Hulett Branch Library

NEW FICTION BOOKS:

The Comfort of Ghosts by Jacqueline Winspear – London, 1945: four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion, the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Psychologist and Investigator Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners and discovers that a demobilized soldier, gravely ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, has taken shelter with the group.

Come the Fall (Of Men and Horses) l by Dawn Newland – By 1924, Arizona’s expansive rangelands are grazed into red dust, the waterholes and springs dry. Thornhill, a bone-seasoned stockman, trails outlaws along the Mogollon Rim. Weary from days of heat and bad water, he pauses outlined against a high and cloudless sky. His mind drifts back to a young trailblazer in Montana; once a vanguard to the vast northbound herds, now an old Arizona cow man, chasing modern-day cow thieves.

Clete by James Lee Burke – Clete Purcel – private investigator, ex-member of the New Orleans Police Department and war veteran with a hard shell and just a few soft spots – is Dave Robicheaux’s longtime friend and partner in detective work. But he has a troubled past. When Clete leaves his car at the local car wash, only to return to find it ransacked by a group of thugs tied to the drug trade from Mexican cartels to Louisiana, it feels personal – his grandniece died of a fentanyl overdose, and his fists curl when he thinks of the dealers who sold it.

Our Little Secret by Lisa Jackson – Brooke Harmon is ready to end her brief affair. Gideon Ross is charming and sexy, but he’s not worth throwing away everything she holds dear. So she breaks it off, hoping Gideon will understand.

He doesn’t. Gideon insists that he and Brooke are meant to be together. Finally, he backs off, but not before issuing a promise: he’ll never let her go.

You’ll Never Find Me by Allison Brennan – Working alone as a private investigator is tough. Estranged from her PI family, Margo Angelhart does what she must to get by – including taking on sordid cases that pay the bills, even if she’d rather be helping those the justice system has failed. That is, until a cheating husband case she’s working intersects with her siblings’ corporate espionage investigation, forcing Margo to cooperate with the Angelhart firm.

A Choice Considered by Tracie Peterson – Melody Doyle has spent years following her father across the country as the transcontinental railroad is built. When she announces her desire to settle down in Cheyenne, her father presents her with an unconventional challenge: he will allow her to stay if she finds a husband before his departure. As word spreads and the men in town vie for her hand, she wonders if she could ever be happy with a husband chosen in such a way.