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In this newsletter, you will find books releasing the weeks of July 6th and July 13th that we think will be of interest to Bookreporter.com readers, along with Bonus News, where we call out a contest, feature or review that we want to let you know about so you have it on your radar.

This week, we are calling attention to our Favorite Monthly Lists & Picks feature for July, which includes Indie Next, LibraryReads, the Barnes & Noble Book Club, the “Good Morning America” Book Club, the PBS Books Readers Club, the “Read with Jenna” Book Club, and Reese's Book Club.

We also are sharing info on how you can win tickets to see Reading Lolita in Tehran, which releases in New York City THIS Friday. Carol had the opportunity to screen the film, and she enjoyed it. For book group readers who loved the book, you will not want to miss this highly anticipated big-screen adaptation!

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On Sale the Week of July 6th in Hardcover

July 7th

COUNTRY PEOPLE by Daniel Mason (Fiction)
Miles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also a bit lost, 12 years late with his PhD on Russian folktales and increasingly haunted by a sense that he’s become a disappointment to his family. So when his wife, Kate, accepts a visiting professorship at a prestigious college in the faraway forests of Vermont, he decides that this will be the year to finally move forward with his life. But Miles is a man of many enthusiasms. No sooner does he arrive than he finds himself entangled with a cast of characters as colorful as those of any of his folktales. Then Miles stumbles upon a bizarre --- perhaps ridiculous --- local legend, which might not be just a legend after all.
Random House | 9798217197453 

CRASH INTO ME by Robinne Lee (Fiction)
In a complicated marriage and raising her children in Los Angeles’s toxic playground of privilege and power, Cecilia Chen is struggling to find her real self among the many labels assigned to her: wife, mother, artist, daughter. Until the moment she crashes --- literally --- into the Anouk Ferrand. It’s been 20 years since she last encountered the enigmatic model on a photo shoot in Mexico. And it’s this chance second meeting that will upend Cecilia’s life. Seeing Anouk again forces Cecilia to revisit their brief time together and question where she truly fits in. Can the renewed intensity of her explosive physical and emotional entanglement with Anouk finally give her an answer?
St. Martin's Press | 9781250412751 

DEAD MEN DON'T PLAY FETCH: An Andy Carpenter Mystery by David Rosenfelt (Mystery) 
Lou Campanelli runs a rehab center. When one of his patients, a homeless veteran, is charged with first-degree murder, he needs his old friend, defense lawyer Andy Carpenter, to help. The man whom Jason Maddox is accused of stabbing to death is none other than billionaire Paul Vincent, an eccentric businessman and inventor. Bickert dedicated a great portion of his life to philanthropy, with a soft spot for dog-related causes. This led him to befriend Jason, a physicist and war hero, whose life fell apart to the point where he ended up on the streets with his dog, just trying to survive. But why would Jason possibly have wanted to kill him? Once again, Andy is enmeshed in a puzzling, twisty case. But in order to reunite a man and his dog, Andy will have to untangle it all.
Minotaur Books | 9781250427625 

EVERY VERSION OF YOU by Natalie Messier (Romance/Magical Realism)
At 32, Joey Vasquez is a lawyer on the cusp of making partner. When she reluctantly arrives at the very couple-y dinner party hosted by Elijah Aarons, the best friend she’s secretly pined after for 14 years, she’s dismayed to find that the last person on earth she’d ever want to see again is also there: Alex Aquino. Your basic rich Silicon Beach bro. The night couldn’t possibly get worse --- and then she dies. When Joey is given a second chance at life, she finds herself 18 again, the year she first met both Elijah and Alex. Armed with memories from her first life, Joey is certain she’s come back to finally convince the one man she ever loved to love her back. So why does she find herself strangely drawn to the man she thought she hated?
Gallery Books | 9781668213643 

EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL AND NOTHING HURT by Ben Reeves (Fiction)
Travis is Death in the modern world. He lives with his cat in a small, gray town. His job is to offer people comfort in their final hours of life, which he does without complaint or judgment. He’s stoic, gentle and a little naive, despite who he is, but he never tries to change anyone’s fate. He is responsible for maintaining the balance of nature, and every life eventually must end. Then Travis meets Dalia, a midwife, and her boisterous eight-year-old daughter, Layla, who live across the hall. Despite his best attempts to keep his distance, he finds himself wholeheartedly embraced by other people for the first time. So it is with this seemingly unremarkable family that Travis begins to understand what it means to be truly alive --- and what might be irrevocably lost in death.
Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster | 9781668216361 

THE EXQUISITE TORMENT OF LOVING YOUR ENEMY by Brigitte Knightley (Fantasy/Romance) 
Osric is a member of the Fyren Order, a guild of assassins who gleefully murder for money. Aurienne is a Haelan, a scholar-healer whose Order’s motto is Harm to none. Clear-cut absolutes separate them. Until they don’t. When Osric first bribed Aurienne to heal him, he never imagined those lines would begin to blur. But every healing session draws them closer together. He finds himself developing unwanted feelings for Aurienne as her capable hands heal his body --- and his heart. Aurienne’s perfect life has been flung into chaos in the form of a devastatingly handsome assassin. Things go superbly sideways when Osric and Aurienne discover more about the deadly Pox deliberately unleashed through the Tīendoms. The plague may be the work of another Order --- an Order far nastier than either of them can handle.
Ace | 9780593819487 

FABULOUS BODIES by Chuck Tingle (Supernatural Fantasy/Horror)
Poppy Stringer was born to be a star. An aspiring fashion influencer by day, Poppy moonlights as a grave robber to make ends meet, wheeling and dealing dead bodies across Palm Springs. When her hero, the flamboyant, piano-slamming rock star Eddie Michaels, unexpectedly dies, Poppy gets a call to retrieve his body from the medical examiner’s office for a lucrative sum. It could be the last job she’ll ever need --- if everything goes to plan. But the night’s delivery quickly veers off course when Eddie wakes up. Now Poppy must fight for her life if she hopes to survive this blood-soaked joyride of carnage and extravagant entertainment.
Tor Nightfire | 9781250398567

GET LOST by Justin Halpern (Mystery & Thriller/Humor)
When Lila Dixon gets a call that her mother has gone missing, she initially brushes it off. Mattie’s disappearances are a part of life, like earthquakes in their dusty California hometown. But this time the prime suspect is Lila’s larger-than-life father: the one-time baseball star, local hero and fatal charmer John “Dix” Dixon. Dix’s main accomplishment as a dad was finding new ways to disappoint his daughter, but even Lila knows he’s not behind this. And when they uncover a $250,000 deposit to Mattie’s bank account, and someone slips a threatening note under Lila’s motel door, they realize Mattie may be in real danger. Now they’re heading down a trail marked by unsavory Russian thugs, fat-cat farmers, and an unseen enemy who’s always a step ahead.
Cardinal | 9781538778029 

GOOD MORNING MEANS I LOVE YOU by Kendra Allen (Fiction)
Rae has just returned to her family after leaving for a stretch and suddenly --- that family being her two male partners and the sons, named Morning and Night, she has mothered with each of them. In the span of one year, they will experience unfathomable depths of devastation --- and joys they could never predict. GOOD MORNING MEANS I LOVE YOU follows Rae as she makes choices around sex, mothering and partnership that are as stunning to everyone else as they are natural to herself. With pain and pleasure, she watches as her children learn to walk and give language to the world as her lovers contend with their own ideas of masculinity, personhood and fatherhood.
Ecco | 9780063388413 

THE GREAT WHEREVER by Shannon Sanders (Fiction)
Aubrey Lamb is grieving the end of a serious relationship and the recent loss of her father. When Aubrey learns she has inherited his stake in a sizable Tennessee farm, she sees an opportunity to get out of the city and erase a mounting pile of debt. Watching her arrival with great interest are four ghosts --- Aubrey’s ancestors, who’ve staked their own claims to the farm and who never hesitate to pass judgment on the mistakes made by the living. As Aubrey reconnects with her living family, another story unfolds in parallel: the history of the land, beginning with its purchase by Thomas, Aubrey’s great-grandfather and one of the first Black landowners in his community. Over the years, it turns the Lambs against one another, culminating in a catastrophic tragedy that splinters the family and echoes through the decades.
Henry Holt and Co. | 9781250421678 

HABITS OF THE SEA by Shea Ernshaw (Romance/Magical Realism)
The night Clay Lockhart’s wife dies, a violent storm tears their home --- and the eight hectares of land beneath it --- away from the Scottish coast, sending it adrift into the Atlantic. Thirty years later, 12-year-old Ellie Mills discovers the fabled floating island off the coast of Nova Scotia and finds Clay still living in the weatherworn farmhouse perched on its highest hill. When the island vanishes overnight, Ellie is left questioning if it ever existed at all. But decades later, the island resurfaces --- and Ellie, now in her 30s, returns, determined to uncover the truth. What she finds is even stranger: Clay hasn’t aged a single day. Faced with the impossible, Ellie learns that some mysteries aren’t meant to be solved --- and that a life shaped by wonder may hold more promise than one bound by certainty.
Atria Books | 9781668097731 

HELPLESS by Jessica Knoll (Psychological Thriller)
It's been 12 years since Faye Heron broke Henry Spalding's heart. Henry was her college boyfriend, her first love, but Faye was in danger of being subsumed by him and the intensity of their connection. Now, Faye is one-half of a power-producing duo with her Hollywood husband. Henry is a married father running the family business. On the surface, both of their lives have essentially gone to plan. When a former and beloved college professor suddenly passes away, Faye and Henry find themselves back on campus for the funeral, circling something old and dangerous. But Henry is one of a kind. The kind who delivers a hypnotic apology for the way things ended. The kind who suggests they go back to the hotel for a drink. The kind who drugs and kidnaps her.
Scribner | 9781668062302 

HIDE AND SEEK by Søren Sveistrup (Psychological Thriller)
A strange voice from inside the woods, repeating a child’s counting rhyme. A body discovered in the water. Thirty years later, a woman begins receiving a string of anonymous text messages, repeating that same rhyme. Then she disappears. On Valentine’s Day, detectives Naia Thulin and Mark Hess are searching to find the missing woman. But when they uncover links to a decades-old cold case, their investigation takes a terrifying turn. A violent killer is on the loose. Can Hess and Thulin catch them before they strike again?
Harper | 9780063418493 

HOTEL EXILE: Paris in the Shadow of War by Jane Rogoyska (History) 
Since its opening in 1910, the Hotel Lutetia has been a grand Paris institution, a meeting place for artists, intellectuals, musicians and politicians. André Gide took his lunch here, James Joyce lived in one of its rooms, Picasso and Matisse were regular guests. But the hotel has a darker history, too --- from the years before, during and after the Second World War. In this short period, the Lutetia witnessed some of the most dramatic and terrible events in recent history. In HOTEL EXILE, Jane Rogoyska evokes in novelistic prose the emotions, dilemmas and fates of the hotel’s patrons. 
W. W. Norton & Company | 9781324089902 

