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October 2024 Adult Top 10 Picks

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  1. The Waiting
    by Michael Connelly
    9780316563796
    Little, Brown and Company
    Oct 15, 2024
    FICTION / Thrillers / Crime
    Hardback
    The Waiting
    by Michael Connelly
    9780316563796
    Little, Brown and Company
    Oct 15, 2024
    FICTION / Thrillers / Crime
    Hardback
    AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, and enlists a new volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: patrol officer Maddie Bosch, Harry’s daughter.

    Renée Ballard and the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet two decades ago. The arrested man is only twenty-four, so the genetic link must be familial: His father was the Pillowcase Rapist, responsible for a five-year reign of terror in the City of Angels. But when Ballard and her team move in on their suspect, they encounter a baffling web of secrets and legal hurdles.

    Meanwhile, Ballard’s badge, gun, and ID are stolen—a theft she can’t report without giving her enemies in the department ammunition to end her career as a detective. She works the burglary alone, but her mission draws her into unexpected danger. With no choice but to go outside the department for help, she knocks on the door of Harry Bosch.

    At the same time, Ballard takes on a new volunteer to the cold case unit: Bosch’s daughter Maddie, now a patrol officer. But Maddie has an ulterior motive for getting access to the city’s library of lost souls—a case that may be the most iconic in the city’s history. Complex, satisfying, and full of dexterous twists, The Waiting demonstrates once more that “you can’t do better than Michael Connelly” (Forbes).
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  2. In Too Deep
    by Lee Child
    9780593725801
    Delacorte Press
    Oct 22, 2024
    FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
    Hardback
    In Too Deep
    by Lee Child
    9780593725801
    Delacorte Press
    Oct 22, 2024
    FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
    Hardback
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child

    Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had gotten there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure.

    Jack Reacher wakes up alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed. His right arm has suffered some major damage. His few possessions are gone. He has no memory of getting there.

    The last thing Reacher can recall is the car he hitched a ride in getting run off the road. The driver was killed.

    His captors assume Reacher was the driver’s accomplice and patch up his wounds as they plan to make him talk.

    A plan that will backfire spectacularly . . .
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  3. Midnight and Blue
    by Ian Rankin
    9781398709423
    Orion
    Oct 15, 2024
    FICTION / Crime
    Hardback
    Midnight and Blue
    by Ian Rankin
    9781398709423
    Orion
    Oct 15, 2024
    FICTION / Crime
    Hardback

    The brand new John Rebus thriller from the iconic Number One bestseller Ian Rankin: one of the must-read books of the year.

    John Rebus spent his life as a detective putting Edinburgh's most deadly criminals behind bars. Now, he's joined them...

    As new allies and old enemies circle, and the days and nights bleed into each other, even the legendary detective struggles to keep his head.

    That is, until a murder at midnight in a locked cell presents a new mystery. They say old habits die hard...

    However, this is a case where the prisoners and the guards are all suspects, and everyone has something to hide.

    With no badge, no authority and no safety net, Rebus walks a tightrope - with his life on the line.

    But how do you find a killer in a place full of them?

    * * * * *

    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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  4. The Blue Hour
    by Paula Hawkins
    9780385700184
    Doubleday Canada
    Oct 29, 2024
    FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
    Hardback
    The Blue Hour
    by Paula Hawkins
    9780385700184
    Doubleday Canada
    Oct 29, 2024
    FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
    Hardback
    The spellbinding new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Girl on the Train.

    Welcome to Eris: An island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. Unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day.

    Once home to Vanessa: A famous artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago.

    Now home to Grace: A solitary creature of the tides, content in her own isolation.

    But when a shocking discovery is made in an art gallery far away in London, a visitor comes calling.

    And the secrets of Eris threaten to emerge . . .

