George Bishop — When Laura Jenkins’s fifteen-year-old daughter runs away from home after a family fight, Laura is drawn back into her own troubled youth, and she spills the story out in a letter to her missing daughter while anxiously awaiting any word of her whereabouts.
Noah’s Compass by Anne Tyler — Liam Pennywell wanted to be a philosopher, but he ended up teaching fifth grade at a private school. He’s just been forced into early retirement, so he moves to a smaller apartment, but on what should be his first morning there, he wakes up instead in the hospital. Tyler’s novel follows Liam as he tries to settle into his new life and recover the missing memory of how he was attacked, and as he becomes friends with “walking fashion disaster” Eunice.
Watchlist: A Serial Thriller by Jeffrey Deaver, Linda Barnes, Brett Battles, Lee Child, David Corbett, and Jeffery Finder — Jeffrey Deaver came up with the basic plots and characters for two short novels, and then he asked a bunch of thriller writers to help flesh them out. Watchlist is the result.
The Wolf at the Door by Jack Higgins — Someone is attacking diplomats around the world, all with ties to the British Prime Minister. Sean Dillon must track down the person behind the killings — and keep from getting killed himself.
The Midnight House by Alex Berenson — CIA Agent John Wells is also on the trail of a killer, who in turn is also thought to be responsible for the deaths of a number of members of Task Force 673, a secret group that was responsible for interrogating terrorists.
A Night Too Dark by Dana Stabenow — The latest Kate Shugak mystery finds Shugak contending with a controversial gold mine, a wildlife refuge, and a misidentified dead body.
Roses by Leila Meacham — A southern plantation epic, following two families in East Texas from 1914 to 1985 as their fortunes rise and fall.
Once a Spy by Keith Thomson — Charlie Clark always thought his father, now suffering from Alzheimer’s, was just an appliance salesman, but when Drummond’s house blows up and he hotwires a car so the two can escape the people who seem to be chasing them, Charlie begins to think there may be more to his father than he ever thought.
Hell Gate by Linda Fairstein — Alexandra Cooper gets hit with two cases at once — a cargo ship with human cargo and a New York City political sex scandal — two wildly different cases that turn out to be linked. To learn how, read district attorney turned novelist Fairstein’s latest.
Bone Fire by Mark Spragg — Spragg’s latest novel centers on Griff, an artist who has dropped out of college to care for her grandfather on his ranch, on her mother, who has drowned her disappointments in booze, and on her stepfather, a sheriff investigating the case a of a local teen who was found dead in a meth lab.
Nonfiction
Hunting Booger Bottom: Life Lessons from the Field by Michael Waddell — Hunting tales from the Outdoor Channel host.
Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town by Susan Hand Shetterley — Like many of us here in Park County, Shetterly lives in a place “that has not surrendered the last of its wildness.” Her place is in Maine, but readers anywhere who value living near the wilderness will enjoy this essay collection.
Claiming Ground by Laura Bell — Laura Bell’s memoir of her time herding sheep in the Big Horn Basin and about the things that drew her to Wyoming and kept her here.
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