CPL Previews
A sneak peek at the August arrivals!
The Inn
James Patterson
James Patterson's strongest team since the Women's Murder Club are the first responders when their seafront town is targeted by vicious criminals.
Scheduled Publication Date: August 5
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Contraband
Stuart Woods
While in Florida, Stone Barrington joins forces with a local detective to investigate the disappearance of cargo from a plane crash, and when, by chance, a Manhattan case sheds light on the case, Stone sets out to connect the dots between the crimes.
Scheduled Publication Date: August 13
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Outfox
Sandra Brown
Sandra Brown combines heart-stopping suspense and forbidden passion in this psychological thriller about an FBI agent's hunt for a ruthless conman turned serial killer
Scheduled Publication Date: August 6
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The Dark Side
Danielle Steel
Haunted by the childhood death of her sister, Zoe devotes herself to a nonprofit career helping disadvantaged kids before scars from the past challenge her as a mother.
Scheduled Publication Date: August 27
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The Warning
James Patterson
Two roads lead to Mount Hope. None leads out. There's no place to run in a community that's been taken--and is being intentionally kept--off the grid
Scheduled Publication Date: August 13
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The Turn of the Key
Ruth Ware
When a high-paying nanny job at a luxurious Scottish Highlands home culminates in her imprisonment for a child's murder, a young woman struggles to untangle what really happened.
Scheduled Publication Date: August 6
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The Last Widow
Karin Slaughter
An electrifying latest entry in the best-selling series finds Will Trent and Sara Linton pitted against a mysterious group that would unleash a deadly epidemic.
Scheduled Publication Date: August 20
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A Better Man
Louise Penny
Searching for a missing woman amid a catastrophic flood and blistering social media attacks, a demoted Armand Gamache bonds with the victim's distraught father, who contemplates a murder of his own.
Scheduled Publication Date: August 27
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A Dangerous Man
Robert Crais
Rescuing a bank teller from an abduction attempt, Joe Pike tackles the most perilous case of his career when the would-be kidnappers are found murdered and the bank teller goes missing.
Scheduled Publication Date: August 6
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The Bitterroots
C.J. Box
Former police officer-turned-private investigator Cassie Dewell reluctantly accepts a sexual assault defense case before her search for answers among twisted family loyalties reignites the ghosts of her own past
Scheduled Publication Date: August 13
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Old Bones
Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child
Young curator Nora Kelly leads a team in search of the "Lost Camp" of the Donner Party, but as they expose the real truth of what happened, those ancient horrors lead to present-day violence in a case assigned to rookie FBI agent Corrie Swanson.
Scheduled Publication Date: August 20
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The Oysterville Sewing Circle
Susan Wiggs
Forced by scandal to return to her Pacific coast childhood home, a Manhattan fashionista assumes guardianship over two orphans and bonds with a circle of fellow seamstresses before an unexpected challenge tests her courage and heart
Scheduled Publication Date: August 13
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The Girl Who Lived Twice
David Lagercrantz
The best-selling author of The Girl in the Spider's Web presents a latest entry in the internationally acclaimed series starring punk hacker heroine, Claire Foy.
Scheduled Publication Date: August 27
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Tidelands
Philippa Gregory
During England's seventeenth-century civil war, Alinor, a woman without a husband and skilled with herbs, helps a young man on the run and unwittingly brings disaster into the heart of her life.
Scheduled Publication Date: August 20
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The Perfect Wife
J.P. Delaney
A woman miraculously restored to health by the innovations of her tech icon husband struggles with fragmented memories of a past that differs from her husband's accounts.
Scheduled Publication Date: August 6
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The Last Good Guy
T. Jefferson Parker
While searching for a missing teenager, private investigator Roland Ford uncovers a dark conspiracy involving an American Nazi compound and a celebrity evangelist.
Scheduled Publication Date: August 13
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Inland
Tea Obreht
An unflinching frontierswoman riding out the Arizona Territory drought of 1893 finds her life intertwined with that of a former outlaw whose ability to see ghosts has inspired a momentous expedition.
Scheduled Publication Date: August 13
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Love and Death Among the Cheetahs
Rhys Bowen
Georgie and her husband, Darcy, navigate the decadent parties and rampant infidelities of the aristocracy in Kenya's paradise Happy Valley to identify a killer in hiding.
Scheduled Publication Date: August 6
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The Russia Account        
Stephen Coonts
CIA officer Tommy Carmellini navigates an international financial conspiracy that puts CIA head Jake Grafton in the crosshairs of an assassin.

Scheduled Publication Date: August 13
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The Swallows
Lisa Lutz
When a creative writing assignment leads to unsettling allegations about her school's indifference to sexual assault, a new teacher organizes a group of marginalized girls in an escalating gender war.
Scheduled Publication Date: August 13
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