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List: New Fiction in September 2025


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The Portrait

Devon Darcy, a gifted portraitist marked by loss, and Charlie Taylor, a guarded entrepreneur shaped by family wounds, form a powerful bond after a chance meeting, as their deepening summer romance in the Hamptons brings them fear, vulnerability, and the possibility of lasting love.

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Framed in Death

Death imitates art in the brand-new crime thriller starring homicide cop Eve Dallas from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author J.D. Robb. Manhattan is filled with galleries and deep-pocketed collectors who can make an artist's career with a wave of a hand. But one man toils in obscurity, his brilliance unrecognized while lesser talents bask in the glory he believes should be his. Come tomorrow, he vows, the city will be buzzing about his work. Indeed, before dawn, Lt. Eve Dallas is speeding toward the home of the two gallery owners whose doorway has been turned into a horrifying crime scene overnight. A lifeless young woman has been elaborately costumed and precisely posed to resemble the model of a long-ago Dutch master, and Dallas plunges into her investigation.

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The Impossible Fortune: Thursday Murder Club 5

As wedding plans unfold and personal struggles linger, the Thursday Murder Club reunites when a guest vanishes and a suspicious partner hints at something valuable--and deadly--leading Joyce, Elizabeth, Ron and Ibrahim into a tangled case of coded secrets and high-stakes deception.

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The Secret of Secrets

When Katherine Solomon vanishes and her manuscript disappears following a murder in Prague, symbologist Robert Langdon races across three cities to uncover a hidden truth about consciousness, pursued by ancient myths, secret societies, and a revelation that could upend humanity’s understanding of the mind.

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Apostle's Cove

A few nights before Halloween, as Cork O'Connor gloomily ruminates on his upcoming sixtieth birthday, he receives a call from his son, Stephen, who is working for a nonprofit dedicated to securing freedom for unjustly incarcerated inmates. Stephen tells his father that twenty years ago, as the newly elected sheriff of Tamarack County, Cork was responsible for sending an Ojibwe man named Axel Boshey to prison for a brutal murder that Stephen is certain he did not commit. Cork feels compelled to reinvestigate the crime, but that is easier said than done. Not only is it a closed case but Axel Boshey is, inexplicably, refusing to help. The deeper Cork digs, the clearer it becomes that there are those in Tamarack County who are willing once again to commit murder to keep him from finding the truth. At the same time, Cork's seven-year-old grandson has his own theory about the investigation: the Windigo, that mythic cannibal ogre, has come to Tamarack County...and it won't leave until it has sated its hunger for human blood.

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The Hallmarked Man

A dismembered corpse is discovered in the vault of a silver shop. The police initially believe it to be that of a convicted armed robber -- but not everyone agrees with that theory. One of them is Decima Mullins, who calls on the help of private detective Cormoran Strike as she's certain the body in the silver vault was that of her boyfriend -- the father of her newborn baby -- who suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. The more Strike and his business partner Robin Ellacott delve into the case, the more labyrinthine it gets. The silver shop is no ordinary one: it's located beside Freemasons' Hall and specializes in Masonic silverware. And in addition to the armed robber and Decima's boyfriend, it becomes clear that there are other missing men who could fit the profile of the body in the vault.

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Circle Of Days

From a bestselling author of epic fiction comes the deeply human story of one of the world’s greatest mysteries: the building of Stonehenge.

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What We Can Know

2014: Poet Francis Blundy honors his wife’s birthday at a dinner by reading aloud a new poem 'A Corona for Vivien’. Little does anyone there know that in the future, people will speculate about the message of this poem, a copy of which has never been found. 2119: In the future, a nuclear accident submerges much of the western world. In England, Thomas Metcalfe, a scholar and researcher, longs for the early twenty-first century as he chases the ghost of a poem, ‘A Corona for Vivian’. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the poem’s discovery, a story is revealed of entangled loves and a brutal crime - destroying his assumptions about people he thought he knew intimately well.

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The Killing Stones: A Detective Jimmy Perez Novel

After his friend Archie is found murdered beside a stolen artifact on Westray, Detective Jimmy Perez returns to Orkney, where personal ties, dark secrets, and local rumors complicate his search for the truth behind the killing.

