With Book Expo just a week away, we continue to present extracts from our big Buzz Books 2019 Fall/Winter overview, today highlighting commercial fiction. The new edition of Buzz Books includes work from Eoin Colfer, J.T. Ellison, and Meg Waite Clayton, while the full fall/winter season as previewed below also includes releases from such authors as Attica Locke, Josh Malerman, Stephen King, and more.
Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred (Orbit, 9/17)
Jeffrey Archer, Nothing Ventured (St. Martin’s, 9/10)
Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker’s Angel Eyes: A Spenser Novel (Putnam, 11/19)
Linwood Barclay, Elevator Pitch (William Morrow, 9/17)
Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House (Flatiron, 10/1)
Nevada Barr, What Rose Forgot (Minotaur, 9/17)
Marc Cameron, Tom Clancy Code of Honor (Putnam, 11/19)
Lorenzo Carcaterra, Tin Badges (Ballantine, 8/27)
John le Carré, Agent Running in the Field (Viking, 10/22)
Steph Cha, Your House Will Pay (Ecco, 10/15)
Lee Child, Blue Moon (Delacorte, 10/29)
Mary Higgins Clark, Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry (Simon & Schuster, 11/5)
*Meg Waite Clayton, The Last Train to London (Harper, 9/10)
Ann Cleeves, The Long Call (Minotaur, 9/3)
Jane Cockram, The House of Brides (Harper, 10/22)
Reed Farrel Coleman, Robert B. Parker’s The Bitterest Pill (Putnam, 9/10)
*Eoin Colfer, Highfire (HarperPerennial, 1/28) – The third adult novel by the author of the Artemis Fowl series.
Michael Connelly, The Night Fire (Little, Brown, 10/22)
John Connolly, A Book of Bones (Atria/Emily Bestler, 10/15)
Robin Cook, Genesis (Putnam, 12/3)
Bernard Cornwell, Untitled Saxon Tales #12 (Harper, 11/26)
Lynn Cullen, The Sisters of Summit Avenue (Gallery, 9/10)
Nelson DeMille and Alex DeMille, The Deserter (Simon & Schuster, 10/22)
Clive Cussler and Jack Du Brul, Untitled Isaac Bell (Putnam, 9/10)
Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison, Untitled Oregon Files #14 (Putnam, 11/5)
Rene Denfeld, The Butterfly Girl (Harper, 10/1)
Jude Deveraux, Met Her Match (Mira, 9/17)
*J.T. Ellison, Good Girls Lie (Mira, 12/31)
Janet Evanovich, Twisted Twenty-Six (Putnam, 11/12)
Christine Féret-Fleury, The Girl Who Reads on the Métro (Flatiron, 10/8)
Joseph Finder, House on Fire (Dutton, 1/21)
Vince Flynn and Kyle Mills, Lethal Agent (Atria/Emily Bestler, 9/24)
Jonathan French, The True Bastards (Crown, 10/8)
Alan Furst, Under Occupation (Random House, 12/3)
Tess Gerritsen, The Shape of Night (Ballantine, 10/1)
Amy K. Green, The Prized Girl (Dutton, 1/14)
Bryn Greenwood, The Reckless Oath We Made (Putnam, 8/20)
John Grisham, Untitled #26 (Doubleday, 10/15)
Jasmine Guillory, Royal Holiday (Berkley, 10/1)
Elizabeth Hand, Curious Toys (Mulholland, 10/15)
Rob Hart, The Warehouse (Crown, 8/20)
Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise (Little, Brown, 10/8)
Joe Hill, Full Throttle (William Morrow, 10/1)
Paddy Hirsch, Hudson’s Kill (Forge, 9/17)
Joshua Hood, Robert Ludlum’s The Treadstone Resurrection (Putnam, 9/17)
Kirstin Innes, Fishnet (Gallery, 10/15)
*Susan Isaacs, Takes One to Know One (Atlantic Monthly, 10/1)
*Steven James, Synapse (Thomas Nelson, 10/8)
J. A. Jance, Sins of the Fathers: A J.P. Beaumont Novel (William Morrow, 9/24)
Lisa Jewell, The Family Upstairs (Atria, 10/22)
Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen, Hindsight (Grand Central, 1/7)
Craig Johnson, Land of Wolves (Viking, 9/17)
Kel Kade, Fate of the Fallen (Tor, 11/5)
Joseph Kanon, The Accomplice (Atria, 11/5)
Stephen King, The Institute (Scribner, 9/10)
Raymond Khoury, Empire (Forge, 10/1)
William Kent Krueger, This Tender Land (Atria, 9/3)
David Lagercrantz, The Girl Who Lived Twice (Knopf, 8/27) – A Lisbeth Salander novel, continuing Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Series.
