New Adult Fiction: Thursday, January 22

The temperature’s heading south and it’s going to be a frigid weekend! What better to do with it than stock up on new reading material to pass the 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.

The Last Death of the Year: A New Hercule Poirot Mystery

New Year’s Eve, 1932. Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool arrive on the tiny Greek island of Lamperos to celebrate the holiday with what turns out to be a rather odd community of locals living in a dilapidated house. A dark sense of foreboding overshadows the beautiful island getaway when the guests play a New Year’s Resolutions game after dinner and one written resolution gleefully threatens to perform ‘the last and first death of the year.’ Hours later, one of the home’s residents is found dead on the terrace. In light of the shocking murder, Poirot reveals to Catchpool the real reason he’s brought him to the island and both men resolve to ensure that the first murder will be the last.

Who Knows You by Heart

Octavia Crenshaw, a Jamaican-American coder living in Manhattan, is broke, burned out, and haunted by her parents’ deaths. She ditches her nonprofit job for a high-paying gig at Eustachian Inc., a Big Tech company that specializes in audio entertainment. As one of Eustachian’s few Black employees, Octavia is aware of things that seem to escape her coworkers. But she sets her suspicions aside when she’s recruited by another Black coder—the infuriating but attractive Walcott—to collaborate on a secret project code-named Zion. Zion could launch Eustachian into a bold new future and make its developers super rich while righting all kinds of injustices. Octavia and Walcott’s excitement over their creation sets off romantic sparks, until they discover a toxic secret about their employer.

Ladies in Waiting: Jane Austen’s Unsung Characters

In honor of her 250th birthday, eight authors have come togetherwith wildly imaginative reboots of the lives of several of Jane Austen’s minor characters. Written with plenty of love and wit, these clever stories star everyone from Pride and Prejudice’s snobbish Caroline Bingley to the modern descendant of Sense and Sensibility’s Eliza Williams and much more. Blurring genres and taking us across the oceans, Ladies in Waiting is a heartfelt celebration of Jane Austen and her timeless masterpieces.