New Adult Fiction Standing Order
May 19, 2008
Annotations from Baker & Taylor
City at the End of Time
Bear, Greg
Unable to recall anything about their own pasts, three young people living in modern-day Seattle share a disturbing vision of a far-future, decaying cityscape and are each drawn into a desperate mission to preserve their own universe and to pass important knowledge onto a new universe that is in the process of being born.
Into the Fire
Brockmann, Suzanne
Battling depression, unemployment, and booze in the wake of the fatal shooting of his wife Angelina, Vinh Murphy finds solace in his friendship with Hannah Whitfield, only to discover that the FBI is hunting for a man named Murphy in connection with the murder of a neo-Nazi leader whose group may be linked to Angelina’s death.
Smoke Screen
Brown, Sandra
A latest work by the author of Play Dirty and Ricochet follows a theme of role reversal and the abuse of power, in a tale in which corruption and betrayals turn friends against one another and force criminals to become heroes.
Foreign Body
Cook, Robin
Shocked by her beloved grandmother’s untimely death a day after she travels to New Delhi to have affordable hip-replacement surgery, fourth-year UCLA medical student Jennifer Hernandez heads to India for answers and uncovers a series of unexplained deaths, a finding that forces her to turn for assistance to her medical examiner mentor, Dr. Montgomery.
Vi Agra Falls: A Bed-and-breakfast Mystery
Daheim, Mary
Her close-knit community thrown into chaos by the arrival of a long-time nemesis, Judith investigates the woman’s plan to build a much-contested condominium complex, a plan that is complicated by a gruesome murder. By the author of Scots on the Rocks.
Secrets
Deveraux, Jude
From the perennial “New York Times”-bestselling author comes this tale of a woman who discovers a life-changing secret about the man she has loved since childhood.
Say Goodbye
Gardner, Lisa
Pregnant eighteen-year-old Delilah Rose enlists the assistance of FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy, who is also five months pregnant, to investigate the mysterious disappearances of a number of young women whom no one else will notice are gone, including runaways, high-risk teens, and prostitutes.
Damage Control
Jance, Judith A.
Feeling overwhelmed by paperwork and the responsibilities of caring for a newborn, Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady struggles with a case involving a woman who shot the wrong man while defending herself from a stalker and a fatal car accident that may have been staged. 200,000 first printing.
Riven
Jenkins, Jerry B.
Brady Wayne Darby and Thomas Carey could hardly have been more disparate individuals. Yet when Darby, a no-account loser raised in a dingy suburban trailer park, encounters Carey, a weary man of God, an entire state–indeed, a nation–is affected.
The Mercedes Coffin
Kellerman, Faye
When a billionaire heiress connects a recent high-profile murder to an unsolved killing from fifteen years earlier, LAPD lieutenant Peter Decker schedules an interview with a detective from the first case, only to learn of the man’s suspicious suicide, which prompts his collaboration with his wife and daughter to solve the case.
Killer View
Pearson, Ridley
Tackling treacherous elements to rescue a missing skier on Sun Valley’s Galena Summit, Sheriff Walt Fleming and his crack team are shocked by a sniper attack that leaves one of their number dead and results in Walt’s best friend’s disappearance, a deadly situation that is further complicated by a mysterious illness at a local water-bottling plant.
Devil Bones
Reichs, Kathy
When a plumber discovers the remains of a murdered girl and various dark religious objects in the cellar of a client’s house, Temperance Brennan is called in to investigate the case and finds her efforts challenged by vigilante upheavals against Wiccans and occultists.
Tribute
Roberts, Nora
Working to restore a family farmhouse, former child actress Cilla McGowan remembers her actress grandmother’s fatal overdose years earlier before meeting a handsome neighbor and discovering a cache of letters that suggests her grandmother had been pregnant at the time of her death.
The Faces of Fear
Saul, John
Scarred in a burn accident, plain Alison McKenzie is given the chance to become beautiful when her mother takes her to a plastic surgeon, who becomes her stepfather, but Alison finds that there may be a terrible cost for beauty when she discovers the surgeon is sculpting her into his dead first wife and that there may be links to a series of killings in the area.