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All the Way to the River : Love, Loss, and Liberation

In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally laid bare: The two were in love. They were also a pair of addicts, on a collision course toward catastrophe. All the Way to the River is a landmark memoir that will resonate with anyone who has ever been captive to love—or to any other passion, substance, or craving – and who yearns, at long last, for liberation.

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The Grave Artist

After a newlywed’s death at a Hollywood Hills wedding, agent Carmen Sanchez and security expert Jake Heron uncover a serial killer’s twisted plot targeting survivors’ grief, racing to stop the Honeymoon Killer before they become his next victims.

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Billion-Dollar Ransom

Five members of a billionaire's family. In different locations. All kidnapped at the same moment. Two children taken from a private-school bus. A film producer and a movie star grabbed at a hideaway resort. A beautiful wife whisked off the streets of Beverly Hills. A patriarch wants his family back. The cash, gold, jewels, and crypto are all ready. There's only one problem: a brilliant, very stubborn FBI agent. Special Agent Nicky Gordon doesn't want to pay the kidnappers. Not a dime.

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The Academy

When a surprise national ranking thrusts underachieving Tiffin Academy into the spotlight, a viral gossip app begins exposing students’ and staff’s secrets, unraveling reputations and relationships as the boarding school’s carefully curated image gives way to chaos, scandal and unexpected alliances.

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Denied Access

The Central Intelligence Agency is in crisis. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Congress is questioning the organization's necessity. Interim CIA director Thomas Stansfield must fight for his agency's survival while explaining why the previous candidate for his job was found murdered in a French hotel--surrounded by booze, cash, and dead men. Worst yet, a brilliantly run sting operation in Moscow has resulted in the arrest of America's most prized Russian asset and the expulsion of his CIA handler. With the CIA's Moscow Station now paralyzed by the catastrophic intelligence failure, Stansfield seeks help from Mitch Rapp, a newly minted assassin in the secretive Orion program.

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The Girl From Devil's Lake

Small-town Sheriff Joanna Brady solves her biggest case yet, spanning decades and countries, in the thrilling latest installment in the New York Times bestselling suspense series.

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Clive Cussler The Iron Storm (Isaac Bell 15)

Van Dorn agent Isaac Bell knows that when the President of the United States asks you to undertake a special mission, the only appropriate answer is, “Right away, sir.” After battling in the trenches, he finds himself flying beside a group of Allied aviators, unwilling to let them fight alone, even when they are faced with capture. Bell and his compatriots are imprisoned in a medieval castle. Escape lies tantalizingly close...but freedom may be short-lived. Even in the middle of a World War, Bell finds there are forces worse than those arrayed against the Americans on the battlefield.

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In the Time of Five Pumpkins : No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #26.

It’s been a long, dry summer, but the first downpour of the season tends to bring with it new growth. In this case, it also brings a new client, who suspects his wife of having an affair. Mma Ramotswe is on the case, and she decides to bring Charlie along. But as they look further into the matter, they begin to suspect their client may not have been entirely truthful. Meanwhile, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni has struck up a new friendship with a man named Mr. Mogorosi, a prominent figure in the motor trade. Mma Ramotswe is concerned that Mr. Mogorosi may have ulterior motives for his attentions.

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A Slowly Dying Cause

Michael Lobb has just been found dead on the floor of his family's tin & pewter workshop. It's suspicious enough that his body was found by a representative of Cornwall EcoMining, a company keen on acquiring his family's land, and it's made even worse when he's revealed to have been the majority owner of the business and the sole obstacle preventing a deal from being made. But it doesn't take long for Inspector Beatrice Hannaford to unearth the layers of estrangement that surrounded Michael in his final days, pointing suspicions elsewhere. In comes Kayla, a young woman half Michaels' age, who has just been made a widow. Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers are brought in to help solve the crime and search for justice amid a community that already trusts no one and fears any outsiders.

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Reacher : The Stories Behind the Stories

These are the origin tales of all of the Reacher novels written solely by Lee Child, chock full of colorful anecdotes and intriguing inspirations; one by one, they expand upon each novel and place it in the context not only of the author’s life, but of the world outside the books.

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