Get Your Hands on These New and Upcoming Titles
It’s not an April Fool’s joke when we say that this month has some great books coming out!
Kate Parker knows she’s billionaire Hank Tudor’s sixth marriage, so she’s not expecting much. She’s especially not expecting to find the headless corpse of a woman who may or may not be wife number 5. Six meets Succession in Karen Olsen’s "An Inconvenient Wife," a fun modern twist on Henry VIII.
Gory body horror meets tender love story in "Someone You Can Build a Nest in" by John Wiswell. A hungry sentient blob disguised as a human finds refuge with a kindly woman whose family is out for revenge, forcing both to grapple with who the real monsters are.
In examining shipwrecks–from the ships to their cargo, and then expanding out to the world they sailed in and why they sank, David Gibbins offers a fascinating take on world history in "A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks."
"The King of Diamonds" by Rena Pederson tells of a notorious jewel thief who broke into the homes of Dallas’s elite, often while their owners were still there. The thief was never found, but this thrilling and suspenseful read offers a credible suspect.
The son of travel bloggers, lived in 27 different places and is determined not to move again. As he sets in motion his plan to build roots, he also teams up with a new friend in his apartment building to solve a robbery in Gillian McDunn’s middle grade read, "Trouble at the Tangerine."
Three teens meet up at the Bastille Invitational tennis tournament in "The Misdirection of Fault Lines" by Anna Gracia. In this story of friendship, family and elite tennis, Violetta has the perfect life on social media but is starting to crack under parental pressure. Alice is reeling from her father’s recent death and Leylah needs to prove herself after being betrayed by her former best friend.