August 2024 Best Sellers
The collector : a novel
Silva, Daniel, 1960-, author
2024
Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world's most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West.
Daisy Darker
Feeney, Alice, author
2024
After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker's entire family is assembling for Nana's 80th birthday party. The family arrives, each of them harbouring secrets. Then at the stroke of midnight, as a storm rages, Nana is found dead. And an hour later, the next family member follows. Trapped on an island where someone is killing them one by one, the Darkers must reckon with their present mystery as well as their past secrets, before the tide comes in and all is revealed.
The last orphan
Hurwitz, Gregg, author
2024
Orphan X has always been several steps ahead of his pursuers. Until he makes one little mistake. Now the President has him in her control and offers Evan a deal - eliminate a rich, powerful man she says is too dangerous to live and, in turn, she'll let Evan survive. But when Evan left the Program he swore to only use his skills against those who really deserve it. Now he has to decide what's more important - his principles or his life.
Left behind
Sala, Sharon, author
2024
Jubilee PD Officer Wiley Pope thinks he's ruined things with Linette Elgin. He hasn't seen or heard from the local nurse since their first date went disastrously wrong. But when Wiley walks in on a bank robbery with Linette as one of the hostages, his training and protective instincts kick into full gear. A heroic bullet to his armor-protected chest is enough for Linette to forgive Wiley's past mistakes and be willing to begin anew. While his love for Linette grows daily, Wiley finds himself in over his head when a murder investigation is linked to Pope Mountain. If that wasn't enough, a woman from Wiley's father's past abandons her seven-year-old daughter at the police station in an attempted money scheme. But the minute the woman signs over her parental rights, Wiley and Linette welcome the wary little girl into their family and show her what real love looks like.
Local gone missing
Barton, Fiona, author
2024
Elise King is a successful and ambitious detective—or she was before a medical leave left her unsure if she'd ever return to work. She now spends most days watching the growing tensions in her small seaside town of Ebbing—the weekenders renovating old bungalows into luxury homes, and the locals resentful of the changes. The conflicts boil over when a newcomer wants to put the town on the map with a giant music festival, and two teenagers overdose on drugs. When a man disappears the first night of the festival, Elise is drawn back into her detective work and starts digging for answers. Ebbing is a small town, but it's full of secrets and hidden connections that run deeper and darker than Elise could have ever imagined.
The match
Coben, Harlan, 1962-, author
2024
When a DNA match on an online ancestry database leads him to a second cousin who disappears as quickly as he resurfaces after an epic fall from grace, Wilde must figure out if his cousin is linked to a cunning conspiracy involving a ruthless killer.
The maze
DeMille, Nelson, author
2024
Former NYPD Homicide Detective John Corey is restless and looking for action, so when his former lover in Plum Island, Detective Beth Penrose, appears with a job offer, Corey has to once again make some decisions about his stalled career - and about reuniting with Beth Penrose. As Corey digs deeper into this case, which has made national news, he comes to suspect that the failure of the local police to solve this sensational case may not be a result of their inexperience and incompetence - it may be something else. Something more sinister.
Run, Rose, run : a novel
Parton, Dolly, author
2024
On the rise and on the run, a young singer-songwriter arrives in Nashville to claim her destiny, but it's also where the darkness she's fled might find her--and destroy her.
Second act : a novel
Steel, Danielle, author.
2024
After losing his prestigious job as head of a film studio, Hollywood executive Andy Westfield retreats to a tiny coastal village in England to figure out his next move. There he hires a local woman, an unemployed former journalist and aspiring novelist named Violet, to help him get his affairs in order. When Violet leaves her unfinished manuscript at Andy's house, Andy reads it and realizes it could be adapted into a great film. Could this be the miracle both of them have been looking for?
The summer place
Weiner, Jennifer, author
2024
When her twenty-two-year-old step-daughter announces her engagement to her pandemic boyfriend, Sarah Danhauser is shocked. But the road to a wedding day usually comes with a few bumps. When the wedding day arrives, lovers are revealed as their true selves, misunderstandings take on a life of their own, and secrets come to light. There are confrontations and revelations that will touch each member of the extended family, ensuring that nothing will ever be the same.