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First Novels from 2010 & 2011

Noah Boyd, The Bricklayer.
A maverick FBI agent who quit to become a brick-layer is called back in to help stop a gang who demand money or they will kill high-profile people.

Lisa Brackmann, Rock Paper Tiger.
An Iraq war vet in Beijing finds herself targeted by intelligence agencies after the disappearance of her artist boyfriend who may be linked to terrorists.

Eleanor Brown, The Weird Sisters.
Three sisters whose father is a Shakespeare scholar assemble at the family home when their mother is being treated for cancer.

Sonya Chung, Long for This World.
Over 50 years after he emigrated to America, a man returns to Korea followed by his daughter—a war photographer recovering from injuries.

Ben Coes, Power Down.
When terrorist attacks target U.S. energy sources, a former Special Forces soldier survives a hit on his oil rig and then sets out to find those responsible.

Bruce DeSilva, Rogue Island.
A Rhode Island journalist finds himself threatened, beaten, arrested, and suspended while investigating a series of deadly arsons in his old neighborhood.

Margaret Dilloway, How to Be an American Housewife.
After World War II, a Japanese woman marries a GI  and emigrates to America, where she strives to make a perfect home but longs to be reunited with her brother who thinks she betrayed her country.

Paul Doiron, The Poacher’s Son. Mystery
A game warden risks his job and relationships when he helps his estranged father who’s suspected of murdering a state trooper and another person.

Sam Eastland, Eye of the Red Tsar.
Stalin releases the Tsar’s personal investigator from a gulag to find out what happened to the Romanovs.

Anne Fortier, Juliet.
An American travels to Siena in search of her Italian heritage and discovers she is descended from the woman who inspired the story of Romeo and Juliet.

Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers.
Two loner teenagers who suffered childhood traumas form a tenuous bond with each other.

Shilpi Somaya Gowda, Secret Daughter.
An American woman agrees to adopt a child from her Indian husband’s homeland.

Helen Grant, The Vanishing of Katharina Linden.
A German schoolgirl shunned by her classmates tries to solve a girl’s mysterious disappearance.

Amy Greene, Bloodroot.
In the Smoky Mountains, a woman said to have mystical powers passes her gift to her granddaughter who marries an abusive alcoholic.

Kathleen Grissom, The Kitchen House.
An Irish girl working as an indentured servant alongside slaves on a tobacco plantation finds herself caught between two very different worlds.

Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches.
A descendant of one of the Salem witches discovers an enchanted manuscript that is coveted by a variety of supernatural beings.

Dana Haynes, Crashers.
A team who investigate airplane crashes realize a plane was brought down deliberately and must find out who’s responsible before they strike again.

Tom Hinshelwood, The Killer.
After killing a Latvian to retrieve a flash drive, a hitman finds himself the target of other assassins.

Amanda Hodgkinson, 22 Britannia Road.
A Polish couple who were separated during World War II relocate to England to try to piece their lives back together and put the past behind them.

Beth Hoffman, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt.
After the death of her unbalanced mother, a girl is sent to live with her great aunt and is surrounded by women who teach her about life.

Ellen Horan, 31 Bond Street.
In 1850s Manhattan, a widow becomes involved with a wealthy dentist and is put on trial for his murder when he is found dead.

N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. Science Fiction
A young woman becomes involved in a power struggle when she is named an heiress to the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms.

Daphne Kalotay, Russian Winter.
As she prepares to auction her jewelry, an elderly woman recalls her past as a star of the Bolshoi Ballet.

Jean Kwok, Girl in Translation.
A girl who emigrates with her mother from Hong Kong must work in a Chinatown sweatshop at night while trying to excel at school.

Jen Lancaster, If You Were Here.
A young couple buy their first home in the Chicago suburbs and deal with renovations, homeowners’ associations, and unfriendly neighbors.

Allie Larkin, Stay.
After the man she loves marries her best friend, a woman impulsively orders a German Shepherd  online that turns out to be a full-grown police dog.

Allison Leotta, Law of Attraction.
An Assistant U.S. Attorney prosecutes a man for killing his girlfriend, who recanted her testimony at a domestic abuse trial allowing him to go free.

Karl Marlantes, Matterhorn.
A company of Marines in the Vietnam jungle face the enemy and the elements as well as racial tension and duplicitous officers.

Leila Meacham, Roses.
A multigenerational saga centered on a woman who is determined to run her family’s Texas cotton plantation despite the personal cost to herself.

Graham Moore, The Sherlockian. Mystery
Arthur Conan Doyle decides to kill off his famous character, while in the present day a Sherlock Holmes scholar is killed after announcing he’s found Doyle’s diary.

Mark Charan Newton, Nights of Villjamur. Science Fiction
On a world with a dying sun, refugees converge on the fortress city of Villajmur seeking shelter against the coming ice age.

Tea Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife.
In the war-torn Balkans, a doctor seeks answers when she learns that her grandfather died in a nearby village and recalls a story he told her as a child about an escaped tiger.

Robin Oliveira, My Name is Mary Sutter.
In 1861, a midwife who is not allowed to train to be a surgeon heads to Washington, D.C., to work in a hospital for Civil War soldiers.

S.J. Parris, Heresy.
In 1583 England, an excommunicated monk is recruited as a spy and investigates a series of murders patterned on the deaths of martyrs.

Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Wench.
Three slave women whose masters bring them to a resort in the North are encouraged to escape by another slave.

Sharon Pomerantz, Rich Boy.
A man from a working class Jewish neighborhood goes to university and becomes focused on the pursuit of wealth in Manhattan’s high society.

Rebecca Rasmussen, The Bird Sisters.
Two elderly sisters living in their childhood home in rural Wisconsin recall a summer in their youth that changed the course of their lives.

Imogen Robertson, Instruments of Darkness.
In 1780 England, a lady finds a dead man on her land and seeks the help of a reclusive neighbor who is an anatomist.

William Ryan, The Holy Thief. Mystery
In 1936, an American nun who may have been involved in smuggling religious icons out of the Soviet Union is found dead in a church.

Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters.
After her brother is killed in the Vietnam War, a woman goes to Saigon to work as a photojournalist.

Natasha Solomons, Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English.
A German Jew escapes to England and is determined to assimilate, but when he’s not allowed to join a golf club he decides to build his own.

Chevy Stevens, Still Missing.
A young woman struggles to piece her life back together after being abducted and held captive in a remote mountain cabin for a year.

Keith Thomson, Once a Spy.
A man realizes that his senile father is not a retired appliance salesman but an ex-CIA agent after his house explodes and they’re targeted by assassins.

John Verdon, Think of a Number.
A cop who retired to the Catskills is asked to consult on the case of a serial killer who sends his victims threatening puzzles involving numbers.