New Fiction | June 2025 | Bloomfield Township Public Library

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FICTION, SCIENCE FICTION, AND MYSTERY

El Dorado Drive / Megan Abbott

Facing financial ruin, three sisters in Detroit join a seemingly lucrative club called “The Wheel,” but their desperation for financial independence spirals into an addiction, leading to shocking crimes that threaten to destroy everything.
Don’t Forget Me, Little Bessie / James Lee Burke

At the dawn of the twentieth century, Bessie Holland finds strength in a suffragette mentor, battles forces threatening her Texas home and flees to New York, where she is drawn into a violent underworld that tests her unbreakable spirit.
Cry Havoc / Jack Carr

Amidst the turbulent backdrop of 1968, Navy SEAL Tom Reece navigates a clandestine mission across Vietnam and beyond, uncovering a Soviet plot that threatens to reshape global power in a high-stakes tale of espionage, betrayal and brutal realism.

Publication delayed until October 2025.
Flashlight / Susan Choi

Follows a father’s disappearance across time, nations and memory.
The Ghostwriter / Julie Clark

In June 1975, the Taylor family is shattered when two teenage siblings are found dead, leaving Vincent as the only survivor and prime suspect. Decades later, Vincent becomes a famous horror writer, while his daughter, Olivia Dumont, hides her identity. Facing financial ruin, Olivia is offered a job to ghostwrite her father’s last book, only to discover it’s not a horror novel but the true story of what happened that night in 1975.
Don’t Open Your Eyes / Liv Constantine

Shaken by premonitions of a future where she hates her husband and her daughter is in danger, Annabelle’s perfect life is shaken forcing her to decipher her visions before a single choice seals her fate and the future becomes reality.
King of Ashes / S. A. Cosby

After returning to Jefferson Run, Virginia, and family business Carruthers Crematorium—with brother Dante in debt to criminals and sister Neveah exhausted from holding everything together—Roman discovers that his father’s crash was no accident and Dante has placed them all in real danger.
The Poppy Fields / Nikki Erlick

A speculative story of healing, self-discovery, forgiveness and found friendship.
The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau / Kristin Harmel

Features two jewel thieves and a priceless bracelet that disappears in 1940s Paris and a quest for answers in a decades-old murder.
Don’t Let Him In / Lisa Jewell

When charming Nick Radcliffe enters Nina’s life, her daughter Ash grows suspicious, uncovering unsettling secrets that connect them to Martha, a florist with a husband who keeps disappearing, leading all three women toward a chilling truth they never expected.
The River Is Waiting / Wally Lamb

Corby Ledbetter, grappling with addiction, prison life, and the tragedy that shattered his family, finds unexpected kindness and connection behind bars, as he seeks redemption and hopes for forgiveness from those he’s hurt the most.
Fox / Joyce Carol Oates

After the vehicle belonging to the enigmatic new teacher at a boarding school is discovered submerged in the woods near a dead body, the community begins to unravel
Sounds Like Love / Ashley Poston

Haunted by emptiness despite her status as a coveted songwriter, Joni Lark returns to her North Carolina hometown where her family’s closing music venue sparks a mysterious telepathic connection with a guarded musician determined to complete a haunting melody.
Badlands / Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

Archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson awaken an ancient evil more terrifying than anything they’ve faced before while investigating bizarre deaths in the desert.
Atmosphere / Taylor Jenkins Reid

In 1980, professor Joan begins training for the Space Shuttle in Houston with Top Gun pilot Hank, scientist John, mission specialist Lydia, warm-hearted Donna, and aeronautical engineer Vanessa, who become unlikely friends—until December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, when everything changes in an instant.
With a Vengeance / Riley Sager

Anna Matheson lures six people onto a luxury train to expose their crimes against her family a decade earlier, but when a passenger is murdered, she must risk her life to protect those she sought to destroy
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil / V. E. Schwab

From the author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue comes a new genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger.
The Listeners / Maggie Stiefvater

June Porter Hudson struggles to maintain the elegance of the Avallon Hotel in 1942 West Virginia when it is secretly repurposed to house captured Axis diplomats, forcing her to balance wartime tensions, divided loyalties, and the covert operations of an FBI agent.
Kill Your Darlings / Peter Swanson

Wendy and Thom’s marriage is told in reverse, moving backward to witness key moments from the couple’s lives—their fiftieth birthday party, Jason’s birth, the mysterious death of a colleague—all painting a portrait of a marriage defined by a terrible act they plotted together years ago.
So Far Gone / Jess Walter

Rhys Kinnick has gone off the grid. At Thanksgiving a few years back, a fed-up Rhys punched his conspiracy-theorist son-in-law in the mouth, chucked his smartphone out a car window and fled for a cabin in the woods, with no one around except a pack of hungry raccoons. Now Kinnick’s old life is about to land right back on his crumbling doorstep. With the help of his caustic ex-girlfriend, a bipolar retired detective, and his only friend (who happens to be furious with him), Kinnick heads off to find his missing grandchildren through cultural lunacy and the rubble of a life he thought he’d left behind.