Look out for some exciting new books coming to Wakefield Libraries in February. If you’d like to read any of them then use the link to our Library Catalogue to request them for free.

Sophie Hannah  Kind of Cruel
Undergoing hypnotherapy for insomnia, Amber finds herself repeating ‘’Kind, cruel, kind, cruel’’. She’s seen those words somewhere before but can’t remember where. Hours later Amber is arrested in connection with the brutal murder of a woman she’s never heard of.  

Jodi Picoult   Lone Wolf
Edward Warren is a prodigal son who left home after a fight with his father, Luke. Now Luke lies comatose in hospital. With Luke's chances for recovery dwindling, Edward's sister wants to wait for a miracle. But Edward wants to terminate life support and donate his father's organs. Is he motivated by altruism, or revenge? Another page-turner from the queen of the moral dilemma.

Lisa Gardner  Catch Me
At 8pm on 21st January, 28-year-old Charlie Grant believes she is going to be murdered and she wants Boston's top homicide detective, D.D. Warren, to handle her death investigation. For each of the last two years, one of her friends has been murdered. But as D.D. delves deeper in to the details of Charlie's case, her instinct is that she's hiding a secret. A secret so explosive that Charlie herself may turn out to be the biggest danger of all...

Joanna Trollope  The Soldier’s Wife
After six months away in Afghanistan, the soldiers come home to their girlfriends, wives, parents, and children. After six months of hell, being home will surely be heaven. Except that it isn't. When Dan returns home to Alexa and their children, it's still the army that comes first.

Ann Cleeves The Glass Room
The fifth novel featuring no-nonsense Vera, with another T.V. series coming later this year. DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily, but her hippy neighbours keep her well-supplied in homebrew and conversation so she has more tolerance for them than most. When one of them goes missing she feels duty-bound to find out what happened.

Sam Bourne  Pantheon
Against the backdrop of an intensifying debate over whether the US should join Europe in the struggle against the Nazis, James Zennor's desperate search for his missing wife and child leads him on a twisting path through Yale's elite clubs and secret societies and into the heart of the American establishment to uncover one of the darkest secrets of the war.

Helen Dunmore  The Greatcoat
Something a little different from Orange-prize winning author Helen Dunmore, a 1950’s-set ghost story about  newlywed Isabel Carey who arrives in a Yorkshire town with her GP husband. One cold night she puts on an old RAF greatcoat she finds in the back of a cupboard and then the dreams begin..

 

And finally a couple of books just right for Valentine’s Day..

Sophie Kinsella  I’ve Got Your Number
A stand-alone novel from the author of the successful Shopaholic series. When Poppy loses her engagement ring and her mobile all in the same disastrous evening, it seems the obvious solution to make use of a phone she finds, by chance, abandoned in a hotel bin. But inevitably her life becomes entangled with the real owner of the phone, a high-flying businessman called Sam.

Jane Costello  All the Single Ladies
Samantha's boyfriend Jamie has announced he's leaving. He is loving, intelligent and is perfect for her in every way - except he's a free spirit. After six years in one place, he is compelled to do something that will tear apart his relationship with Sam: book a one-way flight to South America. But Sam isn't giving up without a fight.