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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.

Island of the Mad by Laurie R. King

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Those Who Are Gone, September 2026
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Back to the Garden, September 2022
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Island of the Mad, June 2019
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Lockdown, August 2018
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Island of the Mad, June 2018
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The Murder of Mary Russell, April 2016
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Dreaming Spies, March 2015
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Garment Of Shadows, September 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Pirate King, September 2011
Hardcover / e-Book
Unusual Suspects, December 2010
Mass Market Paperback
The God of the Hive, May 2010
Paperback / e-Book
The Language of Bees, May 2009
Hardcover / e-Book
Unusual Suspects, December 2008
Trade Size
Touchstone, January 2008
Hardcover
The Art of Detection, May 2006
Hardcover / e-Book
Locked Rooms, June 2005
Hardcover / e-Book
The Game, March 2005
Hardcover / e-Book
Justice Hall, February 2003
Paperback / e-Book
The Beekeeper's Apprentice, March 2002
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
O Jerusalem, June 2000
Paperback / e-Book
The Moor, February 1999
Paperback / e-Book
A Letter of Mary, January 1998
Paperback / e-Book
A Monsterous Regiment of Women, November 1996
Paperback / e-Book

ISLAND OF THE MAD
By: Laurie R. King

Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #15
Bantam
June 2019
On Sale: June 4, 2019
Featuring: Mary Russell; Sherlock Holmes
320 pages
ISBN: 0804177988
EAN: 9780804177986
Kindle: B075PWFVMX
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Hardcover (June 2018)

Mystery Historical

Laurie R. King’s New York Times bestselling series featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes is β€œthe most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today” (Lee Child)!

The last thing Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, need is to help an old friend with her mad, missing aunt. Lady Vivian Beaconsfield has spent most of her adult life in one asylum after another, since the loss of her brother and father in the Great War. Although her mental state seemed to be improving, she’s now disappeared after an outing from Bethlem Royal Hospital . . . better known as Bedlam.

Russell wants nothing to do with the caseβ€”but she can’t say no. To track down the vanished woman, she must use her deductive instincts and talent for subterfugeβ€”and enlist her husband’s legendary prowess. Together, the two travel from the grim confines of Bedlam to the murky canals of Veniceβ€”only to find the shadow of Benito Mussolini darkening the fate of a city, an era, and a tormented English lady of privilege.