New Books in October 2024

I’ll Be Waiting / Kelley Armstrong
Outliving the expectations of her cystic fibrosis diagnosis, Nicola Laughton marries Anton, but after his death in a car crash goes viral as a supernatural event, a group of spiritualists offering closure hold a séance that unleashes a terrifying force.

The Drowned / John Banville
Called in from Dublin to investigate a missing person’s case, Detective Inspector Strafford soon turns to his old ally—the flawed but brilliant pathologist Quirke—but as the case unfolds, events from the past resurface that may have life-altering ramifications for all involved.

Society of Lies / Lauren Ling Brown
When her sister Naomi, about to graduate from Princeton, is found dead on campus, Maya, believing it was no accident, discovers Naomi joined the same underground society she did years ago and now every clue is leading her back to the past—and to the secrets she’s kept all these years.

In Too Deep / Lee Child & Andrew Child
Waking up handcuffed in a dark hospital room with no memory, Reacher finds himself framed for a murder, setting the stage for an explosive reckoning.

The Waiting / Michael Connelly
LAPD Detective Renee Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold and enlists a new volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: Patrol Officer Maddie Bosch, Harry’s daughter.

The Mighty Red / Louise Erdrich
In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces, and the tragic impact of big business.

The Man in Black / Elly Griffiths
Elly Griffiths has always written short stories to experiment with different voices and genres as well as to explore what some of her fictional creations such as Ruth Galloway, Harbinder Kaur, and Max Mephisto might have done outside of the novels. The Man in Black gathers these bite-sized tales all together in one volume. There are ghost stories, cozy mysteries, tales of psychological suspense, and poignant vignettes of love and loss. In the title story, Ruth Galloway crosses paths with a mysterious man in a bookstore, setting in motion a rescue mission that hinges on the legends and lore of Norfolk.

Dogs and Monsters / Mark Haddon
A collection of short stories from the author of the award-winning The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time finds inspiration in tales based on Greek mythology to examine mortality, moral dilemmas and different types of love.

The Blue Hour / Paula Hawkins
On an isolated Scottish island, a present-day discovery intimately connects three people and unveils a web of secrets and lies. By the bestselling author of The Girl on the Train.

What Does It Feel Like? / Sophie Kinsella
Eve is a successful novelist who wakes up one day in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. Her husband, never far from her side, explains that she has had an operation to remove the large, malignant tumor growing in her brain. As Eve learns to walk, talk, and write again—and as she wrestles with her diagnosis, and how and when to explain it to her beloved children—she begins to recall what’s most important to her.

The Sequel / Jean Hanff Korelitz
Anna Williams-Bonner has taken care of business. That is to say, she’s taken care of her husband, bestselling novelist Jacob Finch Bonner, and laid to rest those anonymous accusations of plagiarism that so tormented him. Now she is living the contented life of a literary widow, enjoying her husband’s royalty checks in perpetuity, but for the second time in her life, a work of fiction intercedes, and this time it’s her own debut novel, The Afterword. After all, how hard can it really be to write a universally lauded bestseller?

Women’s Hotel / Daniel Lavery
From the New York Times bestselling author and advice columnist, a poignant and funny debut novel about the residents of a women’s hotel in 1960s New York City.

Karla’s Choice: A John le Carré Novel / Nick Harkaway
George Smiley, John le Carré’s most famous spy, is drawn out of retirement in 1963 to investigate a missing man tied to a Russian defector, leading him back into the perilous world of espionage and his most cunning adversary’s secrets.

The Boyfriend / Freida McFadden
Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in NYC, has terrible luck with dating until she meets the utterly perfect, charming, handsome doctor Tom, but when a woman is brutally murdered and the suspect is a mystery man who dates his victims before he kills them, Sydney can’t shake her own horrifying suspicions.

Shock Induction / Chuck Palahniuk
A dark, satirical parable looks at a string of mysterious high school disappearances, the seedy underbellies of billionaires and the tough choices we make in the face of an uncertain future.

The Grey Wolf / Louise Penny
A missing coat, an intruder alarm, a note for Chief Inspector Gamache reading “this might interest you,” a puzzling scrap of paper with a mysterious list—and then a murder—all propel Gamache and his team toward a terrible realization: something much more sinister than any one murder or any one case is fast approaching.

The Last One at the Wedding / Jason Rekulak
Frank is shocked when his estranged daughter, Maggie, calls him for the first time in three years. He’s even more surprised when she invites him to her upcoming wedding. Determined to finally make things right, when he arrives he learns Maggie failed to mention that she’s marrying Aidan Gardner, the son of a famous tech billionaire. Feeling out of place, Frank focuses on reconnecting with Maggie and getting to know her new family. But Aidan is withdrawn and evasive; Maggie doesn’t have time for him; and the locals are disturbingly hostile to the Gardners. Frank needs to know more about the new family his daughter is marrying into, but if he pushes too hard, he could lose Maggie forever.

Polostan / Neal Stephenson
Polostan follows the early life of the enigmatic Dawn Rae Bjornberg. Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn is raised in Leningrad after the Russian Revolution by her Russian father, a party line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora. She spends her early years in Russia but then grows up as a teenager in Montana, before being drawn into gunrunning and revolution in the streets of Washington, D.C., during the depths of the Great Depression. When a surprising revelation about her past puts her in the crosshairs of U.S. authorities, Dawn returns to Russia, where she is groomed as a spy by the organization that later becomes the KGB.

The Puzzle Box / Danielle Trussoni
Two sisters. A lost imperial treasure. The world’s greatest puzzle master has twenty-four hours to solve the most dangerous mystery of his life . . . or die trying.

The Message / Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories—our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking—expose and distort our realities. Written at a dramatic moment in American and global life, this work from one of the country’s most important writers is about the urgent need to untangle ourselves from the destructive myths that shape our world—and our own souls—and embrace the liberating power of even the most difficult truths.

Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering / Malcolm Gladwell
Twenty-five years after the publication of his bestselling first book, the author returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light.

Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions / John Grisham and Jim McCloskey
Exposes ten harrowing tales of innocent Americans unjustly found guilty and convicted of crimes they didn’t commit, shedding light on the flaws within the legal system that led to their imprisonment and the relentless battles for exoneration that ensued.