Murder

  • Tender beasts

    Creator

    Sambury, Liselle

    Abstract

    After her private school is rocked by a gruesome murder, a teen tries to find the real killer and clear her brother's name in this "creepily potent story of a family legacy that gives terrifying shape to monsters real and imagined" (Kirkus Reviews), perfect for fans of The Taking of Jake Livingston and Ace of Spades. Sunny Behre has four siblings, but only one is a murderer. With the death of Sunny's mother, matriarch of the wealthy Behre family, Sunny's once picture-perfect life is thrown into turmoil.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    [S.I.]

    Margaret K. McElderry Books

    Not specified
  • The club

    Creator

    Lloyd, Ellery

    Abstract

    A Reese's Book Club Pick. Instant New York Times bestseller. "Are you ready for the roller coaster ride that is The Club? . . . A beautifully written, densely plotted murder mystery that takes place at a private club off the coast of England. Read about a luxurious, celeb-only island during a weekend of partying and ultimately murder." —Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club March '22 Pick). From the author of People Like Her comes a smart and sinister murder mystery set in the secretive world of exclusive celebrity clubs. Everyone's dying to join...

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York, NY

    Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

    Not specified
  • The house in the pines

    Creator

    Reyes, Ana.

    Abstract

    An instant New York Times bestseller! “This is an absolute, can’t-put-it-down thriller. . . . It’s truly a wild ride that had me flying through chapter after chapter—which I think is the perfect way to kick off your year of reading.”—Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club Pick, January 2023). Armed with only hazy memories, a woman who long ago witnessed her friend’s sudden, mysterious death, and has since spent her life trying to forget, sets out to track down answers. What she uncovers, deep in the woods, is hardly to be believed.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    [New York, New York]

    Dutton, an Imprint of Penguin Random House LLC

    Not specified
  • The mistress of Bhatia House : Perveen Mistry, book 4

    Creator

    Massey, Sujata

    Abstract

    Bombay’s only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex family dynamics as she seeks justice for a mistreated young woman in this thrilling fourth installment in Sujata Massey’s award-winning series. India, 1922: Perveen Mistry is the only female lawyer in Bombay, a city where child mortality is high, birth control is unavailable, and very few women have ever seen a doctor. Perveen is attending a lavish fundraiser for a new women’s hospital specializing in maternal health issues when she witnesses an accident.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York, NY

    Soho Crime

    Not specified
  • The orphan girl : a WWII novel of courage found and a promise kept

    Creator

    Palka, Kurt

    Abstract

    For fans of Kristin Harmel and Martha Hall Kelly's Lilac Girls—the bestselling author of The Piano Maker returns with a vivid, atmospheric, and deeply moving novel set during the final months of the Second World War. National Bestseller. London, 1944/45: Kate Henderson is an energetic and spirited young woman. As a trained paramedic and ambulance driver, she does her work courageously and with determination, even though underneath she is still wrestling with grief after witnessing the shooting death of her diplomat father seven years earlier.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    McClelland & Stewart

    Not specified
  • This great hemisphere

    Creator

    Askaripour, Mateo

    Abstract

    “A thrilling page-turner.”—Brit Bennett, #1 New York Times bestselling author. “Wildly imaginative.”—The Washington Post. “Askaripour soars.”—The Boston Globe. A rallying cry for anyone who has ever felt invisible. This Great Hemisphere is a powerful, captivating novel about how far we’ll go to protect the ones we love. With the worldbuilding of N. K. Jemisin’s novels and blazing defiance of Naomi Alderman’s work, it is also a story about what happens when we resist the narratives others write about us.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Dutton

    Not specified
  • This is my America

    Creator

    Johnson, Kim.

    Abstract

    "Incredible and searing."—Nic Stone, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin. The Hate U Give meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet uplifting first novel that explores the racist injustices in the American justice system. Every week, seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X, asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row. After seven years, Tracy is running out of time—her dad has only 267 days left. Then the unthinkable happens.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Random House

    Not specified
  • Two can keep a secret

    Creator

    McManus, Karen M.

    Abstract

    The "must-read YA thriller" (Bustle) from #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying about a small town with deadly secrets. "When it comes to YA suspense, Karen M. McManus is in a league of her own..." —Entertainment Weekly. Echo Ridge is small-town America. Ellery's never been there, but she's heard all about it. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen. And only five years ago, a homecoming queen put the town on the map when she was killed. Now Ellery has to move there to live with a grandmother she barely knows.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Delacorte Press

    Not specified
  • Under this red rock

    Creator

    McGinnis, Mindy

    Abstract

    A Chicago Public Library Best Teen Book of 2024. From award-winning author Mindy McGinnis comes a mesmerizing YA psychological mystery following a teen girl grappling with the death of her brother as she starts a new job in the caverns of Ohio—only to become the number one suspect in her coworker's murder. Perfect for fans of Courtney Summers and Kathleen Glasgow. Neely's monsters don't always follow her rules, so when the little girl under her bed, the man in her closet, and the disembodied voice that shadows her every move become louder, she knows she's in trouble.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    [Place of publication not identified]

    KATHERINE TEGEN BOOKS

    Not specified
  • You'll be the death of me

    Creator

    McManus, Karen M.

    Abstract

    #1 New York Times Bestseller • From the author of One of Us Is Lying comes a brand-new pulse-pounding thriller. It's Ferris Bueller's Day Off with murder when three old friends relive an epic ditch day, and it goes horribly—and fatally—wrong. Ivy, Mateo, and Cal used to be close. Now all they have in common is Carlton High and the beginning of a very bad day. Type A Ivy lost a student council election to the class clown, and now she has to face the school, humiliated. Heartthrob Mateo is burned out from working two jobs since his family’s business failed.

    Audience
    Adolescent
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Delacorte Press

    Not specified