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The Hottest Books of 2017 - Part 1!

As 2016 nears to a close, we're looking ahead to which books everyone will be talking about in 2017. We quickly discovered there are so many great upcoming titles, we couldn't fit them all into one preview! So enjoy this first round below, and stay tuned for part two next week. Here's to 2017!

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The Girl Before
by JP Delaney

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Jane stumbles on the rental opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to live in a beautiful ultra-minimalist house designed by an enigmatic architect, on condition she abides by a long list of exacting rules.After moving in, she discovers that a previous tenant, Emma, met a mysterious death there - and starts to wonder if her own story will be a re-run of the girl before. As twist after twist catches the reader off guard, Emma's past and Jane's present become inexorably entwined in this tense, page-turning portrayal of psychological obsession.

For all fans of The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl comes this spellbinding Hitchcockian thriller that takes psychological suspense to the next level.

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Quercus | Pub Date: 02 Feb 2017
Mystery & Thrillers

Reservoir 13
by Jon McGregor
The Witch's Tears
by Katharine & Elizabeth Corr
Good Me Bad Me
by Ali Land
From the award-winning author of If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things and Even the Dogs. Reservoir 13 tells the story of many lives haunted by one family's loss. A teenage girl goes missing in the hills at the heart of England. And as the search for the missing girl goes on, so does everyday life. As it must. An extraordinary novel of cumulative power and grace, Reservoir 13 explores the rhythms of the natural world and the repeated human gift for violence, unfolding over thirteen years as the aftershocks of a stranger's tragedy refuse to subside. It's not easy being a teenage witch. Just ask Merry. She's drowning in textbooks and rules set by the coven; drowning in heartbreak after the loss of Jack. But Merry's not the only one whose fairy tale is over. Big brother Leo is falling apart and everything Merry does seems to push him further to the brink. And everything that happens to Leo makes her ache for revenge. So when strangers offering friendship show them a different path they'd be mad not to take it...Some rules were made to be broken, right? The darkly magical sequel to The Witch's Kiss burns wickedly bright. Set to be one of the most extraordinary, controversial and explosive debuts of 2017 - for fans of quality psychological suspense: once you read this book you'll want to talk about it. Annie's mother is a serial killer. The only way she can make it stop is to hand her in to the police. But out of sight is not out of mind. As her mother's trial looms, the secrets of her past won't let Annie sleep, even with a new foster family and name - Milly. Good Me Bad Me is a tour de force: in its narrator, Milly Barnes, we have a voice to be reckoned with, and in its author, Ali Land, an extraordinary new talent.
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4th Estate
Pub Date: 06 Apr 2017
Literary Fiction 

HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub Date: 26 Jan 2017
Teens & YA
Michael Joseph
Pub Date: 12 Jan 2017
Mystery & Thrillers


Dr Potter's Medicine Show
by Eric Scott Fischl
Secrets We Keep
by Faith Hogan
The Bone Field
by Simon Kernick
A snake-oil shyster in a travelling show comes across real magic in this twisted alchemical misadventure for fans of The Night Circus and Something Wicked This Way Comes. The year is 1878. Dr Alexander Potter, disgraced Civil War surgeon, now snake-oil salesman, travels the Pacific Northwest with a disheartened company of strongmen, fortune-tellers, and musical whores. Under their mysterious and murderous leader they entertain the masses while hawking the Chock-a-saw Sagwa Tonic, a vital elixir touted to cure all ills both physical and spiritual. For a few unfortunate customers, however, the Sagwa offers something much, much worse...
Two distant relatives are forced to confront both their pasts and the secrets that were never meant to be kept. A bittersweet story of love, loss and life, perfect for the fans of Freya North and Amanda Prowse. The beautiful old Bath House in Ballytokeep has lain empty and abandoned for decades. For devoted pensioners Archie and Iris it holds too many conflicting memories of their adolescent dalliances and tragic consequences. For highflying Kate Hunt, it's a fresh start - maybe even her future. Inspired, she moves to Ballytokeep leaving her past heartache 600 miles away - but can you ever escape your past or your destiny? The totally gripping and irresistible new thriller from the bestselling author of Stay Alive, The Final Minute and The Witness. When the bones of a woman who went missing in Thailand in 1990 are discovered in the grounds of an old Catholic school in Buckinghamshire, an enduring mystery takes on a whole new twist. Her boyfriend Henry Faust, comes forward with his lawyer and tells DI Ray Mason he knows what happened to Kitty, and who killed her. So begins a hunt for the truth that will focus on a ruthless crime gang, a rich, dysfunctional family with a terrible past, and a highly ambitious man so cruel and ruthless that he must be brought down at any cost...
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Angry Robot
Pub Date: 07 Feb 2017
Sci Fi & Fantasy
Aria
Pub Date: 01 Feb 2017
General Fiction (Adult)
Century 
Pub Date: 12 Jan 2017
Mystery & Thrillers


