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The New Books I am most looking forward to in February of 2020!
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz - by Erik Larson. Larson's book, The Devil in White City (about America's first serial killer, and the Chicago Worlds Fair), is one of my all time favorite books. I'm looking forward to reading his new book about Churchill.
The Other Mrs. by Mary Kubica (author of The Good Girl). If there is such a thing as "light psychological thriller", that's what I think of with books like this. I won't be required to think to hard at all, but it will be a fast paced read that I don't want to put down. At least, that is what I have come to expect from Kubica.
Historical Fiction
(Fiction based on or in real historical settings)
Feb 4 - The Light After The War by Anita Abriel - Inspired by an incredible true story of two Jewish friends who survived the Holocaust, this sweeping novel of love and friendship spans World War II from Budapest to Austria and the postwar years from Naples to Caracas
Feb 4th - Veiled In Smoke By Jocelyn Green - Set during the Chicago Fire
Feb 11 - Above the Bay Of Angels by Rhys Bowen. Historical Mystery set in Queen Victoria's royal kitchen
Feb 11 - Cherokee America by Margaret Verble - A novel about life as a Cherokee after the Civil War
Feb 12 - The Snow Collectors by Tina May Hall- Haunted by the loss of her parents and twin sister at sea, Henna cloisters herself in a Northeastern village where the snow never stops. When she discovers the body of a young woman at the edge of the forest, she’s plunged into the mystery of a centuries-old letter regarding one of the most famous stories of Arctic exploration―the Franklin expedition, which disappeared into the ice in 1845.
Feb 18th - The Blossom & The Firefly by Sherri Smith - "From the award-winning author of Flygirl comes this powerful WWII romance between two Japanese teens caught in the cogs of an unwinnable war, perfect for fans of Salt to the Sea, Lovely War, and Code Name Verity."
Feb 20 IN THE UK - Under a Wartime Sky by Liz Trenow - an enthralling historical novelbased on real-life events at a top-secret wartime research station. Telling the story of the heroes behind the discovery of radar,
Feb 25 - Red Letter Days by Sarah-Jane Stratford - When two brave women flee from the Communist Red Scare, they soon discover that no future is free from the past.
Find a Much Longer List Of Historical Fiction Releases here:
Psychological Thrillers
(These are the unreliable narrators, things are not what they seem, mysteries that do not involve detectives of amateur sleuths. When well done, they are hard to put down until you know how they end.)
Feb 4th - Behind Every Lie by Christina McDonald (Author of The Night Olivia Fell)
Psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis struggle to make sense of a seemingly inexplicable massacre in this electrifying psychological thriller
Feb 11 - Dead To Her by Sarah Pinborough (Author of Behind Her Eyes) - a twisty psychological thriller about a savvy second wife who will do almost anything to come out on top
Feb 18th - The Holdout By Graham Moore begins with a jury deliberating a sensational murder case. One woman changes the verdict - but was she wrong? 10 years later the jurors are brought together for a documentary, and one of them is found dead in anothers hotel room. "As the present-day murder investigation weaves together with the story of what really happened during their deliberation, told by each of the jurors in turn, the secrets they have all been keeping threaten to come out—with drastic consequences for all involved."
Feb 25 - Follow Me by Kathleen Barber - With “compelling, suspenseful” (Liz Nugent) prose, Kathleen Barber’s electrifying new thriller will have you scrambling to cover your webcam and digital footprints.
Detective Novels
(Mysteries featuring Private Investigators, or detectives of some sort)
Feb 4 - Golden In Death by J.D. Robb - Book 50 in the Eve Dallas series
Feb 4 - Alone In the Wild by Kelly Armstrong- Book 5 in the Casey Duncan series. A detective series set in a " town made for people like her, a town that takes in people on the run who want to shed their old lives. You must apply to live in Rockton and if you're accepted, it means walking away entirely from your old life, and living off the grid in the wilds of Canada: no cell phones, no Internet, no mail, no computers, very little electricity, and no way of getting in or out without the town council's approval"
Feb 4 - A Cold Trail By Robert Dugoni - Book 7 in the Tracy Crosswhite Series. In New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni’s riveting series, Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite returns home to a brutal murder and her haunted past.
