New Book Releases: March 17, 2020

Each Monday, I’ll catalog the biggest and most exciting adult and YA fiction — and the occasional nonfiction — coming out that week.

BEHELD, TaraShea Nesbit. I’m extremely excited to read this! Ten years after the landing of the Mayflower, a murder rocks the small community of Plymouth, Massachussetts. Indiebound, Amazon.

THE RUNAWAYS, Fatima Bhutto. Near Karachi, the lives of three very different people intersect, and a secret forces them to make a terrible choice. Indiebound, Amazon.

MRS. MOHR GOES MISSING, Maryla Szymiczkowa, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator). In late 19th-century Krakow, a professor’s wife becomes an amateur detective when the resident of a nursing home turns up dead. Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk calls it “an ingenious marriage of comedy and crime.” Indiebound, Amazon.

THE WOMAN IN THE MIRROR, Rebecca James. An art curator who was adopted as a child learns that she’s heir to an English manor, which she finds out is haunted by years of tragedy and madness. Indiebound, Amazon.

THE SHAPE OF FAMILY, Shilpi Somaya Gowda. A sudden tragedy tests the bonds of a tight-knit family. Indiebound, Amazon.