Books – New Releases

SOME EXCITING NEW RELEASES TO ADD TO YOUR CHRISTMAS WISHLIST…

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WISH YOU WERE HERE BY JODI PICOULT

Diane O’Toole is on the brink of achieving all her life goals, both personally and professionally. As an art specialist at Sotheby’s, she is close to being offered her dream promotion, and she believes her surgical resident boyfriend is going to pop the question on their planned holiday to the Galapagos to celebrate her thirtieth birthday. However, when a deadly pandemic breaks out in New York her boyfriend can’t leave but insists she takes the trip anyway. As the pandemic worsens across the globe, Diane finds herself quarantined on the Galapagos with her luggage lost and virtually no WIFI. Finding herself stuck and surrounded by strangers, she begins examining and revaluating her life, her goals and herself. A profound tale of loneliness, resilience, and hope.

MERCY BY DAVID BALDACCI

Following on from Long Road to Mercy, A Minute to Midnight and Daylight, FBI Agent Atlee Pine is close to finding out what happened to her twin sister, Mercy, who was abducted when they were only six years old. The incident has destroyed her family and left Atlee physically and mentally scarred. She has spent years searching for her parents and sister and now she is close to finding answers. Helped by her assistant, Carol Blum, Agent Atlee uncovers a trail of secrets, lies, greed and revenge which leads her to face one final challenge. But she soon learns that it is much more dangerous and deadly than she could ever have anticipated. GO TELL THE BEES THAT I AM GONE BY DIANA GABALDON

Go Tell the Bees that I Am Gone is ninth book, from a planned ten, in the phenomenally popular Outlander series. It’s 1779 and Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall are finally reunited with their daughter, Brianna, and her family after the Jacobite War tore them all apart twenty years previously. For Fraser, having his whole family together is a dream he had believed impossible. However, the American Revolution is dividing communities and they know it won’t be long before war arrives to their part of North Carolina. Meanwhile the danger that forced them to chose life in the 1700s over the twentieth century is threatening to catch up with them. As war creeps ever closer, the family must battle for survival against enemies on all sides.

AUTOPSY BY PATRICIA CORNWEL

Set in post-pandemic America amid political and civil unrest. Forensic Pathologist Kay Scarpetta has been appointed chief medical examiner in Virginia, tasked with cleaning up the mess following years of mismanagement and neglect left by her predecessor, who is now the new health commissioner of Virginia. A few weeks in, Scarpetta is called to examine the body of a woman who has been brutally murdered, her throat cut almost to the point of decapitation. At the same time, a catastrophic accident at a top-secret laboratory in outer space leaves two scientists dead. Scarpetta must work remotely to discover what happened, while closer to home the apparent serial killer strikes again. Her investigation leads her into a world of corruption and danger.

FEAR NO EVIL BY JAMES PATTERSON

Alex Cross is back in the 29th instalment of this bestselling series. On a family vacation to the rugged mountains of Montana, Alex Cross and Detective John Sampson find themselves in the crosshairs of two rival teams of assassins, with Alex eventually becoming the main target. It is a tense and exhausting battle to save himself and his family from a mastermind who has stalked them for years. Although this is part of a series, it can be read as a stand alone novel. A high octane and utterly gripping page turner. e

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