Our Most Anticipated Reads: August 2024

Agony Hill by Sarah Stewart Taylor

Set in rural Vermont in the volatile 1960s, Agony Hill is the first novel in a new historical series full of vivid New England atmosphere and the deeply drawn characters that are Sarah Stewart Taylor’s trademark.

Between a Flock and a Hard Place by Donna Andrews

Readers will flock to New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews’s next installment in the award-winning Meg Langslow series.

House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen

The next thrilling novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah Pekkanen, House of Glass.

A World of Hurt by Mindy Mejia 

A World of Hurt is Mindy Mejia’s highly-anticipated follow-up to the “propulsive” USA Today bestselling thriller To Catch a Storm where an Iowa City police officer and a DEA informant must work together to hunt down the remains of a hidden drug empire.

Better Left Buried by Mary E. Roach 

Knives Out meets A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder in Mary E. Roach’s debut YA mystery Better Left Buried, in which two girls try to get to the bottom of a town full of secrets, a family full of mystery and an abandoned amusement park where people keep turning up dead.

All the Way Gone by Joanna Schaffhausen

The fourth installment in the beloved Detective Annalisa Vega series.

A Blood Red Morning by Mark Pryor

In this unputdownable WWII series, Paris detective Henri Lefort, must solve a complex case when a man is murdered on the policeman’s own doorstep.

Society of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown 

Maya has returned to Princeton to attend the graduation of her little sister, Naomi. But what should have been a dream weekend becomes Maya’s worst nightmare when she receives the news that Naomi is dead. The police are calling it an accident, but Maya suspects that there is more to the story than they are letting on.

Buried Too Deep by Karen Rose 

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Rose comes another explosive novel in the New Orleans series, where some secrets are worth dying for—or killing to keep.

City of Secrets by P. J. Tracy

LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan returns in P. J. Tracy’s City of Secrets, the next book in the series praised by the New York Times Book Review: “Tracy seems to have found her literary sweet spot.”

You Will Never Be Me by Jesse Q. Sutanto

When cracks start forming in an influencer’s curated life, she finds out that jealousy is just as viral as a video in this riveting suspense novel by bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutanto.

Sacrificial Animals by Kailee Pedersen 

Inspired by Kailee Pedersen’s own journey being adopted from Nanning, China in 1996 and growing up on a farm in Nebraska, this rich and atmospheric supernatural horror debut explores an ancient Chinese mythology.

Red River Road by Anna Downes

Anna Downes’s extraordinary next thriller Red River Road follows a woman desperate to discover what happened to her sister on a solo road trip through the Australian outback.