Discover gripping new reads for every mood at Dunklin County Library this March

We are in the topsy-turvy weather pattern of March, and we are just days away from Daylight Savings Time. Whether the weather is blustery and cold or calm and warm, a newly released novel is always the right accessory for this season. Contact your nearest Dunklin County Library and request a reserve on a new read so you can enjoy the extra hour of sunshine whatever the weather!

Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Her career is in freefall and her love life is complicated. When her real dad, a man she has barely seen since he ran off to Hollywood thirty-five years ago suddenly appears on her doorstep, it feels like the final straw. It turns out even the family you thought you could never forgive might have something to teach you about love and what it actually means to be family. We All Live Here by Jojo Moyes hits all the emotional elements of a great family story with humor and deep sentiment.

Psychologist Alex Delaware and Homicide Detective Milo Sturgis race against time to find a twisted killer in Open Season by Jonathan Kellerman. The body of an aspiring actress is found dumped near a hospital emergency room. She’s been drugged and murdered and the motive for the callous crime remains maddeningly out of reach. Until, a prime suspect materializes. Another Hollywood hopeful. Only to be shot dead by a sniper using a weapon that turns out to have been catalogued in a previous murder. And another, before that. It’s not long before more bodies begin piling up. Are these murders connected, or is this the work of a random thrill killer?

When is cold-blooded murder justified? New Orleans Detective Nikki Mayeaux has decided it is when a technicality sets a serial rapist free. Jaded and frustrated, this latest injustice brings her to a boiling point. She arrives at the monster’s home intending to end his reign of terror, only to find someone else got there first. His throat slit, his lifeless body left in the front seat of his car. Only one person wanted him dead more than her - his final victim - a girl of only sixteen who has vanished in the seedy underbelly of the French Quarter where residents will go to great lengths to protect their own, even when their own is a killer. J.D. Barker and E.J. Findorff team up for this crime thriller with a cop pushed to a breaking point in We Don’t Talk About Emma.

The Ruins by Steve Wick is a gripping, electric novel about the grim horrors of Nazis in suburban America. On a fall night in 1954, in working-class Lindenhurst, Long Island, a woman goes alone to a bar filled with German speakers who have finished their shifts at different jobs. They are gathered to listen to the first game of the World Series between the New York Giants and the Cleveland Indians at the Polo Grounds. The new chief of police, Paul Beirne gets the call that a woman's mutilated body is found in a field north of Lindenhurst. Paul turns to his friend Doc, a Holocaust survivor and who, like Paul, suffers from the horrors of his past. What Paul and Doc uncover will lead Paul to another murder, one committed two decades before, as past and present collide with family and world war.