Small towns. Home to reunions, close-knit communities gone mad, and murder in this trio of new fiction coming out next month.
The Family Gathering, by Robyn Carr. Third in Carr's newest series, Sullivan's Crossing (following What We Find and Any Day Now), The Family Gathering finds Dakota Jones at a crossroads in his life after leaving the military. As his elder brother and youngest sister have both found happiness and settled down in Sullivan's Crossing, he joins them there to clear his head before deciding where to head next. What seems like a simple, uncomplicated town seems to get complicated for Dakota in a hurry. For one, he's on everyone's radar as a newcomer. And after years apart, getting to know his siblings as adults is an eye-opening experience. As the four siblings gather for a wedding, the first time they've all been together in years, they redefine their family ties...and what home means to each of them. Carr has a way of writing about communities that makes the reader long to join them.
Hold Back the Dark, by Kay Hooper. Latest in Hooper's ongoing Bishop/SCU series, Hold Back the Dark finds a Special Crimes Unit team called upon to aid a small mountain community where madness has taken hold, causing residents to turn on one another with murderous results. If you're a fan of supernatural thrillers and haven't read Hooper's work, what are you waiting for?
Shattered Mirror, by Iris Johansen. This is Johansen's 24th novel to feature forensic sculptor Eve Duncan, following 2017's Mind Game. A deadly game of intrigue is afoot when Eve receives an anonymous package containing a skull and a two-sided mirror. She's determined to reconstruct the face of the skull and uncover the person's identity, but as she works, the face of a beautiful woman emerges. Who was she? And how did she come to be delivered to Eve?
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