ICARUS 17: A Box 88 Thriller by Charles Cumming (Thriller)
Max Radinsky thought he was living the perfect life in Athens. But when his girlfriend, Yasmine, is forced to flee the city, Max joins her on a desperate journey across Greece. What begins as an escape becomes a fight for survival as the young couple are targeted by an international manhunt. Lachlan Kite, head of covert intelligence service BOX 88, hasn’t seen his former lover, Martha Raine, for more than 20 years. But when Martha begs his help in finding her missing son, Kite has no choice but to act. It turns out that Yasmine is carrying a secret that could destabilize the Middle East for a generation --- and a team of merciless Israeli intelligence agents have been given orders to kill her on sight. To save Max --- and stop a global crisis --- Kite and Martha must reach the young couple before their pursuers close in.
The Mysterious Press | 9781613167212 

JANUARY AND JULY by Jeff Abbott (Thriller)
A disgraced intel officer anxious to redeem herself after a disastrous mission, January Holte vows to uncover the identity of a traitor who is selling her agency's secrets. The few clues she's found have led her to a sleepy river town: Lethey, Texas --- and to Bill Connors, the one man who might know the truth. July Whitlock, a rookie bodyguard, searches for his one and only client, who has suddenly disappeared. He follows a trail to Lethey to find his missing protectee: Bill Connors. But Bill's friends and enemies in Lethey have secrets of their own. And as January and July ask questions no one wants to answer, they find a tangled web of murder, greed and ambition --- one that will kill anyone who tries to unravel its mysteries.
Blackstone Publishing | 9798874822194 

LOVE YOU MORE by Emily Giffin (Fiction)
Billie has built the perfect life. Her medical practice in New York City is thriving, and she’s finally found the right partner in Dean after years spent trying to move on from her high-school sweetheart, Mick. Their young love had been intense and true, but distance and ambition pulled them apart when she left Wisconsin for medical school. Then one morning, just after she’s accepted Dean’s romantic marriage proposal, Billie’s phone rings. It’s Mick --- calling for the first time in nearly a decade. His news is urgent. In a moment, everything changes. As Billie boards a plane back to Wisconsin, her past comes rushing in --- her hometown friendships, the love she and Mick shared, and the choices that shaped them all. What awaits her is a reckoning with what she’s lost, what she’s built, and what she still wants.
Ballantine Books | 9780593600320

THE MAN by Laura Sims (Psychological/Historical Thriller)
When Judith Stanley shares the photos she has taken with Paul Sorenson, her new photography instructor, she's unprepared to hear his astonished praise. She has an uncanny eye, he says, and should consider publication. He could help. Except Judith has no interest in sharing her work. Still, emboldened by Paul’s encouragement, she ventures out beyond her quiet neighborhood to the city in search of increasingly striking images. When she starts to notice the dark shape of a man in the corner of her self-portraits, Judith is certain he's an attacker from her past. Perhaps it would appease the man if she were to put her camera down and give up her private passion. But she can't. Until one night when the man finally emerges from the shadows, and Judith’s story suddenly and irrevocably becomes his own.
G.P. Putnam's Sons | 9798217177677 

MAN OVERBOARD! by Kathleen Rooney (Fiction/Dark Humor)
Patrick “Kick” Kilpatrick always has been terrified of the ocean. Drifting alone in the sea after falling (or jumping? He can’t remember as the all-inclusive drinks on the cruise he was taking with his extended family were, well, inclusive), Kick must survive. As the waves crash over him, so too do the thoughts and memories of just how he got there. A Thanksgiving cruise with an obnoxious brother-in-law he has to bite his tongue to keep from screaming at. A father who gives the Great Santini a run for his money. And a mother who already left the family boat, so to speak, a long time ago. His family may be complicated, and the pains of life may seem unbearable --- infuriating enough to leap from the deck --- but maybe the will to survive is stronger.
Gallery Books | 9781668212387 

MATCHA ON MONDAY written by Michiko Aoyama, translated by E. Madison Shimoda (Fiction) 
All throughout the week, customers flock to the Marble Café that’s tucked away behind the trees --- except when it’s closed on Mondays, when the Matcha Café opens in its place, offering its clientele a warm cup of matcha and restoration to start the busy week ahead. On this one day of the week, people from all walks of life frequent this cozy haven and experience the joys of human connection. Among them are a singer who has just broken up with his lover, an unsociable young owner of a tea wholesaler, a husband who has made his wife angry, a designer and owner of a lingerie shop, and a Kamishibai artist who doesn't get along with his grandmother.
Hanover Square Press | 9781335001924 

MURDER IN PURPLE AND GOLD: A Flavia Albia Mystery by Lindsey Davis (Historical Mystery)
When Flavia Albia stumbles upon the murdered corpse of a young man near Rome's famous Circus Maximus, she is about to embark on one of her most dangerous and complicated cases. Rome and the Romans are obsessed with chariot racing. Lepo was the rising star of Purples, a new team created by the psychotic Emperor Domitian with big money backing. Suspicion immediately falls on Lepo's greatest rival, Agathon, a young man emerging from a rival team, the Golds. Convinced of his guilt, a lynch mob is hunting them. The Gold faction hire Flavia to clear Agathon's name, especially as he has an alibi for the night of the murder. But as Flavia soon finds out, nothing is at it seems in the dangerous and glamorous world of the charioteers.
Severn House | 9781448320790 

NIGHTJAR: Stories by Emily Ruskovich (Fiction/Short Stories)
Five years after moving into the isolated house in rural Oregon where her husband lived as a child, the protagonist of “Victor’s Room” begins to doubt her husband’s account of his family’s past. In “Round Lake,” a young woman’s plans to meet a lover in Tokyo are upended when she learns a startling truth about her mother’s death. In “Owl,” winner of an O. Henry Award, a fur trapper reckons with the dreadful origins of his marriage after his wife is brutally injured by four adolescent boys. Haunting and psychologically provocative, and set against the vivid backdrop of the Pacific Northwest, NIGHTJAR illuminates the secret, instinctive knowledge that lies just under the surface of our awareness.
Random House | 9780812994025 

PERFECT LIFE by Meredith Lavender and Kendall Shores (Domestic Thriller/Mystery) 
Five years ago, Este Walker ghosted her life in California to reinvent herself among the lakefront estates of Florida’s elite. With a cocktail in hand, more money than she could ever spend, and a past she intends to keep hidden, she’s finally content --- or, you know, close enough. Her husband, Beau, and her best friend, Nora, are the only company she needs. But when someone she’d much rather forget resurfaces, the past begins to close on her. And then a mysterious death turns Winter Park upside down --- and Beau, who’s keeping secrets of his own, is implicated. Este must unravel a web of lies and deception to answer the question: What exactly happened in California, and has it come back to haunt her? More important: How is she going to get herself out of this mess?
Bantam | 9780593974407 

PRETTY DEAD THINGS by Kelsey Cox (Psychological Thriller)
2000: Isabelle Whitmore vanishes at Sherman Ranch in Anhalt, Texas, without a trace. 2025: The Lone Star Princess Pageant is about to begin, but this year the competition is stiffer than ever --- and long-standing grudges are about to resurface. Ingrid fled Anhalt in the wake of her sister Isabelle’s disappearance and has now returned, just in time for a construction crew to start digging up Sherman Ranch; the pageant brings up past traumas that Melanie can't forget; Cat, newly sober, starts to feel threatened in ways that bring back old demons; and Sarah Lynn knows that losing is not an option. As old resentments and new confrontations reach their boiling point, a record-setting storm brings down the state’s power grid. With everyone trapped under one roof, scores will be settled, and more than one person will end up dead.
Minotaur Books | 9781250378842 

A REAL ANIMAL by Emeline Atwood (Fiction)
A REAL ANIMAL follows Lucy through the decade dividing college and real adulthood, as she navigates three distinct romantic relationships, reckons with the false promise of family intimacy, and seeks connection with the sublime and natural worlds. As a senior in college struggling to quell the destructive effects of a sexual assault, she gets a glimpse of a different plane of existence --- more wild, physical, animal. She moves away from home, breaks up with her long-term boyfriend, stops speaking to her mother, and starts dating a complicated, violent man. As she changes cities, friends and partners, there is a persistent sense of wildness in Lucy and in her world that’s only ever barely being controlled.
Catapult | 9781646222964 

SCAVENGING BEAUTY: A Memoir in Walks by Angelica Glass (Memoir)
Angelica Glass spent decades as a social worker helping families struggling with poverty, addiction, abuse and neglect. Needing relief from work-related stress, she turned to walking as an outlet. What began as a way to incorporate more exercise into her busy life transformed into something extraordinary: a years-long odyssey in which Glass drew upon physical exercise, a close observation of the natural world, and long periods of introspection to reconcile with her own past. Between moments of awe as she explored her community and documented what she saw with her camera, she grappled with the turmoil of her early years in a complicated, challenging family, the aging process, long-held insecurities and grief.
Riverhead Books | 9780593855348 

SINGLE GIRLS by John Searles (Historical Fiction)
In 1965, Helen Gurley Brown is fresh off the runaway success of her book, SEX AND THE SINGLE GIRL. Upon its publication, half the country is outraged, and the other half will follow her anywhere. Moved by the thousands of letters arriving at her doorstep from readers desperate for advice, she marches from one Manhattan magazine conglomerate to another, looking for a perch from which to dispense her unconventional wisdom. At her last stop, she finally gets her shot: just three issues to turn around the flailing magazine Cosmopolitan. SINGLE GIRLS begins at the dawn of Helen’s storied tenure and journeys back to her youth, envisioning the devastations and people who forged her into a controversial legend.
Mariner Books | 9780063485631 

SOME PEOPLE by Parini Shroff (Fiction) 
Malti Patel is absolutely fine. Concussed and bruised, maybe, but fine. Certainly fine enough not to need her daughter's soon-to-be ex-husband, Nathan Whitlock, playing nurse in her home while she recuperates. But that's exactly the quandary in which she finds herself. Her doctor insists on in-home supervision for seven days. With her daughter, Kavya, abroad at grad school in India, Nathan proves too much of a do-gooder to let Malti rehabilitate alone. Malti and Nathan want nothing to do with one another. But over the course of the week, they learn that they are the two people who know Kavya best --- and the ones who have hurt her so deeply that she has left them both.
Ballantine Books | 9798217093670 

SUMMER OF LOVE by Kerri Maher (Historical Fiction)
It’s the summer of 1967, and the counterculture revolution is in full swing in San Francisco. Winnie Hartley is determined to use poetry to capture the ever-shifting world around her. Meanwhile, Winnie’s sister, Miranda, throws herself into running the family business, Hartley Vineyard. But change is in the air, and each sister will make choices that set their lives hurtling down paths neither would have imagined. Fifty years later, Dawn Hartley stays as far as possible from her family’s famous vineyard, until a work assignment requires her to research the bestselling Vineland novels penned by a famously anonymous author. Determined to discover the identity of this mysterious writer, Dawn embarks on a soul-searching journey to uncover her family’s secrets, even as she’s keeping a big one of her own.
Berkley | 9780593816394 

