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  1. Miss Wolcott's Ghost
    by Louise Penny Canada
    Minotaur Books
    Oct 20, 2026
    FICTION/Mystery & Detective/Traditional
    Hardback
    Miss Wolcott's Ghost
    by Louise Penny Canada
    Minotaur Books
    Oct 20, 2026
    FICTION/Mystery & Detective/Traditional
    Hardback

    Armand Gamache returns!

    “There’s a body in Lost Nation.”

    “Where?” demands Armand as he scribbles on the pad by his bed.

    But the line goes dead before Chief Inspector Gamache can question the caller.

    The head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec has no idea where Lost Nation is, or who woke him in the small hours of the morning at his home in Three Pines. What he does know is that the man was terrified.

    And so Armand is thrust out of a deep sleep and into the surrounding forests in search of the mythical Lost Nation. And a body.

    When he and his team of Jean-Guy Beauvoir and Isabelle Lacoste find both, the situation only grows more bizarre. The unidentified dead man appears to be from an era more than a century old. He’s lying in a long-abandoned cemetery, on top of a grave with a date, but no name.

    Adding to the mystery, the early morning call appears to have come from Gamache’s friend and neighbor, Clara Morrow. While she denies any knowledge of it, it becomes clear there is some connection between her, the Morrow family, and Lost Nation.

    Soon, Gamache and his team are faced with tracking down not just the legend of Lost Nation, but a lost ship, lost documents belong to an eccentric Victorian botanist, , and a mysterious plant not seen in a century, that might save, or take, countless lives.

    As the murder investigation deepens, nightmarish spectres from the past begin to haunt the Sûreté officers, only heightened by the appearance of one of Gamache’s former and now disgraced proteges, with whom he must form an uneasy alliance.

    As the ghosts begin to gather, Gamache, Beauvoir, and Lacoste, with the help of Reine-Marie, Clara, and the other villagers of Three Pines, realize that the body on the grave is far from the only death. To solve the crime and avert catastrophe they must look to rancid secrets and old lies no longer dead and buried.

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  2. The Hollow
    by Michael Connelly
    Little, Brown and Company
    Oct 27, 2026
    FICTION/Thrillers/Crime
    Hardback
    The Hollow
    by Michael Connelly
    Little, Brown and Company
    Oct 27, 2026
    FICTION/Thrillers/Crime
    Hardback

    Retired LAPD detective Harry Bosch delves into the darkest chapter of his past in this electric thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly.

    "The final showdown will make your heart thrum with vigilante pride.” (Kirkus Reviews)

    When Harry Bosch was eleven years old, his mother was murdered and he became a ward of the state, housed in MacLaren Children’s Center, a notorious facility where abuse was rampant. Decades after its closure, a lawsuit has resulted in a massive settlement for former residents. But when Bosch’s half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, brings him word that Harry is entitled to part of it, Bosch says he doesn’t want the money. He wants justice.

    The news awakens his memories of a place he had hoped never to revisit, and of a boy nicknamed Chops, a fellow ward who wound up dead. Bosch is certain that Chops was killed in a hidden space under the stairs—the kids knew it as “the hollow”—and his murder covered up. Now he is determined to reopen the investigation and learn the truth, even if the killer is long gone.

    As Bosch digs into the files, he picks up the trail of a predator who not only survived, but went on to a life of vicious crime—possibly including one of the city's most notorious unsolved cases. Forced to face a history that both scarred him and launched him on his mission as a cop, Bosch must bring down a sadistic criminal and finally put to rest the demons of his past.

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  3. Chain Reaction
    by Lee Child
    Bantam
    Oct 20, 2026
    FICTION/Thrillers/Suspense
    Hardback
    Chain Reaction
    by Lee Child
    Bantam
    Oct 20, 2026
    FICTION/Thrillers/Suspense
    Hardback
    The heart-pounding new Jack Reacher thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child.

    Jack Reacher is hard to find. It's not easy to track him down. And he likes it that way. But General Susan Turner, based deep inside the Pentagon, has the means and the motive. She needs his help. A member of her team has been brutally murdered on covert duty. She can’t trust anyone she works with, not even her deputy. She needs someone from the outside. Someone who solves problems and disappears without a trace.

    Reacher heads to Summertown, Colorado. A town as remote and bizarre as it gets. One diner, one motel, five massive data centers, two giant solar farms humming away in the dust. Total population: four people. And one of them is watching him. But Reacher isn’t built to run. He’s built to finish things. General Turner knows that if they come for Reacher, they’ll regret it—all the way to the top of the chain.
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  4. The Witch (Deluxe Edition)
    by Freida McFadden
    Poisoned Pen Press
    Oct 06, 2026
    FICTION/Thrillers/Psychological
    Hardback
    The Witch (Deluxe Edition)
    by Freida McFadden
    Poisoned Pen Press
    Oct 06, 2026
    FICTION/Thrillers/Psychological
    Hardback

    A brand-new, haunting thriller from Freida McFadden, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid!

