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Welcome to the first installment of a new monthly feature: Nomadreader's Most Anticipated New Releases! Today I'm highlighting two February new releases from authors I already love. Next week I'll highlight February releases by authors I haven't read before.  As I looked over the long list of February new releases I'm really excited for, these two jumped right to the top.  This Fallen Prey is the third book in Kelley Armstrong's Casey Duncan novel. I loved the first one so much, I immediately picked up the second one . This series is so original, but the mysteries are still fantastic. Pre-order it now ( Kindle version ). It releases February 6, 2018. An American Marriage   is Tayari Jones's fourth novel. Her last novel, Silver Sparrow  ( my review ) was one of my favorite books of 2012 . I've been eagerly awaiting her next novel for may years, and the premise sounds fabulous:  "Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of ...

Jill from Breaking the Spine hosts Waiting on Wednesday, which allows bloggers to highlight an upcoming release we can't wait to read. My pick this week should come as no surprise to readers who have seen me read and enjoy the first eight Maisie Dobbs novels in the ppst year. My reviews of the first eight novels:  Maisie Dobbs ,  Birds of a Feather ,  Pardonable Lies ,  Messenger of Truth ,  An Incomplete Revenge ,   Among the Mad ,   The Mapping of Love and Death , and A Lesson in Secrets . The ninth installment, Elegy for Eddie, will be published March 27, 2012, which is too far away for my taste, but quality mysteries do take time! Plus, for those of you who haven't discovered the delightful Maisie Dobbs, you have time catch up! Here's how the publisher describes this one: "In this latest entry in the acclaimed, bestselling mystery series-"less whodunits than why-dunits, more P.D. James than Agatha Christie" ( USA Today )-Maisie Dobbs ta...

Welcome to Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine , to highlight an upcoming release you cannot wait to read. It should come as no surprise to frequent readers that I'm a huge fan of fiction about real people. American Wife  by Curtis Sittenfeld is my all-time favorite novel , and earlier this year Monica Ali wowed me with her re-imagining of Princess Diana in Untold Story . When I sat down Monday morning with my coffee to start this week's issue of The New Yorker  (bless you, Kindle subscriptions !), I began with the excerpt from Ann Beattie's forthcoming book, Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life . It's being described as not-quite fiction and not-quite non-fiction, and I am all parts excited for its publication! The excerpt in The New Yorker  was both wonderful and perplexing. Beattie's writing, which I've read sporadically over the years when her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker , is exquisite. I highlighted n...

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine to highlight an upcoming release you cannot wait to read. My pick this week is one I've been eagerly awaiting for more than two years. I loved Josh Bazell's debut novel, Beat the Reaper  ( my review ) . I was thrilled to read Library Journal 's Pre-Pub Alert this week and discover it's finally time for more Pietro Brwna. Note: it's a sequel, so this brief description might include spoilers from Beat the Reaper. Here's how the publisher describes it: "It's hard to find work as a doctor when using your real name will get you killed. So hard that when a reclusive billionaire offers Dr. Peter Brown, aka Pietro Brnwa, a job accompanying a sexy but self-destructive paleontologist on the world's worst field assignment, Brown has no real choice but to say yes. Even if it means that an army of murderers, mobsters, and international drug dealers-not to mention the occasional lake ...

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine to highlight an upcoming release we can't wait to read. My pick this week is The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst. I was already eagerly awaiting its publication, but when the Booker longlist was announced last week, I became even more excited to get my hands on a copy. Here's how the publisher describes it: "Alan Hollinghurst’s first novel in seven years is a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth—and a family mystery—across generations. In 1913, George Sawle brings charming, handsome Cecil Valance to his family’s modest home outside London for a summer weekend. George is enthralled by his Cambridge schoolmate, and soon his sixteen-year-old sister, Daphne, is equally besotted by both Cecil and the stories he tells about Corley Court, the country estate he is heir to. But what Cecil writes in Daphne’s autograph album will change their and their fam...

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine to highlight an upcoming release we can't wait to read. My pick this week is On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry. I was already eagerly awaiting its publication, but when the Booker longlist was announced yesterday, this novel jumped to the top of my pre-publication wishlist. Before yesterday, I didn't know much about it. I knew it was set in twentieth-century America and spanned a lifetime. The details make it sound even more enthralling: "Told in the first person, as a narrative of Lilly Bere's life over seventeen days, On Canaan's Side opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. Lilly revisits her past, going back to the moment she was forced to flee Ireland, at the end of the First World War, and continues her tale in America, a world filled with both hope and danger. At once epic and intimate, Lilly's story unfolds as she tries to make sense of the sorrows and troubl...

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine to highlight an upcoming release you cannot wait to read. Robert Ellis is my favorite mystery writer. Period. He's criminally under-appreciated. Yesterday, when I heard he has a new novel (the third Lena Gamble mystery) coming out, I squealed. My eyes teared up. (I'm serious; it's been almost three years since The Lost Witness , which I named the best book of 2009. City of Fire was the best book I read in 2007 (admittedly before I really started keeping track.) As I said in my review of The Lost Witness , "it's refreshingly rare to find both a great writer and a great suspense storyteller in one."(I enjoyed his two pre-Lena Gamble novels, Access to Power and The Dead Room , too, but not quite as much.) Minotaur will publish Murder Season on December 6, 2011, which gives you plenty of time to find and read City of Fire and The Lost Witness before then. Do it. Treat yourself! Buy...

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine to highlight an upcoming release you can't wait to read.  My pick this week is  A Bitter Truth  by Charles Todd (a mother and son writing team). It's the third book in their Bess Crawford mystery series. I thoroughly enjoyed the first two novels in this series, A Duty to the Dead  ( my review ) and An Impartial Witness  ( my review ), so I'm looking forward to reading the latest installment in this favorite series. Here's how the publisher describes A Bitter Truth: "When battlefield nurse Bess Crawford returns from France for a well-earned Christmas leave, she finds a bruised and shivering woman huddled in the doorway of her London residence. The woman has nowhere to turn, and, propelled by a firm sense of duty, Bess takes her in. Once inside Bess's flat the woman reveals that a quarrel with her husband erupted into violence, yet she wants to go home--if Bess will come with her to Sussex....