*Jeff Lindsay, Just Watch Me (Dutton, 12/3) – The first in a new series from the bestselling Dexter author.
Attica Locke, Heaven, My Home (Mulholland, 9/17)
T. M. Logan, 29 Seconds (St. Martin’s, 9/10)
Sarah Lotz, Missing Person (Mulholland, 9/3)
Louisa Luna, The Janes (Doubleday, 1/21)
Lisa Lutz, The Swallows (Ballantine, 8/13)
Stuart MacBride, All That’s Dead: The new Logan McRae crime thriller (William Morrow, 9/3)
Josh Malerman, Malorie: A Bird Box Novel (Del Rey, 10/1) – The sequel to Bird Box.
Alison McGhee, The Opposite of Fate (HMH, 2/18)
Chris McGeorge, Now You See Me (Hanover Square, 9/3)
Walter Mosley, Trouble Is What I Do (Mulholland, 2/25)
Annalee Newitz, The Future of Another Timeline (Tor, 9/24)
*Olaf Olafsson, The Sacrament (Ecco, 12/3)
Neil Olson, Before the Devil Fell (Hanover Square, 10/8)
Liza Palmer, The Nobodies (Flatiron, 9/10)
James Patterson, Criss Cross (Little, Brown, 11/25)
James Patterson and Maxine Paetro, The 19th Christmas (Little, Brown, 10/7)
James Patterson with Howard Roughan, Killer Instinct (Little, Brown, 9/9)
*Kira Peikoff, Mother Knows Best (Crooked Lane, 9/10)
Louise Penny, A Better Man (Minotaur, 8/27)
Heidi Perks, Come Back For Me (Gallery, 11/12)
Anne Perry, Death in Focus (Ballantine, 9/17)
Nick Petrie, The Wild One: A Peter Ash Novel (Putnam, 1/14)
Steven Pressfield, 36 Righteous Men (Norton, 11/5)
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Old Bones (Grand Central, 8/27)
Bob Proehl, The Nobody People (Del Rey, 9/3)
J. D. Robb, Vendetta in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel (St. Martin’s 9/3)
Nora Roberts, The Rise of Magicks: Chronicles of The One, Book 3 (St. Martin’s, 11/26)
Tom Rosenstiel, Oppo (Ecco, 12/3)
R. A. Salvatore, Boundless: A Drizzt Novel (Harper Voyager, 9/10)
John Sandford, Bloody Genius: A Virgil Flowers Novel (Putnam, 10/1)
Nalini Singh, A Madness of Sunshine (Berkley, 12/3)
Martin Cruz Smith, The Siberian Dilemma (Simon & Schuster, 11/5)
Alexander McCall Smith, To the Land of Long Lost Friends: No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (20) (Pantheon, 10/22)
Charles Soule, Anyone (Harper Perennial, 12/3)
Simone St. James, The Sun Down Motel (Berkley, 2/18)
Catherine Steadman, Mr. Nobody (Ballantine, 1/7)
Danielle Steel, Child’s Play (Delacorte, 10/8)
Danielle Steel, Spy (Delacorte, 11/26)
Amy Stewart, Kopp Sisters on the March (HMH, 9/17)
Stella Tillyard, Call Upon the Water (Atria, 9/17)
Lisa Unger, The Stranger Inside (Park row, 9/17)
Brent Weeks, The Burning White (Orbit, 10/22)
Stuart Woods, Stealth (Putnam 10/15)
Stuart Woods, Untitled Stone Barrington #52 (Putnam, 1/7)
*Emma Woolf, The Years After You (Amberjack, 9/10)
Jin Yong, A Hero Born (St. Martin’s, 9/17)
*Elizabeth Byer Younts, The Bright Unknown (Thomas Nelson, 10/22)