September 26th
THE END OF THE WASP SEASON by Denise Mina
When Detective Inspector Alex Morrow is called in to investigate the savage killing of a young woman, she soon discovers that a tangled web of lies lurks behind the murder.
Reagan Arthur Books * 9780316069335
September 27th
ACROSS MANY MOUNTAINS: A Tibetan Family's Epic Journey from Oppression to Freedom by Yangzom Brauen
The lives of three generations of Tibetan women are forever changed when Chairman Mao’s Red Army crushes Tibetan independence, sending a young mother and her six-year-old daughter on a treacherous journey across the snowy Himalayas toward freedom.
St. Martin's Press * 9780312600136
THE AFFAIR: A Reacher Novel by Lee Child
In this prequel to KILLING FLOOR, Jack Reacher is still in the army. And there's big trouble in a small town in Mississippi, where a soldier's girlfriend is found with her throat cut from ear to ear. Local trouble? Or is the killer from nearby Fort Kelham, a giant base used by elite Army Rangers?
Delacorte Press * 9780385344326
THE BARBARIAN NURSERIES by Héctor Tobar
Héctor Tobar takes us beyond the glimmer of Hollywood and deeper than camera-ready crime stories to reveal Southern California life as it really is, across its vast, sunshiny sprawl of classes, languages, dreams and ambitions.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux * 9780374108991
COUP D’ETAT: A Dewey Andreas Novel by Ben Coes
Wanting only a peaceful, obscure life, Dewey Andreas has gone to rural Australia, far from turbulent forces that he once fought against. But powerful men, seeking revenge, have finally found him --- forcing Dewey to abandon his home and to fight for his life against a very well-armed, well-trained group of assassins.
St. Martin's Press * 9780312580766
DEFENSIVE WOUNDS by Lisa Black
Forensic investigator Theresa MacLean finds herself embroiled in a case in which everyone has a motive and everyone is a suspect --- especially when high-powered defense attorneys start turning up dead.
William Morrow * 9780061989414
DRAMA: An Actor's Education by John Lithgow
Emmy Award-winner John Lithgow shares a backstage view of his own struggle, crisis and discovery, revealing the early life and career that took place out of the public eye and before he became a nationally known star.
Harper * 9780061734977
THE FAVORED QUEEN: A Novel of Henry VIII's Third Wife by Carolly Erickson
Carolly Erickson's latest novel centers on Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII, who married him only days after the execution of Anne Boleyn and ultimately lost her own life in giving him the son he badly needed to guarantee the Tudor succession.
St. Martin's Press * 9780312596903
FEAST DAY OF FOOLS by James Lee Burke
When alcoholic ex-boxer Danny Boy Lorca witnesses a man tortured to death in the desert and reports it, Sheriff Hackberry Hollan's investigation leads to the home of Anton Ling, a regal, mysterious Chinese woman whom the locals refer to as La Magdalena and who is known for sheltering illegals.
Simon & Schuster * 9781451643114
GHOST HERO: A Lydia Chin/Bill Smith Novel by S. J. Rozan
What starts as rumors over new paintings by a dead artist quickly becomes something far more desperate --- a high-stakes crisis that PI's Lydia Chin and Bill Smith will find themselves risking everything to resolve.
Minotaur Books * 9780312544508
GOING HOME: Finding Peace When Pets Die by Jon Katz
In this moving and thoughtful book, Jon Katz addresses the difficult but necessary topic of saying goodbye to a devoted companion, and offers comfort, wisdom, and a way forward from sorrow to acceptance.
Villard * 9780345502698
HALF-PAST DAWN by Richard Doetsch
A district attorney wakes up with no memory of the previous night to find that he has made the front page of the newspaper --- as a murder victim.
Atria Books * 9781439183977
HAND ME DOWN WORLD by Lloyd Jones
This is the story of a young African mother's journey to reclaim the infant son heartlessly stolen from her.
Bloomsbury USA * 9781608196999
KILLING LINCOLN: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard recount one of the most dramatic stories in American history --- the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and how this one gunshot changed the country forever.
Henry Holt and Company * 9780805093070
L.A. MENTAL by Neil McMahon
Los Angeles has become a bedlam of murder, drugs, conspiracy and obsession, and only one man has the power to put things right.
Harper * 9780061340789
LOST MEMORY OF SKIN by Russell Banks
Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, the young man at the center of Russell Banks’s new novel must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. On probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere children might gather.
Ecco * 9780061857638
NIGHTWOODS by Charles Frazier
A young woman inherits her murdered sister’s troubled twins. Their arrival changes everything, cracking open her solitary life in difficult, hopeful and dangerous ways.
Random House * 9781400067091
OPERATION NAPOLEON by Arnaldur Indridason
Why is the US Army trying to secretively remove a plane from an Icelandic glacier, and why are they threatened by a young Icelandic rescue volunteer who manages to contact his sister before disappearing off the face of the earth?
Minotaur Books * 9780312659103
RIN TIN TIN: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean
He believed the dog was immortal. So begins Susan Orlean’s sweeping, powerfully moving story of Rin Tin Tin’s journey from orphaned puppy to movie star and international icon.
Simon & Schuster * 9781439190135
September 28th
THE REVISIONISTS by Thomas Mullen
Zed is an agent from the future, a time when the world's problems have been solved. His mission is to keep it that way. Even if it means ensuring every cataclysm throughout history runs its course --- especially The Great Conflagration, an imminent disaster in our own time that Zed has been ordered to protect at all costs.
Mulholland Books * 9780316176729
September 29th
CHANGO’S BEADS AND TWO-TONE SHOES by William Kennedy
William Kennedy’s long awaited new novel first takes us to Cuba in 1957, where American journalist Daniel Quinn has some legendary encounters and experiences, and meets the woman he will marry, and then moves to Kennedy’s beloved Albany in 1968 where political unrest could inflame a city already quivering with racial tension.
Viking Adult * 9780670022977
FICTION RUINED MY FAMILY: A Memoir by Jeanne Darst
Jeanne Darst has written an entertaining memoir of a family haunted by its own myths and its obsessive idolization of the literary life.
Riverhead Hardcover * 9781594488146
IF JACK’S IN LOVE by Stephen Wetta
In the vein of Suzanne Berne’s A CRIME IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, with a whiff of Nick Hornby’s ABOUT A BOY, Stephen Wetta's debut novel is a wry and clear-eyed coming-of-age story set in a Virginia suburb as the turmoil of the 1960s encroaches.
Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam * 9780399157523
source: bookreporter.com
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