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_WHEN A STRANGER COMES TO TOWN_ BY THE MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA It's said that all great stories are either about a person going on a journey or a stranger coming to town. Hence the
title of the Mystery Writers of America's new collection of 19 stories by the crème de la crème of mystery writers, including heavyweight scribes like Michael Connelly, Dean Koontz and
Joe Hill. Edited by Michael Koryta (the best-selling author of 14 suspense novels), this anthology features enigmatic tales about, for instance, a newcomer in conflict with a busybody and a
nurse coming to New York City to help COVID-19 patients and encountering a rape victim — with unexpected results — and is packed with enough secrets, sinister plots and mystery to entice any
lover of the genre. (April 20) _GREAT CIRCLE_ BY MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD This is a sweeping epic with brilliantly drawn characters by Shipstead — author of 2014's _Astonish Me_. The heroine,
Marian Graves, is just a baby when she nearly drowns at sea with her twin brother, Jaimie, and her life is no less eventful while growing up as an aspiring pilot in Prohibition-era Montana,
working as a bootlegger to squirrel money away for flying lessons. As an adult, she's a fiercely independent and eventually legendary pilot whose story is in the process of being
captured on film in modern-day Los Angeles; the book jumps forward to the filming and the young actress who's playing her role. Don't miss this one. (May 4) _HOUR OF THE WITCH_ BY
CHRIS BOHJALIAN The best-selling Bohjalian has been translated into 35 languages, and three of his 21 books are now movies (including his recent twisty thriller _The Flight Attendant_, now
on HBO Max). His latest book is about Mary Deerfield, a young Puritan woman in 1662 Boston who fights terrible marital abuse as her husband's second wife. She risks her very life in
filing for divorce — a protest against domestic violence unheard of in 17th-century America. But Mary's brave choice has a price tag: Charged as a witch, she must now face trial.
It's a probing page-turner about society's scapegoats and how elusive justice can be. (May 4) _SUMMER ON THE BLUFFS_ BY SUNNY HOSTIN _The View_ cohost, an Emmy award-winning
journalist, has written her first novel about a dramatic, romantic season on Martha's Vineyard. It's an entertaining beach read set in Oak Bluffs, a real-life affluent black beach
community on Martha's Vineyard (where Barack and Michelle vacation) during one life-altering summer. Afro-Latina lawyer Perry Soto is at her godmother Ama's beloved home for a
relaxing, sunny break. When Ama announces she's giving up the house to go live with her lover in France, Perry and fellow godchildren Olivia and Billie realize how much this vacation
home means to them, but each has secrets they don't want Ama to know (turns out she has her own secrets, too). (May 4) _PROJECT HAIL MARY_ BY ANDY WEIR Weir, the author of _The Martian_
(made into the 2015 film starring Matt Damon), is back with an out-of-this-world tale melding fascinating science facts onto mind-bending fiction that — no surprise — is already being
turned into a film (Ryan Gosling will star). The future is here, our Earth and our humanity are both at stake, and there is only one man who can save them: astronaut Ryland Grace.
Unfortunately, he's alone on a tiny spaceship, with the rest of the crew dead, and no memory of who he is or what his mission was. Could an unexpected ally — who just might be an alien
— help save our world from extinction and help Ryland remember? (May 4) _THE SECRETS OF HAPPINESS_ BY JOAN SILBER The latest from Silber, a National Book Award winner for her 2017 novel
_Improvement_, features six interlocking narrators from Greenwich Village to Bangkok, as they struggle to find the answer to a central question: What do we need to be happy? They include gay
New York attorney Ethan, who discovers that his father has kept a secret second family with a Thai wife, a revelation with far-reaching repercussions. As Ethan connects to his two half
brothers, he ends up in a complicated love triangle, while his American mother has to reckon with compromises from her past. Slowly and carefully, this disparate group of characters manages
to connect, and each comes closer to understanding what some of those secrets to happiness might be. (May 4) _LEGACY_ BY NORA ROBERTS The blockbuster author offers a new standalone novel
featuring her signature stellar mix of romance and suspense, with a strong female heroine and a mystery guaranteed to keep you guessing. It doesn't go well when Adrian meets her dad for
the first time at age 7; he tries to kill her, but she's saved by her mother, Lina. Years later, the adult Adrian thinks she's put the past behind her, ambitiously expanding her
successful yoga business and becoming increasingly high-profile, while Lina has become a multimillionaire with her own fitness brand. But when Adrian starts getting creepy, rhyming death
threats — dismissed by her mother — both her new relationship with an old flame and her burgeoning empire get dangerously derailed. Can she find the killer before it's too late? (May
25) _Caroline Leavitt is the author of 12 novels, most recently 2020's _With or Without You_. She's also cofounder of the book-lovers’ website A Mighty Blaze and writes a regular
column, “Runs in the Family,” for _Psychology Today.