TRAITORS by Robert B. McCaw (Political Thriller)
Robert Cooper --- deputy assistant attorney general for counterintelligence in the DOJ’s National Security Division --- is approached by a Russian sleeper agent looking to defect. The agent offers Cooper alarming information: Russian operatives have infiltrated the US government at its highest levels, including a mole in the senior ranks of the FBI. Cooper’s investigations lead to the discovery of a clandestine Russian plot involving deep-cover agents in senior government positions. As Cooper and his team at the DOJ race to uncover the Kremlin’s plans and unmask the traitors, a coup in Russia brings to power a militant extremist regime seemingly intent on sidelining the US on the world stage while Russia retakes its former Soviet territories.
W. W. Norton & Company | 9781324123996 

WE WILL SEE YOU BLEED by Ron Currie (Thriller)
It's late summer 1984, and Babs Dionne’s hometown of Waterville, Maine, is on the verge of collapse. A strike at the paper mill has dragged on for a year, pitting neighbor against neighbor, leaving everyone broke and exhausted. As head of the union local, Babs has presided over Little Canada’s decline. When her best friend, Rita, returns home after five years away, she is shocked by the state of things. And as the strike comes to a head, Rita notices something else: the men may be broken, but the women are furious. They need Babs to be the fearless woman who emerged from the woods 15 years ago, drenched in blood. They need Babs to face what she already knows: that the only way to fix things is to assume control. Completely. Mercilessly.
G.P. Putnam's Sons | 9780593851692

WISDOM CORNER by David Heska Wanbli Weiden (Thriller)
Virgil Wounded Horse is desperately trying to escape his past as a hired vigilante on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. But when a legendary figure from the reservation is murdered, Virgil is forced to return to the job. Making matters more complicated, threats are coming from the Pine Ridge 705 --- a street gang from a neighboring reservation who want to expand their reach into Rosebud --- and Mitch Gagnon, a shady politician who will stop at nothing to gain more power. With a heated tribal council election looming, as well as new revelations regarding past injustices at the local Native boarding school, the stakes grow even higher. Will Virgil find the justice he’s seeking before it’s too late?
Ecco | 9780062968982 

On Sale the Week of July 6th in Paperback

July 7th

APOSTLE’S COVE by William Kent Krueger (Mystery)
A few nights before Halloween, as Cork O’Connor gloomily ruminates on his upcoming birthday, he receives a call from his son, Stephen, who is working for a nonprofit dedicated to securing freedom for unjustly incarcerated inmates. Stephen tells his father that decades ago, as the newly elected sheriff of Tamarack County, Cork was responsible for sending an Ojibwe man named Axel Boshey to prison for a brutal murder that Stephen is certain he did not commit. Cork feels compelled to reinvestigate the crime, but that is easier said than done. Not only is it a closed case, but Axel Boshey is, inexplicably, refusing to help. The deeper Cork digs, the clearer it becomes that there are those in Tamarack County who are willing once again to commit murder to keep him from finding the truth.
Atria Books | 9781982179311

BILLION-DOLLAR RANSOM by James Patterson and Duane Swierczynski (Thriller)
Five members of a billionaire’s family. In different locations. All kidnapped at the same moment. Two children taken from a private-school bus. A film producer and a movie star grabbed at a hideaway resort. A beautiful wife whisked off the streets of Beverly Hills. A patriarch wants his family back. The cash, gold, jewels and crypto are all ready. There’s only one problem: a brilliant, very stubborn FBI agent. Special Agent Nicky Gordon doesn’t want to pay the kidnappers. Not a dime.
Little, Brown and Company | 9781538758946

A BOMB PLACED CLOSE TO THE HEART by Nishant Batsha (Historical Fiction)
At a party near Stanford University’s campus in 1917, Cora Trent, a graduate student raised in the rugged mining towns of the American West, meets Indra Mukherjee, an Indian revolutionary newly arrived in California. Indra is grieving the recent loss of a friend and unsure of the place violence has in the cause of national liberation, while Cora is seeking a new life that stays true to her aspirations as a writer and an idealist. They spark an instant connection and eventually marry, even as the United States is drawn into the conflict in Europe and wartime patriotism begins to give way to increasing intolerance. When news of arrests threatens their future together, they are forced to flee to New York City with the hope that they can avoid the attention of the British and American authorities. 
Ecco | 9780063303614

CODED JUSTICE by Stacey Abrams (Legal Thriller)
Former Supreme Court clerk Avery Keene is trying to put the past behind her at a prestigious high-end law firm in Washington, D.C. She is now working as an internal investigator when a high-profile client seeks her out. Camasca Enterprises is a tech company that has developed a new integrated AI system poised to revolutionize the medical industry. To prove its potential, Camasca’s charismatic founder, retired Major Rafe Diaz, has picked a complicated target: delivering cutting-edge health care to his fellow veterans. The potential is staggering, but their prototype has been plagued by a series of disturbing anomalies --- culminating in the mysterious death of a beloved Camasca engineer. Avery and her colleagues are brought into the secretive company to determine whether their technical troubles and rising body count reveal something sinister at work.
Vintage | 9780593466995

DARK HORSE: A Dick Francis Novel by Felix Francis (Thriller)
Imogen Duffy is an up-and-coming Irish jump jockey making her mark in steeplechase racing. But not all is well in Imogen's life. Jealous of her success, Imogen’s controlling boyfriend, Liam, is stalking her, and when she tries to break it off with him, he turns violent. Fleeing to England, Imogen hopes to leave Liam behind. But Liam vehemently refuses to let her go --- until he’s found dead, stabbed with a knife bearing Imogen’s fingerprints. Imogen’s father, convinced of her innocence, seeks out Sid Halley to ask for his help uncovering the truth, and Sid reluctantly agrees to investigate. The case becomes all too personal soon after, when Sid realizes he is being stalked and threatened. Is it the killer? With his life and reputation on the line, Sid races to solve the case before someone else ends up dead.
Crooked Lane Books | 9798892425407

THE DEEPEST CUT: A Monkeewrench Novel by P. J. Tracy (Thriller)
Minneapolis homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth arrest a sadistic pair of killers for the murders of several women with the help of Monkeewrench, their eccentric, cyber-sleuth friends and partners. One of the killers dies in custody, and the other, Wolfgang Mauer, is sent to a maximum-security mental hospital. There, Mauer plots his escape --- and his vengeance. With the help of his mother, a former militia leader and assassin, he schemes to get out of the mental hospital and hunt down the detectives and the Monkeewrench crew that got him a life sentence. When Mauer successfully escapes, an inexperienced county sheriff is thrown head-first into a massive manhunt for the murderer. When she finds three bodies and discovers that Mauer has kidnapped a young boy, she realizes that Mauer’s escape was just the beginning.
Crooked Lane Books | 9798892427777

DOGGED PURSUIT: An Andy Carpenter Mystery by David Rosenfelt (Mystery)
Andy Carpenter has spent three years working as a prosecutor in Paterson. But having seen how the system never looks out for the little guy, he leaves to start his own practice as a defense attorney. Andy goes to the shelter to adopt a dog, where he meets his beloved golden retriever, Tara, and feels an immediate connection. The shelter is crowded, and Tara has been sharing space with a dog named Sunny. Andy hates to break them up, so he asks to take Sunny, too. But since there's a pending criminal case involving the owner, he'll need to get written permission for temporary possession. Andy discovers that Sunny's owner, Ryan Tierney, has been arrested for the murder of his ex-boss. But he takes an immediate liking to Ryan and ends up with his first case, along with the two dogs.
Minotaur Books | 9781250324535

DON’T TELL ME HOW TO DIE by Marshall Karp (Domestic Thriller)
I had it all: a fantastic husband, two great kids, an exciting career. And then, at the age of 43, I found out I would be dead before my next birthday. My mother also died at 43. I was 17, and she warned me that women would flock to my suddenly single father like stray cats to an overturned milk truck. They did. And one absolutely evil woman practically destroyed his life, mine and my sister’s. I am not letting that happen to my family. I have three months, and I plan to spend every waking minute searching for the perfect woman to take my place as Alex’s wife, and mother to Kevin and Katie. You’re probably thinking that I’ll never do it. Did I mention that in high school I was voted “Most Likely to Kill Someone to Get What She Wants”?
Blackstone Publishing | 9798228671850

FALSE PROPHET by Afsheen Farhadi (Literary Thriller)
Paperback Original
Actor Jal Persad is enjoying moderate success when the death of his mother, Rita, sends him into a tailspin. After all, how could he grieve a woman he barely knew? Rita had grown up in Guyana during the rise and fall of the Jonestown cult, but she never spoke of her home to Jal, always keeping him at a distance. After months of avoiding work, a misunderstanding at lunch with his manager leads Jal into a web of lies. He soon finds himself writing a memoir of his mother’s adolescence, one that places her in direct contact with Jim Jones himself. There’s just one issue: Rita never met the man. Suddenly, the book goes viral, and Jal must face the looming threat of exposure, as well as his own guilt.
Melville House | 9781685892418

THE FINAL SCORE by Lana Ferguson (Romantic Comedy)
Paperback Original
Jack Baker is on top of the world now that he’s back on the rink where he belongs. But the high comes crashing down when he reinjures his arm immediately following his return to the ice, leaving him to question everything he knows about himself. It’s only been a few months since the massive scandal that finally severed the cord between Abigail Thompson and her narcissistic father. And now, she’s been kicked out of her building with very short notice. The last thing she wants to do is ask her half-brother for help, but it’s looking like his best friend’s spare room might be her only choice. Jack is flighty, flirty and a little full of himself --- all the things Abby has learned to avoid in men. However, spending every day together breaks the ice between them, and she starts to realize that Jack might not be who he seems.
Berkley | 9780593953716

FINDING GRACE by Loretta Rothschild (Fiction)
Honor seems to have everything. She adores her bright and beautiful daughter, Chloe, and her charming, handsome husband, Tom, even if he works 100 hours a week. Yet Honor’s longing for another baby threatens to eclipse all of it --- until a shocking event changes their lives forever. Years later, Tom makes a decision that ripples through their families' lives in ways he never could have foreseen. As the consequences of that fateful choice unfold, two women's paths become irrevocably intertwined. But when old love clashes with new, who will be left standing? And what happens when your secrets come back to haunt you?
St. Martin’s Griffin | 9781250381842

A FLOWER TRAVELED IN MY BLOOD: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children by Haley Cohen Gilliland (History)
In the early hours of March 24, 1976, the streets of Buenos Aires rumble with tanks as soldiers seize the presidential palace and topple Argentina’s leader. The country is now under the control of a military junta, which holds power until 1983 and decimates a generation. One of the military’s most diabolical acts is kidnapping hundreds of pregnant women. After giving birth in captivity, the women are “disappeared,” and their babies are secretly given to other families. For mothers of pregnant daughters and daughters-in-law, the source of their grief is twofold --- the disappearances of their children and the theft of their grandchildren. A group of fierce grandmothers forms the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, dedicated to finding the stolen infants and seeking justice from a nation that betrayed them. 
Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster | 9781668017159

