Fresh On Our Shelves
Deck the halls with boxes of Whitehots fiction! It always feels like a special occasion when we get a shipment of new books. Check out these new page-turners hitting our shelves in November.
New & Hot Titles
Are any of these adult fiction recent arrivals destined to become your favourite reads of 2024?
Betrayal at Blackthorn Park
Freshly graduated from spy training, former typist Evelyne Redfern is eager for her first assignment as a field agent. When her first task is performing a simple security test at Blackthorn Park, a manor house in the sleepy Sussex countryside, she's initially disappointed. Making matters worse, her handler is David Poole, a fellow agent who is both strait-laced and dashing in annoyingly equal measure. But there's more to Blackthorn Park than meets the eye when a visit from Winston Churchill reveals the manor to be a secret weapons research facility. When Evelyne discovers the chief engineer dead in his office, her simple assignment becomes more complicated. Will Evelyne and David root out who is responsible, and uncover layers of deception that could change the course of the war? It's a race against time!
Borrow Betrayal at Blackthorn Park by Julia Kelly
The Boyfriend
She's looking for the perfect man. He's looking for the perfect victim. Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. She's seen it all: men who lie in their dating profile, men who stick her with the dinner bill, and worst of all, men who can't shut up about their mothers. But finally, she hits the jackpot. He's charming, handsome, and works as a doctor. Sydney is swept off her feet. Then the brutal murder of a young woman—the latest in a string of deaths along the coast—confounds police. The primary suspect? A mystery man who dates his victims before he kills them. Sydney should feel safe. After all, she is dating the guy of her dreams. But she can't shake her own suspicions that the perfect man may not be as perfect as he seems. Is Perfect Man dead dreamy—or simply deadly?
Borrow The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden
The House at Watch Hill
Zo Grey receives a surprising call from an attorney in Divinity, Louisiana, with the news she has been left an inheritance by a distant relative. Destitute and alone, with nothing left to lose, Zo heads to Divinity and discovers she is the sole beneficiary of a huge fortune and a foreboding Gothic mansion—but she must live in it, alone, for three years before the house, or the money, is hers. Zo puts aside her misgivings and moves in, where she is met by a red-eyed Stygian owl and an impossibly sexy Scottish groundskeeper. Her new home is full of countless secrets and mystifying riddles. What Zo doesn't yet know is that her own roots lie in this very house and that in order to discover her true identity. Can she face off against sinister forces she doesn't quite comprehend—or will she be consumed by them?
Borrow The House at Watch Hill by Karen Marie Moning
The Trip
Take a break from the hustle and bustle of the holiday season and 'literarily' escape to an exotic locale! The perfect holiday. The perfect crime. Four friends on the holiday of a lifetime in Thailand—until a vicious murder shatters their paradise. Four friends who would do anything for each other... until now. Only one of them committed a crime. But all four know how to keep a secret. And they're all guilty of something... With friends like these, who needs enemies?!
An intricately plotted suspenseful thriller, perfect for fans of One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware and The Guest List by Lucy Foley.
Borrow The Trip by Phoebe Morgan
Hate Follow
After spending years building her brand to over a million followers, influencer Whitney Golden is at the peak of her career. But it all comes to a screeching halt when her teenage daughter Mia announces she wants nothing more to do with her mother's online brand—and demands that she, her siblings, and their deceased father be removed from Whitney's social media. When Whitney doesn't agree, Mia does the unthinkable: She sues her mother. What started as a family spat turns into a monumental case that shatters Mia and Whitney's relationship and wreaks havoc on both their lives. As the case ignites a media firestorm, will Whitney risk everything she's built to win back her daughter? Would you?
Borrow Hate Follow by Erin Quinn-Kong
All I Want for Christmas
What's the holiday season without a sizzling holiday romance?! Christmas in Copenhagen is an utterly magical time of year, but Darcy Cotterell is not feeling festive. Newly single, she plans to spend the holiday finishing her PhD. But her best friend, Freja, has other ideas and convinces Darcy to join an upmarket dating site and agree to match with three potential dates. But then Darcy is given the job of solving a new, intriguing art mystery: an unknown portrait by Denmark's greatest painter has been found beneath another masterpiece. During her research, she encounters sexy, arrogant lawyer Max Lorensen—who is also bachelor number one. Max is clearly a player, and the chemistry between them is hot—maybe too hot to handle?
Borrow All I Want for Christmas by Karen Swan
Happy reading!