http://mppl.org/books-movies-more/lists-and-suggestions/?category=books&list=New+Fiction+in+January+2025
List: New Fiction in January 2025
Beautiful Ugly
A year after his wife Abby mysteriously disappeared, author Grady Green, still consumed by grief, retreats to a remote Scottish island only to encounter a woman who looks exactly like the wife he lost.
Checking status…
Better Than Friends
When Olive's off-the-grid parents go missing, she reluctantly turns to her ex, Noah, a National Park Service agent, for help, forcing them both to confront their unresolved past in the seventh novel of the series following The Summer Escape.
Checking status…
Big Empty
When Elvis Cole finds himself shadowed by a gang of vicious criminals, a missing-persons cold case becomes far more sinister, and soon he must call his ex-Marine friend Joe Pike for help.
Checking status…
Clever Little Thing
After her daughter Stella begins mimicking the personality of her deceased babysitter, Blanka, pregnant Charlotte becomes convinced that Blanka has possessed her child, leading her on a chilling and obsessive quest to uncover the truth and save her daughter.
Checking status…
The Crash
Tegan is eight months pregnant and her world is crashing down around her. The father of her baby wants nothing to do with her and has promised to make her life hell. She's lost her job at the convenience store. And she has no idea what she's going to do to take care of little one. In a last ditch effort to find help and get away from the threats of her ex, Tegan heads out in a storm to drive to her brother's. But she never arrives. Tegan wakes in a ditch, having skidded off the road. Stranded and terrified, she's taken in by a couple living in a remote farmhouse. But they may have ulterior motives and Tegan soon realizes she's stuck in the middle of nowhere at the mercy of strangers. The nightmare she's running from is nothing compared to where she's headed.
Checking status…
Good Dirt
The daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom in this moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake, a Read with Jenna Book Club Pick.
Checking status…
Grave Danger
Jack Swyteck’s new client fled Iran to Miami with her daughter, and has been accused of kidnapping by her husband. To stop the father from taking the girl back to Tehran, Jack must build a case under international law and prove that returning the child would put her at risk. But everything in this case isn’t what it seems, and Jack quickly learns that his client is really the child’s aunt and that the biological mother may have been killed by Iran’s morality police. But what role did the father play in his wife’s death, and why is Jack’s wife, FBI Agent Andie Henning, being pressured by her bosses to persuade Jack to drop the case?
Checking status…
Homeseeking
An epic and intimate tale of one couple across sixty years as world events pull them together and apart, illuminating the Chinese diaspora and exploring what it means to find home far from your homeland.
Checking status…
The Inheritance
The Agarwal family gathers on a private Scottish island for a reunion where patriarch Raj plans to announce his company's succession, but as long-held secrets, personal betrayals, and simmering tensions rise, the reunion takes a deadly turn, leaving someone murdered in their wake.
Checking status…
More or Less Maddy
Maddy Banks is just like any other stressed-out sophomore at NYU. Between schoolwork, navigating life in the city, and a recent breakup, it’s normal to be feeling overwhelmed. But Maddy’s latest low is devastatingly low, and she goes on an antidepressant. She begins to feel good, dazzling in fact, and she soon spirals high into a wild and terrifying mania that culminates in a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. As she struggles to find her way in this new reality, navigating the complex effects bipolar has on her identity, her relationships, and her life dreams, Maddy will have to figure out how to manage being both too much and not enough.
Checking status…
Never Say Never
After her husband of twenty-five years leaves her for a younger male lover, Oona Kelly Webster takes her anniversary trip to France alone, where after renting a house called La Belle Florence, she risks love with her friendly Trinidadian neighbor, a well-known actor.
Checking status…
The Note
May Hanover, always the rule-following "Little Sheriff," reunites with her childhood friends Lauren and Kelsey for a carefree trip to the Hamptons, but when a drunken prank goes disastrously wrong, May becomes the focus of a police investigation and begins questioning whether her friends are hiding dangerous secrets.
Checking status…
The Oligarch's Daughter
From the New York Times bestselling author of House on Fire, a breakneck thriller that marries the dynastic opulence of Succession with the tense and disorienting spy-craft of The Americans. Paul Brightman is a man on the run, living under an assumed name in a small New England town with a million-dollar bounty on his head. When his security is breached, Paul is forced to flee into the New Hampshire wilderness to evade Russian operatives who seem to be able to predict his every move. Flash to six years earlier, when Paul was a rising star on Wall Street who fell in love with a beautiful photographer named Tatyana-unaware that her father was a Russian oligarch, the object of considerable interest from several US intelligence agencies. In order to save his own life, Paul must unravel a decades-old conspiracy that extends to the highest reaches of the government. The Oligarch's Daughter is a breakneck thriller and the perfect successor to the great Cold War spy novels, built for the frightening world we live in now.
Checking status…
Onyx Storm
After nearly 18 months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail must seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre, and she will do anything to save what she loves--her dragons, her family, her home, and him.
Checking status…
Order of Swans
To Kaley Arens, a PhD student in folklore, fairy stories have always had a power and an allure beyond mere entertainment. It’s only when Kaley accompanies her lifelong friend Jobi on a visit to his island home that she realizes how much she still has to learn. Bellis is actually another world—stunningly beautiful and seductive, with its own rules, and inhabitants who breathe life into the tales she was taught were fiction. Tasked with locating a lost prince, Kaley and her companions journey through a land both thrilling and terrifying, where the uncanny and the familiar go hand in hand. But in fairy tales, heroes and villains are easy to discern. Here, nothing is quite as it seems
Checking status…
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Vendetta
When a hacked database known as the Files upends the intelligence community, with careers destroyed and assassinations spreading from Europe to the U.S., Treadstone sends Jason Bourne to get or destroy them before the Chinese or the Russians--and Bourne's ex-lover, treacherous spy Johanna, may be the only one who can help him.
Checking status…
See How They Hide
When murder victims are found in different parts of the country in the same unusual position the same night, Matt Costa and his team discover that both victims had escaped from Colorado's Havenwood cult and are being hunted one by one.
Checking status…
Shattering Dawn
When PI Gideon Sweetwater disrupts the kidnapping of Amelia Rivers, they escape and return to the ruins of the hotel where Amelia lost a night to amnesia before gaining powers, desperate to stop a killer and the people who are conducting illegal experiments with a dangerous drug designed to enhance psychic abilities.
Checking status…
The Stolen Queen
In 1978, as a valuable Egyptian artifact disappears during the Met Gala, Met curator Charlotte Cross and young assistant Annie Jenkins embark on a high-stakes search that leads them to Egypt, where Charlotte must confront an ancient curse and the haunting tragedy of her past.
Checking status…
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
Cate Kay, a reclusive bestselling author, has concealed her identity for years, but when a devastating tragedy from her past resurfaces, she's forced to confront the secrets that derailed her dreams and return to the place she's been running from.
Checking status…
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Four teenage girls trapped in a secretive maternity home for unwed mothers in 1970 St. Augustine, Florida, find an unexpected source of power through witchcraft.
Checking status…