Thursday, January 4, 2018

Reading Ahead: February 2018, part 1

Happy New Year! Here's to lots of great reads, trying new things, and whatever your chosen reading challenges may be this year! To get us started, here are a few books that are coming in February that readers are already clamoring for!

The Great Alone, by Kristin Hannah. This was one of my sneak previews for 2018, because Hannah made such a huge impression with her 2015 blockbuster novel The Nightingale. Her new novel follows a family in the Alaskan wilderness in 1974. Leni's dad is a Vietnam vet and has moved the family off the grid. As summer's glory fades into the long winter's chill, life becomes more difficult in a multitude of ways.  You can read my original preview here.

Look For Me, by Lisa Gardner. A new title in Gardner's bestselling Detective D.D. Warren series, following 2016's Find Her. The home of a family of five is now a crime scene: four dead, and the fifth, a sixteen-year-old girl, missing. Did she escape or was she kidnapped? Detective Warren is on the case, but so is survivor-turned-avenger Flora Dane, each of them seeking a different kind of justice. Also available in Large Print.

A Death in Live Oak, by James Grippando. This latest in Grippando's long-running Jack Swyteck series, following 2017's Most Dangerous Place,  finds attorney Swyteck defending a client amid a maelstrom of political unrest, racial tension, and sensational media: the stakes could not be higher. Is his client guilty? Or is the crime actually a sinister plan that goes much deeper? It's up to Jack to find out, before the clock runs out.

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