1. The 23rd Midnight
    by James Patterson
    Little, Brown and Company
    May 01, 2023
    FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
    Hardback
    The 23rd Midnight
    by James Patterson
    Little, Brown and Company
    May 01, 2023
    FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
    Hardback

    In this #1 New York Times bestseller,an attention-seeking copycat from the Women’s Murder Club’s past is recreating murders by a famous killer—with devastating new twists.

    Detective Lindsay Boxer put serial killer Evan Burke in jail.

    Reporter Cindy Thomas wrote a book that put him on the bestseller list.

    An obsessed maniac has turned Burke’s true-crime story into a playbook. And is embellishing it with gruesome touches all his own.

    Now Lindsay’s tracking an elusive suspect, and the entire Murder Club is facing destruction.
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  2. Identity
    by Nora Roberts
    St. Martin's Press
    May 23, 2023
    FICTION / Women
    Hardback
    Identity
    by Nora Roberts
    St. Martin's Press
    May 23, 2023
    FICTION / Women
    Hardback

    The #1 New York Times-bestselling author's terrifying next thriller about one man's ice-cold malice, and one woman's fight to reclaim her life.

    Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate Nina helps her make the mortgage payments, as does Morgan's job as a bartender. But after she and Nina host their first dinner party—attended by Luke, the flirtatious IT guy who'd been chatting her up at the bar—her carefully built world is shattered. The back door glass is broken, cash and jewelry are missing, her car is gone, and Nina lies dead on the floor.

    Soon, a horrific truth emerges: It was Morgan who let the monster in. "Luke" is actually a cold-hearted con artist named Gavin who targets a particular type of woman, steals her assets and identity, and then commits his ultimate goal: murder.

    What the FBI tells Morgan is beyond chilling. Nina wasn't his type. Morgan is. Nina was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. And Morgan's nightmare is just beginning. Soon she has no choice but to flee to her mother's home in Vermont. While she struggles to build something new, she meets another man, Miles Jameson. He isn't flashy or flirtatious, and his family business has deep roots in town. But Gavin is still out there hunting new victims, and he hasn't forgotten the one who got away.

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  3. The Lie Maker
    by Linwood Barclay Canada
    William Morrow
    May 16, 2023
    Hardback
    The Lie Maker
    by Linwood Barclay Canada
    William Morrow
    May 16, 2023
    Hardback

    In this twisty, fast-paced thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Find You First and Take Your Breath Away, a man desperately tries to track down his father—who was taken into witness protection years ago—before his enemies can get to him.

    Your dad’s not a good person. Your dad killed people, son.

    These are some of the last words Jack Givins’ father spoke to him before he was whisked away by witness protection, leaving Jack and his mother to pick up the shattered pieces of their lives as best they could.

    Years later, Jack is a grown man with problems of his own. He’s a talented but struggling author, barely scraping by on the royalties from his moderately successful first book. So when the U.S. Marshals approach him with a lucrative opportunity, he’s in no position to turn them down. They’re recruiting writers like Jack to create false histories for people in witness protection—people like Jack’s father.

    The coincidence is astonishing to Jack at first, but he soon realizes this may be a chance to find his dad. Only there’s one problem—Jack’s father hasn’t made contact with his handlers recently, and they have no idea where he is. He could be in serious danger, and Jack may be the only one who can find him.

    But how will he find a man he’s never truly known? A man who has done terrible things in his lifetime and made some deadly enemies in the process—enemies who wouldn’t think twice about using his own son against him.

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  4. Meet Me at the Lake
    by Carley Fortune Canada
    Viking
    May 02, 2023
    FICTION / Romance / Contemporary
    Paperback / softback
    Meet Me at the Lake
    by Carley Fortune Canada
    Viking
    May 02, 2023
    FICTION / Romance / Contemporary
    Paperback / softback
    INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
    INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
    *SHORTLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2024*

    In this breathtaking new novel from the #1 bestselling author of Every Summer After, a random connection sends two strangers on a daylong adventure where they make a promise one keeps and the other breaks, with life-changing effects.


    Fern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life thinking about Will Baxter. She spent just twenty-four hours in her early twenties with the aggravatingly attractive, idealistic artist, a chance encounter that spiraled into a daylong adventure in Toronto. The timing was wrong, but their connection was undeniable: they shared every secret, every dream, and made a pact to meet one year later. Fern showed up. Will didn’t.

