Fall 2023 Book List | A list of fiction titles to be published for fall of 2023, recommended by your EPL librarians. Download the printable list here.
Winter 2024 Book List | A list of fiction titles to be published for the winter of 2023, recommended by your EPL librarians. Download the printable list here.
December 2023
 | Better Than Revenge |
| Adler, Elizabeth |
The next glamorous, suspenseful beach read follows twin sister grifters whose next mark has just been murdered. |
 | Love & War |
| Antoinette, Ashley |
| The feud between YaYa and Leah has ruined the lives of everyone around them. In The Prada Plan 4, the animosity is alive, and resentments run deeper than ever. |
 | Murder at Haven's Rock |
| Armstrong, Kelley |
Deep in the Yukon wilderness, a town is being built. A place for people to disappear, a fresh start from a life on the run. Haven’s Rock isn’t the first town of this kind, something detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, know first-hand. |
 | Dead by Midnight |
| Barton, Beverly |
| In the ten years since her Hollywood career imploded, Lorie Hammonds has built a good life in her Alabama hometown. When the first death threat arrives, she assumes it's a joke. Then she gets a second note. Sheriff Mike Birkett, her high-school sweetheart, has avoided Lorie since she returned to Dunmore, but when investigators uncover her connection to a string of recent murders, he's drawn into a case that's terrifyingly personal. |
 | The Wonder of It All |
| Bradford, Barbara Taylor |
| A rich and evocative saga of Britain as it races into the roaring twenties. |
 | Clive Cussler the Serpent's Eye |
| Burcell, Robin |
| Husband-and-wife, treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo face a new action-packed, exciting adventure. |
 | Deadly Game |
| Caine, Michael |
| Meet DCI Harry Taylor, who has no respect for red tape or political reputations, but he's great at catching criminals. And he will need all his unorthodox skills to solve this deadly game. |
 | Manner of Death |
| Cook, Robin |
| Jack and Laurie must determine the manner of death after a pathology resident's suspicious suicide. |
 | The Gentleman's Gambit |
| Dunmore, Evie |
Bookish suffragist Catriona finds herself playing host to her father’s distractingly attractive younger colleague, who isn’t quite what he seems. |
 | The Other Mothers |
| Faulkner, Katherine |
| When a young nanny dies under mysterious circumstances near new mom Tash’s home, she is certain that this could be the story to relaunch her journalism career, but she’s led uncomfortably close to the mothers in her son’s playgroup. |
 | The Fearless One |
| Foster, Lori |
| Memphis Osborn came to the Rockies to help his brother solve a problem…and stayed to stir up trouble. But when a mysterious woman piques his interest, soon her trouble becomes his. |
 | Five Bad Deeds |
| Frear, Caz |
| People have to learn there are consequences. Ellen Walsh has done something very, very bad. If only she knew what it was? |
 | Game On |
| Glass, Seressia |
When an unexpected Player Two enters her life, a gamer must decide if their relationship is worth leveling up in this new romance. |
 | The Attack |
| Griffin, W. E. B. |
| A dead girl, a wealthy family, and drug use. It's a toxic mix that leads Philadelphia detective Matt Payne deep into an unexpected maelstrom of deceit and madness. |
 | The Paris Notebook |
| Harris, Tessa |
| Katia Heinz is hiding a secret big enough to destroy the Fuhrer’s reputation, and Nazi spies have discovered her plan, and they will stop at nothing to silence her. |
 | The Mistress of Ashmore Castle |
| Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia |
| Giles, the Earl of Stainton, has left behind his wife and infant son to return to Egypt. Can Kitty keep the castle from crumbling and save her marriage? |
 | Red Handler |
| Harstad, Johan |
A Riotous metafictional dissection of a "famous" Norwegian detective writer. |
 | Orbital |
| Harvey, Samantha |
| An eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling Earth in 24 hours. |
 | Calling on the Matchmaker |
| Hedlund, Jody |
Finola has given up on love, but when her parents call in the local Irish matchmaker who pairs her with Riley, her usual tricks fail in sending him away. |
 | The Final Curtain |
| Higashino, Keigo |
| A confounding murder in Tokyo is connected to the mystery of the disappearance and death of Detective Kaga's own mother. |
