May 15, 2026
New Fiction
And The Corpse Wore Tartan by Stuart MacBride – The great and not-so-good are gathered at Skirivour Castle Hotel, in the heart of the Highlands, for the wedding of the year – but they weren’t expecting Detective Sergeant Roberta Steel to crash their party. And get horribly, horribly drunk. The whole valley’s been cut off by a massive thunderstorm and the phone lines are down, so when the father-of-the-bride’s body is discovered – decoratively impaled on a stag’s head in the hotel lobby – it’s up to DS Steel to find out whodunit. Which isn’t easy when you’ve got a monstrous hangover and only a world-weary sergeant and a halfwit police constable for backup. With no witnesses and with every wedding guest a suspect, Roberta will need to use all of her little grey cells if she’s going to catch the killer and get out of there alive.
This Weekend Doesn’t End Well for Anyone by Catherine Mack – A luxury hotel in the Bahamas. A world-renowned writers’ conference. A killer on the loose . . .Eleanor Dash can never catch a break, but she finally has the ticket to a relaxing weekend: an all-inclusive resort where she’s speaking at a conference for murder mystery writers. Then she checks in and finds a body on the floor of her hotel room. Any one of the familiar faces at the resort could have been the intended target – or the culprit behind it all. Or perhaps it’s one of the other writers in attendance, who know all too well the many ways to craft a perfect crime. Eleanor is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery and must do whatever it takes to get out of this weekend alive .
The Wish by Heather Morris – Jesse is fifteen. She loves her friends, her little brother, and her parents, even when they’re arguing, which feels constant these days. But most of all, she loves playing video games. Even from her hospital bed. Alex is twenty-nine. He doesn’t love a lot of things and isn’t really sure he knows how to do so. A virtual reality games designer, his work desk is empty except for his computer, much like his life sometimes feels. Then Jesse makes a wish, a simple one: a video experience made of her life, something to be there, just in case she isn’t. One loving teenager. One lonely adult. Which one will get the happy ending?
The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett – Oxford Mississippi, 1933. Abandoned by her mother one Christmas Eve, eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one. Now one of the unadoptable “big girls” at the Lafayette County Orphan Asylum, she fights each day to keep her spirit unbowed. Birdie Calhoun, unmarred and outspoken, has come to Oxford to ask her socialite sister to help the struggling family she’s left behind. But as the Depression tightens its grip, Birdie discovers her sister’s seemingly charmed life is a tapestry of lies. Then, Birdie encounters Charlie, a woman running low on luck with little left to lose. When their fates – and Meg’s – converge, Charles comes up with an audacious plan to claim what’s rightfully theirs. But in a place and time where hypocrisy is rife and women’s freedom is fragile, even the smallest act of defiance can have dangerous consequences.