THE FROZEN PEOPLE by Elly Griffiths (Historical Mystery/Fantasy)
Ali Dawson and her cold case team investigate crimes so old, they're frozen --- or so their inside joke goes. Nobody knows that her team has a secret: they can travel back in time to look for evidence. The latest assignment sees Ali venture back farther than they have dared before: to 1850s London to clear the name of Cain Templeton, an eccentric patron of the arts. Rumor has it that Cain is part of a sinister group called The Collectors. Ali arrives in the Victorian era to another dead woman at her feet and far too many unanswered questions. As the clock counts down, Ali becomes more entangled in the mystery, yet danger lurks around every corner. She soon finds herself trapped, unable to make her way back to her beloved son, Finn, who is battling his own accusations in the present day. Could the two cases be connected?
Penguin Books | 9780593834602

HISTORY LESSONS by Zoe B. Wallbrook (Mystery)
As a newly minted junior professor, Daphne Ouverture spends her days giving lectures on French colonialism, working on her next academic book, and going on atrocious dates. Her small world suits her just fine. Until Sam Taylor dies. The rising star of Harrison University’s anthropology department was never one of Daphne’s favorites, despite his popularity. But that doesn’t prevent Sam’s killer from believing Daphne has something that belonged to Sam --- something the killer will stop at nothing to get. Between grading papers and navigating her disastrous love life, Daphne embarks on her own investigation to find out what connects her to Sam’s murder. With the help of an alluring former-detective-turned-bookseller, she unravels a deadly cover-up on campus.
Soho Crime | 9781641298322

IDLE GROUNDS by Krystelle Bamford (Fiction/Magical Realism)
Lingering at the edge of a family party, a troop of cousins loses track of the youngest child among them. With their parents preoccupied with bickering about decades-old crises, the children decide they must set out to investigate themselves --- to the rickety chicken coop, the barn and its two troublesome horses, and into the woods that once comprised their late grandmother’s property. The more the children search, and the deeper they walk, the more unsettling the woods become and the more lost they are, caught between their aunt’s home in the present day, their parents’ childhood home just through the trees, and the memory of the house their grandmother grew up in. Soon, what began as a quest for answers gives way to a journey that undermines everything they’ve been told about who they are, where they came from, and what they deserve.
Scribner | 9781668070468

AN INFINITE LOVE STORY by Chanel Cleeton (Historical Romance)
Paperback Original
It’s 1968, and the country waits with anticipation and excitement as America sets its sights on the Moon. And then comes the knock at the door. Joe Mitchell’s spacecraft has lost contact. He and his fellow astronauts onboard are feared to be dead. In her quiet moments, Joe’s wife, Vivian, relives their memorable story. As the investigation surrounding the lost spacecraft intensifies and the mishap is written off as an operator error, Vivian is determined to clear her husband’s name and uncover the mystery of what happened in space. When someone starts sending Vivian messages --- messages she believes only Joe could send --- she begins to wonder if their love is stronger than space and time, and she’ll do whatever it takes to bring her husband back to her.
Berkley | 9780593816936

JFK: Public, Private, Secret by J. Randy Taraborrelli (Biography)
More than the story of a presidency, this is an intimate study of a man whose public triumphs were shaped --- and at times overshadowed --- by the complex realities of his private life, from his legendary family to his marriage to Jacqueline Kennedy. The book draws from hundreds of interviews conducted over 25 years --- as well as candid, first-hand oral histories from the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Presidential Library, rare internal reports from the Secret Service, detailed files from the National Archives, and intelligence documents from both the CIA and the FBI. This is JFK as never before captured by history: brilliant yet fallible, revered yet human --- a figure whose legacy continues to shape America and the world.
St. Martin’s Griffin | 9781250346407

THE LETTER CARRIER written by Francesca Giannone, translated by Elettra Pauletto (Historical Fiction)
Salento, Italy, June 1934: A coach stops in the main square of Lizzanello, a tight-knit village where everyone knows each other. A couple gets off: The man, Carlo, a child of the South, is happy to be back home after a long time away; the woman, Anna --- his wife --- is a stranger from the North. Carlo’s brother is there to meet them, and he and everyone else can’t help but notice that Anna is as beautiful as a Greek statue. But Anna is not like the other wives, and there aren’t many options for a woman with her sensibilities. So when she learns that the post office is hiring, she leaps at the opportunity. A female letter carrier? It is unthinkable! But Anna passes the postal exam and soon becomes the invisible thread connecting the town. Letters convey information and emotion, but for some in Lizzanello, they are too little and too late.
Crown | 9780593800911

THE MEMORY BOOKSHOP written by Song Yu-jeong, translated by Shanna Tan (Fiction/Magical Realism)
Paperback Original
If you're lost or grieving, you'll find The Memory Bookshop, where the shelves are endless; the books are strangely familiar; and memories are bound in pages. Jiwon’s life has been slowly disintegrating since her mother died. Until one day, caught by a sudden downpour, she stumbles into a mysterious bookstore. Inside, she is met by Manager K and offered no explanation, only a mysterious hourglass and a rare opportunity: to travel back to three chapters of her life. But returning to the past isn't without risk. In exchange, Jiwon must give up time in her future. As she wanders between the shelves, the bookshop humming with memories and regrets, she must ask herself: Can the past truly be rewritten? Or does the real magic lie in the life she's yet to live?
William Morrow Paperbacks | 9780063475120

MOST ARDENTLY YOURS by Freya Sampson (Romantic Comedy)
Paperback Original
Once a believer in a happily ever after, struggling romance writer Zoe Knight curbs her loneliness with the help of the best book boyfriends in literature --- and there is no better man than Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy. So when she stumbles into a classic London bookshop and argues with the annoyingly attractive store owner, Nick, who refuses to sell romance novels, she decides to liberate him of a dusty copy of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE abandoned on a top shelf. But this is no ordinary book. After reading from the pages, Zoe finds herself in a remarkable situation: she has accidentally summoned the Mr. Darcy to the real world. Now, she's face to face with the man she's loved forever, and he's everything she dreamed he would be. But even in all his regency perfection, can he ever be as good as in the novel?
Sourcebooks Landmark | 9781464264764

A NEIGHBOR’S GUIDE TO MURDER by Louise Candlish (Psychological Thriller)
Paperback Original
It's rare for a room to open up in London’s storied Columbia Mansions, and lonely Gwen is thrilled when her neighbor’s new subletter, Pixie, brings a friendly breath of fresh air to its stuffy halls. Their unexpected bond soon becomes the bright spot in Gwen’s quiet life. But Gwen can’t help noticing cracks beneath Pixie's cheerful surface --- especially when it comes to her questionable financial arrangement with her live-in landlord, Alec. As suspicions mount, Gwen’s protective instincts go into overdrive, triggering a dangerous chain of events no one is prepared for.
Grand Central Publishing | 9781538778111

NIGHT IN THE CITY by Michael McGarrity (Historical/Noir Mystery)
Sam Monroe thought his steamy love affair with Manhattan socialite Laura Nielson was dead and buried, but when she didn’t show up after unexpectedly calling him late at night and asking to meet, he decides to investigate. He finds her naked on her penthouse balcony, strangled, his dog tags wrapped around her neck. With a bull’s-eye on his back as the prime suspect, Sam begins a search for the killer that reveals Laura’s involvement with several men, some with ties to a well-known crime family. As circumstantial evidence mounts against him, the cops close in, especially a heavy-handed rogue patrolman carrying a grudge against Sam and looking for serious payback.
W. W. Norton & Company | 9781324130505

THE ORIGINAL DAUGHTER by Jemimah Wei (Fiction)
Living with her parents and grandmother in a single-room flat in working-class Bedok, Genevieve Yang is saddled with an unexpected sibling when Arin appears. As the two girls grow closer, they must navigate the intensity of life in a place where the urgent insistence on achievement demands constant sacrifice. Knowing that failure is not an option, the sisters learn to depend entirely on one another in pursuit of academic perfection and passage to a better future. When a stinging betrayal violently estranges Genevieve and Arin, Genevieve must weigh the value of ambition versus familial love, home versus the outside world, and allegiance to herself versus allegiance to the people who made her who she is.
Vintage | 9780593688892

SHARP FORCE: A Scarpetta Novel by Patricia Cornwell (Mystery/Thriller)
During the early hours of Christmas morning, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta receives a chilling call. The Phantom Slasher has struck again. The serial killer has terrorized Northern Virginia for months. His pattern is to stalk with a sophisticated technology that enables him to invade his victims' homes and watch their every move. They wake up to a ghost-like hologram before being murdered in their beds. Scarpetta is summoned to Mercy Island, the site of a notorious psychiatric hospital where two people have been brutalized, one of them from Scarpetta’s past. It soon becomes apparent that she could be next.
Grand Central Publishing | 9781538773987

STOLEN IN DEATH by J. D. Robb (Mystery/Thriller)
A blow to the head with a block of amethyst has left multibillionaire Nathan Barrister dead --- while nearby, a vault, its door ajar, sits filled with priceless paintings, jewelry and other treasures. Lieutenant Eve Dallas’ husband, Roarke, recognizes at least two stolen pieces among the hoard. The crime scene suggests a burglar caught in the act. But only one item seems to be missing. Then it’s revealed that the vault had actually belonged to the victim’s late father --- and no one in the household knew it was there until a recent remodeling project exposed it. To protect the family name and business, they explain to Eve, they’d been looking for a way to return the ill-gotten gains anonymously and avoid the police. But now the police are all over their elegant house and have a bigger, bloodier mystery to solve.
St. Martin’s Griffin | 9781250414540

SUMMER PEOPLE by Sally Blakely (Romantic Comedy)
Paperback Original
After graduating college, five friends make a pact. Every summer, they’ll meet for one week at the same beach house on the California coast to relive the golden days of college. There’s just one rule: no dating within the group. But Everett and Sutton already broke the rule before summer even began…and couldn’t seem to stop. What started as a one-time fling turned into an annual habit neither of them could quit, until the night everything fell apart. Five years later, Sutton has no interest in seeing Everett ever again. Until one of their friends, newly divorced and looking for an escape, calls everyone back to the beach house. She expects awkward silences and forced smiles, but nothing could prepare her for Everett --- still infuriating, still magnetic, and still capable of unraveling her with a single glance.
Mira | 9781335014252