    Some secrets don't die—they wait.

    When Julia Barlow loses her job and her apartment, she has nowhere left to go but Pemberton, her family's sprawling seventeenth-century estate in rural Massachusetts. Officially, she's there to check in on her aging grandmother. Unofficially, she's hoping the old house will give her a place to disappear.

    Instead, Pemberton begins to unravel her.

    Every night, the grandfather clock stops at exactly 3:41 a.m. The lights flicker without warning. And a disembodied voice cries for help outside Julia's bedroom door.

    As Julia digs into the house's dark history, she uncovers the story of a woman executed for witchcraft in 1692—and realizes the past may not be finished with Pemberton yet. When decades of family lies begin to surface, Julia must confront a terrifying truth: Pemberton may be haunted by women whose voices refuse to stay silent.

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes The Witch, a chilling, twist-filled thriller about secrets—those we inherit, those we bury, and those people will burn to keep silent.

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  5. Partita
    by Barbara Kingsolver
    Harper
    Oct 06, 2026
    FICTION/Literary
    Hardback
    Partita
    by Barbara Kingsolver
    Harper
    Oct 06, 2026
    FICTION/Literary
    Hardback

    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Demon Copperhead, a story of a brief, passionate, life-changing love affair, wrapped up in what might be the greatest romance of all: our eternal human longing for art and beauty.

    Livia Cable has made her peace with her marriage and modest livelihood in the farm country where she grew up, until a shocking phone call from an old lover shakes her to the core. Decades earlier, this man knew her as Livia Bohusz, a music conservatory student estranged from her home and family, uncertain of anything except her passion for music and promise as an extraordinary pianist. His request, now, to see her again stirs up ghosts she’s kept at bay for a lifetime.

    Shifting between past and present, Livia’s decision to meet or reject the reunion means confronting step by step, in memories framed as musical dances, the experiences of childhood loss, abandonment, self-immolating passion, and perilous attachment to a man who broke her belief in love and ruptured the course of her life.

    With razor-sharp acuity and deep affection, Pulitzer Prize winner Barbara Kingsolver’s unforgettable new novel reflects on class barriers, the risks of ambition, and the timeless, life-changing power of art.

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  6. Peck & Peck
    by Bonnie Garmus
    Scribner Canada
    Oct 13, 2026
    FICTION/Humorous/General
    Hardback
    Peck & Peck
    by Bonnie Garmus
    Scribner Canada
    Oct 13, 2026
    FICTION/Humorous/General
    Hardback
    The number one bestselling author of global sensation Lessons in Chemistry returns with an irresistible, delightful, and tender story about a young man whose life turns upside down when he is hired by the most prestigious, secretive, and dysfunctional poetry journal in the world: the renowned Peck & Peck of New York City.

    Batter Gray is worried about his future. Even when he was eleven, his classmates seemed to have settled on a goal: doctor, lawyer, broker, engineer. Good jobs that automatically command respect, security, 401Ks. Now Batter is in his early twenties, living in New York City, and he wants something different; something that alienates some readers and bores most. Poetry. And yet—to him and exactly thirty-nine editors at a company called Peck & Peck—poetry not only represents the power of humanity but holds the key to its survival.

    Batter is named after his mother’s heroic dog. An identical twin who lost his brother at birth, he finds himself confronted by the everyday dualities that make up life: right vs. wrong, truth vs. lies, rejection vs. acceptance. It’s almost as if his dead brother is a reminder: there are always two sides to every story.

    No, wait. Make that three.
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  7. A Court of Splintered Harmony
    by Sarah J. Maas
    Bloomsbury Publishing
    Oct 27, 2026
    FICTION/Romance/Fantasy
    Hardback
    A Court of Splintered Harmony
    by Sarah J. Maas
    Bloomsbury Publishing
    Oct 27, 2026
    FICTION/Romance/Fantasy
    Hardback

    Romance, danger, and intrigue await you in the breathtaking sixth book in the #1 bestselling Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR) series.

    What was broken will be remade.

    Deep in the heart of the continent, Koschei the Deathless is stirring. Though he's been bound to a mountain lake for millennia, the insidious threat of his return now spreads across the Fae territories, attracting powerful allies hell-bent on reclaiming what was once theirs: the human lands.

    The Night Court will not stand idly by while innocents are attacked. But with Prythian still piecing itself together in the wake of the devastating Hybern War, the task of uniting is proving more difficult by the day.

