It’s Tuesday! That means it is time to make a little bit of room on the
bookshelves, load up your ereader, or make your way to your local
library. In other words – It is time to get your hands on a new book!
Here are just a few books that have just been released that you may want to grab soon:
Before: Julia had a twin brother, a boyfriend, and a best friend.
After: She has a new identity, a new hometown, and memories of those
twenty-two minutes that refuse to come into focus. At least, that’s what
she tells the police.
Now that she’s Lucy Black, she’s able to begin again. She’s even
getting used to the empty bedroom where her brother should be. And her
fresh start has attracted the attention of one of the hottest guys in
school, a boy who will do anything to protect her. But when someone
much more dangerous also takes notice, Lucy’s forced to confront the
dark secrets she thought were safely left behind.
One thing is clear: The damage done can never be erased. It’s only just beginning. . . .
blockbuster suspense novel in the pulse-pounding Temperance Brennan
series, from #1 New York Times bestselling author and forensic
anthropologist Kathy Reichs.
For every case Temperence
Brennance has solved, there remain innumerable unidentified bodies in
her lab. Information on some of these is available online, where amateur
sleuths sometimes take a stab at solving cases. One day, Tempe gets a
call from Hazel “Lucky” Strike, a web sleuth who believes she’s
successfully connected a body in Tempe’s lab to a missing persons report
on an eighteen-year-old named Cora Teague. Since the bones in her lab
do seem to match Cora’s medical records, Tempe looks into the case,
returning to the spot where the bones were originally found. What seems
at first to be an isolated tragedy takes on a more sinister cast as
Tempe uncovers two more sets of bones nearby. When she then learns that
the area is known as a viewing point for a famous unexplained light
phenomenon with significance for a local cult, Tempe’s suspicious turn
to murder by ritual sacrifice—a theory thrown into question when Hazel
herself turns up dead. Still reeling from her mother’s diagnosis and the
shock of Andrew Ryan’s potentially life-change proposal, Tempe races to
solve the murders before the body count climbs further.
comes a gripping historical thriller featuring a young Queen Elizabeth I
thrust into a web of treachery, power, and lust at the height of the
Ottoman Empire.
The year is 1546, and Suleiman the Magnificent,
the powerful and feared Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, issues an
invitation to every king in Europe: You are invited to send your finest player to compete in a chess tournament to determine the champion of the known world.
Thousands
converge on Constantinople, including the English court’s champion and
his guide, the esteemed scholar Roger Ascham. Seeing a chance to
enlighten the mind of a student, Ascham brings along Elizabeth Tudor, a
brilliant young woman not yet thrust into royal duties.
Yet on
the opening night of the tournament a powerful guest of the Sultan is
murdered. Soon, barbaric deaths, diplomatic treachery, and unimaginable
depravity—sexual and otherwise—unfold before Elizabeth and Ascham’s
eyes. The pair soon realizes that the real chess game is being played
within the court itself…and its most treacherous element is that a
stranger in a strange land is only as safe as her host is gracious.
delightful novel about a talented chef and the food critic who brings
down her restaurant—whose chance meeting turns into a delectable romance
of mistaken identities.
In downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Lou
works tirelessly to build her beloved yet struggling French restaurant,
Luella’s, into a success. She cheerfully balances her demanding business
and even more demanding fiancé…until the morning she discovers him in
the buff—with an intern.
Witty yet gruff British transplant Al
is keeping himself employed and entertained by writing scathing reviews
of local restaurants in the Milwaukee newspaper under a pseudonym. When
an anonymous tip sends him to Luella’s, little does he know he’s arrived
on the worst day of the chef’s life. The review practically writes
itself: underdone fish, scorched sauce, distracted service—he unleashes
his worst.
The day that Al’s mean-spirited review of Luella’s
runs, the two cross paths in a pub: Lou drowning her sorrows, and Al
celebrating his latest publication. As they chat, Al playfully
challenges Lou to show him the best of Milwaukee and she’s game—but only
if they never discuss work, which Al readily agrees to. As they explore
the city’s local delicacies and their mutual attraction, Lou’s
restaurant faces closure, while Al’s column gains popularity. It’s only a
matter of time before the two fall in love…but when the truth comes
out, can Lou overlook the past to chase her future?
Set in the lovely, quirky heart of Wisconsin, The Coincidence of Coconut Cake is a charming love story of misunderstandings, mistaken identity, and the power of food to bring two people together.
I have Damage Done for review and can't wait to see what it's like. 🙂
I really enjoyed that one! I don't know what I was expecting with it but I was kind of surprised by how different it was. I can't wait to see what you think about it.