The Burning of Rachel Hayes by Doug Allyn
Adult Mysteries   
The new veterinarian in a small town gains unwanted attention when he discovers century-old skeletal remains while rescuing a child from a well.  Allyn weaves together the present day (fictional) rescue with the (very real) fires that burned out of control in Northern Lower Michigan in October of 1871.

Company Man by Joseph Finder
Adult Fiction   
The CEO of an office furniture company in mid-Michigan must deal with the passing of his wife, raising two children, corporate downsizing, community shunning, a stalker, a murder, the police, and corporate infighting.

The Devil’s Own Rag Doll by Mitchell Bartoy
Adult Mysteries   
When hard-boiled Detective Pete Caudill discovers the mutilated body of a rich white girl in a ghetto apartment, he receives threats from both the girl's auto-making father and their boss: find the perpetrator or lose the job. Racial tensions and economic stress temper their inquiry, as does Pete's search for a more human existence. An impressive debut that will appeal to devotees of gritty crime fiction.

Good Family by Terry Gamble
Adult Fiction   
“In recovery and approaching forty, [Maddie] is summoned back to Sand Isle, where her widowed mother has suffered a stroke that has left her mute, immobile, and near death.  It is here that Maddie must reconnect with her past, assess what she has become, and confront the circumstances that changed her [death of daughter and subsequent alcoholism] and those she loved forever.”   —on book jacket

The Lake, the River, and the Other Lake
by Steve Amick
Adult Fiction   
“At the start, the novel feels a bit quaint, but it quickly develops a sharp edge. Bitterly comic and surprisingly meaty, this roiling tale of passion, anger, regret and lust is dark fun for the Garrison Keillor demographic” - Publisher’s Weekly

The Mercy Killers by Lisa Reardon
Adult Fiction   
Among the patrons and employees of McGurk’s Tap Room in Ypsilanti in the late 1960’s, there is an old man who wants to die and two brothers who always take care of each other.  When one brother covers for the other following the mercy killing, we learn they have always been in a war zone, as children at home, or as a soldier in Viet Nam.

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Adult Fiction/Paperbacks   
This Pulitzer Prize winning novel of self discovery is a multigenerational
tragio-comic family epic moving from Greece to Michigan centering on
Detroit in the 20th century and on the youth of a hermaphrodite twice born,
first as Calliope in 1960 Detroit and years later as Cal in 1974 Petoskey.

Nicotine Kiss by Loren D. Estleman
Adult Mysteries   
In this, Detroit PI Amos Walker's eighteenth outing, Estleman delivers his usual combination of gripping action and satisfying irony, further cementing the solitary, hardboiled PI's reputation for giving as good as he gets. The riveting chase scenes are tailor-made for the screen.  —Booklist

Please Don’t Come Back From the Moon
by Dean Bakopoulos
Adult Fiction 
A coming-of-age tale of the teenage sons of fathers who disappeared from a depressed blue collar Detroit Suburb.  The young men deal with jobs, relationships, grief, depression, love, loyalty, loss and hope, amongst familiar Metro Detroit environs.

Running Dark by Joseph Heywood
Adult Mysteries   
Set on a peninsula jutting into northern Lake Michigan between Escanaba & Manistique in the 1970’s when Grady Service first became a Conservation Officer (returning home after completing Marine Core Duty in Viet Nam), this novel provides back story to Heywood’s first three Woods Cop Mysteries.

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Adult Paperbacks 
"Morrison's prose is a delight, full of the lyrical variety and allusiveness that distinguish a rich folkloric tradition. Her real gift, though, is for characterization, and Song of Solomon is peopled with an amazing collection of losers and fighters, innocents and murderers, followers of ghosts and followers of money, all of whom add to the pleasure of this exceptionally diverse novel." —The Atlantic Monthly

A Stolen Season by Steve Hamilton
Adult Mysteries 
The chill of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula doesn’t cool the action in Edgar-winner Hamilton’s expertly paced seventh Alex McNight novel…Plot turnarounds and double-crosses ensure a startling conclusion.

The Summer He Didn’t Die by Jim Harrison
Adult Fiction  
Three very different and challenging approaches to the novella form Harrison's latest.  Harrison's command of the novella form is as impressive as the range of his voices, with his prose moving from the interiorized Faulknerian third-person of the title story to the run-on, staccato first-person of the first, and best, of the "Republican Wives."

Taking Care of Cleo by Bill Broder
Adult Fiction 
“Questions of independence, identity, courage, class consciousness, morality emerge [as] Broder manages to weave a compelling…tale in simple, unembellished language.” —Library Journal

The Tarnished Eye by Judith Guest
Adult Mysteries  
Based on a true unsolved Michigan crime, Guest explores family dynamics following tragedy in this mystery linking a brutal mass murder in the north to coed murders in Ann Arbor.

A Thousand Bones by P.J. Parrish
Adult Mysteries  
It all began when Joe was an ambitious rookie cop in a small Michigan town called Echo Bay....The bones found in the woods were the first clue in a string of unimaginably brutal murders of young women. Plunged into a heated investigation—and caught between the dictates of a reluctant local sheriff and the State police—Joe soon uncovers the chilling truth: In the dead of winter in the Michigan woods, she must face down a predator who has chosen her as a worthy opponent -- or become his next victim.

Ursula Under by Ingrid Hill
Adult Fiction 
A tale of the rescue attempt to save two-year-old Ursula from an unmarked mine shaft in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula interwoven with the history of her ancestors from Ancient China and Northern Europe.

Witch Cradle by Kathleen Hills
Adult Mysteries
From the author of "Hunter's Dance" comes the newest mystery featuring 1950s Township Constable John McIntire, ever reluctant to police his neighbors in St. Adele, Michigan.  When two skeletons are discovered buried in a cistern, McIntire struggles to solve the two-decades-old murders.

Here’s a link to the new Michigan booklists found on Michigan.gov:
http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-17449_36788_36791---,00.html