SUNBURNED by Katherine Wood (Psychological Thriller)
When Audrey Collet’s ex, Tyson, calls and threatens to expose the skeletons in her closet unless she helps him figure out who is blackmailing him, she wants nothing more than to refuse. But a foot has washed ashore in the Everglades, and Tyson is quick to remind Audrey that it’s one whose long-dead owner they both have a connection to. She reluctantly agrees to meet him at his home on the swanky Caribbean island of St. Barth’s to help him figure out who in his entourage is extorting him and what they know about the secrets he and Audrey share. Once there, she realizes that each person staying at Tyson’s lavish estate has a reason to wish him harm. When Tyson’s birthday dive turns deadly, Audrey is aware that one of the seven people trapped on his yacht with her is not just a blackmailer but a murderer.
Bantam | 9780593726495

TART: Misadventures of an Anonymous Chef by Slutty Cheff (Memoir/Humor)
When Slutty Cheff finds herself bored and fed up with her 9-to-5 job in corporate marketing, she turns to the only thing that she really likes to do: cooking. So she quits her job, swaps emails for emulsions, and sets off to pursue her dreams of becoming a chef. The world of London’s fine dining restaurants is so much more than she imagined. There are the exhausting lows of 60-hour work weeks in windowless kitchens and the shock of stepping into the changing room as the only woman. There are the thrilling highs of a busy night, when service is running smoothly; electrifying run-ins with hot bartenders and even hotter chefs; and, always, the exhilaration of cycling hands-free through a city that is still sleeping. This is a story about searching for your purpose, and experiencing and embracing life to the fullest along the way.
Scribner | 9781668070246

A TERRIBLY NASTY BUSINESS: A Beatrice Steele Novel by Julia Seales (Historical Mystery)
Beatrice Steele has traded her etiquette-obsessed community of Swampshire for the big city of London, accompanied by her ever-trusty chaperone, Miss Bolton. They’ve settled in a lovely neighborhood, Sweetbriar, which is home to DS Investigations, the new office she opened with the prickly, annoyingly logical Inspector Drake to solve the city’s brutally thrilling crimes. However, nothing is turning out how Beatrice imagined it would, and she begins to wonder if she can become a true detective in a city that feels full of false promises. That is, until a string of murders thrusts Beatrice and Drake into the center of a scandal that pits the neighborhood’s wealthiest against the arts community. Beatrice must survive threats to her partnership, her business, and her place in society to break the case --- before it’s too late.
Random House Trade Paperbacks | 9780593450031

WAYWARD GIRLS by Susan Wiggs (Historical Fiction)
In 1968, we meet six teens confined at the Good Shepherd, a dark and secretive institution controlled by Sisters of Charity nuns. They include Mairin, the free-spirited daughter of Irish immigrants, committed to keep her safe from her stepfather; Angela, who was denounced for her attraction to girls and was sent to the nuns for reform --- but instead she found herself the victim of a predator; Helen, the daughter of intellectuals detained in Communist China who saw her “temporary” stay at the Good Shepherd stretch into years; Odessa, who was caught up in a police dragnet over a racial incident; Denise, who was sentenced for brawling in a foster home and dared to dream of a better life; and Janice, who couldn’t decide where her loyalties lie --- except when it came to her friend, Kay.
William Morrow Paperbacks | 9780063118263

THE WOMAN IN SUITE 11 by Ruth Ware (Psychological Thriller)
When the invitation to attend the press opening of a luxury Swiss hotel --- owned by reclusive billionaire Marcus Leidmann --- arrives, it’s like the answer to a prayer. Three years after the birth of her youngest child, Lo Blacklock is ready to reestablish her journalism career and hopes she can snag an interview with Marcus. Unfortunately, he proves to be even more difficult to pin down than his reputation suggests. When Lo gets a late-night call asking her to come to Marcus’ hotel room, she agrees despite her own misgivings. She’s greeted, however, by a woman claiming to be Marcus’ mistress, and in life-or-death jeopardy. What follows is a thrilling cat-and-mouse pursuit across Europe, forcing Lo to ask herself just how much she’s willing to sacrifice to save this woman…and if she can even trust her.
Gallery/Scout Press | 9781668025635

YOU WEREN’T MEANT TO BE HUMAN by Andrew Joseph White
(Science Fiction/Horror)
Festering masses of worms and flies have taken root in dark corners across Appalachia. In exchange for unwavering loyalty and fresh corpses, these hives offer a few struggling humans salvation. A fresh start. It’s an offer that none refuse. Crane is grateful. Among his hive’s followers, Crane has found a chance to transition, to never speak again, to live a life that won’t destroy him. He even met Levi: a handsome ex-Marine and brutal killer who treats him like a real man, mostly. But when Levi gets Crane pregnant --- and the hive demands the child’s birth, no matter the cost --- Crane’s desperation to make it stop will drive the community that saved him into a devastating spiral that can only end in blood.
S&S/Saga Press | 9781668038086

On Sale the Week of July 13th in Hardcover

July 13th

THE COUNTRY ROAD MURDERS by James Patterson and Mike Lupica (Thriller)
After a shocking accident, Silas Tucker’s legendary football career is suddenly over. Humbled but never defeated, he returns to his backwoods hometown, Cross Rivers, North Carolina, where his father was murdered. He goes back to what’s left of his family and their small, struggling farm. He reunites with his best friend in the world --- Taylor McCarter Webb, who is now married. Then Silas is pulled into a deadly battle with the Southern Mafia who control drugs, trafficking and murder. As the suspense crescendos, Silas follows one rule for survival: you don’t ride these country roads alone, or in the dead of night.
Little, Brown and Company | 9780316599870

July 14th

ASTRONAUT! by Oana Aristide (Fiction/Dark Humor)
Romania, 1989, the twilight of Ceaușescu’s dictatorship: Daily news flashes of seemingly random murders grip the nation. The suspect? A man-eating bear. Amid the fear of informants, official lies and daily rationing, two bright lives collide. Constantin, an idealistic police detective prone to scribbling fairy tales in his notebook, is tasked with solving the string of mysterious deaths. Lia, a rebellious, inquisitive schoolgirl pining for more color in her life, is unwittingly drawn into an eccentric elderly neighbor’s secret plot against the regime. While everyone around them is flattened into submission, the two find the spirit to carry out small acts of defiance. Their decisions will have sweeping consequences --- for themselves, for their families, and for their country.
W. W. Norton & Company | 9781324123897 

CATCH THE DEVIL: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast by Pamela Colloff (True Crime)
For more than three decades, Paul Skalnik roamed the Gulf Coast lying about who he was. He passed himself off as a fighter pilot, a high-rolling oilman, a criminal defense attorney, an undercover agent, and a terminal cancer patient. In these guises, he married nine women --- some at the same time. When Skalnik got caught, he would run a different con. Locked up with other men awaiting trial, he claimed they confessed their crimes to him. In 1985, Jim Dailey, a down-on-his-luck Vietnam veteran, was implicated in the murder of a 14-year-old girl and landed in the Pinellas County Jail with Skalnik. No forensic evidence or motive linked Dailey to the killing, but Skalnik’s account of his "confession" helped put Dailey on death row. More than three decades later, another man took responsibility for the killing, but Skalnik refused to recant his testimony.
Knopf | 9780593230862 

CHOSEN FAMILY by Madeleine Gray (Fiction/Humor)
When they meet on the brutal battlefield that is their posh all-girls’ high school during their first year there, the lives of Nell Argall and Eve Bowman are changed forever. Their relationship is a life raft that is also a poison apple that is also a Medusan stare, frozen in time. When the passion, guilt, shame and joy that perpetually twists and turns between them finally implodes, Nell abruptly walks away, leaving Eve alone at the helm of the gloriously unorthodox family they’ve built with their seven-year-old daughter, Lake. Eve finds herself left wondering: Can the wounds of adolescent betrayal ever really heal? Can we ever really understand what’s going on in someone else’s head? And what’s love got to do, got to do with it?
Mariner Books | 9780063485709

CONVICTION by Elizabeth H. Winthrop (Fiction) 
In the aftermath of 9/11, 11-year-old Maggie’s first instinct was rage. But when her parents took her to an open house at a mosque, she glimpsed a faith of beauty and peace --- and over time came to embrace Islam as her own. A decade later, Maggie has left Maine for the life in New York she always dreamed of. Yet her joy is shadowed by images from Syria: civilians starving, children buried under rubble. Then she meets Ahmet, the handsome and headstrong son of a neighborhood baker. Ahmet leaves his life behind to join a new rebel group emerging in Syria, electrified by its sweeping vision to fight Assad and create a Muslim utopia. The group is ISIS. Maggie slowly gleans the brutal nature of the group she has joined, one that does not share her vision of Islam.
Grove Press | 9780802167217

THE DEATH ROW CLUB by V. A. Vazquez (Psychological Thriller)
When Nicola Fischer’s father is arrested for the murder of five women --- including her best friend --- the entire world watches it unfold on “To Catch a Killer,” the hit true-crime TV show hosted by Greer Woods. Overnight, Nicola becomes a pariah. And to make matters worse, Greer --- once a budding friend and fellow child of a serial killer --- hasn’t returned a single call since the show aired. Then comes an unexpected invitation to the Death Row Club, a secret retreat for the adult children of serial killers, founded by none other than Greer herself. Desperate for answers and human connection, Nicola agrees to go. But when a mysterious girl arrives, claiming her father is a killer too, the club’s fragile peace is shattered, unraveling the buried secrets at its core. By morning, the girl has vanished. By afternoon, one of the club members is dead.
Gallery/Scout Press | 9781668217627

THE DEVOTED by Catherine Cho (Fiction) 
Raised in Hong Kong by their Korean grandmother, Eunha and her brother, Solomon, live a sheltered life. Their father is a Dragon Head, a leader within the infamous criminal organization of the Triads. While their beloved grandmother does her best to shield the children from the constant hum of violence and fear that surrounds their father and his world, Eunha only has Solomon and their one permitted companion, a boy named Kai, for company. But as Eunha grows up and marries into a supposedly respectable Hong Kong family, the veneer of her careful life begins to crack. When her young son is kidnapped, she is cast into the city’s criminal underground and back into the orbit of Kai, now a Dragon Head himself. Will Eunha finally give in to the life she has strived so hard to rise above, or was her future always fated?
Washington Square Press | 9781668099469 

DOMINION: The Silk and Iron Trilogy, Book One by Jean Kwok (Fantasy/Romance) 
In a world divided into four rival dominions, power is everything --- and Rubi Morningtail has almost none. Three years after the Annihilation destroyed her homeland and shattered her memories, she lives as an Azure refugee in the Dominion of the Silver Tyger. When Rubi wounds a massive battle tyger on her doorstep, she draws the notice of Blake Axefire --- supreme metal mage and leader of the royal Tyger Warriors. His sentence? Cast her into the Bonding, a brutal trial where tygers choose their riders and slaughter the rest. Surviving is unthinkable. But survive she does. Now she’s stuck on Blake’s elite team racing to reseal the Anchors to the Demon Realm. Rubi must unlock the truth of her magic and her past…while resisting her dangerous attraction to the ruthless warrior who could be her redemption --- or her ruin.
G.P. Putnam's Sons | 9798217044368