    A masterful novel that is as page-turning as it is unsettling, The Blue Hour recalls the sophisticated suspense of Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith, and cements Hawkins’s place among the very best of our most nuanced and stylish storytellers.
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  5. Revenge of the Tipping Point
    by Malcolm Gladwell
    9780316575805
    Little, Brown and Company
    Oct 01, 2024
    PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology
    ATOS for Books 9.1
    Hardback
    Revenge of the Tipping Point
    by Malcolm Gladwell
    9780316575805
    Little, Brown and Company
    Oct 01, 2024
    PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology
    ATOS for Books 9.1
    Hardback
    AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    Most Anticipated in:
    AARP | Associated Press | Time Magazine | Oprah Daily | Chicago Tribune | Literary Hub |
    Publishers Weekly | Publishers Lunch

    Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light.

    Why is Miami…Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third, and what does it mean for racial harmony? In this provocative new work, Malcolm Gladwell returns for the first time in twenty-five years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena.

    Through a series of riveting stories, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering. He takes us to the streets of Los Angeles to meet the world’s most successful bank robbers, rediscovers a forgotten television show from the 1970s that changed the world, visits the site of a historic experiment on a tiny cul-de-sac in northern California, and offers an alternate history of two of the biggest epidemics of our day: COVID and the opioid crisis. Revenge of the Tipping Point is Gladwell’s most personal book yet. With his characteristic mix of storytelling and social science, he offers a guide to making sense of the contagions of modern world. It’s time we took tipping points seriously.
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  6. Identity Unknown
    by Patricia Cornwell
    9781538770382
    Grand Central Publishing
    Oct 08, 2024
    FICTION / Crime
    Hardback
    Identity Unknown
    by Patricia Cornwell
    9781538770382
    Grand Central Publishing
    Oct 08, 2024
    FICTION / Crime
    Hardback
    “Identity Unknown is hauntingly original, impossibly clever and devilishly daring.” – Chris Whitaker

    Autopsies can reveal the secrets of the dead.

    And this victim is sending Scarpetta a message...

    Summoned to an abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr. Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is a man she once had an intense love affair with.

    The murder scene is bizarre, with a crop circle of petals around the body, and Giordano’s skin is strangely red. Scarpetta’s niece Lucy believes he was dropped from an unidentified flying craft. Scarpetta knows an autopsy can reveal the dead’s secrets, but she is shocked to find her friend seems to have deliberately left her a clue.

    As the investigators are torn between suspicions of otherworldly forces, and of Giordano himself, Scarpetta detects an explanation closer to home that, in her mind, is far more evil...
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  7. The Mistletoe Mystery
    by Nita Prose Canada
    9780735250581
    Viking
    Oct 01, 2024
    FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Cozy / General
    Hardback
    The Mistletoe Mystery
    by Nita Prose Canada
    9780735250581
    Viking
    Oct 01, 2024
    FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Cozy / General
    Hardback
    *INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER*

    Molly the Maid has a whole new mystery to solve in this heartwarming novella from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid and The Mystery Guest.

    Molly Gray has always loved the holidays. When Molly was a child, her gran went to great lengths to make the season merry and bright, full of cherished traditions. The first few Christmases without Gran were hard on Molly, but this year, her beloved boyfriend and fellow festive spirit, Juan Manuel, is intent on making the season Molly’s most joyful yet.

    But when a Secret Santa gift exchange at the Regency Grand Hotel raises questions about who Molly can and cannot trust, she dives headfirst into solving her most consequential—and personal—mystery yet. Molly has a bad feeling about things, and she starts to wonder: has she yet again mistaken a frog for a prince?

    A heartwarming, magical story about the true spirit of the season, The Mistletoe Mystery reminds us that love is the greatest mystery of all.
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  8. Triangle
    by Danielle Steel
    9780593498552
    Delacorte Press
    Oct 01, 2024
    FICTION / Women
    Hardback
    Triangle
    by Danielle Steel
    9780593498552
    Delacorte Press
    Oct 01, 2024
    FICTION / Women
    Hardback
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A Paris gallery owner finds herself in danger when a mysterious man begins leaving her messages, in #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel’s thrilling new novel.

