New Adult Fiction: Tuesday, May 20

Looking for the latest new novel? We have a steady stream of new material arriving every week, so there’s always something interesting to read. 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.

Death by Chocolate Pumpkin Muffin

Decorations of cobwebs and creatures are just being taken down across Eastport’s picturesque houses as the community says farewell to Halloween and ushers in winter with the unique confectionaries found only at the Chocolate Moose. Revelers have gathered on the waterfront for a party at local celebrity Hank Rafferty’s ramshackle mansion. The home repair TV show star and his guests await a devilish dessert delivery from Jake and Ellie—who arrive just after Hank falls to his death from the house’s turret’s balcony. Plenty of people had motive to want Hank dead—a disillusioned admirer, a school bully, and a discontented wife among them. Did any of them take the murderous plunge, or is there another ghost in Hank’s shady past yet to be revealed?

The Page Turner

Emma Page grew up the black sheep in a bookish household. Her parents, self-proclaimed ‘serious’ authors who run their own vanity press, mingle in highbrow social circles that look down on anything too mainstream. Hiding her own romance manuscript from her disapproving parents, Emma finds inspiration among the ‘fluff’ they despise: the juicy summer romances that belonged to her late grandmother. But a chance discovery reveals a secret that has the power to ruin her parents’ business—a secret that has already fallen into the hands of an unscrupulous publishing insider with a grudge to settle. Now Emma must decide if she can just sit back and watch them be exposed and their legacy destroyed.

The Murder Machine

This state-of-the-art home has everything: a next-generation entertainment system, an ultramodern kitchen where every appliance is online and even a personal AI to control it all. Standing above its owner’s lifeless body, FBI agent Jude Mackenzie is faced with the daunting task of discovering how the woman was killed by her own home. Enter Special Agent Victoria Tennant, whose familiarity with cybercrime reveals the stark truth: a machine can only do what it’s been directed to. As the number of grisly “accidents” begins to rise, the pair must race to uncover the perpetrator even as they find themselves caught in their digital crosshairs!