New Adult Fiction: Friday, March 6

TGIF! Friday is here (at last!) and the weekend looms ahead. Need a new book for your leisure-time reading? We have lots of new titles—so why not stop by when you can (we’re open til 5 pm tonight) and see what’s on the shelves? To place a book 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 adult fiction titles we’ve gotten in recently:

The Hard Line

Court Gentry’s family operates out of an office park in Norfolk, Virginia. They take on the jobs the CIA needs handled “discreetly,” and those jobs are rolling in. Somewhere at the top of the US intelligence apparatus, security experts and intelligence operations worldwide are being threatened. It starts with a blown safe house in Tunis. Then Court himself barely escapes from an ambush in the jungles of Nicaragua. With the feds compromised, it’s up to Court and his team to stop the hit squads. But eliminating professional kill teams may be the least of the Gray Man’s worries when he finds himself targeted by the legendary assassin code-named Whetstone—a man driven out of retirement by a very personal quest to rain down hellfire on Court and everyone he’s ever loved.

The Devil’s Bible

Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone is called to Sweden when the younger sister of King Wilhelm I is kidnapped. The ransom demand? Hand over an 800-year-old book: the Codex Gigas, the largest illuminated medieval manuscript in the world. Claimed as war loot from Bohemia in 1648, it’s been kept in Stockholm for nearly 400 years. Along the way, it also acquired another more mysterious moniker: the Devil’s Bible. Now the Czech Republic wants the codex back, and Sweden has agreed to return it, but forces are at work to stop that deal from happening. The likely instigator? Russia, which is also at the top of the list for possible kidnappers. It’s up to Cotton and Cassiopeia Vitt to locate the king’s sister, secure the codex, and thwart the Russians.

Ruby Falls

In 1928 Chattanooga, the discovery of a breathtaking underground waterfall—soon named Ruby Falls—draws crowds even as the Great Depression threatens the attraction’s future. Hoping for a publicity boost, a famous mind reader agrees to descend into the caverns with a small group to perform a daring psychic stunt. Young cave enthusiast Ada secretly follows at a distance, acting as a safety net in case something goes wrong. But when one member of the party is found dead, Ada realizes there’s a killer in their midst. Trapped deep underground with fading light and rising fear, she must lead the group back to the surface—before the murderer strikes again.