New Books
Pointe au Baril Library: Recent Acquisitions
January 2022
1. AUTOPSY by Patricia Cornwell
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has returned to Virginia as the chief medical examiner. She and her husband, Benton Wesley, now a forensic psychologist with the U.S. Secret Service, relocated to Old Town Alexandria where she’s headquartered five miles from the Pentagon in a post-pandemic world.
2. BURNING by Jonathan Kellerman
When a wealthy man is found murdered in his hilltop home, Deputy Coroner Clay Edison is shocked to discover a link to his own brother Luke on the scene. Luke is fresh out of prison and struggling to stay on the straight and narrow.
3. BUTLER by Danielle Steel
Two different worlds and two very different lives collide in Paris in this captivating novel. Joachim von Hartmann was born and raised in Buenos Aires by his loving German mother, inseparable from his identical twin. When Joachim moves to Paris with his mother in his late teens, his twin stays behind and enters a dark world.
4. CALDER BRAND by Janet Dailey
The first installment in a Calder series spin-off beginning in the late 1800s, as a cowboy named Joe Dollarhide joins the Calder brand on one of the first cattle drives from Texas to Montana. Ambition drove Joe Dollarhide across the parched plains from Fort Sam Houston to Dodge City.
5. CLIVE CUSSLER’S THE DEVIL’S SEA by Dirk Cussler
In 1959 Tibet, a Buddhist artifact of immense importance was seemingly lost to history in the turmoil of the Communist takeover. But when National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt discovers a forgotten plane crash in the Philippine Sea over 60 years later, new clues emerge to its hidden existence.
6. CRIMINAL MISCHIEF by Stuart Woods
After a dangerous adventure has him traveling up and down the coast, Stone Barrington is looking forward to some down time at his Manhattan abode. But when an acquaintance alerts him to a hinky plot being hatched across the city, he finds himself eager to pursue justice.
7. DARK HOURS by Michael Connelly
Has a killer lain dormant for years only to strike again on New Year’s Eve? There's chaos in Hollywood on New Year's Eve. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD Detective Renée Ballard seeks shelter at the end of the countdown to wait out the traditional rain of lead as hundreds of revelers shoot their guns into the air.
8. DONNELLYS: POWDER KEG, 1840-1880 by John Little
A violent family living in violent times. In the 1840s, the Donnelly family immigrates from Ireland to the British province of Canada. Almost immediately problems develop as the patriarch of the family is sent to the Kingston Penitentiary for manslaughter, leaving his wife to raise their eight children on her own.
9. DONNELLYS: MASSACRE, TRAIL AND AFTERMATH by John Little
A story made all the more shocking because it's true. In 1880, an organized mob of the Donnellys' enemies murder four family members and burn their house to the ground. Another sibling is shot to death in a house a short distance away. William Donnelly and a teenage boy are the only witnesses to the murders.
10. FEAR NO EVIL by James Patterson
Alex Cross enters the final showdown with the relentless killer who has stalked him and his family for years. Dr. Alex Cross and Detective John Sampson venture into the rugged Montana wilderness—where they will be the prey. They’re not on the job, but on a personal mission.
11. FLYING ANGELS by Danielle Steel
WWII brings together six remarkable young flight nurses, who face the challenges of war and its many heartbreaks and victories as unsung heroes, in this inspiring novel. Audrey Parker’s life changes forever when Pearl Harbor is attacked on December 7, 1941.
12. FOUL PLAY by Stuart Woods
Stone Barrington is nearing his New York City abode when he stumbles into trouble. As it turns out, a new client is in danger - and with both business and the safety of the city at stake, Stone has no choice but to get involved.
13. GAME ON: TEMPTING TWENTY-EIGHT by Janet Evanovich
When Stephanie Plum is woken up in the middle of the night by the sound of footsteps in her apartment, she wishes she didn’t keep her gun in the cookie jar in her kitchen. And when she finds out the intruder is fellow apprehension agent Diesel, six feet of hard muscle, she thinks the gun might come in handy.
14. INVISIBLE by Danielle Steel
A gifted young woman must grapple with the legacy of a troubled childhood in order to pursue her dreams. Antonia Adams is the product of a loveless marriage between a beautiful young model and an aristocrat. She is abandoned in the abyss set between her parents.
15. LIGHTENING IN A MIRROR by Jayne Ann Krentz
The final installment in the chilling Fogg Lake trilogy. Olivia LeClair’s experiment with speed dating is not going well. First there was the nasty encounter with the date from hell who tried to murder her and now the mysterious Harlan Rancourt—long believed dead—sits down at her table and tells her she’s the only one who can help him locate the legendary Vortex lab.
16. MIDNIGHT LOCK by Jeffrey Deaver
A woman awakes in the morning to find that someone has picked her apartment’s supposedly impregnable door lock and rearranged personal items, even sitting beside her while she slept. The intrusion, the police learn, is a message to the entire city of carnage to come. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to investigate and soon learn that the sociopathic intruder who calls himself "the Locksmith.”
17. NEVER by Ken Follett
An extraordinary thriller, full of heroines and villains, false prophets and elite warriors, jaded politicians and opportunistic revolutionaries. It brims with cautionary wisdom for our times, and a delivers a visceral, heart-pounding read that transports readers to the brink of the unimaginable. Two elite intelligence agents are on the trail of a powerful group of drug-smuggling terrorists.
18. NEW KINGDOM by Wilbur Smith
The first book in a brilliant new series. In the city of Lahun, Hui lives an enchanted life. The favoured son of a doting father, and ruler-in-waiting of the great city, his fate is set. But behind the beautiful facades a sinister evil is plotting. Craving power and embittered by jealousy, Hui's stepmother, the great sorceress Isetnofret, and Hui's own brother Qen, orchestrate the downfall of Hui's father.
19. STATE OF TERROR by HILLARY CLINTON and LOIUSE PENNY
After a tumultuous period in American politics, a new administration has just been sworn in, and to everyone's surprise the president chooses a political enemy for the vital position of secretary of state. There is no love lost between the president of the United States and Ellen Adams, his new secretary of state. With this appointment, he silences one of his harshest critics, since taking the job means Adams must step down as head of her multinational media conglomerate.
20. STRANGER IN THE LIFEBOAT by MITCH ALBOM
What would happen if we called on God for help and God actually appeared? Mitch Albom’s profound new novel of hope and faith. Adrift in a raft after a deadly ship explosion, nine people struggle for survival at sea. Three days pass. Short on water, food and hope, they spot a man floating in the waves. They pull him in. "Thank the Lord we found you,” a passenger says. He claims to be “the Lord.”
21. TOM CLANCY CHAIN OF COMMAND by MARC CAMERON
An unscrupulous pharmaceutical billionaire has a plan to flood the US market with counterfeit drugs in the latest entry in Tom Clancy’s bestselling series. President Jack Ryan is used to dealing with military threats to the American people, but how do you protect them against perfectly counterfeited pharmaceuticals? Patients are dying.