Lis Angus 12/31/21 Lis Angus 12/31/21

The Incident

Two teenagers confront a world turned upside down by a devastating storm series, and are forced to make decisions they never thought they'd have to face.

Lis Angus 12/21/21 Lis Angus 12/21/21

The Devil to Pay

by Barbara Fradkin.

Ottawa police Inspector Green is back, and his rebellious daughter Hannah is now a police rookie determined to solve a case that her superiors say she should keep out of.

Lis Angus 10/3/21 Lis Angus 10/3/21

The Plot

by Jean Hanff Korelitz.

Evan, one of Jacob Bonner’s writing students dies without finishing the book he was writing. Jacob decides to write a book using Evan’s plot. It makes him wealthy and famous, but then the threats start.

Lis Angus 10/3/21 Lis Angus 10/3/21

At First Sight

by Sharon Michalove.

When Cress crashed into an Oxford undergraduate with her bike, she didn’t know that he’d still remember her twenty years later—or that she’d be needing his protection from an anonymous stalker.

Lis Angus 8/22/21 Lis Angus 8/22/21

Fallen

by Linda Castillo.

Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates a violent murder in Painter’s Mill, in the heart of Ohio’s Amish farm country. Thirteenth in a series.

Lis Angus 8/22/21 Lis Angus 8/22/21

False Witness

by Karen Slaughter.

“The past is never where you think you left it.” This dedication, a quote from Katrine Anne Porter, opens this immersive and terrifying novel.

Lis Angus 7/30/21 Lis Angus 7/30/21

Finding Tessa

by Jaime Lynn Hendricks.

Jace’s wife Tessa is missing – and there’s broken glass and blood on the kitchen floor. Has somebody taken her, or is Jace to blame for what happened?

Lis Angus 7/30/21 Lis Angus 7/30/21

I Don’t Forgive You

by Aggie Blum Thompson.

Allie Ross flirts with a man at a suburban party. The next day he’s found dead, and she’s accused of his murder.

Lis Angus 5/30/21 Lis Angus 5/30/21

Local Woman Missing

by Mary Kubica.

Eleven years ago, a woman went missing. And shortly after, so did six-year-old Delilah and her mother. Now Delilah has been found. But it’s not clear what happened—or what is still unfolding.

Lis Angus 5/30/21 Lis Angus 5/30/21

Never Far Away

by Michael Koryta.

Nina Morgan was killed ten years ago by assassins working for her former boss. When her husband—the only one who knows she’s still alive—dies in a freak accident, their teenage daughter dials the number she’s been told to call, reaching “Aunt Leah.” But this triggers events that quickly spin out of control.

Lis Angus 5/30/21 Lis Angus 5/30/21

Black-Eyed Susans

by Julia Heaberlin

Tessa can’t remember 32 hours of her life: the hours during which she was abducted by a serial killer and left for dead. Now a man is about to be executed for the crime, but is he actually innocent?

Lis Angus 5/30/21 Lis Angus 5/30/21

Exit

by Belinda Bauer.

When Felix realizes that he’s helped the wrong man “shuffle off this mortal coil” –and he’s liable to be accused of murder–he needs to find out what’s going on.

Lis Angus 4/21/21 Lis Angus 4/21/21

The Push

by Ashley Audrain.

“The women in this family, we’re different.” Have the personal failings of past generations been passed on to the present? When a mother and baby don’t seem to bond, whose problem is it?

Lis Angus 4/21/21 Lis Angus 4/21/21

The Ancient Dead

by Barbara Fradkin

A long-buried human skeleton. A photo of a cowboy in front of a weathered farmhouse. An uncle who’s been missing for thirty years. Amanda Doucette searches for connections —but someone wants to stop her.

Lis Angus 4/18/21 Lis Angus 4/18/21

A Million Reasons Why

by Jessica Strawser.

Two strangers discover they’re linked by a DNA test. Long-held family secrets are exposed. This novel, published in March 2021, was named one of the “12 Most anticipated books of 202.1.”

Lis Angus 4/18/21 Lis Angus 4/18/21

Before She Disappeared

by Lisa Gardner.

Frankie Elkin is an ordinary woman who will stop at nothing to find missing people everyone else has given up on. She’s in Boston, looking for a missing teenage girl, Angelique.

Lis Angus 3/30/21 Lis Angus 3/30/21

The Water Rat of Wanchai

by Ian Hamilton.

The first book in the Ava Lee series. Ava, a brilliant young Chinese-Canadian forensic accountant and martial arts practitioner, agrees to try to recover the $5 million an international seafood scammer stole from her client, travelling to Hong Kong, Thailand, Guyana, and the British Virgin Islands in her quest.

Lis Angus 3/30/21 Lis Angus 3/30/21

A Match Made for Murder

by Iona Whishaw.

Two murders, two investigations. One in Tucson AZ where Lane Winslow and her new police inspector husband are honeymooning, the other back home in Nelson BC. The seventh novel in this series delivers twists and surprises while taking us back to the late 1940s.

Lis Angus 3/30/21 Lis Angus 3/30/21

Still Life

by Val McDermid.

A body pulled out of the sea. A skeleton found in a camper van. Historic Cases detective Karen Pirie’s investigations turn hot, as the past intrudes on the present.

Lis Angus 3/30/21 Lis Angus 3/30/21

A Song for the Dark Times

by Ian Rankin.

Retired Edinburgh policeman John Rebus is 70 and has COPD, but his daughter Samantha wants his help to find her missing partner. And his former protégé on the force, Siobhan Clarke, is investigating the murder of a rich young Saudi student.