Spaceman of Bohemia
by Jaroslav Kalfar
Final Girls
by Riley Sager
Life in a Fishbowl
by Len Vlahos
The Martian meets The Life of Pi in an extraordinary debut novel about the endless human capacity to persist - and risk everything - in the name of love and home. In the near-distant future, a Czech astronaut blasts off into space to investigate a mysterious dust cloud covering Venus, a suicide mission sponsored by a proud nation. Suddenly a world celebrity, Jakub's marriage starts to fail as the weeks go by, and his sanity comes into question. After his mission is derailed he must make a violent decision that will force him to come to terms with his family's dark political past. An engrossing and twisty psychological thriller, perfect for fans of The Girl on a Train and Black Eyed Susans. They were called The Final Girls. Three young women who survived unimaginable horror. Three victims of separate massacres grouped together by the press. Three strangers bound by similar traumas. Lisa. Quincy. Samantha. When something terrible happens to Lisa, put-together Quincy and volatile Sam finally meet. Each one influences the other. Each one has dark secrets. And after the bloodstained fingers of the past reach into the present, each one will never be the same. Jackie's life isn't perfect, but it is normal. That is, until her dad is diagnosed with terminal cancer - and promptly does what anyone faced with mountains of medical bills would do: he sells his life to the highest bidder. Which turns out to be a TV station. Suddenly everyone from psychotic millionaires to cyber-savvy nuns wants a piece of Jackie's family as they become a reality TV sensation, the whole world tuning in to watch her family fall apart. Acidly funny and heartbreakingly sad, Life in a Fishbowl is an exploration of the value of life and what memories mean to us. 
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Sceptre
Pub Date: 09 Mar 2017
Literary Fiction

Ebury Press
Pub Date: 29 June 2017
Mystery & Thrillers
Bloomsbury
Pub Date: 12 Jan 2017
Teens & YA


All Our Wrong Todays
by Elan Mastai
The Keeper of Lost Things
by Ruth Hogan
Rattle
by Fiona Cummins
In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars and moving sidewalks, but in a time-travel mishap, Tom finds himself stranded in our 2016. For Tom, our normal reality seems like a dystopian wasteland. But when he discovers wonderfully unexpected versions of his family, his career, and - maybe, just maybe - his soulmate, Tom has a decision to make. Does he bring back his Utopian universe, or does he try to forge a new life in our messy, unpredictable reality? Back to the Future meets One Day in this comic love story of two worlds and the man who must choose - for everyone. With an unforgettable cast of characters including young girls with special powers, handsome gardeners, irritable ghosts and an array of irresistible four-legged friends, The Keeper of Lost Things is a debut novel of endless possibilities and joyful discoveries that will leave you bereft once you've finished reading. Anthony Peardew has spent half his life lovingly collecting lost objects. Realising he is running out of time, he leaves his house and all its lost treasures to his assistant Laura, the one person he can trust to fulfil his legacy and reunite the thousands of objects with their rightful owners... He has planned well. He leads two lives. In one he's just like anyone else. But in the other he is the caretaker of his family's macabre museum. What happens next is a terrifying cat-and-mouse game between the sinister collector and Etta Fitzroy, a troubled detective investigating a spate of abductions. Set in London's Blackheath, Rattle explores the seam of darkness that runs through us all; the struggle between light and shadow, redemption and revenge. It is a glimpse into the mind of a sinister psychopath. And it's also a story about not giving up hope when it seems that all hope is already lost. 
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Michael Joseph 
Pub Date: 02 Mar 2017
General Fiction (Adult)

Two Roads
Pub Date:26 Jan 2017
General Fiction (Adult)
Pan
Pub Date: 26 Jan 2017
Mystery & Thrillers


The Futures
by Anna Pitoniak

This is a story of a relationship that falls apart. A story of heartbreak and betrayal. It is the story of a young couple who graduate from Yale in 2008, just as the financial crisis begins and there are no jobs for graduates. It is a story of their new start together in New York City and their tentative first steps into adulthood. It is a story of growing up and taking chances and making terrible mistakes. This is Evan and Julia's story. This is a love story. But no one said it ends happily.

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