New Thriller from Tami Hoag

Popular suspense author Tami Hoag's newest stand-alone novel Cold, Cold Heart is now available at the Community Library.

Dana Nolan was a promising young TV reporter until she was kidnapped by a notorious serial killer. A year has passed since she defeated her attacker, but Dana is still physically, emotionally, and psychologically scarred by her ordeal, with aftereffects including PTSD and memory loss. 

In an attempt to put herself back together after surviving the unthinkable, Dana returns to her hometown. But it doesn't provide the comfort she expects: she struggles to recognize family and childhood friends and begins experiencing dark flashbacks but she's not sure if they're truly memories or side effects of her brain injury.

"Hoag has been writing nail-biting thrillers for years, but this time she ups the ante. The suspense remains high, but the stakes are even higher ..." (Booklist Reviews)

Debut Mystery Not to Be Missed

In Fourth of July Creek, PEN prize-winning writer, Smith Henderson explores the complexities of freedom, community, grace, suspicion and anarchy, brilliantly depicting our nation's disquieting and violent contradictions.

After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral eleven-year-old boy living in the Montana wilderness, social worker Pete Snow comes face to face with the boy's profoundly disturbed father, Jeremiah. With courage and caution, Pete slowly earns a measure of trust from this paranoid survivalist itching for a final conflict that will signal the coming End Times.

But as Pete's own family spins out of control, Pearl's activities spark the full-blown interest of the F.B.I., putting Pete at the center of a massive manhunt from which no one will emerge unscathed.

New Horror Tale: Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia

In Bellweather Rhapsody, the 1997 Statewide Music Festival (being held at the Bellweather Hotel in New York's Catskill Mountains) goes awry when Jill, a star flutist, goes missing from a hotel room that was the site of a murder-suicide that took place 15 years earlier. Jill's disappearance causes a bridesmaid, Minnie Graves, who witnessed the first crime and happens to be at the hotel on the murder-suicide's 15th anniversary, to relive her trauma while a snowstorm traps everyone on the hotel grounds.

"Part ghost story, part mystery, part coming-of-age tale, and part love sonnet to music, Racculia's second novel (after This Must Be the Place) is dark and delightful, with memorable characters inspired by both literature and pop culture. It will grab readers and keep them with multilayered plotting and writing that ranges from humorous to poetic." (Library Journal Reviews)

The Hollow Girl by Reed Farrell Coleman (Moe Prager Series)

Check out Hollow Girl, the final book in Coleman's Moe Prager series!

Distraught over the tragic death of his girlfriend, Moe Prager is heading down a serious path of self destruction. However, he receives a timely visit from Nancy Lustig, an acquaintance from his first case, who begs Moe to help her locate her missing daughter, Sloane Cantor. As distracted as he is, Moe agrees to help and quickly discovers that nothing is ever as it seems to be, especially with respect to Sloane, who ironically, is known as the Lost Girl or Hollow Girl.

"Coleman gives Moe an absorbing send-off in this hard-boiled series finale. Although this title can stand alone, for maximum enjoyment the series' eight books should be read in order. As always, Moe is the everyman PI, waxing philosophical about life, love, and family. Fans of literary mysteries, private detectives, police procedurals, and nice guys will devour this book." (Library Journal Reviews)

New to the Moe Prager series? Listed below are the first eight books in the series!

1. Walking the Perfect Square (January 2001)
2. Redemption Street (March 2004)
3. The James Dean (January 2005)
4. Soul Patch (April 2007)
5. Empty Ever After (April 2008)
6. Innocent Monster (October 2010)
7. Hurt Machine (December 2011)
8. Onion Street (May 2013)

Remember Me Like This

Four years have passed since Justin Campbell’s disappearance, a tragedy that rocked the small town of Southport, Texas. Did he run away? Was he kidnapped? Did he drown in the bay? As the Campbells search for answers, they struggle to hold what’s left of their family together.

Then, one afternoon, the impossible happens. The police call to report that Justin has been found only miles away, in the neighboring town, and, most important, he appears to be fine. 

Though the reunion is a miracle, Justin’s homecoming exposes the deep rifts that have diminished his family, the wounds they all carry that may never fully heal. Trying to return to normal, his parents do their best to ease Justin back into his old life. But as thick summer heat takes hold, violent storms churn in the Gulf and in the Campbells’ hearts. When a reversal of fortune lays bare the family’s greatest fears—and offers perhaps the only hope for recovery—each of them must fight to keep the ties that bind them from permanently tearing apart.

Bret Anthony Johnston's Remember Me Like This is “an admirable achievement . . . The story starts where other stories might end. . . . [Readers] will find their expectations continually defied as characters refuse to follow a formulaic plot trajectory. . . . This is ultimately an uplifting reading experience owing to the believable love and warmth of the family.”—Library Journal (starred review)