REQUIRED READING
Mrs.
Caitlin Macy (f iction, Little, Brown) The mothers at an elite Upper East Side private school gossip amongst themselves all the time, but the one woman they can’t stop talking about is the cool, elegant Phillipa Lye, married to the heir of a family-held investment bank. Secrets are uncovered, a criminal investigation intoto the bank is launched and it’s apparent that nothing in this wellheeled world is what it appears to be.
The Chateau
Paul Goldberg (f iction, Picador) Things aren’t going well for Bill, a laid-off, middle-aged journalist whose checking account is perilously low. But things start to look up for him when his college roommate, the plastic surgeon known as the “Butt God of Miami Beach,” has fallen to his death under strange circumstances. Bill hops on a plane, determined to get the story he thinks will resuscitate his career. Hilarity and Russians ensue.
The One
John Marrs (f iction, Hanover Square Press) What if a simple DNA test could tell you who your soulmate was? The company Match Your DNA is able to do just that, and millions of people worldwide have been matched. But the test comes with some serious downsides: What about the people who are mar-married, take the test and learn they’re not wellmatched? And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Some “soulmates” have secrets, and the test isn’t foolproof. A dark thriller for the Valentine’s Day skeptic.
The Ghost Notebooks
Ben Dolnick (f iction, Pantheon) When Nick and Hannah move from New York City to a small upstate town to become caretakers of a historic house, it seems like a grand adventure, haunted rumors be damned. But as the weeks go by and the weather turns colder, Nick starts to realize his girlfriend’s mental health is frayingfraying and the house no longer seems like a cozy getaway.
The Queen of Hearts
Kimmery Martin (f iction, Berkley) Zadie is a pediatric cardiologist, Emma is a trauma surgeon; the friends are both successful professionals, happily married with kids. But when a former classmate from their years at medical school turns up as their new colleague, longburied secrets emerge.
A Dangerous Crossing
Ausma Zehanat Khan (f iction, Minotaur Books) A young volunteer named Audrey has disappeared from a Syrian refugee camp on a Greek island; now, she’s implicated in the double murder of a French Interpol agent and a man who had escaped Syria. The camp is in chaos, and the investigationn has plenty of twists and turns.