September 13: The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell (442 pages/mystery thriller)
In a large house in London's fashionable Chelsea, a baby is awake in her cot. Well-fed and cared for, she is happily waiting for someone to pick her up. In the kitchen lie three decomposing corpses. Close to them is a hastily scrawled note. They've been dead for several days. Who has been looking after the baby? And where did they go?
October 11: The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell (352 pages/historical fiction)
Winter, 1561. Lucrezia, Duchess of Ferrara, is taken on an unexpected visit to a country villa by her husband, Alfonso. As they sit down to dinner it occurs to Lucrezia that Alfonso has a sinister purpose in bringing her here. He intends to kill her.
November 8: Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe (non-fiction/625 pages)
The saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Cap d’Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C.
December 12: The Fashion Orphans by Randy Susan Meyers and M.J. Rose (338 pages/light)
Two estranged sisters find that forgiveness never goes out of style when they inherit their mother's vintage jackets, purses... and pearls of wisdom.
January 10: The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams (366 pages)
An unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter with a list of library books helps forge an unlikely friendship between two very different people in a London suburb.
February 14: The Club by Ellery Lloyd (303 pages/thriller)
At this club, if your name’s on the list, you’re not getting out.
