Need a new read for the month? Well there’s plenty of fiction book releases for you to love from mysteries and thrillers, to a little historical fiction! If you’re looking to get lost in history, pick up Julia Kelly’s The Light Over London or Lynda Cohen Loigman’s The Wartime Sisters. Or if a good thrill and a little action is what you need, pick up Simon Gervais’ Hunt Them Down! But if mystery is of more interest to you, there’s plenty to choose from such as Emma Rous’s The Au Pair, Gytha Lodge’s She Lies In Wait, or Alex Lake’s The Last Lie.
Read on to discover our picks and tell us if you will be reading any in the comments below!
True Places by Sonja Yoerg
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A girl emerges from the woods, starved, ill, and alone…and collapses. Suzanne Blakemore hurtles along the Blue Ridge Parkway and encounters the girl. As Suzanne rushes her to the hospital, she never imagines how the encounter will change her—a change she both fears and desperately needs. After her discovery of the ethereal sixteen-year-old who has never experienced civilisation, Suzanne is compelled to invite Iris into her family’s life and all its apparent privileges. Now Suzanne can’t help but wonder: Is she destined to save Iris, or is Iris the one who will save her?
The Light Over London by Julia Kelly
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Reminiscent of Martha Hall Kelly’s Lilac Girls and Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale, this sweeping, entrancing story is a must-read for fans of remarkable women rising to challenges they could never have predicted.
The Au Pair by Emma Rous
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A grand estate, terrible secrets, and a young woman who bears witness to it all. If V. C. Andrews and Kate Morton had a literary love child, Emma Rous’ The Au Pair would be it.
Golden Child by Claire Adam
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A deeply affecting debut novel set in Trinidad, following the lives of a family as they navigate impossible choices about scarcity, loyalty, and love.
The Perfect Liar by Thomas Christopher Greene
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A seemingly perfect marriage is threatened by the deadly secrets husband and wife keep from each other, for fans of B.A. Paris and Paula Hawkins.
Looker by Laura Sims
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A dazzling, razor-sharp debut novel about a woman whose obsession with the beautiful actress on her block drives her to the edge.
The Last by Hanna Jameson
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Historian Jon Keller is on a trip to Switzerland when the world ends. Twenty people remain in Jon’s hotel. Far from the nearest city and walled in by towering trees, they wait, they survive. Then one day, the body of a young girl is found. It’s clear she has been murdered. Which means that someone in the hotel is a killer. As paranoia descends, Jon decides to investigate. But how far is he willing to go in pursuit of justice? And what kind of justice can he hope for, when society as he knows it no longer exists?
She Lies In Wait by Gytha Lodge
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On a scorching July night in 1983, a group of teenagers goes camping in the forest. By morning, Aurora has disappeared. Her friends claim that she was safe the last time they saw her, and so an exhaustive investigation is launched, but no trace of the teenager is ever found. Thirty years later, Aurora’s body is unearthed in a hideaway that only the six friends knew about, and Jonah Sheens is put in charge of solving the long-cold case.
Golden State by Ben H. Winters
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Golden State is an ambitious and frighteningly timely novel set in a world where everything is recorded and no one can be trusted. For anyone who loved The Handmaid’s Tale, The Power and Station Eleven.
The Wartime Sisters by Lynda Cohen Loigman
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Hunt Them Down by Simon Gervais
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As a former Army Ranger, DEA Special Agent Pierce Hunt is no stranger to violence. Fresh off a six-month suspension, he’s itching to hit a notorious Mexican drug cartel where it hurts, even if that means protecting crime boss Vicente Garcia, a witness in the case against sadistic cartel leader Valentina Mieles. But things spiral out of control when the cartel murders Garcia and kidnaps his granddaughter and an innocent bystander, Hunt’s own teenage daughter.
The Last Lie by Alex Lake
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For Claire Daniels, life is good. She has everything she’s ever wanted – a career she loves, friends she can rely on and a husband who dotes on her. All she needs is to start a family of her own and things will be even better than good. For Alfie, it couldn’t be more different. His life with Claire is built on a lie. A lot of lies. And she can never find out. Because Alfie has plans for her. Plans which must never come to light. But lies have a way of taking on a life of their own, and when his do, the consequences threaten to destroy everything. For him and Claire.
