Somehow we find ourselves drawing near to the end of March already, so we want to make sure you don’t miss out on hearing about some of these great book releases that have come out this month! From Girls Burn Brighter featuring a strong female friendship, to Chris Bohjalian’s mystery novel which sees a flight attendant discover a dead body next to her when she wakes. Then there’s Carrie Rubin’s The Bone Curse where a man is infected and begins to spread a disease when he returns to America.
Read on to discover our picks and tell us which one you are most excited for in the comments below!
Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao | Goodreads
Set in India and America, a once-in-a-lifetime friendship sees two girls driven apart but they never stop trying to find one another again. Tackling the most urgent issues facing women today: domestic abuse, human trafficking, immigration, and feminism. At once a propulsive page-turner and a heart-wrenching meditation on friendship, Rao’s debut novel is a literary tour de force.
The Last Equation of Isaac Severy by Nova Jacobs | Goodreads
The Family Fang meets The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry in this literary mystery about a struggling bookseller whose recently deceased grandfather, a famed mathematician, left behind a dangerous equation for her to track down—and protect—before others can get their hands on it.
The Broken Girls by Simone St. James | Goodreads
In 1950 Vermont, Idlewild Hall is a place for girls–the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the too smart for their own good. The small town believes the boarding school to be haunted whilst four roommates bond over their fears, until one disappears…. Jumping forward to 2014, journalist Fiona Sheridan cannot stop revisiting the events surrounding her older sister’s death. Despite her sister’s boyfriend being convicted of murder, she can’t stop her suspicions, especially with Idlewild Hall being restored, and the renovations unveiling secrets…
Census by Jesse Ball | Goodreads
A widower is informed he doesn’t have long to live and becomes concerned for the care of his adult son who lives with Down syndrome. With a desire to see the country one last time, he signs up as a census taker for a mysterious governmental bureau and leaves town with his son. On their travels, they encounter a wide range of human experience and as they journey on, he must face the burning question: just how will he learn to say good-bye to his son?
Bone Music by Christopher Rice | Goodreads
Charlotte Rowe spent the first seven years of her life in the hands of the only parents she knew—a pair of serial killers who murdered her mother and tried to shape Charlotte in their own twisted image. If only the nightmare had ended when she was rescued. Instead, her real father exploited her tabloid-ready story for fame and profit—until Charlotte finally broke free from her ghoulish past and fled. Just when she thinks she has buried her personal hell forever, Charlotte is swept into a frightening new ordeal.
The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian | Goodreads
Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. She’s a binge drinker, her job with the airline making it easy to find adventure, and the occasional blackouts seem to be inevitable. When she awakes in a Dubai hotel room, she tries to piece the previous night back together, especially when she discovers the man beside her in bed is utterly still. Lies on top of lies, soon it’s too late to come clean-or face the truth about what really happened back in Dubai. Could she have killed him? If not, who did?
The Brightest Sun by Adrienne Benson | Goodreads
In beautiful, evocative prose, Adrienne Benson brings to life the striking Kenyan terrain as these women’s lives intertwine in unexpected ways. As they face their own challenges and heartbreaks, they find strength traversing the arid landscapes of tenuous human connection. With gripping poignancy, The Brightest Sun explores the heartbreak of loss, the struggle to find a sense of belonging and the surprising ways we find our family and home.
The Hollow Tree by James Brogden | Goodreads
After losing her hand in a tragic accident, Rachel is plagued by vivid nightmares of a hollow tree, and a hand reaching from it, begging her for help. Terrified that she is going mad, Rachel experiences phantom sensations of leaves, trees, and finally a hand that grasps hers and pulls a young woman into Rachel’s world. She has no idea of who she is, but Rachel can’t help but think of the local legend of Oak Mary, the corpse of a woman found hidden in a hollow tree, and who was never identified. Three myths have grown up around the body; was she a spy, a prostitute or a murdered gypsy?
Gods of Howl Mountain by Taylor Brown | Goodreads
Bootlegger Rory Docherty has returned home to the fabled mountain of his childhood. Slowed by a wooden leg and haunted by memories of the Korean War, Rory runs bootleg whiskey for a powerful mountain clan. Rory becomes bewitched by the mysterious daughter of a snake-handling preacher, but his grandmother opposes this match for her own reasons, believing that “some things are best left buried.” When Rory’s life is threatened, Granny must decide whether to reveal what she knows…or protect her only grandson from the past.
The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea | Goodreads
In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel De La Cruz, known affectionately as Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies herself, leading to a farewell doubleheader. Across one bittersweet weekend in their San Diego neighborhood, the revelers celebrate the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought them to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home.
The Bone Curse by Carrie Rubin | Goodreads
Ben Oris, a pragmatic med student from Philadelphia, gets cut by an old bone while touring the Paris catacombs. His companion Laurette, a public health student from Haiti, senses danger and worries an evil curse now runs through him. But when people close to him succumb to a grisly illness and a dark priest pursues him, his skepticism wavers. Could a bone from an 18th-century skeleton with a frightening history really cause modern-day disease?
The Terminal List by Jack Carr | Goodreads
An intoxicating thriller that cautions against the seduction of absolute power and those who would do anything to achieve it, The Terminal List is perfect for fans of Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, Stephen Hunter, and Nelson DeMille.