Feb 25 - Pretty As A Picture by Elizabeth Little - A wickedly funny exploration of our cultural addiction to tales of murder and mayhem and a thrilling, behind-the-scenes whodunit, Pretty as a Picture is a captivating page-turner from one of the most distinctive voices in crime fiction
Cozy Mysteries
(These typically have amateur sleuths, little to no graphic scenes, and are as much about the life and antics of those around the murder as about the actual murder)
Death by Chocolate Frosted Doughnut by Sarah Graves - Book 3 in The Death By Chocolate Mysteries.
Feb 25 - Coconut Layer Cake by Joanna Fluke - Book 25 in the Hannah Swensen Series
Find a Full List Of February Cozy Mystery Releases Here:
General Fiction
Feb 4 - The Misfortunes Of Family By Meg Little Reilly - As petty jealousies surface, Philip, the youngest, reveals a surprising personal decision that earns the ribbing—or is it scorn?—of his brothers, JJ, Spencer and Charlie. Then the senator unexpectedly announces his desire for another political run. Not everyone is on board, especially matriarch Patty, who is keenly aware of the toll it will take on their private lives. Suddenly closely held family secrets start tumbling out and keep coming, including the biggest one that will rock this family to the core.
Feb 4 - The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley - Julian Jessop, an eccentric, lonely artist and septuagenarian believes that most people aren't really honest with each other. But what if they were? And so he writes--in a plain, green journal--the truth about his own life and leaves it in his local café. It's run by the incredibly tidy and efficient Monica, who furtively adds her own entry and leaves the book in the wine bar across the street. Before long, the others who find the green notebook add the truths about their own deepest selves--and soon find each other In Real Life at Monica's Café.
Feb 6 - Grown Ups by Marian Keyes. A close knit family keeps their secrets close, until one member gets a concussion and begins spilling the beans.
Feb 11 - Postscript by Cecelia Ahern - Sixteen years after Cecelia Ahern's bestselling phenomenon PS, I Love You captured the hearts of millions, the long-awaited sequel follows Holly as she helps strangers leave their own messages behind for loved ones.
Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal An inventive, Muslim, Retelling of Pride & Prejudice.
Non Fiction
Feb 6 - A Bit Of A Stretch by Chris Atkins - A shocking and darkly funny account of the reality of Britain's prison
Feb 11 - American Sherlock By Kate Winkler Dawson - Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI - Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiosities--beakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and hundreds upon hundreds of books--sat an investigator who would go on to crack at least two thousand cases in his forty-year career. Known as the "American Sherlock Holmes," Edward Oscar Heinrich was one of America's greatest--and first--forensic scientists, with an uncanny knack for finding clues, establishing evidence, and deducing answers with a skill that seemed almost supernatural.
Young Adult
Feb 4 - A Good Girls Guide To Murder by Holly Jackson. Young Adult Crime Thriller - A High School Senior studies a 5 year old murder suicide as her final class project, and finds that the murder may not have been at all what it seemed.
Feb 4 - Yes, No, Maybe So by Becky Albertali. A book about the power of love and resistance
Feb 4 - The Queens Assassin by Melissa De La Cruz - The first in a new series.
Feb 4 - The King Of The Crows by Libba Bray. Book 4, and the finale, of the Diviners Series. Supernatural Historical Fiction Series.
Feb 4 - Alice By Heart By Steven Sater - A young girl takes refuge in a London Tube station during WWII and confronts grief, loss, and first love with the help of her favorite book, Alice in Wonderland
Feb 11 - The Language Of Cherries by Jen Marie Hawkins - When Evie Perez is cut off from everything she loves and forced to move to Iceland for the summer, she takes her canvas and paintbrushes into the picturesque cherry orchard behind her guesthouse. She stains her lips with stolen cherries in the midnight sun and paints a boy she s never met. Oskar is startled to discover Evie in his family s orchard, and even more surprised to see himself on her canvas. Too ashamed to reveal his stutter, he remains silent as Evie returns day after day to paint, spilling confessions she would not even tell her priest. As Evie s life back home unravels, Oskar wants to comfort her with words, but he knows he s waited too long, so he uses music instead. But when it all comes to the surface, he knows that if Evie cannot forgive him for lying, he may never forgive himself for surviving.
Feb 11 - The Last Confession of Autumn Casterly by Meredith Tate - deals with sensitive topics including Rape, billed as a Young Adult Thriller. It's reviewing VERY well with those who received advance copies.
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