New Adult Fiction: Tuesday, December 16

Happy Tuesday! Need a good book for some evening reading? Stop by when you can (we’re open til 8 pm). We have many options! To place a title on hold online, visit 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.

A Christmas Witness

December 1921: Inspector Rutledge gets the short straw and is called upon to go to the home of a lord who is recovering from an attempt on his life. In bed with a concussion, the man is convinced someone is trying to kill him after he claims he was struck by the hoof of a running horse whose rider never stopped to check on him. When he gets there, Rutledge learns that the lord is a fellow veteran of the Great War and was even promoted to colonel under Field Marshal Haig. As Rutledge’s investigation gets underway, he uncovers even more similarities between his life and that of the man he’s sent to protect, all of which grows eerily poignant as the Christmas holiday approaches.

False Witness

Defense Attorney Karen Wyatt exposed corruption in the police force and the DA’s office while getting her client exonerated in court. But in doing so, she put a target on her back and was set up on a fake drug charge, imprisoned, and disbarred until the conspiracy unraveled and her innocence was proven. Now reinstated to the bar, Wyatt is interested in finding out who ordered her to be set up — but the key figures were either killed or are in witness protection. In the meantime, Wyatt’s current client is either guilty of a heinous murder, or is a too-trusting patsy for an acquaintance set-up for a crime he didn’t commit. It will take all of Wyatt’s genius to defend her client successfully.

The Corpse in the Closet

Summer is heating up for reluctant psychic Riley Thorn and her handsome private investigator boyfriend, Nick Santiago. First, her disapproving grandmother arrives determined to make Riley take her powers seriously or face the wrath of “the Guild.” Then there’s the homicide detective who needs her help figuring out who murdered the well-dressed corpse in the walk-in closet. Nick’s got his own hands full with a tricky missing-person case, and his parents — who want to know why he didn’t tell them about his live-in girlfriend. Then there’s the fact that he’s still the tiniest bit stressed about Riley almost getting murdered earlier that summer. Things go from bad to worse when the body count starts stacking up, the meet-the-parents dinner goes horribly wrong, and their elderly roommate is up to no good.