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BIG SKY: A JACKSON BRODIE NOVEL by Kate Atkinson In the latest of the series featuring iconoclastic detective Jackson Brodie ( Case Histories, One Good Turn), the former soldier and policeman has relocated to a quiet seaside village in North Yorkshire with his teenage son and aging Labrador named Dido. While investigating yet another unfaithful husband for yet another suspicious wife, he stumbles into a sinister network that leads him back into his old life with its dark secrets and lies. CARI MORA by Thomas Harris From the legendary creator of Hannibal Lecter comes this story about a savage treasure hunter who will stop at nothing to find $25 million of Pablo Escobar’s cartel gold that is buried beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. The caregiver of the house, Cari Mora, an immigrant who has escaped violence in her native country and is on a wobbly Temporary Protected Status visa, luckily has developed some surprising survival skills along the way.
THE PARIS DIVERSION by Chris Pavone Following the bestselling The Expats, CIA agent Kate Moore is back and still living the expat life, but she has left the disasters of Luxembourg behind for a new start on Paris’s storied Left Bank along with her husband and young children. When the city is threatened with a massive terror strike (with targets including the Louvre, the Élysée Palace and the Eiffel Tower among others), she discovers the attack is not all that it seems – and worse, it has to do with her own family. Fans of Pavone’s earlier book The Travelers will also appreciate the return appearance of the most unusual, eponymous travel company.
CONNECTIONS IN DEATH by J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts) Everyone’s fave futuristic cop is back in this instalment of J.D. Robb’s sexy police procedural series set in the mid-21st century New York. As the title suggests, death hits close to home for Lieut. Eve Dallas and her beyond perfect billionaire husband Roarke when the brother of one of Roarke’s employees appears to have died of an accidental drug overdose – but, in fact, his death is just the beginning of something far more sinister. — Cynthia Ross Cravit