New Adult Fiction: Monday, January 12

We don’t know how it got to be Monday again so quickly, but we do know it’ll be a better one if you have some good reading material for your evening leisure time. 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.

Die Another Dane

After seeing a Great Dane at a dog show, Melanie’s younger son Kevin has become obsessed with the giant breed. Aunt Peg introduces Melanie and her son to Audrey Kane, who breeds and shows the big dogs. Aware of Melanie’s talent for sleuthing, Audrey asks for her help in finding a missing brooch. She suspects her stepsister, Lara. When Audrey is found dead in her home, Aunt Peg enlists the help of the local Great Dane Club to foster Audrey’s 10 dogs, one of whom Melanie takes on. To her surprise, Lara comes to her and asks her to solve her stepsister’s murder. From the president of the Great Dane Club to Audrey’s dependable dog-sitter, Melanie soon has more suspects than Audrey had Great Danes. With Aunt Peg’s assistance, she doggedly pursues the killer.

C is for Courting

Beth Schrock always believed herself the most level-headed of her siblings. But unlike her younger sister and brothers, Beth has yet to become Amish, or fall in love, much less marry. Still, she is about to take on the biggest responsibility of them all. She is going to be a mother. A single mother. When Beth happens to meet family acquaintance Junior Lambright, they bump heads, but after she takes a job at his successful candle factory, it doesn’t take long for sparks to ignite — or for Junior to decide to be the friend Beth clearly needs.

Code Blue

Theresa Gallagher has never met her Aunt Dottie, though she remembers her mother’s stories about the wild sister who left home at seventeen and moved out west. When a letter arrives telling Theresa that her aunt is incapacitated and in a nursing home, Theresa decides to fly to Arizona to see her. The staff at the Sunnydale Care Facility seems pleasant and efficient, but Theresa finds it strange that she’s only permitted to “observe” her elderly aunt from a viewing room. It’s the first of several red flags that lead Theresa to start asking questions. Is it just a coincidence that as soon as she does, her car is almost run off the road? Theresa contacts her attorney friend, Lizzie Fox, who just happens to be connected to a group of women uniquely positioned to get answers. Soon, the Sisterhood is on the case, uncovering evidence suggesting that behind Sunnydale’s compassionate image hides a greedy, cruel enterprise.