New Adult Fiction: Wednesday, March 19

It’s Wednesday—Hump Day—and maybe you’re starting to think about the weekend. If so, we suggest you add in some reading time. We will continue to offer “Grab and Go” services for those who prefer to place their books on hold online and then pick them up in the cabinet inside the library.

Here are a few of the new fiction books that have arrived at the library recently. We invite you to check them out!

Murder in an Irish Pub

In the small village of Kilbane in County Cork, for a cuppa tea or a slice of brown bread, you go to Naomi’s Bistro. For a pint or a game of darts—or for the poker tournament that’s just come to town—it’s the pub you want. One player’s reputation precedes him—Eamon Foley, a tinker out of Dublin. But when Foley is found at the end of a rope, Macdara Flannery would lay odds it’s a simple suicide, but Siobhan suspects foul play. With conflicting theories on the crime—not to mention the possibility of a proposal—tensions are running high between Siobhan and Macdara. Soon it’s up to Siobhan to call a killer’s bluff, but if she doesn’t play her cards right, she may be the next one taken out of the game.

A Constant Love

In the wake of a harsh winter, Micah Hamilton and Charlotte Aldrich are grappling with loss and guilt after the disaster that took the lives of their loved ones. Struggling to cope with his grief, Micah abandons his father’s dreams of a prosperous ranch and cuts himself off from the rest of the world. Charlotte has loved Micah her entire life and is determined not to lose him as well. With her mother’s help, she begins coaxing Micah to live again. Despite their enduring heartache, the affection between them deepens, but just as Charlotte thinks her dreams may come true, a scorned suitor threatens everything she holds dear.

The girl from Greenwich Street : a novel of Hamilton, Burr, and America’s first murder trial

At the start of a new century, a shocking murder transfixes Manhattan, forcing bitter rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr to work together to save a man from the gallows. Just before Christmas 1799, Elma Sands slips out of her Quaker cousin’s boarding house—and doesn’t come home. Has she eloped? Run away? No one knows—until her body appears in the Manhattan Well. Handbills circulate around the city accusing a carpenter named Levi Weeks of seducing and murdering Elma. But privately, Levi’s wealthy brother calls in a special favor…. Aaron Burr’s legal practice can’t finance both his expensive tastes and his ambition to win the 1800 New York elections. To defend Levi Weeks is a double win: a hefty fee plus a chance to grab headlines. Alexander Hamilton has his own political aspirations; he isn’t going to let Burr monopolize the public’s attention. As the trial and the election draw near, Burr and Hamilton race against time to save a man’s life—and destroy each other.