What We’re Reading This November

With a new month comes a whole new set of amazing books to devour. This month promises political espionage, dark secrets, and unexpected twists. These reads are perfect for cozy nights in and long weekends ahead. Grab your blanket and your beverage of choice, because here’s what we’re reading this month.
But as Mira spends more time in the family’s sprawling home, she begins to suspect Yuchan is not the culprit she’s after. Someone else in the family has been pulling the strings. Someone with a deviant plan she can’t begin to imagine.
Police discover that Soneji kept a murder book, Profiles in Homicidal Genius, detailing his transformation from substitute teacher to hardened serial killer—including clues that imply missteps that Alex Cross may have made a rookie homicide detective. Now, Alex must retrace the steps of that long-ago investigation and face…the Return of the Spider.
Lia Gregg always hoped to outgrow her fear of the woods surrounding her childhood home. But after a breakup sends her back to live with her family, the woods feel more sinister than ever. When a teenage girl disappears from their backyard, Lia’s childhood fear becomes terrifyingly real. The missing girls are no longer just faces on the news. Now, the danger is closer than she imagined, and her younger sister could be next.
Ruby Vaughn and her employer, Mr. Owen run a rare book shop in Exeter. Mr. Owen’s penchant for arcane, unusual-and occasionally illegal-books has been known to get Ruby into her fair share of trouble. When Mr. Owen secures two tickets to an upcoming exhibition of artifacts amassed by disgraced scholar Julius Harker, Ruby reluctantly agrees to attend. The evening turns out to be more eventful than either of them bargained for. Harker’s dead body is discovered amongst the collection, his business partner is hastily arrested, and Ruan arrives…wanting to speak with Ruby. It seems both the arcane and her Pellar have followed Ruby to Oxford.
A Christmas murder mystery follows five people who discover their suspicions Han Dona. single twisting thread. Single mom and her husband officer Hadley Knock, Reverend Clare Fergusson and her husband, notice lawyer Joy Zhào, and and a NYS Forest Ranger. As the December days shorten and the nights grow long, a disparate group of would-be heroes need to unwind a murderous plot before time runs out.