FAMOUS MEN by Julie Buntin (Fiction)
Will Miles is trapped in tiny Greening, Michigan, where a toxic high school rumor has turned her into a social exile. But when she stumbles across the early poems of Nathaniel Fellow, a famous writer 40 years her senior who also grew up in Greening, she feels she has found a kindred spirit. A passing comment from her mother only adds to Will’s fascination: Is Nathaniel the father she's never known? Will orchestrates a plan to track Nathaniel down, and their meeting sparks a complicated, consuming relationship that gives her sidelong access to a world she’s only ever imagined. But when a torrent of information about his past threatens not just her life with Nathaniel but the story she tells herself about him, Will is faced with a choice that will change everything.
Random House | 9780593229958 

THE FOREST BECOMES HER by Julie Carrick Dalton (Fiction/Magical Realism)
In historic, bucolic Concord, Massachusetts, a centuries-old forest has been removed to make way for a new, eco-friendly housing development. The locals are upset by the destruction, but out-of-towners like Hazel Stoddard are flocking to put down roots in their new guilt-free dream homes. Soon a tragedy leaves Hazel unmoored in her new life, and she begins to feel the pull of the absent forest. Hazel is not alone. Her neighbors, real estate agent Stella Flint and teenage environmentalist Polly Bauer, each have their own trauma and relationship to the land. The three women are drawn together to save the last remaining oak tree, or they risk losing themselves to lingering shadows that only they can see.
St. Martin's Press | 9781250889751 

THE HALF LIFE by Rachel Beanland (Historical Fiction)
When 23-year-old Eileen O'Malley meets charismatic naval officer Paul Archer in a Charleston department store, she doesn’t expect to fall so hard, so fast. But soon she has a ring on her finger and is following him to La Maddalena. Eileen joins a makeshift community of navy wives who are hell-bent on making the island feel a little more like home. But for Eileen, whose brother died in Vietnam, home is a loaded word, and she begins to love the place for all the ways it is not like where she comes from. Still, it doesn’t take long for her to be confronted with the complexities of being an American abroad. Soon, Eileen’s marriage falters and her loyalties begin to shift as she is drawn into a web of secrets --- and to a local journalist who forces her to imagine a life beyond the one she’s been handed.
Simon & Schuster | 9781668069134 

THE HAUL: A Heist Novel by Gary Phillips (Thriller)
After years of close calls, O’Conner --- the former “Warlord of Willow Ridge” --- spends most of his time in semi-retirement, running his legitimate businesses and playing pickleball. Except for his longtime girlfriend, no one in his middle-class neighborhood is the wiser to his double life. But O’Conner’s past refuses to stay dead. When he’s approached with a job he can’t resist, he agrees to mastermind his biggest heist yet: a multi-million-dollar raid of a tech billionaire’s secret bunker, hidden beneath his newly constructed basketball arena. As the job goes down, testing O’Conner’s mettle with new challenges, the promise of the score attracts ghosts from his past he thought were long buried.
Soho Crime | 9781641296649 

HOT GIRL MURDER CLUB by Ashley Winstead (Psychological Thriller)
Ten years ago, aspiring singer-actress Scout Sage lost the only thing that mattered: her sister, Georgia. Ever since Georgia’s mysterious death at a Hollywood party, Scout has done her best to honor her memory. But when a slew of targeted murders makes headlines across L.A., all pointing to Scout as the killer, she turns overnight from a mid-tier pop star into the world’s most famous (alleged) murderer. Now everything she’s worked to build --- including the justice she wants for Georgia --- will fall apart unless Scout can prove she’s not guilty. Meanwhile, the young and unusual detective assigned to her case, herself no stranger to tragedy, begins to unearth secrets not even Scout knows, let alone her millions of new fans.
Minotaur Books | 9781250401212 

HUSTLE, BABY by Priya Guns (Fiction/Dark Humor) 
On top of juggling school and caring for her baby cousin, Maysha, Dilo is tasked with hustling to help her family get by. After Dilo’s born-again Christian mother, Mary, and Aunt Anji relocated the family from Sri Lanka fleeing the civil war, one thing has become blindingly clear --- the “rags-to-riches” fairy tale they were promised is bogus. They work constantly to earn just enough to pay off their last meal. But when both matriarchs unexpectedly lose their jobs, desperation begins to set in. With eviction imminent, they are thrown a lifeline when they meet Mark, a swaggering day-trader, who promises to turn their small initial investment into thousands of dollars overnight on the stock exchange. But they soon discover what really fuels Mark’s seemingly endless generosity.
Doubleday | 9780385550482 

THE INTRIGUE by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Historical/Noir Thriller)
Handsome con artist Ulises has long charmed lonely women via letters in order to steal their money. But money is hard to come by in 1940s Mexico. Ulises knows his looks won’t last forever, and he’s desperate to get his hands on a real fortune. He thinks he’s found it when he captivates his newest correspondent, Perla, the owner of a small-town boardinghouse in picturesque Veracruz. But when he meets her, he finds something he didn’t expect. The woman has a niece, Inés, who is as observant as she is desperate to escape her aunt’s household. When Inés discovers Ulises’ true intentions, she wants in on the scheme. They’ll convince her aunt that Ulises is a great catch, Perla will marry him, and her money will vanish. But Perla is not the desperate, silly spinster Ulises imagines.
Del Rey | 9780593874356

IT WILL COME BACK TO YOU: Collected Stories by Sigrid Nunez (Fiction/Short Stories)
Over the course of 30 years, Sigrid Nunez has become one of contemporary fiction’s most distinctive voices, producing nine penetrating, profound novels celebrated by fans and critics alike. But she has not, until now, produced a book of stories. In IT WILL COME BACK TO YOU, Nunez brings together 13 of her best stories from the decades-long sweep of her career, tracing the origins of her style and her remarkable artistic range. Moving from the momentous to the mundane, Nunez maintains her expert balance between gravity and levity while probing the philosophical questions that illuminate her work.
Riverhead Books | 9798217179152 

KILLER VIBES: The First Peter Key Mystery by Jack Friday (Mystery/Humor)
Meet Peter Key, a self-proclaimed “laziest private investigator in Texas” (it’s harder than it looks), an unapologetic bisexual, a dedicated stoner, and the surprised recipient of a windfall inheritance from an uncle he barely knew. Peter’s life was a mess before, but now ---  as the owner of a dilapidated house in one of the most desirable neighborhoods in Austin --- he has a mountain of debt to deal with and pressure to sell from every side. But Peter doesn’t like to be pushed around. And when he discovers a bag full of cash, he starts to suspect that his uncle’s death wasn’t an accident. He soon finds himself pulled into a lethal game where not everybody plays by the rules. Fortunately, Peter never has been good at following rules.
Minotaur Books | 9781250428615 

MAKE NICE by Ryan Effgen (Fiction/Humor)
When the Pickford siblings arrive at The Grand Hotel, a nostalgic tourist paradise, they have every intention of spending the long weekend making nice. Pete, the nation’s foremost expert on gastropods (mollusks), is keen to wade around the lake in search of a rare and exciting Carthusian snail. Viv, reeling from the secret revelation that her husband is gay, is determined to put on a brave face for her daughter. And Corey, a charming, handsome grifter, has lucked into five pounds of cocaine he plans to sell to the first dumb rich guy he can find. But when Pete falls for the alluring mother of a local kid, when Viv’s daughter gets up to teenage trouble, and when Corey finds the wealthy guests less interested in party drugs than golf clubs and waffle cones, the long weekend of family bonding veers into disaster.
Knopf | 9798217208128 

MEN LIKE US by Carson Markland (Historical Fiction)
The seventh of nine children, Bobby Kennedy has long been overlooked by his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., who governs his children with the same firm hand that earned him a fortune, an ambassadorship, and enough clout to plant the seeds of an American political dynasty. But when Bobby’s eldest brother, the anointed heir, dies in a wartime mission, the burden to become the first Kennedy in Congress shifts to Jack, the next in line. Bobby is forced to step up, especially as debilitating chronic pain threatens Jack’s Senate seat and aspirations to higher office. With their sights eventually set on the White House, Bobby evolves into the ruthless operative behind the scenes. But at what personal cost?
Algonquin Books | 9781643757599 

THE NOVEL DETECTIVE: A Detective Novel by Teresa Dovalpage (Mystery) 
2020: Teresa, a Cuban-born mystery writer now living in America, gets an unexpected call from her childhood best friend, Estrella, inviting her to Havana. Estrella is determined to get answers about a case that has haunted them for decades: the purported dual suicides of a teacher and student at their high school. Teresa is along for the ride as she always wanted to write a novel about this case. 1980: Fourteen-year-old Teresita knows who’s been skimming off the top of the amphetamine stash in her mother’s pharmacy, which teacher keeps cyanide in his cabinet at school, and that their classmate, Yoyi, is sleeping with their English teacher. Over the course of one fateful day, Teresita gets closer than ever to learning the “Truth of Life” --- even if it means coming face to face with death.
Soho Crime | 9781641298285 

THE PARISIAN HEIST by Jo Piazza (Historical Mystery/Thriller)
Emma, a struggling American artist in Paris, meets Stella Swanson, the widow of one of the most notorious art dealers in the business. She becomes both a player and a pawn in a family battle to protect their empire and conceal its crimes. In the late 1800s, young widow Jo van Gogh inherits hundreds of paintings from her brother-in-law, Vincent, that the art world deems worthless. Determined to prove their genius, she becomes consumed by Vincent’s legacy. As her devotion deepens, a vanished painting and a thwarted love affair leave her unsure who she can trust and how much of herself she’s willing to lose in the process. The lives of these two women converge as Emma uncovers the Swanson family’s darkest secrets and agrees to mastermind a daring heist inside the Musée d’Orsay. 
Dutton | 9798217046492

PLEASE DON'T TOUCH THE BODY: Stories by Emily Doyle (Fiction/Short Stories) 
By turns tender and irreverent, the 11 genre-bending stories in PLEASE DON’T TOUCH THE BODY are thrillingly concerned with the devastation --- and power --- of being alive today. In the collection's first story, a Japanese woman finds healing in a secret life as a sex advice columnist after being fetishized by her white husband for decades. In the fourth story, Ronald Reagan is reincarnated as a puppy and must cope with being squeezed, dropped and controlled by his young, queer owner. And in “Thank You No Thank You,” a young woman grapples with the rules she learned in her religious childhood, the freedoms of her new and more liberal life, and her actual desires as she vacations with her long-term boyfriend.
Bloomsbury Publishing | 9781639736256

RANSOM by Daniel Silva (Thriller/Adventure)
Alice Winter, one of Britain’s most dazzling socialites, seemingly has the perfect life --- a lavish home in posh Knightsbridge, a grand estate in Devon, millions of followers on social media who eagerly await her next post. But when she disappears without a trace while on holiday with three old friends from Cambridge, her desperate husband, the real estate baron Edward Knight, turns to none other than Gabriel Allon to find her. Gabriel soon discovers that Alice Winter is not the woman she appears to be. She has a reckless side, and she has secrets. But Edward Knight has a secret too, a secret so dangerous that Gabriel will have no choice but to return to the life he thought he had left behind. An old enemy lurks there, waiting for him to make one misstep, waiting for the perfect moment to exact vengeance.
Harper | 9780063384224 

