New Adult Fiction: Wednesday, June 4

Happy Hump Day! It’s time to start planning your weekend! Don’t forget to pick up a book or two for some leisure-time reading. Stop by when you can (we’re open til 8 pm). If you’d like to place a title on hold online, go to https://owwl.org and sign in to your account using your library card number. Pick up your book from the shelves near the circulation desk when you have time.

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

The Safari

Odelia Babel, CEO of a sustainable fashion empire, is about to marry for the second time. Eager to celebrate her nuptials with her nearest and dearest, Odelia invites her family to an all-expenses-paid luxury safari at Leopard Sands in South Africa, the Babel family’s favorite vacation spot. Amid game drives in the bush and bonfires beneath the desert stars, tensions among the family threaten to boil over. And then, the morning after a big fight with her son Sam, Odelia is found murdered. Sam is immediately the prime suspect, but he claims he has an ironclad alibi—he was with his twin sister, Bailey. Only Bailey is nowhere to be found…

The Doorman

Chicky Diaz is everyone’s favorite doorman at the Bohemia, the most famous apartment building in the world. Up in the penthouse, Emily Longworth seems to have the perfect everything, all except her husband, whom she quietly loathes. Downstairs in 2A, Julian Sonnenberg has just received a devastating phone call. He’s getting the distinct sense that his cosmopolitan career in the art world is hurtling to an end. Meanwhile, gathered in the Bohemia’s bowels, the building’s working-class staff is taking in news that just a few miles uptown, a Black man has been killed by the police. Chicky finds himself breaking a cardinal rule of the job: tonight, he’ll be carrying a gun. Tonight in the city, enemies will clash, loyalties will be tested, secrets will be revealed—and lives will be lost.

Going Home in the Dark

As kids, outcasts Rebecca, Bobby, Spencer, and Ernie were inseparable friends in the idyllic town of Maple Grove. Three left to pursue lofty dreams. Only Ernie never left. When he falls into a coma, his three friends feel an urgent need to return home. After two decades, not a lot has changed in Maple Grove, especially Ernie’s obnoxious, scary mother. But Rebecca, Bobby, and Spencer begin to remember a hulking, murderous figure and weirdness piled on mystery that they were made to forget. For Rebecca, Bobby, and Spencer, time is running out to remember the terrors of the past in a perfect town where nothing is what it seems.