New Adult Fiction: Wednesday, July 8

Happy Hump Day! Perhaps you’re starting to plan your weekend, and if so, we can help. We have lots of new titles—so why not stop by when you can (we’re open til 8 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 Forty-Year Grudge

It’s been four decades since the women of Sigma Delta Tau were together. The years have been kind to some but not others. Still, this is supposed to be a pleasant diversion for former sorority member and private investigator Aubrey Merritt. She’s come to New Mexico to reconnect with old friends, and she’s brought her personal assistant, Olivia Blunt, along with her to help with her bags. But when one of the sorority sisters is murdered, all eyes turn to the World’s Greatest Detective to solve the case. It’s going to take both Aubrey and Olivia to cut through the knot of old hurts and current grievances to find the killer.

Earth 7

Two women meet on a beach of artificial sand. One was raised in a pod in the ocean and the other may or may not be a robot. Their love seems so unlikely. Earth is severely depopulated. Some people have given up, gone off to Mars. Others pursue eternal life as digital code. And yet others, like Dylan and Melanie, are holdouts—and some of those holdouts are constructing a vast molecular collection in hopes that a future person may make a new Earth. Foolhardy? Misguided? Probably. But what can a human (or a robot) do?

It Could Have Been Her

Jane Trevally is walking her dogs when a small white terrier appears, alone and with no sign of the teenage girl he’d been staying with nearby. When the teenager is reported missing, Jane offers to return the dog to his registered owner, hours away in London. Arriving at a run-down house, she is immediately on alert—because Jane has a dark history with this house. The man who answers the door is not the man that Jane remembers from her past. He is cagey and claims to know nothing about the missing teenage girl. Then, through the window of the house, Jane catches a glimpse of a haunted-looking woman. Jane knows this unsettling house holds the key—to the missing teenager, to her own traumatic story, and to the dark secrets of the past.