Looking for something new to read? Browse our fiction picks for July! Includes books by Shari Lapena, Ben Aaronovitch, Kate Sawyer and more. All of these books and more are available to borrow for free with your library card.
Book cover of Don't Let Him In by Lisa Jewell

Don’t Let Him In

Lisa Jewell

He’s the perfect man. He says he loves you. You think he might even be made for you. Before long he’s moved into your house – and into your heart.

And then he leaves for days at a time. You don’t know where he’s gone or who he’s with.

And you realise – if you looked back – you’d say to yourself: Don’t let him in.

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Book cover of The Art of a Lie by Laura Shepherd-Robinson

The Art of a Lie

Laura Shepherd-Robinson

London, 1749. Following the murder of her husband in a violent street robbery, Hannah Cole is struggling to keep her head above water. So when she learns that her husband had a large sum of money in his bank account that she knew nothing about, the surprise is extremely welcome.

But her husband’s unexpected windfall attracts the attention of author-turned-magistrate Henry Fielding, who suspects the money was illicitly acquired. Unless Hannah can prove otherwise, her inheritance will be confiscated.

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Kill Your Darlings

Peter Swanson

After forty years, Thom Graves has become an incredible disappointment to his wife, Wendy – he drinks too much, flirts with other women, and worst of all, is in danger of revealing their dark secret. But how far is Wendy willing to go to stop him?

Starting at the end, and ending at the beginning, ‘Kill Your Darlings’ is an ingenious mystery about two people’s life together, and the secrets which fatally bind them.

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My Sister and Other Lovers

Esther Freud

For as long as Lucy can remember she’s been caught between love for her rootless, idealistic mother and devotion to her fierce and exacting sister, Bea. From their unsettled childhood to their restless teenage years – hitchhiking through rural Ireland, the move to a communal house – she’s been forced to make a choice. But as the girls come of age and embark on their own experiments – in love, drugs, work, motherhood – Bea is in danger of drifting further and further away. Can their loyalty to one another transcend the damages of a past that has become almost too dangerous to examine?

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Book cover of Getting Away by Kate Sawyer

Getting Away

Kate Sawyer

Margaret Smith is at the beach. It is a summer day unlike any other Margaret has ever known. The Smith family have left the town where they live and work and go to school and come to a place where the sky is blue, the sand is white, and the sound of the sea surrounds them. An ordinary family discovering the joy of getting away for the first time. Over the course of the coming decades, they will be transformed through their holiday experiences, each new destination a backdrop as the family grows and changes, love stories begin and end – and secrets are revealed.

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Book cover of She Didn't See it Coming by Shari Lapena

She Didn’t See it Coming

Shari Lapena

Bryden and Sam have it all – thriving careers, a smart apartment in a luxury condominium, supportive friends and a cherished daughter. The perfect life for the perfect couple. Then Sam receives a call at his office. Bryden – working from home that day – has failed to collect their daughter from daycare. Arriving home with their little girl, he finds his wife’s car in the underground garage. Upstairs in their apartment her laptop is open on the table, her cell phone nearby, her keys in their usual place in the hall. Except Bryden is nowhere to be seen. How can she have disappeared from her own home? And did she even leave the building at all?

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Book cover of Stone and Sky by Ben Aaronovitch

Stone & Sky

Ben Aaronovitch

Detective Sergeant Peter Grant takes a much-needed holiday up in Scotland. And he’ll need one when this is over… If more’s the merrier, then it’s ecstatic as his partner Beverley, their young twins, his mum, dad, his dad’s band and their dodgy manager all tag along. Even his boss, DCI Thomas Nightingale, takes in the coastal airs as he trains Peter’s cousin Abigail in the arcane arts. And they’ll need them too, because Scotland’s Granite City has more than its fair share of history and mystery, myth… and murder.

When a body is found in a bus stop, fresh from the sea, the case smells fishy from the off. Something may be stirring beyond the bay – but there’s something far stranger in the sky…

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Book cover of The Red Shore by William Shaw

The Red Shore

William Shaw

Met detective Eden Driscoll never wanted a child, but when his estranged sister vanishes from her sailboat, he is asked to look after her son Finn – the nephew he hadn’t even known existed. Resettled in the seaside town of Teignmouth, Eden adjusts to his newfound parenthood. Then Finn disappears from school, and Eden knows something is dreadfully wrong. When Eden’s sister’s body is finally found, floating in the sea, local police rule her death an accident, but Eden isn’t convinced. She was an experienced sailor and would never sail without a life jacket. Eden starts searching his sister’s life for answers, and what he discovers changes everything.

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A Murder in Paris

Matthew Blake

THEN. On a dark night in 1945, the Hotel Lutetia in Paris was witness to a murder. Two women walked into the hotel, but only one left alive. The crime was forgotten to time; locked away in Room 11. NOW. A confession reawakens a mystery with long, dangerous shadows. What really happened in the corridors of the Hotel Lutetia? It all comes back to Room 11 – and the people who would kill to keep its secrets.

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Book cover of The Girl With the Suitcase by Lesley Pearse

The Girl With the Suitcase

Lesley Pearse

London, 1941. When Mary meets a glamorous stranger named Elizabeth she realises their lives couldn’t be more different. Elizbeth is beautiful and charming, about to set off on a dazzling adventure to Ireland where she’s inherited a grand house. Mary, shy and meek, has nothing to look forward to but the dreary life of a maid in Hampstead. But when an air raid forces them to take shelter underground Mary’s life is suddenly changed forever. After waking up in hospital, injured but alive, the nurse mistakes her for Elizabeth and hands over her suitcase with Elizabeth’s money and tickets to Ireland inside.

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