    As she approaches the milestone birthday of forty, delicate blond beauty Amanda Delanoe finds joy in running a chic contemporary art gallery in the City of Light. The only child of a French businessman and an American model, both now deceased, Amanda lives well and adores her dog, Lulu, but so far the love of her life has eluded her.

    Then she meets Olivier Saint Albin, a dashing publisher. At the same time, she reconnects with Tom Quinlan, an old boyfriend from her days at NYU twenty years ago, now a lawyer on sabbatical who has come to Paris to devote himself to writing a thriller.

    Charming Olivier is a master at the art of flirtation, but as Amanda feels herself falling for him, she learns he is married. Providing counsel and support is her friend and co-owner of the gallery, fun-loving bachelor Pascal Leblanc. When Amanda begins to receive threatening phone calls late at night, it is Pascal she turns to. Then someone breaks into her apartment on the Left Bank, and it’s all too clear she is in real danger. But from whom? An old love, a new love, or a stranger? As love enters her life, so does terror. . . .

    Triangle is at once the story of a woman dedicated to staying true to her principles and a breathtaking tale of suspense from the one and only Danielle Steel.
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  9. Murder Island
    by James Patterson
    9781538721902
    Little, Brown and Company
    Oct 08, 2024
    FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
    Hardback
    Murder Island
    by James Patterson
    9781538721902
    Little, Brown and Company
    Oct 08, 2024
    FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
    Hardback
    They thought they found heaven on earth. But their paradise becomes a nightmare when Professor Brandt Savage and his girlfriend Kira Sunlight stumble on a terrifying conspiracy​.

    When professor turned crime-fighter Brandt "'Doc'"Savage and his girlfriend Kira Sunlight land on a desert island in the middle of the Atlantic, they think they've found a perfect utopia. An escape from their tumultuous pasts.

    But they don't have long to enjoy their newfound peace before they are violently separated and dragged to opposite ends of the Earth.

    Doc's search for Kira takes him from the coast of Brazil to northern Europe and the jungles of the Congo, and he discovers they are entangled in a global conspiracy that is bigger he ever could have imagined.
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  10. What Does It Feel Like?
    by Sophie Kinsella
    9780593977569
    The Dial Press
    Oct 08, 2024
    FICTION / Women
    Hardback
    What Does It Feel Like?
    by Sophie Kinsella
    9780593977569
    The Dial Press
    Oct 08, 2024
    FICTION / Women
    Hardback
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • From #1 bestselling author Sophie Kinsella, an unforgettable story—by turns heartbreaking and life-affirming—of a renowned novelist facing a devastating diagnosis and learning to live and love anew.

    “The bravest book you’ll read all year.”—Jodi Picoult

    “Only Sophie Kinsella can make you laugh like this while she’s got you crying.”—Taylor Jenkins Reid

    A PARADE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

    “What Does It Feel Like? is fiction, but it is my most autobiographical work to date. Eve’s story is my story.”—Sophie Kinsella

    Eve is a successful novelist who wakes up one day in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. Her husband, never far from her side, explains that she has had an operation to remove the large, malignant tumor growing in her brain.

    As Eve learns to walk, talk, and write again—and as she wrestles with her diagnosis, and how and when to explain it to her beloved children—she begins to recall what’s most important to her: long walks with her husband’s hand clasped firmly around her own, family game nights, and always buying that dress when she sees it.

    Recounted in brief anecdotes, each one is an attempt to answer the type of impossible questions recognizable to anyone navigating the labyrinth of grief. This short, extraordinary novel is a celebration of life, shot through with warmth and humor—it will both break your heart and put it back together again.

    “Why did I write such a personal book? I have always processed my life through writing. Hiding behind my fictional characters, I have always turned my own life into a narrative. It is my version of therapy, maybe. Writing is my happy place, and writing this book, although tough going at times, was immensely satisfying and therapeutic for me.”—Sophie Kinsella
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