THE ROMANCE REVIVAL by Christina Lauren (Romantic Comedy)
Three years ago, scientist Emery Finch did something completely out of character: She got married. To Luca --- the impossibly charming landscaper she met on one blistering night in Vegas. But now, Emery is consumed by her top research, missing dinners, forgetting anniversaries, and promising herself Luca will understand once her cutting-edge discoveries come to light. Until the unthinkable happens: A tragic accident takes Luca from her. Desperate not to lose him, Emery breaks every rule, using the classified technology she’s developed to bring him back to life. And Luca would probably thank her for it, if only he could remember her. It may be a miracle of science, but for Emery it’s her one shot at a second chance. This time, she won’t waste it.
Gallery Books | 9781668017753 

SHOULD THE WATERS TAKE US by Stephanie Soileau (Fiction) 
When an offshore rig explodes and unleashes a catastrophic spill, the people of Pelerin Parish, a Louisiana bayou community, face a reckoning that tests the bonds of family and the survival of their way of life. Boy Broussard is raising a daughter he barely knows. His dying aunt, Rosa Terrebonne, tries to right the misdeeds of the past yet is thwarted by her husband, Jacot, a retired landman for big oil who refuses to give up claim to the plot of ground where Boy makes his living. Meanwhile, Father Fabian lends his assistance to Boy’s all-but-motherless daughter, only to be met with suspicion and hostility. When a powerful hurricane threatens to turn an already dire situation into a total cataclysm, this sharp-edged cast of characters collides in a thunderclap of resentment and violence. 
Doubleday | 9780385551786 

SISTERS OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN: A Murder in Arctic Alaska by Rebecca Wright Stevens (True Crime)
Rebecca Wright is a defense attorney living in the Lower 48 when she suddenly finds herself a widow and an empty nester. In need of a radical change, she accepts a public defender position in Utqiagvik on Alaska’s North Slope. When two well-known sisters, Bernice and Wanda Ipalook, are found murdered, Wright is tasked with representing Amos Lane, a drifter on the short list of murder suspects. Criminal charges are looming. But this is summer in northern Alaska, the season of the midnight sun, when 24-hour sunlight makes it difficult for witnesses to confirm the time --- or even the day --- they last saw anyone. Wright must navigate, among other things, an unreliable client and a prosecution willing to entrap her to get a conviction.
Counterpoint | 9781640097711 

THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING by Lisa Scottoline (Psychological Thriller)
Julia Pritzker loves her new life as a wife and mother in beautiful Tuscany --- except that she misses her best friend, Courtney, back in the States. One night, Julia calls Courtney and reaches her as she’s arriving at her grandmother’s farm in Pennsylvania. A dreadful premonition overwhelms Julia as Courtney enters the house --- and makes a heartbreaking discovery. Her beloved grandmother has been murdered, and the killer is escaping out the back door. Rushing to support Courtney, Julia flies home the next morning. The local police believe the murder was a botched burglary, but the women suspect something much more sinister and enlist hotshot Philly lawyer Bennie Rosato to assist. But events take a deadly turn, and Julia becomes the target of a murderous conspiracy.
Grand Central Publishing | 9781538770030 

UNRELIABLE NARRATOR by Araminta Hall (Psychological Thriller)
When 23-year-old Hope Jenkins arrives at the isolated, otherworldly Shadowlands estate, she’s certain her life is finally about to begin. Hope is eager to spend her summer assisting up-and-coming literary star Ambrose “Rosie” Glencourt. Rosie and his enigmatic wife, Delia, preside over a circle of glittering guests with morals as questionable as their wealth. Hope is transfixed --- by their beauty, their brilliance, and by Tom, the elusive young man who resides on the sprawling property. Hope quickly realizes she’s willing to do anything to secure her place among them --- even if it ends in fatal disaster. Ten years later, Hope lives in self-imposed exile. She has no family, friends or future…until she opens Rosie’s runaway bestseller and discovers it’s an almost exact retelling of her story.
G.P. Putnam's Sons | 9798217180172 

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July 14th

THE BIG HOP: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and Into the Future by David Rooney (History)
In 1919, in Newfoundland, four teams of aviators came from Britain to compete in “the Big Hop”: an audacious race to be the first to fly, nonstop, across the Atlantic Ocean. One pair of competitors was forced to abandon the journey halfway, and two pairs never made it into the air. Only one team, after a death-defying 16-hour flight, made it to Ireland. Celebrated on both continents, the transatlantic contest offered a surge of inspiration --- and a welcome distraction --- to a public reeling from the Great War and the influenza pandemic. But the seven airmen who made the attempt were quickly forgotten, their achievement overshadowed by the solo Atlantic flights of Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart years later. In THE BIG HOP, David Rooney grants the pioneering aviators of 1919 the spotlight they deserve.
W. W. Norton & Company | 9781324130635

THE BLACK HIGHWAY by Simon Toyne (Psychological Thriller)
Forensic specialist Laughton Rees' youthful indiscretions led to the birth of her daughter, Gracie. But when a new murder case she is working unexpectedly leads to Gracie’s father turning up in their lives again, Laughton is automatically wary. Shelby Facer is a dangerous man, formerly imprisoned for his involvement in an international drug trafficking ring. But when he claims he can identify the victim, she can't turn down his help. The headless body that has been discovered in the river Thames seems to belong to a man who was part of a highly secretive smuggling ring Shelby was involved with during his and Laughton’s youth --- which Laughton’s father was investigating before he died. Laughton throws herself into her father’s old files to try to trace the connections between past and present.
William Morrow Paperbacks | 9780062329875

THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER by Stephen Graham Jones
(Historical Fantasy/Horror)
A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor, is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER is told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits.
S&S/Saga Press | 9781668075098

CARVED IN BLOOD: A Hana Westerman Thriller by Michael Bennett (Thriller)
When Detective Inspector Jaye Hamilton stops at an Auckland liquor store for a bottle of champagne, it is supposed to be celebratory: his daughter, Addison, has just gotten engaged. Instead, he is suddenly gunned down at the register by a balaclava-clad assailant in what appears at first to be a random act. The getaway car is quickly recovered, containing the cell phone of a young Māori man, Toa Davis, who is immediately the object of an all-out police search. Jaye’s ex-wife, former Māori detective Hana Westerman, asks in on the investigation. The gun used in the assault is distinctive, and she learns that a local gang leader, Erwin Rendall --- who had threatened Hana in the past --- owns such a weapon. After Davis turns up dead, the hunt for Rendall is on.
Atlantic Crime | 9780802167491

A DARK PATH: And Other Kate Burkholder Short Stories by Linda Castillo
(Mystery/Short Stories)
Paperback Original
For the first time in print comes a collection of five short stories in Linda Castillo’s Edgar Award-winning Kate Burkholder series: “The Pact,” “Disappeared,” “Blood Moon,” “Hallowed Ground” and “Dark Storm Rising.” In “Dark Path,” a brand-new story, an Amish couple disappears while en route to town. They recently had been threatened by their granddaughter’s troubled boyfriend --- and heavy weather is moving in. Kate rushes toward their remote farm, but a dog on the road causes her to crash into a ravine, where she discovers a shattered buggy. Together, she and her new canine friend must find the couple before it's too late.
Minotaur Books | 9781250427052

DENIED ACCESS: A Mitch Rapp Novel by Don Bentley (Political Thriller)
The Central Intelligence Agency is in crisis. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Congress is questioning the organization’s necessity. Interim CIA director Thomas Stansfield must fight for his agency’s survival while explaining why the previous candidate for his job was found murdered in a French hotel --- surrounded by booze, cash and dead men. Worst yet, a brilliantly run sting operation in Moscow has resulted in the arrest of America’s most prized Russian asset and the expulsion of his CIA handler. With the CIA’s Moscow Station now paralyzed by the catastrophic intelligence failure, Stansfield seeks help from Mitch Rapp, a newly minted assassin in the secretive Orion program. But Rapp has problems of his own, and he finds himself on the frontlines in a war between the American and Russian intelligence services.
Atria/Emily Bestler Books | 9781668045893

THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS by Ocean Vuong (Fiction)
One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, 19-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual reckoning and heartbreak, with the power to transform Hai’s relationship to himself, his family and a community on the brink.
Penguin Books | 9780593831892

THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE by Sarah Beth Durst (Fantasy/Romance)
Terlu Perna broke the law because she was lonely. She cast a spell and created a magically sentient spider plant. As punishment, she was turned into a wooden statue and tucked away into an alcove in the North Reading Room of the Great Library of Alyssium. This should have been the end of her story. Yet one day, Terlu wakes in the cold of winter on a nearly deserted island full of hundreds of magical greenhouses. The only other human on the island is Yarrow, a grumpy gardener who offers her a place to sleep and clean clothes. As she grows closer with him, she learns that the magic that sustains the greenhouses is failing --- causing the death of everything within them. Assisted by Yarrow and a sentient rose, Terlu must unravel the secrets of a long-dead sorcerer if she wants to save the island --- and have a fresh chance at happiness and love.
Bramble | 9781250324627

FINE YOUNG PEOPLE by Anna Bruno (Literary Mystery)
Frankie is a good daughter, a loyal best friend and a model student, coasting through her final semester at an elite Catholic prep school in a wealthy Pittsburgh enclave. But acceptance to her dream college leaves her unmoored. When a classmate takes his life after posting a cryptic message about Woolf Whiting --- a former student hockey player who died in a presumed suicide years earlier --- Frankie and her best friend, Shiv, decide to investigate Woolf’s death as part of their journalism class project. As the community mourns, a muffled conversation between Frankie's mom, who teaches history at the school, and the priest who teaches her philosophy class draws the girls further into unraveling the mysterious life and death of Woolf.
Algonquin Books | 9781643757018

THE GRAND PALOMA RESORT by Cleyvis Natera (Fiction)
Laura is a local Dominican woman who has risen through the ranks to become manager at the Grand Paloma Resort. Her idea to pair a “platinum” guest with their own resort employee to attend to their every whim has been wildly successful. If only her younger sister, Elena, could get with the program. Elena has tried to live up to her sister’s expectations, but to escape the drudgery of waiting on rich tourists, she’s become increasingly dependent on pills and partying. Now, after an accident, a child left in her charge is believed dead, and Elena knows she'll be held responsible. When Elena runs into the child’s father, he offers her an obscene amount of money for private time with two young local girls. Elena pockets the cash to fund her escape and prays she’s gotten the girls out of harm’s way. But then the girls are reported missing.
Ballantine Books | 9780593873274