    To make matters worse, those who rule and protect the Night Court are reeling from recent betrayals and revealed truths. The rifts dividing them seem insurmountable.

    But to defeat Koschei's creeping shadow, they must find a way back to each other and resurrect their former alliances. To survive, they must find a way to repair the splintered harmony all around them.

    The Court of Thorns and Roses series includes:
    A Court of Thorns and Roses
    A Court of Mist and Fury
    A Court of Wings and Ruin
    A Court of Frost and Starlight
    A Court of Silver Flames
    A Court of Splintered Harmony
    A Court of Forgotten Melody

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  8. The Family Cross
    by James Patterson
    Little, Brown and Company
    Oct 19, 2026
    FICTION/Thrillers/Crime
    Hardback
    The Family Cross
    by James Patterson
    Little, Brown and Company
    Oct 19, 2026
    FICTION/Thrillers/Crime
    Hardback

    Alex Cross investigates a series of baffling murders while balancing a family crisis that threatens to upend his entire world in this thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author, James Patterson.

    Alex Cross is a brilliant psychologist—and a relentless hunter of killers for the FBI and DC Metro Police.

    To his beloved Nana Mama, he’s still the boy she raised—and every morning, as he straps on his service weapon, she’s reminded just how dangerous his world has become.

    But in Washington, DC, there are places even the police don’t go—an unseen underworld where violence thrives and rules don’t apply. And this time, Alex is stepping straight into it.

    Each move pulls him deeper into the dark—and closer to a case that could shatter the promise he made to Nana … and cost him everything he holds most dear.

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  9. The Heights
    by Ian Rankin
    Orion Spring
    Oct 13, 2026
    FICTION/Mystery & Detective/International Crime & Mystery
    Hardback
    The Heights
    by Ian Rankin
    Orion Spring
    Oct 13, 2026
    FICTION/Mystery & Detective/International Crime & Mystery
    Hardback
    Murder comes to London's most exclusive high rise in this thriller from the iconic Number One bestseller Ian Rankin

    The Rise is a gleaming residential tower, newly constructed from steel and blackened glass, that stands on some of London's most prestigious real estate. Looming imposingly over Hyde Park, only multi-millionaires need apply for one of its sumptuous apartments. But when the young night concierge is found murdered in the building's lobby, the elite residents quickly find their gilded lifestyles under unwelcome police scrutiny.

    Investigating officer DS Gish has her work cut out. The only suspects, those who live in the building, aren't accustomed to police interrogation. But it seems horribly certain that one of them must be the killer. Could it be the Russian oligarch? Or the lonely actress? Maybe it's the family of the career criminal? Or perhaps it's the building's reclusive developer who lives alone in the penthouse?

    Obstructed continually by locked doors, governments both foreign and domestic, and an apparent absence of motive, can DS Gish solve this impenetrable mystery and apprehend the murderer-before they slip away forever?


    ****

    PRAISE FOR THE ICONIC NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER IAN RANKIN:

    'Ian Rankin is a genius'
    LEE CHILD

    'Rebus is one of British crime writing's greatest characters: alongside Holmes, Poirot and Morse'
    DAILY MAIL

    'Whatever he writes, it will be worth reading ... Rankin has redefined the genre'
    GUARDIAN

    'The arrival of a Rankin novel remains one of life's pleasures'
    EXPRESS

    'Rankin is a phenomenon'
    SPECTATOR

    'Worthy of Agatha Christie at her best'
    SCOTSMAN

    'The king of crime fiction'
    SUNDAY EXPRESS

    'Great fiction, full stop'
    THE TIMES

    ****

    Ian Rankin's A HEART FULL OF HEADSTONES was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 10th October 2022 and w/c 1st May 2023
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  10. The Girl in the Lake
    by James Patterson
    Little, Brown and Company
    Oct 27, 2026
    FICTION/Mystery & Detective/Private Investigators
    Paperback / softback
    The Girl in the Lake
    by James Patterson
    Little, Brown and Company
    Oct 27, 2026
    FICTION/Mystery & Detective/Private Investigators
    Paperback / softback

    An icy thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author, James Patterson.

    At a frozen lakeside crime scene, a corpse carries an accusatory note: “If anything happens to me, arrest Brendan Holmes.”

    Mysteries trail Brendan Holmes, Margaret Marple, and Auguste Poe wherever they go. At a remote lodge in upstate New York, the embattled private investigators have taken refuge from the assailant who bombed their sleek city headquarters.

    When the discovery of a body in the lake puts the detectives back in the headlines and under suspicion, the elusive killer issues his despicable orders: stop solving crimes—and start committing them.

    “Patterson ... will have readers checking their locks twice.” —Booklist

    "Patterson’s latest thriller keeps readers guessing ... a fine chase.” —People

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