 | On the Plus Side |
| Howe, Jenny L. |
| The new guest on a popular makeover show has her style―and her love life―transformed. |
| Rift in the Soul |
| Hunter, Faith |
| Neil Ingram and her team face supernatural evil in the newest thrilling paranormal procedural. |
 | The Engagement Party |
| Kane, Darby |
| At an engagement party on a private island college friends gather, but when a dead man is found in the trunk of a car, past events begin to surface, and secrets are bartered. |
 | A Winter by the Sea |
| Klassen, Julie |
When the Duke and Duchess of Kent rent neighboring Woolbrook Cottage for the winter, the Summers sisters are called upon to host three of the royal couple's male staff in their seaside house. But they soon realize they've invited mysterious secrets and the sweet possibility of romance into their home |
 | Yours for the Taking |
| Korn, Gabrielle |
A mesmerizing story of queer love, betrayal, and chosen family, and an unflinching indictment of corporate feminism. |
 | Valdemar |
| Lackey, Mercedes |
| Duke Kordas Valdemar must find a way to evacuate his people before the Emperor invades and strips Valdemar of everything of worth. |
 | The Wide World |
| Lemaitre, Pierre |
| A sweeping saga of one prominent French family in post-war Paris, Beirut, and Saigon—an electrifying novel of passion, greed, murder, and revenge. |
 | The Fourth Rule |
| Lindsay, Jeff |
| The Cobra is a shadowy figure of international crime. And only one man can stop what’s about to happen: Sly and sharp-witted Riley Wolfe, the ultimate thief, fresh off the toughest escape of his life and looking for something new. |
| After Peru |
| Lish, Gordon |
| Gordon Lish is being blackmailed for a crime he committed as a child, so his wife, a forbidding figure 57 years his junior with ties to hush-hush government circles, steps in. |
 | An Inconvenient Earl |
| London, Julia |
| When Emma Clark’s no-good husband leaves on an expedition and dies she does her best to keep it from his family so they don’t kick her out, but when the Earl of Marlaine shows up to give the grieving widow her deceased husband’s pocket watch her ruse begins to crumble. |
 | Coconut Drop Dead |
| Matthews, Olivia |
| Sleuth Lyndsay Murray is investigating the death of a reggae singer to make sure the real killer faces the music. |
 | The Doom of Odin |
| Oden, Scott |
| As the Black Death rampages across Europe, two creatures of the Elder World clash over the rotting corpse of Christendom. |
 | The Academy |
| Poyer, David |
| In his final tour of duty after a remarkable career at sea, Dan Lenson is appointed Superintendent of the US Naval Academy at Annapolis. |
 | Last Night |
| Rice, Luanne |
A breathtaking thriller about a family shaken by lies, vengeance, and a cold-blooded crime. |
 | The Jazz Club Spy |
| Rich, Roberta |
| A fresh and sweeping historical novel following a Jewish woman attempting to bring justice to her family on the eve of World War II. |
 | This Spells Love |
| Robb, Kate |
| A young woman tries to heal her heartbreak by casting a spell to erase her ex from her past, but she wakes up in an alternate reality where she’s lost more than she wished for. |
 | Death in the Dark Woods |
| Ryan, Annelise |
A potential Bigfoot sighting is linked to a vicious murder, but skeptical cryptozoologist Morgan Carter is on the case. |
| The Life I Stole |
| Scott, Nikola |
| Isobel McIntyre is a doctor-in-training at a London teaching hospital. It's not easy being a woman working in medicine. And Isobel carries the additional burden of a shocking secret. |
| Lost Hours |
| Shelton, Paige |
| Beth Rivers is starting to feel at home in Alaska when two kidnappings occur, and she and Police Chief Gril can't help but think they are connected. |
 | Murder Crossed Her Mind |
| Spotswood, Stephen |
| New York's famed female detective duo, Pentecost and Parker, are back in their fourth audacious adventure |
 | City of Betrayal |
| Thompson, Victoria |
Elizabeth Bates' latest con just might change the course of history. |
 | Where the Dead Wait |
| Wilkes, Ally |
An eerie, atmospheric Polar Gothic following a Victorian explorer in search of his lost shipmate and his own redemption. |
 | Technically Yours |
| Williams, Denise |
Eight years ago, he fell in love with a stranger he couldn’t have—today, she’s back in his life, and the sparks between them threaten to set her career on fire. |