THE HEIR APPARENT by Rebecca Armitage (Fiction)
It’s New Year’s Day in Australia, and the life Lexi Villiers has carefully built is working out nicely. She’s in the second year of her medical residency, she lives on a beautiful farm with her two best friends, Finn and Jack, and she’s about to finally become more than friendly with Jack --- when a helicopter abruptly lands. Out steps her grandmother’s right-hand man with the tragic news that her father and older brother have been killed in a skiing accident. Lexi’s grandmother happens to be the Queen of England, and Lexi must now accept the reality that she is suddenly next in line for the throne --- a role she has publicly disavowed. Returning to London as the heir apparent Princess Alexandrina, Lexi is greeted by a skeptical public not ready to forgive her defection, a grieving sister-in-law harboring an explosive secret, and a scheming uncle determined to claim the throne himself.
Cardinal | 9781538776315

THE HOUSE AT DEVIL’S NECK: A Joseph Spector Locked-Room Mystery by Tom Mead (Historical Mystery)
An apparent suicide in a London townhouse uncannily mirrors a similar incident from 25 years ago, prompting Scotland Yard's George Flint to delve deep into the past in search of the solution to a long-forgotten mystery. Meanwhile, Joseph Spector travels with a coach party through the rainy English countryside to visit an allegedly haunted house on a lonely island called Devil’s Neck. The visitors hold a seance to conjure the spirit of a long-dead soldier, but a storm causes them to be stranded in the haunted house. Before long, the guests begin to die one by one, and it seems that the only possible culprit is the phantom soldier. Flint's and Spector's investigations are in fact closely linked, but it is only when the duo are reunited at the storm-lashed Devil's Neck that the truth is finally revealed.
The Mysterious Press | 9781613168035

IF YOU LOVE IT, LET IT KILL YOU by Hannah Pittard (Fiction/Humor)
A novelist learns that an unflattering version of herself will appear prominently --- and soon --- in her ex-husband’s debut. For a week, her life continues largely unaffected by the news --- she cooks, runs, teaches, entertains --- but the morning after baking mac and cheese from scratch for her nephew’s sixth birthday, she wakes up changed. The contentment she’s long enjoyed is gone. In its place: nothing. A remarkably ridiculous midlife crisis ensues, featuring a talking cat and a game called Dead Body.
Holt Paperbacks | 9781250910257

IN STORMY WEATHER by Chelsea Curto (Romance)
Paperback Original
Quincy Monroe is a woman in STEM with a PhD in atmospheric sciences, is the host of a successful online weather show, and has one million followers on her meteorology Instagram. And with a new job opportunity, nothing can derail her success. Except for the ill-timed arrival of Sebastian Dunn. Sebastian is her best friend’s brother, her longtime academic and professional rival, and a flashy TV weatherman from New York City who everyone swoons over. Everyone but Quincy.. Over a scorching Florida summer and record-breaking hurricane season, Sebastian and Quincy are forced into close proximity. Setting aside their grudges to chase storms and stay alive is one thing. But can they weather the inevitable collision of their hearts?
Atria Books | 9781668217436

IN WONDERLAND by Joyce Maynard (Psychological Thriller)
Paperback Original
Frances believes she has found a ticket to paradise when a wealthy couple hires her for the summer as their mother’s helper at their lakefront summer home in Maine. Best of all, she gets to spend the summer with Forrest Emerson, her father's charismatic childhood friend who escaped their neighborhood when he married into money. But below the glittering surface of Lake Catherine, nothing is what it seems. When Forrest’s wife, Regina, pulls Frances into her private obsession, the girl finds herself witness to the intimate secrets of adult lives. As the summer heat builds, so do the tensions within Wonderland’s walls. By Labor Day, a death will shatter the seemingly perfect family, leaving Frances to question everything she thought she knew about privilege, power and the price of belonging.
Little A | 9781662541230

THE LOCKED WARD by Sarah Pekkanen (Psychological Thriller)
It’s the Crime of the Decade when glamorous Georgia Cartwright, who was adopted as a newborn, is accused of killing the biological daughter of her wealthy, Southern family. Georgia is locked in a psychiatric institution where the most violent offenders are held while she awaits trial. The only words she whispers when her estranged twin sister, Amanda, visits are “I didn’t do it. You’ve got to get me out of here.” Amanda doesn't trust Georgia, but she can't abandon her in a place so eerie and menacing that it seems to exist in another dimension. Is Georgia the victim of a powerful family that's so depraved murder is the least of their crimes? Or is Amanda being led down a path of madness into the web of a master manipulator?
St. Martin’s Griffin | 9781250349538

THE MOTHER NEXT DOOR: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy by Andrea Dunlop and Mike Weber (True Crime)
No one is more sympathetic than a mother whose child faces a life-threatening illness. But what if the mother is the cause of the illness? What if the sympathy is the point? Munchausen by proxy (MBP) has fascinated and horrified both professionals and the general public since this disturbing form of child abuse was first identified. But even as the public has been captivated by these tales of abuse and deception, there remains widespread misinformation and confusion about MBP. Are these mothers unfeeling psychopaths, or sick women who need help? And how can we protect the children whose lives are at stake? THE MOTHER NEXT DOOR offers a groundbreaking look at MBP from an unlikely duo: a Seattle novelist whose own family was torn apart by it, and the Texas detective who has worked on more medical child abuse cases than anyone in the nation.
St. Martin’s Griffin | 9781250867926

OUR LAST VINEYARD SUMMER by Brooke Lea Foster (Historical Fiction)
After suffering through her first year of graduate school at Columbia following her senator father’s death, Betsy Whiting is hoping to spend the summer with her boyfriend…and hopefully end the summer as his fiancée. Instead, her mother --- a longtime feminist and leader in the women’s movement --- calls Betsy and her sisters back home to Martha’s Vineyard, announcing that they need to sell their beloved summer house to pay off their father’s debts. When Betsy arrives on the island a week later, she must reckon with her strained familial relationships, a long-ago forbidden romance, and the complicated legacy of her parents, who divided the family even as they did good for the world.
Gallery Books | 9781668034415

PARADISE PAWN by Meg Richardson (Fiction)
Paperback Original
Teenage best friends Jackie and Kayla can sell anything. Alongside their fathers, they work at a pawn shop in Cherry Beach, Florida, handling everything from luxury jewelry to chainsaws and more. When the girls learn that Kayla’s family can’t afford a private school opportunity that Jackie’s can, Jackie becomes distraught about losing her best friend. With their sharp minds but youthful lack of foresight, they scheme a way to embezzle money from the pawn shop. As the hot Florida summer unfolds, the girls steal thousands of dollars from the shop. But when their heist is discovered, Jackie is faced with a situation that no amount of negotiating or charisma can fix.
Tin House | 9781963108736

SHEEPDOGS by Elliot Ackerman (Thriller/Humor)
Skwerl, once an elite member of the CIA's paramilitary unit, was cast out after a raid gone wrong in Afghanistan. Big Cheese Aziz, a former Afghan pilot of legendary skill, now works the graveyard shift at a gas station. Recruited into a shadowy network of "sheepdogs," they embark on a mission to repossess a multi-million-dollar private jet stranded on a remote African airfield. But as they wind through a labyrinth of lies and hidden agendas, they discover that nothing is as it seems. Their contact vanishes, their handler's motives are suspect, and the true source of their payday remains a mystery. With the stakes skyrocketing and the women in their lives drawn into the fray, this unlikely spy duo find themselves deep in the underbelly of modern war and intelligence.
Vintage | 9780593689776

THE SINS OF SUMMER DAUGHTERS by Lo Patrick (Mystery)
Paperback Original
Meg Gregory never wanted to return to Tuskin, the small Georgia town in which she grew up. But after her divorce left her wounded, she knew she had to quit running. Now, years later, Meg is bent on hiding from the memories that haunt her. Because she skipped town for a reason, and that reason runs deep. But when Meg's unassuming granddaughter, Lucy, is suddenly charged with the murder of her boyfriend, everything changes. Meg knows Lucy couldn't have done it. As she fights for Lucy's innocence, memories from the past threaten to break free, and she's left to contemplate a different murder, a different dead boy, a different summer under the hot Georgia sun. And soon enough, Meg isn't quite sure what is memory and who is innocent.
Sourcebooks Landmark | 9781464260506

UNTIL ALISON by Kate Russo (Literary Thriller)
When Rachel Nardelli finds out that her childhood rival, Alison Petrucci, is found dead in Pleasant Pond, the same place the two girls had first said goodbye to each other back in eighth grade, the town of Waterbury is outraged by the fear of losing one of their own --- the heir to Maine’s largest construction company. But it’s a little more complicated for Rachel. She saw Alison the night she died. Callous, she said something she shouldn’t have. She stirred up the past. The next morning, Alison was gone. Plagued by the complicated memories around Alison, Rachel joins her journalism crew to investigate the murder. But as she revisits their fraught relationship, she falls into a web of cruelties that threaten to undo everything she understood about her past.
G.P. Putnam’s Sons | 9780593850695

THE WASP TRAP by Mark Edwards (Psychological Thriller)
Six friends reunite in London to celebrate the life of their recently deceased ex-employer, a professor who brought them together in 1999 to help build a dating website based on psychological testing. But what is meant to be a night of bittersweet nostalgia soon becomes a twisted and deadly game. The old friends are given an ultimatum: reveal their darkest secrets to the group or pick each other off one by one. It soon becomes clear that their current predicament is related to their shared past. The love questionnaire they helped develop in 1999 for the dating site was also turned into a tool for weeding out psychopaths: The Wasp Trap. This experiment and the other tragic events of that summer long ago may help reveal the truth behind a killer hiding in plain sight.
Atria Books | 9781668204788

WE ARE ALL GUILTY HERE by Karin Slaughter (Mystery/Thriller)
Welcome to North Falls, a small town where everyone knows everyone. Or so they think. Until the night of the fireworks. When two teenage girls vanish, and the town ignites. For Officer Emmy Clifton, it’s personal. She turned away when her best friend's daughter needed help --- and now she must bring her home. But as Emmy combs through the puzzle the girls left behind, she realizes she never really knew them. Nobody did. Every teenage girl has secrets. But who would kill for them? And what else is the town hiding?
William Morrow Paperbacks | 9780063336780

WE LIVE HERE NOW by Sarah Pinborough (Gothic Thriller/Horror)
After an accident that nearly kills her, Emily and her husband, Freddie, move from London to a beautiful Dartmoor country house called Larkin Lodge. The house is gorgeous and striking, but something about it feels deeply wrong to Emily. Old boards creak at night, fires go out, and books fall from the shelves. But these things happen only when Emily is alone. Her postsepsis condition can cause hallucinatory side effects, which means she can’t fully trust her own senses. Although Freddie doesn’t notice anything odd, Emily starts to believe that the house is being haunted by someone who was murdered in it. As bizarre events pile up and her marriage starts to crumble, Emily becomes obsessed with discovering the truth about Larkin Lodge. But if the house has secrets, so do Emily and Freddie.
Flatiron Books: Pine & Cedar | 9781250343871

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