The Night She Disappeared, By Lisa Jewell
September 7
On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend.
One year later, a writer moves into a cottage on the edge of the woods that border the same estate. Known locally as the Dark Place, the dense forest is the writer’s favorite area for long walks and it’s on one such walk that she stumbles upon a mysterious note that simply reads, “DIG HERE.”
Could this be a clue towards what has happened to the missing young couple? And what exactly is buried in this haunted ground?
With her signature “rich, dark, and intricately twisted” (Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author) prose, Lisa Jewell has crafted a dazzling work of suspense that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final page.
September 14
A thrilling novel of love, loyalty, and espionage, based on the incredible true story of Elizabeth Bentley, a Cold War double agent spying for the Russians and the United States, from USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Marie Thornton
Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeny
September 10th
I'm not familiar with this author, but her books review well. This is another "unreliable narrator" book. It looks like it will be a good, quick, thriller.
Things have been wrong with Mr and Mrs Wright for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage needs. Self-confessed workaholic and screenwriter Adam Wright has lived with face blindness his whole life. He can’t recognize friends or family, or even his own wife.
Every anniversary the couple exchange traditional gifts--paper, cotton, pottery, tin--and each year Adam’s wife writes him a letter that she never lets him read. Until now. They both know this weekend will make or break their marriage, but they didn’t randomly win this trip. One of them is lying, and someone doesn’t want them to live happily ever after.
Ten years of marriage. Ten years of secrets. And an anniversary they will never forget.
Rock Paper Scissors is the latest exciting domestic thriller from the queen of the killer twist, New York Times bestselling author Alice Feeney.
Apples Never Fall by Lianne Moriarty
September 14
The Husbands Secret, What Alice Forgot, Big Little Lies.. three of Moriarty's books are among my favorite reads. This new one doesn't sound quite as appealing to me, but it's on my to read list nonetheless. :-)
"The Delaney family love one another dearly—it’s just that sometimes they want to murder each other . . .If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father? This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings."
The Stolen Lady by Laura Morelli
September 21
"The Stolen Lady is a dual timeline tale about the art saved by the French during World War 2 with a particular focus on the Mona Lisa. Set in Florence in 1479 and during World War 2 in France, the book follows two women separated by centuries who hide the famous painting with unintended results. In 1479, Leonardo da Vinci paints his now iconic masterpiece, and a revolt against the Medicis leads to the disappearance of the painting. Hundreds of years later, a woman working at the Louvre is tasked with keeping the art and other treasures in the Louvre safe from the Nazis and finds herself trying to stay one step ahead of the Germans in a complex game of cat-and-mouse."
Cloud Cuckoo Island By Anthony Doerr
September 28
With so many of this months reads feeling like something I have already read before, the new book from Anthony Doer stands out for it's uniqueness. I don't know if I will like this. Those who have received advanced copies either loved it, or hated it - no one fell in between. It will certainly be different then everything else currently on my to read list.
"Set in Constantinople in the fifteenth century, in a small town in present-day Idaho, and on an interstellar ship decades from now, Anthony Doerr’s gorgeous third novel is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope—and a book. In Cloud Cuckoo Land, Doerr has created a magnificent tapestry of times and places that reflects our vast interconnectedness—with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us, and with those who will be here after we’re gone.
Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. This she reads to her ailing sister as the walls of the only place she has known are bombarded in the great siege of Constantinople. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, miles from home, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the invading army. His path and Anna’s will cross.
Five hundred years later, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno, who learned Greek as a prisoner of war, rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon’s story, preserved against all odds through centuries. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager, Seymour. This is another siege. And in a not-so-distant future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon, told to her by her father. She has never set foot on our planet.
Like Marie-Laure and Werner in All the Light We Cannot See, Anna, Omeir, Seymour, Zeno, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders who find resourcefulness and hope in the midst of gravest danger. Their lives are gloriously intertwined. Doerr’s dazzling imagination transports us to worlds so dramatic and immersive that we forget, for a time, our own. Dedicated to “the librarians then, now, and in the years to come,” Cloud Cuckoo Land is a beautiful and redemptive novel about stewardship—of the book, of the Earth, of the human heart."
The Man Who Died Twice, byt Richard Osman
September 28
"Richard Osman is back with everyone’s favorite mystery-solving quartet, and the second installment of The Thursday Murder Club series is just as clever and warm as the first—an unputdownable, laugh-out-loud pleasure of a read."
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This is the series I've been reading lately, and I have been so in love with them that I rarely reach for anything else right now. Definitely read them in order if you can. There are no plot points ruined if read out of order, but there's just something about the way you get to know the characters book by book. They are so much better when read in order.
The mysteries are solid. The poetry and art described makes me want to look up the paintings and search for where the verses originated. In a world of contention and rudeness, three pines is an imperfect, utterly charming without being trite, breath of fresh air. A touch of wackiness without being silly, a touch of community charm without being a hallmark movie, a touch of gritty police procedural without being severe, all with a touch of Agatha Christie. Seriously the best thing I've read in ages, and I'm only half way through the series.
Survive The Night By Riley Sager
Local Author
Riley Sager grew up in Washingtonville, graduated from Danville High School
Survive the Night was not my favorite. If you have not read anything by Sager, I recommend starting with Home Before Dark. It's the perfect Halloween read, and it's one of my favorites by Sager. See all of his books here: https://amzn.to/3BU0BtC
Her Deadly Touch by Lisa Regan
Another local grown author, Lisa Regan grew up in Bloomsburg, graduating from Bloomsburg University. Her Josie Quinn series would be on my to read list even if she was not a local author. Book 12 was released August 2021.
Kate Burkholder Book 13 was released in July 2021.
This Amish Mystery series is not a cozy mystery - they are some of the most graphic books I read, and I end up skipping sections in some of the earlier ones in particular - because the can be a bit too graphic for me. They are quite good, and worth skipping over scenes as needed in those few.
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Coming In October:
I didn't make it through a Gentleman In Moscow, it went into my Did Not Finish pile. But his new book, about the Lincoln Highway, looks interesting, and I may give it a try. https://amzn.to/3l2Y5KM
From Patti Callahan, the bestselling author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis, comes another enchanting story that pulls back the curtain on the early life of C. S. Lewis. “Where did Narnia come from?” The answer will change everything. https://amzn.to/2YEJ8XJ
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