    At thirty-two, Fern’s life doesn’t look at all how she once imagined it would. Instead of living in the city, Fern’s back home, running her mother’s Muskoka lakeside resort—something she vowed never to do. The place is in disarray, her ex-boyfriend’s the manager, and Fern doesn’t know where to begin.

    She needs a plan—a lifeline. To her surprise, it comes in the form of Will, who arrives nine years too late, with a suitcase in tow and an offer to help on his lips. Will may be the only person who understands what Fern’s going through. But how could she possibly trust this expensive-suit wearing mirage who seems nothing like the young man she met all those years ago. Will is hiding something, and Fern’s not sure she wants to know what it is.

    But ten years ago, Will Baxter rescued Fern. Can she do the same for him?
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  5. The Wedding Planner
    by Danielle Steel
    Delacorte Press
    May 02, 2023
    FICTION / Women
    Hardback
    The Wedding Planner
    by Danielle Steel
    Delacorte Press
    May 02, 2023
    FICTION / Women
    Hardback
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this captivating novel from Danielle Steel, a wildly successful, unmarried wedding planner leads her clients to happily ever after.

    Faith Ferguson is New York’s most in-demand wedding planner, an arbiter of taste for elegant affairs, lavish ceremonies, and exclusive fêtes. She appreciates a simple celebration as much as a dazzling event, for she knows that a dream wedding is not necessarily the most expensive one.

    As much as Faith enjoys her work, her two failed engagements leave her with no desire to get married herself. She finds fulfillment in her close relationship with her twin sister, Hope, her role as a mentor for her assistant, Violet, and her career.

    This year, new clients have flocked to her, and she signs up an extravagant reception, a mid-sized gathering, and an intimate soirée, in addition to her mother’s next marriage and Violet’s modest ceremony. Faith finds herself forming bonds with her new clients and their loved ones—most notably the handsome brother of one of her grooms.

    But weddings are not always all champagne and roses, and in no time, Faith is grappling with private quarrels, unplanned pregnancies, family scandals, dark secrets, and the possibility of cancelled ceremonies. Through her own journey, Faith will prove once and for all that there is not just one path to happily ever after.

    In The Wedding Planner, Danielle Steel presents an enchanting story about the winding road to love and the many ways to find joy while staying true to oneself.
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  6. Standing in the Shadows
    by Peter Robinson Canada
    McClelland & Stewart
    May 16, 2023
    FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural
    Hardback
    Standing in the Shadows
    by Peter Robinson Canada
    McClelland & Stewart
    May 16, 2023
    FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural
    Hardback
    The twenty-eighth and final installment of the #1 bestselling Inspector Banks series by “the grand master of the genre” (Literary Review), Peter Robinson.

    In November 1980, student Nick Hartley returns from a lecture to find his house full of police officers. As he discovers that his ex-girlfriend has been found murdered in a nearby park, and her new boyfriend is missing, he realizes two things in quick succession: he is undoubtedly a suspect as he has no convincing alibi, and he has his own suspicions as to what might have happened . . .

    Decades later, in November 2019, an archaeologist unearths a skeleton that turns out to be far more contemporary than the Roman remains she is seeking. Detective Superintendent Alan Banks and his team are called in, and as an investigation into the find begins, the past and the present meet with devastating consequences.
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  7. Drowning
    by T. J. Newman
    Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
    May 30, 2023
    FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
    Hardback
    Drowning
    by T. J. Newman
    Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
    May 30, 2023
    FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
    Hardback
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES * “Reads like Apollo 13 underwater.” —Don Winslow * “Masterful.” —Patricia Cornwell * “A stunningly vivid tour de force!” Gripping. Shocking.” —Brad Thor

    Flight attendant turned New York Times bestselling author T. J. Newman’s adrenaline-fueled thriller about a commercial jetliner that crashes into the ocean and sinks to the bottom with passengers trapped inside—and the extraordinary rescue operation to save them.

    Six minutes after takeoff, Flight 1421 crashes into the Pacific Ocean. During the evacuation, an engine explodes and the plane is flooded. Those still alive are forced to close the doors—but it’s too late. The plane sinks to the bottom with twelve passengers trapped inside.

