September new releases
Hello dear readers! I hope you have had a lovely summer. Mine was quite busy and autumn looks to be more of the same. I have missed my little corner of the internet though and am happy to make my return here with a new releases post, one of my favorites to write because of the shiny promise and potential of a new favorite on the horizon.
The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman -- 9/30
The fifth(!) book in my beloved “Thursday Murder Club” series finds Joyce helping plan her daughter’s wedding, Elizabeth grieving the events of book four, Ron dealing with family troubles, and Ibrahim still providing therapy to Connie Johnson in prison. However, when Elizabeth is asked by Nick, a wedding guest, for help, she finds the thrill of the chase ignited once again. We had a year off last year with the beginning of Osman’s new series “We Solve Murders,” which I enjoyed, but I confess I am more than ready to be back with the gang.
The Killer Question by Janice Hallett -- 9/23
The queen of mixed media mysteries returns with a new title taking place at a pub’s weekly trivia night, revealed through quiz categories, phone messages, and email correspondence. A weekly trivia game revives a failing pub, until a body is found in a nearby river. Soon after a mysterious new team arrives and shakes up the field of regulars by scoring top marks in every round, every week. Five years alter the pub lies derelict and the pub owner’s nephew is determined to make a documentary about the story. Hallett’s novel last year was not my favorite, so I’m hoping for a return to form here, especially because pub trivia is one of my favorite past times.
Heart the Lover by Lily King -- 9/30
Our narrator understands good love stories, but her greatest one—which she lived—never followed simple rules. In the fall of her senior year of college, she meets two star students from her 17th-Century Lit class: Sam and Yash. Best friends living off campus in the elegant house of a professor on sabbatical, the boys invite her into their intoxicating world of academic fervor, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. They nickname her Jordan, and she quickly discovers the pleasures of friendship, love and her own intellectual ambition. But youthful passion is unpredictable, and soon she finds herself at the center of a charged and intricate triangle. As graduation comes and goes, choices made will alter these three lives forever. When a surprise visit and unexpected news bring the past crashing into the present, she returns to a world she left behind and must confront the decisions and deceptions of her younger self. I absolutely adored King’s last novel, Writers and Lovers, so I’m very excited to see this one has a slight literary bent as well.
