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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


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Supernatural sparks fly
between a bookseller
& her hard-boiled ghost.


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If Her Highness thinks I’ll let another man claim her and my child, she’s lost her royal mind. Sophaya’s mine.


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She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.


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He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.


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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

Talking to Strangers by Fiona Barton

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Also by Fiona Barton:

Repeat After Me, March 2027
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Talking to Strangers, July 2025
Trade Paperback
Talking to Strangers, September 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Local Gone Missing, May 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Local Gone Missing, July 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
The Suspect, March 2020
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
The Suspect, February 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
The Child, March 2018
Trade Size / e-Book
The Child, July 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
The Widow, February 2016
Hardcover / e-Book

TALKING TO STRANGERS
By: Fiona Barton

Berkley
September 2024
On Sale: August 27, 2024
Featuring: Karen Simmons; Kiki Nunn
400 pages
ISBN: 1984803077
EAN: 9781984803078
Kindle: B0CP3F9KCP
Hardcover / e-Book
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Thriller Crime | Women's Fiction Psychological

Detective Elise King’s investigation into a woman’s murder is getting derailed by a reporter who insists on doing her own investigation in this nail-biting mystery from the author of Local Gone Missing.

When Karen Simmons is murdered on Valentine’s Day, Detective Elise King wonders if she was killed by a man she met online. Karen was all over the dating apps, leading some townspeople to blame her for her own death, while others band together to protest society’s violence against women. Into the divide comes Kiki Nunn, whose aggressive newsgathering once again antagonizes Elise. 

A single mother of a young daughter, Kiki is struggling to make a living in the diminished news landscape. Getting a scoop in the Simmons murder would do a lot for her career, and she’s willing to go up against not just Elise but the killer himself to do it.