    More than two hundred feet below the surface, engineer Will Kent and his eleven-year-old daughter Shannon are waist-deep in water and fighting for their lives.

    Their only chance at survival is an elite rescue team on the surface led by professional diver Chris Kent—Shannon’s mother and Will’s soon-to-be ex-wife—who must work together with Will to find a way to save their daughter and rescue the passengers from the sealed airplane, which is now teetering on the edge of an undersea cliff.

    There’s not much time. There’s even less air.

    With devastating emotional power and heart-stopping suspense, Drowning is an unforgettable thriller about a family’s desperate fight to save themselves and the people trapped with them—against impossible odds.
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  8. Killing Moon
    by Jo Nesbo
    Random House Canada
    May 30, 2023
    FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators
    Hardback
    Killing Moon
    by Jo Nesbo
    Random House Canada
    May 30, 2023
    FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators
    Hardback
    GLOBE AND MAIL and NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller!

    Harry Hole is an all-time great character...a 100% buy-today-read-tonight delight!"—Lee Child, author of the #1 bestselling Jack Reacher series
    "Nesbo is back on gruesome form"—Financial Times

    In the 13th novel in this internationally bestselling series, brilliant rogue police investigator Harry Hole is back, this time as an outsider assembling his own team to help find a serial killer.


    Two young women are missing in Oslo. Strangers to each other, but last seen at the same party. When the body of one of them is found with fresh stitches along her hairline, the hunt is on to find a murderer with singular compulsions. Catching this criminal calls for a detective with a singular mind: Harry Hole.

    But Harry is gone: fired from the police force and down and out in Los Angeles. It seems like nothing can entice him back home—until someone close to him comes under threat.

    Now the clock is ticking, for Harry's friend and for the missing woman. Can Harry cobble together a team good enough to help him catch an ingenious psychopath before the body count rises? The hunt will push him to the limit.
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  9. Queen Charlotte
    by Julia Quinn
    Avon
    May 09, 2023
    Hardback
    Queen Charlotte
    by Julia Quinn
    Avon
    May 09, 2023
    Hardback

    Go beyond the original Shondaland series on Netflix, Queen Charlotte, with this lushly romantic Bridgerton prequel novel written by New York Times bestselling authors Julia Quinn and Shonda Rhimes as the marriage of Queen Charlotte and King George of England leads to an unexpected love story and a union that transforms society.

    In 1761, on a sunny day in September, a King and Queen met for the very first time. They were married within hours.

    Born a German Princess, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was beautiful, headstrong, and fiercely intelligent… not precisely the attributes the British Court had been seeking in a spouse for the young King George III. But her fire and independence were exactly what she, and her King, needed.

    Because George has secrets… secrets with the potential to shake the very foundations of the monarchy.

    Thrust into her new role, Charlotte must navigate the intricate politics of the court—with the newly-titled Lady Danbury at her side—all the while guarding her heart, because she is falling in love with the King…even as he pushes her away. Now, Charlotte must learn to rule, and to understand that she has been given the power to remake society, fulfilling her destiny as Queen. But she also has to fight for the love growing between her and George as people first, royals second. As she says to him: “Fight with me! Fight for me!”


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  10. Truth Telling
    by Michelle Good Canada
    HarperCollins Publishers
    May 30, 2023
    Hardback
    Truth Telling
    by Michelle Good Canada
    HarperCollins Publishers
    May 30, 2023
    Hardback

    #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER

    FINALIST for the Writers’ Trust Balsillie Prize for Public Policy

    A bold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada.

    With authority and insight, Truth Telling examines a wide range of Indigenous issues framed by Michelle Good’s personal experience and knowledge.

    From racism, broken treaties, and cultural pillaging, to the value of Indigenous lives and the importance of Indigenous literature, this collection reveals facts about Indigenous life in Canada that are both devastating and enlightening. Truth Telling also demonstrates the myths underlying Canadian history and the human cost of colonialism, showing how it continues to underpin modern social institutions in Canada.

    Passionate and uncompromising, Michelle Good affirms that meaningful and substantive reconciliation hinges on recognition of Indigenous self-determination, the return of lands, and a just redistribution of the wealth that has been taken from those lands without regard for Indigenous peoples.

    Truth Telling is essential reading for those looking to acknowledge the past and understand the way forward.

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